Insights on Healing

Narrator:

Welcome to Insights on Healing, a weekly podcas..Today’s Episode is entitled: Jesus Heals the Demonic and Many More Diseases. You will learn the extent of Jesus’ healing.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. The purpose of Insights on Healing podcast is to provide content that brings inner healing and restoration to individuals dealing with trauma and difficult life situations.

Today’s podcast is taken from the book of Luke 4:verses 31-37 where Jesus heals a man with an unclean spirit and Luke 4: 38-40 where Jesus healed Simon mother in law who had a fever and healed many with various sicknesses.

I will be reading these scripture verses from the NIV and will reflect on each situation.

Luke 4: 31-37

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 

They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice

“Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

“Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.

All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” 

And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.

Reflection: Here Jesus healed a man with an impure spirit or demonic interference. Today, many have attested to complete deliverance from demonic or impure spirits. All things are possible with God.

Luke 4: 38-40

Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.

So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. 

Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

Reflection:

Jesus healed Simon’s mother in law with a high fever by rebuking the fever. Jesus also laid  hands on those with various kinds of sicknesses and healed them. Here again,  demons came out of many people.

I want to thank you for listening to this podcast and I pray that you will understand by faith, that with God, all things are possible, even your healing and your provision.

Let us pray. Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for those who are sick with covid 19, that you will touch them and raise them up  as you did with Simon’s mother in law who was sick with a fever. I pray in the name of Jesus, that you would heal those with various diseases including mental, heart disease, cancers, and those who are on the brink of dying. I pray Father, that you will provide for those who are in need and I pray wholeheartedly for our nation in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Narrator:

Welcome to Insights on Healing, a weekly podcast. Today’s Episode is entitled:”Provision and Healing.” You will learn how God miraculously provides and heals in the midst of difficult situations.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. The purpose of Insights on Healing podcast is to provide content that brings inner healing and restoration to individuals dealing with trauma and difficult life situations.

Today’s podcast is taken from the books of 2 kings 4:1-7 where God provides a miracle for a woman who owed a debt and John 4: 46-53 where Jesus healed the son of a royal official who was sick.

I will be reading these scripture verses from the NIV and will reflect on each situation.

2 Kings 4:1-7

New International Version

The Widow’s Olive Oil

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.  Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”

She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”

But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

Reflect: Here we see and understand the miracles that God can perform when we exercise faith. The woman did not realize she had an asset (oil) that God can expand and she can sell to pay off her debts. What do you have in the way of gifts that God is waiting to use for His glory?

John 4:46-53

 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

Reflect: This is yet another healing that Jesus performed. Do you or one of your family need God’s healing. Put God to the test, pray, believe, and exercise faith in God’s ability to heal even in this pandemic period where so many are dying.

Let us pray: Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before you and believe that you are able to heal for you opened the eyes of the blind, you healed the leopard, you healed the woman with the issue of blood, you even raised Lazarus from the dead. You are the same God, Yesterday, today and forever, and we pray that you will heal those who are sick in Jesus’ name and bring an end to the virus.

Welcome to Insights on Healing, a weekly podcast. Today’s Episode is entitled: ‘God Forgives Your Sins, Heals, and sets Captives Free.” You will learn from my testimony, how God forgives, heals, and set me free and how he can do the same for you.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. The purpose of Insights on Healing podcast is to provide content that brings inner healing and restoration to individuals dealing with trauma and difficult life situations.

Today’s podcast will be centered on how I learned and applied the power of healing to my life and how I have grown spiritually through difficulties I have endured. My name is Joan M. Blake, I am a Christian author, speaker, spiritual-life coach, and blogger. I am originally from Trinidad and Tobago, an island in the Caribbean. My parents were tailor and seamstress by trade, and I learned the power of faith by seeing my parents work with their hands to provide for us. They were strict and taught us to study and work hard to be successful. Being the oldest of six, I was expected to take the lead in this charge, so I studied at a technical school and worked at an insurance company to help my parents financially. I left my job and came to America to attend college, work, and to sponsor my parents, and in the process, was able to gain my independence.

