Redeemer Coast Church Podcast

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 10: See yourself healed

Mark 10:50-52 And throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus. So Jesus answered and said to him, "What do you want Me to do for you?" The blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, that I may receive my sight." Then Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well."
The way we see ourselves is so important when it comes to walking out the promises of God for our lives. In the story of Bartimaeus, we can see that he was convinced that Jesus could and would heal him, despite the discouragement of the crowd telling him to be quiet. We can see his faith shine forth as he cried out with all of his heart, "Jesus! Son of David, have mercy on me!"
He wasn't going to miss out on the opportunity to receive healing, no matter what anyone said!

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 9: Choose to believe

Mark 5:36 “ As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”
We will all face challenges and difficulties at some point in our lives, but the good news is that even though problems come, we don’t have to let our hearts be fearful. In Mark chapter five, Jairus received some horrific news about his daughter, but even in one of the worst situations a parent could ever face, Jesus made a statement that clearly explains the power that we have to choose. He said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid, only believe.”
We have the choice to believe; we don’t have to let fear be the determining factor in our lives.

What the Miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 8: Say so!

Mark 11:22-23 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
We have been made in the image of God, after His likeness and nature. (See Genesis chapters one and two).
As God's children, we can operate just like God does on the earth. Jesus told us to "Have faith in God." Another way of saying that is to have faith like God has faith, or have the God kind of faith.

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 7: Only Believe

Mark 5:35-36: " While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader's house and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the teacher anymore?" When Jesus overheard what was said, he told the synagogue leader, "Don't be afraid. Only believe."
We all will come across times when we receive bad news. We will face challenges and difficulties, but as believers, we can have a different response to bad news.

The Great Co-Mission: Special Guest Rev Carolyn Clark

Mark 16:19-20 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.
There is a God-given assignment upon your life. Whether you realise it or not, God has called you, graced you and equipped you to reach others.
It can be so easy to think that preaching the Gospel is intimidating. It's only for preachers or special types of people with bold personalities, but the truth is that if you are Born Again, God has called you to preach the Gospel. It may not look like standing behind a pulpit and speaking publicly, but you do have a ministry, and God needs you to fulfil His plan for your life.
That's why it's called the great COmmission. It's not just you on your own trying to work up the boldness to try and talk to someone about Jesus, it is you and God working together to reach the people around you. It is much more simple than we think. It first starts with us being willing to be a witness. When we're willing and open to God using us for His purposes, He then can work in us to help us grow in what He has given us.
I've seen people who didn't know where to start when it came to preaching the Gospel, but they were hungry for God and wanted to serve Him in any that they could. It was that hunger that God was able to begin working in them the desire to serve in their local church, and as they were faithful in serving they grew in their God-given gifts and became more bold to talk about Jesus in other areas of their life. Their lifestyle is a witness. Their joy is a witness. Their influence is a witness. It all started with them being willing for God to use them.
Sometimes, we think that we have to go about witnessing, but rather, we are to BE a witness. Our lives are a witness to the goodness of Jesus.
Don't fall into the deception that preaching the Gospel is for someone else. Be quick to be open and willing to hear what God wants to do in you and through you. You will be amazed at the boldness that begins to grow inside of you as you follow His leading to be a witness.

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 6: Faith in Action

Mark 5:27-28 “When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”
This woman in Mark chapter five was dealing with a long-term illness. One that the doctors at that time pronounced incurable.
What is amazing about this woman was that when she heard about Jesus, she didn’t shrug off those reports and think that her situation was too hopeless for any sort of power to fix her. When she heard the reports of Jesus that He healed, hope in her heart began to arise. She opened her heart to the possibility that this was the answer she had been waiting for.
Living in this world that we do, discouragement comes quickly. When we constantly look at the problem we are facing, it can be easy to become bitter and think that this is all we will ever experience. This is how the woman with the issue of blood could have done. After twelve years of failing treatments and spending everything that she had on these treatments, she could have become bitter. But we can see from Scripture that when she heard about Jesus, she didn’t shrug off what she heard. She opened up her heart and allowed herself to believe that Jesus was the answer she needed.
She kept saying to herself, “If I touch His clothes, I will be made well.” In some translations, it says, “for she kept saying to herself.” In other words, she kept talking her answer rather than her problem. It came to the point where she was fully convinced that her next step was to go to Jesus and touch His garments.
She acted on her faith. She wanted her miracle and was prepared to do whatever it took to receive it. Even if that meant walking into a crowd of people, she most likely crawled on her knees to get to His garment and take what was available to her based on the reports she had heard about Him.
Of course, we know how it ended: Jesus felt power go from Him, and He looked around to see who touched Him.
The disciples were shocked at the question Jesus asked because everyone was touching Him, but only one person received power for their healing, and that was this woman who was now healed from her disease!
Receiving from Jesus is simple. No situation or circumstance is too difficult or complicated that the blood of Jesus can’t redeem. That includes your situation. Whenever you face something that looks hopeless, do what this woman did in Mark chapter five: open your heart to become fully persuaded by what God has said, and then act on what you believe.
Remember, under the New Covenant, we’re not trying to get healed; we are the healed; we’re simply reinforcing what already belongs to us as children of God.

