None of These Diseases: I am the Lord who heals you.

So, what's this have to do with you taking a passage not meant for anyone but Israel and trying shoehorn it what you want it to say?

joshua 1 9 said:

If you continue to falsely accuse me I am going to report you for a violation of the rules of this forum. Again YOU are the one that is guilty of what you are accusing me of. This is why Jesus tells us to take the log out of our own eye before we attempt to remove the splinter form our brothers eye. It is amazing how you want to flame people when you can not defend your opinions.

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I am not falsely accusing you at all, the idea that you think the passage is meant for everyone is in your OP and has been commented on by others. Now if you weren't doing that than I am sorry and I was not flaming anyone but giving my observations.

Christ already explained why we have sickness and suffering in the world. You just need to pay attention.

Joh 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

joshua 1 9 said:

This confirms that it is God's desire to heal people. "I am the God that healeth thee" (Ex5:26)

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Yes, but not necessarily physically.

joshua 1 9 said:

There are plenty of people that do not ever get sick.

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There are people who do not get sick - and who seem to have easy/good lives - who aren't even Christians.
God heals; no doubt about that. But it is not correct, nor fair, to imply that sickness is a result of disobedience and shows that a person has weak faith.

joshua 1 9 said:

Usually a promise from God has only one requirement. In this case the promise has four requirements. We have a covenant relationship with God. If we do our part we can be sure God will do His part.

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That implies that a) good health is conditional upon us doing something and continuing to do it and b) that if we stop doing it, mess up or wander off the right path, the Lord says "right, well I'm going to punish your for your sins then."

Neither are correct.

The problems I have with this line of thinking is that newborn infants can be born horribly sick even though they're incapable of sin, they're born in sin inheriting Adam's sinful nature, and they will sin through their life growing up, but they haven't yet, so you either have to believe we are guilty for sins we have not personally done like catholics (original sin doctrine, why they do infant baptisms), or you have to believe that as part of Adam's sinful nature that we inherited, the death as punishment goes right down to the genetic level and genetic mutations, flaws, and diseases become heritable in spite of personal sins committed or not, and that leads to physical death but not spiritual death (a newborn isn't going to hell if they're sick and die)
The other problem I have with it is that you're attributing your health to acts that you did, that's pride. That in itself is sin. You boast "hey I do everything God asks of me and I do all these good things and I never get sick". That's pride, and you're asking for God to take you down a notch with a claim like that.

Flaws and diseases are mostly on purpose, by man, against man woman and child.
Where a newborn goes is up to Yahuweh Sovereign Creator Perfect in Judgment. He already Knows.....
That has been argued for over 1000 years, and no determination made by men. (It is not verifiable from Scripture or anything else available to men.

joshua 1 9 said:

Those are your words not mine.

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I said that that's what your words implied - DO these things and you won't be ill.

joshua 1 9 said:

IF we need healing then a good place to start is Exodus 15:26

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I wouldn't start with Exodus; I'd start by praying to the Lord who heals.

joshua 1 9 said:

"He said, "If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you."

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And who did he say it to; Christians who would live 2000 years later, or Hebrews who had just been brought out of slavery in Egypt and saw all the plagues that the Egyptians suffered because Pharaoh refused to obey God?

joshua 1 9 said:

I see four conditions here: 1) Listen carefully to the Lord your God. 2) do what is right in His eyes. 3) pay attention to His commandments. 4) keep all of His decrees. If we do what God tells us to do, then we will get the results He tells us we will get. In this case healing.

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That latter sentence is the only one I agree with - if we do what God tells us to do. In other words, if he says to pray for healing; pray. If he says to go to a certain healer; go. If he tells you to dip in the Jordan river 7 times (Naaman); then do it.
He asked Jennifer Rees-Larcombe to stop praying for healing; he said he would heal her in his own time, and he did. Jennifer also tells the story of a church prayer group who rushed off to pray for a seriously ill church member. When Jennifer said that they should ask the Lord how he wanted them to pray, they said "well obviously he wants us to pray for her healing." The patient WAS completely healed - she died; and they nearly missed the chance to help her look forward to heaven and being with Jesus, because they were focused on what THEY wanted.
In other places, people have testified that they were praying for Christian loved ones to be healed, and either the patient, or the Lord himself told them not to/they wouldn't be healed while on earth.

joshua 1 9 said:

I am glad you think you know what we are to do. I am not so sure. What does it mean to listen carefully?

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It means to ask God how he wants you to pray for someone, and then do it.
Some have been given words of knowledge about a person - and when that person has got rid of their anger, a grudge, a bad habit or whatever, they've been healed. That was because the Lord revealed to a Christian that someone's specific illness was caused by a specific thing. But it would be wrong to say, "that happened to this person, therefore everyone's illness is caused by their sin and we need to tell them to repent."
It would be wrong also to say that people WILL be healed when they have enough faith/go to a certain healer/make positive confession of faith/confess their sins and all the sins of the past/DO certain things" etc.

joshua 1 9 said:

How am I suppose to do all of this stuff when I do not even know what it means to do them.

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You might not even be meant to do them.
Is it right to assume that you have to do the same as the Hebrews did and relate to God in the same way?
Are you a Hebrew slave, or a Christian child of God?

joshua 1 9 said:

WE are not to listen to man.

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Which means we can ignore most of the threads on these forums - especially those that tell us what we should do.

joshua 1 9 said:

Can we do what God is telling us to do? Can we follow the teachings of the Bible?

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Yes, of course we can.
As long as we understand the Bible correctly and are not pulling verses out of context to try to persuade God that if we do our bit, in terms of faith, etc, he should do his bit and heal us.
Let God be God. Pray for healing - maybe more than once, we are told to be persistent in prayer - but leave the results, and timing, to him.

Strong in Him said:

And who did he say it to; Christians who would live 2000 years later, or Hebrews who had just been brought out of slavery in Egypt and saw all the plagues that the Egyptians suffered because Pharaoh refused to obey God?

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God is still alive, He is not dead!

Strong in Him said:

Which means we can ignore most of the threads on these forums - especially those that tell us what we should do.

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Not especially, but yes, certainly, do NOT trust the internet and especially any anonymous sources of problems ... test, test, test everything and do not believe anything UNTIL AFTER it is proven truth in line with all Scripture.