Monday, February 9, 2009

"Can God heal me?"

Mathew 10:1
" He (Jesus) called his twelve disciples (ie followers/believers/Christians) to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness."

Psalm 103:2-3
"Praise the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits -
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases."

Mathew 13:14
"...'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people's hearts has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.' "
Sometimes the disciples could not heal people - because their faith was weak, Jesus had to intervene.
Mathew 17:14-21
"When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. "Lord, have mercy on my son," he said. "He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."
"O unbelieving and perverse generation." Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me." Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"
He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
The healing of the blind man.
Mark 10:51-52 (The blind man was calling out to Jesus to have mercy on him.)
"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him (because people have to want to be healed)
The blind man said, "Rabbi (which means 'teacher'), I want to see."
"Go," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
The crippled, walk
Acts 14:8-10
"In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul (an apostle of Jesus Christ) as he was speaking (ie. preaching about Jesus). Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, "Stand up on your feet!" At that, the man jumped up and began to walk."
The paralysed become mobile
Acts 9:32-35
"As Peter (an apostle of Jesus Christ) traveled about the country, he went to visit the saints (ie the believers) in Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. "Aeneas," Peter said to him. "Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and take care of your mat." Immediately Aeneas got up. All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

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