God our Healer

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Devotions: Ps 12-14; 119:1-24; Isa 41:1-16; Eph 2:1-10; Mk 1:29-45

We’re in a troubled time, Lord—get involved and protect the needy against those who would despoil us. God’s promises are pure and sure, and we need God’s protection against the growing vileness that seeks to harm us. I will trust in YHWH and His steadfast love; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation, Lord, and I will sing to You. You have been kind and generous to me. Fools deny God’s existence; God seeks those who can become wise; let His deliverance come to us; let God restore our fortunes, and all His children will rejoice! Blessed are all who walk in God’s ways; He is my Strength and my Song; He has become my Salvation! I will survive to sing God’s praises; He has opened to me the way of righteousness. He has made Jesus the Ruler of all, Whom the authorities rejected. This is God’s day; He enables me to rejoice and be glad in it! I am protected by God’s word hidden in my heart. I delight in God’s testimony.

YHWH is the First and Last, Master of all! He is the one true living God; all other objects of worship are idols imagined and made by mortals. God will strengthen me and help me, upholding me by His righteous and mighty right hand. He makes me victorious, and I glory in my Lord!

God made me alive when I was dead in my sins—a child of wrath. But God, rich in mercy and great love, has made me alive with and in Jesus the Messiah; I am raised with Him and exalted to the heavenly places. I am saved by God’s grace, through the faith He has provided me. I am His workmanship, made in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for me to do.

Jesus visited in the home of Simon and Andrew, and healed Simon’s mother-in-law of a fever. The whole city brought their sick and demon-oppressed to Him, and Jesus healed them. He went out to pray, and when Simon sought Him out, Jesus announced He would be moving on to preach, teach, exorcise and heal in all the villages of Galilee. A leper came to Jesus and knelt: ‘If You will, You can make me clean.’ Jesus was moved with pity, touched the man, and healed him: ‘I will. Be clean!’ Jesus told the man to keep the experience quiet, but he told everyone how Jesus had healed him, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the towns and villages—yet seekers from every quarter found Him in the open country.