Healing Service

Scripture Lesson #1

1 Corinthians 12:12–26 NIV

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

1) we are bodies in need of God’s healing and nurturing care;

2) the church is a body;

3) Christ is the head of the body.

This passage is speaking to our gifts and abilities within the Church Family. God is using the symbolism of the body to make His point here.

When one member suffers we all suffer. Christ is the head and through the Holy Spirit we are healed. It is a biblical thing do depend on God for healing.

It is not the words that as important here, it is the symbolism Paul is using. “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” There is room for God to heal us in our theology.

Scripture Lesson #2

Isaiah 40:27–31 (NIV)

Why do you complain, Jacob?

Why do you say, Israel,

“My way is hidden from the Lord;

my cause is disregarded by my God”?

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

God is not ignorant to our suffering

God sustains He does not get tired

God is forever

He give Strength to the weary

What is weary? what does it mean?

He renews strength to those who Hope in the the Lord.

God sustains us even in the most dire of circumstances.

Luke 4:14–21 (NIV)

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

and recovery of sight for the blind,

to set the oppressed free,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 26: Luke New Credentials

Jesus gave them the credentials of Isaiah and claimed them as His own, and they were all in the area of social concern. They were the same kinds of credentials He gave to the disciples of John the Baptist toward the end of John’s life. These are still the authentic credentials of the people of God. GodSpirit is at work where personal and social concern are demonstrated. If we are God’s people, we care about the physical, social, temporal needs of the world

We get our credentials from Jesus. He gives us all access to the Holy Spirit which in turn gives us access to the power of God’s healing.

Scripture Lesson #3

James 5:13–16 NIV

Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Trouble - Pray

Happy - Rejoice

Sick - Be anointed with oil and pray in the name of the Lord

Anointed with oil

Pray in faith

Confess sin (we did that)

Our prayers are powerful and effective