HEALING-IT’S NOT UP TO GOD; IT’S UP TO YOU-SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
When I was in Bible College, I was a relatively new Christian as were some of many closest friends there. I can remember talking and talking and thinking we should be able to heal the sick, etc. Yet nobody had the access code. I remember thinking this isn’t how it is supposed to be. I put that dream on the back burner. What good is a dream if you can’t fulfil it. Thinking back, I probably thought if I get fired enough about God then things would surely happen. I could go about three or four days riding high on expectancy and enthusiasm but still nothing.
Why didn’t anyone have the key. I would read about men like Smith Wigglesworth; who raised the dead and healed the sick. I was aware of Oral Roberts and his healing meetings. I knew of a few others. Of course, at times, people did get healed, but it was very rare. Who had the access code?
I am not mad or trying to condemn anyone. I am just trying to wake people up to the fact that there are miracles. I finally got the access code; the key. It took me ten-years of hell on earth and seeking God with my whole heart, but I got it. I give the glory to God. Healing is real, and I have the answer for all who are sick!!! It is the Promises of God’s Word. It is the Stripes of Jesus where he took our sicknesses. Unfortunately, most people give up and just accept a natural world point of view when it comes to healing.
I also began to realize that people were waiting for God to do something that he had already done. This is a huge mistake. I had to be pro-active. I had to take the bull; by the horns and take the Authority for my healing that he had already deposited in my account and command it to come forth. I was not to take no for an answer. And it little by little began to work until it now works all the time. Thank you, Jesus.
So, I have asked myself and the Lord this question many times; Why wouldn’t people run after what I am teaching? Some are responding, and I thank God for that. God has opened the Promises and how they work to me. I have taken these Healing Promises and used them effectively on myself 100’s of times and on others too.
On TV, if you have a great product that works everyone wants it. The Lord showed me that this is different. It depends on the condition of people’s hearts. America Christians, in general, are much like the places in that the Bible talks about where Jesus had trouble doing miracles. Unbelief is rampant. But this is where God has told me to teach and preach primarily. As in the parable of the sower, people respond differently according to where their heart is at. Some just don’t believe in Divine Healing or that it’s for today. Some are ready; and it must come by revelation of the Holy Spirit to their open heart.
God gave the authority to us and we keep putting it off on him and we are not getting any results.
Mark 16:15-18 (ESV)
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mark 11:23-24 (ESV)
23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
We must believe, and we must speak, and we must do it all in the name of Jesus with a Heart faith not a head knowledge.
I feel so bad when I see someone that is sick on Facebook. This is a friend. Someone God cares about. Someone I care about. Yet you never see them say: hey I’m going to pray and believe God to heal me. It’s always I’m going to wait this out or go to the doctor. That is not a sin, but what ever happened to believing God for healing.
Is this not even a part of our vocabulary anymore? Have we floated away so far from the Healing Power of Jesus that we don’t have a clue.
I always pray for that person on Facebook who is sick. This time of year, you see the pictures of these kids at St. Jude’s that have cancer; it breaks my heart as I am sure it does yours. Is there anything sadder than seeing a little one suffer? It doesn’t have to be that way. God made a way out.
Some might say ok Scot if you that great man of faith that you claim to be why don’t you go into a hospital and go to room to room and get everyone healed and shut down the thing? That’s a fair question. What you are not taking into account is this. You can’t force healing on people. It just doesn’t work that way.
Usually you have to teach the person how healing works and then pray for them. They must be a willing participant. Sometimes it takes an instant and sometimes it takes some time. Because of God’s timing? No because of our unbelief. God always heals instantly but it can take time to get the doubt out.
John G. Lake, probably the most effective healing/teaching ministry in the last century or so. He would train men and women and then send them out with a person who was very sick. He would tell them you’ve got 90 days; don’t come back unless they are healed. I know there were over 100, 000 documents cases of healing. He shut down a hospital in Spokane, Washington. Spokane was named the healthiest city in America. This was probably around 100 years ago. I am trying to do that through my teaching and as God shows me even more effective ways, then I will move in that direction. This should be the norm not the exception for Bible Believing Christians.
