I Am A God Who Heals.

I heal broken bodies, broken minds, broken hearts, broken lives, and broken relationships. My very Presence has immense healing powers. You cannot live close to Me without experiencing some degree of healing. However, it is also true that you have not because you ask not. You receive the healing that flows naturally from My Presence, whether you seek it or not. But there is more- much more- available to those who ask.

The first step in receiving healing is to live ever so close to Me. The benefits of this practice are too numerous to list. As you grow more and more intimate with Me, I reveal My will to you more directly. When the time is right, I prompt you to ask for healing of some brokenness in you or in another person. The healing may be instantaneous, or it may be a process. That is up to Me. Your part is to trust Me fully and to thank Me for the restoration that has begun.

I rarely heal all the brokenness in a person's life. Even My servant Paul was told, "My grace is sufficient for you, "when he sought healing for the thorn in his flesh. Nonetheless, much healing is available to those whose lives are intimately interwoven with Mine. Ask, and you will receive.

Ye have not, because ye ask not.- JAMES 4:2 

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."- 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7-9

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find."- MATHEW 7:7

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When I read today's passages I think to myself, "Ok, it is easy to pray when I need healing, I do it all of the time." But, the part that I think God wants us as current believers to understand is that just because we ask Him to heal our bodies or those of people we love, it does not mean that it will be an instantaneous thing. For example, I have been praying to God about some headaches that I have been having and get somewhat upset because the headaches are not gone from my body the next day. It almost seems to me like God is sending me a message, personally, saying that we must trust in Him and He will decide the timing of restoration.

In today's day, we are constantly wanting things now, now, now. And that is not something we can control it is simply the way the world is working. If you don't buy something "right now", the sale will be over or if you don't fulfill a request from your boss "right now" you will be scolded and looked down upon, even when you may be doing something of greater importance and value. God is not in this world. He is the one who decides timing with our faith and growth. When we slow down and talk to God we have to remember what we are asking it in His timing, not our own.

This is and will continue to be a challenge for me, to trust in God's timing of my prayers for healing. It will definitely be something we can also ask God for assistance on, however remember in His time, shall we receive.