Hank Smith: 00:04 Hello, everyone. Welcome to another followHIM Favorites. My name is Hank Smith, and I’m here with the incredible John Bytheway. Welcome, John Bytheway.

John Bytheway: 00:12 Thanks, Hank.

Hank Smith: 00:12 Glad that you’re here. John, you know the drill, for followHIM Favorites, we’re just going to take a look at a question from this week’s lesson. And I’m actually going to get this question from the manual itself. It says right in the very beginning, “Why the emphasis on physical healings? And what messages might there be for one of us in these miracles?” Over and over and over, Jesus is healing lepers and Centurion’s servants and Peter’s mother-in-law, and daughters and sons. We are getting all these miraculous healing stories. What do you see in those messages for us?

John Bytheway: 00:43 Yeah, that’s a great question. I think one of them is just Jesus loved people, we see that, but it’s also fun to make a list. He had power over men, over women, over death, over children, over animals, over nature.

Hank Smith: 00:58 Jews and Gentiles.

John Bytheway: 00:59 Yeah. This is a testimony of who he was. No moral teacher that we’ve ever heard of could do this. He not only taught great things, but look at the power he had. So it tells us who he was, that he was divine. And then, lastly, I think if he can do things in the physical world, he can heal us spiritually too, which is what we all want, is forgiveness of our sins. We feel spiritually wounded or sick or in some way not complete enough. And he can do that too. So I think all those things play into it and their testimony when we read it.

Hank Smith: 01:33 Absolutely. I would say take each one of the miracles and go slow through them, because each one can have a different application. You’ve got Jesus healing a leper. And I wrote into my scriptures, “Are there anyone today that I treat like a leper, that I stay away from? What would the Savior do in those examples?” When he heals the Centurion’s servant, and oftentimes, the way we deal with people who aren’t members of the church, the way we think about them, and here this Roman is not a Jew, and watch how Jesus deals with him. It seems over and over that the Savior is saying, “It was your faith that did this.” Then we can ask ourselves, “What can I do to increase my faith?” The woman with the issue of blood, what a fantastic story of someone who takes initiative, tries to go get a healing from the Lord. And how can we do that better? So each one, I think, can teach us something. If we’re slow and deliberate about it, we could find in each miracle story a principle of healing, not just another miracle.

John Bytheway: 02:33 Excellent. And that just reminds me what you’ve just done, is like President Nelson. Learn to hear Him. Get on your knees and read it again and ask, “What can I learn from this?” And ask the Lord to help you as you read it.

Hank Smith: 02:45 Beautiful.

John Bytheway: 02:46 And you can look for things like that.

Hank Smith: 02:48 Yeah. Well, we hope you’ll join us on our full podcast. It’s called followHIM. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. And come back here next week for another Follow Him Favorites.