Steps to healing prayer

 The healing stories of Jesus.

It's consoling to know the journey of faith with Jesus.  Basically, when we discover that He cares; thus, He has deep interest to human sufferings and pains. It's truely heart warming to know that it's through His interference that we can only get into a deeper relationship with the Heavenly Father.

Gospel of Mark - Chapter 2

"A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

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The strong conviction of the four men to bring the paralyzed man to Jesus. Healing starts from a community of people who wills the healing for the person whom they care. The paralyzed man on this gospel was just silent, and wasn't talking. Somehow, when one suffers, he has no strength to pray or to ask God for healing. The most important aspect is this "ecclesial" dimension, were two or three persons who are united in their prayer, manifesting faith and trust that God can do miracles.

The second truth that we need to know was the reaction of Jesus to the faith to this group of people who did everything to bring the paralyzed man in front of Him, to the cost of breaking the roof and lowering the mat where the paralyzed man was lying. "JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH".  Again the sick man has no word to say, he was still very silent, so then Jesus talked... not to the four men, but to the sick man: "Son, your sins are forgiven". That sick man didn't have any name, nor familiarity with Jesus, but then He called Him with a familiar title: "Son"... "your sins are forgiven".

The third truth, when we bring sick people in our prayers to Jesus, He surely notice our hearts and intentions. Then the sick and the needy that we'll be entrusting to Him will become intimate to Him, and then a river of mercy and love will pour out: "Son, your sins are forgiven".

Lord  Jesus, I entrust to you ..... (the name of the person)

my ........  (your relation to the person),

I bring him to you because I know that you bring

salvation and healing to those who are sick and in need.   

 

I believe that you see my heart and all that i desire right now.

I know that nothing is impossible with you.

You love the sick and the sinners, because they need your grace and mercy;

thus, through your work of proclamation of the Kingdom of God, it grows and it extends its branches so to offer refuge to those who are helpless and needing. Praise you Lord forever.