DAILY DEVOT IONAL 17
Seoyul Kwon
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. - James 5:15
When I was in school, around 2017, I had a friend who was always ill. I’ll call her Mary. She’d miss weeks of school, and still be a little ill when she returned. She would always complain, telling everyone that being sick was exhausting. One day, Mary came up to me and asked me, very softly, “Hey, you’re Christian, right? Can you pray for me to stop being sick?”
I’ll never forget the day when we sat on the school stairs together outside and she asked me to pray for her. It was such a special moment for both of us. And I believe that God heard us and our prayers. Within the next year, Mary’s chronic illness died down, finally allowing Mary to live a normal life in school and outside as well. She thanked me, saying I had healed her. I told her that I did not, but the Lord heard her voice and saw her faith in him.
I learned a lot from this experience. God hears all of our prayers. He hears them, and he answered them. Every time Jesus would heal someone, do you remember what he’d say? He said that “your faith has healed you” instead of something like “God has healed you”. God listens. God will always bless you and heal you, so long as you have faith that he will.
James 5:15 tells us about God‘s willingness to heal those with faith. He is willing to help, to heal, to touch. God has already healed so many people, whether those people are only in the Bible or around us. His healing doesn’t discriminate against whether you are rich or poor, He just wants us to have faith in him, to have faith that he will help us and heal us during our journey to His kingdom.
Have faith in our God, since he will heal the broken and forgive the sinner.
LET US PRAY:
Dear God, please help us to continue to have faith in your ability so that you may heal us and those around us who may be in pain or suffering. May you touch them with your healing hand and heal their souls, their hearts. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.