True Healing

In our church bulletin each week we publish a list of prayer requests.  This week out of 54 requests, 52 of them were for physical healing.  Surely, that isn’t all we need from God, is it?  However, the fact is, when we are physically ill, it consumes all our time and thoughts.   Simply, we are asking God to restore someone to a level of physical wholeness.  Yet, have we ever pondered what wholeness means to God?

I believe if we could focus more on God’s definition of healing and wholeness, it would save us a lot of confusion in times when physical healing doesn’t occur.  It could remove us from the spiritual dilemma of why some persons are healed and others are not.  Our understanding must broaden to realize that even the physically healthy may have need for spiritual and emotional healing.  Sickness isn’t limited to the physical person alone.   Whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, proper steps must be taken for healing to be possible.  We must realize that an illness in one of the three will affect the other two.  An example of this would be the physically sick individual who becomes emotionally angry at others due to their pain.  As their pain lingers, they pray for relief.  When no relief comes, a questioning of God’s care and possible existence can occur. Consider this: take the individual who is committing adultery and is emotionally stressed from their actions which result in high blood pressure and possibly ulcers.  Take the person living with unforgiveness in their life.  Spiritually they are walking contrary to biblical teaching, physically they are losing sleep, and possible other physical ailments due to the emotional stress.

Wholeness in God’s eyes involves the spiritual, emotional, and physical man.  In God’s eyes spiritual healing is the most important.  Why?  The physical body is deteriorating no matter how much medical and scientific intervention occurs.  We all are going to die.  The emotional man is so related to spiritual and physical health that wholeness in those areas will create emotional wholeness. Our emotions are also over at death.  Our spiritual nature is the only thing that will live on.  That is why God gave us himself, in Christ, to give us the possibility of the ultimate healing for our lives through salvation.  God’s forgiveness and eternal life bought for us at Calvary and the empty tomb assures the ultimate healing in heaven.  Some called it the miracle of the triumphant crossing when we will be given a new body, new place of residence, and a new identity.

Until then, we hold onto the hope of 1 John 3:2…Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

We will be having a special healing service this Sunday.  Pray for the Spirit of God to touch lives with spiritual, emotional, and physical healing.

See you Sunday,
Pastor Jeff