JEHOVAH - Jehovah Rapha - The Lord our Healer // One Church Podcast, 14th August 2023

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To the One Church Podcast. It's Monday the 14th of August

and we're so glad you could join us.

This last weekend. We continued our Names of God

series at One Church in all of our sights.

And today you're going to hear a message from Brian Niblock, who

was speaking at the one Church Obie site.

But before then, at the end of Matthew 28, Jesus says this all

authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Therefore, go today. As you listen, remember this.

The authority given to Jesus has now been given to us.

So as we talk about Jehovah Rafa.

The God who heals us and the God who heals.

Remember this. We can see the same things that

Jesus did in and through our own lives.

So let your faith be built. Be ready to receive and enjoy

the message. Moses led Israel from the Red

Sea and they went in the desert of offshore.

For three days. They traveled in the desert

without finding water. When they came to Mara, they

could not drink the water because it was bitter.

That is why the place is called Mara.

So the people crumbled against Moses, saying, what?

What are we to drink? Then Moses cried out to the

Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood.

He threw it in the water, and the water came fit to drink.

Then the Lord issued A ruling and instruction to them and put

them to the test, he said. If you listen carefully to the

Lord your God and do what is right in the eyes.

If you pay attention to His commands and keep all His

decrees, I will not bring on you any of these diseases.

I brought on the on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who

heals you. There's the word Jehovah Rafah.

I am the Lord who heals you. Then they came to him, where

there were 12 springs and 70 palm trees, and they camped

there near the water. Praise the Lord.

This is the final part of the children of Israel coming out of

Egypt before. And continuing with their

journey on their way to the promised land, the children,

Israel were thirsty and needed water.

And when they came to Mara in the desert, they thought, here's

the water, but as they tasted it, it was very bitter and they

they couldn't drink it. And so the people grumbled

against Moses. And I think probably thinking or

saying, you've read us into the desert where there is no good

water to die here. And we're going to die.

And when you haven't got what you want or need, then you begin

to grumble and start to blame other people.

You have the blame game. We've all done it from time to

time, I'm sure. But thank God.

Moses was still in touch with the Lord, and he cried out to

him, and God gave him the answer.

Take out that piece of wood, throw it into the water.

And as he threw it in the water, the water became fit to drink.

And then the Lord then issued A ruling and instructions to the

children of Israel about doing right, paying attention to His

commands, obedience, and to His decrees.

And after that comes the declaration I am the Lord that

heals you. I just hope you today can just

take that into your mind, but also to your spirit.

I am the Lord God that heals you.

I am Rafa. I am Jehovah Rafa.

Jehovah Rappa is not just a name of a God supposed to be doing

something. And when other people may who

are the people may worship our God.

Jehovah by name is a true living God who heals, who is our

banner, who is our provider, and who also is our peace.

You know, his name embodies all that He's able to do, what he

can do, and also what he will do.

That's wonderful. We can just say Jehovah and in

that name, Jehovah there is wrapped up in that name all

which God is and can do and be to our lives and to our nation,

to our families or to our work colleagues, whatever it may be,

as we pray, praise the Lord. All his attributes work together

as one. So that's why I think that when

it says, you know, in Galatians 5, for us as Christians, we are

to put on the fruit of the Spirit.

And you might say, is it fruits? No, it's fruit.

Because they are all working together as one.

If you've got peace, you should have joy.

If you've got joy, you should have love.

If you've got love, you should have long-suffering also.

It becomes one as one. God works in oneness all the

time. He's never thinking.

Well, I can't. You know Joy's coming in next

week, not this week. But joy can happen today, You

know. God can be anything he needs to

do. Through his attributes to be

able to help us and to heal and to restore our lives.

So all his attributes work together as one call.

The Lord at Rama displayed himself as the Lord God who

heals praise the Lord. In Psalm 147 verse three it says

He heals the broken hearted, He binds up their wounds.

Jehovah Rapha heals our spirit, our soul, and our body.

Yeah, that means he heals us spiritually, emotionally and

also physically. Another example of Jehovah Rafa

healing is in numbers 21, eight and nine.

