Jehovah Rapha - יְהֹוָה רָפָא

 יְהֹוָה רָפָא

Jehovah Rapha
 

And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer."
Exodus 15:26 

He is my Jehovah-Rapha, my Healer.

The LORD will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, You *restore him to health.

Psalm 41:3     

 * Hebrew: you turn all his bed 

He will change my bed from sickness into health.  He will overturn the condition of my bed, my illness.  He will transform my condition.  

...that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses."*    Matthew 8:17

* Isaiah 53:4 - Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

He took all upon Himself.  For me.  For you.

 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.  Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.  James 5:14-16

How can I pray?  His Word is the Truth. 

from the Blue Letter Bible:  "Jehovah is translated as "The Existing One" or "Lord." The chief meaning of Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word Havah meaning "to be" or "to exist." It also suggests "to become" or specifically "to become known" - this denotes a God who reveals Himself unceasingly.  Rapha (râpâ') means "to restore", "to heal" or "to make healthful" in Hebrew.  When the two words are combined — Jehovah Rapha — it can be translated as "Jehovah Who Heals."  Jehovah is the Great Physician who heals the physical and emotional needs of His people."

I live in this body.  Jesus cares about me and heals me as to the will of God.  I seek His face and know, that no matter what the outcome, I shall be His for I am His now.  I shall not be afraid.  When the fears envelop me, I shall call upon His Name.  

 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

"For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 

'Do not fear, I will help you.'  "Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; 

I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel."  

Isaiah 41:10,13-14

I believe. 

The Word  -  Reassurance 

The LORD -  Faithful

Jesus  -  my Saviour, my LORD 

The Truth  -  Power

Guidance  -  Steadfast

Love  -  Fearlessness

Abba Father, You are my All in all.  You have created me and loved me and made me new.  You have forgiven me.  You hold my every cell in Your hands.  You lift me to Yourself.  You love me for You have made me in Your image and are molding me continually so I may mature spiritually.  Heal me as You will, giving me the strength to obey, to kneel before You, and love You unconditionally.  I believe.  I stand firm in You and love You dearly, my LORD.  I thank You for my precious husband who has cared for me so lovingly and sweetly these months of recovery; these many years of marriage.  Give him the strength for all that he needs to do for us.  Build my strength each day that I may help a bit more as time passes.  Give the doctors and their physician's assistants wisdom for treatment and for when to not treat.   As the back surgery heals, please heal the Cerebrospinal Fluid leak with Your healing Touch for You are Jehovah-Rapha.  Make me whole, please.  I love You, LORD, and I will not be afraid for You are with me.  Amen.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; 

For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.   

Psalm 23:4

graphic:  slhtyme03 @ PhotoBucket

I am Touching

    And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, 

teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom 

and healing every disease and every affliction. 

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, 

because they were harassed and helpless, 

like sheep without a shepherd.     

(Matthew 9:35-36 ESV)

  

...do not be anxious..., says Jesus.   Many a day have I felt anxious this past week.  A set-back occurred with a re-occurrence of spinal fluid leakage under the site of the incision.  It has been a tough week, yet God is healing and I am feeling better with each day.  I hold on to the LORD's words of healing and this gentle Shepherd's care.  He has never left me.  I am improving daily regarding my walking, doing bit-by-bit more for myself, helping Ken with a few things around the house, and able to visit Mom ... finally.

    ... for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.” 

Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” 

And instantly the woman was made well.   
(Matthew 9:21-22 ESV)

I am not hindered by any condition, by any affliction, by any obstacle, by a lack of faith.  I know in my mind there are such.  Thus I ask:

    ... “I believe; help my unbelief!”   
(Mark 9:24 ESV)

I come to my LORD as one of His many "little children".  Join me in prayer for His Healing Touch.

    Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. 

The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me 

and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” 

And he laid his hands on them and went away.
(Matthew 19:13-15 ESV)

I love every one of you, sweet sisters and brothers.  I truly do. 

