Healing Night Between Generations


Healing Night Between Generations
(em Português: Noite de cura entre geracoes)

By Father Rufus Pereira
22th / 09 / 2000

Adapted by Carlos Sadao Gushiken

Even as we were welcoming the Lord Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament this evening, I was reminded so vividly of the Gospels telling us about Jesus going through Galilee in the same way.

Jesus went to every town and village of Galilee.

I repeat: he went to every town and village of Galilee speaking to people of God’s love for them, reminding them of words God said in the old testament.

Can a mother forget the child in her womb? Can a woman forget the baby that comes from her own body? And God said:

"Even if this mother forgets, I will not forget you, for I have caught you on the palm of my hand but I don’t need even to do that because you’re always in my mind. You are always in my thoughts".

And as Jesus went to every town and every village of the Galilee, he was proclaiming God's love to every person and at all times and he was bringing them God’s healing and deliverance to every person at all times.

Sometimes the person themselves they were sick, came to Jesus, like a young lady in this evening who saw the program on the TV and came running here to be prayed over.

And at other times Jesus went us as own to the sick people.

And other times the family and friends of Jesus of the sick man brought the person to Jesus.

Even as these days it was so beautiful to see parents bringing their children to be prayed for, friends bringing their loved ones to be prayed for by Jesus.

But sometimes Jesus himself went to the sick people.

And as the Blessed Sacrament was taken around, it reminded me Jesus himself is coming in our meets.

And therefore let us bring to our minds three incidents what Jesus met the sick people, three stories about how Jesus encountered those who were needed him.

One day, when Jesus was going from Jericho to Jerusalem, he passed by a blind man waiting at the gate of Jericho and when this blind man hearing that it was Jesus who was passing that way, he began to shout out to Jesus:

- Jesus, son of David! Have mercy on me! Jesus, help me!

People at first shouted at the man so he would not disturb more Jesus. But the man was shouting louder and louder and then Jesus heard his cries.

Tonight, like the blind man, in the hearts, we need to cry out to Jesus.

-          Jesus, save me, heal me, free me!

And then Jesus called the blind man to himself and the blind man went running to us Jesus.

And in our hearts we need also to run to us Jesus. To blind man till leave drop his clothes so that he could run faster to us Jesus, we need to put away from our lives everything that slow us to running to us Jesus.

When the blind man came to Jesus, what did Jesus do? Jesus did not heal him at once, Jesus asked him a question. Jesus asked him:

- What do you want?

"What... do you... want?"... And as we ran to us Jesus, the Lord is asking us the same question:

- What do you want? What do you want me to do for you?

Jesus knew that blind man want do to seeing. But Jesus wanted to him to said that: "I want to see". Jesus wanted the blind man to reflect and to ask not just a physical healing of eyes outside, but the emotional and spiritual healing of eyes outside.

Tonight the Lord is asking each one of you the same question:

- What do you want?

Let's look into our hearts and know what exactly is the most important thing we need to ask to Jesus tonight.

Some of came these days for a physical healing of sicknesses with are really so painful and dreadfully.

Some of came these days with tears in their eyes asking to Lord to heal their broken marriages or breaking marriages.

Some mothers have come asking the Lord to free that drug addicted sons or their alcoholic husband.

Some have come asking the Lord to delivery them from a very strong demoniac influence on their lives.

- What do you want?

Yes, Lord Jesus, we bring to you every person here that needs in the first place a deep spiritual healing, the healing of the broken relationship with you.

We bring to you Lord: those who were been hurt very much by their own family members.
Lord, heal them, even in their family tree. Heal them,
Lord, during their nine months of their mothers wombs.

Heal them, Lord, during their years of their painful childhood.

Heal them Lord, during the turbulent years of their youth.

Heal them Lord, during their painful years of their marriage.

Lord, we bring to your presence all those who are sick in their bodies.

Lord, we bring to you those who came today: who are blind, those children who are dumb and even deaf, those persons who were come across accidents and now are paralyzed.

Lord, we bring to you the many people that came these days because they are suffering from cancer.

Lord, we bring to you the many, many people that came so violently tormented by Satan.

Lord, we are here before your presence.

Lord, we fell we are unable to help them. But, Lord, you remind us: “what is impossible to man is possible to God”.

Lord Jesus, you are asking each one of us:

- What do you want?

And Lord, we now speak to you the burdens of our heart.

With Mary and Martha, we say:

- Lord, the one whom you love is sick.

And as we speak to Jesus, the wounds and burdens of our lives, that as the Holy Spirit to sweep over our wounds and pains.

Living waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bring your healing to my heart you
Let me love once again

Leaving waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bring your healing to my heart
Let me love once again

Jesus, what a wonder you are
You are so gentle
So pure and so kind
You shine
Like the morning star

Jesus, what a wonder you are

And now Jesus goes to another place to meet sick people. It is not the sick there are coming to him now, he is going to the sick people, to a big healing center, a healing pool  of water, where hundreds of sick people are there: the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

And the same Jesus has coming to our presence tonight looking at all of ours sick here, and Jesus goes to one special person, a man that has been paralyzed for 38 long years. Jesus goes just to him.

