Christ As Healer- Restoration

CHRIST AS HEALER 

Restoration 

Mark 3:1-6

Opening Prayer: Father, restore me.  I have been bought by the high price of the death and resurrection of Your only Son.  I am all Yours.  Restore me, make me white as snow before You, and use me for Your glory.  I am at Your mercy.  In Christ’s holy Name I pray.  Amen. 

FRONT AND CENTER 

Submission to the Lord can put you “front and center” in the spiritual battle.  As you are called on to stand firm in Christ amid your struggles, restoration comes by submitting to the will of the Father and abandoning all to Him.  Praise Him for the victory that He has already won through Jesus Christ, for His victory is assured in your life as you persevere in faith and follow where He leads.  You are more than a conqueror through Him and that means that you never have to give up.  

Although full submission to the Lord is always the Christian’s best choice, some chose alternatives.  Choosing to partially submit or reject the Lord’s plan for you opens doors for the enemy’s intrusion into your life and full rejection gives him free rein.  Why give the enemy a foothold that can become a stronghold?   Choose full submission and receive His best.  

Sometimes we choose partial submission or rejection and full rejection because we are apathetic, lazy, too tired or overwhelmed and we just don’t want to make the effort to walk in full submission to the Lord.  We would like to fully submit, but it is just too hard.  It is then that the deliberate choice to walk in full submission and faith must be made.  Walking in full submission to the Lord is always the best choice.

When given the opportunity to choose full submission, partial submission or rejection, or full rejection, what will you choose?

Consider these scriptures as you surrender your will to His:

I Corinthians 10:31 

James 4:7 

John 15:5 

I Peter 4:11

I Corinthians 6:20

John 14:15 

Joshua 24:15 

Matthew 5:16

OBEDIENCE

Restoration comes through obedience, for obedience reveals your heart attitude toward the Lord and is a loving, thankful, grateful, and praise-filled response to Who He is and all He has done in your life.  It flows from your love for Him and brings His blessings into your life.  

Above all we are to obey God rather than man.  He loves us with an unconditional, sacrificial love that towers above all earthly love.  He is perfect love and, when we obey Him, His love is made complete in us, for in Him we live and breathe and have our being. 

Obedience that brings restoration mirrors that of Christ Who humbly obeyed His Father and died on the cross for all mankind.  Through His sacrificial obedience, He brought the ultimate healing and restoration to us through salvation.  As living sacrifices for God, we, as well, are to obediently sacrifice our lives for God and for others.  This is the Christ-like way.  

Declare your willingness to become a living sacrifice for Him.  

What do these scriptures reveal about obedience and the Lord’s healing in restoration? 

II Kings 5:1-14

John 8:32 

John 14:21 

I Thessalonians 5:24 

Romans 8:32 

Psalm 62:8 

Romans 15:13

A TIME TO MEND

Restoration brings a fresh start, renewed hope and a fresh, godly perspective.  By submitting our ways to His, the Lord prepares us for the work He has prepared for us to do.  In our healing He will use us to comfort others with the comfort we have received from Him and all will be used for His greater glory. 

The Lord is willing to heal, mend, and restore, but are you willing to do whatever He tells you to do to receive it?  Follow wherever He leads you, be willing and obedient, and He will grant you His very best.  Will you choose God and His ways or your own will and desires?  When you choose Him, He will abundantly bless you and walk you through every step of the journey to your healing and restoration.  He is faithful and He will bring it to pass.  Declare your choice. 

Consider the following scriptures that tell you what you can do to be healed in God’s perfect timing and way:

John 5:6

I Peter 5:7 

Jeremiah 29:13 

Matthew 11:28-30

Psalm 46:10

Mark 12:30 

Matthew 6:33 

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

John 3:30 

John 8:12 

I John 1:5 

Mark 11:22-24

John 11:25-26

Matthew 5:8 

Closing Prayer: Lord Jesus, I praise You for Your gift of restoration.  When all appears hopeless, You are my Hope and You restore to me the joy of Your salvation.  May my healing and restoration lead others to Jesus and, in all things, may You be glorified through Him.  In Christ’s Name I pray.  Amen.