“How to Heal” – Leddy Hammock

The prophet Isaiah called people to “see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and their heart understand, and they turn and be healed” (Isaiah 6:10).  Jesus repeated the prophecy of Isaiah, that people should “see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them” (Mt.13:14-15).    

 

 

“Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly …. and the glory of the LORD will guard your back” (Is. 58:80).  In Jerusalem, “One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be well?’ …. ‘Rise, take up your mat, and walk.  Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked” (Jn. 5:1-9).    

 

 

Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, sought healing from his condition of leprosy.  “The prophet [Elisha] sent him a message” ‘Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean ….’  “So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean” (II Kings 5:10, 14).  As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.  Jesus “spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, ‘Go wash in the Pool of Siloam.’  So he went and washed and came back able to see” (Jn. 9: 6-7).     

 

Now, in this moment, I am ready and willing to be healed.      

 

“Peace!  Peace to those who are far and near, says the LORD; and I will heal them” (Is.57:19).  A Centurian (leader of a hundred Roman soldiers) met Jesus in a city called Capernaum and told Jesus that his servant was “lying at home paralyzed.”  Jesus offered to come to the man’s home, but the Centurian said to Jesus, “Only say the word and my servant will be healed.”  “Jesus said to the centurion, ‘You may go, as you have believed, let it be done for you.’  And at that very hour his servant was healed” (Mt. 8:5-13).