God’s Gravity

A lot of people wonder why some preachers jump around in the bible so much when bringing the Sunday message.  Maybe it’s because when you come to Christ, you need a spiritual cleansing and the more Word they can wash you with, the cleaner you’ll become. 

Psalm 51:10 (NLT) says. “Create in me a clean heart, O God.  Renew a loyal spirit within me.” 

Isaiah 1:16, “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight Cease to do evil,”

Psalm 51:7, “Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”

1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

2 Corinthians 7:1, “Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

Ezekiel 36:25, “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.”

Matthew 23:26, “You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, then the outside will become clean also.”

1 John 1:7, “but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Or maybe you need spiritual healing and the more Word they lay on your wounds the more whole you’ll become.  Healing comes from God.  No Scripture condemns the legitimate use of doctors or medical science, but one of the names of God is Jehovah-Rapha meaning “the Lord who heals.”

Christians can hinder their own healing in at least five ways.

1. Christians may have unconfessed sin.

James 5:16 says, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed….” Confession is important preparation to healing.

We must take care with this, however. Some believe all sick people are guilty of secret sins. That idea discounts Scriptures like John 9:1-3 where Jesus made it clear neither a blind man’s nor his parents’ sin caused his blindness. Critics can act like Job’s friends who didn’t tell the truth about God to Job—and God rebuked them (Job 42:7-9).

2. Christians may neglect healing by failing to ask for it (James 4:2b).

In John 5:6-7, Jesus looked into the heart of a lame man and asked, “Do you want to get well?” A strange question for a man who had been lame for 38 years! Maybe Jesus saw he was reluctant because he was addicted to the attention and charity he received. Perhaps his lameness became entwined with his identity.

Sometimes the Lord wants to heal us, but we haven’t bothered to ask him!

3. Christians may fail to surrender to God’s purposes.

Believers’ humility and readiness to receive what God has for them helps them cooperate with the truth of Romans 8:28-29. As believers pray for healing, they must believe that all things are somehow woven together into the Father’s good and holy plan to conforming them to the image of His Son.

Some may feel it’s a cop-out to pray a surrendered “your will be done” in regard to healing; but even Jesus qualified His prayers, and He wasn’t sinning (Luke 22:42).

4. Christians may hinder healing through lack of faith.

Lack of faith can hinder what God wants to do (Matthew 9:20-22; Matthew 9:29; Mark 6:5-6; Luke 17:19; Acts 3:16; James 5:15). He is more inclined to respond to prayers of faith in powerful, sometimes unexpected ways, as He did with Elijah in James 5:17-18.

5. Christians may come to God with timid prayers.

Christians need to pray with confidence, trusting God’s goodness and grace (Matthew 7:11), and pray with conviction that God will reward those who pursue Him (Hebrews 11:6).

It doesn’t make any difference how many times you “Jump Around” in the Bible, because the gravitation of the Word of God will pull you back down.  That’s God’s gravity.  The same gravity that pulls rain down on our crops and flowers; that holds the sun and the stars in place so we can have seasons; that allows our blood to flow through our bodies.

We jump to clean; we jump to heal; we jump to comfort; we jump to Love; we jump to Light; we Jump to Jesus!  God’s gravity.  Jump Around, Jump Around, Jump Up and God’s Gravity will pull you down. 

God’s blessings over each of you and your family.