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Is it easier to accept salvation through faith in Christ Jesus' sacrifice, but when faced with an illness in the body faith is just too hard to find?
Romans 6:9-11.....9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. RSV
According to this verse 11, we must consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
So ultimately and foremost we are temples of the Holy Spirit and so are swept clean from sin and sickness. Through His work on the Cross, we are reconciled to God. We stand as the free from sin and sickness.
We must touch heaven to change earth. And with that being said,we are made of earth, changes must come in our thinking and hold God at His Word of truth. In that we are freed from the power of that curse over mankind. Jesus must be the Lord over every part of who we are or we will end up looking like something that maybe the cat dragged in.
We can not take only the part that makes us feel good, but also look at where we must be corrected in that which God speaks for our lives. Sickness for some I have seen of late are the ones who are inflicted by inner hurts. They are so damaged in their thinking and heart, one who really listens will hear their cry of pain. For whatever they are in bondage to from the past hurts will certainly show up in their daily life in every decision they must make.
An inner healing must take place for the person to live a victorious Christian life. What comes into play in most instances can be the work of demonic powers. Most do not like that word anymore they want to hear the word "pastor". Not sure why, but whatever has come into play, that mechanism operates producing a friction against others.
One of the most favorite of all scriptures to help for both areas of healing is found in Isaiah 53:4-5. It is both for the physical as well as the inner healing.
Isaiah 53:4-5
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,
and with his stripes we are healed. RSV
The word 'sorrows' (v4) is from the Hebrew
'makobah' meaning pains or sorrow or grief. And Jesus was chastened (v5) for
our well being (mind and body). Jesus started His public ministry by saying:
'He (God........... His Father) has sent Me to proclaim............. release to the captives … to set free those
who are downtrodden …seen in....
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." RSV
From Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good tidings to the afflicted;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, RSV
He was sent to bind up the broken in heart.
If it is an emotional hurt, we are to pour it all out to Jesus,
we hand it over to Him and let Him carry it, we take His free offer of peace and we take His offer of freedom that is only found in Him. It does no good to spill it upon someone just for us to have a shoulder to cry on. No, we must ultimately bring it to Jesus and lean into His goodness and love.
Really expecting by faith, we allow those chains to be removed, and God can do this.........in a moment of time. If you and I can take our salvation by faith in trust of Him, surely the same should come as quick when we keep our eyes of faith on Him. God is supernatural and His promises are true. We are to rest in Him and trust no matter what else is going on at the time, that God Himself will hear and know our cry.
But should a profound hurt be opened up from the demonic, then this must be dealt with first. It will likely need and require prayer and fasting:
'Is this
not the fast which I chose, to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the
bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke?'
(Isaiah 58.6)
Many times people will not forgive anyone. They start out with un-forgiveness toward one person and then it can lead into not forgiving anyone, till they have to control every situation in their lives, so that they might protect themselves from everything and everyone God is sending to help them. Because of their insecurities they set to assault others in the same or similar manner that they have been assaulted. It can come in words that only hurt others and for their own protection. They desire to regard those who will be on their side. Remember birds of a feather will flock together?
Scripture tells us in 1 Kings 18: 21...."If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him."
20 So
Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on
Mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long
will you falter between two opinions? If
the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people
answered him not a word. 22 Then
Elijah said to the people, "I alone
am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and
fifty men. 23 Therefore let them give us two bulls;
and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on
the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay
it on the wood, but put no fire under it. 24 Then you call on the name of your
gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, He is
God." So all the people answered and said, "It is well spoken."
We have the choice to choose whom we will serve. We must not behave badly before others or allow others to behave badly before us. If you gossip before me, I will call you on it.
How can you know if you are dealing with someone with such brokenness? Well it is in the stance they take, and what they speak that is the unreasonable and is ultimately immune from any opposition. They hold a high regard that the "sacred cow" they have as their custom or their idea is put where they may observe and worship daily. Anyone seeing this will have the desire to pray for them....but we must know God is in it with us to pray for them.