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Healing in the LORD

And the LORD will guide you continually
        and satisfy your desire in scorched places
        and make your bones strong;
    and you shall be like a watered garden,
        like a spring of water,
        whose waters do not fail.   (Isaiah 58:11 ESV)

My bones, muscles, skin, bone grafts and all that has changed in the lumbar spine after surgery for fusion is changing moment-by-moment.  My body is completely in the Hands of my Maker.  He wove me in the beginning and now He reweaves me to healing.  I watch His Hands as He holds me tenderly and quietly.  He cares about this girl's (older woman's  : ) ) body.  He cares about me.  He wants me to be whole once again.  And He will see it to completion in this earthly body, and will, one day, see it to full completion for eternity.  I am grateful for all that He does and has done for me.  

I thank each one of you who have been praying with and for me.  I have a road of healing and changes ahead of me on which to travel.  I am just so grateful for those of you, many of you, who are walking beside me.  Amen.

I see my abilities increase with each day of strengthening.  I have been "graduated" from home health physical therapy to outpatient PT as of now.  Next Tuesday, 2/14, I begin going to a nearby PT place.  My body is ready for that next step.  His waters will quench my thirst in these days. 

My body has been given back some of my own stem cells (from the hips) to help the bone graft (at the L4-L5-S1) regenerate and grow.  The doctor took those cells and placed them on the new graft which provides a stimulation and I am amazed.  But in all the science of mankind, I see God in everything.   He is here now and will be caring for me tomorrow...each day to come.  

Thank You, LORD.  You are my All in all.  Amen.

    For you formed my inward parts;
        you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
    I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
        my soul knows it very well.
    My frame was not hidden from you,
    when I was being made in secret,
        intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
    Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
    in your book were written, every one of them,
        the days that were formed for me,
        when as yet there was none of them.
    How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
        How vast is the sum of them!
    If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
        I awake, and I am still with you.      (Psalm 139:13-18 ESV)

 

Continue Praying...

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.  

May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth. 

For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God!  

The Rock, His work is perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is He;... (Deuteronomy 32:1-4)

My precious friends... Thank you for your prayers. 

The surgery went well and is pronounced successful.  The neurosurgeon announced that I had a lot of compression back there.  That is stage one.  

I am on a long, a very long, road of recovery.  Please continue praying as the pain levels are extreme, the time to heal the back muscles and the bone graft growth take time.  But our God is in this with me for the long haul.  He is ever-Present and brings His soothing balm to me.

Pray for Kenneth, my husband as the caregiving role he has is huge as I a just now able to do just a couple of basics for myself.   

I am unable to sit here for long, but needed to let you know that I am okay.  I love you, each and all for caring, praying, and being there.

~ linda

A Sabbath Moment

As I prepare to have lumbar spinal surgery this Wednesday, January 25, 2012, I will be away from here for a while, but truly in our God's Hands.  He has taken me this far.  I know He will be the surgeon's hands, guiding him, guiding the staff the whole way through.  

I have been extremely sparse here at Being Woven for the past couple of months for I have had many appointments, tests, and needed a lunch with friends every week or so! : )  Time with my dear husband, time with my precious mother.  Of course...those were musts, and most important things!

I know this surgeon from my cervical spinal surgery last May.  I trust him.

I am at peace about this surgery.

I am in the Hands that created me.

I would ask that each blogging friend who stops by for the time I am away would pray for me.  I will do my best to post as soon as I can...on how I am doing.  

For now, please pray for increased iron in my blood for the hospital lab work from Wed., 1/18, showed anemia.  I am "pumping" those iron pills and trying to eat more food with iron before Wed.  

Pray with me for my husband's peace and calm throughout, for my mother who will not hear from me for a little while (not too long), and for my little sister, Annette, who lives in Kauai and is a bit "concerned"- worried about this big sister of hers and we are so far away from one another.  

Pray for God's showers of blessings to surround all.  I have enlisted an army of prayer warriors over this past couple of weeks and ask each of you to join us.  

I have been contemplating Psalm 139 for the strength and protection of our God.  
May you join with me, if you so desire.  

I love each and every one of you.  

I thank you for being here as I am continually "being woven".  

Psalm 139

    

O LORD, You have searched me and known me!
    You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
        You discern my thoughts from afar.
    You search out my path and my lying down
        and are acquainted with all my ways.
    Even before a word is on my tongue,
        behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
    You hem me in, behind and before,
        and lay your hand upon me.
    Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
        it is high; I cannot attain it.

