Morning by Morning, July 30 - Healing Academy with Our Teacher the Lord Jesus Christ
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the Word of God (John 1:1). As I welcome You into my day, I welcome Your Word in my thoughts, my desires, my will, and my ways to shape me and direct me today. ...
This morning, we’ll begin the first of three days and nights where I’m so honored and excited to be teaching the Healing Academy for Aldersgate Renewal Ministries at their homebase in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, just on the outskirts of Nashville. May You be our Teacher (John 13:13). And I’m filled with expectant faith of all You will do!
As I pray that word “expectant” this morning, a healing story from the early church, freshly empowered by Your Holy Spirit, comes to mind about a man “expecting to receive something from (Your disciples who were filled with Your Spirit” (Acts 3:5):
“Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, ‘Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’ And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them--walking, leaping, and praising God!” (Acts 3:1-9)
Come, Holy Spirit! May we be expectant in our faith, expectant in our hope, expectant in our trust in You that You will move in Your power and grace, Your mercy and love, as we receive the teaching and impartation of the power of Your Word and Your Spirit in these days together.
As one of Your teachers, sent to make Your disciples, grounded in Your Word and filled with Your Spirit, I have no silver or gold or anything else to give but You. But You’re all we need. Apart from You, we can do nothing (John 15:5). But we praise God, that we are not apart from You. You are with us always (Matthew 28:20). Your Spirit abides within us always--right here in our words, our thoughts, our actions, as we yield to You and Your words, Your will, and Your ways (Romans 8:9). The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us! (Romans 8:11)
You heal in many ways in our “spirit, soul, and body,” as You come in Your power and love to set things right again within us, as “the God of peace”--the God of shalom--meaning nothing missing, nothing broken, but whole and free in You (1 Thessalonians 5:23). “He who calls (us) is faithful, who also will do it” (v. 24).
As I’ll be teaching this week, You heal in at least five different ways: Sometimes You heal instantly in miracles of the moment; sometimes you heal progressively in the little by little and day by day moments in the unfolding of time; sometimes You heal through doctors and nurses and medicines and the things You have placed on this earth with the healing properties of Your nature; sometimes You heal by giving us the grace to persevere until our ultimate healing to come; and sometimes You heal in the ultimate healing of our resurrection in You.
But You are Jehovah Rapha--“the Lord who heals” (Exodus 15:26). That’s one of Your names because that part of Your nature, manifesting Your will for us on earth as it is in heaven by Your Word and Your Spirit, even moving in power through Your disciples. That why Your Scripture commands us “pray for one another, that (we) may be healed” (James 5:16).
Come, Holy Spirit! Come open up the heavens over us, over this place, over everywhere You meet us and then send us. Come fill us up with expectant faith to believe and embrace all of Your Word for all of our lives--this day and every day. “And these signs will follow those who believe!” (Mark 16:17) “All things are possible for one who believes!” (Mark 9:23).
“Now may the God of hope fill (us) with all joy and peace in believing, that (we) may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit!” (Romans 15:13) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be filled with expectant faith for all the Lord is doing in you and through you as our Teacher and Healer, the God of Shalom with nothing missing and nothing broken in His peace, in Jesus' name. Amen. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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