Dear Ones,
Hope you have a Spirit-led day! So beautiful here from my window with the pine trees all laden with snow. Today I plan to do food prep and bake some Christmas cookies and later have Women’s Bible study.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
One day Al put the question to our Bible Study group, “Does the Lord still heal today?” We are in the book of Acts and read of the awesome miracles with people getting healed of many different things. I, for one, believe Jesus is still in the healing business today and wants to use us as instruments of His healing.

God is the healer and we are to be participants in letting the Holy Spirit flow through us to touch others. In Steven Seamands’ book, Follow the Healer, he writes of how we need to be available and open to listen, counsel and pray with people for their healing. That means we join Him in whatever He would do and not get in the way. We are not the healers that make it happen and their healing is not dependent on us, for it is the Lord’s work. We might ask the Lord if He has a word that He wants us to relay to them, and what we are to say and do. When we are abiding in Him (John 15:4), we can simply respond to the Holy Spirit and follow His lead.

It is important we are humble and open to however God wants to work. I love what Seamands had to say about Mother Teresa and it spoke to me. Her words, “I’m just a little pencil in God’s hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is hard because it is a broken pencil, and He has to sharpen it a little more.”  Of course, we don’t always do it perfectly and may get in the way at times, but humbly we remember it is the Lord who is doing the healing while we watch and let it happen. I found It easier to pray for people while in Mexico, as the receivers had faith and such a positive expectation that the Lord would heal them. My heart was encouraged as I knew it was not dependent on me saying all the right words, for my Spanish was so limited, but it was all the Lord. Let our focus be on the Lord, sensitive to how He would have us pray for others, and let the Holy Spirit flow through us.

Challenge for today: Look to Jesus for how to pray for others and just follow the lead of the Spirit.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy