Healing Prayer Service - Growing the Seed that Heals

Healing Prayer Service – Growing a Seed that Heals.

1 Pt 1:22-23; By obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves for a genuine love of your brothers; therefore; love one another constantly from the heart. Your rebirth has come, not from a destructible but from an indestructible seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

We bought a new bed. It has a ten inch thick mattress. Assembling the bed, my wife placed tape over the screw heads. I watched her and asked “Are you a princess and afraid you will feel the screw heads through the mattress?”

I thought about the fairy tale with this reading. In the story of the Princess and the Pea, the king stacked every mattress in the kingdom and placed a pead under the bottom. A true princess would feel that pea and not be able to sleep.   

None of us have this problem. We are all equal in God’s eyes: princess or pauper. God does not choose favorites. He gave us all that indestructible seed that Peter writes about.

This seed is divine and imperishable. It is a seed that lives in us waiting to spring forth. It is the indestructible seed that longs to grow to something more. It is our faith.

We are all called to grow into something more. As believers, it is holiness. So we seek to know God and our faith grows.  Some will put their seed of faith in man, money, power, possessions, and even in hate. In this is suffering. In these are the problems of the world.  

This is where people live; where people stumble, where they suffer and are sick. This is where people cannot find God. Yet, they still have that indestructible seed; its just starving.

These are people that need spiritual healing. Their seed is longing to grow.

We come tonight to pray for healing, we come tonight to grow that indestructible seed that God has placed in us. But, nothing will flourish and grow unless it’s fed, watered, and nurtured.

What do you feed God’s seed of Faith? You feed it love. You feed it God’s love. A love that is not passive. This love is truth – a love from the heart – a love that is pure, genuine- not phony

We come here tonight to be fed from the love that is God by his Church. We have come to taste the love of Jesus Christ.

We come tonight to feed those who suffer through our prayers: those with weak bodies and afflictions of the spirit; those weakened by illness, emotional, or financial issues. They all have that indestructible seed in them. It’s sprouted and fed by love. Love feeds them, makes them strong, and heals them in ways seen and not seen.

My wife placed the tape over the screws so mattress wouldn’t tear. So many people are torn by the situations in their life. So go love others, mend their tears. Bring Christ’s love to those who need the comfort of truth - love from the heart – love that is pure. Don’t judge them princess or pauper.

We are all equal in God’s eyes with the same seed in us. We feed and nourish it with the genuine love given to us by God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are reborn from this seed. Maybe through us those who suffer because their seed has not begun grow will find the nourishment to grow strong. Love will heal them.