Healing!

Healing is for today! According to Jesus it's the children's bread. If you are a child of God, healing belongs to you. Take it! Don't reject it.

And even if you're NOT one of the children...you can get in on it too. Jesus was addressing a woman who "wasn't in the family" and she received what she asked from Jesus because she refused to let go of her petition of Him.

God is GOOD! He has ALWAYS been a healer. He started in Genesis and He hasn't stopped. Below are some verses to get you started.
Genesis 20:17
Exodus 223:25
Leviticus 14:1-4
Psalm 103:1-3
Psalm 107:20
Proverbs 3:7-8
Isaiah 53:4-5
Jeremiah 17:14
Malachi 4:2
...and that's just the OLD covenant! We have an even better one!

Matthew 8:17
Acts 10:38
1 Peter 2:24
James 5:14-15

Healing is throughout the Bible. If you need it, take it. God provided it for YOU.

The word. God sent it.

To any who will receive

His word brings healing.

-Psalm 107:20, Acts 10:34-38

Consider this scenario:

A man is on the loose. Borders are not an issue for him. He has seemingly unlimited resources and is going from country to country spreading a lethal virus. After an intense international manhunt, he is finally captured. When questioned as to his motives for causing so much destruction and death he answers: "I only infected those who deserved it. It was for their own good. "

Would you say that was a good man or a crazy man? Spreading death and disease is not good. It's bad. If a human being does this we punish them accordingly. Yet we attribute this crazy man's attitude to God.

"Well, this sickness is for my own good. God is trying to teach me something." No. The only thing you are supposed to learn from sickness is how to resist it and be healed and whole as God intends you to be.

Jesus is our example of God's will in action. When He was here Jesus "...went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by God, because God chose to show certain people a special measure of grace."

Is that what Acts 10:38 says? No. But religion has taught us to believe that sometimes God heals people, and sometimes He makes them sick.

What Acts 10:38 actually says is:

"Jesus of Nazareth...went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

God can't put sickness on anyone, because He doesn't have any sickness to give. The word is clear on who is the oppressor - the devil.

Do you think God called up the devil and said, "Can I borrow some sickness? I need to teach one of my kids a lesson."

Do you think God is in cahoots with the enemy, even on a limited basis, in order to "discipline" His children?

A friend recently told us of a true story of couple he knew. The wife is medically diagnosed as mentally unstable. Their young boy took a quarter from his mom's purse to buy some thing kids like – candy or a toy. When she discovered what had happened she turned on the burner of their electric stove and grabbed her son's hand. The husband had to physically restrain her from putting her child's hand on the burner! Thank God, the boy was not hurt.

Which parent in that scenario is a closer representation of God? Does God put our hand on the burner to teach us not to do wrong? Never! Only a mind rotted with religious thinking could think such things of God.

Especially if you need healing , renew your mind on the nature of God. Blow away all the rotten, religious thoughts and discover the truth of the Word. God is a healer. His will is for you to be healed.

Meditate: John 10:10, Psalm 103:1-5, Acts 10:34-38

God is a Healer

King Hezekiah led a national revival in Judah. 2 Chronicles 30 gives the account of the Passover being reinstated by King Hezekiah. Even people from Israel came to celebrate this feast, but some of them had not completed all the prescribed rules for purification. The word says in 2 Chronicles 30:18-20

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate of the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "May the good LORD pardon everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary." So the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.  -2 Chronicles 30:18-20

God is a healer. The healing of the people at Passover happened at the very beginning of Hezekiah's reign. Later, Hezekiah prays for his own healing and God adds fifteen years to his life in answer to that prayer.

His son Manasseh who became the next king was not a godly king. Because Manasseh was only 12 when he took the throne we know he was born during the fifteen years that God added to Hezekiah's life. Some people use that to say, "See. God knew best. Hezekiah should have just let himself die." WHAT?! There are so many things wrong with that statement. It upsets me because it maligns the character of my Father. My Father is not a killer, He's a life bringer. (John 10:10)

I've heard others say, "Hezekiah was a good king but a bad father. Just look how his son turned out." How many parents have children that go completely wild despite their best efforts and genuine desire to raise them to love God? That's what I believe happened in this case, because Manasseh repents and serves the LORD at the end of his life. (Proverbs 22:6)

During the last fifteen years of Hezekiah's life he had at least two sons. His other son, Amariah, became the great-grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah. (Zephaniah 1:1) If Hezekiah had "just let God's will be done" and died young we would be missing an entire book of the Old Testament. God's will was not for Hezekiah to die. The word says God searches for an intercessor. He's looking for people to pray and give Him access to their situations.