    Where shall I go from Your Spirit?
        Or where shall I flee from Your presence?
    If I ascend to heaven, You are there!
        If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!
    If I take the wings of the morning
        and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
    even there Your hand shall lead me,
        and Your right hand shall hold me.
    If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
        and the light about me be night,”
    even the darkness is not dark to You;
        the night is bright as the day,
        for darkness is as light with You.

    For You formed my inward parts;
        You knitted me together in my mother's womb.
    I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

    Wonderful are Your works;
        my soul knows it very well.
    My frame was not hidden from You,
    when I was being made in secret,
        intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
    Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
    in Your book were written, every one of them,
        the days that were formed for me,
        when as yet there was none of them.
    

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!
        How vast is the sum of them!
    If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
        I awake, and I am still with You.
    

Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God!
        O men of blood, depart from me!
    They speak against You with malicious intent;
        Your enemies take Your name in vain.
    Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD?
        And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
    I hate them with complete hatred;
        I count them my enemies.
    

Search me, O God, and know my heart!
        Try me and know my thoughts!
    And see if there be any grievous way in me,
        and lead me in the way everlasting!

Again, I love each and every one of you.  

I thank you for being here as I am continually "being woven".  

I hope to back sooner than later.  

   

(Psalm 139 ESV)

Graphic: Psalm 139 -  Image Source Page: http://melodyejoy.wordpress.com/category/decorative-painting/
Graphic: Psalm 139:13- Image Source Page: http://www.justchristianposters.com/pd-how-great-thou-art-christian-posters-psalm-13913.cfm
Graphic: Psalm 139:9-10  - Phil Ware, NASA, www.heartlight.org
Graphic: Psalm 139:16 - www.seedsowersonline.com
Graphic: Psalm 139: 23-24 -Robert KW Photostream/Flickr

A Sabbath Moment

Draw near to me, hear this! 

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, 

from the time it came to be I have been there. 

And now the Lord God has sent me and his spirit.  

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: 

I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for your own good, 

who leads you in the way you should go.
Isaiah 48:16-17

May I hear the Word of my Father, the Holy One.  

May I walk in the path in which He directs me.  

May I be obedient to His call.  

And, Lord, I have this love for You in me which You already know, 

but I must say, "I love You and will... always."  Amen.  

Being Woven ~ 

Being Refreshed Daily

Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! 

Refresh my heart in Christ.  

Philemon 20

Begin today and each day with a prayer.  I begin by praying with gratitude in my heart, and then for refreshment of my soul and spirit, and for the peace of the Lord to reign over my heart this day.  Christ willing refreshes us.  He came to be a servant and wash our dirty feet, our filth from our souls.  Start this day with His freshness, new beginnings every day, no matter what yesterday looked like.  Today is the day of the Lord.  Today is new.  Rejoice and be glad.  Begin again this day and each day after.  No guilt from yesterday should tumble upon today.  No murmuring about what someone did or did not do yesterday.  No anger that came through the night when it should have been released before the sun went down.  Pray for refreshment as the night goes dark and again when the sun comes up.

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, 

as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.  

He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground.  

He said, "My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant.  

Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.  

Let me bring a little bread, that you may refresh yourselves, 

and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant." 

So they said, "Do as you have said."   

The Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 

"Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'  

Is anything too wonderful for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, 

in due season, and Sarah shall have a son."  

Genesis 18:1-5, 13-14

Share communion with the Lord each morning as we eat breakfast.  We are breaking the nightly fast.  Share your bread with Christ each morning and lift up your day to Him.  He will remind us that nothing is too hard for Him, all is wonderful for Him.  He will carry our burdens and we are to share His yoke.  Refresh daily.  

LORD Jesus, I pray that You are with me daily, moment by moment.  I share these ways of refreshing myself for I truly need to make them my habits.  Guide me as I learn to be diligent about praying to You, about sharing bread with You each morning.  Guard me as I risk laying my burdens at Your feet.  Hold my heavy heart as I duck under the yoke and place my neck into the other side of Your yoke, my LORD. 

"Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-29

I want and need to do this that I will be refreshed each and every day.  I love You, my LORD.  Amen.

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