Study Questions

Yahweh Rapha: The Lord Heals

December 7, 2025

Exodus 15:22-27

Study Questions

1.    Read Exodus 15:22-25. How long after singing praises to God did the people begin to complain again? (Review Exodus 15:1-24.)

2.    Read Deuteronomy 8:1-10. This passage speaks of the Lord’s work in His people during their time in the desert. It was a work of humbling, a work of testing, a revealing of what was in their hearts. At Marah what was revealed in their hearts?

3.    Have you ever experienced this type of working of God? What did it look like? What were its results?

4.    God responds to them with grace, with provision, with the revelation of a new name. How does such grace shape us to be able to see what is in our hearts and to help us learn to trust in God?

5.    Read Exodus 15:26-27. What was the reason behind the Lord inflicting disease among the Egyptians? What are reasons we struggle in this life with sickness, pain and suffering? (See also 2 Chronicles 26:16-21; Psalm 38; John 9:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:42-43.)

6.    What comfort could the Israelites take in God’s name, Yahweh Rapha? How do you find comfort knowing the Lord is the healer? (See also 2 Kings 20:1-6; Psalm 41:4.)

7.    We all want God’s mercy as soon as we call on Him in need. What do you learn about the Lord when His answer is ‘no’ or ‘not yet’? (See also Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; 1 Timothy 5:23; 2 Timothy 4:20; Romans 5:3-4; Isaiah 40:29-31.)

8.    What was the significance of Elim? Contrast this place of provision with Marah. Express how the Lord Jesus has taken you from a place of Marah to a place of Elim in your own journey following Him. (See also 1 Peter 2:24; Psalm 23:3.)