Healing ... etc

Aulrite aulrite, lets talk healing here folks.

I love my Jesus, is it okay if i just say that out loud, perhaps yell off the top of a roof or something? - promise you won't get mad... but i really couldn't care less.

Mm, Friday i was feeling sick, i had to go home at lunch and i just kind of "vegitated" on the couch all day. People were trying to convince me to go to the hospital but i really didn't want to a) i hate the long wait and
b) i figured i'd pray and ask God to heal me.

The verse that came to mind was Isaiah 53:5;

" But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his [ stripes] we are healed." *

Let me just tell you this. Abba Father is the author and perfecter of our faith ( i think that's in the bible somewhere too :D) He is the one who created us and he knows us much better than we know ourselves ( psalm 139)

Since God is the perfecter our our faith, i knew that if i trusted in him to heal me, and he does, my faith will be even that much stronger.

so my logic was this, if God does know me better than myslef, - which he does - and if He did create me to be who i am - which he did - then who better to depend on for healing than him?!

And d'you know, it's so sad in this culture that we have flung God so far away from our everyday lives, we deem him only the God for sundays, the rest of the week is our own. Perhaps in this culture we consider ourselves to be superior and self-capable of everything. It is in our mindset that we do not need God.

Well i am here to tell you that two days later i am doing splendid. that nasty cold-cough-sneeze-sorethroat-almostfever thing is subsiding. and all because of Jesus' 39 stripes.

And the thing with God is that he's never stingy, NEVER STINGY!

I mean, he sent his one and only son to die for our sins. yes of course, that was the main plan, the main strategy. But our dear Lord looked down and saw how sad the human race was, so instead of Jesus just dying for our sins,

he dies for our healing,

for our peace

for our eternal fellowship with Abba Father,

joy

love

and if that wasn't enough, he sends the Holy Spirit to stay with us when he left.

Let me just tell you, Our God is not stingy.

* my bible actually says - by his wounds we are healed, but i like stripes much better, i've grown up with stripes.