The heart of a loving Father in heaven… he sees when you are in pain, be it physical or spiritual… he sees, he understands and he wants you to be well. He sent his son Jesus to the cross, not only so that you receive forgiveness of your sins through his shed blood but in Isaiah 53 it also says that we experience healing and deliverance from evil powers…

3 Despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with afflictions; as one from whom one hides his face, so was he despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Truly he bore our sickness, and took upon himself our pains; but we thought him punished, smitten of God, and bowed down.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; punishment was upon him that we might have peace, and by his wounds we were healed.

6 We all went astray like sheep, each turning to his own way; but the Lord cast the iniquity of us all upon him.

When I was in prayer today, Heavenly Father told me, my children are so sick. I want my children to be healthy. I felt very strongly the compassion and his concern behind these words, and also his love.

We activate this healing and liberating power by first of all believing that HE can and will do it. Many suffer from chronic and also incurable diseases for which there is no medicine even today. When we read in Luke 13 from verse 10, how Jesus was in the synagogue on Shabbat and a woman who had a spirit of weakness for 18 years and was totally bent… we see the great mercy of our Lord, but also that there are probably diseases that have spiritual causes. In verse 16 it says

But this one, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan, behold, had already kept bound eighteen years, should she not be loosed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?

He knows exactly the causes of your suffering. And he wants to meet you as a Savior. Sometimes our suffering also has to do with our own misconduct, sin, or bad habits and addictions. There, too, we need deliverance. The worst thing you can do in this phase is to be ashamed and not ask Jesus for forgiveness and help.

In Mark 3 there is also an interesting healing on Shabbat. You have to know that the Shabbat was holy for the Jews. You were not allowed to do any work, that included healing, unless it was something life threatening. Jesus thus broke the law and was accused for doing good, they even wanted to kill him:

3 And he went again into the synagogue. And there was a man there who had a withered hand.

2 And they lay in wait for him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

3 And he saith unto the man that had the withered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst.

4 And he says to them: May one do good or do evil, save life or kill on the Sabbath? But they held their peace.

5 And looking on them round about with anger, grieved because of the hardness of their heart, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored to health like the other.

6 Then the Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel against him with the Herodians, how they might put him to death.

Both of these people had suffered for many years, and Jesus healed them. He also wants to heal you, if you want that.

Gladly we pray for you… Shabbat Shalom

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