Posted on 08/17/2012 8:38:47 PM PDT by Frank Broom
ransomnote God made healing available and it’s up to people to receive it and God always says yes to his promises (2Corinthians 1:20). Thanks!
I know and see around me so many people whom God hasn’t healed, whether he wanted to or not, which I would suggest is not known. And I’m one of them. Perhaps it is that God wants us healed while his people want us wounded.
THANK YOU Nervous Tick I’m so glad someone got the message. Thanks!!!!
He sometimes says “No” to prayers.
We were dead and through Christ, we live. That is healing promised to us.
To imply that we only need to have sufficient faith to be healed is unintentionally unkind. There are plenty of faithful people not healed. I am sorry we must agree to disagree.
cantfindagoodscreenname everyone dies people who were healed by Jesus are dead now and they had faith to get healed. Thanks!
BereanBrain Paul’s thorn in the flesh was not sickness it was “The messenger of Satan” a evil spirit. And bad things happens to believers because we live in a fallen world. Thanks!
Dear lurk don’t be silly who is going to live for thousands of years even people who was healed by Jesus didn’t live for thousands of years. And if someone is wearing glasses, or have cavities, or any other infirmity healing is available. Thanks!
Thank you Bellflower for your comment.
AmericanSamurai I am not making God out to be a liar. I am saying healing according to the word is already done(2Peter 2:24) that is not a promise. God says it is done now it’s up to people to receive it. Thanks!
Thank you Delta 21 for taking the time to read this.
Mr. Rogers yes I have. Have you ever read Acts 10:38 and 2Peter 2:24.
HarleyD if God sent his son to provide healing and Jesus shed his blood for your healing how could anyone think it’s not his will. Thanks
Do you have any cavities?
If this false gospel you preach were true, then the apostles would still be alive today. Frank, if the Lord should tarry, you will get sick and die one day. No amount of faith in faith will stop that from happening.
CORRECT !
The article stated that God sent the Apostles to heal. God sent them out to do other things as well.
The healing was to substantiate the "Kingdom-at-Hand" Gospel the Apostles were sent to preach, to fulfill Isaiah ch. 35, regarding the Davidic Kingdom on Earth, which would have been realized in that generation had Israel, as a nation, repented and received their Messiah (See Acts 3:19-21).
If it was an evil spirit, why didn’t the bible say so? The fact it says “flesh” means it’s a physical problem, not a thorn in the “spirit” or “soul”.
Yes, we do live in a fallen world, until Jesus returns to rule!
We (believers) get old, sick and die. In this life, our healing is spiritual. We are BORN AGAIN. Our spirit grows and is not prone to the faults of this world.
When we get a new Body, then we will be healed physically. To be healed of an infirmity now (in our corrupt bodies) only fixes things a little while, then we are back to another sickness, illness, and eventually death.
God does NOT grant believers Health and Wealth in this life. It would RUIN US.
The healing that is done before the kingdom comes, is always to glorify God and show his power and help spread the Gospel. it’s NOT because person A prayed harder than person B, or Person B deserved it more.
The new Kingdom is NOT here YET! We are to hold on, be salt and light until He returns. THEN he will set all things right.
AmericanSamurai I am not making God out to be a liar. I am saying healing according to the word is already done(2Peter 2:24) that is not a promise. God says it is done now its up to people to receive it. Thanks!
Yes, it never made any sense that Oral Roberts built a hospital.
Paul being a Hebrew, who was well studied in the writings that make up our Old Testament, would have understood a thorn in the side, or flesh, as being descriptive of evil people. He was constantly badgered by and plagued with the Judaizers spreading false doctrines, and zealous Jews seeking to do him harm. Judaizers tried to convince the people of the Church to come back under the Law, and return to the keeping of it, and also all of the Jewish traditions, in order to gain salvation. They were a real headache to him. It can be understood that they were likely Paul's greatest obstacle in his efforts at trying to help the members of the Church to understand what the grace of God meant, and how to remain in the teachings of The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Also, as Paul had persecuted the Church before he became a believer, so did many Jews constantly persecute him in many ways. They caused him many problems and were vexing "thorns in his flesh".
Numbers 33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Ezekiel 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [be] with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor [any] grieving thorn of all [that are] round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
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