I looked up the synonyms for the "sacred cow"...and the meaning was like this: golden calf, anything that is the object of worship. But I also found these: god, or goddess. Yeah, see those little g's?
Praying for all is paramount and when God gives the direction for us to do so. But if we see someone acting a certain way, and their behavior is not consistent with life to another, but bent on another's destruction, then we must not condone that kind of behavior.
"Well, he acts like that because he had such a terrible childhood!" Or, "she was just having a bad day, so it was okay for her to act like that. Each day we are framing our world and it should be with the Word of God....and not by he said or she said.
It is like seeing children on the playground: one boy of about eight or so has another pinned to the ground while others pour water over him ....making him cough and what .....that he begs them to please stop....but they do not....! That is not boys just being boys....No, they saw that some where and it is a part of them...to act it out in aggression to another boy.
It is like seeing children on the playground: one boy of about eight or so has another pinned to the ground while others pour water over him ....making him cough and what .....that he begs them to please stop....but they do not....! That is not boys just being boys....No, they saw that some where and it is a part of them...to act it out in aggression to another boy.
Once
heard this man speaking of his son. It seemed every time a meal was prepared,
the youngest or what would become the middle child would complain of the food served and the child would promptly gag at the plate set before them. Now this individual would continue to gag
till the parent would coax him into something no one else was having to eat. Ta-dah….another
meal being prepared for the “gagger”! Yikes.
Many
times, as the parent with more than one child, will try to find an easy solution
yet in the long-haul the child will expect the “special “treatment always. This
is a destructive pattern for the parent and for the child who would be informed
in the year to come another baby was now about to appear.
You can
hear the parents cry and the child’s subsequent gagging reflex begin always
around the meal time and all are gathered to eat while one is capitalizing on that
which “he will not eat”….only to be catered too……while parents are not dealing
with this child another smaller baby is now on their way into the same “house”.
The " gagging" child will even venture to speak this: “ mama, why did God make me this way?”
or “daddy, why did God do this to me?” YIKES!
Certainly
our nature is to become like Jesus. Our born-again man is to resemble Jesus in
thought, word and deed. But many time people will resort to that destructive
pattern. They receive that “sacred cow” and believe the child might grow out of it. But something like this is a deeply embedded
thing! And continuing this practice will wear you out!!!!
God has certainly
made us and He fashioned us in our mother’s womb. We take the walk of faith
daily and obey Him. Now there may some place we might trip, but certainly we
get up, dust off the pride thing and know God can help us and our children when
we bring these matters to God. Bringing light will dispel the darkness of where
you or I may have messed up what God planned for us or for our children.
God does not make your child gag!
God can change
situations when we allow Him to change them. But pretending our child is just a
gagger is like the one who says….”well , boys will be boys”. It is our God who
makes the broken new again. He does not approve of boys to participate in water-boarding!
When we allow certain behavior that is not consistent with being righteous before God then we are condoning the false, perpetuating their problems into our lives. We are not to commend the ill bent person for behaving badly and to correct..........for choosing to ignore that bad attitude, then we allow it into our homes and into our children's lives. God is not mocked, what man sows, he will reap.
And some men or even women will find themselves in a greater hurt.
Water boarding seen in young boys and never stopped will increase and produce most likely death for another person at a later date!
Water boarding seen in young boys and never stopped will increase and produce most likely death for another person at a later date!
Jesus gave us authority over sickness.Matthew 10:1-4.
10:1 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. 2 The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zeb'edee, and John his brother; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. RSV
Jesus
healed people because God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power .
Acts 10:38-43............RSV..........8 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39 And we are witnesses to all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; 40 but God raised him on the third day and made him manifest; 41 not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead. 43 To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
Healing for those who are oppressed of the devil is available to us. We have been clothed with power from on high. Hallelujah!
So, if you see some sickness caused by an unclean spirit, it is Christ's authority and power that is vital in healing for the person. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." James 1:17
What that is of God is a spiritual "thing" is truth, is life and brings healing and much change in our lives. Jesus went to the Cross so all could have all the good of God today. It was and is the most marvelous life-changing and yes, life establishing gift a Father could give us. Let's receive it by faith!
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