Jesus Saves

"... letting Him do the healing"

IF WE ARE going to allow Jesus to save then that means we are not going to do it. This seems self-explainable, yet we do things for ourselves anyway. We pray, "Jesus help me," but reason out how to fix it ourselves. I have discovered one of the hardest things to do is to completely let go. When I want Him to be Healer, I can't take that job on myself. This speaks not of avoiding doctors or choosing to believe for healing through Jesus but of knowing His will for you and obeying it. I personally came up against a tree. There was no way for medicine to heal me. So Jesus did and it was far beyond what I even imagined. His mercy to me, a woman known by few who lives in a small town, is huge. I still marvel at it.

I want you to step back from the teaching of faith. Focus instead on Jesus. Seek Jesus. Seek the presence of the Spirit. For that's what faith does. It works by love (Galatians 5:6), so how much do you love Him? Enough to stop struggling and lean in? What does that mean? First, it is letting go. Release your need to find a way and say aloud, "Jesus is the way (John 14:6)." Put His love for you in your mouth. When I was at rock bottom in 2007 and consumed by fear, I sang "Jesus loves me," the children's song, over and over again, and it sank into my heart. Then God showed me the size of His love for people, and I was changed forever. Ask Him to show you. You will never look back. Then when the pressure to "do something" to help yourself get better creeps in, worship Him instead.

Being honest, I didn't understand this at first. But a wonderful woman told me to simply play worship, something without words, for an hour and bask. (There are many. I'll put a couple of my favorites below.) Just soak Him in and say nothing. This changed me. “You mean I don't have to sing?” I am on the quiet side vocally. My loud is the same volume as my soft. But the presence of God is what I needed. That is the point. When we worship, even without speaking, and we choose to focus on Him, then He goes to work, as the saying goes. Our worship gives Him the time and place to do what we need that our physical efforts cannot accomplish.

I have become much stronger by letting Him do the work than I could ever have done for myself. The devil tries to keep us in his ear, always listening to hatred and discouragement. He wants us to be embarrassed and ashamed of our sickness and mental distress, to cling to self-effort because he sees how fruitless that is. But when we worship, when we learn to live a lifestyle of worship, by letting go of "us" we embrace Him and find freedom. I'm not going to tell you it's easy nor that people will understand, but I do. Make God first, make Jesus everything and healing will come without your having to be strong enough or smart enough. It will come because He loves you, and that is what He wants you to know.

The teaching of faith has largely become works. Like the Law, which Israel performed daily, we work to have faith and become discouraged by what’s not happening as a result. Or doesn’t seem to be. God is painted as distant and temperamental and a bit testy, because we should have this faith-thing down by now. None of that is Him. N-O-N-E. Jesus was sent so that all we need comes because God is generous and kind. We simply believe in His goodness, His fathomless love, and then know He will do anything for us. There’s no more survival-of-the-fittest because we are all made equal, and God’s love ties us all together with joy in it. I’m not competing with you, and you aren’t competing with me; but my life is wonderful, and your life is wonderful. It sounds ideal and that is the point. God left nothing out that we need.

Change your thinking so that you know that you know it. Change your thinking about the depth of His provision and His willingness to provide. Know that He always hears you, regardless of your knowledge, understanding, habits and mood. He, in fact, knows your every thought and every word before you say it. He’s been with you always and cares for you far more than you can ever believe. So when the letting go hurts, when you’re standing there weeping, wondering what happens next, and there’s nothing in your grip but God’s Word, you’re right where you need to be, and He will sustain you and keep you moving forward. These are the words of the apostle Paul, who could no longer rely on his education and religious status as a Pharisaical Jew. All he knew was Christ. All he had was Christ. And He was more than enough.

He is more than enough. When we see it or when we don’t, but in seeing Him and letting Him do the healing, do the rescuing, we actually cease being the stopping point. Because nothing is impossible with God. He can do anything and everything we need. But our efforts without Him will take us only so far, and that’s not very far. Being aware of our actions, our thoughts and emotions, is part of the victory. Turning them over to God without condemning ourselves is another. Finding rest, in that place of not seeing things fully completed, is the greatest evidence of victory, which will come. For there in rest, is faith. Not in striving and working and, again, our self-effort, but that we are so much at peace, filled with so much confidence, that we know that we know our God is working and there is no other point-of-view.

“For through the written law I was diagnosed as terminal so that I might give up trying to cure myself and instead trust God and live for him.” (Galatians 2:19, Remedy)

“I give up everything this world has to offer so that I might be with Christ and be recreated in Christlike character—not from my own efforts or attempts to cure myself, not by observing some code, but by true re-creation of mind, heart and character that God accomplishes when we trust him.” (Philippians 3:8-9, Remedy)

LISTEN TO:
A Holy Moment | Spontaneous Worship & Prayer by Bethel Music
William Augusto Soaking Worship
Holy Spirit: 1 Hour Prophetic Instrumental Prayer & Meditation Music by DappyTKeys

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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