Posted on 03/01/2013 1:10:48 PM PST by Frank Broom
The word belongs in two places in your mouth and in your heart. Because whatever gets into your heart and mouth will make it's way into your life. Jesus said it this way, "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith." Because your heart and mouth are doorways for things to come into your life and also out of your life. Because Jesus also said, "For verily I say unto you, If ye have faith(in your heart) as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you." That mountain can represent a problem in your life. Notice in both of those scriptures your heart and mouth are involved. Notice what Jesus said in Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." What door is he knocking at, the door of your heart(spirit). Jesus (the word) wants to come into your heart, so there is a door of your heart. But, also notice what David said in Psalm 141:3, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." So there is also a door of your mouth. Notice a door serves two purpose as an entrance and an exit. So things are coming into and out of your life when you know how to work your mouth and heart together. I believe David tapped into that when he said, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer." But, notice the heart and mouth working together.
The door of your heart is a doorway into your spirit and once something is in your spirit and you open the door of your mouth that thing is released into your life. Jesus said that this way, "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." Take salvation for instance, with your heart you believe and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. You work your heart and mouth together and salvation shows up in your life. It's with the heart you believe and with the mouth you speak. So, it's not just speaking and it's not just believing, but both working together. When the word enters you it first works on you (renewing the mind and bringing faith to your heart) and after it works on you now it's ready to be released into your life and work on your situations. So, any word of God that you can get in your heart and speak out of your mouth will make it's way into your life. Let's take Mary for instance an angel brought Mary a word "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS." And Mary believed that word and not just believed, but she also spoke, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word." And Jesus showed up and we can live according to the words she believed and spoke. When that outside word became an inside word and she spoke it Jesus came in the earth. How about the woman with the issue of blood she heard about Jesus and according to what she heard she said, "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus said, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole." So by her heart and mouth working together healing came into her life. So, if you have a situation in your life put the word in your mouth and heart and keep it there and watch the word work (Hebrews 6:12 Isaiah 55:11).
>> “God is NOT using men to perform healings or miracles today.” <<
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One could not possibly utter a more false statement than that.
People that fully accept and understand God’s word are performing creative works of healing every day. But not all healing requires such a creative work.
To achieve the guaranteed healing that was paid for by Yeshua’s broken body, one must remove the curse that caused the disease. If the curse remains, the disease MUST remain, because God is a just God.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
AMEN! Very important advice, metmom! Nobody can know how God is working in another person's life. Some of us haven't a clue how he's working in our own, much less think we can tell someone else what He's doing in theirs. What we CAN know from God's word is that He IS working individually in each life, on HIS terms, according to HIS will, purpose and plan. It is the height of arrogance to presume to command Almighty God according to our own timetable or understanding. We also have no idea how God is using suffering, trials and temptation in someone else's life to strengthen their faith, discipline disobedience or work through them to reach the lost.
What we CAN be assured of is that God ALWAYS does what is right. We can trust Him to work ALL things for our good when we love Him and are called according to His purpose. God ALWAYS answers our prayers. Our problem is that we expect the answer to always be YES and NOW! Sometimes the answer is YES but sometimes it is NO or NOT NOW, WAIT. I think one of the most crucial benefits of suffering in a Christian's life is that it teaches us to trust God regardless of our outward circumstances. As Paul said he learned that in whatever state he was in, therewith to be content. THAT is genuine faith!
The short answer is that either you or possibly one or more of your immediate ancestors has placed a block to healing, or by your thoughts and or spoken words you have bought into Satan’s lies and allowed the curse of disease into your life.
Chapter and verse? I hear that a lot but there is no Scriptural support for it at all. I don't buy into theories and philosophies that have no Scriptural support.
Jesus healed. Period, end of story. He didn't psychoanalysis them. Didn't tell them it was anyone else's fault, that it was *generational curses*, or whatever nonsense is the current blame on the afflicted for why they weren't healed, tell them to clean up their lives and get back to Him.
