Healing & The Power
Of Prayer In Daily Living Athena Morrison
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hen we speak of healing, we sometimes think of our physical health but, healing is also attributed to love and peace. Our main focus is usually on our physical healing because we are aware that when our bodies are hurting, the pain, lack of movement and the ability to work and attend to our daily chores becomes impaired and we therefore have little or no ability to provide for families or ourselves. Currently the world, which we are caught up in, is in turmoil, as there are news of illness and death in the thousands and we are so busy trying to stay healthy, that we sometimes forget we do have the power of prayer which, if applied daily, with faith will ease our anxieties. Granted, most of us pray daily for healing of various ailments which attack our physical health but we can and should also pray for the healing of our minds which the enemy attacks with stealth and cunning, having us believe that love and peace in our daily living is of our own doing and could be out of
our reach. The Bible teaches that if we have faith and pray unceasingly, we can expect healing for any sickness of our bodies as per God’s will. In looking at Matthew 9:35 it says “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every diseases among the people.” Jesus gave His disciples the same power over sickness and disease of all kind. As believers with faith, we should also be able to faithfully pray for healing as the disciples did and if it is God’s will, then healing will be manifested. We, therefore, should have the same thinking about love and peace. God’s love for His children is unwavering, His love is so great that we see His action in John 3:16 which states, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (NKJV). I do not know anyone who will give
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up their child or children to be crucified to save another life but here is God showing the greatest love and giving the greatest gift to us so we may have life everlasting. Why then should we not show love one to another? Love does not cost anything more than faithfully praying daily. The peace of God was given to us by Jesus. John 14:27 reads: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (NKJV) We have the necessary tools for healing the sick and finding and sharing peace and love. Spending quiet time in the Word allows us to tap into the Holy Spirit that resides within us, in whom we will have access to these supernatural tools. My prayer is to have the help of God to live this daily, for His glory.
