HOW TO BE HEALED

"He began to call out, 'Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!' " -Mark 10:47

It's hard to admit weakness, sin, or even sickness. The blindness of pride often prevents us from being healed of other kinds of blindness. After Bartimaeus began calling out, "many people were scolding him to make him keep quiet, but he shouted all the louder" (Mk 10:48). After we humble ourselves, the next obstacle to healing is often worrying about what other people think of us. Often, to receive healing; it is necessary to look like a fool in the eyes of the world.

"Then Jesus stopped and said, 'Call him over' " (Mk 10:49). Bartimaeus "threw aside his cloak, jumped up and came to Jesus" (Mk 10:50). His jump was a great leap of faith. Blind people don't make sudden movements. If they jump up, they don't know what might happen since they don't know what's above them. Jesus said to Bartimaeus: " 'Be on your way. Your faith has healed you.' Immediately he received his sight and started to follow Him up the road" (Mk 10:52).

What's standing in the way of your healing? Are you too proud to admit you need help? Are you too proud to confess your sins? Are you too "cool" to be healed? Are you paralyzed by the thought of being laughed at? Are you unwilling to become a fool for Christ? (1 Cor 4:10) If you jump up or down, do you believe Jesus will catch you? Don't let anything or anyone prevent you from receiving your healing and your Healer, Jesus.

Who is your Master?

‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and money. [Matthew6:22-24]

You know you’re a slave to money when:

· The purpose of your business to make money alone.

· The reason for going to work is to make money alone.

· You worry when your paycheck is late.

· You worry when you don’t seem to have enough to pay your bills.

· You desire for more money so that you can improve your lifestyle and not help build the lifestyle of others.

· You stock up money in savings and bank accounts because you’re afraid of a crisis.

You know you’re a slave to God when:

· The purpose of your business and work is to serve, and in serving you benefit humanity in some way.

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and many more outstanding business men and women have all worked to benefit humanity in different ways, when they did this money easily followed them as if they were money magnets.

· You never worry when in a financial drought but place your fears, doubts and troubles in the hands of The Father. ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. Everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened. Is there anyone among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or would hand him a snake when he asked for a fish? If you then evil as you are, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!’ [Matthew 7:7-11]. It is clear that if you fall short in any way and you go to your Father who has all things and ask of Him and prepare yourself to receive it, it shall be yours.

· You desire for more money so that you can build the life of your neighbor. This is the golden rule.

‘Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the Law and the Prophets’. [Matthew 7:12].

· You give alms and you give not for recognition but as a gift, as thanks, then you store up real treasures which the Father will keep safe. ‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys them and thieves cannot break in and steal.’ [Matthew 6:19-20].

So do you want to be a slave of money, always living in fear that it would be taken from you and mostly it usually is, or, do you want to be a slave of God? Who has riches beyond your imagination and is willing to give it to you at anytime, that you will always live in faith, confident that what you need would be provided and that you would have more than enough.

If you want to have God as your one and only master, then accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

‘Set your hearts on God’s kingdom first, and on His saving justice, and all other things will be given you as well.’

[Matthew 6:33-34].