It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honour is to be given to God who giveth virtue unto medicine, and bestoweth power unto the human frame to cast off disease. As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone; he claims it as his prerogative, "I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal;" and one of the Lord's choice titles is Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord that healeth thee. "I will heal thee of thy wounds," is a promise which could not come from the lip of man, but only from the mouth of the eternal God. On this account the psalmist cried unto the Lord, "O Lord, heal me, for my bones are sore vexed," and again, "Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee." For this, also, the godly praise the name of the Lord, saying, "He healeth all our diseases." He who made man can restore man; he who was at first the creator of our nature can new create it. What a transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily!" My soul, whatever thy disease may be, this great Physician can heal thee. If he be God, there can be no limit to his power. Come then with the blind eye of darkened understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency, come just as thou art, for he who is God can certainly restore thee of thy plague. None shall restrain the healing virtue which proceeds from Jesus our Lord. Legions of devils have been made to own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has he been baffled. All his patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future, and thou shalt be one among them, my friend, if thou wilt but rest thyself in him this night.

This timeless classic from Charles Spurgeon will help to both start and end your day with wonderful insight into God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon's Morning & Evening

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed." - Jeremiah 17:14

Evening Devotional

For the devices of man only increase my malady. The utmost they can do is to conceal a plague spot here and a plague spot there; but concealment is not abatement. What is my pride the better for all their prescriptions? What have they done for my self-will? For my unbelief, slothfulness, irritability, prayerlessness, impulsiveness? I come to thee, Lord. He that created me, and whose creation I have spent my days in marring, can alone restore to me his image, and make me to walk in the health of heaven. Heal my heart, my understanding, my memory, my desires, my imagination, my hopes, my fears, my body, my speech, my looks, my acts. I am in a condition that renders me the prey of suffering in every form. All my faculties torment me. My words come back upon me, and pierce me like daggers. My memory is continually fetching some coal of fire to me. My desires carry me into paths where venomous serpents lie in wait. My imagination still beguiles me with the idea that it is my royal friend, and taking me by the hand to lead me to some canopied and luxurious seat, presently lets it go and with derision sees me sink into some black abyss. Hope sits enthroned as it were a delegated angel; but a life-long and frightful experience leaves me unable to doubt the fact that a legion of tormenting spirits are the ministers of this still-smiling enemy. Many endowments of my nature ― which, were I not a moral wreck, a spiritual leper, would have each of them with its own particular key given me the freedom of a heaven all its own ― in this my corrupt condition show themselves each provided with a key to a place of torment all its own. So that the properties which seemed to have most of glory and of paradise still hanging about them, and which therefore inspired me with the most undoubting reliance, are the very properties which have most excoriated my soul and aggravated my malady. But heal thou me and I shall be healed. Release me from my own perverted will, my rash desires, my reckless imagination. If thou wilt thou canst, and there is evidence of thy willingness.

A daily devotional written by a Baptist Missionary to India, Reverend George Bowen (1816-1888) over 150 years ago.

Bowen's Daily Meditations

''Heal me, Lord, and I shall be healed." ― Jeremiah 17:14. 

14 <poetry>Heal me, <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, and I will be healed; <indent>save me and I will be saved,</indent> <indent>for you are the one I praise. </indent> </poetry>

Heal me, <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, and I will be healed;<cr>1</cr> <indent>save<cr>2</cr> me and I will be saved,</indent> <indent>for you are the one I praise.<cr>3</cr> </indent>

Jeremiah 17:14

 14 Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;   save   me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.   

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 Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. 

<poetry>Heal me, <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, and I will be healed; <indent>save me and I will be saved,</indent> <indent>for you are the one I praise. </indent> </poetry>

 Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;   save   me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.   

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