Once again the children of Israel grew impatient as they

traveled along their their journey to the Red Sea.

And it says they spoke against God and the servant Moses, you

know, once again. They'd already seen God working,

and here they were complaining again in the wilderness, No

bread, no water. And what was God saying to them?

Each day they detested the food which they were eating.

Talk about, you know, that phrase which people use don't

bite the hand that feeds you. And you know, God was feeding

them with what they needed. But they said we don't like your

food, God. And they And they.

So they began to complain. What God gives us, receive

because it's got something of the blessing of God even and

what he gives us. And the Lord said to Moses, make

a snake and put it on a pole. And anyone who is bitten can

look on it and live and live take hold of that word, live

life, live life. Holy Spirit brings life and it

causes us to live above the natural realm into something

which is supernatural and which is empowered by the Spirit of

God. God's mercy once more provided

healing from poisoning. To those who looked at the snake

on the pole, there are other scriptures which tell us that

God is a healing God. Jehovah, Raffa and some 100 and

103 has been read this morning. I think verses two and three

forget not all your benefits, all his benefits.

Sorry, who forgives all your sins and heals all your

diseases, All your diseases. So diseases and illnesses and

sicknesses and infirmities, all that which we, we, we embrace in

this world. God doesn't say, Well, I can't

do that. I can't do that today.

No, I I I haven't got the power to do that.

It says all your sicknesses, all your diseases, all your

infirmities. God is able to heal.

Praise the Lord. He is a God.

Jehovah Raffa. He is the one who heals.

Jeremiah 30, verse 17 says in God's restoration of Israel, he

Jeremiah 30:17

promises that I will restore you to health and heal your wounds

and declares the Lord, praise the Lord.

So he's here to heal our wounds and He's here to restore our

lives. And so, you know, sometimes it's

more emotional, it's more sometimes in our mindset, it's

in our mind, which is which is troubling us.

Well, God can restore and heal you from that.

Yes, you may be under medication, not against that at

all, not against doctors or nurses.

But God supernaturally can heal us emotionally as well as

spiritually as well as physically.

Praise the Lord. I believe from these few

scriptures that after repentance and prayer God restores the

children of Israel and heals them to all together after he

says what they are to do. To me, that shows the nature of

God. It's considering for all those

people, not just one or two, not just the top brass, not not

people who are just, you know, doing something wonderful.

But it's for all the people, so all new people here today,

they're all part, You're all part of being in the company of

God's presence. And so potentially God can heal

every one of us. Potentially, God can work in our

lives. Because, you know, he didn't say

to the children of Israel, you know, he said I'm the Lord God

that heals you, plural, not just some of you or one or two of you

or Moses or in his family. He said all of you.

God is interested in his body, the body of Christ.

God is interested in his people. God is interested in families.

He started the family. He caused these things to happen

and he looks after us and he he wants us to know him as the

healing God, even in our families, in our church.

And to to see God working powerfully.

And so God is concerned for all, all of us.

And even those, even those people are not yet as people.

God is concerned about them. He wants them to be healed as

well. You know Jesus when he healed

the sick and the Gospels, we'll come to that in the moment.

So when he healed the sick and the Gospels, he didn't say,

first of all you must do this, This isn't this.

He just said be healed or he laid hands on them.

He just spoke the word to them and they were healed.

And then he said, and go and send no more.

And so God is wanting to bless with healing those who are not

yet believers. Their miracle or their healing

can bring them to Christ. Praise the Lord.

So he doesn't just heal one or two people or a few, but he

wants all God's people to receive healing in the church

today. You know, I have read

testimonies where God has moved powerfully amongst huge

congregations of people and He has healed.

Many of them, if not all of them.

And then, of course there is Isaiah 53, verse 5A, prophetic

word of what the coming Messiah, what he would be doing, what He

would do. He says he was peers.

For our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities.

The punishment that brought us peace was on him.

And by His wounds we are healed. By his stripes we are healed.

And I know some of you here today confessed very regularly.

By his stripes I am healed by the power of God.

His word is as good as as the healing he wants to give to us.

