The Healing Waters

Testimony of Faith

The Healing Waters......

    Many churches of different Christian denominations were built beside the Jordan River, or were in the process of being built there. After the 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, it is no longer a military border zone. Many other world leaders, Christian and non-Christian have also visited the site. This historical site is also where a number of other important spiritual events has occurred in the Bible: apart from John's ministry and Jesus's baptism, it is where the Israelites, led by Joshua, first crossed into the promised land, and it is where Elijah was taken into Heaven on a chariot of fire. It is also the site where the St. Mary the Egyptian and other early Christian holy figures lived and died.

In Second Kings verse thirteen,

    There was a bible school and three men mentioned in these chapters, and this was in Jericho. "And when the sons of the prophets..." [these were young prophets studying under the old prophets] ".. which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest per-adventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not. And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not? And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seethe; but the water is naught, and the ground barren. And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake."

So many preachers talk about the Lord's healing powers and our thirst for the life giving waters. It is that simple to believe, and be healed with through the holy spirit through our Lord, giver of life, Jesus Christ.