Called and Sent: Trusting God's Authority to Heal

We often come to worship, and there's a part of us that we hide. We're good Canadians. We always wanna look good on the inside, but sometimes there's some things in us, some heaviness, some darkness, some doubt, some worry. And the good news is that when you're loved as you are by the Lord, you can come and reveal all of who you are because he loves every bit of you. And we can be honest and allow for him to do what only he can do, embrace us and heal us and help us and guide us and get us home. [00:07:24] (39 seconds)  #ComeAsYouAre

That got me thinking, like, like, in my own prayer life, am I asking God for the PO number? Am I humbling myself to say, Lord, you have the authority. You can heal. But but you have also the wisdom to know more than I know. And so would you just give me insight about how you wanna advance your kingdom? So that I can pray according to your will. Because more than anything else, I want his kingdom to come. I want him to be glorified. I I want what I read in the scriptures to not be locked away in a time two thousand years ago but to be unlocked today. I I want to I want I I I do want that. [00:39:53] (66 seconds)  #PrayingHisWill

Lord, we thank you that you take ordinary people and you call them. You give them that strange sense of call, and you adopt them into your kingdom, and then you begin to disciple us to become sons and daughters of nobility bit by bit by bit, growing us up and then giving us chores. As everyone in the family knows, you're part of the family when you have chores. But your chores are one ones that bring life and bring healing and hope and bring glory to your name. Thank you for the chores that you give us, the small ones and the big ones. We pray for the grace to listen for you and then the faith to follow you. And most of all, the joy that comes when we see that we brought joy to your heart. [00:51:43] (63 seconds)  #CalledAndSent

Exercise the authority so that heaven would come. And it's not about me or about you. It's about that yearning that we have for the broken to be healed, for the lost to be found for the love that Christ that we see in scripture to not be distant but to be right here, right now and most of all, to be part of that. That when we see him, he will say you were faithful to all I wanted done. You asked and I revealed. You were faithful. [00:46:50] (48 seconds)  #BringHeavenHere

And then that got me thinking, maybe I've been praying wrong. Like like, maybe what I need to be doing when I'm praying is asking god. Lord, what is your will for this person in this place? What's your will for my brother-in-law? And like wrestling with God, a sense of what he wants done. So that when I can hear that and see that and know that, not presume it but really get a sense of it, then I can begin to exercise faith and pray asking God to bring healing. Because then the tap has the authority. [00:38:09] (66 seconds)  #PrayerWithAuthority

Like, a miraculous healing, which is very, very, very, very rare. But what always seems to happen is that they get a sense of peace. That that's what Jesus wants people to know who are wrestling with sickness is that they're loved. And that he's with them in it. And I say, I I will anoint with oil. I will pray for people. I I have I have the faith card to let people know in Jesus name, you are loved. And he's with you in it and sometimes people are, I don't know if they're demon possessed but they they have like anxiety or whatever and and they often say to me afterwards, after some prayer that they have a sense of peace. [00:41:36] (49 seconds)  #PrayerBringsPeace

Because we find all these reasons why it's hard to follow Jesus. And maybe we don't have a physical limitation. Maybe some people do. Sometimes it's an emotional one. Sometimes it's we we find our own pain and brokenness, and we think it disqualifies us from Jesus working in and through us. And I think Jesus chooses when he when he lets us in on his disciples, he doesn't choose the ones that the intellectuals would choose or he chooses ordinary people, farmers, and actually people that others would pass by. Like, in the culture, he chooses a tax collector, which be be akin to a swindler in our our culture. [00:27:03] (57 seconds)  #OrdinaryCalled

And so he is telling them, you gotta totally trust me with all over your provision. In fact, he says to them, you can't take any gold or silver or copper. And what they would do in that day is they'd have a belt around them, and they would put the kinda hide the it's like a money belt. They kinda hide the money in the belt. And if you're wealthy, you'd have a gold Visa card. If you're not so much, maybe a silver and then a bra some bronze. And so he's saying, listen, don't take any money. I need you to trust me. And but he does give them authority. [00:30:18] (38 seconds)  #TravelLightTrustGod