So now look, let's look at the New Testament and the ministry

of Jesus. He was God in the flesh, God's

Son. And he said I and my Father are

one. If you've seen me, you have seen

the Father. And so he linked himself to the

Father. You could say he linked himself

to Jehovah. I am Jehovah.

And I, the one who heals you. And of course Jesus displayed

the healing power of God as well.

He had the same Spirit of God as in the Godhead, since he was

conceived with the Holy Spirit. And then in the baptism with

John the Baptist, the Holy Spirit came upon him, and he was

filled with with the Holy Spirit and all the fullness of God.

And so he was, you could say he was dead, he walking around, and

yet he was still human. He was the Son of man as well as

the Son of God. But he displayed the nature of

God as he went around to minister to to people around

Jerusalem and elsewhere and the other in the other towns and

cities. After his baptism in the Spirit,

he continues, along with his other ministries, the ministry

of healing at all levels, as well as casting out devils.

We don't see casting out of devils of the Old Testament, but

we do see plenty of casting out of demons in the New Testament,

and of course even today. And so the name Jesus is like

the name Jehovah. It has all the attributes that

the Father has. That's why he's able to do

anything. All things are possible with God

to them that believe, you know, through Jesus.

Jesus said if you ask anything in my name to the Father, he

will do it or I will do it. Because they they are one in the

same nature. They are God.

You know there's power just in His name.

Power by the Spirit of God. I'm sure some of you over your

lifetime. When you've been in distress, or

when you've been upset, when you've been disturbed, or when

you've had bad news, you've just said Jesus, and that name has

just brought peace. It's brought a clarity, It's

brought something to you. That name is embodied all which

he all he is to us. And so in Matthew 4, verse 17,

Matthew 4:17

when Jesus came out from the wilderness, having not yielded

to the three temptations organized by the devil, he said

repent. For the Kingdom of heaven has

come there. And so from that time he spoke

the Word and manifested the power of the Kingdom of God.

He loved people, He forgave people their sins, He spoke

wisdom, He displayed love. And He also manifested the

healing power of the Kingdom of God, just like it's in the Old

Testament, the Lord Jehovah. Rafa did at times as the same as

Jesus did in the New Testament. You know the cross is very

powerful. Just let me explain in case

there's anybody here this morning.

The cross which Jesus died upon, He gave his life.

We remember that this morning with the community, the breaking

of bread and drinking at the cup, He bore our sins, all of

our sins. And to as many as turn from

their sins and believe on Jesus they shall be saved.

You can be saved this morning just like that by asking Jesus

Christ into your life because the cross has power.

Because Jesus not no longer dead, he's no longer buried.

He's alive for evermore in heaven.

He's seated on the right hand of God and he is exalted today and

he's here by his spirit to minister salvation, to minister

healing. To minister what he wants to

give to you and your life emotionally in your mind.

To be set free. Praise the Lord.

So what about now? What about now?

What's happening now with the Kingdom of God?

What's happening now with Jesus? Is Jehovah Rafah still the same

today as he was many thousands of years ago?

The healing power of God is still available.

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit followed the resurrection

and ascension of Jesus. And the Holy Spirit was sent to

empower the Saints that journs me, the children of God, to

empower them to do the works of Jesus.

That's why he trained his disciples for up to three years,

so that they could get the the hang of what he wanted them to

do. So that they would know when the

Holy Spirit came upon them. They could do the works which

Jesus, which Jesus had been doing, following the works of

the Kingdom of God. Yes, wholeheartedly preach the

gospel, lead people to Jesus, but also.

He sends us out to heal the sick, cast out demons, raise a

dead and also to heal leopards if they are here today.

Praise the Lord you know Matthew 10.

Jesus gave this command to his disciples.

Heal the sick, he said. Heal the sick.

He said. Raise a dead.

He said cleanse the leopards and cast out demons freely.

You have received freely give. He tested them some, some

sometime later after he spoke of that.

And they went out to do just that.

And they came back and said even the demons came out of us, They

obviously saw people healed as well.

But Jesus said don't rejoice so much to that, but rejoice that

your names are written in the lambs book of life, Praise the

Lord, praise the Lord. But we are to do the same.

