On April 3, 2008, I was spending special time with the Lord and praying again in faith yet with so many questions regarding the healing and the miracles needed by many people I am connected to personally. I kept wondering what might be the KEY to their healing. The Lord sweetly came to me by His Spirit and began to share the following words. I believe you can receive them as though He were speaking to your heart.

"Be still now and quiet your soul. I have heard your prayers and seen your tears for these people and for the multitude of others you have prayed for. There is a "for such a time as this" place for healings and miracles that many don't quite understand. It is not that I don't want everyone healed instantly - but I know what I am doing in each tormented body. Oh, the fragrance that comes from brokenness; the oil of the alabaster jars that are broken before me because of their weakness. There is a fragrance that comes from them that is more valuable to me and to others than a thousand miracles of healing.

And yet, it is not my will that any should continue to be afflicted indefinitely by the enemy. Some are just being "reserved" like the blind many born blind from his birth, or the lame man who sat at the gate beautiful, "for such a time as this" for MY glory to be revealed.

I then asked the Lord this question: But, Father some perfectly wonderful saints die in their sickness and pain. How does that bring glory to your name?

Child your thinking is too temporal and not yet eternal enough. Unless a grain of wheat dies there is no harvest. Precious in My sight is the death of my saints, and oh, their reward. The eternal weight of Glory is their's for they know their suffering was for but a moment.

There are many in whom death is working in their bodies - they have lost or a loosing the effectiveness of certain areas in their body. But I am coming soon. I am coming with mercy and grace and healing in my wings. And I will cover them with my wings and healing will come. For some their healing will come and they will live a longer and stronger life. For others healing will come as they cross over and escape their fleshy body and inherit eternal life.

I know what I am doing. Loved ones ministering to the sick are being challenged and changed and I am working in them often healing them of impatience and selfishness. And I am working the fruit of my spirit in them; gentleness, kindness and so much more.

So what is all of this saying to you? Stop praying for the sick? Stop believing for healing for these dear ones? NO - a resounding NO from my throne is what you are hearing. You always pray - you always believe - you always expect miracles in every area of need. Ask for the miraculous - then trust me to know the best way for the miracle to take place.

People think that life only is a miracle but death too is a miracle - to live forever in the body would be too much for any one to handle on this earth. And remember I don't interfere with free will. Men's free will often short circuit life spans. Man co-operating with the spirit of death himself often causes and early departure. The enemy does not have the power of life and death in himself. He only has the keys that people give him through their words and actions. My heart grieves in ways you can never know over the sin and misery, the bloodshed and evil that still exists in a world that my Son died to redeem.. But I would not be a loving Father if I enforced my ways and my will upon my children."

Let's pray together:
Father thank you for hearing our prayers for our loved ones who are ill. We know that you have a perfect plan for them. We will not cease to pray for miracles and to beleive you for them. We thank you for the healings and miracles we have seen over the years and ernestly pray that you would touch the ones we love with your grace for the journey they are on towards healing today. It is in the healer's name we pray, JESUS!

May you enjoy His wonderful love and Presence today.
I would love to hear from you soon.
May blessings abound,

Marie Smith