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Modern Experiences Unsafe to
Follow From How to Access Healing From
God and Keep It God has definitely
made many promises concerning every known need for the human life in the here
and now as well as for the life that is to come. And that all His children
can be happy and healthy. To accomplish this, He has given us all the
resources we need—His Word, His Spirit, the precious spilled blood and beaten
body of His Son, Jesus the Christ, as well as His church body. God has
restored a legal, just, and practical way of successful happy living in this
cursed world system. That is good news! GOOD NEWS! Healing, Health,
Wellness, Peace, and Wholeness—Already Paid For in Full In the midst of
this cursed, fraudulent world system, the Bible teaches that we can live
cured, healed, repaired, delivered from emotional, mental, and physical
issues and their power, and made whole, sound, well, and healthy. This is
always the will of God for His children. And
Jesus already paid for it in full. “Beloved, I pray
above all things that you may prosper and be
in health, even as your soul prospers.” – 3 John 1:2 KJV God has made us a
sacred pledge to reverse our emotional, mental, and physical issues. That is
good news! (James 5:14-16; see also Exodus 15:26;
23:25; Psalm 91; 103:3; 105:37; 107:20; Isaiah 53:4-5; 58:8; 61; Matthew
8:17; 1 Peter 2:24; or this
comprehensive study.) God’s New Testament
Covenant of Healing, Health, and Wellness The Holy Spirit through James informs us of
God's New Testament Covenant of Healing. This covenant, reported at James
5:14-16, graciously states that when we meet His terms, God has obligated
Himself to heal all our mortal bodily ailments—our emotional, mental, and
physical issues. "Is any among you with sickness
[unhealth]? They should call for the elders of the church; and let them
pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. And their
prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. And if they have committed sins, they
shall be forgiven. [So] confess your sins and pray for one another that you may be healed." (James
5:14-16) •
God has made a sacred agreement
(covenant contract) with His people to heal them •
Made with any who believe (trust in,
rely) on Jesus the Christ •
Given in two parts 1.
Instructions •
Any with issues •
Elders 2.
Promises Instructions for Any with Issues
1.
Call on (summon) the elders of the
church (James 5:14-15) 2.
Confess relevant sins if committed 3.
Be anointed with oil in the name of the
Lord (be altogether dedicated & consecrated to God for His service) 4.
Let the Elders pray over (declaring
God’s will be done as it is in heaven) 5.
Continue belief and stand firmly in
it Promises 1.
Healing by direct Divine agency •
When the prayer of faith is proclaimed
and the name of Jesus Christ invoked, the Lord shall heal the one of issues
and make them well 2.
Forgiveness if s/he has sinned (Jas.5:15,16) •
Healing and forgiveness go hand in hand
Promise Healing
by direct Divine agency •
See Acts 6:3-8 for the qualifications
for elders •
This power to heal is promised to every
committed believer, not only the elders of the church Instructions to Elders or to Faith-ful Praying for Any with
Issues 1.
Anoint them with oil (dedicate &
consecrate them to God alone for His service) 2.
Invoke the name of the Lord (Jas.5:14) 3.
