11 January 26 || Healing || Pip McLean

Good morning, folks. Good to see you.

Yeah. And welcome, welcome again

today. And over the next couple of

weeks, we're going to do some practical things, kind of just

learning how to do some stuff that maybe some of us have done

before. Maybe some of us a bit like, oh,

it's a bit new to me. We're going to do.

Yeah, get practical. So that's what we're doing.

Does that all sound a bit intriguing?

Sorry. OK, I'll let you in.

Yeah, it will become clear as the as you go along.

If you've got a Bible, can you turn to Matthew chapter 10?

Matthew 10 · chapter mention

We're going to look at verse one and then verse 7 to 8, because

we're going to be, as we get practical, we're going to be

learning from Jesus and practice doing some of the things that he

did. OK, so Matthew chapter 10, we're

Matthew 10 · chapter mention

going to read verse one, worst first one and then verses 7 to

8. So Jesus sends out the 12

disciples and if we follow Jesus, he gives us the same

mandate that he gave to them. And this is what it says.

Jesus called his 12 disciples to him and gave them authority to

drive out in pure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.

As you go, proclaim this message.

He said the Kingdom of heaven has come near.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who's those who

have leprosy, drive out demons freely you have received, freely

give. So God is in this business of

restoration, of making all things new, restoring things and

people, of healing brokenness and bringing beauty all around.

And He invites us to join in with what he's doing.

And we see this restoration in part now.

And we eagerly await the day when Jesus will return again and

everything will be restored to the fullness of beauty that God

always intended. We've got all that to come.

Like I'm so looking forward to that day.

Like I'm so fed up with looking at the news headlines and seeing

the brokenness in our world. I'm so looking forward to the

day when everything is restored. But we've got all that to come.

But just like the disciples, Jesus invites us to get in on

his mission now. And we have this saying in the

Vineyard Church, which is everyone gets to play.

I don't know if you've heard that before, but if you follow

Jesus, you get to be a part of what he's up to.

So whether you're a day into knowing him or whether you've

been following him for years, you're invited into this thing

that God does, and we all are. And he wants us to partner with

him to do what Jesus did, not out of our own strength, but

filled with the Holy Spirit, empowered by the Spirit of God.

So this morning we're going to be learning about praying for

healing. So I'm going to talk for a bit,

and then we're going to pray for each other.

And if you're here and you're listening to this and you don't

know Jesus, I would still say stay tuned in because this might

be a really good way for you to meet him.

So before we start, I just want to say a few things.

I feel so teachery with these glasses, like half down over my

nose or like a librarian. But I'm really at that stage

where I have to do that thing. So forgive me if you feel like

you're in a library, OK? We want to do God stuff, but we

don't want to do it in a weird way, OK?

You might have heard us use the phrase before being naturally

supernatural. So still being us, but listening

to what God is doing and through his Holy Spirit, kind of just

just things happening. Yeah.

So some of you will know that we have got a wedding coming up in

our family in the next few months.

And I will really try hard whenever I speak up here, not to

bore you with like wedding analogies, but there's just one

I want to bring to your attention this morning.

It's that whole thing about, you know, you have the bride and

groom and they choose people to do special things on the day.

So often they're known as groomsmen.

If the the the groom will be choose the groomsmen, Briar will

choose her kind of special people.

But another word for groomsmen is like ushers.

Have you heard that phrase before about being an usher?

And the idea is that those people welcome people in welcome

people into the building. So I want us to think about that

word. So it's like they say, come,

come, come in, come here's here's your seat.

This seat is for you. And they they're kind of like

saying come and be a part of this thing.

We've reserved this space for you.

Come and experience something of the goodness that is going to

happen in this place. And that's what we do when we're

asking people, you know, can I, can I pray for you?

When we're saying, can I pray for you for healing, whether

that be physical or emotional or like anything coming alongside

someone and saying, can I pray for you?

It's like us ushering them into this space where they might

experience something of the love and the mercy and the healing

and goodness of God. So have that phrase, that image

in your mind of that person inviting people in.

That's what we want to do when we're we're inviting people to

be prayed for. So secondly, just before we

start, we live in a time where we experience both the now and

the not yet of the Kingdom. And what I mean by that is that

we see healing happen, but we also want to be real about it.

