Christ Can Heal You

 

Healing in the Temple

By Jonathan A. Stapley

Church History Department

The Savior suffered, died, and rose from the dead so He would “know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities” (Alma 7:12). Jesus Christ invited all to “repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you” (3 Nephi 9:13). This healing can be physical, but we also have spiritual and emotional traumas that can be healed in Christ.

For example, during a period of crisis in the early Restoration, Jesus Christ reminded the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of their great commission and then stated that they would have both temptations and tribulations. He explained that “if they harden not their hearts, and stiffen not their necks against me, they shall be converted, and I will heal them” (Doctrine and Covenants 112:13), suggesting that the Savior would heal their spiritual afflictions....