Teaching Notes

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What You Should Know About God

He is a Healer

Malachi 4:1-3 (The Message)

"Count on it: The day is coming, raging like a forest fire. All the arrogant people who do evil things will be burned up like stove wood, burned to a crisp, nothing left but scorched earth and ash— a black day. But for you, sunrise! The sun of righteousness will dawn on those who honor my name, healing radiating from its wings. You will be bursting with energy, like colts frisky and frolicking. And you'll tromp on the wicked. They'll be nothing but ashes under your feet on that Day." God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so.

Notes:The promise was there is coming a time when healing will be made available to the people.  Do you know that healing is available now to us through Jesus Christ?  God promises that the wicked will perish, but the righteous will find comfort under his wing.

Question: What do you think this saying means, "healing radiating from its wings"?

Answer: In the NIV it says, "healing in its wings."  This gives us a picture of being taken into the arms, under the wings of a mighty bird and lifted from the things that hold us captured to the ground.  Under those wings, under that protection we find healing from the things that would hurt us or harm us.  Have you ever seen a mother bird tuck her baby bird under her wing? She protects it from the elements because the baby bird is not able to handle the world around it.  She allows the baby bird to feel her heat and this warms the baby.  God does the same for us.  He draws us close to himself so that we can feel his "heat" his power and Spirit so that we can be kept safe from the elements that would try to destroy us.  In that place we also find healing.

Prayer: Lord, keep us safe and thank you for the healing we find in you.  The healing from all that we face in our lives.  Hurts that we face and those that we will face in the future.  Your power does not stop it is already available for us for those times ahead.  Thank you.