June 9, 2026
Today I attended a Divine Healing service at Glorybound Ministries Center.
As I sat and listened to the prayers, testimonies, and teaching, my thoughts returned to a familiar story from Scripture: the healing of the ten lepers.
Ten men stood at a distance and cried out to Jesus for mercy.
Ten men were healed.
Yet only one returned.
For years I assumed this story was primarily about gratitude.
Today I wonder if it is about something deeper.
All ten desired healing.
Only one desired relationship.
The nine received a miracle and continued on their way.
The one who returned discovered something greater than the miracle itself.
He discovered the Giver.
This raises a question that has occupied my thoughts recently:
What if God’s highest purpose is not merely the restoration of the body, nor even the healing of the soul?
What if His highest purpose is the restoration of relationship?
From the beginning, Scripture presents a picture of God walking with man in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were not merely recipients of God’s blessings. They lived in fellowship with Him. They knew His presence. They walked with Him.
Then came the Fall.
The body suffered.
The mind suffered.
The heart suffered.
Creation itself suffered.
But the deepest wound was separation.
The relationship was broken.
The walk was lost.
Since that moment, God’s work has not been limited to healing bodies, or even forgiving sin. His work has been the restoration of relationship.
This is why Christ came.
He came to reconcile humanity to God.
He came to remove the separation.
He came to restore the walk.
He came to make it possible once again for men and women to know God personally.
Physical healing is wonderful.
Emotional healing is wonderful.
Mental healing is wonderful.
But all of these point toward something even greater:
The restoration of communion with God.
A person may receive healing and yet remain distant from God.
A person may receive a miracle and then return to a life of isolation from Him.
But God’s desire is deeper than that.
He wants sons and daughters.
He wants fellowship.
He wants relationship.
He wants us to walk with Him.
This understanding has changed the way I think about healing ministry.
The laying on of hands.
Intercessory prayer.
Anointing with oil.
Prayer cloths.
Scripture.
Encouragement.
Community.
These are not ends in themselves.
They are signposts and modalities pointing toward something greater.
Their purpose is not merely to restore the body.
Their purpose is to help restore the whole person: body, mind, heart, soul, and most importantly, relationship with God.
Yet another question emerges.
What happens after the prayer?
A farmer understands something that the modern world often forgets.
Planting is only the beginning.
No farmer scatters seed into a field and then walks away expecting a harvest.
He waters the seed.
He tends the soil.
He removes the weeds.
He protects the young plants from those things that would destroy them before they can mature.
He understands that life is fragile in its early stages.
Faith is often the same.
A prayer is offered.
A seed is planted.
Hope begins to emerge.
Yet immediately the pressures of daily life begin their work.
Fear competes for attention.
Circumstances compete for attention.
Pain competes for attention.
The routines of the secular world pull the mind away from God and back toward appearances.
The seed is challenged before it has had an opportunity to take root.
The symptoms may remain.
The doctor’s report may arrive.
The bills still need to be paid.
The news cycle continues.
Fear whispers.
Circumstances whisper.
Appearances whisper.
And together they proclaim:
“You are not healed.”
“Your prayer was not answered.”
“God did not hear you.”
The challenge is not merely planting the seed.
The challenge is protecting it, watering it, and nurturing it until it takes root.
This is why tending matters.
This is why encouragement matters.
This is why Scripture matters.
This is why intercessory prayer matters.
This is why community matters.
The farmer does not create the life within the seed.
God has already done that.
The farmer simply creates an environment in which the life can grow.
Perhaps healing ministry is similar.
We cannot manufacture healing.
We cannot manufacture faith.
But we can help tend the garden.
Recently I have been working on a project called Broken Made Whole, a 30-Day Healing Psalter consisting of Scripture-centered audio meditations, prayers, and reflections.
The purpose is simple.
To walk beside people after the prayer.
To remind them of God’s promises.
To help water the seed after it has been planted.
The Healing Psalter was not created primarily for times of strength.
It was created for times of weakness.
For the sleepless night.
For the moment when fear returns.
For the moment when pain returns.
For the moment when doubt whispers louder than hope.
For the moment when every circumstance screams, “Not granted. Denied.
For the moment when the Egyptian army is approaching from behind and the sea appears to block every path forward.
For the moment when opening a Bible feels overwhelming.
For the moment when even forming a prayer seems impossible.
It is an audio ministry because suffering often diminishes our ability to read, study, concentrate, and reason.
At our weakest moments, we may not have the strength to search for the right Scripture or the right prayer.
We simply need someone to walk beside us.
To read God’s Word aloud.
To remind us of His promises.
To pray when we struggle to find words ourselves.
To point us back to Christ.
When faith feels strong, the Psalter is encouragement.
When faith feels weak, the Psalter becomes a companion through the night.
For those seeking prayer ministry, I have been encouraged by the healing and intercessory ministries at Glorybound Church. Their focus remains where it belongs: not on personalities, techniques, or formulas, but on Jesus Christ.
The greatest miracle in the story of the ten lepers was not that ten men were healed.
The greatest miracle was that one returned.
He returned not merely to give thanks.
He returned to the One from whom all healing flows.
The miracle restored his body.
Christ invited him into something greater.
Relationship.
Fellowship.
Communion.
The restoration of the walk that was lost in Eden.
Every healing, every answered prayer, every act of mercy points toward this higher calling.
God does not merely seek restored bodies.
He seeks restored hearts.
He seeks restored minds.
He seeks restored souls.
He seeks restored relationship.
The destination was never the miracle.
The destination was always the return.
The return to God.
The miracle was the path.
Jesus is the Gate.
For those seeking prayer ministry, I encourage you to explore the healing and intercessory ministries at Glorybound Ministries Center.
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For those walking through a season of healing, restoration, or uncertainty, the Broken Made Whole Healing Psalter is available as a free Scripture-centered audio ministry.
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