Job: his sickness was removed when he saw his sin and repented. (Job 42:5-6) sin
Israel and the Brazen Serpent Israel murmured in the wilderness between Egypt and the Promised Land, and God gave Israel something to murmur about. He sent "fiery serpents among the people, ... and much people of Israel died. (Numbers 21:6) complaint
Naaman, the Leper Naaman classicinstance ofdisease. Leprosy typifies the effect of sin destroying the body. (2 Kings 5) pride-self will
King Hezekiah (2 Kings 20) prayer of faith and annointing oil - anything else is disobedience
Healing of Peter's Mother-in-law The Lord rebuked the fever (Luke 4:39) implies Lord recognized it as more than ordinary fever. Jesus would not rebuke a mere natural law. There is no blame where there is no personal will. personal will
The Nobleman's son This one speaks pecularily to our times.This one teaches us we don't need the physical and visual presence of the Lord. John 4 46-53) We must count the death-blow struck at the moment of belief and then follow on as it works through.
The Healing of the Multitude Jesus Himself takes our infirmites, bares them, lifts them up and carries them. (Matthew 8:16) universality of Jesus healing, not just for favored ones. He Himself is the Healer. He not only lifted them once but twice and still carries them!
Jesus IS the Blessed Healer!
(from: The gospel of Healing, by A.B.Simpson)
Thank you for this.. It really spoke to me today!! God bless you...
I just give God all the praise for His healing presence.. our knowledge of Him which is growing moment by moment.. and my family through Christ here.. Oh Father it is so wonderful.. Thank you!! I love to learn and soak it all up!! Halleujah.. \0/
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
I'm so pleased they helped! We hardly ever get to see the rewards of our works. Thank you for blessing me with that. Here are two more. I have a total of twentyone. I'll post a few each day until I get through them. They've helped me gain insight into healings. josie
The man with leprosy In this a man with leprosy asks Jesus this question: "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." We see the mental attitude of the average Christian here. The man had full confidence in the power of Christ to heal, but he was very uncertain about Jesus' willingness. Jesus willingness should forever be settled with his answer. Is answer was: "I will; be thou clean." No evasion, or ambiguity, hesitation, or conditioning. It was a great, prompt, kingly answer. In it we may all hear His word. Jesus was not cold or mechanical. He was moved with compassion. (Mark 1) doubt of Jesus willingness
The paralyzed man In healing the paralyzed man let down through the roof (Mark 2:1-12), the Lord indicated the connection between sin and sickness. He assumed the right here on earth to forgive sins. When the man's four friends brought him in for the healing, the Lord saw a deeper need that had to be met first. The spiritual life has to predede the physical. So Jesus first speaks the word of pardon.: "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." (How many have been led to salvation through the need of healing!)
Then follows the man's physical healing. But this, also, must be taken himself by way of bold, obedient faith. He has to rise, take up his bed and walk. He was not healed through the faith of his four friends. He was healed through his own faith. Their faith put him at the feet of Jesus and brought him to the word of forgiving mercy. His own faith had to claim the healing. An unbelieving heart can have nothing from the Lord. The purpose of healing, as a token of forgiveness and a sign of Christ's saving power, is very solemn. He healed this man that the masses might know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. It needs be we make sure our faith has enough vigor to accomplish any real difficulty in this life. It requires faith. Faith can't demand proof or it isn't faith.
When I was a child my parents purchased a home from my grandparents. It was the home my Dad grew up in, so it was obviously an older home that was very well established. In other words, it had been built onto over the years and it seemed like every square inch of the lot had been developed in one way or another. It had a guest house in the back part of the property, a large patio with a built in brick bar-b-q and fireplace, a second story over the back house where a large, walk-in, multi room pigeon coop was built, and it seemed to me like there was concrete everywhere!
My Dad set out to completely remodel the home, and as it turned out, every square inch of the property as well. This of course took a few years to accomplish, and as I was big for my age, it meant a few of my summers were to be spent in helping with some of the restoration process.
I remember being about 10 or 11 years old, when my father informed me that I would be helping him instead of out playing with my friends during the summer. Of course I wasn't too happy about it, and was even more sad when he placed a large, heavy sledge hammer in my hands and told me to get busy and brake up a small section of concrete, load it in the wheelbarrow and dump it in the waste pile.
The summer sun was very hot, and my attitude was not the greatest, but I got to work. I swung the heavy hammer over head and came down as hard as I could, hitting the concrete with a thud! Much to my surprise, nothing happened, there was only a small scratch that could be seen. I swung the hammer back and let it fly again, and came up with the same result - nothing! This stuff was hard, and it seemed to resist every one of my hearty attempts. I hit it again, and again, and again. Before long sweat began to run off my forehead and into my eyes which made them sting. My energy level was now just about gone and my muscles began to ache. Disheartened, I sat down and felt like giving up. It wasn't long before my Dad came walking by, encouraging me to keep going, assuring me that eventually it would break if I would just continue to hit it!
At this point I was feeling real sorry for myself, and I was convinced I was not up to the task. It just seemed that it was way too hard for me. I was hot, sweaty and very discouraged, but I stood up, lifted the hammer and began to go at it once more. However, after many repeated blows I grew weary, my strength was spent, and my arms were sore. With great frustration, I sat down and felt like quitting, but as chance would have it, my Dad came by and convinced me to get up and continue the task. So reluctantly, I once again began to repeat the process that I felt was so futile. Only this time as I hit it, some small hairline cracks appeared - something was finally happening that I could see. With renewed vigor and strength, I began to pound away. Then it happened - it began to shatter into small chunks that could be lifted out and placed into the wheelbarrow to be hauled away! Victory at last.
I want you to know that faith for healing is oftentimes much like breaking concrete. We're burdened down with the reality of the sickness or disease. The symptoms are very real, and may even be well established, having been there for quite awhile, and as we begin to stand on the Word of God, sometimes it can seem as if the problem is as hard as concrete, resisting our every swing of the sledge hammer of God's Word. We can grow tired, and discouraged, and may even be tempted to say, "Ah, what's the use! This is way too hard for me." And we may even buy into the lie that it must not be God's will for us to be healed.
What you may not realize is, just like the concrete, though you may not see any change, it is beginning to crystalize and lose structural integrity from within, and is getting ready to shatter. Every stroke of the hammer brings it closer to the point where eventually it will crumble. This is a fact.
The Word of God reveals this truth to us in Jeremiah 23:29; "Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?"
We need to come to the place of understanding that the Word of God is all powerful. You cannot separate the Word of God from God. They are one in the same. John 1:14 speaks of this; "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us..."
The Word of God is a fire that purges and melts away all impurities, just as fire purifies precious metal, leaving only that which is treasured. It is also a hammer, that is able to crush even the most resistant, stubborn circumstances, even those that seem so hard that they could never be removed. The Word of God is what it is - the very Word of God! The question is not in the ability of the Word, it is in our perception of it.
Years ago I heard a wise man of God speak a phrase that I never forgot, and it is certainly true in light of the above verse - persistence breaks down resistence! So go ahead, and take a break if you're tired, a praise and worship break that is, and get refreshed with His power and might, and then once again, take hold of the sledge hammer of God's healing Word with renewed vigor and strength, and command the problem to leave in Jesus' Name. Get your healing Scriptures back out and stare the problem square in the face and tell it what the Word says concerning your victory. Make it personal, and put your name in those Scriptures, knowing He did it all just for you, and would have done it just the same way if you were the only one who would have benefitted from His going to the cross.
Begin to boldly declare, "I'm free from the law of sin and death, and I am under the law of liberty in Christ Jesus. I'm redeemed from the curse of the law, and no weapon formed against me can or will prosper. I'm a Blood bought child of the King, Jesus paid the price for my salvation and for my victory and I will have it. He sent His Word and healed me, and I receive it, I believe it, it's mine now, I take it by faith and I'm not letting go of it. According to Jesus' work at Calvary, and according to the proclamation of the promises that are in the Word, I declare myself a free man. For the Word says that he who the Son sets free is free indeed. So I agree with the Word - I'm free from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. My organs are free, my heart is free, my blood is free, my mind is free, my back is free, my eyes are free, my joints are free, my skin is free, my cells are free - I'M FREE!!! Devil you get out of my life and take your sickness and disease with you. I'm going on with God and I will walk in the blessing of the Word, and I will fulfill the number of my days, and I will do the works that God has ordained for me to do. I walk in love, I walk in the power of the Spirit of God, I am anointed by God to live in victory, and I will have it." Now praise him for it!!!
Did you know that God is not holding anything back from you that's in the Word? When it comes to His Word, He never says no. In fact, the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:20 "For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us." The word "amen" means "so be it." So if you've been wondering if healing and deliverance are for you - you can finally stop wondering, because He says YES!
Also, take a look at 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 "Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come — all are yours. And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's." Surely healing, health and well being are included in the phrase "all things." Now that ought to make you want to stand up and shout!!!
So come on, let's get back to work. I know it seems so hard, and the task seems so difficult, but by faith, take hold of the sledge hammer of the Word of God with His strength and give it another swing. Who knows, this next swing could just be the one that breaks it all loose!
Dan Downey
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
Dan Downey
All Rights Reserved (c)
Dan Downey 2000
I wondered your dad would make a little girl break up concrete during the summer!
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I also agree in prayer with you all for healing of our emotions and bodies. My prayer list is long, and I won't go into it but I am believing God. Should He decide not to remove these issues from me, I love and worship Him anyway!
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When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. -Psalm 56:8-9
I was having a really awful morning, physically, and became very discouraged and the Lord encouraged me with Psalm 27 (NKJ), especially the last two verses. I felt led to post it here for another's encouragement:
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD,
And to inquire in His temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
13I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
14Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!
I was having a really awful morning, physically, and became very discouraged and the Lord encouraged me with Psalm 27 (NKJ), especially the last two verses. I felt led to post it here for another's encouragement:
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD,
And to inquire in His temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
13I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
14Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!
They are brilliant!!
Thank you LORD that Chowders Mom has not lost heart!!
Thank You that she believes!!
Thank You that she sees the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.. Which is NOW and not just in heaven!!
Thank You that she is waiting on You LORD,
She is filled with good courage!!
God You have strengthened her heart..
And she waits with a joyful heart O LORD!!
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
The Holy Spirit just brought this to my mind.. \0/
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.. I searched for it..
Psalm 107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
On Bible Gateway.. and found this below.. which Chowders Mom just shared.. it is their verse of the day!!
“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”- Psalm 27:14
I think God is really backing us up here peoples!! Yay!!
We are the redeemed of the Lord.. We are the redeemed of the Lord!! Yahoo!!! Halleujah.. To God be all the glory.. We shout this WE ARE THE REDEEMED!!
God HAS HAS HAS redeemed us from the very hand of the enemy!!
Yay!!!
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
The Holy Spirit just brought this to my mind.. \0/
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.. I searched for it..
Psalm 107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
On Bible Gateway.. and found this below.. which Chowders Mom just shared.. it is their verse of the day!!
“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”- Psalm 27:14
I think God is really backing us up here peoples!! Yay!!
We are the redeemed of the Lord.. We are the redeemed of the Lord!! Yahoo!!! Halleujah.. To God be all the glory.. We shout this WE ARE THE REDEEMED!!
God HAS HAS HAS redeemed us from the very hand of the enemy!!
Yay!!!
I know He has strengthened my heart again to stand, to wait, to believe...nothing is impossible for him that believes...He has gotten much bigger, I have become much less.
Miracles, the power of God is necessary to perform them...MacArthur Study Bible Topical Index
This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do theses signs (miracles) that You do unless God is with him." Emphasis is mine
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All the ends of the world shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations shall worship before You.
For the kingdom is the Lord's,
and
He rules over the nations.
Psalm 22:27-28
I'm so pleased they helped! We hardly ever get to see the rewards of our works. Thank you for blessing me with that. Here are two more. I have a total of twentyone. I'll post a few each day until I get through them. They've helped me gain insight into healings. josie 
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