HEALING INVOLVING LIFE AND DEATH
A team of elite doctors seem to have little hope of my nephew being healed of a critical illness. But the Word of God says, ““Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:27).
CASE INVOLVING A FAMILY MEMBER’S CRITICAL ILLNESS:
The doctors said my nephew’s prostate cancer had spread to his bones, and the bone marrow was not producing enough blood to sustain his life. They have been giving him blood transfusions every other day, but his health continues to decline. They were thinking of treating him with chemotherapy, but felt his body could be too weak to cope with it. The family and my nephew were undecided about what to do. However, the Biblical Word of God says: “give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you” (I Peter 5:7). And he “is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us… by Christ Jesus (Ephesians 3:20-21).
JESUS’ DEMONSTRATION OF HIS LOVE AND POWER TO HEALED IN LIFE AND DEATH CASES:
To increase my nephews faith and trust in the Lord, I decided to tell him about the life and death case of Jesus healing a man name Lazarus:
Mary and her sister Martha, who were close friends of Jesus sent word for him to come and heal their brother Lazarus who was terminally ill. Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus; but the Lord stayed where he was two more days, although the sisters were anxious for him to come and heal their brother.
After Jesus stayed where he as for some more days, he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea,” where Lazarus was. And he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up .”His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe.
When he got to Judea, Lazarus had been dead for four days. When Martha saw Jesus, she said, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
Jesus said, “Your brother will rise again.” And he said, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.
When Mary came and saw Jesus, she said, like her sister Martha,” “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. Jesus wept.
Jesus asked them to take him to the tomb of Lazarus. Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to
the tomb. “Take away the stone” of the tomb, he said. But Martha said, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
They took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
“Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.” (John 11:1-45).
THE LORD WANTS US TO ALSO BELIEVE IN HIS LIFE AND DEATH HEALING POWER.
The Word tells us Jesus went around “preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (Matthew 4:23-24: Acts 10:38). God advises us to “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall [a]direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
God especially wants us to know that he gave his only begotten Son to die for our sins and that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16; Romans 6:23 ); for Jesus died for us while we were still sinner (Romans 3:23:Romans 5:8).
The lord promises his believers the time would come when “‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4).
