Wow! I actually wrote a devotion on this topic a while ago (maybe a year and a half ago). I'm actually shocked about it being brought up in a topic.... it's kind of long:
My first reference is going to refer to God doing good, and only good. Some people believe that God does bad things to them, which will later turn out good in their own lives. There's this one guy (I won't give any names) that I know on the computer, and he says that God doesn't exactly do "bad" in His eyes, but it seems "bad" in our eyes. So he believes what appears to be "bad" to us will later on be "good" later on. As if God will put someone in a car accident to stiffen up that person, or like He would kill a relative. Honestly, the guy once said that if he had lost either one of his brothers, he wouldn't know what he'd do... Interesting, really. He might blame God for doing it.
One thing that I don't get about this is that he has this like "Underground" thing which he sends every few weeks, and there's a list of prayer requests. Prayer requests which are sometimes filled with people being sick. He tells everyone inside of the Underground to pray for the people, but what I think, but I never told him, is that if he thinks God puts sickness on us, why would they pray to God to get it off? If it's His will for us to be sick, there's no reason to even pray. Right?
At one time, I sent a letter to everyone that was inside of the Underground a letter about Satan. It was based on the first chapter of the book Know Your Enemy, by Norvel Hayes. I told everyone how it was that Satan deceives a lot, and that he's in control of a lot of music which speaks negative. He had that talent over music when he was in heaven (Ezekiel 28:13). That's not the part I want to get in to right now. What probably really got this guy offended (perhaps not the right word, but the word that I'm using), is when I said that all good things come from God, and all bad things come from the devil.
It was close to two months before I responded to his response. I didn't know what to say to him. My father (natural father) told me not to write back at the moment. Taking matters into my own hands (or more likely matters into my own mouth), I began to speak in tongues every day for an hour. Two months passed and then I began to search the Bible for scriptures that referred to what this guy's situation was. I wrote it with different scriptures bringing them out to him. One of the scriptures I'd thought that would clear it up for him would be,
1 John 1:5: "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."
but it didn't. He stayed true to his false believing. He was probably brought up to believe God did things like that, so it would be hard for him to just turn. At least I was sowing a seed that someday someone else would water and make grow.
I don't look down on the guy. After he replied to my response to his response of my letter to Underground, I told him that he didn't hurt me (which he thought he did), and that I could make him change what he believed just like no Christian can make a non-believer believe in Christ Jesus and say the prayer of salvation.
Now, before I bring out the scriptures, here's a devotional that I sent to the guy. It was sent to me by WuzupGod.com on May 12, 2001.
" One Christmas Eve, a man was driving two young women to church when they came upon a multiple-car collision. They were unable to stop on the slick road and slammed into the back of a car. One of the girls, Donna, was thrown face-first through the windshield. The jagged edges of the broken windshield made two deep gashes in her left cheek.
At the hospital, the doctor on duty happened to be a plastic surgeon. He took great care in stitching Donna's face. Nevertheless, the driver was devastated by what had happened.
A short time later Donna's family moved away. Fifteen years passed before the driver happened to see Donna's mother, who gave him the following report. "Donna was so intrigued by her hospital stay that she became a nurse, got a good job at a hospital, met a young doctor, married him, and then had two children. God took a stormy day and created a beautiful rainbow. Donna told me that the accident was the best thing that could have happened to her!"
God is not the initiator of tragedy and suffering in our lives, but He is always there to bring some good to every situation. If you are in the midst of a fierce storm, don't lose hope. Look for the rainbow!"
God isn't the one that brings sickness, suffering, death, and etcetera unto us, but He can always shine a rainbow on the situation, just like He did for Donna.
One thing I asked this guy, which he never replied to, was if he believed that both God and the devil gives sickness, how the heck he knows which sickness is from whom?
The first scriptures regarding this sitch (situation) is from Numbers 23:19 & 20 (all verses are in King James Version).
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it."
John 3:17: "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
John 5:36: "But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me."
John 9:5: "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
John 14:10: "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."
The last four, as you may have guessed, was Jesus speaking. Now, since Jesus is Gods Son, it doesnt make sense for Him to do against what God does. Just like the Bible doesnt contradict itself, the Father and the Son dont contradict each Other. You never saw Jesus put sickness on someone to make it good for them in future times.
In Mark 16:18 it says, "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
It tells us to heal the sick, not put sickness on the healed!
Matthew 10:1: "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease."
James 1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Variableness root word is variable, which means apt to vary. Apt means likely, and vary means alter; in other words make different. So, "with whom is no likely to make different."
The Father of lights
neither shadow of turning. He doesnt change like the shadows produced by the sun and the moon.
James 3:17: "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."
Revelation 22:5 ("
" means theres more in the verse): "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:
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Go back through the Bible and look up John 5:30. Jesus says, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."
See, Jesus came to do Gods will, not His own will. So everything Jesus did is everything God would have done.
The last verse (John 10:10): "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
You know who that thief is?
Satan.
Now, if you're reading this and are thinking that I'm coming down on you if you believe/believed that God did bad things, don't think like that. I'm not coming down (or up depending how much taller you are than me) on you, nor am I looking down (up?) on you. Jesus/God once said that "My people are destroyed because lack of knowledge."
-Justice4JC
But he was mistaken and got himself thrown out of heaven. Oddly enough, 1/3 of the other angels followed him. His name then became Satan.
I will pray for you and for the Holy Spirit to send someone to help you find Jesus and His healing touch for your heart.
