There is a nice plaque hanging on the front wall of a doctor’s consultation room which reads: “WE TREAT, GOD HEALS!”

What a true statement! Doctors diagnose the problem and create an atmosphere for healing to occur, but it is God who really does the healing. There are times when medical science fails to treat the problem. But even then God can bring about healing because He is a healing God.

In Exodus 15:26, God says, “…I am the LORD, who heals you”. Healing is an act of setting right or repairing what was previously damaged.

No damage is irreparable for God. Every organ in your body is created by God. His hands have designed your blood vessels and cells. He even knows your blood group! God can create organs that aren’t there. He can also repair organs that may not be working well.

It isn’t just the body that God heals. He repairs the area of emotions and brings in emotional health. He also works in the area of the spirit and brings spiritual healing and health.

God is not only interested in healing a person, but He is also interested in bringing healing to everything connected to the person. He works on the person’s career, relationships, income and assets. God is in the business of repairing lives, not breaking lives. On the cross, Jesus was broken so that we may be repaired and restored back to health!

If you are dealing with some damage that has happened to you, whether it’s physical, marital, emotional, financial, spiritual or relational, Jesus is interested in setting you right. His healing power is still powerful to destroy all the schemes of the devil.

Remind yourself that nothing can damage God’s love for you. Take rest in His healing promises found in the Bible. Visualize these promises coming true in your life. Confess these with your mouth. Thank God in advance!

You are blessed to follow Christ because healing belongs to you!

- – - written by Joe Abraham

Watch this video clip ‘Satan’s meeting’ which will make you think.

Read even if you’re busy!

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Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said,  “We can’t keep Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior.”

“Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.”

“So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, but steal their time, so they don’t have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.

This is what I want you to do”, said the devil:-

“Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!”

“How shall we do this?” his demons shouted.

“Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered.

“Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.

Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.

Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!

Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.

Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mail boxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products , services and false hopes.

Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their  husbands will believe that outward beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their wives. Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If they don’t give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere. That will fragment their families quickly!

Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas.

Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death.

Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God’s creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy!

And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences.

Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.

It will work! It will work!”

It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get more busy and more rushed, going here and there. Having little time for their God or their families. Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been successful at his scheme?

You be the judge! Does “busy” mean :

B-eing    U-nder    S-atan’s    Y-oke?

Please pass this on, if you aren’t too BUSY!

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” – (James 1:2-4 ESV)

Think about a person who stands unagitated and immovable in spite of the fierce pressures coming against him. The Bible calls this quality ‘steadfastness’.

The Lord wants us to be people of steadfastness. He does not want us to sway and slip with every passing torrent. Steadfastness is built up in us as we go through various trials. That’s why the Lord exhorts us to be joyful in trials because every trial is an opportunity for building up our spiritual and emotional ‘muscles’.

Think about a body builder. Before he begins his body building program, his muscles would probably be loose and not so strong; but as he daily does this program, eventually his muscles become strong and powerful. This happens because his muscles have developed the quality of steadfastness as a result of withstanding pressures.

Similarly, the Lord wants you to develop steadfastness in your life through the pressures and trials that come against you. Consider every trial that you face today as an opportunity to become more strong and unflinching. And as you tackle your daily pressures with this mindset, you grow in endurance, boldness, vitality, and confidence in God. What the devil planned for evil will become a channel for success in your life.

- – - written by Joe Abraham (from www.gloriousliving.net)