Healing and Prayer

I caught myself praying about something today that I pray about often, and I had to reconsider what the heck I was praying. My prayer at that particular moment was, "Lord, let me understand your will about healing and miracles." I caught myself and I said, "What? I already know his will on healing and miracles." So how DO I already know what God's will is about healing and miracles? That's easy, it's by WHAT JESUS DID when he was here. We know that Jesus only did his Father's will, as he also clearly affirmed: "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me" (Jn. 6:38). It's really simple; Jesus healed every single person who came to him for healing, as well as every single person that someone brought to him for healing. He also healed those who were NOT brought to him, when someone came to him on their behalf. He cast out every single demon that was oppressing anyone and everyone who came to him, or when someone came on their behalf. Not one single soul who was in need of his help was turned away. Not one. Is that clear enough on God's will for the healing of the sick, and the deliverance of the oppressed? If not, maybe you should try romance novels or something, because you're obviously not believing what you're reading in the Bible. So what about other kinds of miracles? What did Jesus show us about God's will on these things? Well, whenever a miracle was needed, that is what he did. When the host of a wedding ran out of wine for the feast, Mary the mother of Jesus asked him to make some wine miraculously, and he did it (Jn. 2:1-10). When a great multitude had been with him a good while in a desert place where he healed their sick, and it was getting late; he multiplied five loaves and two fishes to feed five thousand men, as well as women and children (Mat. 14:15-21). Immediately afterward when his disciples left him on shore to pray, and they crossed the sea without him, he caught up to them in the fourth watch of the night walking on the sea (Mat. 14:22-25). When a matter of tribute money arose, and they needed money to pay it, Jesus told Peter to go cast a fishing line into the sea, and told him he would catch a fish with money in its mouth. Peter did it and that's what happened (Mat. 17:24-27).

The list just goes on, and in fact the beloved apostle told us that if all the miracles that Jesus did were to be written, the world would not be able to contain the books that it would take to record them (Jn. 21:25). The bottom line is that the will of God is good, and whatever is truly good for someone is God's will. That is why healing is always God's will, and miracles are always God's will when they are needed. Miracles are also God's will often times when they are for something that is less than necessity, but still something that is good. We simply need to filter everything out of our minds that would have us doubt or question God's good will toward us in any area or on any level of our own lives, or the lives of others. Doubt, confusion, and plain disbelief are the only things that keep us all from operating in the same kind of capacity that Jesus operated in when he was here. None of us of course are equal to Jesus, and none of us have every single gift like Jesus, but he did say that those who believe on him would do the same works that he did (Mk. 16:17,18; Jn. 14:12). We should do the same works that Jesus did because it is the same will of the same God that sent Jesus here, and because men still have the same needs and problems that they had when Jesus was here. It's just that simple, and there is no way around it. Personally, I wouldn't want there to be any way around it. So we have to get rid of every thought and consideration that it's any other way, and we need to fully understand and believe that neither God or his Son have changed one iota about the will of God for men (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8; Jas. 1:17). Jesus did the will of God all the way to his own death so that we could be redeemed, and so that we could continue on with his work to heal and redeem the needy souls of this world. God is good, and he is only good; and therefore his will for men is always good. He simply CAN NOT be any other way. We need only understand and believe that, and let nothing hinder that thinking; and we also will do the works that Jesus did in regard to healing and miracles. It's simply the way God is, and Jesus made that abundantly clear, giving us his pure and simplistic example to follow. Amen.