Worshiping Through Healing and Thankfulness

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And as you exercise thankfulness and praise, all of a sudden, inside, you become happier and happier. And there's more and more joy, and more and more life. And just like you get physically strong, we call it spiritually strong, that your spirit is strong, and you're full of life and joy and peace. [00:20:34] (24 seconds)  #JoyThroughThankfulness

And so we have these ten lepers who are on the side way of life looking for hope. And we find one is healed. But more than healed, Jesus would declare he's made well. That the trauma of being a leper, the trauma of all of those dark days, is somehow swallowed up and within his soul, he is well. And so the promise of this scripture is that we too can be made well. [00:26:37] (41 seconds)  #MadeWellInSoul

Sometimes leprosy isn't just what people do to us and how they exclude us from community. Sometimes leprosy actually gets into our very soul and we cancel ourselves. That, that we begin to believe the internal criticisms about ourselves and we no longer engage in community. We start to withdraw and become more and more lonely. [00:31:42] (24 seconds)  #LeprosyWithinIsolation

You ever try to fix your anxiety or worry, the thing that's destroying your life? You can try, there's all these band-aids and you can think your way through and you can use all of the world's answers. But I'll tell you, they're all gonna fail you. Death will win. And so there is one in whom you can appeal in your leprosy who has the power over death. [00:36:42] (33 seconds)  #OnlyJesusOvercomesDeath

``See, when you come as a leper, when you come as a person with needs, when you come as a person who needs to be made well, and you say, master, have mercy on me. When you actually take the faith to call out to Jesus, in that moment, Jesus stops what he does. And he listens to you. Because he has a heart for you he loves you the world may have canceled you you may cancel yourself he has never canceled you nor will ever cancel you. [00:38:25] (31 seconds)  #UncancelledByGrace

When we go back to those moments where we've cried out for his mercy, and for his help, when we review the file of our prayers, and look at the ways in which he's time and time again has showed himself faithful, to always bring the highest good into our lives, to work out good when we didn't think any good could come from it. When we go back to those files and we begin to recount them and we go back to him and we say, thank you, Jesus, you intervened here and you saved me time and time again. Thank you for who you are and what you've done. And you are good and you're worthy of worship and I love you, Jesus. [00:46:33] (42 seconds)  #FaithfulInEveryAnswer

And sometimes that healing, in the case of my brother, in the case of many other people, it may not be a miraculous healing in the sense of his body being returned to a perfect state. It may be that in his dying, he has incredible peace. The sense of this incredible love, holds him these difficult, dark days. But nevertheless, when we cry out for help, Jesus' response is, I will help you. [00:54:51] (39 seconds)  #PeaceInDyingGrace

Deep, deep healing happens in your soul. And then, you know the remedy. Next time you're in trouble, you can call for his help. He's going to lead you with his word. You're going to come back with thanksgiving, made well. The pathway's been defined for you. The pathway home, marked by grace, for the love of Christ. [00:56:17] (27 seconds)  #HealingPathwayHome

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