There are times when we don't see it happen too.

We don't want to make stuff up. We want to be real about what is

happening in the space in front of us.

So God's Kingdom is here in Jesus, but it's not yet fully

here. We still see and experience his

goodness, but we also still see brokenness and bad stuff in the

world. But we get to partner with God

to push back some of that darkness.

And I want to be someone, and I want us to be a people in this

church who always seek after the Kingdom of God, who always seek

after Jesus. Would you come and rule this

space in this moment with this person?

Would you come do that? And we can be people who seek

that and press into that as we usher people into his presence.

And one way that we get to do that is to offer to pray for

people if they're sick or if they're sad or whatever else is

going on and say, look, can I, can I pray for you?

We're saying we're kind of saying, would you come and

experience something of the goodness of God in this moment?

So this morning we're going to go through a really simple

framework. Some of you will have heard it

before, but it's always good to remind ourselves and it's a

framework that helps us with this praying for people

sometimes. We've referred to it as the five

step model simply because it's got 5 parts to it.

It is not a formula. There is nothing magic or rigid

about it. It's just a framework that helps

to shape how we go about praying for other people.

Whether that be in this building, whether that be in

small group, whether that be at the school gate, on your lunch

break, at work, in Aldi's, in the playground, wherever you

are, you can use this framework. It's a really intentional way of

praying for other people and of listening to the Holy Spirit and

asking God to speak insights to us that will resonate with the

person that we're with. It shows kindness to the person

that we're praying for always. It always shows kindness and it

seeks God's will and God's best for that person.

So whether you've been doing this or your life or whether

you've never ever prayed for someone else before and right

this moment you're thinking, I just want to get out of here.

We're going to have an opportunity to learn and then

practice this morning. And we want to follow Jesus

example. So we're going to be looking at

what Jesus did. So I'm going to talk through

every stage and then we're going to have a go.

OK, so the first stage is simply hello, kicking things off like

you know how how to start? Just like it's naturally

supernatural, like you're just just going to say hello to

someone. Let's have a look at Matthew

Matthew 20:32

chapter 20, verse 32. So we're going to say hello.

And then the question that we're going to ask is what do you need

Jesus to do for you? That's what this part of that

first stage is say hi, hi, I'm Pip.

You know, what do you need Jesus to do for you?

So turn to Matthew 20. We're going to read from verse

29 to 34 because Jesus does this, it says this.

As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd

followed him. Two blind men were sitting by

the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by,

they shouted, Lord son of David, have mercy on us.

The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they

shouted all the louder. Lord, son of David, have mercy

on us. Jesus stopped and called them.

What do you want me to do for you?

He asked. Lord, they answered, We want our

sight. Jesus had compassion on them and

touched their eyes and immediately they received their

sight and followed him. So you introduce yourself, you

ask the person's name and you remember it.

And then you're kind of then saying, what do you want Jesus

to do for you? You're asked what, what is the,

what is the thing? What, what, what is it you want

him to do for you? Can I pray for you?

You know, we might say something like in our church, if someone's

I'll, we ask if we can pray for them.

Would that be OK if I prayed for you?

What do you want or need Jesus to do for you?

And in this moment, we're not kind of going into like a big

medical interview. We don't want loads of detail.

We're going to keep it simple. It's basically we're just

saying, where does it hurt? Where does it hurt them in it?

And it might be that you've had a conversation with someone and

they've been like, you know, they've just told you about how

they're doing. It's in that moment you pick up,

oh, OK, you got a stinking headache or, you know, oh,

you've broken your leg. And oh, you're feeling really

anxious about something. And it's in those moments you're

like, OK, Lord, what what are you doing here?

And you, you kind of offer that. Can I pray for you?

And as you enter into that space with that person kind of asking

that question, then you're then just having this conversation

quietly with God of kind of like God, what you doing here?

And it might be that he gives you words or impressions, like a

picture in your mind's eye that helps to kind of pinpoint

something that might be going on with that person.

And then you just offer that, OK, so it's this, it's this

interaction between you and God, you and the Holy Spirit as

you're talking to this person, nothing looks fancy or weird.

You're still being you and they're still being them, but

you're just interacting with them in this moment.