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing pt 5: Faith you can see!

Mark 2:5, 10-11: “And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He *said to the paralytic, “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.”
In this passage, we read about a man who had been paralysed. He had been in this situation long enough for four friends of his friends to drag him over to see Jesus. These friends knew that the only answer for their friend was to bring him to the feet of Jesus.
Can you imagine the effort that these friends put into dragging this paralysed man to get to Jesus? And when they had finally gotten to the house, there was no room for them! The effort it would have taken for them to drag him to the roof of this house, dig a hole large enough for this man to be lowered into, and slowly lowered him down in front of Jesus.
The scene that this would have been is comical to think about.
But this was not some random act. These men believed in what they heard about Jesus. They believed it enough that they were determined to see their friend healed. They were determined to act on what they heard and wouldn’t let any inconvenience hinder them from acting on what they knew to be true.
It was this action of faith where Mark 2:5 says, “And Jesus SEEING their faith…”
Faith can be seen! When we act upon what we believe, the power of God is activated in our lives.
It’s important that we take time to meditate and locate where our faith is.
To what extent do we believe God and His Word?
How much do we meditate and ponder His Word?
Are we willing to stand on His Word regardless of what the situation says?
Are we willing to act on His Word even when, in the natural, it seems ridiculous?
These four men would’ve looked crazy to others. I’m sure they would have experienced thoughts of doubt and unbelief as they saw how full that house was, But what they believed in their heart about the healing power of Jesus was what caused them to continue to ensure that their friend made it to Jesus, no matter what.
That man came into that house one way, but he left that house totally different! He was forgiven and healed!
What do you sense in your heart the Lord has been prompting you to act on?
Never underestimate the power of obedience to God’s promptings. The smallest instruction can lead to marvellous miracles.
As you grow in faith, the Holy Spirit will lead you to do things that are in line with God’s Word; He will help you to act on your faith. Trust God’s leading, He knows exactly how to help you receive your miracle.

What the miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 4: foundation for healing

Mark 1:40-41 ”And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and *said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”
In order to have faith for healing, we must be fully convinced that it is God’s will.
Faith begins where the will of God is known. If we are not fully persuaded that it is God’s will, we can easily be swayed and veer off track when circumstances contradict what God has said in His Word.
When the man who was full of leprosy came to Jesus, he knew that he could heal, but he wasn’t yet fully confident that Jesus was willing.
But praise God, we can look at Jesus’ answer and this question of “Is it God’s will to heal” is settled forever. What was Jesus’ response?
“I am willing.”
Healing is God’s will. He is no respecter of persons, He is simply looking for someone who will believe Him and take Him at His Word.
This where people so often miss it. They look to their bodies, or doctors reports to see if they’re healed. They let outside circumstances tell them if God’s Word works or not. Faith doesn’t work like that.
Rather than looking to circumstances to tell us what is true, we look to what God has said in His Word and believe that His Word is true; His Word is our final authority.
That doesn’t mean we go around denying the issue, but it does mean that we stand on God’s Word, and His report says, “By His stripes we were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24)
We choose to believe that God’s Word is true and we continue to speak His Word over our circumstances. We don’t allow the symptoms and the reports have the final word, we talk to the symptoms and command them to leave because we’re the healed!
If you aren’t yet fully persuaded of God’s will, that’s okay! Identify where you’re at in faith and ask God for His help. Like when the father cried out to Jesus, “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!”
Jesus is faithful to help you grow strong in faith (Hebrews 12:2), but He requires our cooperation. It is our responsibility to take time to meditate on His Word and grow in our understanding of what He has said.
As you do, you will notice your faith growing stronger and stronger, being fully convinced that what God has promised He is also able to perform.

What the Miracles of Jesus teach us about healing part 3: Characteristics of great faith!

