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Total Healing : The Lord Wants To Make Us Whole
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Oct 21, 2007 (message contributor)
Summary: THIS SERMON IS ABOUT TOTAL HEALING AND HOW THE LORD WANTS TO MAKE US WHOLE 1. SPIRITUAL HEALING 2. PHYSICAL HEALING 3. EMOTIONAL HEALING 4. RELATIONAL HEALING 5. VOCATIONAL HEALING 6. SOCIAL HEALING 7. NATIONAL HEALING
TOTAL HEALING : THE LORD WANTS TO MAKE US WHOLE
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OUTLINE
1. SPIRITUAL HEALING
2. PHYSICAL HEALING
3. EMOTIONAL HEALING
4. RELATIONAL HEALING
5. VOCATIONAL HEALING
6. SOCIAL HEALING
7. NATIONAL HEALING
THE MESSAGE
TOTAL HEALING : THE LORD WANTS TO MAKE US WHOLE
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1. SPIRITUAL HEALING
The Lord wants to make us whole . He wants to minister total healing to us . We must be prepared and willing to receive His healing. Jesus asked the man who was an invalid for 38 years whether he wanted to become well. We should not allow prolonged suffering to rob our hope ,confidence ,dream and desire. Once we are delivered by God we will have to take responsibility for our life. We will no longer be able to be dependant on others and expect pity and sympathy from people. We will face drastic changes in our life. And once God delivers us , we must be careful to walk in obedience to God lest a worse tragedy occurs in our life . The Lord wants to heal us spiritually . He wants to heal our backslidings . He wants us to come back to Him and be filled with His love and live in close fellowship to Him.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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JOHN 5:1-9 ,14
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease he had.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
"Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God.
2. PHYSICAL HEALING
The Lord wants to heal us physically. The Lord is a healer . When we walk in obedience to Him , He promises to heal our sicknesses. we must claim the promises of God and experience His healing in our lives.
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He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you."
who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.
When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases."
3. EMOTIONAL HEALING
The Lord wants to heal us emotionally. He wants to heal our broken hearts and wounded emotions and painful memories. We must not live all our lives with a broken heart because of a painful experience in the past. We must not live in fear that our past traumatic experiences will be repeated again. The Lord wants to reassure us that He will do a new thing in our lives and therefore we should be willing to forget the past and face the future with confidence.
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He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,
