God Has Provided Your Healing

Have you heard someone say, "God heals some, but not others", actually that is not the truth. Acts 10:34 says, "God is no respecter of persons." Why do people say that because they are basing it off of their experience. But, a persons experience doesn't change the truthfulness of God's word. The truth is that when God heals he provides healing for everyone and doesn't pick and choose who gets healed. Let's go through the scriptures and see what they say. In Exodus 12 God institutes the Passover where the children of Israel were to take a lamb and kill it and put the blood on the two side door posts and the upper door post where they were to eat the lamb. That was an instruction for the whole congregation and notice as a result of eating of the lamb Psalm 105:37 says, "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among them." God healed all of them, there was not one person that God did not heal. On another occasion in Numbers 21 when the children of Israel were in the wilderness they were being bitten by serpents and dying, but God came up with an answer to the problem (notice God's wording). God said, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Notice God said that it was for every one.

Let's look at some more scriptures to further prove the point, Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto them that find them, and health to all their flesh." That word health is translated from Hebrew as medicine, remedy, cure. God says that his word is the remedy for all your flesh. And it is for all that find them. Let's look at one more scripture in Acts 10:38 it says, "How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." First notice that Jesus healed all and God calls healing doing good.

Now, let me inform you of something that you might not know that a lot of people have a problem accepting, but I'm going to explain. God has already provided all the healing you will ever need. 1Peter 2:24 says, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED." Notice, the scripture says that you were(past tense) healed. Now, I know the first thing someone might say is if I am healed how come I still have this sickness. Because, God is not saying that you are physically healed, but he has already done the healing. You look at Luke 17:12-14 where 10 lepers cried out to Jesus for him to heal them and he said, "Go shew yourselves unto the priests." And the scripture says that as they went they were cleansed. Notice, all Jesus did was send them to show themselves to the priest, because in those days you only showed yourself to the priests after you were cleansed so Jesus was calling them clean. That was all he did, so what Jesus did he did when he said, because that's how Jesus healed by his words. Notice, even though Jesus did something there was no physical change, they still looked and felt the same. So, your flesh is no indication of if God has done something. Your flesh is only an indication of when you have received what God has done. Notice, in verse 15 it says that when one of them saw that he was cleansed he turned back to praise God. Notice, by faith he believed something was done when Jesus said, go....., but by his senses he saw when he had received.

You see the same principles in Mark chapter 3 where Jesus saw a man with a withered hand and said unto him, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other. Notice, again Jesus said, "stretch forth thine hand" he was calling the man healed because he couldn't stretch forth his hand so for him to comply with Jesus words he would have to be healed. Notice, again Jesus words was Jesus doing the healing. Again, notice even though Jesus did something there was no physical change because the scripture says, he stretched it out and it was restored whole as the other. Otherwise, it would have said and his hand was restored whole as the other and he stretched it out. So, the implication is that when Jesus told him to stretch forth his hand, he knowing that he couldn't stretch forth his hand put forth an effort to do it and his hand was then made whole. Now, in both of those instances what if they would have waited to see or feel something they would have never received.

Now, here is a point you have to understand in looking at the instances above, God has already released your healing. It is not a matter of God needing to heal you. God sees healing as an accomplished act and he tells you. In 1Peter 2:24 it says, "By whose stripes ye were healed." That is not a promise of something in the future, that is stating an accomplished act. Now, I know the first thing that may come to a person is if God has done the healing why do I still have this condition. Let me give you an example: Let's say a person is hungry so he goes to a restaurant. The waitress comes and takes his order and gives it to the chef. He cooks the food and gives it to the waitress and she brings it to him. Notice, once she brings the food or provides him with his order he is considered having been served. Once the provision is made you are considered having been served. Now, the food is right there in front of him, but question, is he still hungry. Just the food being in front of him does not take away his hunger, he has to receive it or eat it. Likewise, the healing God has provided does not take away your sickness until you receive it. Just like that food will not do you any good until you eat it or receive it. Now, nobody goes to a restaurant and places their order and when the waitress brings them their order because they are still hungry because they have not yet received what has been provided they ask for another plate of food. Now you have two plates of food again not having received any of it so because you are still hungry you ask for another plate of food. Now at that rate you can have 10 plates of food in front of you and still be hungry. Nobody would do that and yet that is the same as when a person continues to ask God to heal them.

