2. Dedication For Healing Psalm 30:2

Text:  “O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me." Psalm 30:2

“Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” Jeremiah 33:3

Good morning, praying Christian!  Are you one of those ‘weirdoes’ who are constantly found talking (praying) to some Person that you cannot touch, feel, taste, or see?  I am!  Praise God we are just such worldly defined ’weirdoes’!  We have been given God’s gift of true faith; faith to believe, feel, touch, taste, and see the Lord God Almighty, and to fellowship with this unseen Lord God, continually, in worshipful and thankful prayer.  Hallelujah!  We are ’Weirdoes for Jesus’!  Glory to His Name! 

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…But without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh to God must believe that He is (I.e that He exists, even when we do not see Him!), and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”  (Hebrews 11:1;6)

David, Israel’s godly Psalmist, was another one such ’weirdo’, who cried out unto the Living Lord God Whom he couldn’t feel, taste, or see.  Yet, the proof and reality of God’s existence and Divine Presence is in the ’pudding’ of prayers answered; and Psalm 30: is a list of prayers David prayed, that were answered for all to see. 

Faith really can ’move mountains’.  Praise and glory unto the Lord God Who hears our prayers, and answers us in His Almighty grace and power.  Amen.

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for everyone that asketh (asks, and continues to ask God) receiveth (receives and continues to receive from God); and he/she that seeketh findeth; and to him/her that knocketh it shall be opened.”  (Matthew 7:7-8)

Verse 2.  “O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me.  If our watch is out of order, we take it to the watchmaker; if our body or soul be in an evil plight, let us resort to Him Who created them and has unfailing skill to put them in right condition.  As for our Spiritual diseases, nothing can heal these evils but the touch of the Lord Christ; if we do but touch the hem of His garment, we shall be made whole, while if we embrace all other physicians in our arms, they can do us no service.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 144)

“Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!”  This was the plaintive cry in Jericho that day; the crying out from the heart of one who had been bound in blindness all his life and who wanted with all his heart to be healed, to be given his sight.  Bartimaeus had heard that Jesus of Nazareth was performing great, otherwise impossible, miracles throughout the land, and the blind man, by his hearing, believed and because he truly believed, he cried out in a fashion in which he was determined to be heard, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!”

“And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.  And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.”  (Mark 10:46-52)

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17)

“O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me. (Psalm 30:2)

“Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”  (Jeremiah 33:3)

Hear our late brother Spurgeon on this matter of Divine Healing:  “No doubt some are held back from such action by the freezing power of despair. They have reached the conclusion that there is no hope for them.  The promises of the Gospel they regard as the voice of God to others, but as having no cheering word for them.  When men have no hope, they soon have no fear.  Is not this a dreadful thing?  May the Lord save you from such a condition!  Despair of God’s mercy is an unreasonable thing: if you think you have grounds for it, the lying spirit must have suggested them to you.  Holy Scripture contains no justification for hopelessness.  Neither the nature of God, nor the Gospel of God, nor the Christ of God, warrant despair.  Multitudes of texts encourage hope; but no one Scripture, rightly understood, permit’s a doubt of the mercy of God.  ‘All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men.’  Jesus, the great Healer, is never baffled by any disease of human nature; he can cast out a legion of devils, and raise the dead.  Oh that I could whisper hope into the dull ear of yonder mourner!  Oh that I could drop a rousing thought into the sullen heart of the self-condemned!  How glad I should be!”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Sermons on the Miracles, page 71)

“O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me. (Psalm 30:2)

“Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”  (Jeremiah 33:3)

There is an old adage that says, ‘There is none so blind as him who will not see.’  Self-will can blind us to the existence of God, and thus, to the healing power of God according to His will and Eternal purpose.  Only believe, dear reader, believe in Christ.

Thought: Sin is an Eternal disease, cry out now for Christ’s healing. He will hear.