This is not going to answer your question. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal what has prevented manifestation of His promises in your life. It could be unforgiveness, unconfessed sin, past hurts, anger or any number of hindrances. I was bitter because I thought God had brought everything on me and I just wanted to end my life. It took much prayer and time in God's Word to build my faith and remove all those roadblocks.
The first step for me was to realize and admit once an for all that God is a GOOD God. Blaming God will short circuit your faith immediately as will fear and unbelief.
If you are Born Again, how do you know? It was based on faith in God's Word and confessing Jesus as your Savior and Lord. Every promise in the Bible is received the same way.
As I read your questions I sense that there is lots of anger, frustration and pain. If that is not the case, I apologize. I can certainly relate if that is the case. I had to reach a point in my life (and I am always working to improve) that I believe God's Word (which is TRUTH) above anything else. God is Spirit and His Word is above the temporal world (which IS subject to change and yield to His Word) where we live.
You see that in the life of Jesus. He operated above natural laws. If a mob tried to kill him, he would simply walk away. Sickness and even death was no big deal. A giant hungry crowd, not a problem for the Lord. He overcame because of the Words he spoke, and because he is the Word made flesh.
We are called to be imitators of Christ. But we are living in a fallen world with satan doing his best to lie, mislead and deceive people away from the Truth. We are surrounded by unbelief, tradition, symptoms, and distractions. Heck, just on this thread there have been multiple posts that are convinced that God does not heal and declare anyone that claims that He does is a heretic! That is not an environment that builds faith because faith comes from hearing God's Word.
I will not be able to convince you. Nor do you want to put faith in someone's testimony or experiences - that will always fail you. You want to put your faith only on the Word. There are hundreds of promises of healing in the Bible. They need to be yours, personally. Get before God and declare those promises until they are grounded in your spirit. That needs to be YOUR TRUTH. Then it will manifest in your life. Sometimes immediately, sometimes a little slower, but God does not lie and His Word can be trusted.
This was dropped in my spirit while I was at the gym. Maybe this helps on some of the greater questions in your post. Prayerfully consider this.
The children of Israel had made their way to the Promised Land and it was right there. All they had to do was possess it. Moses sent 12 spies to search out the land. They came back and reported that it was just as wonderful as God had promised. Two spies, Joshua and Caleb, insisted that they should go up at once and possess it because they were well able. The other 10 insisted it was not possible because there were giants in the land.
There was nothing untrue initially about what the 10 spies reported until they began talking fear and unbelief. There was a HIGHER TRUTH in play. God had GIVEN them the land. It belonged to them. They simply had to take it by faith. They had to see the victory in their hearts before they could physically possess it.
The entire congregation believed the 10 spies that it was not possible - God called this an EVIL REPORT. Because of their collective unbelief, a whole generation died in the wilderness. This was NOT God's will. This was their choice based on what they believed and spoke.
Nobody that believed the evil report entered the Promised Land. Only two people that were alive at that time walked into their inheritance - Joshua and Caleb. Why? Because they believed God had given them the land and they were ready and eager to possess it.
You can read the story in Numbers 13 & 14 and Joshua.
I can assure you in the name of Jesus, that God is more eager for you to be healthy and whole than you could ever imagine. That is why he endured the beatings, the torture, the time on the cross and spiritual death - there was no worst possible punishment for Jesus than being apart from the Father.
This will most likely be my last post on this thread. It has gotten personal and not an environment for discussing the Bible in love. And this week is very exciting and Blessed.
As John prayed for all Believers, I pray for you:
Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit. 3 John 1:2 NLT
WELL PUT.
LUB BRO.
AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
He overcame because of the Words he spoke, and because he is the Word made flesh.
AMEN!! Words have power - Speak The Word...
just on this thread there have been multiple posts that are convinced that God does not heal and declare anyone that claims that He does is a heretic! That is not an environment that builds faith because faith comes from hearing God's Word.
WELL SAID!!
EXCELLENT POST!! And it sounds like we have the same TEACHER!!
This will most likely be my last post on this thread.
Yep. I know what you mean.
THANK YOU!
God is a good God because He is......
He is good because it's His nature to be good.
His goodness is not predicated on His catering to me and giving me any and every thing I petulantly demand.
His goodness is not evaluated by my outward circumstances.
God is good and He sends rain on the just and the unjust. God is also still good when He allows trial and testing into our lives as He did with Job.
To imply that God is good therefore He will always have to give us everything we want is ludicrous.
Any parent knows that giving in to a child all the time and giving them what they want is not good for them.
How many times do you hear of kids who try to manipulate their parents into giving them what they want with accusations of *you don't love me. You don't want me to be happy* simply because the parents didn't give in.
Many times, it's showing more love by saying *No* than *Yes* because as parents we know more, we see the bigger picture more and sometimes it's simply because we have something better planned for them than what they're asking and we simply cannot fulfill both wishes at the same time.
What comes to mind is the time my kids wanted to go to the zoo, which we did pretty regularly, and I said *No* which they didn't understand and were bent out of shape about. And that was because the time frame in which they wanted to go to the zoo was when mr. mm and I had planned a trip to Florida with them, which I knew they would like much better, and there was simply no way I could literally, physically do both at the same time.
So if they got their way, going to the local zoo, they would have forfeited the trip to FL.
Also the name it and claim it, denies the sovereignty of God. Let God be God. He sees the bigger picture and trust Him enough that He loves us enough to do the best for us even if it's not what we want, not what we like, or not on our schedule.
If you think you can do a better job running your life than God can, then by all means, run it. But be aware that you could also be shooting yourself in the foot.