Healing

TODAY’S WORD IS HEALING

The word healing brings many images to mind. Some people may think of a healing crusade. That is one of those events where a preacher claims that he can cure your sicknesses by the power of God. We can think of a convalescent hospital where people stay for extended times to heal their bodies. Healing means being made whole again, and we all want to be whole.

There is also the healing that comes with peace of mind. This healing cures the restless and tormented spirit. We live in a time when our country needs healing that can soothe the restless and angry soul and will bring peace and satisfaction. When the Psalmist said, “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror,” he could well be thinking of times like these. True healing can only come from God. We have exhausted our resources and failed.

Healing brings with it a peace allows us to settle down and live as people of God. I would love to see a world that had this God inspired healing. It would be a world full of people who were truly healed of their strife and pain. Such a world is a place of calmness and satisfaction.

Healing cures the seeds of anger and mistrust that lead to violence and ultimately war. How many deaths could have been prevented if we had only asked God for healing? How many relationships would have been saved if we had understood that God can heal? Let us not waste another minute when healing is possible.

Healing is to be made whole and be restored.

Quotes

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.

~~~Henri Nouwen

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

~~~Hippocrates

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

~~~Hubert H. Humphrey

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.

~~~Haven Emerson

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.

~~~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

~~~F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can promote your healing by your thinking.

~~~James E. Sweeney

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~~~John Burroughs

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

~~~Nelson Mandela

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

~~~Novalis

Scripture

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and do not forget all his benefits—

who forgives all your iniquity,

who heals all your diseases,

who redeems your life from the Pit,

who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

Psalm 103:2-4

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;

O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.

Psalm 6:2

The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;

they are called happy in the land.

You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.

The Lord sustains them on their sickbed;

in their illness you heal all their infirmities.

Psalm 41:2-3

As for me, I said, ‘O Lord, be gracious to me;

heal me, for I have sinned against you.’

Psalm 41:4

My child, be attentive to my words;

incline your ear to my sayings.

Do not let them escape from your sight;

keep them within your heart.

For they are life to those who find them,

and healing to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:20-22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine,

but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

a time to tear, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you.

Be our arm every morning,

our salvation in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 33:2

You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

James 5:6

Lord, I feel that we live in a time of great contradiction. Our time needs healing that only you can bring. We have so widened the gaps that exist between us that our talents fail us. We have so divided ourselves that our ideas are lacking. We call upon you to send us wisdom and healing that are products of heaven and not earth. We ask for divine healing on earth. Amen