So that's the the first stage. OK, second stage.

So based on that little, little interview, if you like that

first bit, you're then thinking as you're going along, how

should I pray? What what is going on here?

Let's look at Mark Chapter 7 and verse 32 because a number of

Mark 7 · chapter mention

things can be going on for people.

Mark 7 verse 32, some people brought him that Jesus brought

Mark 7:32

to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they

begged Jesus to place his hand on him.

After he took him aside away from a crowd, Jesus put his

fingers into the man's ears. I love this like how Jesus takes

him aside because he still wants dignity for this person.

He doesn't want this thing to become a spectacle.

It's not about causing a scene. It's just Jesus and this moment

with this man. And then Jesus spit and touched

the man's tongue. OK, not, not let's, let's just

not go for the whole spitting thing.

I'm using this as an example. He looked up to heaven and with

a deep sigh said to him, F Fathah, which means be opened.

And at this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened,

and he began to speak plainly. So the second part of this

framework, we're asking God, like this person said, this is

where it hurts. And we're kind of working with

God and listing like what is going on here?

Maybe there is physical healing, You know, we that's needed.

We live in a fallen world that is subject to decay.

Our bodies are subject to wear and tear.

We have accidents, all those things.

But sometimes it's not physical or not just physical healing

that's needed. So we're listening to the Holy

Spirit. What does he want us to do?

Is it to do with this person's head?

Is it to do with their heart? Is it to do with their body?

What's going on? And bear in mind that people

might say one thing and there might also be something going on

and something else going on too. So while we're thinking, how

should I pray? We're thinking, why?

Why does a person have this condition?

You know, maybe they just stubbed their toe and it's like

they had an accident and you're going to pray for that toe.

Maybe there's an emotional 'cause sometimes we can carry

emotional pain with us that literally hurts our bodies and

our minds. It might come from unforgiveness

or bitterness, anxiety or stress or fear or things that have

happened in the person's past and that person needs to

experience some healing or peace around that.

So there might be physical healing, there might be

emotional healing that's needed. It might be a a spiritual cause.

Turn with me to Matthew Chapter 9.

Matthew 9 · chapter mention

We're going to be whizzing in and out.

OK this morning of different verses.

Then Matthew Chapter 9, verse 1 to 8.

Matthew 9:1–8

Jesus sees what the man needs in this moment.

So Jesus stepped into a boat. He crossed over and came to his

own town. Some men brought to him a

paralyzed man lying on a mat. And when Jesus saw their faith,

he said to the man, take heart son, your sins are forgiven.

So what everyone else sees is this paralyzed man.

What Jesus sees that this man needs to hear in this moment is

your sins are forgiven. And at this some of the

teachers, the law said to themselves, this fellow is

blaspheming. Knowing their thoughts, Jesus

said, why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts, which

is easy to say your sins are forgiven or to say get up and

walk. But I want you to know that the

Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.

So he said to the paralyzed man, get up, take your mat and go

home. Then the man got up and went

home. When the crowd saw this, they

were filled with ore, and they praised God who had given such

authority to him. In this situation.

There's the spiritual thing going on as well as the

physical. Jesus knows what the man first

needs to hear is that his sins are forgiven.

There's a whole other context going on of like what the other

people are believing and thinking at that point and what

Jesus is kind of modelling to them too.

But people can be out of place with God.

There might be sin or pride in the mix.

It might be that they need to confess something and turn to

God. There's also maybe there's a

demonic stuff that's going on. Turn to Luke chapter 13 verses

Luke 13:10–13

10 to 13 on a Sabbath. Jesus was teaching in one of the

synagogues and a woman was there who had been crippled by a

spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and couldn't

straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called

her forward and said to her, Woman, you are set free from

your infirmity. And then he put his hands on her

and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

When someone is oppressed by demonic power, what the person

needs to experience is freedom. That's what they need to

experience. And maybe they need to confess

some stuff about what they've been involved in.

Or maybe it's just a case of commanding the demons ago.

There are lots of examples of this in the Bible with what

Jesus does. But we always, always want to

create space that is safe, that is confidential, and that shows

mercy and dignity. That's what Jesus did.

