One Year Book of Hope Week 13. Healer of My Soul

Jesus, Our Compassionate Healer
The Lord Who Heals
Healing is not an activity God may choose to do or choose not to do.  Healing is who he is; it is his very nature, reflected in his name.
Some use Scripture to say that God has promised to heal your body if you pray a certain way or with a certain person. But God has not promised you a long life in this body on this earth.  he has promised you a perfect body in a perfect place for an eternity.  Would you be willing to stop holding on to this life with such vigor so you can open your hands and heart to welcome the ultimate healing God has promised you?

What Are Your Miracles All About?
If we want to understand the nature and purpose of the miracles Jesus performed, we have to hear Jesus'implied message: "I am the one you've been waiting for.  I am the one who was promised long ago. I AM."

If it Be your Will
It was hard for us that some people saw our reluctance to pray in this way as a lack of faith.  But it had nothing to do with whether or not God had the power to heal Hope.  We firmly believe that God can do anything.  For us, it was more a matter of asking ourselves if this was the way we have seen God work.  And more important, was it what he had planned for Hope?  Did God have in mind for her a short but meaningful life, and would we be open to that as his best>?
Often I see the body of Christ put so much into pursuing God for physical healing. With great boldness and passion and persistence, we cry out to God, begging for healing of the body.  And in these prayers, there is often a tiny P.S. added at the end where we say, 'If it be your will." But shouldn't we switch that around?  Shouldn't we cry out to God with boldness and passion and persistence in a prayer that says, "God, would you please accomplish Your will?  Would you give me a willing heart to embrace YOUR plan and YOUR purpose?  Would you mold me into an instrument that you can use to accomplish what you have in mind?  And then, perhaps, we could add a tiny P.S. that says, "If that includes healing, we will be grateful."