That's that's part of the ministry of Jesus here today.

Mark 16, you know, speaks there about.

To go and preach the gospel to all mankind, to all humankind,

to all people around the nations of the world.

And that's being done this present time for many centuries,

That's being done. But you also said, you can heal

the sick, you can lay hands on the sick, and they shall

recover, because you have the same Spirit within you as which

raise Jesus Christ and the dead which is in the Godhead, the

same Spirit you have. And therefore, as you lay hands

on the sick, impartation can happen.

Or Jesus. In the name of Jesus.

Power can come. People can be set free and

delivered even immediately there, Miraculously then or even

sometime later. You know, the leopards as they

went, they were healed. And sometimes we go from a

healing meeting and and we prayed for nothing's happened.

But during the week something happens.

We're healed. Well, I couldn't.

I've been healed. It's all gone.

As we trust and believe God, because Jesus said the works

that I do shall you do and greater work shall you do

because I go to my Father, you know of ourselves we can't heal

anybody. That the Lord has given us

authority to exercise our God-given authority and

empowered us by the Holy Spirit to heal the sick and to do the

other works which he said we can do.

My personal testimony I want us to share.

I wanted to. Testimonies and from other

people just to encourage us today what God is doing around

us. Not not years ago or centuries

ago, but today, here and now in our lifetime.

Praise the Lord. I'm not here to glorify myself,

but to glorify Jesus and just simply to exhort you to do what

Jesus told us to do. There's some testimonies.

There's a lady in our church today.

Some years ago we had a we we ran a series of evening meetings

on a on a on a Sunday night and the last Sunday of each night

each month. And we people were prayed for.

The first night we did, this lady came forward for prayer and

I said what's back, what's trouble?

She said it's back trouble. She said I have to climb.

I have to crawl up to bed every night, up my stair, up the

stairs. I want to be healed.

So I prayed for her and. You know, released her in the

name of Jesus. And she said, I feel much

better. I said we'll go and run around

the church. She ran around the church and

she said I'm here. I've asked her a week later, I

asked her a year later, some years later, I said, are you

still climbing? Are you still walking up to bed,

up the stairs to bed? She said yes, she's not climbing

anymore. You know what God does?

He does forever, doesn't he? Praise the Lord.

The second thing is a young wife and one of the Leicestershire

churches. A few years ago I was asked to

preach to that church and as I was leaving I asked the pastor

because I heard that there was the young young wife there who

was not able to conceive to have a child.

I said I'd like to pray for her, so I prayed for her.

I don't know whether her husband was there at the time.

I think he was working, but I prayed for her that she would

have a child and I left. That was it.

And I went there. I was invited just over a year

or later, and she she met me at the door of the church carrying

a little baby boy. She said, this is the answer to

your prayer. Praise the Lord, praise God.

He can do things which are impossible to us and sometimes

even to the medical field. I'm not trying to judge them or

run them down anyway, but sometimes they can't do

everything. But God can do everything.

He can do the impossible. And so believe God today because

his Spirit is at work as we hear the word of the Lord.

You know, I was speaking to a friend the other day in

Leicester here, and he told me a Muslim man came into his church

and he was full of cancer. He was led to Christ, to Jesus,

and then they prayed for him to be deliberated and set free from

the cancer. A week later he came back, my

friend said to the church and he said I've been healed.

And they said, why? What happened?

They said, well, during the week the cancer processed out of me.

I leave that to your imagination how the the cancer left him.

But Wigglesworth, when he prayed, who was a great healing

evangelist, he used the people used to vomit their cancer out

of the mouth and used to jump on the floor.

And so you, you, you, you think what happened there?

And so they said to him, well, can you go to the hospital and

just get some Xrays or get someone, you know, so diagnosis

again to see whether you've still got cancer or not.

And so he went there and he came back a week later and he said,

he said, they just said to me, you have no trace of cancer in

your body. So praise the Lord, praise the

Lord. I would like to see in the city

a cancer free zone, even now city, a cancer free zone.

I'm talking to my heart now, but I'd like to see that happening

more and more and more. Praise the Lord.

