Posted on 05/23/2016 4:25:24 PM PDT by Frank Broom
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“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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