Still the Healer

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. Isaiah 53:5

I grew up believing in the power of healing. I saw people around me get healed, and I was told Jesus still heals. And I believed it. Mostly. Until it truly affected my own life and of course that was different.

But Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” That means the same Jesus that healed the blind and the lame and caused the dead to rise, can still heal today. And with my sweet Olivia as I was told she would never live, I clung to the healing words of Jesus. I prayed and I delved into the Word and I believed that He would do a miracle and He did.

But then we forget. It’s like the Israelites after coming out of Egypt and making the golden calf because Moses was gone too long. Every time I read that, I think how crazy they are. They just saw God perform all of these amazing miracles to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and then He has provided for them and walked with them. But they still decide they need a different god. It makes me want to shake them and tell them to wake up!

But then God whispers ever so gently and reminds me that I do the same thing. I’ve seen Him do great things, but I have found myself lately not believing Him for healing for my son. You see my sweet little baby has horrible eczema. He is miserable and in desperate need of healing. I have asked for prayers, but I haven’t fully believed.

I’ve been studying the names of God, and today as I was reading through them Jehovah Rophe, the God who Heals stuck out to me. We find the reference to this name in Exodus 15:25b – 26, “There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, and said, ‘If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.'”

It was as if God was shouting at me that He’s got this. He is the healer, and He can and will heal my baby. So many times I feel like the man in Mark 9 who brought his son to Jesus for healing. In verse 23, “Jesus said to Him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.'” Then in verse 24, “Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!'”

I feel like so many times I have to ask God to help my unbelief. I pray that He continues to strengthen my faith. He is Jehovah Rophe, the God who Heals, and I am standing on His promises today.