We hear Jesus called by many names Prince of Peace, Son of God and Son of Man, the Messiah, Jeshua, Savior, Rabbi, Teacher, Prophet. God is also called by many different names especially in the Old Testament Hebrew language: El Shaddai (God Almighty), Abba (Father), Yahweh, and Jehovah to name a few ( I encourage you to look them up along with their meanings) they all reflect different parts and attributes of His character. This week, we are going to reflect and ponder upon one very particular name Jehovah Rapha, Healer or “The God who Heals” and Jesus Christ, the Son is often referred to as “The Great Physician”. This week we will take a look at a few instances in the New Testament when Jesus healed the so-called incurable diseases that doctors could not solve or fix.
Here is a list of the healing and curing that Jesus did recorded in the New Testament Gospels:
- Jesus touched and healed Peter’s mother-in-law of a high fever (Mark 1:30-31).
- Jesus healed the Roman Soldier (centurion’s) servant who was very sick (Matthew 8:5-13).
- Jesus healed the paralytic and made him walk (Matthew 9:1-8).
- Jesus healed an outcast “unclean” leper (Mark 1:40-45)
- Jesus cured a woman of an issue of blood (Luke 8:43-48).
- Jesus healed a paralyzed man at the pool called Bethesda (John 5:1-9).
- Jesus loosened/fixed the tongue of a man who could not speak since birth (Matthew 9:32-33).
- Jesus restored a withered, crippled hand (Matthew 12:10-13).
- Jesus cured a man born deaf and mute (Mark 7:31-37).
- Jesus healed a woman from Canaan (Matthew 15:22-28).
- Jesus healed a woman who had been afflicted with serious debilitating pain for eighteen years (Luke 13:10-17).
- Jesus cured a man of “dropsy”/dangerous swelling and infection(Luke 14:1-4).
- Jesus cleansed and healed ten lepers of their contagious disease that left them outcastsof society. (Luke 17:11-19).
- Several instances he healed many (at least 4) people born blind! John 9:1-38, Mark 8:22-26, Matthew 9:27-31.
- Jesus restored and fixed the ear of the high priest’s servant that Peter cut off! (Luke 22:50-51).
- We often think of healing as curing illnesses and diseases, or better yet fixing what is wrong Jesus also healed people plagued and tormented by demons (Mark 1:23-28, Matthew 12:22, Matthew 17:14-21)
- Jesus also raised more than Lazarus from the dead: Jesus raised the widow’s son from the dead (Luke 7:11-18).Jesus raised the ruler’s daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:18-26).Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-46).Jesus rose from the dead (Luke 24:5-6).
What ails, torments or plagues you today? Whether it is healing of a sickness in your body from the cold/flu or something as long term as cancer or organ failure, a disease with no known reasons or cures, constant pain or aches throughout your physical body. Or an affliction or heaviness in your mind and spirit that has crushed your heart beyond restoration or so you think…the Jesus I know can make the impossible possible and cure the incurable. When all resources and doctors and earthly research for answers had been exhausted, hope came in the form of Jesus. Yes, He was able to physically touch those around Him and heal them, but what about us today? He can’t lay hands on us, but that’s what disciples are called to do. As followers we are called to continue His work not our own but through the power of the Holy Spirit, we pray for each other in times of illness and affliction. What kind of miracle and healing touch do you need today?
My prayer for you today: Dear Lord, thank You for making me fearfully and wonderfully made in Your image. You created my body, and You never ever fiber and cell of how I function and live. You are the Life Giver. You are the Creator. You alone are the Great Physician that has all the answers to the mysteries of all that ails Your children. Lord, help me to make choices and decisions that take care of my temple, the body the houses my soul and where you dwell in my heart. Protect my body, guard and cleanse my heart and mind of anything toxic, hurtful or negative and not healthy. Heal my broken spirit. In Your all powerful name. Amen
With full faith in miracles, Heather H. Carnley
Hope For Her Heart 