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1 | Thorn in the flesh | Is 57:1 | Scribe | 46207 | ||
I understand your skepticism as a result of an unscrupulous or even false prophets that will continue and increase in these last days. However let us consider the Word of God as our only rule of faith and practice as it pertains to doctrine of healing. Now we see Jesus the apostles and non apostles such as Phillip, and others doing signs and wonders, never bringing glory to themselves but to the name and faith of Jesus Christ. Never once did they say this will only last until the John writes Revelation so to say so is a guess on our part and not a word from the Lord. We see in the scripture God's method was to use men to lay hands or other acts of faith. Stacking them up like cord wood? I don't know about that but I do see in the Bible that they gathered along the way so that just Peter's shadow passing by would be a point of contact for them and did the Glory go to Peter? Well the catholics would say so but we know better, the glory always went to Christ. We see Paul having handkerchiefs (sweat cloths) taken from his body and used as pointd of contact , points of faith so that those that touched them were healed. Why does God need laying on of hands from a man or a cloth or a shadow of a man to heal? He chose to use man to minister the things of God. The man is not the power the Lord is. God chose to use praying as a means of obtaining from God what we desire. Doesn't God know what we need before we ask? Yes but he still waits for us to ask in faith before He gives it. God has chosen the foolishness of preaching the Gospel to save them that believe. Can God save a man without another preaching to him, sure but somewhere along the way even if it is from the bible alone, someone preached. That God chooses laying on of hands or other such means, yes even prayer cloths or shadows passing by to heal the one with faith in Christ is not for us to complain about. God knows what He is doing. If you are following the pattern of the Word then you can have faith for laying on of hands, a shadow of a faith filled man passing by or even cloths sent from his body in faith. If you are making up your own ideas how can you have faith for that? The Holy Spirit is always speaking faith, never does the Holy Spirit say doubt. If doubt comes into our minds it is not the voice of the Spirit. Is there a precedence of New Testament stories of peoples being healed alone with no point of contact from other believers? Maybe you can find one somewhere but is not the obvious pattern that of "faith to faith?" Even as I write these words I pray that there will be someone somewhere in all the world that will begin to believe God as never before and that my faith will affect their faith and that we may be comforted together by the mutual faith of both them and I. May God Bless you in your Study of His Word. |
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2 | Thorn in the flesh | Is 57:1 | CDBJ | 46283 | ||
Again I would like to say that I believe in healing as the Bible describes it. My point is that I don't go along with the sideshow healers that are so prevalent today. They make a mockery of the truth that is presented in the Word of God to the point that it is disgraceful: Nothing, more and nothing less! Most of those that I have met that follow this kind of action are the type that are dictated to by their emotions and they don't have enough doctrin stored up in their soul to fill a thimble. They are the moodiest bunch of believers that I have ever run into; they have wide emotional swings in their Christian walk, and can change almost faster then the weather: believe me when I tell you, I know because I have worked with many, most of which have a Holier then thou attitude that makes me bilious. Don't get me wrong I love them in the Lord! What disturbs me is the way they come across to unbelievers. Just like the old saying goes, "what they do, speaks so loud that I can't hear what they are saying". More oft then not, they have muddied up the water so much that the people they are around won't even listen to a clear presentation of the gospel from anyone else! This is something that I have seen and lived with and you couldn't convince me otherwise, no mater how hard you try. When people see this going on they figure, if this guy is right I don't want to be. 2 Cor. 5:20 A Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, Lets act like one, CDBJ |
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