Yahweh-Rapha
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
It’s good to be able to meet back up again here on Sunday nights.
Something just felt weird and missing when not here.
Before Covid-19 hit we were in the middle of a series of lesson on “God By Name” wherein we were examining the different ways in which God characterized himself or others characterized him in the scriptures.
We will pick up our study today by looking at Exodus 15:26.
26 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
Yahweh-Rapha “The LORD Your Healer” is whom I want us to study about today.
I want us to leave here knowing our LORD is our healer and him whom we should rely on for such.
He Heals Us Physically
He Heals Us Physically
Prayer Is Powerful.
Prayer Is Powerful.
I’ve always been dumbfounded by those that don’t seek the prayers of others when issues arise against them.
Prayer is often very important in their lives and they pray for others but when something happens to them, they seek God’s help on their own.
Yet, we must be reminded that if the faithful prayer of one is powerful how much more of many faithful brethren’s prayers.
16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
You see…
Prayers Leads To Health.
Prayers Leads To Health.
Let’s look a little closer to James 5:16 by reading James 5:14-16.
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
There is no doubt this person under consideration is dealing with a physical sickness.
There is also no doubt they are possibly dealing with a spiritual sickness that has caused the physical but for the moment let’s concentrate on the physical.
Here we have the righteous praying for the health of an individual and God says this prayer has “great power as it is working.”
When we pray to Yahweh-Rapha for our health or the health of others God can and often does answer those prayers.
Hezekiah was told to “set his house in order” (2 Kings 20:1) but Hezekiah prayed to be healed and God answered that prayer.
5 “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,
Hannah appeared to have some physical limitation that kept her from having children and she prayed and God answered.
19 And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.
However, we must also remember that God doesn’t always answer our prayers with the healing of our loved ones.
David’s son by way of fornication with Bathsheba did not survive his health woes even though David prayed fervently for him (2 Samuel 12:15-23).
Summary
Summary
Yahweh-Rapha (LORD our Healer) wants to heal our diseases.
God our healer wants to nurse us back to health.
3 The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
God our healer wants us healthy enough to “run like a calf out of a stall.”
2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
Yahweh-Rapha doesn’t want to just heal our physical disease but our spiritual ones as well.
You see…
He Heals Us Spiritually
He Heals Us Spiritually
The Great Physician.
The Great Physician.
We sing the song “The Great Physician” with the first two verses saying…
“The great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus; He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, Oh, hear the voice of Jesus.”
“Your many sins are all forgiv’n, Oh, hear the voice of Jesus; Go on your way in peace to heav’n, and wear a crown with Jesus.”
The reality is, and thankfully so, that God is more concerned with healing us spiritually than physically.
As Jesus stated…
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
The reality is Jesus came to earth for the soul purpose of becoming the “Great Physician” of mankind’s soul.
That means he came for…
The Lost Of The World.
The Lost Of The World.
God methodically and wonderfully, through the scheme of redemption, brought about the “fullness of time” (Galatians 4:4) that His Son might become flesh (John 1:14), take on the sins of the world (1 Peter 2:24), and heal our sin ridden souls (1 John 2:2).
This is the “free gift of God” that combats death brought by sin.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For those in Christ who have, due to unrepentant sin, become backsliders and wayward God is patiently waiting to forgive them that come back.
22 “Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Summary
Summary
Jesus beautifully and powerfully demonstrated the love God has for his children’s spiritual wellbeing in the great parable of the Prodigal Son.
20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Conclusion
Conclusion
Let us never lose site that Yahweh-Rapha (the Lord your healer) is there for us physically and spiritually.
He want’s, if possible, to protect and help us physically but most importantly he wants to save our soul.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.