Healing
Well, things are going great! We have had 3 services so far and we have picked up some new people. God is doing big things and we are excited. I went ahead and reserved Embassy Suites for the rest of the month of April. Hopefully, we will have the permits from the city soon for our permanent location and construction can begin. We received our certificate of incorporation from the secretary of the state of Oklahoma. So we are officially a nonprofit.
Last week I had to drive to Wichita for a funeral. Needless to say, with four kids I don’t get a lot of quiet time. I took advantage of the drive to spend some extra time in prayer. On the drive, I felt like God impressed upon my heart to preach on healing this weekend.
I positively believe we serve a God who heals people today. Healing is not just something that happened in the bible. Many times we just ignore this aspect of God because we don’t understand it. The fact is there are aspects of healing that we will never understand or be able to explain. God is supernatural and to deny that just because we don’t understand it or can’t break it down into a nice neat formula would be denying who God is. God is the Healer. Jehovah - Rapha, the God who heals. It is who He is. It is part of His character. We see in James 5:14–15 that God teaches the sick to call the elders of the church to pray over them so that they may be healed. Listen to what he says:
James 5:14-15 New Living Translation (NLT) 14 Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.
Jesus still heals today. If He didn’t why would James write this? James wrote this after Jesus’ death and resurrection. So, healing is not something Jesus did just in His earthly ministry. He’s still doing it today. Now, this brings us to a big question: if Jesus still heals today why am I not healed? Why is my family member not healed? We are going to talk about this on Sunday.
We hate tension. As human beings, we hate tension and are always trying to resolve it. This tension between “God heals today” and “I haven’t been healed yet” causes us to go to two extremes; which are 1). Healing isn’t for today or 2). If I just have enough faith I’ll be healed. This is where so many of us remain stuck.
This is what we are going to talk about on Sunday. I invite you to join us at 10 am at the Embassy Suites in Norman, in the Boomer room. I believe God is going to do some amazing things. I believe it will build your faith and encourage you to continue trusting God no matter what.
I’ll see you there.
