40 Days with Moses 2025 Year of Exposure Day 23: The Lord is our Healer.

“Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.””

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:23-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The healing power of God has always been something I have recognized and sought after as far back as I can remember. Indeed, my very life and intellect is a testimony to the Lord‘s healing power.

I have seen time and again the Lord do miracles of healing—not only in my life—but in the lives of those with whom I have shared paths along the way.

I shared some of these testimonials on Day 17; but they bear repeating today.

When I was a young girl there was a woman in my father’s church who developed end-stage cirrhosis of the liver. She ended up in the hospital where they were trying to keep her comfortable, expecting the worst. The physician attending her said that her liver was blown up and hard as a football. She had been delivered from alcoholism by the Lord but her body still bore the damage of the years of abuse. My father went to the hospital to pray for her and he felt the power of God come into that room.

The next time she was examined, something miraculous had happened. Upon doing further tests to determine what was going on with her, the physician proclaimed that she had experienced a miracle; her liver was now like that of a young girl.

Another case of miraculous healing involved a very dear member of my father’s church who had a distended gallbladder and was in great distress. He was a very large man and the prospects for a successful surgery were not particularly good (this was before gallbladder surgery was performed laparoscopically). My father prayed for him and felt that the Lord healed him. When his surgery began, and they had opened him to the point where they could see into where the gallbladder was, to their astonishment, the gallbladder was gone. The doctor testified that it looked as though a laser had cut the gallbladder out. He showed my father and this man’s wife pictures of the x-ray before surgery showing a gallbladder distended with gallstones even into the duct; the other x-ray showed no gallbladder. Now, for the doubter, I’m sure this story sounds made up. But as God is my witness, this story is true, as is the one above.

Recently, the Lord has brought the topic of His healing power back to me, encouraging me to look further into this topic. He reminded me of this scripture:

“For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:2‬ ‭AMP‬‬

In 1908, John G. Lake was ministering to bubonic plague victims in Africa. The physicians who came to help, warned him that he needed to wear protective gear when dealing with the sick people. He refused to do so. When asked why he wouldn’t wear the protective gear, he quoted the above scripture. He then challenged them to take some of the foam from a victim’s lung (which lived a while after the victim was deceased) and let him hold it in his hand while they looked at it under a microscope. He told them that they would find that it would die in his hand. When they did what he said, and observed that what he said would happen, happened, they expressed great astonishment. He answered their astonishment with the statement, “That is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

Today we find Moses dealing with thirsty multitudes and bitter water. After having followed the Lord’s instructions to throw the tree into the water, the water was made sweet, and the people were able to drink it. Within this context, the Lord made the promise to the people that if they would follow after Him diligently, He would keep them from experiencing the diseases they had seen come upon the Egyptians. The Lord then informs them, “I am the Lord Who heals you.” We find the Lord later repeating this promise to the children of Israel further into their journey:

“So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭23:25-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Make no mistake, the Lord can and does heal. But, that healing comes within the context of faith in the newness of life, coming only through Christ Jesus. Indeed, it is His new life in us that makes our healing possible!

Although I am not against medication and medical intervention, both of which have their place, I will warn that trying to medicate an issue manifesting in the physical body, but originating in one’s spirit, is a fool’s errand.

We must seek the Lord in times of physical distress to receive His instruction in terms of what our course of action should be.

Particularly, we must become aware when the problem manifesting in our body, or emotions, and so on, have their origin in something gone wrong in our spirit. In those cases, the spiritual sickness MUST be dealt with before the physical and/or psychological manifestations can be truly cured.

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The Lord is our Healer.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!