Finally, Hezekiah's extended reign also extended the time that Judah was not taken captive. Instead of being conquered by the Assyrians, who practiced savage brutality on the people they conquered, Jersualem was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian. We can read about how he treated captives in the book of Daniel.

Good things come from obedience. Healing, prophecy, deliverance from cruelty. Don't let religious thinking rob you of the good things God wants to do for you! He is good and He does good. ALWAYS.

A poultice of figs,

God's natural medicine

Divine direction.

-Isaiah 38:21

Natural medicine. I keep a book in my kitchen called The Top 100 Traditional Remedies by Sarah Merson. I love reading about the good stuff I'm doing for my body when I eat healthy. I recently learned an interesting fact about figs. When applied topically they draw out poison. This fact became even more intersting to me when I read Isaiah yesterday. God is not against natural medicine. Sometimes that's His way of bringing recovery to us. Who made figs with poison drawing properties? He did. Here are a few other gems He put here for our good:

blackstrap molasses: full of iron and other minerals, an immune booster, useful in treating dry coughs (and no medicine hangover the next day)
cinnamon: antiviral and antifungal, great for fighting colds and flus, warming properties increase body temperature and can be useful in breaking a fever.
strawberries: iron rich fruit, full of vitamins including C, cleans tartar deposits off teeth.
oatmeal: a multitude of health benefits including mood enhancer, "...a reliable treatment for depression."

Supernatural medicine. King Hezekiah's cure was not only natural. The first verse of chapter 38 makes that clear. Isaiah's first message to the king was, "Put your house in order because you will die and not live." Hezekiah wept and prayed, and God sent Isaiah back to tell the king, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold I will add fifteen years to your life...apply a cake of figs to the boil."
God gave Hezekiah a natural remedy and then supernaturally causes the sundail to go backward ten steps as a sign that he will heal Hezekiah and deliver Jerusalem from the Assyrians. Seems like it would have been just as easy for God to supernaturally, instantaneously remove the poison from Hezekiah's body as it was to move the sun's shadow backwards. But God does things as He sees fit, not as we do.

Whatever method He uses God is, was and will always be our healer. Psalm 103:3

Isaiah 53:4-5 (Jewish Publication Society Bible): "Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed."

Hebrews 6:2 - Laying on of Hands

We are Christ’s body.

Transmit to those around you

The life you’ve received

-Mark 16:15-18

According to Hebrews 6:2 laying hands on people is basic Christianity. Today I discovered I was making this too complicated...again! The Holy Spirit is an outstanding teacher. I love how God simplifies things when you ask Him. Laying hands is a way to transmit or give something to someone else. Simple.

Science recognizes this. If someone sneezes on their hand and reaches toward you without washing, you won't shake their hand. At least you’ll think twice before doing so. You don't want what they have to be transmitted to you through touch. The original design was for life to be transferred, not death. Sickness and disease are death in it’s beginning stage. If you are in Christ the healer lives in you. You are infused with life that is contagious and transferable. Where do you think the devil got the idea? He’s a copycat, not a creator.

Transmission by touch - laying on of hands - is God’s idea. The Greek word most commonly used is epitithimi. Epithesis, a more official term, is also used four times. Based on Acts 8:17-19 both words refer to the same action. The list below of New Testament references to laying hands includes what was given or transmitted.

Matt 9:18, Mark 5:23 - life to the ruler's daughter
Matt 19:13, 15 - blessing to children
Mark 6:5 - health to the sick
Mark 7:32 - wholeness/healing to a deaf man
Mark 8:23, 25 - wholeness/healing to a blind man
Mark 16:18 - healing/recovery
Luke 4:40 - healing
Luke 13:13 - freedom/healing
John 9:14 - healing
Acts 6:6 - authority to the seven chosen to "serve tables"
Acts 8:17 - Holy Ghost to new believers (epitithimi & epithesis)Acts 9:12, 17 - healing & Holy Ghost to Paul after his conversion
Acts 13:3 - authority/anointing to “go forth”
Acts 19:6 - Holy Ghost to believers
Acts 28:8 - healing
1 Tim 4:14 - gift of God to Timothy (epithesis)2 Tim 1:6 - gift of God to Timothy (epithesis)Rev. 1:17 - strength to Apostle John

Paul warned Timothy to "lay hands suddenly on no man...." This significant action is not to be taken lightly. Unseen things are just as transferable as those we can see. I can’t see courage or blessing, and yet they are transmittable through touch according to the word. Fill up daily with God’s life by listening to His Spirit, reading His word concerning your daily needs and situations, and praying in the Spirit. Then go out ready to transmit life to those around you. Praise God!