The problem is that nobody is going to be blaming God, so they look for a scapegoat of why God isn't performing as they think He should. That turns it back onto the person who is sick.
Then it's all this time and effort wasted chasing down all this nonsense, which results in people getting their eyes off Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith and onto themselves, their circumstances, their ancestors, the enemy, everywhere but on Jesus.
It's a great tactic on the enemy's part of making legalists of people.
If healing is part and parcel with salvation, then it is apprehended in the same manner. Salvation is by faith, then healing is by faith. If healing is by works, then salvation is by works.
I am saved by faith. If I didn't and don't have to clean up my act, get rid of generational curses, etc. to be saved, then I don't to be healed. When people came to Jesus in Scripture, He healed them, simply for the asking.
It's not salvation by faith, healing by works.
God gave the prescription for healing in James. Go to the elders and be anointed with oil.
The long and short of it all is that I know many Godly Spirit filled people who struggle with physical affliction in their bodies, way too many to validate Wrights theology.
Additionally, I personally know many people who have read his book and some who have been to his seminar with me, who have not been healed. Matter of fact, NONE of whom have been healed by his method.
I do not discount the connection between mind and body, BUT God cannot reduced to a formula, nor can healing.
God told Paul that His grace was sufficient for his sufferings, his thorn in the flesh.
Paul advised Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach’s sake? What? Did Timothy have sin in his ,life? Generational curses? There wasn’t anyone around with the gift of healing to pray for Timothy and knock him over?
Same for Trophimus Paul left sick in Miletus? Say what?!?!?!
Paul left someone sick? The same Paul whose handkerchiefs and aprons were taken to sick people and they were healed?
The Corinthian church, the same one which had such problems with sin in its midst, was one where the gifts abounded. What happened to sin in our lives hampering healing? That blows THAT theology out of the water.
Having a charism (gift) does not equate to character. See Balaam. The heart determines how tools are used, likewise gifts.
And Samson.
There are two extremes here, one being that all the sign gifts have ceased, and while not disallowing that God can heal, it does not see that as provided for in the atonement, and does not wait in faith for deliverance and healing according to God’s will and timing.
“And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. “ (Luke 5:17)
O the other side are those who teach that it is not God’s will that any Christian should suffer and that lack of deliverance or healing, or remaining in need after prayer, is always due to lack of faith, even to the point of claiming persecuted Christians remain in suffering due to lack of faith, and tend to slight members of their church who do not see healing, as they challenges their theology. (And yet the preachers of it typically example living more by entreaties for money than by Biblical faith.)
But the Bible is a book of balance, and it is obvious both that God heals and delivers by faith, and also calls us to endure sufferings by faith, even if it continues till death.
There is a very important word regarding this in the Hebrew “hall of faith, “ that being “others:”
“Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
And OTHERS had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: “ (Hebrews 11:33-39)
A lack of obedience and faith can indeed be blamed for not being delivered and lack of victory or healing or being in need,
“Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. “ (Psalms 78:41)
“And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. “ (2 Corinthians 10:6)
Yet God can allow afflictions and trials of long continuance, and thus even the apostle Paul was not given deliverance from his thorn in the flesh, and which was not persecution.
“And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. “ (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)
Thus Paul remained afflicted and rejoiced in having necessities, as that worked to having real victory. It is my observation that believers who see great manifestations of God’s providence and deliverance, healing, have also latter experienced financial needs, etc, or prolonged sickness, sometimes unto death, even though they lived by the same faith and obedience as before.
David Wilkerson suffered from diverticulitis and recurrent shingles if i recall. I personally know of a holy couple who were instruments of healing for others, including a Christian brother or mine, yet he recently died after a prolonged (years) of debilitating dementia and others problems, though i am sure they continued to believed in Divine healing and waited for it. But i am sure God will reward the wife for her selfless constant care and suffering in so doing during those years, which was a trial of faith.
