This is the second part of the healing prayer. Please feel free to make any comments about all parts of this prayer that come to mind while reading. May you be as richly blessed by this prayer as I have.
Father, it is your desire that there be no sin, nor sickness, nor disease on the Earth. Yet we all have sinned and we all fall short of the honor and glory which You bestow and receive. (Romans 8:23) Except we have been made righteous by the generous gift of grace from Christ Jesus that he has given us through the sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation His blood. (Romans 8:24,25) It was this demonstration of righteousness that justified and enabled all of us to receive this gift.
Father, when Jesus stood before the men in the synagogue, He read aloud from the scroll of Isaiah saying; “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me, To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” (Luke 4:18-19) In this He announced that the Kingdom of God is here now and of how healing and deliverance belong together. Father, Jesus gave us the command to go out into the world and preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand! Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with all kinds of skin diseases and, cast out demons. (Matthew 10:7,8)
Papa, this is as true in our age, as when Christ walked the earth. And In that same way that healing and deliverance are paired together, Your words given to us from the Holy Spirit are bound together so tightly that they cannot be separated from Your will for us. You have equipped us to bringing Your heart to Earth for each of Your beloved children. But the world is blinded as Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 4:4 where he wrote “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
Father, how then, can we hope to stand against the wiles of the enemy without knowledge people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6) and hope (Proverbs 13:12)? It is in our faith, that complete trust, that You are with us and we are hearing Your voice and know our charge to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and to cleanse those with skin diseases.
