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FranklinB May 9, 2016

Your Healing Has Been Provided


\tHave you heard someone say, "God heals some, but not others", actually that is not the truth. Acts 10:34 says, "God is no respecter of persons." Why do people say that because they are basing it off of their experience. But, a persons experience doesn't change the truthfulness of God's word. The truth is that when God heals he provides healing for everyone and doesn't pick and choose who gets healed. Let's go through the scriptures and see what they say. In Exodus 12 God institutes the Passover where the children of Israel were to take a lamb and kill it and put the blood on the two side door posts and the upper door post where they were to eat the lamb. That was an instruction for the whole congregation and notice as a result of eating of the lamb Psalm 105:37 says, "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among them." God healed all of them, there was not one person that God did not heal. On another occasion in Numbers 21 when the children of Israel were in the wilderness they were being bitten by serpents and dying, but God came up with an answer to the problem (notice God's wording). God said, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Notice God said that it was for every one.

\tLet's look at some more scriptures to further prove the point, Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto them that find them, and health to all their flesh." That word health is translated from Hebrew as medicine, remedy, cure. God says that his word is the remedy for all your flesh. And it is for all that find them. Let's look at one more scripture in Acts 10:38 it says, "How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." First notice that Jesus healed all and God calls healing doing good.

\t Now, let me inform you of something that you might not know that a lot of people have a problem accepting, but I'm going to explain. God has already provided all the healing you will ever need. 1Peter 2:24 says, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED." Notice, the scripture says that you were(past tense) healed. Now, I know the first thing someone might say is if I am healed how come I still have this sickness. Because, God is not saying that you are physically healed, but he has already done the healing. You look at Luke 17:12-14 where 10 lepers cried out to Jesus for him to heal them and he said, "Go shew yourselves unto the priests." And the scripture says that as they went they were cleansed. Notice, all Jesus did was send them to show themselves to the priest, because in those days you only showed yourself to the priests after you were cleansed so Jesus was calling them clean. That was all he did, so what Jesus did he did when he said, because that's how Jesus healed by his words. Notice, even though Jesus did something there was no physical change, they still looked and felt the same. So, your flesh is no indication of if God has done something. Your flesh is only an indication of when you have received what God has done. Notice, in verse 15 it says that when one of them saw that he was cleansed he turned back to praise God. Notice, by faith he believed something was done when Jesus said, go....., but by his senses he saw when he had received.

\tYou see the same principles in Mark chapter 3 where Jesus saw a man with a withered hand and said unto him, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other. Notice, again Jesus said, "stretch forth thine hand" he was calling the man healed because he couldn't stretch forth his hand so for him to comply with Jesus words he would have to be healed. Notice, again Jesus words was Jesus doing the healing. Again, notice even though Jesus did something there was no physical change because the scripture says, he stretched it out and it was restored whole as the other. Otherwise, it would have said and his hand was restored whole as the other and he stretched it out. So, the implication is that when Jesus told him to stretch forth his hand, he knowing that he couldn't stretch forth his hand put forth an effort to do it and his hand was then made whole. Now, in both of those instances what if they would have waited to see or feel something they would have never received.

\tNow, here is a point you have to understand in looking at the instances above, God has already released your healing. It is not a matter of God needing to heal you. God sees healing as an accomplished act and he tells you. In 1Peter 2:24 it says, "By whose stripes ye were healed." That is not a promise of something in the future, that is stating an accomplished act. Now, I know the first thing that may come to a person is if God has done the healing why do I still have this condition. Let me give you an example: Let's say a person is hungry so he goes to a restaurant. The waitress comes and takes his order and gives it to the chef. He cooks the food and gives it to the waitress and she brings it to him. Notice, once she brings the food or provides him with his order he is considered having been served. Once the provision is made you are considered having been served. Now, the food is right there in front of him, but question, is he still hungry. Just the food being in front of him does not take away his hunger, he has to receive it or eat it. Likewise, the healing God has provided does not take away your sickness until you receive it. Just like that food will not do you any good until you eat it or receive it. Now, nobody goes to a restaurant and places their order and when the waitress brings them their order because they are still hungry because they have not yet received what has been provided they ask for another plate of food. Now you have two plates of food again not having received any of it so because you are still hungry you ask for another plate of food. Now at that rate you can have 10 plates of food in front of you and still be hungry. Nobody would do that and yet that is the same as when a person continues to ask God to heal them.

You can not allow your flesh to tell you when or what God has already done for you. Your flesh body has no clue of what God has done for you. In 1Corinthians 2:14 it says, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Notice it says your flesh can not know the things of God, so you can't count on your flesh to tell you what God has already done for you. The only thing you can count on is the word of God. Your flesh can't tell you what God has done for you only when you have received what God has done for you. Coming up we'll look at this further and look at how you receive the healing God has already done. God Bless!!!

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Lysa May 9, 2016


Franklin,

I don't know if you believe in the gifts of the Spirit alive today or not but I read a book a few years back by Dutch Sheets called "Intercessory Prayer" and in it he explained how he wife was sick and he prayed in tongues one hour a day for her and God healed her. There was more because it was a book (obviously! :) ) but that's what I remember, praying in tongues one hour a day for her.

I believe in healing!!! I don't understand why every single person praying for healing and being prayed for doesn't get healed but I still believe in it.

And I always like your posts on healing.

God bless you, Franklin
Lisa

http://www.amazon.com/Intercessory-Prayer-Prayers-Heaven-Earth/dp/0764215779

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yuehan May 9, 2016

Thanks Franklin for your post - very timely.

Can you share some testimonies which illustrate the principles you shared?

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JFW May 9, 2016

Brother Franklin,

Amen!!!! Amen !!!!! Amen!!!!!

Very well said brother:)

Once whilst in a similar place I was crying out to the Lord and it must've been pitiful cause He said to me; "look here, I've prepared a place for you at my table and invited you to come,... I've laid before you a feast of my Son! Why is it you sit here at my table and cry out in hunger and thirst?... Take up the fork of faith and the cup of obedience and feast!"

I was undone, broken beyond anything I'd experienced before but that was my "old man" that was breaking and the "new man" began to eat his first meal:)
Life has been different ever since~

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FranklinB May 9, 2016

Thank you JFW for sharing that!!! And thank you for reading.

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FranklinB May 9, 2016

Yes Lysa I do believe in the gifts of the spirit alive today. And I encourage you to continue believing in healing. And I thank you for being a continual reader.

sermonindex May 9, 2016

Respectfully brother I disagree God will not always heal everyone in response to our prayers. Ultimately God will do whatever will bring Him glory.

Consider the case of Joni Erkckson Tada. Is anybody going to say that this sister has not prayed for healing. God kept her a paraplegic. Look how he has used her in the weakness of her flesh. Consider the Apostle Paul. He had a thorn in the flesh God would not take away. Yet he said my grace is sufficient for you.

I have an intercessor is battling three forms of cancer. We have prayed for her healing. But it looks like God's will will be to take her to her ultimate healing in his glory.

The problem I have with saying God heals everybody is that when they do not receive their healing he has put it back on them that they don't have enough faith. This is cruel to the person who's been expecting healing and doesn't receive it.

So I agree with the original post. God will heal some but not others. But then others may receive their ultimate healing by God taking them home to their ultimate reward.

Respectfully posted.

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AbideinHim May 9, 2016

"Let's look at some more scriptures to further prove the point, Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto them that find them, and health to all their flesh." That word health is translated from Hebrew as medicine, remedy, cure. God says that his word is the remedy for all your flesh. And it is for all that find them. Let's look at one more scripture in Acts 10:38 it says, "How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." First notice that Jesus healed all and God calls healing doing good."

It was around 5 years ago when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I prayed about it and the Lord led me to healing scriptures in the Word that I received by faith and claimed for my healing. God wants us healed and He has provided so many means for us to be healed. But the fact that healing is in the atonement should be enough for any Christian to know and believe that not only did Jesus take our sins upon Himself at the cross, but He also bore our sicknesses and diseases.

The scripture that I really got a hold of was the one in Proverbs 4:20-22. I had read Derek Prince's book "God's Medicine Bottle", and also Kenneth Hagin's teaching on the same scripture "God's Medicine." So I took my medicine every day, several times a day, and took authority over fear, went on a natural diet, and continued to go to the doctors at M.D. Anderson in Houston for checkups. The result is that the last few biopsies over a 5 year period have not detected any cancer, and my PSA reading has stayed pretty steady over this period of time.

"He sent his Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20).

God is faithful and His promises are true!

"My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto them that find them, and health to all their flesh." (Proverbs 4:20-22). That word health is translated from Hebrew as medicine, remedy, cure. God says that his word is the remedy for all your flesh. And it is for all that find them."

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AbideinHim May 9, 2016

Brother Blaine,

I have seen many dear children of God healed over the last 43 years of being born again, but I have also seen many not get their healing, and some of them had great faith.

There are many reasons why people are not healed, but we don't have all the answers, and neither do we know why some are not healed. But we do know that God is faithful and His Word is true.

sermonindex May 9, 2016

Brother I would agree. I am simply saying that it may not be God's will to heal everybody this side of glory. But there ultiment healing will be when they're with him in heaven.

The one thing I think it's cruel. When pastors say that God wants everybody healed. And when that person is not healed they are told they did not have enough faith.

