DOES GOD STILL HEALS?
Most people today in the Christian community believe that it is not God's will to heal them and they walk around and live their lives with this premise. I have seen this flawed belief in devout and devoted Christians. Those who sincerely love the Lord but do not believe it is God's desire to heal today
I have been to several churches and different denominations and it makes me sad to know people hold this regard about my Loving Father. It makes me frustrated and yes, sometimes upset that people would believe it is God's will for them to be ill. Some have said it is God's plan for this person to be a testimony to others with the disease they have been afflicted with. That is just 'hogwash' and a flat out lie from the Enemy. The devil is going around to these wonderful, loving Christians who really love the Lord and his lawless bunch of demonic beings and whispering this lie to people. He tells them God does not heal people all of the time. That some people just have to go through their lives with this terrible disease. There are so many flawed beliefs about God and His Word on healing. Some are misinterpreted by ministers and pastors because this is what they been taught.
God has said, "My people perish for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6) because they have rejected knowledge."
When Jesus gave His life on the Cross at Calvary everything under the curse was also nailed to that Cross. Remember God so loved us He gave us His only begotten Son that whosoever believed in Him will have eternal life. (John 3:16.) God loves us so much and He wants us well and strong and prosperous. He is not the author of sickness, disease or pain. God will never put sickness or disease or pain on any of His children. That is a lie from hell. The God that I am honored and privileged to know loves me with an everlasting love and He wants the best of everything for me. I know God loves me because He gave me His precious Son, His only Son to die for me. That is not the God who will bring or place sickness or disease on anyone.
As I said earlier, in the book of Deuteronomy 28: 15 (to the end of the chapter), sickness, disease and pain is under the curse. We who love the Lord are not under the curse. We who gave our lives to Jesus Christ are not under the curse but under God's blessings and His favor (grace). We have been redeemed from the curse of the law. When Jesus died for us we became overcomers because of Jesus 'sacrifice on the Cross. We have a right standing with God and we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. We are the children of the Most High God. We have a right to be healed completly. We have a right to all the blessings outlined in Deut. 28: 1-14. All you have to do is to believe in God, your Father and in His Son Jesus. Jesus is our Healer and if you are a born again Christian you have The Healer on the inside of you. Just yield to Him and stake claim for your healing.
Now let me explain some things about healing. If you have faith in God for your healing and believe you receive when you pray, according to your faith it will be done. Mark 11:23-24 says, " Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received[a] it, and it will be yours. This is the kingdom process to receive anything according to the Word of God. The Word of God is His will for us.
When Jesus was on earth His compassion for the sick was astounding. Everywhere He went He healed the sick, the infirmed, He cleansed lepers, those with paralysis he healed, he opened the eyes of the blind, the mute spoke, the dead were raised and the list goes on. 'Jesus was moved with compassion for the sick and every disease among the people' according to the book of Matthew. In the books of Matthew, Mark and Luke (the synoptical gospels) corroborated Jesus' healing ministry. Jesus also gave His disciples "the great commission' to go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature, 'He who believed and is baptized will be saved (under the blessing); but he who did not believed will be condemned (under the curse).
He continued to say:"And these signs will follow those who believe: in My Name (Jesus) they will cast out demons (yes there are demons among us); they will speak with new tongues (the Holy Spirit language), they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.' This commission was not only for Jesus' disciples of long ago but all those who believe in Him. We are disciples of God and we have this same commission. God cannot use people who are sick to heal the sick. Sickness is under the curse.
My own personal testimony: I had a heel spur and every time I walked on it it was painful. I prayed and asked God to healed me. I looked in the Word of God and got out my healing scriptures and stood on those scriptures every day. I looked at them and repeated them as if I was taking medicine. Every day I lay claim to my healing. It took about nine months for complete healing. According to my faith I was healed. Some are healed immediately and some it is process but healing always comes.
I have read of Joel Osteen's mother, Dodie Osteen, in 1981, she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer of the liver. She was told that with or without chemotherapy, she had weeks to live. In fact, she recalled that when someone would ask how she was, she would say "I am disgustingly healthy." She has since then changed her confession. Not because she is not healthy, but she now understands how powerful her words can be, that words have a creative force behind it. Remember, death and life is in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). Watch your words and let it be aligned on the Word of God. Speak nothing else, especially when you are under attack by the Enemy (with sickness or a disease). She stated after the diagnosed that,' You must seek God and do what brings peace to you. Peace is the barometer for what you need to do in any situation.'
The story went on to say, the Christian community were all praying and believing with her for her healing but you know we have to seek God for our own healing and not rely on others to do the heavy lifting, in this case have others doing our praying for us. She went to say: she heard God speak to her heart, "Dodie, others’ faith will not heal you. It is YOUR faith that you must go on now." She knew at that point, it was between she and Jesus. She prayed fervidly never letting up. She stated she did not acted sick or needed others to feel sorry for her, that was the last thing she needed. So she did her chores as usual never stayed in bed except for normal sleeping hours, no naps in between. She acted as if she was already healed. We have to act as if we are already healed even though the symptoms may still be evident. Faith without action is dead. We cannot allow the devil to see us in doubt or fear or anxiety because it will cost us our lives.
Dodie resumed life as if she was already healed. Remember when you pray the Matthew 11:23-24 Scripture, and the promised in the Bible for healing? Well, you are in essence already healed. Dodie never went back to her doctors to confirm if she was healthy or not. Because she knew her faith in God and His love for her that she was healed. She reported she did not want the doctors telling her anything negative to put doubt on her faith. She took God at His Word. This is what we all have to do.
Now there are some who have little faith and that person should follow their doctors' orders. But those who have great faith in The Healer and have a relationship with Him all they have to do is to surender it all to Him and be steadfast on their faith. James said it this way, ask in faith without doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind; for let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double minded man unstable in all his ways (James 1:6-8). One way to increase faith is believe that Jesus loves you with an everlasting love and He is passionate about you. If you ask and believe you will receive, with one caveat, forgiving others (meaning walking in love.)
These are some of my healing scriptures: Isaiah 53:4-5 "Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows:yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed.
1 Peter 2:24 " who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-by whose strips you were healed."
Psalm 107:20 declares,"God sent His word and healed them and delivered them from destruction."
There are many healing scriptures in the Bible just make them personal. Put your name in the scripture and believe and see yourself sound, whole, healed and delivered. Then give God all the glory and praise for what He has already done for you. Do not let anyone talk you out of your faith or your healing. The devil will whisper in your ear that you are not healed, tell him he is a liar that Jesus is the Healer and greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Hang around positive people who also will agree with you on your healing. When someone ask how you are feeling tell them all is well and that you are standing for your healing. Do not complain about obvious symptoms they will eventually go.
God bless you and remember your faith in Jesus is what releases your healing. Shalom.
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