Jesus the Energy Healer
We are pleased to share these writings and paintings from Marcia Fleischman, which are a selection from her new book: If God Is Love Why Do I Feel So Bad?
“Jesus the Energy Healer” by Marcia Fleischman
New Images of Jesus and God – Part Two
“Who touched me? Who touched me?” Jesus demanded to know!
“But, Teacher, there is a great crowd that surrounds us. They love you; they want your attention. Of, course they all want to touch you!” replied one of the disciples.
“But no, there was someone in particular who touched me. It was intentional for I felt the power go out of me.” Luke 8:46
It turns out that a woman had touched him, just the edge of his robe. She wanted to be healed and she thought, “If I just touch the hem of his garment, I will be healed. “She had a bleeding disorder that had gone on for years and she had spent all her money trying to get cured. Jesus was her last hope.
He said, “Power has gone out of me.”
What did he mean by power?
I believe it was his energy that he felt drained away.
Have you ever felt your energy drained?
If you are a parent of little children, you will undoubtedly feel your energy drained out of you. I have two daughters who have little children, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years and 9 years old between them. The most frequent thing I hear them say is, “I’m so tired!” It’s true, little children can drain your energy.
Carolyn Myss is a medical intuitive and energy healer and author of the book, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can. She explains how energy works in our bodies and the physical and medical dangers of getting our energy constantly drained. When I was sick with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, I read her book every January for 4 years. Because I was dealing with such a deadly disease, I had to constantly remind myself how to protect myself from energy drain. I recommend this book highly, even for those who are not ill.
“God Within Me” by Marcia Fleischman
The fact that Jesus is aware of his own energy is a very big key to understanding who he was and what he was like.
For instance, when Jesus went walking on the beach and saw the fishermen, he called them to follow him. What was is it that made them respond by throwing down their nets and following him. I believe that they saw, felt, experienced his energy that was different from any other person they met. His energy was powerful, enticing.
When the Roman Centurion came to Jesus and asked him to heal his servant, Jesus offered to come with him. The soldier understood how authority works and that he himself could send a command and knew it would be carried out. He sensed that Jesus’s authority could operate at a distance. Jesus’s energy was not just present in Jesus’s presence, his energy could work at a distance as he wished. The Centurion knew that Jesus’s energy was what would heal his servant even from afar. Jesus praised the soldier for his faith, not even being a Jew. Jesus’s energy was directed by his will.
The people who heard Jesus speak and saw the mighty acts of healing that he performed declared that he had real authority from God unlike the teachers of the law, the Pharisees. What did they see in Jesus that was different from their own religious teachers? It was his energy!
The book of Luke tells of several times when Jesus healed the people who came to see him and to hear him. Many people came to receive healing. In Luke 5:17 we read “One day He was teaching, and there were some Pharisees and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.”
In Luke 6:19 “And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.”
Of course, the gospel writer Luke loved the stories about healing because he was a doctor. And he is very explicit when he writes that God’s power was present with Jesus to heal the sick and afflicted people.
What Luke is describing is that the power of God is with Jesus and that power of God heals people. Luke is talking about the energy that lived in Jesus and flowed in Jesus and through Jesus. Jesus got depleted of God’s and his own energy when he healed people. His energy, that they describe being from God, is the energy that many people saw in Jesus. That’s why they followed him, that’s why they wanted to hear him teach as his teaching flowed from the energy of God.
Jesus withdrew from the crowds to pray and be alone. He needed to replenish his energy.
I was a client of an energy healer both when I was sick and after my lung transplant. In total I worked with her, was ministered to by her for 9 years. Energy work will expand and grow in the coming years as a method of healing people both physical and mentally and psychologically. It is a technique beyond therapy. It is a technique that is beyond words. It is a healing technique using energy to heal.
Many people are acquainted with Reiki as a healing practice. It is a method of energy healing. As this model of healing expands and grows, we will come to understand that there is more to healing than medicine, surgery, psycho-therapeutic drugs and talk therapy. None of them can cover the entire spectrum of healing but the different modes can work together to heal a person.
