Heal me and I shall be
healed. Save me and I shall be saved. For You are my praise (Jeremiah 17:14)
Psalm 103:1 exhorts us to “bless
the Lord, oh my soul” (and yours) and the Word of God then proceeds to tell us
why – “Who heals all our diseases” and a long list of other blessings. In
another place, the Word tell us that “many are the afflictions of the righteous
(we who are being saved), but the Lord delivers from them all”.
So we see our Heavenly Father Who heals. He is the Great Physician Who has our next breath in the Palm of His Hands. Therefore it is incumbent upon us to pray to Him for our health and healing when we hurt and are in distress. Not just that, there is no greater honor than to be called upon and more importantly, to be relied on as a true prayer warrior who would intercede for another in distress.
So we see our Heavenly Father Who heals. He is the Great Physician Who has our next breath in the Palm of His Hands. Therefore it is incumbent upon us to pray to Him for our health and healing when we hurt and are in distress. Not just that, there is no greater honor than to be called upon and more importantly, to be relied on as a true prayer warrior who would intercede for another in distress.
Now, should we pray for ourselves
when we are not feeling well or there is a question mark on our weight;
our blood pressure or even a pain in our hands and feet? Do not be like
King Asa, of whom the Bible made a point of showing as a man of so much false
pride about himself and the secular people around him, that he would rather die
than ask the Lord for help! Here is the account from 2 Chronicles 16:12 “
This is serious and stunning
example for us who call ourselves Christians. King Asa is credited with not
just allowing worship of the One True God of Heaven to return to the Kingdom of
Judah, but he even got rid of his own grandmother who bowed down to the
perverted Asherah poles – a foul practice before our Holy God. (See 2 Chronicles 15). Verse 17b of that chapter tells us that “Asa’s heart remained
completely faithful throughout his entire life”…..that is….until the end when
he not only made a treaty with a pagan king to defend Jerusalem and its
surroundings, instead of praying for God’s protection as he always did, but he
went further. When (as we see in 2 Chronicles 16:12), he developed a
serious foot disease, Asa sought not the Lord, as his predecessor Hezekiah did
for healing, but his own doctors. This led to his death.
Lessons to be learned from Asa’s
Folly:
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God is always there
and He is a good, good God.
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We are frail, weak and
completely dependent on Him for our very breath.
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Past successes do not
guarantee present victories. Asa was 100% faithful to God not just that – he
acted powerfully on reform his country. But in his later prideful state, he
turned and looked inward not upward to the God Who saves and wins every battle
He steps into.
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We have access to the
One Who heals, let nothing keep us from Him, from asking Him, from laying our
case for healing
Dear Most Holy and Heavenly
Father, thank You for caring for weak sinners such as we are. We are nothing
without You. We have nothing without You. We have no breath, life, health
or semblance of a life without You and in no way, can we survive without You!
Who among us can repay anything You do for us, Lord? You are the God Who heals
us when we hurt; cures our colds; comforts us in our pain and restores, redeems
and regenerates our tired souls when we are in despair. Lord help us in
our despair. Release us in our pain.
We pray against the spirit of
affliction and any infection which inhabit the body to bring us low. We pray
that though we may suffer for a season and that weeping may endure for a night,
that Your joy, Your peace, Your release cometh in the morning. Help us to
persevere in sickness and to travail and triumph in prayer through it all, oh
God. Thank You dear kind, gracious and most merciful Father, in Jesus’ Strong
and Mighty Name, the Name of Yahweh Rophe, amen .
