Calling On Our Healing Savior

Over the past 6 months or so, as our staff has been praying through the prayer requests that have come in from Sundays, we have been moved by the myriad of requests for all sorts of healing-mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. In addition, I have had a number of conversations with folks around our church who have carrying God sized burdens where they desperately need God to work a miracle, because there are no other options. During this same time frame, we have had the opportunity to pray with some of you and we've seen God do some very gracious and kind miracles of healing for folks.All of this has worked together to give me the sense that we need to give some special focus to the amazing blessing of the healing available in Christ. And a communion Sunday like this one is the perfect time to bring this focus because our God is a healing God and his healing is available to us in a unique way through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which is rehearsed and remembered in Communion. The subject or concept of supernatural healing has fascinated people for many centuries. It is a captivating subject because people crave miracles in order to get a glimpse of the supernatural at work before their eyes.