The question is not: “Does God wish to heal?” but rather, “Is discouragement, anger, or lack of faith getting in the way of the healing and salvation God wants for others and for me?” May any stoniness of heart in us become flesh alive with God’s desire for healing and wholeness for every person.

Seek settings of faith. The gathering of a small community of those who believe and intercede becomes the vehicle for the Lord’s saving acts to flow. Fasting means that the only input is the Word of the Lord, God’s grace, and the power of divine healing; the only output is prayer. Prayer and fasting prepare the heart to receive God’s grace coming as a laser with God’s healing response.

Mark 9:14–32

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Fridays are dedicated to the Gospels. This year, we generally read
from the Gospel of Mark, this season, chapters 4 to 9.

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Grace and joy in Greek are the same word, charis. When Paul says that the grace of the Lord is sufficient, he is proclaiming as Nehemiah in 8:10: “The joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Paul was in situations that could be described by the images of many a psalm. His experience of being with the Lord during all the persecutions had him even boast in his weakness, for the contrast made the power and strength of the Lord more evident. This is positive thinking. When things are the worst, they are about to be the best, if you let the Lord be with you, with power ready for release into your circumstances.

Turn to the Lord. God loves you and en-joys you!

2 Corinthians 12

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Thursdays are dedicated to the letters of Paul, other letters,
the Book of Acts, and the Book of Revelation.
In this season of Pentecost this year,
we read 2 Corinthians.

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Picture what would happen if a dearly loved person from your past were suddenly to stand before you right now, face lit in a broad, open smile. Taste the joy and the jolting change of your mood. The Lord at this very moment is smiling at you with the greatest love there is. When God smiles, nothing remains the same. The Holy Spirit engrafts you onto the vine, which is Jesus.

As corks holding up a net, so does the threefold repetition of this verse lift God’s people. “Restore” (in Hebrew: shuwb), means a plea for God to make things go back to the way they were when God’s presence and power were freshly felt by the people. May this psalm clear the space between you and the Lord, so you can see God’s smile.

Psalm 80

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We follow a reading of the Psalms in numerical order.

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