Is Healing For Today?
Download MP3How do we know healing is God’s will for us today?
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Exodus 15:26, “... I am the Lord who heals you.”
Malachi 3:6 “For I the LORD do not change…”
John 6:38, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.”
Acts 10:38 says, “even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.”
Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Doubting can keep you from God's will. When we hear something that can cause doubting of God's will for us, we need to take that thought captive by going to the Word and by letting God's Truth
2 Corinthians 10:5 English Standard Version
5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
NIV
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Amp
[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
James 1 NIV
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Doubting is when you consider what God's Word says and then consider things that contradict the Word.
Doubting is also when you don't know the truth of the Word.
Someone may say, "Healing was for then but not today." What evidence do we have from Scripture that it is today? We need to know so that there's no room for doubt that it is.
Let's look at more evidence that Healing is for today.
James 5:14-16 New International Version
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
Who is this being written to? The Church! We are living in the time of the Church and the instructions God, by his Spirit, through James tells us what to do is someone is sick so that they can be well. Healing is God's will for today.
Let's look at more evidence.
1 Corinthians 12 ESV
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
Gifts given to the Church include healing. How could healing not be for today if God has placed gifts of healing in the Church and instructs us to pray for those who are sick to that they could be made whole?
One more...
Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are
2 Corinthians 10:5 English Standard Version
5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
NIV
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Amp
[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
James 1 NIV
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Doubting is when you consider what God's Word says and then consider things that contradict the Word.
Doubting is also when you don't know the truth of the Word.
Someone may say, "Healing was for then but not today." What evidence do we have from Scripture that it is today? We need to know so that there's no room for doubt that it is.
Let's look at more evidence that Healing is for today.
James 5:14-16 New International Version
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
Who is this being written to? The Church! We are living in the time of the Church and the instructions God, by his Spirit, through James tells us what to do is someone is sick so that they can be well. Healing is God's will for today.
Let's look at more evidence.
1 Corinthians 12 ESV
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
Gifts given to the Church include healing. How could healing not be for today if God has placed gifts of healing in the Church and instructs us to pray for those who are sick to that they could be made whole?
One more...
Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are
life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
Has God's Word stopped being life to us? Has it stopped being healing?
Of course not.
No where in Scripture does it say that healing is not for today. That is just what some have come up with to try and explain why some pray and are not healed.
Listen to me. Our faith, what we believe about God and his Will does not come from what others experienced. It comes from what God has revealed in His Word.
Make the decision to live that way, to live according to the Word. He is faithful to do what His Word says He will do.
Has God's Word stopped being life to us? Has it stopped being healing?
Of course not.
No where in Scripture does it say that healing is not for today. That is just what some have come up with to try and explain why some pray and are not healed.
Listen to me. Our faith, what we believe about God and his Will does not come from what others experienced. It comes from what God has revealed in His Word.
Make the decision to live that way, to live according to the Word. He is faithful to do what His Word says He will do.