Declare the prayer of faith; having
faith in God alone, nothing wavering Reliably
pray one for another (Jas.5:16) Thus it is
very clear that healing is just as easy to receive from God as forgiveness of
sins. Healing is part of your salvation; do not be cheated out of it any
more than you permit yourself to be cheated out of forgiveness of sins. See
also Psalm 103:3. “Jesus personally carried away our sins in His body to the cross that we, having died to sins
might live the right way; by Jesus Christ’s stripes [wounds] you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). This is completely contrary to the
fraudulent, cursed world system—what we, as well as health care
practitioners, have been programmed to believe (Isa.29:14; 1 Cor.1:18-28;
Col.2:17-3:3; Prv.3:5-8). Modern Experiences Unsafe to
Follow One preacher writes, "What
difference does it make if we are sick or if we are well, just so we are what
we are for the glory of God. It is not a pleasant thing to be sick. The
writer knows, for he has suffered eighteen years with that dreadful
affliction - arthritis. Even now, as I write this book, I know what pain and
suffering is, and know what it is to have burning joints, aches and pain. I
know what it is to have sleepless nights and a weak body. But why should I
complain because I have arthritis, why should I rebel against God's plan and
God's will for my life? If God can get more glory by my being sick and
afflicted, Amen! . . . through my afflictions I have been used of God to lead
many souls to Christ.... Some of God's greatest soul winners have weak
bodies, and are sickly." What wonderful teaching! The
very devil himself could not give better teaching to the church to suit his
purpose than this preacher has given. The devil is highly pleased with such
leaven in our Christian church and in gospel (?) literature. This is purely
one of the doctrines of the demons that Paul predicted would be followed in
the last days (1 Tim. 4; 2 Tim. 3:5). This same preacher and thousands
like him are reaping the fruit of their own teaching. If I taught that God
gets glory out of sickness, pain, failure, and needless sufferings that
glorify Satan more than God, I would want to become more sick in order to get
deeper in the will of God in order to glorify God all the more. But this
preacher says that he has had three operations and has spent much money in
trying to get well. By his own teachings wouldn't we have a right to conclude
that he is trying to get well in order to get out of the will of God and in
order to rob God of the glory that He gets by having His children sick? What
utter fallacy! God
is Glorified More by Healthy Bodies What difference does it make
whether a child of God is sick or well? It makes all the difference in the
world. God can naturally get more glory out of healing than in refusing to
heal. He can get more glory out of well bodies that can labor more for Him
than out of sick, sinful, painful, helpless bodies that can only lay around
groaning under the so-called loving-kindness of God. He can get more glory
out of people who demonstrate by their lives that God is alive and answers
prayer; and out of healing bodies and thus proving to the world that God does
care and make provision for the welfare of His people. The above-mentioned
preacher has suffered needlessly for eighteen years and has caused perhaps
thousands of people to become unbelievers in God and in answered prayer by
his testimony that God has not heard his prayer and has permitted him to suffer
that long. Suppose he has led a few souls to Christ in spite of, not because
of his suffering, would he not have won many more to Christ if he had been
well enough to devote more time and strength to winning souls? Any cripple
can do some things in spite of his handicap, but how much more could he do if
he was not so helpless? So it is with deceived Christians who are content to
carry about in their bodies the works of the devil just because they get a
little Christian work done. Christians
are Deceived by Satan The devil is a slick one. He not
only makes people sick but he makes them believe that his work in them is the
work of God and the will of God and that such glorifies the heavenly Father.
He gets people to teach that because some souls are saved through people who
suffer that it must be the will of God for them to be in this state or souls
would not be saved. He gets them to believe that sick people can win more
souls than well people. He gets them to teach everyone they can to accept
sickness and needless sufferings as the will of God because God blesses them
in such unbelieving, helpless, sickly, and defeated condition. It
is Time to Wake Up My friends, sooner or later we
are going to have to wake up to such deceptions of the devil and why not do
it now, once and forever? Let us throw off such a yoke of bondage and such
slanderous teaching against God and His truth. Let us reject such
unscriptural theories that cause us to spend sleepless nights, suffer untold
pain and agony, and be defeated by the demons of Hell who blame God for their
own work. God gives His beloved sleep, sweet sleep, and not sleepless and
painful nights (Ps. 4:8; 127:12; Prov. 3:21-24). God wants His workers to be
free from burning joints, aches, and pain, so they can carry on His work (Ps.
