Reading: Luke 6. 17-19 NLT

“Jesus Heals the Sick”
Etching by Jan Luyken, Bowyer Bible

When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those troubled by evil spirits were healed. Everyone tried to touch him, because healing power went out from him, and he healed everyone.

Prayer: Lord Jesus – Everywhere we look we see people who are sick – in body, in soul, in mind, and in spirit… people who are bound and broken… people who are caught up in the downward spiral of sin and death.

Send your healing power… come Holy Spirit… fall on us. Make us instruments of your mercy, grace and healing power – that all may know Jesus as the Lord of their lives and Lover of their souls. Amen.

Hymn: “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” – Fanny Crosby (1868)

Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, hear my humble cry; while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by. Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry; while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by.

Please click on audio player – “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” – Bart Millard

Let me at thy throne of mercy find a sweet relief, kneeling there in deep contrition; help my unbelief. Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry; while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by.

Trusting only in thy merit, would I seek thy face; heal my wounded, broken spirit, save me by thy grace. Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry; while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by.

Thou the spring of all my comfort, more than life to me, whom have I on earth beside thee? Whom in heaven but thee. Saviour, Saviour, hear my humble cry; while on others thou art calling, do not pass me by.