You know, during the summer, a number of youth camps have been

happening around the country by many various groups of of, of

believers, of of churches. And I've heard from people who

were there, young people coming to Christ in hundreds.

That's wonderful. Obviously they've got to be

followed and be discipled, but that's wonderful.

And the Holy Spirit was working. Young people were prayed for and

set free, crying with tears down their faces.

Jesus was at work healing hearts, minds, emotions, hurts,

even abuse. And these young people were

being healed. And I just say, well, how

wonderful, how wonderful. You know when the Holy Spirit is

working and operating in a company of people as we worship

the Lord and and Jesus comes to be alive amongst the people, you

know God can do anything and people can be set free just like

that in a moment. And sometimes you have to just

believe and confess the truth for some time.

Be prayed again if you need to be prayed for again this

morning. Don't worry, don't don't worry.

Come out, be prayed for. Even if you've been prayed,

prayed for even 10 times, you know that's another stage to you

towards your healing. Praise the Lord.

Let's just believe God, Trust him.

How wonderful. Just as I conclude, even our

team who went to Tanzania just a week or two back, saw healings

and miracles and salvations in a in a new area which I haven't

yet heard the gospel. I mean that must be marvelous to

hear that people come into Christ, miracles happening,

healings happening and lies being changed and the Church

being part of no doubt they saw those healings and salvations

and miracles. And you know, even our youth and

why adult adults weekends away saw God doing amazing things in

their lives as they had a weekend together.

Praise the Lord, Hallelujah. And so church, all I can say to

you this morning is let us rise up and believe God and see

Jehovah, Rapha and Jesus healing the sick and doing doing mighty

miracles. Obviously through all of that we

want to see people coming to Christ and having their

salvation known by Jesus and being blessed of God.

So our word today as I close is Jesus Christ, the same

yesterday, today, and forever. Jehovah Rapha, I am the law that

heals you. Thank you, Brian, for that

message, bringing us back to the Bible and what it says about how

God is our healer and encouraging us with those great

stories. We're believing for more stories

in the life of 1 church and even in your life, because God is

still our healing God. Jehovah Rafa is our healer

Today, If you'd like prayer, reach out to us and we're ready

to stand with you and see faith rise in your life.

And just perhaps we'll see God step in and do amazing things.

Even in the last 24 hours since our Sunday morning gatherings,

we've heard stories of people who've been healed had a touch

from God. And it's so encouraging to see

that God is at work. There is lots coming up in the

life of 1 Church. So here's your family news from

First of all, we're less than four weeks away from the opening

of the newly renovated 1 center at 10 Frog Island, and it's so

exciting to be able to share this momentous weekend with all

of you. So if you want to be there

Saturday night, Sunday morning. Make sure you've booked your

place on Saturday and come along as normal on Sunday morning.

And why not invite somebody as well.

Use one of the invitations and you can point to people online

or you can get an invitation from the church office or anyone

church site and let's just see what God wants to do on this

very special weekend. Secondly, if you are away on the

opening weekend of the new One Center on the 9th and 10th of

September, then don't worry, there is still a way that you

can get involved. You can TuneIn and stream the

service live on YouTube, the second service on the Sunday

morning, or you can catch up with that anytime, because our

heart is that every person who calls one church home can be a

part of this weekend. Thirdly, we are taking a trip to

Israel in 2024. It's the first time we've led a

trip like this as one church and by.

Partnering with Mao's Israel. One of our partner charities

that's based there in Israel and the UK, we get to put on a tour

and an exploration of this Holy Land, the ground where Jesus

walked. That is drenched in rich

biblical history, and it's something that will open your

eyes up to the reality of the history of the faith that we all

hold so dearly. So if you're interested in going

with us to Israel next year? Then let us know and get in

touch. There is still space for you to

be involved in this trip. And finally we have an encounter

night on the 27th of August and you are welcome to join us at

7:00 PM as we call on God and leave space for him to move.

We'll see you there. Have a wonderful week and

remember what Jesus says. I am with you always to the very

end of the age. Jehovah Rafa is with you.

Be blessed. The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to

you. The Lord turn his face towards

you and give you peace.