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Intro
I have a great longing in my life.
As a matter of fact, I’m fairly desperate.
Years ago when I was first saved, my mother came to visit me while I lived with my father in SC.
I was a very young Christian full of boldness.
I talked to her about my faith, and I remember telling her, and meaning it, that I believed God would use me to lay hands on people and heal the sick.
Can I be perfectly honest and say the path that God has led me on has caused me to doubt that?
I watched people go to meetings with Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, etc, etc, etc.
Sometimes they would come back with great testimonies.
Sometimes they would come back entirely disappointed because they weren’t healed.
I remember as a child sitting at home sick with asthma and desperately hoping that Pat Robertson would say, “There’s a young boy at home on his green vinyl couch having trouble breathing.
God is healing him right now.”
I was always incredibly disappointed when the end of the show had come and I was not healed.
I watched people’s loved ones get sick and die and then their faith would wane because God didn’t heal them.
So before I get started down this road, I want to answer the question, “Why doesn’t God heal?” I’m going to break it down into a couple categories:
Not enough faith...
Woman with the issue of blood
Mk 5:
One of the 10 cleansed lepers comes back...
Lk 17:
Blind beggar cries out “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Now these passages are often used by faith healers to explain away why the people they are praying for is not healed.
They will say that the person being prayed for doesn’t have enough faith.
Or, maybe, there is someone in the room who doesn’t have enough faith.
Let me kill that argument here.
Jesus said to His disciple that “If you have the faith as small as a mustard seed, than you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’and it will move.
Nothing will be impossible for you.”
() The general idea here is that even small faith is enough.
In addition to that, we have to determine what Jesus means by faith in these instances where he says that faith has healed them.
Because in here lies a great secret.
In all of these cases, it is the reaching for Jesus that is the sign of faith.
The woman pushed through crowds to “only touch the hem” because even though she knew she was not worthy, He had the authority.
The blind man cried out to the authority of Jesus by crying out, “Son of David.”
In those 3 words, he proclaimed the kingship of Jesus and his recognition that Jesus was the Messiah, the one who would save us from our sins.
In addition to that, he cried for mercy.
Mercy by definition is not getting what you deserve, so the blind man recognizes that withing himself, he is not worthy for “intentional blank” but if anyone could grant it… Jesus could.
Finally, the leper that cam back.
Jesus healed 10 and told them all to come back..
only one did.
Jesus says to that man, “your faith has healed you.”
Now I ask the question, of what?
All 10 lepers were already healed.
What that man recognized that the other 9 didn’t was the Jesus is everything.
He is more than a healer of the body.
There is something deeper that needs healing… our very soul.
So what was the cleansed leper healed from other than the desperate need to be delivered from his sins.
More on that later.
Lk 1842
Not God’s Will
This answer seems to make more sense.
tell us that “we receive not because we ask amiss.”
Meaning we receive not because we are asking for something that is not in his will.
See, we look to the gospels and we see Jesus healing everyone and casting demons out left and right.
But I want to show you another picture quickly.
Jesus goes to the pool of Siloam where people gathered their sick.
The belief was that when the waters were stirred, the first one in the pool would be healed.
On the day Jesus walked by, He healed one guy.
One.... not all.
Why?
I don’t know.
But we can clearly see that sometimes, God leaves people sick.
Why?
I don’t know.
What I do know is that Paul had a thorn in his side that God did not relieve him from, and Paul also wrote the today we see through a glass darkly.
We are not doing to understand all the things that God does… Sometimes, God does not heal the sick.
I may have something to do with our faith, but more than likely it has more to do with His wisdom.
Believe and do not doubt.
Pray
Be healed.
Exp
However, If there is on thing I want you to know, is that we serve a God who heals the sick.
So whether you are sick in body, mind, or spirit, God’s desire is that you would be well.
One day you will be.
whether in this moment, or in heaven when your mad perfect.
You will be healed.
Can he do it today?
Amen and amen and amen.
Let it be so that everyone who can hear the sound of these words, be healed in Jesus name.
I proclaim it boldly and without a doubt that our King has the authority and desire to make you well.
So be lifted up in Jesus name today.
PS
Today, we will be going to the closest thing we have to “directions for healing.”
What the Passage is About - (hint: It’s not healing)
It’s About Prayer
Is anyone seffering?
Let him pray
Is anyone cheerful?
Let him praise (a form of prayer)
Is anyone sick?
call the elders and they will pray
Confess your sins to one another and PRAY for one another
There is an encouragement that if a righteous man prays, it has great power as it is working.
Elijah
Prayed fervently is very interesting, in the greek “prayed” is prosyookhomahee - meaning, well, pray.
Fervently however is prosyookhay meaning to pray earnestly.
So what is actually being said here is the Elijah prayed prayed earnestly … That’s what I call triple threat prayer.
It like saying, “Elijah prayed, and when he prayed he prayed emphatically and he really dug down deep into his soul and prayed with all he was worth.”
So, this passage is all about connecting with God.
Whether you are suffering or all is well… connect with God.
When you are sick, find other to help you connect with God, but above all… connect with God.
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