You can not allow your flesh to tell you when or what God has already done for you. Your flesh body has no clue of what God has done for you. In 1Corinthians 2:14 it says, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Notice it says your flesh can not know the things of God, so you can't count on your flesh to tell you what God has already done for you. The only thing you can count on is the word of God. Your flesh can't tell you what God has done for you only when you have received what God has done for you. Coming up we'll look at this further and look at how you receive the healing God has already done. God Bless!!!

That is not what God told the apostle Paul, Marian, or Job. Paul prayed three times but was never cured from his affliction. Marian was turn to a leper for a week after criticizing Moses. Moses pleaded with God but God wanted her to understand the gravity of her rebellion before healing her. She sat outside the camp for one week as a leper. Job was afflicted with sores and boils along with a number of other problems so that he may better understand God’s sovereign control over our lives.

There are many more examples throughout scriptures. 3 John 2 is nothing more than a salutation like saying, “Hope everything is well.”

Frank,
In looking at the verse in scripture where Peter mentions that God is not a respecter of persons he is simply referring to the fact that the gospel is to go out to the gentiles as well as the jews. The Amos passage refers to God knowing Israel in a special way that He did not know other nations so yes He was in covenant with them not with others, Israel was the people He foreknew, foreloved, and yes not just in a head knowledge way BUT in a relational way that was just with the people of Israel at the time.
Even when we believe we are still sinners. We still sin. Yes we are righteous having the righteousness of Christ BUT we still have our old nature and as such we will still sin. Whether it be a matter of semantics or not we are still sinners in that we will still sin. As Luther would say we are “simul justus et peccator-—sinner and just” Paul even said Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom he is the worst, 1 John 1 mentions that he who say they have no sin are deceived. So if we still sin, and we do we are sinners BUT at the same time jsutified because of Christ and His righteousness.
3 John verse 2 is a stretch to say that ABOVE ALL that is what God desires that we be in good health. How many times is that mentioned as compared to living for Him, obeying Him, trusting Him putting off the old man of sin and putting on Christ??? Compared to how God wants us to live for Him the “health” and “prosperity” are barely mentioned.
Regarding the lady I mentioned did you watch the video at all??? Did you not understand the message she was saying? Did you not understand that what God values more is not a physical healing but rather a deeper spiritual healing? That she can praise God MORE because He is working on her life in a MORE POWERFUL way than just by a mere physical healing!! That the curse that REALLY needed or needs to be lifted is NOT a physical one but a SPIRITUAL one!! If you listened to the video did you not see the contrast how she was able deal with her husbands exasperation differently years later after God was able to change her heart and work on her? How previously she snapped at him and then later on as God dealt with her she was able to handle his frustrations more tenderly?? Thats God REALLY lifting the curse and REALLY performing a healing!!
A physical healing compared to a spiritual one is meaningless. The spiritual healing leading to salvation and a more Christlike character and life is the real miracle raather than a physical healing.

HarleyD God doesn’t use sickness to teach you something. God said He wants you healthy 3John 2. God is a healer.

That is an insult to every person who has suffered ill health or a terminal illness. God does not "heal" every affliction. If that were true, no Christian would ever die.

This name it and claim it theology is demonic. It is witchcraft disguised as Christian Theology.

God does heal, but he heals those he chooses to heal. For instance, despite the prayers of 10,000 prayer warriors, he did not heal my daughter. He took her home. The healing she received was entirely spiritual. My only comfort is in knowing that she is with Him and that she is no longer in physical suffering.

If you really believe your "God heals everyone" theology, then you should be preaching it outside the intensive care unit of your local hospital not from the comfort of your home. You will get sick. You will die. God already knows the number of your days. You have God's promise on that one, Frank.

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Agree! Pain and suffering is part of the fall of man. But God uses our suffering to help us to understand His will. Everything, including suffering, works for our benefit, although at times, as Job experienced, it is difficult and hard to understand why. We are called to be patience while God reveals His will to us. To say otherwise is to ignore the things God does in our lives-for good or bad. He knows what is best for us.

Rom_8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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