I am a wife and mother of four adults and I have six grandchildren. I loved seeing my children grow and enjoyed being involved with them in their school related activities, church activities, birthdays, sport events, and vacations. Every birthday was a big celebration. I enjoyed these celebrations so much. While I enjoyed my life tremendously, I was always busy with work and found little time to rest. I held a teaching position at a community college and resorted to a home-based accounting business so I could have time to take my children to their medical appointments. When my children got older, I worked for the public sector, leaving it to attend seminary and care for my special-needs daughter.

My first healing journey started when Em was three months old and I was scheduled to undergo surgery. While I was at the hospital, my aunt Gracie stayed at the house to take care of my baby. Individuals from the church where I was attending, brought food for my family and took turns bringing my children to visit me. I was so grateful. In the hospital, I listened as nurses encouraged me to slow down and take care of myself. I got rest from my weariness and God healed me.

My second experience was when I had surgery in the early 1990’s and was sent home one Christmas day for a few hours. I felt heart-broken to know that I would be separated from my family. I had no idea that God was giving me the rest I needed. As I continued on my life-journey, I realized that my life was simply about work, inside and outside, of my home with little time to rest. Although my husband Carl was by my side during the process of our daughter’s illness, and other issues that we faced, I was experiencing a lot of stress in our household. Working part-time had given me some freedom as I had personal care assistants come to the house on the days that I worked. Eventually, I left my job to take care of our daughter which ended up being more difficult and stressful for me. On my quest to get rest, I embarked on a personal retreat one weekend per ye to get in touch with my inner thoughts, write about my feelings, and seek the Lord.

Years later, going through my journals that I had amassed, I was surprised to find that I had been dealing with anxiety, anger, and unforgiveness and decided to pray, confess, and repent of these emotions to God and God forgave me. I was healed from my anxiety, anger, and unforgiveness. I could go to God anytime and give all my worries to him.

I felt that my sicknesses then, and later, were connected to the condition of my heart. When my heart was overwhelmed, my flesh became ill when I could no longer control the struggles that I was experiencing in my life. My healing would come through complete surrender to God. When I surrendered to God, I began searching for an understanding of who I am and what my purpose is. I was already writing in my journals when I thought about writing and publishing books to share my experiences with readers. My heart was fixed on God and I had found my purpose by writing and sharing.

God had created in me a clean heart; I was happier when I forgave others and loved them the way God loved me — unconditionally. I understood fully that God is my father and I am His child. I am His and He is mine. He has promised never to leave or forsake me, and that healing is in his wings. When I am weak, He is strong, and He will carry me and guide me during my lifetime. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price, the price of Jesus’ death on the cross. He died in my place so I can live freely: free from anxiety, anger, unforgiveness, and sickness. By his stripes I have been healed. I received healing not because I deserved it, but because of God’s love for me. God forgives, heals, and sets captives free.

God used me in my broken state. He showed me that I could love my special-needs daughter and others just as he loved me. He wanted me to understand that it was not a place that my daughter needed to be, but a place that she needed to be in my heart, just as the places I have secured in my heart for my other children. He showed me that my life did not have to be perfect as my parents had wanted it to be, but it was in the struggles that I experienced that He would make me into the person He wanted me to be. He wanted me to know that my family would continue to bring me joy, and I have already seen this from being at two weddings and the grandchildren that I have loved and enjoyed, and seeing how Em’s story has brought our family together. Most of all, God wanted me to know that His love covers a multitude of sin and His acceptance of me was based on his love.

I want to thank you for listening to this podcast. If you are experiencing anxiety, anger, unforgiveness or any emotion that prevents you from loving others, I pray that you will surrender and give all your worries to God. God wants to take your burdens from you so you can have rest. He says: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matt 11:28-30).