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  • Bob Hilt on James 1 - 4 years ago
    why no healing?

    I have asked for the gift of healing as I would love to empty a children's hospital and so far nothing.

    well sometimes the answer is no for various reasons

    In Matthew 17:21 someone had a devil and the apostles would not cast it out.

    Jesus said in Matthew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

    sometimes prayer and fasting is needed

    Paul was given a thorn in the flesh and asked for healing and was told no

    2 Corinthians 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

    sometimes it is for our benefit as hard as that is to believe

    Jesus did not do healing and miracles because of the people's unbelief

    Matthew 13:58 And he (Jesus) did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

    sometimes we get a no cause the people who want healed have no real faith

    other times people get sick cause of sin, like with adultery they get aids or venereal diseases

    one can be forgiven, but still must live with the sins consequences

    sickness from eating the wrong foods i.e. Bible health laws is not a salvation matter, it is a health matter.

    In China they often eat bats, rats and anything that moves it seems.

    and sometimes the answer is just plain no for reasons we do not understand...yet.

    Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Joe Gautier - In Reply on James 1 - 4 years ago
    Hey, brother...interesting response, but I want to encourage you to continue To hide this word, or as James just called it, get "grafted" in to more of Jesus. If you desire to see others healed, KNOW of a certainty that 1. It is always God's will to heal. We are not disciplined by God using disease or sickness. This is a aflame doctrine and it undermines our faith both in healing, but more importantly, in the nature of God. God is the same yesterday, today and forever and, as James says, there is NO variable in that...not even a shadow of turning. Paul's thorn was not disease. Otherwise, as the Pharisees were told, "satan cannot cast our satan". And, "a kingdoms divided against itself cannot stand."

    2. We are not waiting in God to GIVE US anything special to heal or to be healed. He has accomplished it in full. You have "this same

    Power", that raised Jesus from the dead, in you. That's why Peter says to the lame man, "such as I have, give I thee!" Now it's Gods power, but we have been given that power and His authority. But, faith is like a muscle...it grows stronger as we use it. Andrew Womack has a great series called "You've Already Git It", that I would recommend highly. Stay strong, brother and do not believe the false

    Doctrines if men, but trust the God wants you (and everyone else) whole and prospering (even as their soul prospers). Keep at it and you will raise the sea, heal the sick and

    Cast out devils. Peace!



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