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Does God Want You Healed
09-13-12 | Frank Broom

Posted on 09/12/2012 11:40:49 PM PDT by Frank Broom

Does God want you healed that is a question that needs to be answered and settled in your thinking because your way of thinking can hinder you from receiving your healing (3John 2). And the best place to find this out is from the Bible, not from peoples opinions or what they been taught, but from the Bible. First, every child of God has a covenant of healing. Notice in Luke 13 there was a woman with a spirit of infirmity and Jesus said, "Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" Notice, Jesus said she ought to be loosed because she was a daughter of Abraham. What was he saying, she has a covenant of healing and God is faithful to his covenant. He promised to never break it or alter it (Psalm 89:34). So what does that have to do with you, in Galatians 3:29 it says, "If ye be Christ's then are you Abraham's seed." And God is no respecter of persons, so just as Jesus said that woman ought to be loosed because she was a seed of Abraham, that's how He sees you. An important note I want to call your attention to is notice Jesus said, "Whom Satan has bound", because there are some who believes that God puts sickness on you. But, notice in Acts 10:38 it says that Jesus healed all that were oppressed of the devil. God anointed Jesus to heal the sick, so how could He be putting sickness on you. Jesus said, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." So, if God's the one putting sickness on you and healing you then He's working against himself.

Second, Jesus paid for your healing with his own blood. The same blood that purchased your forgiveness of sins also purchased your healing (1Peter 2:24). So, just as God doesn't want anyone to perish, He also doesn't want anyone sick. He wants his will done in the earth just as it is done in heaven (Matthew 6:10). When someone pays for something for you then it's obvious that they want you to have it. For example you take someone out to a buffet to eat and you pay for them, you want them to have free access to all that is on the buffet. In fact you feel best when they take advantage of what you paid for. If you paid for them to eat and all they came back with is a peice of bread you wouldn't feel right. Because for one thing you would feel like your money was wasted because they didn't take advantage of what you paid for. Third, He tells you how to get healed. In James 5:14,15 God tells you how to get healed by the prayer of faith. If healing isn't his will how can you pray the prayer of faith. And He tells you in the next verse to pray one for another that you may be healed. That's one way God has for you to receive healing and there's other ways. Why would He have so many ways of receiving healing if it wasn't his will. And fourth, He's your father and what kind of father would not want to see his child healed (Romans 8:15). Especially one that has the power to do something about it. Well, that's just a few things the Bible has to say on the subject you decide what you are going to believe.


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To: D-fendr

Allow me to answer this way. If no other method could stop me from sinning, then yes. However, I use that scripture to emphasize the importance of not sinning. If anything is that important, I’m sure that any human would have the personal will power to stop sinning prior to reaching that ultimate solution.

Thus literal, yes, but only as a last resort if all else fails. After all, That sin will cause the physical death anyway and create much more discomfort in the long run.

In reality, the flesh does not cause us to sin. It is the weakness in our soul that formulates its identity based upon the flesh. Dying daily is the process of losing that identity. Does that mean literally to die? Yes, but not a death of the physical body. It is a death of the false self or association with the flesh.


41 posted on 09/14/2012 2:43:08 PM PDT by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

thanks for your reply.

I’d have some quibbles, ‘personal will power’ for example, but I don’t think it worth rehashing to likely end up close to the same place in the end.


42 posted on 09/14/2012 9:50:10 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: tired&retired

thanks for your reply.

I’d have some quibbles, ‘personal will power’ for example, but I don’t think it worth rehashing to likely end up close to the same place in the end.


43 posted on 09/14/2012 9:50:10 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Frank Broom

I know how I’ll be healed, or can be healed, Mr Broom, and it is not by drinking a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc as I did this evening after going on the wagon a few months ago (where I’m staying, by the way, this is just a necessary break), and not by reading the Holy Scripture, or visiting a Christian Church as many well intentioned souls suggest, and not by volunteering to teach reading to children of prisoners as some fools suggest. I know the remedy, it is earthly, and it still ain’t coming.


44 posted on 09/14/2012 9:57:19 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: D-fendr

If we are both Bible based, there is a good chance it would just be semantics.


45 posted on 09/15/2012 8:52:36 AM PDT by tired&retired
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