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DIVINE HEALING
DIVINE HEALING
When ever we see a divine healing take place in a friend or family member, it is a glimpse of Heaven when we will all get new bodies that will never get sick again and will be healed forever.
I personally have seen many people healed over the years, and have had healing take place in my own body.
Up front I want to say that I do not believe that God heals everyone all the time. I have been battling chronic pain in my body for over 3 years due to a neuromuscular problem.. I will always allow other to pray for me, and believe God for my total healing. Even though God has not chosen to heal me at this time, I still am experiencing the next best thing, “GRACE”.
Grace is awesome and I have been walking in for quite a while. God gives me a task, and then he gives me strength to do it. There are some things God has ask me to do that in my own strength, I would be a failure. But His grace is enough to get me by, and even more.
I think there is a reason that not everyone gets healed physically instantly.
The scripture says, Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much ( James 5:!4-16 )
Healing and health in a person life takes time. We are in it for the long Haul in many cases. Being born again, planted in a church family, reading and trusting in the Word of God, receiving prayer from the elders, and from one other; All these things bring healing and restoration into peoples lives. God restores us from the inside out spirit, to soul, to body.
What good is it if someone is healed of a liver disorder, but is still and alcoholic? What good is it for some one is healed of sexually transmitted disease, if the person is still sleeping around?
Psalm 107:17-18 says, “ fools become sick because of their sin.” so we need to focus on getting people healed and free in their spirits by the new birth, then dealing with things like forgiveness and getting rid bitterness which can cause physical problems, also help them to walk away from sin. The fact is, that love always hope, and always believe for healing for others, because that is what the God kind of love does.
We must be very careful about putting burdens on others by saying things like, “ you must have weak faith, and that is why your not healed, or you must be doing something wrong in your life and that is why your not healed.
Remember Job's friends made this mistake and they were very wrong.
We are encouraged through the process of healing, it is then that we discovered that we have a wonderful Christian family who loves us, and will stand by us through the healing process.
This is the taring off the roof kind of Christianity, and bringing one another to Jesus that we see in the Gospel. We will stand by each other until they are totally healed here, or in the Kingdom.
We also have to realize that we will all get sick and die some day unless Jesus comes back first. This is the ultimate healing for us, So continue to pray and believe God for divine intervention and healing for our friends and families.
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Comment by Pastor Bob B on June 11, 2009 at 1:35pm
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Amen marry Ann, I remember a few years back I was listening to Focus On The family, they had a clip from a Sunday School class where a Pastor was healed while he was speaking with this mike that enabled him to be heard. Even while he was saying healing wasn't for today.
He had lost his pastorite because of this viral infectin against his vocal chords. It was so powerful, He was shocked and you could hear the shock of the group there in the class. So we never know what God is going to do. We just must keep believing and trusting in Him.
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Comment by MaryAnn on June 11, 2009 at 9:40am
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Last night in our Wednesday night gathering at church, we listened to one of John Wimber’s video-teachings on Signs, Wonders & Church Growth. The teaching was on World View. It was revelational to me how our ‘world view’ inhibits and controls much of our thinking and how we observe things and our also our actions. John teaches how our view is heavily coloured with materialism and rationalism, where non-westerners view is experiential.
In the story from Mark 8:22-25 when Jesus commanded healing, I thought ‘all’ of His healings were instantaneous, but in this story of Jesus healing the blind man, where he spit on the man’s eyes, at first the man saw people like trees walking around. Then Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes again and his eyes were opened. Sometimes healing is progressive, and sometimes instantaneous. We are conditioned to see things a certain way by many things, upbringing, culture and the media certainly help to frame our view. In John 6:14-15, the story of where Jesus feeds the multitude of 5,000, perhaps their viewpoint in those times was, that because they were looking for the Messiah, and because Jesus performed great deeds, they said, ‘Surely He is the Prophet we have been expecting, and they were going to try and force Him to be their King’. They assumed, because of their ‘world view’ that Jesus was going to establish His Kingdom right then and there, and they were going to help him do it. We never know how and when God will reveal Himself. I love that about God. HE is unpredictable!
Your sis in Christ!
MaryAnn
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Charles you can as you say ramble all you want to because your ramblings are from the heart of God. If you were saying this in a church service, I would be on my feet shouting Amen!!!!!!!!!
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Glad you were blessed brother.
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Comment by felixpadua on May 21, 2009 at 7:13am
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thank you for this blog. i am enlightened.
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