I had not planned for this, but the truth is as we travel on this road along the good way we’re gonna find some places where it might the best to just stop and reflect a little bit about the journey we’re on. Why don’t we take just a bit of time here and look closely at what the Bible says about healing. I am sure that many of us have been in a church when someone requested that the congregation come together and unite in prayer for a brother or sister who is having some serious life problems. There are many folks within the Christian community that have never experienced a healing service so to say, or have you ever been present for the anointing of oil and other Christian rituals that have been passed down over the years. There are times that there are just services for prayer. To pray for someone’s needs and I’ve known enough times when it is a church wide service. Prayer for healing is a spiritual practice for a person or persons to ask for physical, emotional or spiritual restoration from the divine power. This can usually involve specific prayers for wellness, seeking a shift in mindset towards a more positive and whole person outlook, and trusting in a higher power for strength and guidance.

We acknowledge the different traditions of various prayers and rituals, the common themes such as asking for healing strength, the restoration of joy and the ability to bless and serve others in renewed health. Prayer is a very powerful source of being as close to the Father as we can possibly get. We have prayers for a physical healing, for emotional and spiritual healing, for strength and guidance, maybe a prayer for a shift in the way we live, in our mindset the way we’re looking at things letting go of past mistakes and looking for a better way as we’ve said, looking for the good way. There are some key aspects of prayer and it is the “Pews” view that prayer at its best is a sincere honest and heartfelt conversation with our God. Our prayers should of course, rest on faith and trust. Our traditions, our knowledge have told us that prayers are more effective when offered in faith. It should be a faith that knows God, trust God, and has every confidence that God will hear our prayer. Be aware that a lack of faith can inhibit healing. We have community prayers coming together as a community to provide support, especially when one’s own faith is weak. There a better way to put it simplistically speaking in a secular mode and that is there is always strength in numbers. Our prayers should be seeking divine will. Some suggest praying in accordance with the divine will can be part of a larger process of spiritual transformation. And lastly, that not being an indication of importance, but the exhibition of a trait that we all should try to cultivate. We must understand, patience, and time, some aspects of healing are immediate, while others may take time, as part of the longer journey of transformation. That kind of brings us back to the fact that God may not answer our prayers as we expected, God’s will, and desire may differ from ours.

Now moving along what exactly does the Bible say about healing? I have done my homework all this so to speak I’ve searched for scriptures about healing, and I’ve tried to understand. Sometimes healing doesn’t take place, and that is sometimes seized upon by unbelievers. I think the best way to close this out is to understand God still performs miracles, God still heals people, sickness, disease, pain, and death are still realities in this world. It should be a common understanding among all Christians that until the Lord returns everyone who is alive today will die, and the truth is that includes Christians. The majority of them will die as a result of a physical problem, disease, or sickness, injury, it is not always God’s will to heal us physically. For me as a layman, in the simple view of things, and not from a theological outlook, I’ll bring it down all of it to one thing…Revelation, 21:4 and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

There may be detours, some pauses along the way, but the good way leads us to the promise of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There shall be life, everlasting, promises kept.

Life is Good

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