The pattern with Jesus for healing was they came to him or someone brought them to him. There had to be a measure of faith of their part. That’s why, in some situations where there wasn’t obvious faith on their part, Jesus would ask them to do something that required faith. It required something on their part.
Let me ask you this question:
DON’T YOU WANT MORE: Aren’t you sick of being sick?
Now I can understand that for the world who doesn’t know Jesus, but what happened to the church?
You have two options:
Option 1: You can build on a Natural Plane
Hope for the best and go to the doctor. But let’s face it; it seems almost everyone is touched at some point in their lives by cancer; heart disease; Alzheimer’s, etc. You will be unprepared for Divine Healing and you will find yourself
· Just accepting it as a death sentence
· Or something terrible that you will have to live with
Option 2: Or you can Build on the Promises
· Learn how Divine Healing Works
· Get the Doubt out
· Walk in Divine Healing and Divine Health
Let’s look at my Favorite Bible Story concerning healing:
This is the one that God used to bring healing to me.
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
Mark 5:24-34 (ESV)
24 And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”
29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 And he looked around to see who had done it.
33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
What did she do to Receive Healing?
1. She was sick of being sick (vs. 25,26)
(Doctors couldn’t help her-even though they had tried everything, and her funds were depleted)
(Spirit of Pop-Eye came over her-That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stand no more) *****
2. She heard the Reports about Jesus (vs. 27)
(I am sure she heard how he did the miraculous in healing the sick)
Romans 10:17
“Faith Comes by Hearing and Hearing by the Word of God”
3. She understood what to do (vs. 28)
(If I just touch his garments-I will be healed)
She had to go by what she had, heard-and I have to think God gave her insight too) (we have that plus the Promises-we have a huge advantage over her)
4. Results (vs. 29,30)
(As soon as she touched him the power flowed out of him and she was immediately healed)
5. HER FAITH had made her whole (vs 34)
(She believed with a simple child-like faith mixed with the tenacity of an unstoppable train)
Here are two Promises for you tonight:
(for 2 groups of people-those those who need healing in their body and for those who will Commit to Qualify themselves in Divine healing. The Bible tells us to Study to show ourselves approved to be a workman who can rightly interpret the Word of God: this is an area of desperate need in the Body of Christ)
Psalm 103:1-3 (ESV)
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
24 by whose stripes ye were healed. (Past Tense)
Let me ask you again don’t you want more???
Why didn’t anyone have the key. I would read about men like Smith Wigglesworth; who raised the dead and healed the sick. I was aware of Oral Roberts and his healing meetings. I knew of a few others. Of course, at times, people did get healed, but it was very rare. Who had the access code?
I am not mad or trying to condemn anyone. I am just trying to wake people up to the fact that there are miracles. I finally got the access code; the key. It took me ten-years of hell on earth and seeking God with my whole heart, but I got it. I give the glory to God. Healing is real, and I have the answer for all who are sick!!! It is the Promises of God’s Word. It is the Stripes of Jesus where he took our sicknesses. Unfortunately, most people give up and just accept a natural world point of view when it comes to healing.
I also began to realize that people were waiting for God to do something that he had already done. This is a huge mistake. I had to be pro-active. I had to take the bull; by the horns and take the Authority for my healing that he had already deposited in my account and command it to come forth. I was not to take no for an answer. And it little by little began to work until it now works all the time. Thank you, Jesus.
So, I have asked myself and the Lord this question many times; Why wouldn’t people run after what I am teaching? Some are responding, and I thank God for that. God has opened the Promises and how they work to me. I have taken these Healing Promises and used them effectively on myself 100’s of times and on others too.
On TV, if you have a great product that works everyone wants it. The Lord showed me that this is different. It depends on the condition of people’s hearts. America Christians, in general, are much like the places in that the Bible talks about where Jesus had trouble doing miracles. Unbelief is rampant. But this is where God has told me to teach and preach primarily. As in the parable of the sower, people respond differently according to where their heart is at. Some just don’t believe in Divine Healing or that it’s for today. Some are ready; and it must come by revelation of the Holy Spirit to their open heart.
God gave the authority to us and we keep putting it off on him and we are not getting any results.
