[17] Your majesty, if our God, whom we serve, is able to save us, He will save us from the blazing hot furnace and from your power. [18] But even if He doesn’t, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will neither serve your gods nor worship the gold statue which you have set up. Daniel 3:17-18
There are people whom I love dearly who suffer from physical ailment and are in need of healing. When I first dug into writing the He Is collection, it was put on my heart to do a post on healing. In that post, I listed 39 scriptures about healing. One scripture for each lash that Yeshua took upon His body for us. I believe whole heartedly that God is a healer, a restorer of our bodies, minds, emotions, relationships, and our land. His word proclaims it. I believe that God can heal miraculously by speaking “be healed”, just as Yeshua did when He walked the earth, but I also believe that He uses the hands of medical professionals as well. In that post, I shared the miraculous account of my uncle, who was not expected to live, according to the doctors, was healed and is living a very happy, productive life as I type this. My father is suffering from cancer, my husband has injuries dating back to his time in the service and corrections and lives in pain almost every minute of every day. I pray over them daily and I believe that God can and will heal them. But even if He doesn’t, I will continue to serve Him. I do not believe that if physical healing is not made manifest on this earth that God has let me down. To be honest, I am more concerned about their souls than their bodies. This time on earth is temporary, it is what happens after we die that is eternal. As long as they know Jesus, I will leave what happens to them physically up to Him. His ways are not my ways, His thoughts are not my thoughts.
In the book of 2 Kings, chapter 13:14 we see that the prophet Elisha was ill with a disease from which he would eventually die. We are talking about a prophet that received a double portion of anointing when Elijah was taken up to heaven in the fiery chariot. We are talking about a prophet that was so anointed that after he died, a solider was rapidly thrown into his burial cave due to not having time to bury him and when he landed on Elisha’s bones, he was resurrected and came back to life. (13:20-21). This is a man who walked closely with God, who feared and did the will of the Father, so why did he die of sickness? Because he was human. God is not a slot machine that we drop our prayer coin into and hope the bars for healing, finance, favor, and more line up and spit out our winnings. We live in a fallen world and we have to deal with the outcome of living in a fallen world. That means there will be those who are healed and those who are not. We may not understand why, but it is because we do not see as God sees. I prayed for the healing of my pastor’s wife, who loved God with all her heart after she was in a horrific car accident. God gave her ultimate healing and called her home, rather than provide a miracle healing here on earth, or even a gradual healing at the hands of the doctors. I was angry with God for a long time about it because I could not understand why He would take home a woman who was doing amazing things for the kingdom of heaven here on earth. His ways are higher than my ways, His thoughts are higher than my thoughts.
When Yeshua walked the earth, there are numerous scriptures about Him healing the sick, that there would be multitudes of those who were sick and that He would heal them all. He didn’t stand before them and say, “I’ve met my healing quota for the day, you’ll have to come back later.” He showed mercy and compassion and healed them all. Season 2 Episode 3 of The Chosen depicts this beautifully. You see this long line of people waiting to be healed. The disciples are taking shifts helping with the crowds and the people and are setting up a camp and preparing their evening meal. As their discussion evolves, there becomes anger and harsh words thrown as Simon (Peter) does not understand why Jesus would call Matthew, a tax collector, after the way Matthew betrayed their people. At the height of this heated moment, Jesus comes back into the camp, after healing person after person, after person. He is exhausted, He is weak from hunger, and as He shuffles past them, He simply tells them goodnight. As He is trying to wash His feet and prepare for bed, he stumbles and almost falls. His mother, who joined them that day and had just told everyone at the campfire that He didn’t need her anymore, rushes to His side and helps Him take off His sandals, wash His feet, hands, and face, and lets Him lean on her. He puts His forehead to hers and says, “Thank you em, (mother in Hebrew) what would I do without you?”
This scene was so impactful because it showed Yeshua’s compassion to the point of His own physical exhaustion. He showed that He still needed His mother even though He was the Son of God, the Messiah. It showed His disciples there was a whole lot more going on than they could understand. His ways are above our ways, His thoughts are above our thoughts. It also makes you wonder, how many of those that He healed were so caught up in the miracle, they rejoiced and ran off to show they were healed, like nine of the ten lepers we read about in Luke 17. Only one of them noticed he had been healed as they went and returned and praised God. When Yeshua saw this, He said in verses 17-19, “Weren’t ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner? And to the man from Shomron he said, Get up, you may go; your trust has saved you.” Nine were healed, one was healed as well as saved.
James 5:14-15 speaks of healing in its closing. James, the brother of Jesus wrote, [14] Is someone among you ill? He should call for the elders of the congregation. They will pray for him and rub olive oil on him in the name of the Lord. [15] The prayer offered with trust will heal the one who is ill – the Lord will restore his health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. It is the same picture we see with the lone leper. He was healed and he was saved, and it was due to faith.
He is “The One who heals the sick”. I decided to do word studies on the words One, heals, and pray as I meditated on this verse, but I also looked at how olive oil was used for anointing. It was used to anointed and separate the priests and kings unto God, but it was also used as a medicine and balm. Shepherds would use oil to anoint the heads of their sheep when they would get caught in brambles because flies would lay their eggs in those wounds. The sheep would become so distressed by this, they would literally beat their heads against a rock and cause serious injury or death to themselves. In Psalm 23, we are shown a beautiful representation of the Lord being our Shepherd and how he tends to us lovingly, anointing our heads with oil and giving us His protection. His anointing destroys the yoke of bondage. (Isaiah 10:27)
The word One is Hebrew is spelled with the letters Alef, (strength, leader, first) Chet, (A fence, private, to separate) and Dalet (door, pathway, to enter). He is the One from the first that we were separated from that Yeshua provided the door so that we may draw close to Him. It has a numeric value of 13. 13 also equals: Come, Feast, Love, and Medicine.
We can come to Him, He is preparing a feast for us at the marriage supper of the Lamb, He loves us so much that He sent His only son so that we could be save, and He is our medicine, our healer!!!
Heal in Hebrew, or raphe, is spelled with the letters Reyesh, (person, the highest) Pey, (Mouth to speak word, open) and Aleph (Strength, leader, first). Look at the connection between what each of those letters mean and what conclusion do you draw? Yeshua is the highest, when He speaks, it happens, He is our strength, he is the first as well as the last, the beginning and the end.
Numerically, heal has a value of 281. Before I share another value of 281, I want to share a couple of verses from Isaiah 53. [4] In fact, it was our disease he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God. [5] But he was wounded because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, and by his bruises (stripes) we are healed. 281 also means to cover, to bear, to carry.
This leads us to the word pray. Pray is spelled Pey, Lahmed, Lahmed in Hebrew and literally translates to “To speak the tongue of tongues”. As I was looking at the numeric, my mind started racing saying, “I just saw this, I just wrote on this one!” and looked back at the Everlasting Covenant Part 1 – Noah that I wrote just last week. Pray has a numeric of 140, which is the same as everlasting! The other words that held the same value are from on high, smell, sweet or fragrant and to bend, bow down, to be low, to compress, fold up. When we bow down, humble ourselves and become low, we speak the tongue of tongues, and it is a sweet fragrant to our Everlasting Father!
His ways are above our ways, His thoughts above our thoughts. I will never cease praying for healing, but even if He doesn’t, I will serve Him.
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