Jehovah Rapha (God our Healer)

I am so honored that we have connected again today.  I am praying for your miracle every day, and I would ask you to pray for mine.

I have been praying for the healing of my wife’s eyes for more than 30 years. Laurel has Bietti’s Crystalline Dystrophy and Cystoid Macular Edema, two degenerative eye diseases that have impaired much of her vision. On a recent doctor visit, they told us that Laurel has eight percent of her vision remaining in her right eye and eleven percent of the vision in her left eye. This was hard news to hear, but do you know what we did with it? We took it to Jehovah Rapha—God our Healer! No matter what doctors may say, we have a miracle-working God who can make blind eyes see. We have a God who heals disease, sickness and depression. Our God can do miracles!

I know there are some people who wonder why we keep praying for a miracle. The truth is, we keep praying because we know God is more than able to do miracles, and we pray He will do this miracle! As well, to ask the same question that Peter did, “To whom should we go?”  While I love medical science, when there are no answers to a medical condition, I love knowing there is Another to whom I can appeal, and His name is Jehovah Rapha, God our Healer.

I love the promises of God about healing because they give me the faith to keep believing and asking. Let these words wash over you and restore your hope in our God, who heals.

“If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if  you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26, NIV) 

“You restored me to health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.” (Isaiah 38:16-17, NIV) 

“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion.” (Psalms 103:2-4, NIV) 

friend, if you need a physical miracle today, I am praying that God says “Yes!” If you don’t need a physical miracle, I am sure you know someone who does. No matter how long you may have prayed, today is NOT the day to give up! Let’s appeal again to Jehovah Rapha, God our Healer.

Would you pray with me? “Jehovah Rapha, we come to You today for healing. Healing in our bodies. Healing in our minds. Healing in our hearts. We are grateful that You gave Yourself this name so we would never forget that You are our Healer. Lord, whatever friend needs today, I thank You that You are more than able to give them their miracle. As we wait on YOU, teach us to trust more and believe more. Amen.”

I am praying for your miracle and thank you for praying for mine. 

You are a miracle!