Dear Woman You are Healed!

Zechariah 7; Zechariah 8; Zechariah 9; Luke 13
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Scripture

Luke 13

10 One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, 11 he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” 13 Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God!

14 But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. “There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”

15 But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water?

16 This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”

Observation

Can you imagine being healed after eighteen years of being doubled over and never being able to stand up straight? Then in an instant everything changed and you are completely healed … no chiropractors, no back surgeries, no more pain.

It was something that an evil spirit had done to her and she had lived like that for eighteen years. Satan had her in bondage for eighteen years. She was at church looking for help, but she and Jesus were both rebuked by the leader of the synagogue because she happened to be healed on the Sabbath … Unbelievable!

Who is in bondage that needs to be set free? Do we dare help them on Sunday? I hope our hospital is open for business especially on Sundays!

Application

I will pray for the sick with this passage in mind knowing that some sickness is the work of Satan and his evil spirits.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we have so much to learn about prayer. We have so much to learn about praying for the sick. We have so much to learn about the spiritual world that surrounds us. I know that You are all powerful. There is not any sickness that is too hard for You. In fact, even if the person dies You have the power to bring them back to life if You choose. Satan has only the power that You have given him and it is power that has been loaned to him and one day You will take that power completely away from him. I realize that all of us have been given power from You to use for the good of other people. I know that there are people doubled over in bondage to Satan that need to be set free and we have been given the power to set them free.

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