If you, if you look through the New Testament and you look at

Jesus's interactions with people, it was always, those

things were characterized in his interactions with people, always

about mercy, always about dignity, always like a safety

around it and confidentiality. OK, so we've done number one #2

OK, on to #3 So we've done the hello, hello.

Where does it hurt? We've done the law.

What you're doing here. How am I going to pray?

Now we're on to the third bit, which is actually doing the

praying bit. OK?

So if we are teaching this in kids, because we do the same

here as we do in kids and that youth do, we say to people often

will say, if you if you don't know how to start 3 words that

you could say the three words of this calm Holy Spirit because we

are not doing any of this of our own accord.

We're asking the Holy Spirit to do what Jesus wants to do in

this moment. So, so we say, come Holy Spirit,

and we would encourage you to lay your hands on where it

hurts. Jesus did this.

We've already read some of those examples where it says Jesus

laid his hands on. So we lay our hands on where it

hurts. And because we want to be wise

and because we want to be sensible, we will often say guys

with guys, girls with girls, you know, in mixed pairs, if you if

you're if there's someone there of the opposite sex, then you're

you're going to do that with with someone else, like a mixed

couple with them. Does that make sense?

OK, So we're being appropriate. OK, And if someone's hurt their

knee, we might say, can I pray? Can I pray for your knee?

Can I put, can I put my hand on your knee?

If it's, you know, they're back, put your hand on their back.

But you're asking permission and you're being appropriate.

If it's if it's not a place that's appropriate to put your

hands, don't put your hands there.

OK. And then you're going to wait.

So you said, come, Holy Spirit, Jesus, would you come in this

moment and then you're going to wait and watch, keep your eyes

open to see what you can see going on.

And you're listening all the time.

The apostles did this. You can see the disciples doing

this. If you want to turn to Acts

Acts 3 · chapter mention

chapter 3 verses 4:00 to 8:00, we'll have a little look at

something that happened with Peter and John.

So Peter's walking past someone and he sees someone there.

Peter looked straight at him as did John.

And then Peter said, look at us. So the man gave him his them his

attention, expecting to get something from them.

And then Peter said, silver or gold.

I don't have what I do have. I give you and in the name of

Jesus Christ of Nazareth walk. So he speaks to this paralyzed

man and he says, get up and walk.

And taking him by the right hand, he helped him up and

instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

He jumped to his feet and began to walk.

And then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and

jumping and praising God. Peter and John were looking OK

looking at this person. When we pray, we want to look at

the person that we're praying for because it gives us clues as

to what Jesus is doing in that moment.

So keep it simple. Use normal words, use your

normal voice, use normal volume. We don't want to hype anything

up. We want to be naturally

supernatural, just us inviting God into this space.

And just like Jesus did, we've already read, I think one of the

first examples we read this morning, Jesus says be opened to

the man's ears. So we speak to the pain or the

condition that we see before us. It might be that we say

something like ears be opened or headache go, or stress in

shoulders be relieved or fractures mend.

You know, we keep it simple. Normal, normal vocabulary,

normal voice, normal volume, speak to the condition, speak to

the pain and tell it to go. And then as you're doing this,

there's the whole thing of like, what do you see?

Because sometimes when people encounter the power and the

presence of God, sometimes we see stuff happen on them and in

them and with them. Other times you might see

nothing at all. And that doesn't mean that God

is not doing something. But some of the things you might

see, you might see just a flush on people's face, like almost

like a, it feels like an, almost like a redness or a you might

see the eyelids fluttering. You might see some of their

bodies shaking. You might see crying, which can

often be a release of pain. You might see laughing, which

can be like joy. You might just see this peace on

people. And like I said before, you

might see nothing at all. And it doesn't mean that God's

not doing anything. The outward sides are not

important in themselves. What is important is what God is

doing in that person. But we don't hype anything up.

We just want to respond to what God is doing in that time.

And sometimes as we pray, we can see that something is

intensifying. And if that happens, then we

would encourage you to press into what God is doing.

It might be that you say, Holy Spirit, would you do more of

what you're doing here or thank you for what you're doing?

Could you keep doing it? He knows what's going on.

Bless what he's doing, Thank him.

So another thing that we can do, especially as we're learning

this is that we can come alongside someone else who is

already praying for someone. We'd be like, do you mind if I

can, I, can I come too? Can I just come and watch?

