(Proverbs 16:3) "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Today is the third day of corporate fasting and prayers in our Khila.
Since what one fasts is up to each person, we chose to eliminate lunch, which is the main daily meal in Israel. I have no idea how other people are fasting or what they eliminate. I just know that I feel hungry. I have so much food during the rest of the day that there is no place for that hunger feeling. It must be only a symptom. It is not real.
It makes me think that much of what I experience is not real. It is only but a symptom.
The Bible tells me that when Yeshua was crucified He gave me salvation and healing. By faith, I accepted both.
Believing that I am saved since He was my atonement for my sins, forever, gives me eternal life. The same faith in the same Lamb of God gives me total health.
While I know without a doubt that I am going to heaven, that I am saved from sin, the health issues are wavering in my responses, in my mind. Yes, I will have a new, perfected body after death, but meanwhile?
But.... I live on earth with the assurance of salvation. Why do I suffer the symptoms of ill health on earth? I know He heals. I know that He healed me repeatedly during my lifetime in various ways. Some healing came with prayers of myself and others, some came with medication and medical care, some with moving my body specifically as I felt He leads me to do, some came while I recited verses of healing, and lately more healing came when I started a healthier lifestyle journey.
All healing came from God as I learned to listen, obey and follow His directions, and as my faith in Him strengthened.
But symptoms of pain, reduced hearing, darkened vision, and other such “joy” still manifest themselves in my body, daily. Why?
I started to pray, “Thank You, God, for totally healing my body. I believe that I am healed and the symptoms will disappear on your time”.
When I pray for others, “Thank You, God, for healing ... please help him/her to trust that You will remove the symptoms.”
I don't know if that is the right way to pray, but my heart aches for the pain that so many are suffering. So many more now as a result of the abduction of October 7,2023 and the war that is still cutting down young lives of our people, and leaving so many maimed and hurting. These are not cases of symptoms alone, neither are the ones who suffer from various diseases such as chronic pain and cancer.
So where are the miracles and wonders that are to follow the believers?
With Isaiah, I call out, “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”
Says your God.
“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
For she has received from the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”
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