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1 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | HeirofGod | 13596 | ||
I don't know if your question has ever been answered but I'd like to give the scriptures I use when I'm praying for divine healing for myself and when laying hands. Is. 53:5 tells us that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and healings. Psalm 103:1-3 there is another scripture in psalms that says I am the Lord God that healeth thee, but I just don't know where. Mark 16:17,18 tells us about laying hands on the sick. I hope these scriptures help you with divine healing. NOw about prosperity, God wants all of his children to live prosperous. Is God poor, so why should we be. 3John:2 explains that as our souls prosper we shall prosper. Every new level we go to in God we recieve a blessing matching it.Romans 8:16-17 tells us who we are in God, we are Heirs of whatever he promised Christ-which is the Earth. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof...Ps24:1. Everything belongs to the lord. Ps.37:4, Deu.28:1-6,Mal.3:10-12 Deu. 29:9, Phi.4:19, Mark 4:1-20. All these scriptures tell a different side to prosperity. As far as not having enough faith to be healed there is nothing wrong with not having enough faith for healing. Jesus knows that some of us don't have that kind of faith, there were some when he was here. It happens it happened to me and my husband. Prosperity also is a promise of God in Malachi he said if you pay your tithes and offerings he will open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing and rebuke the devourer. If you need more study the seed-time and harvest fact in the scripture. This is how most all Christian prosperity begins. Plant a seed in good ground (meaning plant a monetary seed in a good ministry) and you will recieve 30, 60, or 100 fold. Quick testimony and then i'll let you go, Last year I was out of a job my husband was working but not enough to really pay the bills. We were watching TBN one night during thier Praise-A-Thon and R.W. Shambach asked for a faith seed. We didn't have the money to send but we were going to try to get it. Soon after that I got a job and with my first paycheck I sent 25.00. A couple of months later we really needed some money and it was going to be another week before we got paid my husband was in school at the time and we thought his refund check from them would come that day. It didn't and we were wondering what we were going to do. We then went home and opened our mailbox and in it was a letter from my cousin-I talked to her earlier that month and she told me she needed my address to seed me some pictures of her newborn. When I looked inside the envelope there was a money order in it. At first I thought it said 25.00 but when I looked again it said 250.00. We rejoiced that Friday afternoon because that was the first hundredfold blessing we had ever gotten. Seed-time and harvest works in more ways than one. Believe it! It's real! Love in Christ, Kimberly Jones |
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2 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13669 | ||
What you had was a 10 fold increase. :) You sound exactly like a sounded a few years back, I would have wrote practically the same thing you did, almost word for word, but something changed in my life. I had been following Copeland since 1980 and thought he was an excellent preacher, I bought all his tapes, went to several Believers Conventions, bought tapes of all his buddies too and I could practically preach a sermon from listening to them so much. I have experienced healing and financial miracles, my daughter is a direct result of a prayers during the Anaheim Believer's Convention in '91. Then on NY Eve '98 I broke my arm rollerblading. Right before Christman, I had a job out of town for a week so I recorded all the preachers while I was gone. It just so happened I had a room w/a vcr, that is the only room w/vcr I had and I had a lot of hosp. rooms thru this. My first stay was 12 days and I had 5 surgeries, I had a dozen surgeries altogether, rest were one at a stay tho. :) Anyway, I got that tape and I played it practically continually. It had all kinds of messages related to my current need including Gloria's Healing School. I had Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar on there and everything was good! I absorbed myself in the Word, it would be playing when I'd go to sleep and when I'd wake up (which in the hosp is pretty regular), I'd restart if it was over. I confessed healing to everyone I came in contact with and being in hosp, there was planty of contact. :) I heard that Copeland and Oral Roberts were going to be in Creflo's church the next month, I made plans to be there. Plus I was involved w/all these ministries, I was on more mailing lists, I was getting them all to agree with me that I'd receive my healing. I could see it in my mind's eye, I could see myself giving testimony at my church, teaching them all about the great Jesus Christ Insurance Agency, By His stripes we are healed and here's proof!!! But guess what? I went and didn't get healed. In fact, I had a doc appt that we went to before we went home and my stitches had burst and had to be restitched. I couldn't figure out what happened. I had faith and I was in agreement with all the great ministries, what was wrong? Then after that is when I got online and started joining forums. I'd be still preaching just like you too even tho I didn't get my healing and someone said that Copeland was in apostasy. I didn't believe that, I had been listening to him for years, I was thinking about moving to Ft Worth so I'd be at their church! I'd been partner with them for close to 18 yrs then, I never heard him say