Posted on 05/23/2016 4:25:24 PM PDT by Frank Broom
This article is to those that might be going through a physical affliction and wondering if it is God's will for you to be healed. I just want to encourage you that it is God's will that you receive your healing. Let me make these points to help convince you of that because I want you convinced so that nobody can talk you out of it. First, In Matthew 15:26 Jesus said healing is the children's bread. What is bread, it is your right. Every child has a right to be fed. In fact, it a father's obligation to feed his children. And Jesus said it(healing) is the children's bread. Second, God the Father is the most loving father and in Luke 11:11-13 the point Jesus is making is that if you being evil know how to do good for your children how much more God. James 1:17 says, every good gift comes from God. And Act 10:38 says, God anointed Jesus with the Holy Ghost and power and with the Holy Ghost and power Jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil. So, healing is a good gift from God. I want to make this point because there are those that say these bodies are just dust and they don't matter to God. But, yet we see God anointing Jesus to heal these dust bodies and he did not turn anyone away. Now, what natural parent if they had a child out playing and the child fell and was bleeding badly tell them, "Now baby don't worry about it your body is just dust." NO, a good parent would pick that child up rush them in the house, nurse their wounds, put a bandage on them, dry there tears, and do everything in their ability to make it better. Well, how much more God. Third, Hebrews 1:3 says, Jesus is the express image of God and Jesus said he only did what he saw the Father do so everytime Jesus healed it was the Father's will and not one time did he turn anyone away. Not one time did he say, "God is using this to teach you something." Not one time did he say, "I'm sorry, but it's not God's will. You know all those religious ideas people come up with. Not one time did he say no and God does not change Malachi 3:6.
Fourth, God anointed Jesus to heal. Jesus told his disciples to heal. Jesus told believers to heal. So, healing must be one of God's top priorities. Fifth, Jesus was lashed and cut open for your healing Isaiah 53:4,5. He was beaten so badly he didn't even look like himself Isaiah 52:14. Now, how can anyone say that healing is not important to God. Sixth, God has an assignment for all of our lives and without these bodies we can't fulfill them. Seven, Some say that it's more important to be saved than healed. And I agree totally, but God provided for both 1Peter 2:24. If He provided it then He must wants us to have it. Eighth, Jesus said many are sick and sleep(dead) because they don't discern the Lord's body, that it was broken for your healing 1Corinthians 11:24,29,30. People recognize that what Jesus did brought salvation, but they don't realize that what he did brought healing so they don't receive it. Ninth, Everything about Jesus speaks of healing. The lamb in Exodus 12 is a picture of Jesus and notice as a result of eating the lamb everyone was healed Psalm 105:37 (make a note of that from point 8). In Numbers 16 the atonement Aaron made for the people represents what Jesus did for you and I. And in Numbers 21 that serpent on the pole represents Jesus on the cross taking our sins. Notice, in every case it brought HEALING. Tenth, In Acts 5 and 19 God used handkercheifs and even a man's shadow to heal people. Look at God. So, do not let people minimize God's desire for you to receive your healing. And do not let them trivialize what Jesus went through for you to be healed. So, if you are believing then keep believing. God Bless!!!!
Lovers of selves ...
I'd like to know, too. Some Pentecostal's teach ALL born again believers have to speak in tongues in order to prove the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Some are usually off on the gospel they preach, as well - a works-based salvation, denying the eternal security of the believer and the deity of Jesus Christ as well as the Trinity.
Very well said!
THANK YOU.
You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth.
You’re spreading a false understanding of the Word.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (I Timothy 5:8)
Isn't that what we have been saying all along!? We wait on God's timing and trust in His perfect will for us even when it may mean our "divine healing" will be in our glorified bodies with Him in heaven.
“Do you have to pray about what color socks to wear?”
If I felt the need to sure, why not? And I have no reason to believe that God wouldn’t reveal that to me.
Jesus “healed all that were sick” because he “took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses”, demonstrated physically (Matt. 8:16-17).
That is God's word which you dismiss to serve your whims.
Good bye and good luck.
You’re confused.
I just want to encourage you that it is God's will that you receive your healing.
No. I'm not confused.
This statement by your buddy can only mean one thing. It is saying God will heal an individual. No doubt.
As has been proven with the example of Paul, that is a false doctrine as is the whole "name it and claim" doctrine.
This is almost as bad as catholicism's worship of Mary.
Then you owe everyone an explanation as to WHY they aren’t healed as soon as they ask.
Or for that matter, as soon as they are saved.
If healing is part of redemption because He took those stripes as part of the atonement, then as soon as we are saved, we should be healed.
When Jesus healed people, they were HEALED, immediately. No nonsense about, *Well, you’re healed even if you still show symptoms, even if it’s not manifest, etc, etc.*
Their circumstances and situations changed dramatically and immediately and EVERYONE knew it.
Your opening line stated "This article is to those that might be going through a physical affliction and wondering if it is God's will for you to be healed. I just want to encourage you that it is God's will that you receive your healing. "
OK, now YOU tell us why if it's God's will for us to be healed, people don't see it.
Don't let others do all your dirty work and heavy lifting defending the point YOU are making.
Man up and defend your beliefs yourself.
This guy can’t tell the difference between an offer and an acceptance.
It is God’s will that everyone get saved (1 Timothy 2:4). According to your logic then, everyone will get saved. According to your confused mind God’s will that everyone be saved and everyone being saved is the same thing.
You need help Pal.
You've shown you do not quote Scripture correctly.
You've helped advance a false doctrine.
And now, you're advancing another line of thought that makes zero sense.
It is God’s will that everyone get saved (1 Timothy 2:4). According to your logic then, everyone will get saved. According to your confused mind God’s will that everyone be saved and everyone being saved is the same thing.
Say what?? You and your buddy are advancing the line that God will heal everyone and not to let anyone talk them out of that.
Now you're saying, in some bizarre way I'm saying all will be saved????
I have no idea where you get that from.
As we know not all are healed we also know not all are saved.
For context.
1First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. 7For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
We've come to a Matthew 10:14 moment.
I pray you come to a true understanding of the Word and become a follower of Christ.
You are so confused and your thoughts are so scattered and irrational that there’s no way to even have a coherent or reasonable discussion with you.
I’m done with you.
Good bye and good luck.
Such petulance!
I think I was done with this thread by post 1. We are saved from Hell, and the wrath of God, but we are not guaranteed physical healing of our bodies. Otherwise, would anyone ever die? Some may indeed get miraculous physical healing. Others may not. The Apostle Paul was a classic example. Later, brothers and sisters. 😃😃😇
Well put!
Whenever Christ talked about the blessedness of suffering it was for His sake. We can and do suffer for Christ’s sake in faith. He died for us even though He didn’t have to. He suffered for us. We can suffer for Him. This is an all together different issue than suffering because just like the world we get sick. This kind of suffering isn’t for Christ’ sake, it is just plain suffering just like the masses. To rightly divide The Word of God we have to make the distinction between suffering just like all the citizens of the world and suffering for The Kingdom of God’s sake. When we suffer for The Kingdom of God’s sake we expect great recompense in the world to come.
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