I’m wondering whether you might journey with me in understanding more fully the topic of healing in the name of the Lord Jesus. I wonder if you are like me? When I read the exciting stories of healing in the scriptures my heart is set alight! This is not the work of a distant being who has no concern for what they have created but rather the fingerprints of a loving and compassionate Father who longs to care for His children and see them come into a deeper and intimate realtionship with Him.
Can it be that such miracles occur today? If so, how… and why don’t we see much of it happening, especially in places like Sydney (Australia)?
Nicole Nordeman wrote a song called ‘Live’. The lyrics go something like this:
Did you come that we might just survive?
Did you come so we could just get by?
Did you walk among us
So we might merely limp along beside?
I was bound, I have been set free
But I have settled for apathy
Did you come to make me new
And know I’d crawl right back into the skin you found me in?
You make me want to live
You make me want to live
You came to shake us
And to wake us up to something more
Than we’d always settled for
And you make me want to live
I can not help think that many followers of Jesus have settled for apathy. I reckon I’m one of them. We greatly desire the powerful work of God in our lives, but for some reason don’t expect it to happen. I see this in the lives of theological students at the college I currently attend. To talk of God’s healing power working supernaturally generates awe and wonder, but this soon dissipates as they reflect on their own experiences. Why does it have to be this way?
Come with me on a journey of discovery to find out whether there truly is more to the life offered by Jesus and how we might begin to walk freely in it.
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