God may allow people to go to the affliction of illness to bring glory to his name.

Will post more on this later.

sermonindex May 9, 2016

Blaine

Good stuff, God always heals his people. Sometimes in the here and now, and if not here always in the eternal state after this life is over.

The other stuff is trying to force the Word of the Lord into saying what he does not say, out of context, misapplied and out of balance.

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FranklinB May 9, 2016

Yes, yuehan my own testimony on more than one occasion. Once when something attacked my body I read an article from Kenneth Hagin "How to receive and keep your healing". I didn't quite understand what I was doing, but I did it and that's what I am going to be talking about coming up. And I did receive my healing. He talked about receiving healing and not trying to get God to do it because he has done it.

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Lysa May 10, 2016


"We have been denominationally trained instead of Bible taught." ~ John Osteen

I agree with that!!! Was just listening to an old John Osteen sermon on youtube about healing after reading this thread.

sermonindex May 10, 2016

"The one thing I think it's cruel. When pastors say that God wants everybody healed. And when that person is not healed they are told they did not have enough faith."

I do not see why it is wrong to state that God is willing to heal me. If that were not so, why would I ever pray for healing?

So if God is willing to heal me, that is the end of the discussion in my book. To attempt to look deeper into this is only going to cause much frustration and pain.

And everytime I hear about some famous person who never recieved their healing, I can show you some poor beggar who did get healed. And we know that they are healed because of their faith, or perhaps via the prayers and faith of others.

I would much rather read the new testament and be encouraged by the miraculous healings of faith in Christ, than stories from those who did not get healed.

It reminds me of the people who tell young men that they will never be free from lust, that they will never truly be able to overcome, just hang in there and try to keep the frequency of their falls down to a minimum. What faithless rubbish! God is able to COMPLETELY set free anyone from lust, to the nth degree...if they believe!

I am convinced the same is true for divine healing!!!

sermonindex May 10, 2016

God has all the power over His creation, he could cause the sun to stand still, and the moon to stop (Joshua 10:13)
He can heal the sick and it is good to be reminded of His power.
But nowhere did He promise that He would heal anyone who asks.
We know that Luke was a Doctor.

Here are a couple of scriptures:
20Erastus has remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick in Miletus.(2 Timothy 4:20)The Apostle Paul had to leave him behind because he was sick.

And here is an interesting remedy:
No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent illnesses.(1 Timothy 5:23)
I like that one ;) ;) Blessings and keep well!

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yuehan May 10, 2016

Thanks FranklinB and AbideinHim for sharing your experiences. And I'm totally with Awakened's convictions on the matter.

Recently, I happened to be looking into whether healing has been provided in the atonement - a doctrine held by some saints including Andrew Murray and A.B. Simpson.

I was persuaded by KingJimmy's exposition of Matthew 8:14-17 that this was indeed doctrinally true:

https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=35&topic_id=24046&post_id=188636&viewmode=thread&order=0

Excerpt:

"Thus, somebody who walks around coughing and is sick utters no lie when they say, "By His stripes I am healed!" Such a person no more lies than when Abraham introduced himself as Abraham, long before the child of promise ever came along. For, "Abraham," if you recall, means "Father of many nations." Thus, long before Abraham ever received what God had already promised, Abraham was holding to and confessing what he was believing God for. The timing by which the child of promise came into this world, however, was entirely up to God. I think that little story can be applied to healing, which God has provided in the atonement."

sermonindex May 10, 2016

The commission that Jesus handed to His disciples did not include healing. Luke24:47 says "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among the nations beginning at Jerusalem" Matthew28:19-20 says "Go ye and teach all the nations baptising them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you". John says "Feed my lambs, feed my sheep". Mark does mention healing but these final verses are so disputed that I prefer not to use them in the search for truth especially as they are not backed up by the other gospels.

It is only in the earlier parts of Acts and James which was the earliest letter, do we hear more about healing, after which the Scriptures say nothing but to mention that Paul himself had health problems. He said in 2Cor12:10 that he took pleasure in 'infirmities', after describing his thorn in the flesh whatever it may have been. In Galatians he mentions his eye problems "Ye see how large a letter I have written unto ye with my own hand" Gal6:11.

In Eph3:11, Paul says that "He gave some apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors and some teachers" There is no mention of a healing ministry. It is strange that it is only in the early days of the church, and the time when Jesus was here that healing was mentioned frequently. But not so strange if we understand the reason for the healing.

The people who were first hearing the gospel were Jews who knew the Scriptures very well, and knew what they had to say about health and sickness. They believed that not only death but all disease was the consequence of sin. "There is neither death without sin nor any chastisement without iniquity" (Shabbath, c.5. fol 55. 1.) Taken from Jerome H. Smith, editor, the new treasury of Scripture knowledge, electronic edition of the revised edition of the treasury of Scripture knowledge Logos Library System (Nashville Thomas Nelson) 1997 c1992 by Jerome H Smith.

