Lesson 17B – Matthew 8–9, Mark
1:23–2:12; 5:21–6:6, Luke 7–8
Miracles
An old saying…
• When you are healthy, you have 100 wishes, but
when you are sick, you have only 1 wish.
• To be healthy
• Today we are talking about people who are
disabled and come to the Lord.
• Each of you have a disability on a card. Imagine
this was your disability.
– How would your life be different? What would you be
unable to do? How would your perspective change?
Mark 1:23-2:12
• These verses contain accounts
of people who were disabled in
various ways.
• Read through and log each
miracle. Answer (in the middle
column):
– What disability afflicted this
person?
– What miracle did Jesus perform
to help the person?
– What, if anything, did the
person do to aid in the miracle?
Do healings happen today?
• Mormon 9:15-19
– “he ceaseth not to
be God, and is a
God of miracles”
• What blessing
might be greater
than having a
physical disability
healed?
• President Harold B.
Lee
Healing of Sick Souls
“The greatest miracles I see today are
not necessarily the healing of sick
bodies, but the greatest miracles I see
are the healing of sick souls” (in
Conference Report, Apr. 1973, 178; or
Ensign, July 1973, 123).
• Why would the healing of sick souls
be greater than the healing of sick
bodies?
• Do you believe the Savior has power
to heal us from spiritual disabilities?
• Mark 2:5-12
Revisit your disability
• In what ways could you
experience that disability
spiritually?
• Which version of the
disability would you prefer
to have healed? Why?
• Alma 7:11-13
– “the Son of God suffereth
according to the flesh that
he might take upon him the
sins of his people”
Notebook Ideas
• What spiritual disabilities have you
experienced in your life? How have you
overcome them?
• What are the feelings of being healed? How
else can we experience those same feelings?