Healing After the Storm

 


A second series on recovery — what Scripture teaches about healing after illness and how we cooperate with the God who restores

Brothers and sisters, the previous series looked at living by faith when sickness leaves us unable to help ourselves. Now we turn to the other side of the valley: the slow, often frustrating work of healing and recovery. The Bible does not leave us without light here. God is the Lord who heals (Exodus 15:26). He also calls His people to walk wisely, rest obediently, pray continually, and receive the means of grace He has provided. These six posts are written for the fundamentalist Christian who holds the inerrant Word as final authority. They reject both the despair that says God no longer heals and the error that treats healing as something we can demand by formula. We look to the whole counsel of God for the path of recovery.

 The Lord Who Heals Thee

Beginning recovery by fixing our eyes on the Healer Himself

After illness, the first and greatest need is not a technique but a Person. The Lord said to Israel, “I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). David declared, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases” (Psalm 103:3). Jeremiah cried, “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise” (Jeremiah 17:14).

Recovery begins when we consciously turn from self-reliance to the God who alone gives life and health. This is not a denial of medicine, doctors, or the body’s natural processes. Those are means the Lord often uses. But the means are never the source. The source is the living God who numbers our days and holds our breath in His hand (Daniel 5:23; Job 12:10).

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed when the sentence of death was given; the Lord added fifteen years (Isaiah 38). The woman with the issue of blood reached out in faith and was made whole (Mark 5:25-34). In every case the healing came from the Lord, not from human effort alone. After serious illness we must begin each day by acknowledging the same truth: “Lord, if You will, You can make me whole. And whether the healing is swift or slow, I rest in You.”

Fix your eyes first on the Healer. Everything else follows from that.

DMMC

8-16-26

Location: Dublin, IN, USA

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