God can Heal Us from Our Strife

Verses: Psalms 30 : 1 - 12

Song inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

People have a tendency to pray to God when they are sick.  They want God to step in and cure them from their illness.  They pray to God to take away their pain.  They ask God to heal not only their ailments but those of the ones they love.

We need to remember that there is more that we need to pray for.  Some of us get frustrated when they ask God for physical healing and they do not get it immediately.  Some people even turn away from God because they believe that God has betrayed them.  They get angry with God when their loved ones do not get well.  They get frustrated praying over and over to God to make them well but it doesn’t happen.

Yet, what most of us miss is that God knows what we really need help with.  Sometimes when we think it is our body that needs healing there is an emotional part that truly needs help.  There are times that God will heal us spiritually even though we prayed for healing of our body.  We miss that God may be calling our love one home.  In those moments instead of providing the healing that they need we receive healing to overcome the death.

We need to realize that God loves us unconditionally.  God doesn’t want us to be in pain.  God doesn’t want us to suffer.  God wants us to live in peace.  God wants to provide us with an inner peace that we desperately need.

We miss that sometimes that the pain that we are going through may be the thing we need to grow stronger.  We may need to be knocked down to our knees so that we will turn back to God.  People often forget to worship God when things are going good.  It is in those moments of need that we turn things over to the Great Healer.  It isn’t that God does not want us to have the pain.  Yet, God is able to use the pain that we have to draw us closer.

We need to let go of our anger and mourning.  Think on this God loss the Son to the Cross.  This was willing done so that we may have eternal life.  We are blessed with knowing that our God loves us so much that we truly have no fear.  God provides us with calmness if we turn over our problems over to God.

Prayer:

Dear God thank you.  Thank you for providing us peace.  Thank you for providing us the healing that we need.  Help us walk in your comfort.  Help us know that no matter what is happening in our life you are there carrying.  Help us remember that you are always by our side being our best friend.  Help us find peace in you.  In the name of the Great Healer we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you turned away from God because you do not receive the healing that you want?  Have you run from God because you have lost a loved one that you have prayed for?  Is today the day that you run back to God?  Is this moment the time that you praise God for the healing that you have received?  Have you looked into your life and determined that there are many things that you need to thank God for?