#309 2025 Legislative Wrap-Up Part 1

Luke 4:16-19

”When he came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, he went into the synagogue, as he always did on the Sabbath. When Jesus came to the front to read the Scriptures, he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found where it is written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me to be hope for the poor, healing for the brokenhearted, and new eyes for the blind, and to preach to prisoners, ‘You are set free!’ I have come to share the message of Jubilee, for the time of God’s great acceptance has begun.”“

We can see throughout the Gospels that Jesus did fulfill all of this scripture. And as followers of Jesus, we are commissioned and we carry His anointing to do the same -- to bring His hope for the poor, to bring His healing the brokenhearted, to bring His gift of understanding to those who can’t see the truth and to preach His message of freedom to those who are prisoners to their sin. Just as Jesus did, we have access to and He expects us to bring both the spiritual healing and the physical healing. We do that by faith and by His guidance. We may not have it all figured out, and we may not exactly see it in the way that we hope or expect, but we are commanded to do it. And we will never see it happen if we don’t step out in faith and try. This is a time where we should be pressing in to see more of God’s miracle working power in us and through us. It never stopped being available. We as a body of believers at some point after the early Church stopped practicing it and knowing how to access it. I believe we’re in a time where He will teach us how to tap back into that -- for ourselves, our families, friends, neighbors and strangers -- if we desire and seek Him for it.