Healing Scriptures that spoke to you

Psalm 40:2

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;

he set my feet on the rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

**I'm trying to keep my feet on the rock right now it seem to be trying to move away from me.

Flalady

 I read this tonight and thought of you ladies and this thread.

Have Faith in God

James 5:14-16 gives very specific instructions about healing: "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."

Jesus said, "When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25).

These scriptures are good reminders that we should forgive others or seek forgiveness before we pray for our healing. Unconfessed sin, bitterness and grudges can block a miracle. Psalm 66:18 says, "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened."

Similarly, Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 11:27-32 that taking communion in an unworthy manner can result in sickness. Dabbling in the occult is also a barrier to God's flow in our lives, so if you have had any involvement in astrology or witchcraft, renounce it immediately and completely in the name of Jesus.

Sometimes outward physical healing may not occur if the Lord has something else to teach us or accomplish within us.

However, we must be careful not to jump to conclusions about why someone is suffering. Job's friends offered cold comfort with their judgmental observations during his time of testing. And the disciples once asked, "‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life'" (John 9:2b-3).

Our task is simply to ask God in faith for healing, to believe that He is at work, and to trust Him for the outcome. If fear wells up, remember 1 John 4:18b: "Perfect love drives out fear" - and God loves us perfectly.

In Matthew 7:7, Jesus said, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." In the original Greek, these verbs mean, "Ask and keep on asking; seek and keep on seeking; knock and keep on knocking."

Jesus continued, "For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened" (vs. 8). He illustrated this principle in Luke 11:5-8 with the parable of a man who kept knocking on his neighbor's door during the night until he received the bread he urgently needed.

One of the biggest keys to receiving a miracle is found in Mark 11:22-24. The disciples were amazed to see that a fig tree Jesus cursed had completely withered overnight. Jesus simply said, "Have faith in God." God is the source of everything - our life, our hope, our provision, our healing, and our future! Jesus explained, "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

James 1:6-7 cautions: "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord."

In describing the armor of God, Paul wrote: "Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one" (Ephesians 6:16b).

If people aren't quickly healed, they may think their faith is insufficient. But even our faith is a gift of God! Ephesians 2:8-9 reminds us, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." Corrie Ten Boom - who survived the horrors of Hitler's concentration camps to preach the Good News around the world - often said that she only had a little bit of faith, but it was in a great big God.

So no matter how weak, frail or insignificant you may feel at times, remember that Almighty God is infinitely powerful, forever compassionate, and always with us!

Springtime I bump it just for you.