Mark 1:29-31

Mark 1:29-31 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.

Jesus not only healed in the synagogue, He healed in the world. Spiritual activity should not only take place in churches but also in the home and in the marketplace. Mankind should know that we are concerned about their welfare. People should know that we love them by the fact that we pray for them. Healings represent the supernatural power of another being, God himself. Signs and wonders indicate that there is a God, and we are not alone in our finite existence. The world needs to know that. Jesus came performing healings and miracles. Why? To remind people there was a God and that He was from God, and that he was even the Son of God. Human beings desperately need and even long for this knowledge: there is a God who loves them and Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, came and gave himself as a sacrifice for their sins. Without this knowledge, they live and die in death. The short life they now have will end in death. The world needs to know that they are not alone in this human existence. There is a loving deity who not only cares for their souls but desires them to be with him in heaven and made a plan for their eternal salvation.

Why pray for healing? Why pray for the ungodly? Why pray that their lives might be better? We pray first of all because Jesus told us to pray, He prayed, and He taught us to pray. We pray to show the world that there is a God who cares for them and who also desires their fellowship and worship. When we keep all spiritual activity within the four walls of the church, we defeat the purpose of God, which is to show that He loves people and wants to have a relationship with them. Jesus went into the house of Simon and healed his mother-in-law. What did she do then? She began to wait on them. Isn't that what we want believers to do? To serve the eternal God by being a servant to a sick and dying world. There is no substitute for God's presence and his miraculous activities. If we try to take the supernatural out of our existence or to restrict evidence of God's power to in-church activities, we defeat the purposes of God. We must tell the world that we are praying for them. Tell them that we love them. Tell them that we are praying for their healing, for their restoration from trouble. Let them know that we believe in a God WHO CAN DO MIRACLES, WHO CAN RESTORE US, WHO CAN MAKE US WHOLE. Without that belief, we are just another philosophy, another religion: one of many. Let Christ reign in our hearts and activities. Let us be servants of the Lord by seeking out the lost and dying, praying for their reconciliation to their Father God, and believing for the Holy Spirit to fall upon their lives and ours in powerful and mighty ways.