The   Lord   Who   Heals     [   Jehovah - Rophe   ]                           "bless the Lord Who heals all your diseases"

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3   NKJV

God's Promise:
    "He Himself took our infirmities and bor our sickness" Matthew 8:17
I. Goal

II. The Setting
• the Lord lead Israel out of Egypt
• they walked three days and became thirsty
• they finally came to a lake, but the water was bitter
• Moses cried to the Lord, He showed him a tree (Exodus 15:25)

• the water is purified, Israel's thirst is satisfied,
• and God is glorified!

III. Other examples:
A. Lazarus - John 11
B. Man healed at the pool of Bethesda- John 5
C. Reading: ...more incredible... 17-18

IV. In summary:
A. Is there a reason for this sickness?
B. That I may be glorified!
C. The promise of comfort
D. I am the Lord your God - Exodus 20:2
E. Be still and know that I am Lord - Psalm 46:10

V. Parts of my prayer for the sick are:
A. praise and thanksgiving
B. the issue [ sickness ]
C. request for comfort [ maturing in Christ ]
D. fortify your mind with
E. request for His will



• Assignment:   if you didn't yet
  What is God to You? Give Him your own name!

• Assignment:   Spiritual Exercises - Answers to Questions

• Identify the two names or images that are most powerfully at work
  in shaping your understanding of God.

• What do these names reveal or conceal about the presence of
  God in the world?

• Evaluate why they are so significant for you.

• Should you nurture other names of images of God?

• Identify some specific areas where you see God at work in the world.

• How could you participate in what God is doing?

• Experiment for a day with limiting the number of times you draw
  people into a conversation about your life.

• Try instead to ask as many people as possible about their lives
  and the challenges they face.

• In what ways does that kind of disciplined attention to the
  needs of others move your own conversation beyond a
  preoccupation with I-questions?   Schmidt chapter 1
  
  

• Also consider these questions:
  • Review the above by recalling major principles and ideas

  • Examine the above through critical thinking and questioning

  • Apply the principles to your life

  • Compare the principles with biblical examples and instruction

  • Think more deeply and in different ways about the above

    [ = this may be viewed as "extra" study for the serious student ]

VI. My Prayer: