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NASB | 1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Thessalonians 5:18 in every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continually give thanks to God; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. |
Bible Question:
mommapbs, So you believe that it is God's intention for us not to be healed but if we get sick that we should just live with it? When we claim a healing we are claiming it in the spiritual realm - and in the spiritual realm we have it - if we have the faith to receive it. That healing may not appear instantaneously in the physical but we should be looking for it to appear. And yes I would declare my loved one lacked faith if they did not believe that God can heal them and if they were not looking to receive that healing in the physical realm. Until that manifestation we should continue with insulin or whatever the illness requires. My question to you is that the bible says that "by His stripes we are healed". How can God want us to remain sick (just live with it) when He sent Jesus to the cross so we didn't have to? Was part of God's sacrifice in vain? If Jesus bore all my sickness on the cross why should I have to suffer with it now? prayon |
Bible Answer: prayon: A few thoughts regarding your post ... It is difficult to find a scriptural basis that supports the phrase, "claim a healing." Let's examine what the verb "to claim" really means. It means vastly more than merely to ask for something, because it carries with it the idea not only of asking for something but asking for it as though it were one's right to have. A synonym of "to claim" is "to require." It means to take that which is already ours. ..... How, therefore, can one pray in God's will and "claim a healing"? Jesus himself prayed and taught His disciples to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (See Matthew 6:10 and 26:39). ..... This brings us to the question you posed to Mommapbs: "So you believe that it is God's intention for us not to be healed, but if we get sick that we should just live with it?" ..... If it is, as your question appears to imply, God's intention for us to be healed, why would it not be God's intention for us never to get sick in the first place? But is it really always God's "intention" to heal, and do His children have the "right" to be healed -- to "name it and claim it"? That mighty lion of God, the apostle Paul, apparently had no such right to "name and claim" his healing, and according to the Scripture record, God did not have any "intention" of delivering him from his well-known thorn in the flesh. Thrice Paul implored the Lord to remove this thorn and thrice his petition was denied. (See 2 Corinthians 12:7-10). Why? Surely it had nothing to do with Paul's lack of faith, did it? ...... A third comment, this on the phrase "by His stripes we are healed" from Isaiah 53 and on your question to Mommapbs, "If Jesus bore all my sickness on the cross, why should I have to suffer with it now?" ..... Is this why Jesus went to the cross, to bear our physical sickness? Scripture does not support this at all. Immediately preceding the "by His scourging (stripes) we are healed" phrase, Isaiah 53:5 says this: "He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities." Clearly Isaiah is not speaking of physical healing, not with his use of words like transgressions and iniquities. By His stripes we are healed of our SINS, not our physical infirmities. John the Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the SIN of the world." (John 1:29). John did not say the "sickness" of the world. ..... The message of Romans 6 is that the Lord Jesus died for our SINS. Jesus bore our SINS on the cross. He did not bear our physcial maladies. --Hank |