This name means Jehovah heals or the Lord your health.   God first revealed Himself as Jehovah Rapha at Marah where after 3 days traveling the Israelites came upon water but couldn't drink it because it was bitter.  God showed Moses a tree and told him to throw it into the water so the water could become sweet.  And it was here that God said "I am the Lord that heals you" (Exodus 15:26).  Moses had to throw the tree into the water and the significance of that is that action had to accompany faith.  We talk faith, but we must walk it too.  You can believe in healing but you must receive healing too.  And the only way to receive it is by reading and meditating on God's Word.  You must continuously feed on His Words of life, health, and healing.

Jesus came to heal emotional wounds  -  the brokenhearted and the bruised.  He cam to heal them from backsliding and sin and from physical afflictions.  Jehovah Rapha is health in every are of life.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" (Luke 4:18-19).

In Isaiah 53:3-5 the prophet had this to say about Jesus:  "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrow, and familiar with suffering......Surely he took up our infirmities (or griefs) and carried our sorrow."

He not only heals us of physical afflictions, but grief and sorrow are needs that must be healed.  Jesus doesn't want us to carry grief, He wants us to cast our cares on Him.

When we're hurting in the soul area (mind and emotions), Jehovah Rapha has given us a provision.

"Is there no balm in Gilead?  Is there no physician there?  Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?" (Jeremiah 8:22)

Jeremiah was asking, "Isn't there a balm to heal the soul-sick people?"

The word Gilead means "praise."  When we praise the Lord we bring Jehovah Rapha on the scene.  We bring in healing.

If you've ever gone into a service feeling down and began worshiping and praising the Lord and clapping your hands and singing, you received healing.  When we abide in praise we abide in the Lord and we live in health.

Jesus was bruised in my place and He came to give me liberty.  When He was hanging on the cross, soldiers tried to give Him a sponge soaked in myrrh, but He refused to drink it.  Why did He do that?  Because myrrh works as an anesthetic and would have deadened His pain.  Jesus carried all of our anxieties, fears and rejections.  He carried all of our physical afflictions.  They're not ours anymore.  He refused the myrrh.

"But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 30:17).

"Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people" (Matthew 4:23).