Jesus Healing Miracles
Jesus healing miracles, recounted in scripture, are many and diverse. The healing prayers he recites are always simple in content, yet profoundly moving. All of the stories involve people of great faith, who either came themselves to ask for help, or were brought by someone else. It took great confidence in Christ for the friends of a crippled man to make a hole in the roof of the place where Jesus was, so they could lower him down to be cured. Not to mention the physical difficulties in getting him there. One can imagine the surprise, and perhaps the anger of the people inside at this interruption to Christ's teaching. The Teacher didn't rebuke them though, and instead helped the crippled man. Sometimes the persistence of the sick person was what achieved divine assistance. When a woman who had suffered from hemorrhage for a long time joined the crowd along with other followers, and then kept touching the hem of The Lord's robe and asking for help, he finally noticed her and made her well.
A Roman soldier asked for a cure for a sick daughter, and Christ simply told him to return home and he would find that the daughter was well. In that instance, readers aren't told what healing prayers Jesus might have said. Readers can just see how great the faith of the father of the sick girl was, and how compassionate Jesus was. Readers are told in Matthew 4:23 that "Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people." It's fair to assume that there were far more miracles than were written down and there are enough in scriptures to be inspiring. One can imagine the joy of a man who had been blind from birth being given his sight. One of Jesus healing miracles was such a case. Christ used an outward sign when curing this man. He made mud out of dirt he spat in, and put it on the man's eyes, then told him to wash the eyes in a pool of water. When the mud was washed off, the man could see. Jewish officials tried to discount the miracle, but were unable to do so. Stories of this magnitude included a deaf-mute, and ten lepers as other examples of physical curing. Spiritual healing, such as curing the boy possessed by demons is also included. For other examples of God's Grace, visit these Bible resources.
Today there are people who are credited with aiding the cure of individuals with prayer and supplication and "laying on of hands." God has given this gift of healing prayers to some ministers and laypeople, in order that His healing powers can still be present to us. This type of prayer is often said in a formal service in a church, but sometimes it is a more intimate setting, where the patient is visited by one of these intermediaries in a home. When cures are affected, it is always God at work, not the person praying for the cure. It is crucial that that distinction be made. When the person who has been given this gift begins to think it is their own doing, recognition begins to fall in the wrong direction. In a divine setting, there is no place for an individual's pride. Sometimes physical symptoms are a sign of spiritual problems, and those times are recorded in scripture with Jesus telling those infected to "go and sin no more" after healing a physical illness. Jesus healing miracles included the forgiveness of sins, which no one on earth had ever been given the power to do before. His healing prayers and admonitions were very powerful in a world where sin and oppression were everywhere.
Christians say specific prayers, i.e. prayers for healing fairly often in our lives. Christians supplicate for friends and family when illness or tragedy strikes. Most recently, many supplication prayers were offered for the victims of natural disasters, both in the United States and abroad. Hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis wreak havoc both physically and spiritually on the people where they occur. Prayerful requests are offered in Christian churches and homes all over the globe, and spiritual cures are as important as any physical help that is needed. Jesus healing miracles teach Christians not only that He had power over all things, but how important faith is in receiving the gift of healing. Sometimes, it appeared that the people in Jesus' time had faith in His power only, but out of a cure came faith in his message. Readers have the advantage of all the information scripture has to offer to bolster faith, even though none can physically see the Lord. Praying for ourselves, and others, should be part of a Christian's regular communication with God because believers know about the power of prayer through scripture and personal experience.
A Roman soldier asked for a cure for a sick daughter, and Christ simply told him to return home and he would find that the daughter was well. In that instance, readers aren't told what healing prayers Jesus might have said. Readers can just see how great the faith of the father of the sick girl was, and how compassionate Jesus was. Readers are told in Matthew 4:23 that "Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people." It's fair to assume that there were far more miracles than were written down and there are enough in scriptures to be inspiring. One can imagine the joy of a man who had been blind from birth being given his sight. One of Jesus healing miracles was such a case. Christ used an outward sign when curing this man. He made mud out of dirt he spat in, and put it on the man's eyes, then told him to wash the eyes in a pool of water. When the mud was washed off, the man could see. Jewish officials tried to discount the miracle, but were unable to do so. Stories of this magnitude included a deaf-mute, and ten lepers as other examples of physical curing. Spiritual healing, such as curing the boy possessed by demons is also included. For other examples of God's Grace, visit these Bible resources.
Today there are people who are credited with aiding the cure of individuals with prayer and supplication and "laying on of hands." God has given this gift of healing prayers to some ministers and laypeople, in order that His healing powers can still be present to us. This type of prayer is often said in a formal service in a church, but sometimes it is a more intimate setting, where the patient is visited by one of these intermediaries in a home. When cures are affected, it is always God at work, not the person praying for the cure. It is crucial that that distinction be made. When the person who has been given this gift begins to think it is their own doing, recognition begins to fall in the wrong direction. In a divine setting, there is no place for an individual's pride. Sometimes physical symptoms are a sign of spiritual problems, and those times are recorded in scripture with Jesus telling those infected to "go and sin no more" after healing a physical illness. Jesus healing miracles included the forgiveness of sins, which no one on earth had ever been given the power to do before. His healing prayers and admonitions were very powerful in a world where sin and oppression were everywhere.
Christians say specific prayers, i.e. prayers for healing fairly often in our lives. Christians supplicate for friends and family when illness or tragedy strikes. Most recently, many supplication prayers were offered for the victims of natural disasters, both in the United States and abroad. Hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis wreak havoc both physically and spiritually on the people where they occur. Prayerful requests are offered in Christian churches and homes all over the globe, and spiritual cures are as important as any physical help that is needed. Jesus healing miracles teach Christians not only that He had power over all things, but how important faith is in receiving the gift of healing. Sometimes, it appeared that the people in Jesus' time had faith in His power only, but out of a cure came faith in his message. Readers have the advantage of all the information scripture has to offer to bolster faith, even though none can physically see the Lord. Praying for ourselves, and others, should be part of a Christian's regular communication with God because believers know about the power of prayer through scripture and personal experience.
Jesus Healing Miracles
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