Jesus is Healer

Jesus is HEALER

• Luke 8:49-56 – While Jesus is making his way through the town to reach Jarius, the ruler of the synagogue, he is touched by an ill woman. “Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.” After this miraculous event, Jesus exclaimed ‘Who touched Me?’ He felt power go out from him and wanted to know who would reach out and touch him in such a way. The woman fell at the feet of Jesus admitting it was she. Jesus simply said,“Daughter, your faith has been healed.”

Isn’t that just an odd response. When I read this story, I’m thinking Jesus’ response will be something like, “You have now been restored to health, spread the word about my works in you.” NO. He just says, “…your faith has been healed.” He doesn’t even mention the part about being the only human capable to heal her bleeding wound. Jesus was put on this Earth to bring glory to God and make people believers for their own wellbeing. The reason he heals others is not to help their physical state, but ultimately, to restore faith in our God.

• In John 9:1-7, we meet a man blind from birth. As Jesus passed him, his disciples said to him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus responds, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who sent Me…” And with that, Jesus spat on the ground and made clay with his saliva with which he anointed the eyes of the blind man. “So he went and washed, and came back seeing.”

I love this story. The key to this entire miracle is what Jesus hammers home to his disciples, “…but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” WOW. This man was made blind, so that through his adversity, he could share the righteousness and the power of God through Jesus.


So in these stories, Jesus healed people back to a “normal state” (blind may see, and bleeding cease). But in Nick Vujicic’s case, he stopped praying for arms and legs. He came to know that God healed him in other ways. He says, “God is not like my parents. They couldn’t heal me, couldn’t change anything or heal my heart..but God did.” Healing of the brokenness in our lives isn’t always as easy as changing something back to the way it was before (blind having sight). Sometimes God doesn’t simply restore things back to the way they were, but rather, manifests a new wholeness in us that we may not have envisioned. Did God cure him of his missing arms and legs? No. Was Nick granted a new form of wholeness? Definitely. Instead of being disabled by his situation, he used his abilities, given from God, to bless others.
We can’t understand the ways of God. We can ask for his healing abilities in our life, but we cannot come to expect any time frame or outcome that he may produce. He is a smart God, and he prepares things to happen in our lives for the perfect reason, that we cannot always understand. If God took away suffering whenever we asked for it and exactly how we imagined it, we would follow him only because of what he could do for us. We have to follow Jesus, knowing that through him we can have a relationship with the most loving and wonderful God!
There are many times in the bible that Jesus performed miraculous healing of the body, mind and spirit, here are a few more biblical examples for ya! Take your pick!
[ Matthew 8:2-4 and 5-13, Matthew 9:27-31, Matthew 20:30-34, Mark 2:1-12, Mark 7:32-37, Luke 13:10-17, Luke 14:1-6, Luke 17:11-19, John 5:1-18 ]