That’s a vital scriptural fact. It’s foundational to receiving healing because faith begins where the will of God is known. If we don’t know what God has said about something, it doesn’t matter how much we need it, we can’t have faith for it. But once we see in The WORD that it’s His will we can believe and receive.
Moved With Compassion
In recounting the healing of the leper in Mark 1:40-41, we get even more insight into Jesus’ willingness to heal. It says that when the man came to Him, “kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him....” In other words, Jesus didn’t just speak to this man matter-of-factly. He didn’t just say, “I will,” tap him on the head and then shrink back. No, His voice and His touch were filled with great tenderness and love. In tone if not in these exact words, He said to the leper, “Of course, I will heal you! That’s why I’m here. I came here for you!”
Can’t you just imagine that scene? According to Luke, who was a physician, this man was “full of leprosy” and was about to die. He was covered with running, open sores and his clothes were filled with the filth and stench of decaying flesh. He hadn’t been touched by anyone except another leper in a very long time.
Yet Jesus, instead of running away from the man like most people did, got down in the dirt where the man had fallen “on his face” before Him (Luke 5:12). He reached out with great compassion, caught hold of him, and said, “I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him” (verse 13).
Is Jesus less compassionate today?
Absolutely not. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever. Even though now He’s seated in heaven at the right hand of God, He’s still a compassionate High Priest who is able “to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities...” (Hebrews 4:15, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition").
Don’t ever fall into the devilish trap of saying to Jesus, “Don’t You care?” He cares so much He went to the Cross for you. He cares so much that He not only paid the price for your sins, He bore your sicknesses and carried away your diseases. He cares so much He had it recorded in His unchanging written WORD that by His “stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24), so you could believe it and receive.
How exactly do you do that?
The same way the next man we see in Matthew 8 did.
A Roman centurion came to Jesus seeking healing for his servant who was lying at home grievously ill.
“I will come and heal him,” Jesus said, and the centurion answered:
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