For God has a greater priority than our health and prosperity, that being conformity to Christ and rewarding us, and which requires faith both for deliverance, and to endure trials without losing faith, even if it unto death, which is the final deliverance for the saints.
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. “ (Romans 8:17)
“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: “ (2 Timothy 2:12)
Thus we should continue to believe for deliverance, and endure by faith till it comes, even if it is by death of this “vile” body.
A preacher I’ve heard gave the example of two women who went for prayer for healing from cancer. One was healed, the other not.
So he asked, who had the greater faith? The one who was healed or the one who wasn’t but still loved and followed Jesus, not having received from Him what she asked for?
God is not a sugar daddy, nor is healing a barometer of the amount of faith one has.
Again, faith the size of a mustard seed is enough to move mountains according to Jesus. Because it’s not the size of the faith that makes it effective, but rather the size of the God we have the faith in.
Thanks daniel, for that post. Excellent as usual.
If you read the book, then you know that there is massive scriptural support.
There is little in that book that isn’t referenced to multiple scriptures.
Finally, the testimony of the successful healings seals the deal.
Healing isn’t for everyone. Some just can’t deal with the sanctification process; it’s no fun to be peeled open, and always difficult to confess our ugliness to othwers.
Despite the "divine healers" claiming they are empowered by God, the death rate is STILL one apiece. And will be until that one group that is alive at His coming for His Church, the Body of Christ.
In the meantime, how do you explain the "healers" and "signs and wonders" of the ROman Church, the Unity Movement, Christian Scientists, and others who claim healing powers and can present "evidences" FULLY as convincing. Are their powers, then, also God-given? And if not, how do you know the difference?
>> “In the meantime, how do you explain the “healers” and “signs and wonders” of the ROman Church, the Unity Movement, Christian Scientists, and others who claim healing powers and can present “evidences” FULLY as convincing.” <<
.You would have to be much more specific than that for your question to be answerable.
Be in Health. com doesn’t boast “powers” that Yeshua didn’t declare all believers to have, and all we need claim is the promise of his broken body that was first voiced by Isaiah. The vast majority of healing is simply through pursuing sanctification personally, in accordance with the dozens of scriptures that Wright presented in his book. True sanctification releases that promise.
The “right” to claim the benefits of the kingdom is for those that yield to the kingdom, and live for sanctification, rather than being satisfied with a Carnal, ‘Corinthian’ level of salvation by the skin of their teeth.
It’s based almost entirely on OT theology and how God dealt with the Israelites. His whole premise is based on Deuteronomy where God promises blessing to Israel under the old covenant for obedience and curing for disobedience.
Now I recognize that God will not bless sin, however, we are not under the old covenant any more.
It’s based almost entirely on OT theology and how God dealt with the Israelites. His whole premise is based on Deuteronomy where God promises blessing to Israel under the old covenant for obedience and cursing for disobedience.
Now I recognize that God will not bless sin, however, we are not under the old covenant any more.
If someone had the gift of healing, they could heal all people all the time, like Jesus did.
But the Corinthian church had the gifts and was exercising them as evidenced by Paul first epistle to them.
If sin was an impediment to that, then how could the gifts be being exercised?
God did use Balaam and Samson in spite of their carnal sinful lifestyle.
There is only one covenant, which covenant was renewed by Yeshua.
He has promised, in Revelation, to later confirm that same covenant.
Our Lord is one Lord, he changeth not.
That simply is not true. There is the Abrahamic Covenant and the Davidic Covenant, to name two.
Read the epistles to the Corinthians carefully!
1Corinthians begins with a scathing report on their lives and spirituality.
1Corinthians 3:
[1] And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
[2] I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
[3] For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
[4] For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
[5] Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
[6] I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
[7] So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
[8] Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
[9] For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
[10] According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
[11] For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
[12] Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
[13] Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
[14] If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
[15] If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
[16] Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
[17] If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
[18] Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
[19] For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
[20] And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
[21] Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
[22] Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
[23] And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Oh, and God also used Judas...
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