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!!!!
Also helpful:
“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.
God promises his children a heavenly healing and on occasion provides earthly ones as well. I hope you are not implying some kind of “name it and claim it” stuff.
Thank You Jim 0216
You’re welcome and God bless you.
Our sins are healed, certainly. I don’t think Joni Eareckson Tada would claim a healthy, unbroken body, do you?
Also helpful, some hard returns in the text.
With respect. Will God heal an amputated limb?
“I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers” (3 John 2).
There’s a lot of “name it and claim it” in the Bible.
“And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.” (Matt 9:20-22).
Many thronged him but only one said, “if I can only touch him I will be whole,” and Jesus said “Your faith has made you whole.”
Don’t be among those, like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day, who scoffed and actually hindered God’s people from receiving from Jesus.
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?
The Bible says, “By His stripes we were healed.” Either the Bible is the truth or a lie. You decide. But the whole New Testament is a testament to God’s goodness and will to see you whole. Everyone who came to Jesus were made whole (Matt 12:15; 15:30). Everyone that Jesus touched was made whole. When asked, “If you will, you can make me whole,” Jesus said, “I will” and healed him (Matt 8:2).
I know what the Bible says and I know many who have been healed. You’ll have to ask God about Joni.
But you mischaracterize the goodness and power of God, failing to glorify Him, and do His people a great disservice when you substitute some circumstance in place of the truth of scripture as the basis of Truth.
I see no reason why not.
“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Rom. 8:32.
Scripture, not circumstance, is the basis of doctrine and truth and you fail to glorify God and hinder those who look for God’s blessing if you teach any thing else as the basis of doctrine and truth. If you can’t explain something, fine, but don’t teach others doctrines of your own contrivance.
“God promises his children a heavenly healing and on occasion provides earthly ones as well. I hope you are not implying some kind of “name it and claim it” stuff.”
Name it, claim it and believe it:
Mark 9 -
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
I do not misjudge the power God. Unlike you, I don’t presume to know whom He will heal and whom He will not. Some Christians get healed, some do not. To tell people otherwise is deceitful and dangerous. And, I strongly suggest you read the following link : http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/90-60/does-god-still-heal
And when you’ve named, claimed and believed and it doesn’t happen, then what?
Read the Bible. Scripture, not church doctrine, is the source of truth and inserting your own good ideas hinders God’s work and glory.
With respect. Will God heal an amputated limb?>>> don’t know but my left leg was 3/8” shorter than my right due to being broken in 7th grade. while in college during a prayer session on a saturday night, my leg just stretched out and now is the same length as my right leg. last x-ray i had the technician cheat on the knee x-ray and include the spot where the leg was broken. I asked him an opinion on it and he said sometimes your leg heals almost completely. Prior to being stretched there was a large knot on the site. x-ray shows no knot, the knot was gone that night.
“And when you’ve named, claimed and believed and it doesn’t happen, then what?”
See Mark 24-27 where the father thought he believed too, and go straight to God with the issue.
Where did you learn this method of dealing with Scripture? And who taught it to you?
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