Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Healing ...The Will of God

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Is healing the will of God? Is it God’s will for people to be healed?

John 6:38  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Since Jesus came from heaven to earth to do the will of God, let’s examine what Jesus did while He was on earth …

Did Jesus heal people while He was on earth?
·        Matthew 4:23  Teaching; Preaching and Healing
·        Matthew 8:7 & 8 “I will come and heal him” … “speak the word only”
·        Matthew 8:17  Jesus took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses
·        Matthew 9:2-8  Saw their faith and healed their paralytic friend
·        Matthew 9:27-30  To the blind men, “Do you believe I am able”
·        Matthew 9:35  Teaching; Preaching and Healing
·        Matthew 10:7 & 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead …
·        Matthew 12:22  Possessed, blind and dumb healed by Jesus
·        Matthew 15:21-28  Healing is the children’s bread but even dogs …
·        Matthew 17:14-21  Epileptic healed – this kind – prayer and fasting
·        Mark 5:23 Jairus’ daughter – come and lay your hands on her …
·        Mark 5:25-34 The woman with the issue of blood
·        Mark 5:36  Jesus said to Jaiurs, don’t be afraid, only believe
·        Mark 7:323-35  Put fingers in ears and spat on tongue
·        Mark 10:46-52  Blind Bartimaeus cried the more – what do you want
·        Luke 1:30 & 31  Peter’s mother in law healed of fever
·        Luke 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord … heal the broken hearted
·        Luke 5:12 & 13 Leper – “If you are willing you can … ‘I am willing’”
·        Luke 5:17  And the power of the Lord was present to heal them
·        Luke 6:6-11 Withered hand in synagogue on Sabbath – stretch it out
·        Luke 6:17 People came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases
·        Luke 6:18 People tormented with unclean spirits were healed
·        Luke 6:19  sought touch for power went out of Him and healed them
·        Luke 7:18-23  Go and tell John the blind see, lame walk, deaf hear …
·        Luke 9:1 & 2 Sent the twelve to preach and heal
·        Luke 13:11-13  Woman thou are loosed from your infirmity
·        Luke 14:1-4  Man healed of dropsy – they kept silent and He healed
·        Luke 17:11-19  Ten lepers healed – only one returns to give thanks
·        Luke 22:50 & 51 Servant’s right ear restored and healed
·        John 4:46-50  Word sent and healed nobleman’s son in Capernaum
·        John 5:1-9  Pool of Bethesda – “Do you want to be made well?”
·        John 9:1-7  The works of God should be revealed - blind spit/clay
·        John 10:37-38  If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not
·        John 11:38-44  Lazarus raised from the dead
·        Acts 10:38  Anointed Jesus … healing all that were oppressed …
·        Luke 10:19 Behold I give unto you power over serpents …

What about after Jesus left earth and went back to heaven … did healings continue?

·        Matthew 28:16-20
·        Acts 3:1-9
·        Acts 3:16
·        Acts 4:12-14
·        Acts 4:29 & 30
·        Acts 5:12-16
·        Acts 6:8
·        Acts 8:5-7
·        Acts 9:17 & 18
·        Acts 19:11 & 12
·        Mark 16:15-20
·        John 14:11-14
·        James 5:14-16
·        Mark 13:31 & Matthew 24:35 “My Words won’t pass away”
·        Hebrews 13:8  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today …

Did healing become the will of God only during the New Testament period? What about under the Old Covenant of God? How did God feel and what was God’s will during the Old Testament period?

·        Malachi 3:6  “I change not”
·        Psalms 89:34  “My covenant will I not break nor alter …”
·        Genesis 20:17  Abraham prayed for Abimelech
·        Exodus 15:26  “I am the Lord that heals you” – (Jehovah Rapha)
·        Exodus 23:25  “I will take sickness away from the midst of you.”
·        Deuteronomy 7:9-15  “I will take all sickness away from you”
·        2 Chronicles 16:12 & 13  King Asa sought not to God and died
·        Psalms 103:1-3 Forget not all His benefits … heals … diseases
·        Psalms 107:20  He sent His Word and healed
·        Isaiah 53:4 & 5 By His stripes we are healed
·        1 Peter 2:24  By His stripes we were healed