In the Old Testament, sickness was the result of sin and was brought about by God in the form of pestilence and plague, wounding by God with the purpose that His people would repent. "Come and let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn us and He will heal us" Hos6:1 God's promises were "I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds" Jer30:17 the healing was always in connection with cleansing and His people turning away from their sin. Leprosy is seen in a symbolic sense of sin as the real disease causes a gradual death of the nerve endings so that injuries occur to the extremities, whilst the person is unaware of the injuries. Sin is rather like this in that the heart can become slowly hardened in the case of backsliding but we are unaware of the process and the damage.

False prophets were condemned because they dealt only with the symptoms and not with the deep spiritual hurts of the people "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter
Of my people, slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace” Jer6:4, 8:11.
(Nelson’s Digital Library) In the metaphorical use, God is said to protect His people as a bird protects her young with her wings (Deut32:11) The psalmist expressed God’s care and protection as a ‘shadow’ of the ‘wings’ (Ps17:8, cf36:7, 57:1, 61:4, 63:7, 91:4) In keeping with this usage, Malachi looked forward to a new age when "The Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in His wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall” 4:2 (Nelsons’ Digital Library) We see here the purpose of the healing is that they may mature, giving the meaning a spiritual not a physical aspect.

Blindness was often understood to be a punishment for evil doing. We find an example of this at Sodom (Gen19:11) in the Syrian army (2Kings6:18) and in the curse of Elymas at Pathos (Acts13:6-11) Any person who had a disease was reputed unclean and was forbidden to enter into the camp, where others dwelt. The verses referring to God ‘tearing them’ are Job10:16, 17, 18:4, Ps50:22, La3:10, 11, Ho5:14.

If we look at Isaiah53:5:-

"But He was wounded for our transgressions” and compare Rom4:25-"Who was delivered for our offences and was raised for our justification and 2Cor15:3-"Christ died for our sins” and 1Pet3:18-"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God”

"he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes ye are healed” This is made clear in 1Pet2:24-"who his own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree that we being DEAD TO SIN SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS by who’s stripes you are healed”

It does not say here that in taking our sins upon Himself we are forgiven and that is it but that our sin is taken away IF we are dead to sin, that is if we live without sin, and live unto righteousness THEN we are healed by His stripes. The healing is to do with our cleansing and is in full. The healing is of our souls because it is when the soul is healed that man can walk without sin and receive the benefit of Christ’s death, the healing of the thing that sent Him to the cross. He was wounded for our transgressions not our physical ailments. To put a physical healing into these verses is to add something that is foreign to the sense of cleansing.


In Ps103:23 we read "Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all His benefits. Who forgives all thine INIQUITIES, who healeth all thy diseases (Ex15:26-"And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight and wilt give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee. I am the Lord thy God that healeth thee.” Jer17:14-"Heal me O lord and I shall be healed, save me and I shall be saved”) who redeemeth thy life from destruction (Ps34:22-"The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants Ps5:12- "For the Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield)

The Jews knew that the one who would come would heal the cause of their disease and make them clean from sin. He went around healing as a sign that this person had come, and this continued during the early years of the church. But the healing was always connected with righteousness. In James5:5-16 it says "The prayer of faith shall SAVE the sick and if he has committed sins they shall be forgiven. Confess your sins and pray for one another that you may be healed.” The verse is talking about the healing of the soul nothing is said of bodily healing. It says further in verse 20 "Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death (spiritual) and shall hide a multitude of sins”

And in Peter 2:24 "Who his own self bore our sins in His body on the tree that we being DEAD TO SIN should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed” again it is this healing to enable man to live a righteous life without sin that the early church understood healing.

After the early books there is very little mention of healing, the power that was released as a sign to authenticate the ministry of Jesus had disappeared until the disciples themselves suffered sickness. Of course God does sometimes heal physically, but the time had ceased when it was common.

It is only when we understand the fullness of the healing that he gives and can only give when it concerns the soul which alone fulfils the meaning of cleansing and righteousness that we can see that the cure of one or two conditions is not the subject discussed throughout the Old Testament and in the early years of the church.

God is merciful however and does heal today, but not as often as we would like. Most chronic degenerative sickness including cancer, are caused through abusing our bodies by not feeding them with the foods He supplied, straight from the field and without the poisons sprayed them. The cure is to stop using them and even atheists can heal their bodies this way too.

The many health and wealth leaders who have died from sicknesses, are a bit of an embarrassment I should imagine.

Thanks Mark, many people ignore those verses.

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