To focus on Jesus as an energy healer is to assert that he is not just using his own energy but is so connected to God, that it is God’s energy within him, flowing out of him, that heals people. It is his expanded consciousness, that we refer to as being filled with the Holy Spirit. The term” Spirit-filled” expounds on the experience of a person being connected to and empowered by the energy of God. I have been lucky enough to get to experience the presence of God flowing through followers of Jesus as they pray for my healing.
“Jesus Raises Our Consciousness” by Marcia Fleischman
One of the greatest experiences of the energy of God I ever encountered happened at a John Wimber conference. John was very ordinary. He wore flowered Hawaiian shirts and he confessed to a reporter that, to prepare for a healing service where he would teach and pray, he drank a Diet Coke. When he spoke, it was like ordinary teaching although filled with wonderful stories of people getting healed. Then the “ministry time” came. John announced that the Holy Spirit would come and minister to us. The room, of 5-6,000 attendees, became extremely quiet. It was an exceptional hush. The room got a little cooler. Then, sprinkled through the crowd, individuals began to laugh, or cry, or shake. John said that those individuals were being affected by the Holy Spirit and invited the people close by to just reach out and pray for them. The power of God was present to heal the people.
Through that week I had my own healing experience that was profound. Jesus was with me. It was a most extraordinary experience. But I must tell of my first powerful encounter with God’s Presence, God’s healing Presence. It was back at home, in Kansas City, at my church, Broadway;
At Broadway Church we offered our own healing conference. Father Francis McNutt, a Catholic priest was a healing minister and author of the book Healing. Rev, Tommy Tyson, a Methodist evangelist and Rev. Paul Smith, Southern Baptist pastor, taught about healing. Then, on the last night of the conference, they offered to pray for those who wanted prayer. Most of the attendees came forward for prayer. Francis and Paul prayed in their spirit languages (speaking in tongues) and touching the recipient lightly on the head. 85% of those receiving prayer fell over and “rested in the Spirit.” Some people call it “being slain in the Spirit” which is a very brutal and violent way to express this powerful, sweet and tender touch of God.
Of course, I got prayed for, I rested in the Spirit where I was experiencing total blissfulness in God’s Presence. It was so lovely and so loving and so powerful in its gentleness. Then an even stranger thing happened. As I was lying there, half-way tucked up under the front pew, I felt this gentle bubbling energy flowing like a gurgling stream flowing over me, from my chin and over my body to my toes. It was such a joyous and delightful feeling, almost like tickling. I began to laugh, laugh out loud, laugh loudly out loud. Then I stopped. Then the people in the pews laughed too. I laughed again, then so did they. I wondered if they were laughing at me. I thought, oh, no. they can’t be laughing at me! I felt like I was two blocks away, down the street, relaxing in pure bliss and joy.
Oh, Jesus was an energy healer and still is. We’ll look into that further, later.
At the Wimber conference I got in touch with my wound of abandonment from my infancy. On the way to the conference, I had learned that a little boy in my daughter’s Kindergarten had died in a horrible accident on the way to school. This brought up my pain of being left when my parents went on vacation. I was nine months old and my babysitter took away my baby bottle. It was devastating for me. This was the pain that was surfacing. The Spirit surfaced the pain and the Presence of God was there to heal.
I was in a class listening to Derek Prince speaking when I felt this powerful emptiness inside and I began to cry. I had to leave the class to go to the bathroom to cry. A deep well of pain opened up and I began to cry harder and louder. One of my friends was passing by and heard me. He recognized me. He couldn’t come in to check on me as it was the women’s bathroom. How embarrassing to be so public! However, I could not squelch the noisy surfacing of my angst.
I went to my hotel room and screamed into my pillow. How could Jesus be with me when he hadn’t been able to prevent this child’s death? I screamed until my energy was depleted. As I lay on the bed at last quiet, I heard God speak to me…
“Though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I am with you.”
It was an amazing, intense experience. I felt the Presence of God fill that emptiness.
Jesus is the human form of God that we can see and feel with our spirits. He contains all the mystical essence of God’s energy. He comes to us to heal us. Jesus is an energy healer.
“She Looks Just Like You” by Marcia Fleischman
For Reflection:
Do you have any experiences of healing, whether through counseling, therapy, Reiki, or other?
Are there places in your life where you would like some healing?
Write about these things now.
