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Healing Service to Stand in Solidarity with the CoronaVirus Victims
 
Scripture:
Luke 9:1-2, 6
  PowerPoint:  Healing Service

  Prayers: Healing Service
  Song Link: For the Healing of the Nations (Fred Kaan)
 

Excerpt:
Introduction: Healing was central to the ministry of Jesus. It was a sign of God's kingdom, bringing renewal and wholeness of life to those who turned to God in their need. Jesus sent out his disciples with the commission to 'proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. In every act of worship, the Church celebrates the grace of God who desires wholeness of .body, mind and spirit.

Message: Jesus Never Told Us to Pray for the Sick, He Told us to Heal Them!
by Rev. Frank Schaefer

Certainly praying for the sick is scriptural (James 5: 14-15: "Is anyone sick among you? Let them call on the church to pray"), but isn't it interesting that Jesus never specifically asked his disciples to pray for the sick?

Jesus told his disciples, and since we are Jesus’ disciples too, he told us to heal the sick, Healing is a big, big part of the gospel story, And according to the instructions Jesus gave the 70 he sent out, healing should not be an isolated occurrence, healing should occur everywhere at all time, "So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere."

And since the gospel didn’t change, healing should still occur at the hands of the church all the time and everywhere, And yet, strangely, the church today is not exactly associated with healing, at least not with supernatural healing, The Church is known for supporting and even owning hospitals and bringing healing to people through modern medicine, Two of my children were born in a Catholic hospital, one of them in a Methodist hospital, But what about healing people the Jesus-way? Maybe, the church has a power we don’t yet know we possess?...

Every year, millions of people die from Malaria in Africa-mostly children, a disease that is primarily spread by mosquitoes, A few years the United Methodist Church has partnered with the Global Fund in their efforts to stamp out Malaria, Millions of dollars were raised,...

There are hundreds of things we can do to bring healing to God’s creatures everywhere, Remember when we collected money for the purpose to have a water well built in a village in Africa or Asia? Well that too was a way of putting our healing powers to work, And what about our Church’s mission for the mistreated and abandoned women in the Congo? What about our mission to end human trafficking, All these things bring real healing to people, families and communities.

And we can also donate money toward finding a cure or an immunization for the Corona Virus, It’s not just helping our neighbors, but quite possibly, we will help ourselves as it’s not yet known how far and wide this virus will spread across the globe,...

And it isn’t just about giving money, There is so much more the church can and should do, Such as raising our voices to make sure that our country and eventually the whole world has a decent health care system....

Prayer:

Lord, in your mercy
Hear our prayer.
We pray for the sick in our community,
and those in foreign lands,
We pray for those in hospital or at home,
for those whose minds
are beset with anxiety and fear,
for those oppressed or broken in spirit;
for those who turn to us for healing ...