Matthew 15:28 “Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.”
There are only two recorded instances in the New Testament where Jesus marvels at a person’s great faith. One was the Roman Centurion, and the other one was the Canaanite Woman, as mentioned in the above Scripture.
What was it about these two accounts that caused Jesus to marvel at their level of faith?
It can be so easy to neglect and become passive about our faith. We tend to think, “Oh, I know all about this faith stuff. I’ve heard this message so many times.”
The danger of that way of thinking is that we think we’re actively believing God because we say we are, but it is important to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith or not. (2 Corinthians 13:5) Just because we say we’re believing God, doesn’t mean that we are actively and expectantly believing God. It is essential that we continue to feed our faith on the Word of God and spend time in fellowship with the Father.
We looked at the account of the Canaanite woman yesterday, and there are three key takeaways that we can learn from her great faith.
Great faith is bold.
Great faith knows and argues its case.
Great faith persists.
This woman was willing to stand strong in faith because she knew that Jesus was the only answer for the deliverance of her daughter. She was willing to humble herself so she could access to the grace of Jesus to receive what was not, at that time, available to the Gentiles. By faith, she reached into the New Covenant and accessed what would soon belong to her after the death and resurrection of Jesus!
But now, living on the other side of the cross, everything that Jesus bought and paid for belongs to us! Healing is part of our In Christ identity! So we now say “Yes and amen” to God’s promises and it brings God glory when we walk in His promises!

What the Miracles of Jesus teach us about healing part 2

Luke 13:11-12, 16: “And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your sickness.”…
And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
One of the key things that we need to know is what to yield to and what to resist. If we are unsure or confused about God’s will and purpose, we won’t have the boldness to resist what is not from Him.
In this story of the woman who had bent over for eighteen years, Jesus made it clear that it was satan who had bound her. It was not God who had caused her to suffer with that condition. Instead, it was God’s will that she be made whole! After all, she was in covenant with God, she was a daughter of Abraham.
When we know who the source of sickness is, we know what we are to resist.
Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief comes not but for to steal, to kill and to destroy. But I have come that they may have life.”
Jesus made it very clear that anything that has to do with stealing, killing and destroying was of the devil. Anything that had to do with life is from God.
Based on that statement alone from our Lord, we know that we have the God-given authority to resist sickness, disease and pain. Jesus came so that we may have life! We can yield to God’s will and fully be assured that anything that God does is always good and that sickness is never God’s will for us.
It is our responsibility to grow in our faith so that we may understand what already belongs to us in the new covenant that Jesus purchased for us. That’s why we encourage everyone at Redeemer Coast to read their Bibles and listen to sound teaching that emphasises the truth of what we are in Christ and what belongs to us. We build our faith for healing by listening to healing messages and meditating on God’s Word.
Some great verses to meditate on healing are:
Exodus 23:25-26
Isaiah 53:4-6
1 Peter 2:24
Matthew 8:17

What the Miracles of Jesus teach us about healing episode 1: He's the same today

Acts 10:34-35 “And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him].”
It is so common for people to filter the Word of God through their experience. We may read a passage of Scripture that we don’t understand, or we haven’t experienced in our personal lives, so instead of raising our beliefs to what God’s Word says, we change it to match our experience.
However, where the victory lies is in believing what God’s Word says no matter what we have experienced or what others have experienced.
When Peter saw that the Holy Spirit came upon the Gentiles, too, he understood that God is truly no respecter of persons. God’s Word is the truth and all of His promises are available to anyone who would simply believe it.
This is true for all of God’s promises, whether healing, provision, restoration, relationships, or emotional and mental healing. God’s promises are true and available to all who would believe!
We can look at people’s lives who have amazing testimonies and stand in awe of what God has done in their lives, and it can be easy to think that they’re that “blessed person” who God chose to heal that day, but truthfully, God’s healing is available to anyone who would choose to believe Him. We can’t allow our feelings and experiences to determine if God’s Word is true or not; we have to be the ones who see His promises and rejoice that they belong to us because Jesus has paid it all on the cross!
The way Jesus lived on the earth, healing all those who came to him in faith, He is still the same today because He is the same yesterday, today and forever!
We have a good God!

The Journey Home part 11: Now that we're home

Luke 15:31-32: “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.  It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
How the Kingdom of God operates is different from the rest of the world. When the prodigal son arrived home, there was a new way of thinking and speaking that he had to learn.
However, the older son remained in the father’s house, but even though he wasn’t the one to leave, he never operated in the inheritance that was rightfully his. He thought that he had to earn the favour of his father. He wanted to prove his worth to, but the truth is that everything that the father had belonged to to him.
To operate in the Father’s house, we have to learn who we are and what belongs to us as His children.
The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issues of life.”
One of the major areas that we must guard our heart is in the area of being offended.
Being offended is a choice. It means allowing hurt and unforgiveness to fester in our hearts, and it skews the way we perceive things.
The older brother felt mistreated. He felt that his younger brother didn’t get what he deserved in terms of judgement and that he didn’t get what he deserved for all the work that he had done for his father.
This way of thinking hindered the older brother from walking in what was rightfully his the entire time. When the older brother refused to go in to celebrate the return of his younger brother, the father came out and said to him, “son, you are always with me and all that I have is yours.”
The truth was that the father loved the older son too, and that everything that his inheritance was his to take!
As believers we need to guard our heart against offence because in order to appropriate what is rightfully ours, we need to think, talk and act in line with how God sees things.