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!!!!
Actually, I want to be in perfect health now with a young beautiful body.
Hasn’t happened yet.
Maybe if I throw a temper tantrum and stamp my feet at God, He’s come through.
Plead with Mary.
I hear that she can work miracles!
Makes note of tens of thousands of prayers from devout Catholics around the entire planet, every minute of every day. Goddess-like don’tcahknow
Rumor has it.
I hear that she can work miracles!
Or, call your FRiendly neighborhood Net Pope!
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Hossus I
Still lurkin’ . . .
Really excellent link! (Nehemiah 8:8)
Less is more.
After calling on the Lord to save me I came in thru the Pentecostal church...I am all to familiar with those scriptures you cited...I was baptized by a Pentecostal preacher...An those scriptures of course are to the Gentile church...
However, the scriptures I cited are not to the Gentile church...They are to the Jewish church...The Jewish church that started out in Jesus' ministry and prophetically for the Jewish church that will come into existence during the Great Tribulation AFTER the Rapture of the Gentile church...
Taking up poison snakes and drinking poison are NOT prescribed for the Gentile church...They have one purpose and one purpose only...They are for a sign...A sign to the Jews...The Jews then and during the Tribulation will require signs...The Christian Gentile church does not require any signs to have faith in Jesus...We walk by faith, not by sight...
I realize my views on some of the scripture are not 'main stream'...There are numerous Independent Baptist churches that believe and teach what I believe...To reconcile ALL of the scripture given to us, I don't see any other way to look at these things...
How about the above??
Aren't you the guy who believes and teaches there are no Christian souls in heaven???
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Hossus I
Or Net Pope number 2.
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What!?
Weren't their 'traditions' working well enough for them?
But you typed: We're talking every believer here:
Yeah; I am the fella that produces lots of Scripture that tends to indicate this...
SOMEbody has to be the DEAD IN CHRIST that rise from tombs when Jesus returns.
Hoss
Weren't their 'traditions' working well enough for them?
I guess not.
For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
This is your soul sleep...
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
So Paul is standing in the cemetery encouraging the souls of dead people to awake and rise??? Telling them not to get drunk??? To redeem the time and be filled with the Spirit???
I would suggest the sleeping dead in these verses are not dead at all...Just dead to Jesus Christ...
1 Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
SOMEbody has to be the DEAD IN CHRIST that rise from tombs when Jesus returns.
These people who are dead in Christ are a different group than those in Eph 5:14...These people are actually dead...Dead Christians...But it is not their souls who are sleeping...It is their dead bodies that are said to be sleeping...And yet;
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Sleeping/dead Christians God will bring with him to the Rapture...
Consider Lazarus and the rich man...Lazarus went to Paradise while the rich man was in torment, after they died...And since a dead body can not feel pain nor pleasure it is speaking of their souls which are certainly not asleep...
The point is, many of us have searched the scriptures diligently and found things that others have not...ALL scripture must be able to be reconciled...I usually try to do that when I post scripture and I certainly do not 'cherry pick' scripture to create a false truth or doctrine as you suggest I do...Some of my positions are based on scriptures that many people don't like to discuss...
I have been on this board since 1998 as a born again, Independent Baptist Christian...I don't cherry pick verses...Do you???
Oh; that was NOT orifices...
Never mind...
Read that verse many times...How do you reconcile that and other similar verses with the scriptures that clearly show Christian souls go to heaven when we die???
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