His Mercy Never Fails—And Healing Is One of His Mercies

I come to you each week with the good news that God is a good God, and His desire is that you prosper and be in health. Jesus paid the price so that all of your sins could be forgiven, and all of your diseases could be healed. And why did He do that for us? BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE WITH WHICH HE LOVED US!

The Lord really loves you, and as a good father would, He wants you to live peaceful and healed. If we don’t have a proper understanding of the nature and character of our God, we will often fail to receive what He has given us.  And so I want you to see just how much the Lord cares for you, and that His mercy for healing never fails.

Psalm 145:8-9 tells us:

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,

Slow to anger and great in mercy.

The Lord is good to all,

And His tender mercies are over all His works.

A wealth of information about the nature and character of God is revealed in these two verses. They reveal to us that the Lord is gracious and FULL of compassion. Gracious is the same as being kind. There is no one who exhibits more kindness than our Lord and Savior, Jesus.

Compassion can be defined as sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. Compassion will motivate one to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, and emotional pain of others. Compassion is what motivated God to send Jesus to be our sacrifice for sin and sickness.

Psalm 145, verse 8 goes on to say that God is slow to anger and great in mercy. It is possible to grow up in a religious home like I did, and have never heard this good news. I always loved Jesus, but my understanding of His nature was twisted. I somehow had the idea that when things went wrong, I was being punished.

Some of you reading this may feel that the disease you’ve been living with is some sort of punishment. I want you to know that our God NEVER uses sickness or disease to punish His children with! He is slow to anger, not quick to anger.

Verse 9 says that the Lord is good to ALL, and His tender mercies are over all His works.  Since we are some of His works, His tender mercies hover over us.

Notice that verse uses the word mercies, which is plural. God has more than one type of mercy for us. Certainly, salvation for sinners is God’s mercy toward us. However, God has many mercies for us. And one of those mercies includes healing for our bodies!

Malachi 3:6 tells us:

For I am the Lord, I change not;

If He was merciful and compassionate in the Old Testament, how much more is He merciful today to the born again believer?

I want you to see something powerful from the book of Hebrews 4:15-16:

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

These verses are so rich! Jesus is able to be compassionate toward us because He faced the same things, and much more, that we have. He understands our difficulties.

We are admonished to come boldly to the throne of grace for two reasons:

 1.  To receive mercy. We have received favor that we did not deserve. That is why we call it mercy.

 2.  To find grace to help in time of need. We have received compassion from One who can identify with us.

Hebrews 4:16 from the amplified classic says it this way:

Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].

There is grace to help for every need. This includes healing! We are to come confidently and boldly, knowing that we will receive our help.  This sounds like the spirit of faith!

Too many people have had the wrong impression of God thinking that He is withholding good things, or waiting to swat people if they do something wrong. But this verse tells us that He will help us in our time of need.

One way we learn about the character of God is through His Son, Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:9, “He that has seen Me has seen the Father.” When studying the miracles of Jesus, we see time and again that He was moved with compassion toward suffering humanity and healed the people.

One such place is found in Mark 1:40-42:

Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”

As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.

If you are in need of healing, Jesus is reaching out to you in compassion today as well. Just like He said “yes” to this leper, He is always willing and saying “yes” to you too.

The Wuest translation says, “I am desiring it from all my heart. Be cleansed at once.”

I hope you can see from this short devotional that God loves you, He is merciful toward you, and He is desiring from all His heart that you be healed.  Today is a good day to receive it!

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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