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    This document discusses God as Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord who heals. It references an Exodus story where the Israelites find bitter water in the desert, but God shows Moses how to make the water drinkable. God promises to heal the Israelites if they obey him. The author reflects on how God transforms bitterness into life, and provides healing and hope even in valleys of death, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The author gives thanks for opportunities to serve God's healing work, and prays that communities will allow God's healing and confront issues that diminish health and wellbeing.

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    This document discusses God as Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord who heals. It references an Exodus story where the Israelites find bitter water in the desert, but God shows Moses how to make the water drinkable. God promises to heal the Israelites if they obey him. The author reflects on how God transforms bitterness into life, and provides healing and hope even in valleys of death, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The author gives thanks for opportunities to serve God's healing work, and prays that communities will allow God's healing and confront issues that diminish health and wellbeing.

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    This document discusses God as Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord who heals. It references an Exodus story where the Israelites find bitter water in the desert, but God shows Moses how to make the water drinkable. God promises to heal the Israelites if they obey him. The author reflects on how God transforms bitterness into life, and provides healing and hope even in valleys of death, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The author gives thanks for opportunities to serve God's healing work, and prays that communities will allow God's healing and confront issues that diminish health and wellbeing.

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    The Healing and The Healer

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    Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
    This document discusses God as Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord who heals. It references an Exodus story where the Israelites find bitter water in the desert, but God shows Moses how to make the water drinkable. God promises to heal the Israelites if they obey him. The author reflects on how God transforms bitterness into life, and provides healing and hope even in valleys of death, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The author gives thanks for opportunities to serve God's healing work, and prays that communities will allow God's healing and confront issues that diminish health and wellbeing.

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    THE HEALING

    AND
    THE HEALER
    Gracia Violeta Ross
    Nairobi-Kenya; March 7, 2022
    [email protected]
    +591 70678041
    A story on healing:

    «God healed me with HIV»


     22Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they
    moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three
    days without finding any water. 23 When they came to the oasis of
    Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah
    (which means “bitter”).
     24Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we
    going to drink?” they demanded. 25 So Moses cried out to the LORD for
    help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the
    water, and this made the water good to drink.
     It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following
    decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him. 26 He said, “If you
    will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is
    right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees,
    then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the
    Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”
     27After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim,
    where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped
    there beside the water.
    o Exodus 15:22-27
     Jehovah-Rapha, The Lord,
    The 
    the one who heals you
    One of the names of God, revealed after the people of
    Israel were in the desert. They passed three days

    Healer
    without water only to find a source of bitter water.
    That is why they called the place Marah which means
    bitter (even today, those are salty, bitter not
    drinkable waters).

     What does it mean to be thirsty and only have


    something bitter? (Jesus in the cross)
     What does it mean that God transforms a bitter
    water into a source of life?

     In the middle of the desert, God turns our bitterness


    into life.
     In our difficulties, God gives us peace.
     In the valley of the shadow of death (the entire world
    was a valley of death during the highest peaks of the
    COVID-19 pandemic), God was our hope and
    salvation.
     Our Healer understands our need of healing.
     He prepared abundance of healing.
    What valleys of the shadow of death are we
    walking by now?

    What bitterness is diminishing our health?

    What healing processes do we need to


    continue?

    As we experience God as Jehovah-Rapha, The Lord who


    heals us…

    Can we see the end of the valley of the shadow of death?


    Can we taste the sweetness of the waters provided for us?
    Do we hear the sound of the water springs?
    Are we allowing the healing of God?
    Jehovah-Rapha, Our Healer

    We thank you for the individual and collective healing. We thank you for the
    practical opportunities we have for serving your church in programs like the
    Ecumenical HIV/AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA) in the World Council of
    Churches. We thank you for the comprehensive approach to HIV, challenging
    violence and working with young people as well as with faith leaders and
    theological institutions. We pray that you help us do better, using our
    experience.

    You transformed our bitterness in sweet waters that give life in abundance. You
    walk with us in our valleys of shadow of death and enable us to use epidemics
    like HIV/AIDS as a mission camp.

    God, The Lord who heals us completely and integrally, help us to be part of your
    healing to the broken world. Make us part of your healing hands for the nations,
    the vulnerable, the widow and the orphan. Lord, make us a prophetic voice to
    confront the structural issues that diminish our health and wellbeing. Train us to
    fight HIV stigma and discrimination, and sexual, gender based violence.

    In Jesus name we pray, amen.

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