Warmed Milk & A Broken Thumb

As a kid, I recall before bed I'd be given warmed milk (42 seconds in the microwave to be exact).  As an adult, I currently have a broken thumb and I am drinking warmed milk. Why? It's comforting. Furthermore, it might just heal my thumb like the phrase my mother would say, "I am kissing it all better!"  Somehow, scrapes and cuts were miraculously healed with those exact words!  Ironically, I wonder if my theology of healing would have changed if I was instructed as a child to believe and state, "in Jesus' name you're healed."

I sat awaiting the results of my x-rays for my right thumb, as I pathetically attempted to pass the time texting with my left hand. I received a text that highlighted, "declare the bone mended and whole, but believe it and want it. Healing is already yours if you want it. Jesus did the work. Our Father has the role as a healer because of the finished work on the cross. For whatever reason, sometimes his children don't want healing. So, I challenge you to want it more than the attention it will garner you in sympathy. Instead, desire healing and the glory it will give to God." Truthfully, it wasn't really the text I expected post breaking my thumb with intensive swelling and shooting pain. 

Then I was reminded of a quote that my mother would state, as I sat at the kitchen counter sipping my warmed milk.  She would look directly at me and softly say, "difficult things can cause us to ask, "Why did this happen?" But if we're trusting in Christ we never need to ask, "How could He let this happen?" God may never reveal all His reasons to us; but He has revealed His character to us. His character assures us that He never makes mistakes; He is never uncaring; and that He never separates himself from our need" (unknown). 

If you were to ask me, "what is my theology of healing?" Today, I'd respond by outlining, I BELIEVE it is in God's very character to heal. Truthfully, I've never witnessed a paralyzed man walk or discovered a cure for cancer or seen a blind man see. I'll acknowledge that I wonder how sometimes someone is healed and another person isn't. In the past, I'd let this discourage or create bitterness towards the concept of healing.  Then I realized, I had to BELIEVE even without evidence.  Just like I BELIEVED as a child that my mother could kiss it all better, I am required to have child like faith. For "whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you" (John 16:23).  Furthermore, "whatever you ask for in prayer, BELIEVE that you have received it, and it will be yours" (Mark 11:24). As a result, God is stirring in me a desire to declare healing, as I choose to believe in his very character of healing. Because I am forgiven so I choose to forgive; because I am loved so I choose to love in return; because God speaks so I choose to respond; and because it is His very character to heal so I am healed as His child!

So, I am sitting and sipping my milk at the kitchen table and boldly asking that you join me in declaring and believing in the possibility of healing! 

I DECLARE!

• Healing over my mom's blood clot
• Healing over my cousin's kidney failure
• Healing over my friend's back and ruptured disks
• Healing over another friend's broken heart
• Healing over my friend's anxiety
• Healing over another friend's neck and headaches
• Healing over my friend's concussion
• Healing over another friend's dying mother
• Healing over my friend's inability to conceive 

I DECLARE!

• Healing over CANCER
• Healing over DEPRESSION
• Healing over DRUG and ALCOHOL ABUSE
• Healing over BROKEN MARRIAGES
• Healing over HOMELESSNESS
• Healing over HOSTILE RELATIONSHIPS
• Healing over AIDS
• Healing over SUICIDE and SELF-HARM
• Healing over CANADA and the WORLD

This is just a start….

Will you please join me in believing and declaring healing?

With a heart eager to see healing,

Charlene