Healing Miracle of Jesus painting
Living In Mystery, Believing In Healing Miracles
A woman who bled for twelve years spent all her money on doctors. But only got worse. She heard about Jesus and his healing miracles and had to get to him. She pushed through crowds, weak as she was, to reach out and touch him, wanting one of those healing miracles. And her bleeding stopped. (Mark 5:25-34)
Awesome healing miracles like this abound, stories from Bible times and even today. God is a miracle worker.
He mends broken minds and restores relationships. He saves sin-sick souls.
Many plead for healing miracles, for relief from a diseased or wounded body. God hears. He holds out his healing hand. He recovers lost years or fixes impaired vision. He remedies messy situations. Crooked lives he sets to right living. Pouring out His grace, he showers mercy, and teaches vital lessons.
Many Types of Healing Miracles
God uses many means for His healing miracles. Doctors with trained knowledge. He nudges us to cooperate with healthy habits. He touches and heals in an instant. Or through a long process. All cures of every kind come from above.
When my husband Stephen Bly passed away after a five-year battle with a rare form of prostate cancer, someone asked me, “Why didn’t God heal your husband? So many people prayed for him.” Surely a few more years would have been so beneficial for ministry, our family and readers of the many stories that still buzzed in his head, unwritten.
I can’t answer that question. But beyond a doubt, he is now more whole than ever. He’s well and full of joy in heaven. Sure, I’d rather he’d be here with me. But that’s so selfish. And impossible. I will go to him one day, but he can never return to me. A tough truth I and any other who has lost a close loved one has to assimilate. (See 2 Samuel 12:23)
Out Of Stephen Bly’s Journal
My husband had times when he asked, “Why do I have this cancer that most men are cured from and I face nothing but one complication after another?” In time, God spoke to him. Stephen wrote in one of his journals:
“Sometimes it’s as if Jesus is in the room with me…as if he is saying, ‘I need you to do this for me, to carry this awful disease called cancer. It’s an overwhelming burden for you and Janet, but it’s too complicated to explain right now … just trust me. I’m doing a special work in your life and in hers. Your example will complete my work in many, many others of my children.'”
Perhaps you carry at least one heavy burden, a weight that seems so hard to bear. The reason may be complicated. Above all, trust Him. He’s doing a unique, particular work in you and through you. You’re a part of the wide panorama of His eternal plan. May you accomplish His purpose, for His glory, to complete His story.
Waiting For Good News
Many times that includes huge good news, plain as day, right here on earth. Such as healing miracles. Or it could seem as though God passed you by and you feel abandoned, unworthy, and even judged. You face healing mysteries instead. Maybe you have to wait for a special unveiling of His work behind the scenes, writ in heaven’s books, to be revealed later.
“We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!” (1Corinthians 13:12, The Message)
Janet Chester Bly
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Stephen Bly family – from left, Aaron, Mike, Janet, Russ
Here’s the story of the Stephen Bly family finishing his last novel, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, an interview at Penny Zeller’s blog. Click link below:
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Janet Chester Bly is working on her first solo novel, a contemporary western women’s fiction story with the working title Wind In The Wires, Book 1 in The Reba Cahill Series. To be released November 2014.
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