Healing is in Your Hands

Well, we let the cat out of the bag yesterday...Jesus is still alive! He didn't go back into the tomb and wait until next Easter to pop out again! He is alive. He is reigning. He is good. He is God!
So the question is this: After Easter are we living like He is alive? Are we living like He is with us? Has the enormity of His power, the perfection of His beauty, and goodness of His grace gripped our hearts?

Yesterday, I know God was working. I could sense that He was bringing freedom to many. I could tell that He was calling many to deeper levels of trust. I know that He was revealing His majesty to many. He was healing broken hearts. He was leading people to repentance. He was moving. Isn't it so good that God moves...that He is active...that He won't let us settle...or be the same?

Here are the lyrics to the new song Healing is in Your Hands that we sang in worship yesterday. They are based on the truth we read in Romans 8. Nothing can separate us from His love. Let's rest in that promise and walk in the truth that in Christ, we are MORE than conquerors.

No mountain, no valley,
no gain or loss we know
could keep us from Your love

No sickness, no secret,
no chain is strong enough
to keep us from Your love
to keep us from Your love

How high, how wide
No matter where I am, healing is in Your hands
How deep, How strong,
And now by Your grace I stand,
healing is in Your hands

Our present, our future,
our past is in Your hands
We're covered by Your blood
We're covered by Your blood

How high, How wide
no matter where I am, healing is in Your hands
How deep, How strong
And now by Your grace I stand,
healing is in Your hands

In all things we know that
we are more than conquerors
You keep us by Your love
You keep us by Your love

Much love....and growing in grace...

How good is God? So good!

this past Sunday was simply sublime! Services packed and from start to finish Jesus was lifted high and the church just rocked out loving Him well. Love it! The empty grave is singing out...it's shouting out...

HE IS ALIVE! HE IS ALIVE! AND WE ARE FREE!!!

I don't know how you spent Easter afternoon, but we were so blessed to spend the afternoon with our small group family, grilling out, kids running everywhere, and enjoying the beautiful life we share together in Christ. It's all because of Jesus!

A huge thought that hit me yesterday.... a few weeks ago we focused on the question "Who do you say that I am?" This was a question Jesus asked some of His followers when they questioned who He was and what He was doing. We read story after story of things Jesus said and things Jesus did and over and over it said: "And the crowd was amazed at Him,"..."And they marveled at His teaching,"..."and they were astounded by Him."

So yesterday, camped out in Luke 7 (also found in Matthew 8)..Jesus finds a centurion (a Roman officer who is in chard of a hundred men) who has a servant who is sick. People speak very well of the centurion to Jesus, telling Jesus that He is a stand-up guy, making a case for why Jesus should help him.

Jesus comes upon the centurion's house and the centurion basically says to Jesus: "Please don't come into my house because I'm not worthy. But Jesus, I know who you are...and I believe everything I have heard about you is true. I know you don't even have to come into my house to heal my servant. You can just speak and it will be done. I believe in you.

The next phrase gets me. "When Jesus heard this, he marveled at him..." Can you imagine Jesus, the Son of God; our Savior; our Lord; marveling at our level of faith? That's just wild! Jesus being astounded at how much we trust Him. So I wonder would he?

What impossible thing am I trusting God with? How am I walking in faith? Would Jesus be pleased with how much I trust Him?

Let's have big faith in Him because He is a great big God. We have tasted and seen....we have heard and we know...He is able!

Faith moves...Hope sees...Love gives...

jw