And you can just watch. You don't even have to say

anything or you can kind of join in.

So we watch, we learn. And we would say that in, in

this church, often we say, if you're in a small group, would

you come and pray? And that's often because in

small groups, we've been practicing, do some of this

stuff. I've been trying to learn how to

do it. OK, so we've had the first

hello, where does it hurt? We've had the second, what's

going on here? And then we've had the third

actual praying. And then the 4th part is

checking in with the person, like how you doing, what's going

on? So you might just want to ask

what's happening? You're not going to interrupt

what God is doing. Let's see an example when Jesus

does this. So if you turn to Mark chapter

Mark 8 · chapter mention

8, we're going to look at verses starting at verse 22 and going

through to 25. They came to Bethsaida and some

people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

He took the blind man and LED him outside the village.

And when he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on

him, Jesus asked, do you see anything?

He's checking in, what's happening?

He looked up and said, I see people, they look like trees

walking around. So maybe his vision is starting

to come back, but still looking a bit blurry, don't quite look

like people yet. Once more Jesus put his hands on

the man's eyes and then his eyes were opened and his sight was

restored and he saw everything clearly.

So this 4th part is that checking in, how you doing?

What's going on? And at the same time you're

looking, what do you see going on?

You might say to the person you're feeling anything

different in your body? Do you notice anything

different? Is Jesus saying anything to you?

Are you able to do anything that you couldn't do before?

Almost to kind of measure if there has been any healing?

It might be that right back at the start when you said where

does it hurt? It's like, oh, my back's

excruciating. Like on a scale of like 1 to 10

pain, what do you reckon that is?

Oh yeah, it's an 8. It's really, really bad.

And at this check in point, it might be you go back to that.

So what, what does it feel like now?

Oh, it's still an 8 or oh, it's a four, It's a 2.

So you, that kind of measuring is another thing that you can do

at this point. So all the time you're

continuing to listen to the Holy Spirit and you're taking some

time with people. Jesus did that.

He he took time with people, didn't rush off on his way if he

was present with the people that he was with.

And then we would just say at this point, stop when you think

it's all over or stop when you've run out of things to pray

or stop when the person who you're praying for thinks it's

all over. Like I'm done.

OK, we're not going to push past that.

We're just going to respect what what those what people say and

stop when you think it's going OK.

We're being natural, supernatural.

We're not going to try and force something.

It's all about OK God, what you're doing here.

If you're still doing stuff here and this person still wants us

to pray, then we'll carry on. Otherwise we'll stop. 5th part

finishing. Well, how do I finish doing

this? Thank God for his presence.

Maybe you might want to encourage the person you're

praying for to press into something in their life going

forwards. Maybe it's like, do you know, if

you, you know, maybe you could read the read this bit in the

Bible. Maybe you could connect with us

in church. Can't keep coming to church,

keep getting plugged in, keep, you know, keep keep worshipping.

Maybe it's like, why don't you? You might want to follow Jesus.

If the person has been healed or the condition has improved,

advise them to go check it out with the doctor.

Never tell people to stop taking their medication.

If they're on medication, encourage.

Maybe you might want to encourage the person to follow

Jesus if they're not healed because we live in the now and

not yet of the Kingdom. Reaffirm that God loves them.

You might want to say, why don't, why don't you come back?

We'll pray again next week. Don't say what you haven't seen.

Don't make excuses for the person or for God.

Don't blame anybody for a lack of faith.

Encourage people to look to Jesus.

We want people to feel cared for and loved, whether they've

experienced healing or not. So they're the five stages, the

beginning. Where does it hurt?

Can I pray for you? Second, what's going on?

How do I need to pray? Third, actually the praying. 4th

bit checking in, how's it going? What's going on?

5th bit ending well. OK, Just a couple of things to

remember. Must be aware that as we're

doing this, you know, there might be spiritual conflict

before that, during it, after it, and it might you want to get

prayer yourself. And I would just say grow.

We want to be people who grow in doing this, who practice this

and learn how to do this. And one of the ways that we can

do that is to decide to pray for someone who's sick, John Wimber,

who started the Vineyard movement years ago.

