Stretch Out Your Hand To Heal - Audio

Bakersfield First Assembly

Acts 4:29-31 (NIV) – [29] Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. [30] STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” [31] After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Stretch Out Your Hand to Heal 1. God stretches out His hand to DELIVER. 2. God stretches out His hand in LOVE. 3. God stretches out His hand to GUIDE. “So many of people’s problems come from trying to control things outside of their control, and when they try, the lose control of themselves.” (Drs. Cloud and Townsend) 4. God stretches out His hand to SAVE. 5. God stretches out His hand to CREATE. 6. God stretches out His hand to AVENGE. 7. God stretches out His hand to DISCIPLINE. Matthew 14:29-32 (NKJV) – [29] So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. [30] But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” [31] And immediately Jesus STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” [32] And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 8. God stretches out His hand against FEAR. Exodus 9:15-16 (NIV) – [15] For by now I could have STRETCHED OUT MY HAND and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. [16] But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. 9. God stretches out His hand for a PURPOSE. Isaiah 14:26 (NIV) – [26] This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the HAND STRETCHED OUT over all nations. [27] For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? HIS HAND IS STRETCHED OUT, and who can turn it back? 10. God stretches out His hand with a PLAN. Mark 3:3-6 (NIV) – [3] Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.” [4] Then Jesus asked [the Pharisees], “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. [5] He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. [6] Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. 11. God stretches out His hand to RESTORE. Restore (apokathistemi) [ap-ok-ath-is'-tay-mee] means to restore to a former condition of health; to put back in the original condition. “German theologian Jürgen Moltmann points out that miracles are not an interruption of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. We are so used to a fallen world that sickness, disease, pain, and death seem natural. In fact, they are the interruption.” (Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly) “The restoration of the crippled hand demonstrates the new, superior order of salvation which is present in the coming of Jesus, the dawn of the eschatological time of salvation which restores to the sabbath commandment its profound significance: restoration of human beings in their integrity as part of God's creation.” (Exegetical Dictionary of the NT)