Bible Question: I've caught the broadcasts for Benny Hinn and John Hagee this week, and it seems they are both speaking about 'Divine Healing'. Does anyone know if there is Scripture to support this theology? And, what about the 'Prosperity Gospel', any Scriptural documentation? Please give me your opinion! |
Bible Answer: 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 |