In this blog, we will be talking about healing and will list several healing scriptures from the bible.
What is healing?
Let’s understand what healing means and hopefully, we will come away with an understanding that will reinforce what you’re seeking.
There is life and death in the power of our tongues and positive speaking can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
My hope is that you find encouragement in the lines below and will take away 1 or 2 scriptures that you can recite daily and meditate on the meaning.
What does healing mean and what does it encompass?
No matter how you define it, healing, wellness, being whole, being restored, and being free from injury and disease, all work together for your good!
Webster’s Definition
If we look at Webster’s definition of healing it means to make free from injury or disease, to make sound or whole.
Another definition is to make well again to restore to health, to cause an undesirable condition to be overcome.
Old English Definition
The Old English definition of Haelen means wholeness.
Cambridge’s Definition
The Cambridge dictionary describes healing as a process in which a bad situation or painful emotion ends and healing begins.
Usually, the healing process begins when the illness is shared with someone.
– Dr. Kathryn McFarland
Greek Definition
The Greek word Diasozo means cure; pristine; which means to be made new.
Therapeutic is a word that means to relieve diseases, to be made whole is beyond our physical state but it also encompasses mental emotional and spiritual well-being.
What I think about healing
When I think about healing I think of several things: mending, repairing, wellness, cure, and transformation.
Yes as integrated parts of a whole and wholeness.
We understand that the word that heals those, restores them to normal, or makes them whole.
Oftentimes healing means more than just physical healing, it also encompasses mental emotional and spiritual aspects… In other words, body soul, and spirit. When we talk about someone being well that is translated as being whole and also being saved from what ails us.
We talk about mending a broken heart or repairing broken relationships and curing that which ails you.
Healing: To be Made Whole
To be whole is beyond physical healing.
Whole also means to save. The word well is translated to be whole so wholeness goes beyond physical. Mind, soul, and spirit affect our bodies. So healing is an all-encompassing word that cures, transforms restores, and repairs to make whole.
This is beyond man or physician’s capabilities. This responsibility belongs to the one who heals restores and makes whole and saves. This is the Great Physician’s Good pleasure. Jehovah Rapha is the God that heals, restores us to normal, makes us whole, and transforms- Not just our physical bodies but also our soul and our spirit together. We can walk in healing when we follow this simple equation:
ACTION + FAITH = CHANGE
Healing: The 10 Lepers
I am reminded of the story in The Bible of the 10 lepers.
Priests back in biblical times were the protectors of society and they kept watch over the community. Those that had sicknesses and diseases were kept separate from society.
The 10 lepers met Jesus and they asked him to heal their condition.
Jesus told the 10 lepers to show themselves to the priest. The priest would verify that healing took place and there was no evidence of disease present. There was an outward cure for 9 of the 10 men, but only the one samaritan got the spiritual blessing.
He acknowledged God, praised God and his faith in Christ had healed him.
Hebrews 11:1 states now faith is the assurance or reality of what is hoped for the proof of what is not seen.
At the moment the samaritan man who had leprosy believed by faith that he was healed, he saw his flesh had changed from white to normal. The samaritan turned back around to praise God in Jesus’s face and his heart, soul, and spirit were also healed as a result of his act of faith.
My hope for you is that you will be transformed and cured and made whole by the One who makes us whole and mends not only your hearts but also your soul and spirit!
Prayer: A Prayer for my Patients
God,
I thank you for being Jehovah Rapha our healer restorer, and mender of not only our bodies but our hearts, mind, spirit, and soul. You don’t do anything halfway. You are a complete God and Your transformations are permanent. Thank you for healing the patients and saving the patients that will become your sons and daughters through Jesus Christ. I thank you, Lord, for every stripe on your back that heals all of our hearts, minds, and bodies. Thank you for wellness and faith to walk in your restored state. May we remain in the blessing of our transformed healing until we reunite with you and your son Jesus in heaven.
Amen!
13 Healing Scriptures
And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
And whether so ever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besot him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole.
And they came to Jericho. And as He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the wayside begging. 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace; but he cried out all the more, “Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, “Be of good comfort; rise; He calleth thee.” 50 And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus. 51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?” The blind man said unto Him, “Lord, that I might receive my sight.” 52 And Jesus said unto him, “Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole.” And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
And Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him.
Just then a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for 12 years, came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak for she was saying to herself, if I only touch his garment, I will get well. But Jesus turning and seeing her said, daughter Take courage your faith has made you well. At once the woman was made well/whole.
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed and many others and cast them down at Jesus's feet; and he healed them. So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.
May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together - spirit, soul, and body - and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers.
Who forgives all your iniquities who heals all your diseases.
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.
Behold, I will bring them (Jerusalem) Health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.