Ten Points of God's Healing

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!!!!

I agree with both of you to a certain extent.

We must keep in mind that the miracles Jesus did were “signs”. The signs point us to Jesus.

Likewise, there were signs which followed the message of the apostles. These confirmed the claim of being eye witnesses to His resurrection.

We live in a time when the Lord does not walk among us as a mortal human being. And His apostles are not living among us either.

On the other hand, we still have the written testimony of the apostles, in the form of the New Testament. And it is reasonable to expect God to continue to confirm His word miraculously.

I believe this mostly happens when people who have never heard hear for the first time. It is not uncommon for miracles to follow the spread of the Gospel and the translation of scripture into a new language or culture.

And there is the practical aspect of His meeting our needs. This can and sometimes does take the form of provision, protection and healing. However, His grace can also meet our needs without necessarily ridding us of all physical illness.

The proof of this is beyond dispute. No one, of any Christian denomination, throughout the history of the church, has ever exercised so much faith that they overcame mortality and avoided death altogether. Aging and death are the result of disease. And it is simply not true that death only comes to believers because of a lack of faith.

While I cannot agree that God desires every believer to be free of every sickness at all times, I do think those who advocate healing through faith in Christ’s atoning work on the cross are to be commended because often believers do not receive God’s best due to not exercising faith and asking. Jesus taught us to ask, seek, and knock. This applies today. James also instructed that we have not because we ask not.

Believers in Jesus Christ should recognize that healing is easy for God. It is easier than the redemption from our sins that Jesus accomplished on the cross. It is easier than God fulfilling the numerous Old Testament prophecies by Christ’s death. It is easier than raising Him from the dead.

While we can never demand that God heal us, it is not unreasonable to ask, seek, and knock. He always can, and He often will.

“By His stripes we were healed” (1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5).
Because of the divine exchange at the cross, we have “divine health” which means Jesus took our broken bodies and we got his healthy body.

Your interpretation of these passages citing Isaiah and Peter disagrees with the meaning of the authors (who are consistent with each other) of these inspired words, thereby twisting their intent to teach the meaning of reconciliation of mankind with God.

(1) In either passage the phrase "by his stripes" refers to the literal chastening of the Lamb of God to the point of physical death in the physical, natural dimension only. It cannot possibly figuratively apply to the heavenly dimension of spiritual and eternal life/death.

(2) In these passages the primary meaning in the Biblical context of "we are healed" or "you were healed" refers only to the spiritual realm, to the dismissal of Sin as a governing principle (to transgress, to commit iniquity) of human behavior, that demands death for the individual in three dimensions: physical (union of soul and human spirit in one body), spiritual (union of a human's spirit with The God's Spirit), and eternal (ongoing existence of the individual being in the realm of Heaven rather than in Hell and eventually the Lake of Fire).

(3) The healing thus is deliverance from spiritual death and eternal death, not from physical death or consequences of sin being involved in temporal processes.

(4) This is the correct figurative-literal interpretation of Isaiah's prophecy by Peter, as fulfilled in the Gospel of the death, resurrection, ascension, reconciliation, salvation, justification, sanctification, and eternal Absolute Life with God.

(5) "All Scripture has one primary interpretation and only one to which its context lends itself." Scripture has only one meaning! Every statement of Scripture has only one sense. There are many applications which are often made. These seem to apply to certain circumstances in life so (that, sic) the individual believes that God is speaking to him alone. But in such cases, it does not follow that this may mean the same thing to someone else, nor that the application is proper. Because a verse of Scripture stands out of a passage and seems to relate to certain present circumstances, it does not mean that it is God's specific direction for the reader. It may be what God wants. But it can be only attributed as direct guidance from God if in fact the circumstances in the context are similar to the circumstances in the reader's life. Secondary applications which can be made legitimately are in keeping with the context, similar circumstances, and the one specific, intended meaning." (Wittman, F., "How to Mature in Christ -- First Stage: Babes," Revised Edition, Morris Publishing, Kearney, NE (1995) p. 11)(Copies may be obtained from Happy Heralds, Inc., P. O. Box 460, Nottingham, PA 19362-0460 or http://www.happyheralds.org/DiscFrnt1.htm).

(6) Your interpretation makes the (a) literal chastening of the Son of God standing in for us to receive the consequences of our sins, as equivalent to (b) the literal relief of our bodies--apparently exclusive of or souls and spirits--from temporal ills in the ongoing physical dimension. This is not a legitimate primary interpretation or secondary application, and it obviously does not work except perhaps in anecdotal instances without statistical confirmation.

To believe in your doctrine ties the individual and The God to promises not present in the Bible, and pretends to free the individual to exercise his/her own will by causing God to conform His Prescriptive Will to ours, rather than vice versa.

This is, of course and obviously, a Satanic approach contrary to the way God has historically and in all His Covenants dealt with His created beings. Your conclusions are not truthful nor faithful to the Biblical context.

I hope you can come to grips with this; but if not, it is written to advise other readers who may question your and FB's approach to this subject. It is clear that neither of you are well enough advanced in the spiritual dimension to be offering this kind of instruction to other developing Scriptural babes.

(The book cited is one I use in the discipling of newborn spiritual babes into productive spiritual maturity. Happy Heralds, Inc. freely offers a plan for spiritual development by personally supervised distant learning.)

Here's another that refutes the hypothesis of not helping yourself:

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Php. 2:12). God's grace is His giving one both the desire and the power to do His Will, which is to take care of ourselves and not be a burden to others, as infants are until they are taught to be self-sufficient in a moral and ethical way, according to Scripture. See the ant:

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man" (Pro 6:6-11)

God does help those who use what He has given them to help themselves. Quit being silly.

It is Marxism that says "From each according to his ability, to each, according to his need," that degrading panacea of misplaced compassion.

God is not your personal vending machine. Don’t you understand the damage that is done when folks are told God will take away any bad thing in their life? When the bad thing remains, who do they blame? Who do they get bitter of? Who do they turn away from? God very often doesn’t give us what we demand of Him. Do you think the apostles lived free of illness and poverty?

Which is exactly correct.

The problem is that the blame is then laid at the feet of the person suffering.

Lack of faith.

Weak faith.

Generational curses.

Sin in their life.

So they're sent on a mission to try to figure out what's *blocking* the healing and all their focus is on everything but Christ.

The damage that can be done with that kind of thinking, that if you don't have the healing you are asking for, it's because you're doing something wrong, is SOOOO destructive.

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