Subject: Divine Healing, True or False? |
Bible Note: 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. :) |