Christ As Healer- Spiritual Bankruptcy

CHRIST AS HEALER

Spiritual Bankruptcy

Mark 10:46-52

Opening Prayer: Father, show me Your Truth and the way to freedom in You.  By Your grace open my wounds and do Your healing work in me.  Make me more like Jesus.  In Christ’s Name I pray.  Amen. 

FAITH

Faith is believing what you cannot see, taste, or touch.  So it was with Bartimaeus when He heard that Jesus was coming down the road.  In faith he cried to the One Who could grant him the mercy that he sought.  He looked to the One Whom he called the Son of David, the One Who held the hope of the messianic deliverance that the Jews had long expected.  He looked to Christ the Healer. 

As you describe the story and the healing of blind Bartimaeus, fill in your own name. Sense his feeling of relief as Jesus stopped, called Bartimaeus to Himself, and healed him.  Feel the joy and peace when he regained his sight.  Rejoice as he followed Jesus along the road as a testimony of the love and power of God.  

YOUR DESIRED HEALING

Bartimaeus said to the Lord “I want to _________”.  What is it that you want the Lord to do for you?  Take your desires to Him.  Let Him filter them through His hands of love and rain down His very best for you.  You will find that it will be exceedingly abundantly beyond all you can ask or imagine.  It will be just what you need. 

Consider these scriptures:

Luke 1:37 

I John 5:14-15

James 5:16 

Isaiah 55:8-9

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS

Like Bartimaeus, we are all spiritual beggars before the Lord.  We are blind and bankrupt in His presence.  We cry out for token blessings, but He has abundance awaiting us.  He has gifts and graces for us that we cannot imagine and blessings that we cannot conceive.  He has unconditional love for all He creates and He delights in showering us with His blessings.  He loves to show His love for us.

 His greatest gift to us is our eternal salvation, purchased through the sacrifice of His one and only Son on the cross at Calvary.  There He gave His all for our redemption.  There He became poor so that we might become rich in Him.  There He gave us His most precious gift of eternal life out of His love for us.  Despite our unworthiness, He lavishes this gift on all who choose to receive it.  He desires that none should perish and that none should spend eternity separated from Him and His perfect love.  He longs for us to become His child through Christ His Son.  He longs to grant us His mercy and grace.  He longs to show us how much He loves us by healing our brokenness and binding our wounds.  He just longs to love us.  

Consider these scriptures:

Ephesians 2:4-5

Ephesians 2:8-9

II Corinthians 8:9

Chronicle your own salvation experience, if you have already received Christ as your personal Savior.  Remember the peace of God that you first felt.  Praise God for reaching down from heaven to rescue you from the dominion of darkness and for transferring you into the kingdom of His precious Son.  

If you have not yet received Christ as your personal Savior, these scriptures tell the best news you will ever hear, for in Him there is hope and newness of life.  Read and discover how much God loves you and how He has done everything necessary for your life changing salvation and for the forgiveness of your sins.  Open your heart and mind to His love and His Truth and receive Him as your personal Savior.  The choice is up to you.  

Romans 3:23- “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23- “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 5:8- “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:  While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 14:6- “Jesus answered, ‘I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

Romans 10:9-10- “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”

If, after considering His Word, you desire to receive Christ as your personal Savior, speak to the Lord from your broken and contrite heart and repeat this prayer.  

Dear God, I realize that I fall short of Your standard of perfection.  I see my desperate need for You in my life.  Thank You for sending Your Son Jesus to pay the price for all my sins.  I surrender my life to You and ask You, Lord Jesus, to come into my heart and be my personal Savior.  Thank You for saving me.  Show me how to be the person You want me to be and to do what You want me to do.  Thank You for Your gift of eternal life and the forgiveness of all my sins.  I am all Yours, for no one can ever snatch me out of Your hand now.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.  Amen. 

Welcome to the family of God!  You have begun the most exciting adventure of your life and you will never be the same, for the best is yet to come.

RELFECTING ON GOD’S WORD- What does each scripture say to you? 

Jeremiah 17:14 

Matthew 7:7 

Matthew 19:26 

Hebrews 11:1 

Closing Prayer:  Thank You, Lord, for the all-sufficiency of Your grace.  Thank You for saving me and for being Christ my Healer.  Complete your healing work in me and use it all for Your glory.  I love you, Lord, and I praise Your holy Name, the Lord God Who reigns on high.  In the Name of my Risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I pray.  Amen.