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you remember the last time you were sick? It is not very nice is it? You
cannot do all the things you normally do. All you can do is stay in bed till
you are feeling better. Well today I am going to tell you a story of Rebecca
and how Lord Jesus helped her get better.
Rebecca was a little girl that was always busy; she didn't
like to sit still for too long. There were too many exciting things she could
do. If she was not out side playing house, she was climbing trees and all the
other fun stuff there was to do. The worst was when it rained. On those rainy
days she had to stay inside and there were not many fun stuff to do inside,
but she would find things to do. She would either play with her dolls like
other little girls or read books so that she could imagine going to exciting
places in her head and not be stuck in her house. But as soon as the rain
stopped, she would be outside again having fun jumping in the rain puddles.
Well one day as Rebecca woke up and was getting ready for
school, she did not feel very good and she had a lot of pain in her sides. She
told her mommy and daddy and they sent her back to bed so that she could rest
up. After a little prayer and sleep Rebecca felt a little better, but her
sides were still very sore.
So her daddy took her to the doctor to see what was wrong.
The trip seemed to take forever but when they got to the doctor, he was very
gentle and friendly and did his very best to make Rebecca feel better. This
helped Rebecca a lot and soon the doctor told her daddy what was wrong with
her. He told her dad that she was a very sick little girl and that she was to
stay in bed for a whole week and not move around too much. The doctor gave
them medicines that her daddy was to give her to make her better.
Rebecca was not happy about this but the doctor was right,
she was very sick and she was so sore that she did not want to move. Her daddy
gave her the medicines and it started to help but Rebecca just wanted to be
better. She didn't like being so sick she could not go out and play, but she
was not sure what to do!
As she sat reading her favorite book she read something
that made her very happy inside. You see the book she was readying was a
special Bible that was made like a comic book and she loved looking at the
pictures and reading the stories inside. Rebecca had read it so many times
that she nearly knew all the stories off by heart, so just for fun she would
open the book anywhere and start reading. This time it just so happened she
turned to a story of a little girl and she was also sick. Well this is what
happened:
Jesus was with his disciples in one of the cities called
Capernaum, when a man begged Jesus to come with him to his house to pray for
his daughter. His daughter was very sick and there were no medicines that
could make her better. He knew that if Jesus prayed for her, He would make her
better.
So Jesus went with him, but on the way there, some of the
people that were at the man’s house told him that his little girl had died
and that it was to late. But do you know what Jesus did? Jesus told the man to
be strong and to believe in Him and He would make the little girl better and
so they went to the man's house.
At his house every one was sad and crying because the
little girl was dead but, Jesus, the little girls parents and some of his
disciples went straight to her room. When they were all in the room Jesus
prayed for her and she came back to life! In fact she had not only come back
to life, she was not sick any more. Jesus had healed her too.
Well Rebecca knew that even though she was not sick enough
to die, that Lord Jesus wanted her to be better and that he could heal her
just like He did that little girl. So she prayed a prayer that went like this:
"Lord Jesus I need you!
I am sick and don't want to be sick any more
Please heal me just like you healed that little girl!
I know you can!
Thank you Jesus
In Jesus Name,
Amen"
Well as it so happened, Rebecca's Daddy had been praying
too and do you know what? Lord Jesus showed her daddy what was making her sick
and told him to go and pray for her. So he went right away to her room and put
his hand on her sides that were sore and started to pray for her.
As her daddy prayed, Rebecca felt a warm glow of Jesus’
anointing come form her daddy's hand, that got very hot. The heat was going
into her body to where she was sore and the pain was starting to go away. As
she lay there and let her daddy pray, she closed her eyes and there she was
the Lord Jesus. He was smiling and telling her everything was going to be okay
and she was getting better. Rebecca felt so happy and warm inside, she just
knew how the little girl in the Bible story felt when Lord Jesus prayed for
her. She felt so warm and happy inside that she fell into the best sleep she
had ever had.
The next morning when she woke up, can you guess what
happened? You are right, she wasn't sore anymore. She was all better, as if
she had never been sick in the first place. Well her daddy took her to the
doctor just to make sure and it was just as he thought. She was completely
healed. The doctor could not believe his eyes, he had never seen anyone get
better so quickly and asked what they did.
Rebecca told the doctor that they had both prayed to Lord
Jesus to make her better and because Lord Jesus loved her and doesn’t like
to see us sick, He had told her daddy to go and pray for her so He could make
her better.
So if you are sick or have something wrong with you, why
not pray like Rebecca did to Lord Jesus? He knows what is wrong with you and
knows how to fix you! All you need to do is pray and let Jesus do the rest.
And before long you will be as good as new, up and running around like
everyone else!
The End.