And there's a story that he told where, you know, he taught about

the healing model, and then someone that was listening to it

went away and prayed for someone.

And then they came back to him. And they were just like, it

doesn't work, It didn't work. And John Wimber said to him,

when you pray for 1000 people, they can come back.

So this is encouragement for us to just keep on doing this to

decide to pray for people to decide when when someone says

something, we but we use it as an opportunity to usher them in

into the presence of God. Pray alongside other people.

Get help when you need help. And there is actually for the

month of January that the Vineyard theology, Vineyard

Theology are doing a module on healing and it's being offered

for free. So you can sign up for free for

that if you want want to learn more about it.

And that's free for the month of January.

If you want to find out how to do that, come and find me

afterwards. So this week, I want to

encourage you to keep your eyes open, keep your ears open.

And if someone is sick or worried or anxious, invite them

in to do this, ushering in can I pray for you?

Would you mind if I pray for you?

If they say no, that's completely fine, but ask that

question and then see where that might go.

And it wouldn't be great. It would be great if we had some

stories in the next few weeks of like, oh, do you know what?

I did this and this happened or I had a go and they weren't

healed. But I'm so glad I had a go.

So going to get practical this morning.

Is there anyone here who he's not well or has got any aches

and pains this morning? I know there are some people

because you've already had that conversation.

Can I? Yeah.

Excellent. OK, Fran.

OK. Anyone else?

Aches, pains. Loretta, something going on just

like emotionally, like stress, anxiety.

Anything else going on? OK, 123.

Anyone else? 4-5 Excellent.

OK, brilliant. OK, Let's just pray before we

start. Cherie.

Jesus, would you come in this moment?

Would you teach us? Would you show us what to do?

May we, may we learn from you in this moment.

We're we're listening to you. Amen.

OK, So if you're one of those people, if you've got aches or

pains or whatever, why don't you just stand up?

I'm not going to ask you to come down the front.

Just stand up where you are. Frown.

Is it tricky for you to stand up?

You stay sitting down if you need to.

Yeah. OK.

If you're near any of these people, why don't you just

gather around them, OK. And we're going to, we're going

to go through the stages. I'm going to talk to you through

it and we're going to do it. OK, so even if you've not done

it before, Becker and Elizabeth go I'm I'm go go stand next to

these guys here. Oh, was it was it 1 of you 2?

No. Oh, you.

Yes. Yeah.

OK. OK.

Great. Recker Elizabeth, go stand next

near Nathan. Essie, you're going to need to

move to be near Sarah. I mean, in front of you here.

Yeah, with Jeremy. Excellent.

Because of people near. Oh, OK.

Has everyone who stood up got someone near them?

Excellent, great, great. And James, are you tagging in on

there? Brilliant, wonderful.

OK, excellent. So, OK, let's go for the first

bit then. So hello.

Where does it hurt? That's kind of what you're going

to say. OK, how we doing?

You're kind of not full on medical interview.

Have you found out where it hurts?

Kind of how it long long it's been going on for maybe how it

started. You've come in.

OK, if any of you are not well, then we're going to pray for you

for healing. If you're all fine and dandy,

then go for joining with someone else who's who's, who needs some

prayer youth coming in. OK, listen, this is the this is

the thing this morning. We're praying for healing.

So if any of you are not well, then we're going to pray for

you. If you are all fine and dandy,

go stand near someone who who needs some prayer.

So people who are standing up, who are, are people who need

some prayer, go prayer. OK, so you found out.

Brilliant, now I should. So you're going to say you're,

you're now kind of trying to think about what is going on for

that person. So you're thinking, OK, is it a

physical thing? Is it maybe something going on

with their heart or their heads? That's what you're trying to

ascertain as you're doing this. We've moved into the second

part. Why is this person kind of got

this thing happening? And if you've kind of done one

and two, sometimes you do those together.

Move on to #3 start praying. If you don't know how else to

start, say come Holy Spirit, keep your eyes open.

If you're around the back of someone, you might not be able

to see them. I would suggest you around the

front so you can see what might be going on.

If you're the person being prayed for, you might feel a bit

weird, so we'd encourage you to close your eyes.

But the person, if you're praying, keep your eyes open and

look and see what might be going on.