anything wrong. I even had some of his partner letters and would share with anyone who would listen about why I broke my arm, it was because I had what I said, I spoke a negative confession for months (when my daughter got skates, I asked Mama why'd she give them to her, who's going skating with her, me? her? that is a one way ticket to the hospital and sure enough...). Then I started being bombarded w/Copeland's apostasy (and other faith ministers too but he's like the leader). I'd hear it on the forums, I'd be given material from people at church, I'd check out these different sites, what they said he said was def. apostasy. I was confused and quit listening to all TV preachers and before, I'd almost listen all day if I could, I'd tape them too to listen again and again. I bought the cassettes and would listen to them in my car, my husband thought I was a nut!!! I started getting turned out when I'd see some of them clips about future meeting, I remember that one about that Leroy something where the people would be going "money to me!" Seems like they were more interested in getting money than worshipping God, seems like God started being on the back burner on most of these ministries and what He could do FOR you was first place. |
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3 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13671 | ||
We got a new pastor at our church about a year ago (we were 3.5 yrs w/interim). I worked w/children's choir which was during the Wed night svc so I'd get tapes of the services to listen to. I remember this one where he mentioned at end of message about how he was listening to this faith preacher on TV one day and obviously the guy hadn't preread the letters, the message he was giving was God gives you the desires of your heart. Pastor didn't say who the preacher was tho, just that this happened, he didn't want to slander anybody. So he reads the first letter and it's about being delivered from alcoholism and he says if you want to be delivered from alcoholism, then God wants you delivered from alcoholism. Pastor said nothing wrong there, being delivered from alcoholism is a good thing. Second letter is to do w/healing so he says if you want to be healed, God wants you healed too. Pastor said nothing wrong with healing. But the third letter was the one the guy obviously hadn't read, the request was for a Harley, the guy looked kinda baffled for an instance then says if you desire a Harley, then God desires for you to have a Harley. Pastor said that was where he had real problems, when you reduce God to a motorcycle! Seems like all people want from God is what can You do for me??? If You don't deliver, I'll find another God. This is wrong! We should be asking what can we do for God, not what He can do for us! That seems to be the basis of too many TV ministers. God is not a magic formula where you do this, you confess this and this will happen. Believe me, I bought into that line and tried it, you do get some victories but not like they promise you will get-oh, but you didn't have enough faith, you didn't give enough, you didn't confess enough-there's always some excuse! Then my huband would raise hell at me for sending them money too. It was my tithe, I'd just break it up and send part to this one and that one, etc. But I'd hear how they're just taking your money, you're just giving it to them so they can have bigger houses and fancy cars and designer clothes. I'd say it costs money to be on all those stations and send out all that meterial. Maybe my husband was right. After all, how much "blessing" can one person receive? Where you going to draw the line of what's being blessed and what's living off the excess? You have to admit, why do 2 people need to move into a bigger, fancier house? Exactly how many cars does 1 person really need? I know that when you give the money w/a right heart, God credits it to your acct and the person who is scamming has to answer, but eventually I quit it all and now the only one I give to is my church. Anyway, I didn't get my healing, but that's not to say that God hasn't been working miracles in my life, it's just in another direction than I thought it would be. I'm disabled as a result of that, but I met a bunch of wonder people, had my finances taken care of on most of the hosp. bills, I witnessed to many people and didn't get bitter and presented a good attitude in spite of everything which many people have commented on, saying how that helped them get thru what they were going thru. Now I'm on disability and a stay at home mom instead of traveling around the country letting my mom raise my daughter, plus I get on forums and meet wonderful people here, have a chance to give my testimony-God is Good!!! Who's to say I'm not better off now than what I would be if this had not have happened? I know for a fact that God turns things that seem bad into good and that's worth a whole lot! I thank Him for everything He has done for me!!! But be careful of those TV preachers, they can lead you astray-been there, done that! Gee, I guess the people who've read some of my different testimonies of what I've been thru, first w/Cath, now w/TV preachers say this is some gullible person! Oh well, at least I learned and lived to tell about it. :) |
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4 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Morant61 | 13695 | ||
Greetings Norrie! Great story! I've always wondered about the TV preachers who teach the principle of Seed Faith. If it is a Divine priciple that when one gives 10 dollars, he will get back 100 dollars, then why doesn't the TV preacher send me 10 dollars? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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