91; 103:1-4; Matt. 7:7-11; 21:21-22; Mark 9:23; 11:22-24; John 14:12-15:
15:7, 16; 16:23-26; 2 Cor 1:20). For God to will otherwise or refuse to make
health provisions for His workers is to place Him on a lower and more inhuman
and unjust plane than ordinary business corporations which make the best
provisions possible for their workers so that they can get the highest degree
of service out of them. God wants every child of God and
even sinners to rebel against sin, sickness, pain, want, and poverty in life
as not being the will and plan of God for man. So when preachers resign to
the work of the devil in them to the point where they seek to get others to
become resigned to accept the work of the devil as the work of God, we are in
need of better and more enlightened leadership in Christendom. It is not
God's plan or will that any should be sick and defeated in life. God cannot
get more glory out of anyone who is in this state than if he were free from
these hell-destroying forces. It is a lie that any person can win more souls
for God while under physical handicaps than he could if he were free from
such. Just because some sickly people might work for God more than some well
persons and thereby win more souls than do those who are well does not prove that
one can win more souls to God while he is sick than if he was well. This is
just another trick of the devil to deceive people. Christ
is Our Example in Life Jesus Christ is our example and
not some modern unbelieving, deceived preacher who seeks to hide his failure
and his unbelief by such theories as those above. Jesus was not a sickly,
helpless human being. He was full of life and vitality. He knew no sin and
experienced no sickness until the time He bore the sins and sicknesses of all
men in His own body on the cross (Matt. 8:16,17; 1 Pet. 2:24; Isa.53). If not
one apostle or one Christian at any time in this whole age ever got the full
benefits of the gospel or followed the example of Christ to the letter, Jesus
would still be the one to pattern after, for "as he is, so are we in
this world" (1 John 4:4, 17; 1 Pet. 2:21). Every Christian can get what
he wants from God just as Jesus did (Matt. 7:7-11, 21:21-23; Mark 9:23;
11:22-24- John 15:7, 16). Jesus taught us that God is more
loving and good to His children than earthly parents are (Matt. 7:7-11; Luke
11:1-13). James taught us that every good and perfect gift comes from the
Father of lights and that God would give all things liberally to them that
would ask in faith (James 1:4-21). Paul taught that men can have all the
gifts of the Holy Spirit and that they do not need to "come behind"
in any gift from God (1 Cor. 1:7; 12:1-11). He taught that all the promises
of God are yes and amen to them wo believe (2 Cor. 1:20), that people can be
filled with all the fullness of God and get what they want from God (Eph.
1:3-19; 3:13-20; 6:10-18), and that people can get from God exceeding
abundantly above all that they ask or think (Eph. 3:20; Phil. 1:6; 4:5-7).
The sufferings that He taught that Christians had gone through and to which
he referred to in writings were the persecutions from enemies of the gospel
and not sicknesses and pains from the devil. We covet for you the simple
faith and the true knowledge of the truth so that you can be made free from
every work of the devil, every spirit of bondage, and every fallacy that so
many people consider to be of God. If you will read the references themselves
you can see that we are sticking to what is plainly written in the Bible. You
are getting the full truth of God's Word on every question. The
responsibility of getting the benefits promised by God is up to you as an
individual. If you fail to get what is for you do not blame God. Always clear
Him of all wrong whatever you do. God does not fail people nor go back on His
Word, so if you fail to get what God has promised be honest to acknowledge
the source of your trouble as being from demons and from unbelief and failure
on your part to conform to truth. Our Need to
Appropriate What God Has Provided What does the Bible's New
Testament teach about diet or nutrition? What does the Bible's New Testament say about exercise? What about the man born blind? More Than
Thirty Proofs Unhealth Is the Devil’s Work The Rest of the Story How To Access
Healing From God and Keep It even when the issue is genetic or inherited What Divine
Healing and Health is Not It is not healing and health by natural remedies, imagination, will power, personal magnetism, metaphysics, spiritualism, immunity from death, presumption, insubordination to God's will, mind over matter, denial of the plain facts of sin, health issues, and disease, or natural healing by inherent laws and creative powers in humankind's body (i.e. our God-given immune systems, endocrine systems, ‘lymph systems, limbic systems, etc.) “I AM Jehovah-Raphah – your ‘Physician.’” —God at Exodus 15:26 The
(false) suspicion that we can somehow be separated from God’s love is the
root of every form of fear, stress, or anxiety, and the cure for it is knowing that nothing can tear us from God’s love, ever. How To Access
Healing From God and Keep It even when the issue is genetic or inherited The plan of God is to end evil and suffering forever (Exodus 20:5-6; 34:6-7; Numbers 14:18-20; Deuteronomy 5:9-10; Jeremiah 32:18; Psalm 34:15-16; Proverbs 1:24-33; Ezekiel 18:21-23; Matthew 5:44; John 3:16, 17; Romans 6:16-23; 8:12-13; 11:11-29; 12:14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 15:24-28; 2 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:9-11; Galatians 5:16-24; 6:7-8; Hebrews 6:4-9; 10:26-29; 2 Peter 2:9, 20-21; Revelation 21-22). The ultimate purpose of God in
all His present dealings with man is to bring him back to the place where he
was before the fall (beloved fellowship) and free him of all possibility of
failing in the future. “The object and purpose of our instruction and charge
is that all believers would be filled with [benevolent] love that
comes from a pure heart, and a clear conscience, and genuine faith.” —1 Timothy 1:5 Thank you Finnis Dake Ministries and their book entitled God’s Plan for Man |
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