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outside of all, can you? And He did it because the Scripture cannot
be broken; and it had been prophesied by Isaiah, seven hundred
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years before Christ came, that He would do just this. That Word still
stands today.
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Healing for Children
I know what mothers want to hear and that is how to trust the
Lord to keep the little ones well and strong. Also any who may have
children who are not as sturdy as they should be want to know how
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to bring the little ones to the Great Physician and get them healed.
There are no stories in the Bible, our book of instructions, sweeter
than those that tell of the Lord Jesus taking the little ones into His
arms, laying His hands on them and blessing them. When I was
working in a hospital in New York many years ago, I saw a beau-
tiful oil painting I think it was lifesize which a very rich man
gave. It almost filled the wall at one end of the ward. How the sick
people loved to look at it, for it showed the Lord Jesus Christ
bringing life and healing to the little daughter of Jairus, a ruler of
the synagogue.
The story is told three times in the New Testament: Matthew
9:18-26, Mark 5:22-43, and Luke 8:40-56. I like to read about heal-
ings in Luke s Gospel, for he was himself a doctor and sometimes
tells us things the others leave out.
In verse 41 we read that Jairus who was a great man among
the Jews,  a ruler of the synagogue  came and fell down at the feet
of Jesus and besought Him to come to his house. How simple his
faith! How humble he was! While others were denying that Jesus
was the Christ, this spiritual leader fell at His feet in public. It might
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cost him his job. Perhaps he would be put out of the synagogue of
which he was a ruler. But he did not mind that. His only child, his
darling daughter, a sweet damsel of twelve years lay dying. He knew
in his soul that Jesus of Nazareth could save her life.
Perhaps it took that awful trial to bring the proud ruler to Jesus.
I know a lovely young couple educated, rich, but alas, without
God whose only child, a beautiful boy, lay dying. The family doctor
held out no hope; but the baby s grandmother knew that Jesus is the
same today, for she had been healed herself. And God gave her faith
to go to her son and daughter and tell them that if they would fall at
Jesus feet and receive Him as their Saviour and Lord, the child
would get well. She said,  The Lord told me to tell you this. If you
do not surrender, the baby will die. They believed the Word and did
just what Jairus did. And the child is a big boy now.
Jesus set out for Jairus house, but a poor woman who had been
sick many years and spent every cent on doctors, touched the hem
of His garment and was made whole immediately. Then the Lord
stopped the whole procession there was a great crowd following
Him so that this woman could tell what had happened to her. How
hard that was for the poor father!
Why was Jesus so anxious to let the woman speak? Perhaps so
that her faith might be made strong and steadfast. Nothing helps
you more than telling of His goodness and praising Him for His
mercies. Then this wonderful healing of a hopeless case of twelve
years standing would help Jairus to believe that his daughter too
would be healed. But someone came and said the little maid was
dead. Even then the Lord Jesus told the father not to fear but
believe. And when Jesus got to the beautiful home of Jairus I am
thinking of the picture I saw in the hospital some people there
wept and mourned, and others laughed Him to scorn. Jesus put
them all out.
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When I hear a person say,  Well, they talk of healing by faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ, but I never saw one, I cannot help think of
the people who were put out. The Word of God does not promise
that you will see if you are weeping and mourning, for that is unbe-
lief. Do you dare to scorn the truth that Jesus Christ is the same
today? He tells us the ones who will see His wonderful works, and
they are those who believe. & Said I not unto thee, that, if thou
wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (John 11:40).
Peter, James, and John didn t weep and mourn. They knew too well
the power of the Lord Jesus. The parents did not laugh Jesus to
scorn. The father bowed himself at His feet. If you want to see, cease
your mourning and fall at His feet in adoration. Oh, how sacred the
hush that fell as the Lord stood beside the deathbed of the little maid
and taking the cold, limp hand in His (which had all power in
heaven and earth) said tenderly,  Maid, arise. (Luke 8:54.) And she
arose with shining face. Jesus, ever thoughtful, said to them,  Give
her meat. (v. 55.) Do you think that was strange? Not at all; I have
seen people healed of sore sickness when their friends would ask half
afraid,  Would it be right to give them something to eat? It seemed
too good to be true that they were really well and able to eat like
other folks.
In the gospel of John we have the story of the healing of the son
of a nobleman who lived in the city of Capernaum, where a great
many rich Romans had fine homes (John 4:46-54).
This case is very helpful to us for Jesus did not go to the child
as He did to Jairus daughter! He just spoke a word and the work
was done because the child s father believed the word. We do not
see the Lord Jesus walk in at the door when we pray to Him for our
loved ones. But He is with us. He says,  I will never leave you nor
forsake you. (Heb. 13:5.) We don t have to send for our doctor.
He says, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father
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will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode
with him (John 14:23).
The nobleman wanted Jesus to go to his house with all speed to
heal his son who was at the point of death. But Jesus read his heart,
and saw that he wanted to see something before he would believe.
He had things turned the wrong way. We must believe that we may
see. David says,  I had fainted, unless I had believed to see. (Ps.
27:13.)  Faith is the evidence of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1.) The
nobleman still pleaded for a visit from the Lord. He said, & Sir,
come down ere my child die (John 4:49).
Then Jesus gave him a word,  Go thy way; thy son liveth. And
the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken. (v. 50.) And
because believing the word of God is seeing, his son was healed.
When the children for whose healing we are praying are too
young to take hold of the promise for themselves, we must get the
parents to unite in faith for them. I have a big feather pillow made
out of carefully selected feathers, which always reminds me of a tiny
child I prayed for years ago at a camp meeting in Canada. She was
terribly deaf as the result of scarlet fever. The mother, who was very
anxious to have the Lord heal her little darling, brought her to the
altar at a meeting and asked for prayer. I asked,  Is her father
saved? The mother, who was saved, seemed a little doubtful about
it.  Well, go and tell him that I would like to see him. You must
bring the child between you to the feet of Jesus. When they came
with the little thing toddling between them, and together we bowed
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