“If you ask God for healing, He’ll do it. It might be healing for your body. Perhaps more peaceful thoughts affecting your words/actions. Or the spirit part of you, capable of communicating with God, might begin to long for a closer relationship with Him.” These are words I’ve shared with patients searching for healing.
Who wouldn’t want healing? This Christmas season is a remarkable time to consider the opportunities two healing trees offer you personally in this chaotic global time.
The Christmas tree might be beautifully decorated with ornaments, often representing happy memories and the birthday celebration of Christ. Surrounding the tree might be friends and family, children delighted with anticipation, delicious food, and hopeful hearts.
Embracing the second tree and its occupant brings the promise of a healed body, mind, and/or spirit. On this rough wooden tree hung the God-man’s torn flesh and was decorated with His pure, sinless blood for our healing.
Accepting this best Christmas gift ever heals my relationships with God and man. I can enjoy fellowship and celebration around the Christmas tree, even with those I can’t entirely agree with.
Every day I offend someone, and someone offends me. I’ve chosen to receive Jesus’ blood payment for my offenses, and I’ve surrendered to Him my thoughts, words, and actions. I can be internally at peace with those hateful toward me because Jesus’ strength to forgive lives in me.
“I am leaving you with a gift–peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn’t like the peace the world gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid,” said Jesus in John 14:27. In the Bible, God’s words are true for all who choose to believe them and live them out.
Living out His words brings healing in body, mind, and/or spirit. If the 3 parts of our being sense peace, good endorphins flood the human body with healing despite our DNA’s negative attachments.
Dear Lord, I pray for all who read this to choose you, your healing, your words and spread this healing to others because of Jesus. Amen
Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live! (NLT: Deuteronomy 30: 19 – 20)