Healing in the Name of Jesus

Last night, Sherry and I watched the Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project. The Lumo Project uses the Gospel text as the script. It is a word for word version of the Gospel informed by leading world experts’ latest historical and archeological research into the time period. They have done all four Gospels in movie form.

In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is constantly healing people. He healed a woman’s daughter that was tormented by a demon. Jesus cast the demon out. He healed man’s son who was tormented by a demon. He raised another man’s daughter from the dead. Peter told a group of Italians, “He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.” [1]

The healing acts of Jesus were signs that He is who He said He is, namely the Messiah. Jesus told His disciples, “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.” Then, He proceeded to tell them that believers in Him would do greater works than He did, because He was going to the Father. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My Name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” [2]

In the Book of Acts, the disciples prayed, “Lord... stretch out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the Name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” And He did. The Lord healed the lame and raised the dead via Peter. [3]

There are too many verses about healing in the Bible for me to include them all in a brief article, but I am, providing some for you hereafter. Ultimately, God decides whom He will heal.

So often in the Gospels, Jesus healed those who came to Him in a humble fashion, pleaded for mercy, and believed that He was able to heal. “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’ The blind man said to Him, ‘Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your faith has made you well.’ And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.” [4] The man told the Lord straight forwardly his need, and simply, like a child, believed the Lord as a good father, would give him what he asked for.

The Lord is a healer. “I am the Lord who heals you.” [5]

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all...” “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds … Great is our Lord, and mighty in power …” [6]

“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” [7]

[1] Acts 10:38
[2] John 14:11-13
[3] Acts 4:29-30; Acts 3, Acts 9
[4] Mark 10:51-52
[5] Exodus 15:26
[6] Psalm 34:19; 147:3
[7] Hebrews 4:16