Jesus speaks to all of us
through the Spirit, as the vine reaching out to us as His branches. When one,
or many, would suffer sickness of any kind, body, mind, spirit, or soul, we
have the gift of His grace. He can, and does, heal us, if we give that sickness
up to Him. We see that here in Matthew 4:23 KJV – And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching
in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
I have had a cold, and my
body has been bringing me pain and more. But, I persevere. I might have days I
wonder why this is happening, but I keep going. I have seen many of you do the
same. There have been illnesses of the body, the spirit, the mind, and the soul. We have seen it in the prayers we send for family, for friends, for our members, and even for those we do not know. God speaks to us through Scripture, yes, but He also speaks to us through
our thoughts, our dreams, our pain, and our sorrow. We just have to learn how
to listen and hear. Those two words are the single most difficult efforts to
pursue. In order to hear, we must
listen. But, in order to listen, we need body, heart, mind, and spirit, and
soul, together, and willing to listen as one.
See what this verse
shares? It shares that Jesus goes through healing both sickness and disease.
Some wonder if these are the same. Well, they are, but they aren’t. Sickness
can be any form of sickness, mental, spiritual, physical. Disease can affect
one of those three more than the others. Being physically sick, where you
suffer pain in your body, can indeed affect you spiritually and mentally.
Disease, when it is present, thusly affects the physical health of anyone. It
is as though one leads to another, and then to another. Yet, if we keep faith
in the fact that Jesus can heal us, no matter what, then we will remember that
He told the crippled man to take up his mat and walk. Luke 5:23-24 KJV – Whether is easier to say,
Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say Rise up and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon
earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say
unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. Whether we do so literally, or proverbially, our
spirits will carry on. We take up our couch, our mat, and walk. Think about it.
~Shalom~
Covenant of Hope
Ministries
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for Covenant of Hope Ministries and Poetic-Expressions is not to exploit fear,
but to conquer it, and overcome all that is created through fear together as
the rainbow in the darkness.
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