Tonight each one of us is that paralyzed man sick for 38 years. Each one of us is special to Jesus, each of us are unable to help ourselves. And Jesus goes to this paralyzed man and asks him a question.

What is that question?

What is that question?

- Do you want to be healed?

"Do you want to be healed?": tonight Jesus is asking the same question:

- Do you want to be healed?

And the man told to Jesus:

- Nobody is that to help me to be healed. I'm alone.

Like a young lady that came to us yesterday, alone. Her mother and father were killed, were shot by robbers. Her brother whom she loved was now married, he has own family and she is alone in that house.

And the man told Jesus:

- This no one to help me to go into the pool and be healed.

And Jesus tells him:

- But now I am here. I am here to help you.

Jesus ask him the question:

- Do you want be healed?

Perhaps that man had lost all hope for this healing. He was prepared to live all his life as a sick man and die as sick man.

But now Jesus had came and asked to him:

- Do you want to be healed?

Sometimes the doctor depresses when asks a sick man who do not want cooperating:

- Do you want to be healed?

Sometimes the sick man asks to a priest, a question to God:

- When will I be healed?

But now, who is asking this question? Not man, but God. It is Jesus who is asking this question. It is the love of God in Jesus asking this question:

- Do you want to be healed?
- Are you ready to pay the costs of your healing?
- Are you ready to repent?
- Are you ready to ask forgiveness of God for all of sins of your life?
- Are you ready to ask forgiveness of every person in your life that you have hurt?
- Are you prepared to forgive every person that have hurt you?

- Do you repent for have broken the first commandment for having gone to wrong people, to witch-doctors for help?

- Do you renounce Satan, and all of his works and all of his sorceries?
- Do you renounce the kingdom of Satan in your own life, in your own personal sins?
- Do you renounce the kingdom of Satan and world around you? The false promisses of the world, the various attractions of this word?
- Do you renounce every ocult practices, you or your family may have ever done?
- Do you renounce having gone to witch-doctors and even Satan for help in any way?

- Do you want to be healed?

Leaving waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bring your healing to my heart
Let me love once again

Living waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bring your healing to my heart
Let me love once again

Jesus, wonder what you are
You are so gentle
So pure and so kind
You shine
Like the morning star

Jesus, wonder what you are

(Applause)

And now Jesus is met by a family and the family has a burden on their hearts. Two of their friends of their relatives are blind, and they bring these blind men to Jesus. Jesus looks at them, Jesus looks at love and the faith of the family and of the friends. The family and the friends believe in Jesus, they have faith, they are full of love.

How many people these days brought the little children, those loved ones, to us to pray. I was so edified by that great faith in Jesus. I was so impressed by the great love for these sick relatives and friends.

But Jesus looked at the two blind men and Jesus felt that they did not believe.

How many people these days have came to us saying to us:

- Father, pray for my son, but he does not believe in God.
- Father, pray for my husband, but he even not come here for the program.

And Jesus looked at these two blind men, they did not really believe. But Jesus looked at the faith and love of their family and their friends and Jesus said:

- And is for this sake I am going to heal these blind men.

And then Jesus asked them a question:

- Do you believe that I can heal them?
- Do you believe I can do it for you?

And that question of Jesus did something for these blind men. They realized them that they did not have faith and the question of Jesus brought faith into their lives. And they could tell to Jesus:

- Lord, we believe. - And they were healed.

Tonight the Lord is asking each one of us the same question:

- Do you believe that I can do this for you?
- Do you believe that I can heal you?
- Do you believe that I can free you from the power of Satan themselves?


How many people in these 5 days have come to us telling us they have been to so many doctors, so many psychiatrists, spent so many months in hospitals e they were only getting worse.

How many people have came and told us:

- In our despair we went to some witch-doctor.
- We went to some alternative medicine.
- We went to some new religious movements.
- We went to mediums.

- And we have only became much worse.

How many people have told us that in their despair, that pain, they consecrated themselves to Satan.

How many people said us that their enemies did put a spell on them, destroying their lives.

And now they realize that medicine alone can not heal them.

All of those religious movements, all of those witch-doctors have only made them more sick and burdened.

And these days they have come to Jesus.

I could see in their eyes signs of hope optimism, because now they believe that Jesus alone can heal them.

Tonight Jesus is asking each of us the same question:

- Do you believe I can heal you?
- Do you put your full trust in me?
- Do you believe that I died just for you on Calvary’s cross?
- Do you believe that I've giving you my gift of the Holy Spirit so that you can have a new life?
- Do you believe that by my wounds and my stribes you are now being healed?
- Do you believe that you can become a new creation?
- Do you believe that I am here to make all things new?

Living waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bring your healing to my heart
Let me love once again

Leaving waters flow on
Sweep away my pain
Bringing you healing to my heart
Let me love once again

Jesus, what a wonder you are
You are so gentle
So pure and so kind
You shine
Like the morning star
Jesus, what a wonder you are

Jesus, what a wonder you are
You are so gentle
So pure and so king
You shine
Like the morning star
Jesus, what a wonder you are

(Applauses)

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