Mark 16:15-18 (ESV)
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mark 11:23-24 (ESV)
23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
We must believe, and we must speak, and we must do it all in the name of Jesus with a Heart faith not a head knowledge.
I feel so bad when I see someone that is sick on Facebook. This is a friend. Someone God cares about. Someone I care about. Yet you never see them say: hey I’m going to pray and believe God to heal me. It’s always I’m going to wait this out or go to the doctor. That is not a sin, but what ever happened to believing God for healing.
Is this not even a part of our vocabulary anymore? Have we floated away so far from the Healing Power of Jesus that we don’t have a clue.
I always pray for that person on Facebook who is sick. This time of year, you see the pictures of these kids at St. Jude’s that have cancer; it breaks my heart as I am sure it does yours. Is there anything sadder than seeing a little one suffer? It doesn’t have to be that way. God made a way out.
Some might say ok Scot if you that great man of faith that you claim to be why don’t you go into a hospital and go to room to room and get everyone healed and shut down the thing? That’s a fair question. What you are not taking into account is this. You can’t force healing on people. It just doesn’t work that way.
Usually you have to teach the person how healing works and then pray for them. They must be a willing participant. Sometimes it takes an instant and sometimes it takes some time. Because of God’s timing? No because of our unbelief. God always heals instantly but it can take time to get the doubt out.
John G. Lake, probably the most effective healing/teaching ministry in the last century or so. He would train men and women and then send them out with a person who was very sick. He would tell them you’ve got 90 days; don’t come back unless they are healed. I know there were over 100, 000 documents cases of healing. He shut down a hospital in Spokane, Washington. Spokane was named the healthiest city in America. This was probably around 100 years ago. I am trying to do that through my teaching and as God shows me even more effective ways, then I will move in that direction. This should be the norm not the exception for Bible Believing Christians.
The pattern with Jesus for healing was they came to him or someone brought them to him. There had to be a measure of faith of their part. That’s why, in some situations where there wasn’t obvious faith on their part, Jesus would ask them to do something that required faith. It required something on their part.
Let me ask you this question:
DON’T YOU WANT MORE: Aren’t you sick of being sick?
Now I can understand that for the world who doesn’t know Jesus, but what happened to the church?
You have two options:
Option 1: You can build on a Natural Plane
Hope for the best and go to the doctor. But let’s face it; it seems almost everyone is touched at some point in their lives by cancer; heart disease; Alzheimer’s, etc. You will be unprepared for Divine Healing and you will find yourself
· Just accepting it as a death sentence
· Or something terrible that you will have to live with
Option 2: Or you can Build on the Promises
· Learn how Divine Healing Works
· Get the Doubt out
· Walk in Divine Healing and Divine Health
Let’s look at my Favorite Bible Story concerning healing:
This is the one that God used to bring healing to me.
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
Mark 5:24-34 (ESV)
24 And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”
29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”
31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 And he looked around to see who had done it.
33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
What did she do to Receive Healing?
1. She was sick of being sick (vs. 25,26)
(Doctors couldn’t help her-even though they had tried everything, and her funds were depleted)
(Spirit of Pop-Eye came over her-That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stand no more) *****
2. She heard the Reports about Jesus (vs. 27)
(I am sure she heard how he did the miraculous in healing the sick)
Romans 10:17
“Faith Comes by Hearing and Hearing by the Word of God”
3. She understood what to do (vs. 28)
(If I just touch his garments-I will be healed)
She had to go by what she had, heard-and I have to think God gave her insight too) (we have that plus the Promises-we have a huge advantage over her)
4. Results (vs. 29,30)
(As soon as she touched him the power flowed out of him and she was immediately healed)
5. HER FAITH had made her whole (vs 34)
(She believed with a simple child-like faith mixed with the tenacity of an unstoppable train)
Here are two Promises for you tonight:
(for 2 groups of people-those those who need healing in their body and for those who will Commit to Qualify themselves in Divine healing. The Bible tells us to Study to show ourselves approved to be a workman who can rightly interpret the Word of God: this is an area of desperate need in the Body of Christ)
Psalm 103:1-3 (ESV)
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
24 by whose stripes ye were healed. (Past Tense)
Let me ask you again don’t you want more???
