Miracles of Faith

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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Throughout my many years of pastoring, I have
witnessed an imbalance in the views of some regarding
what the Bible teaches about faith, healing, and mira-
cles. Perhaps more than ever, this is true today. Some in-
terpret healing in the atonement to mean that Christians
should never be sick. Others teach that if a believer is
not healed, it is because he does not have enough faith.
This kind of teaching puts God in a box and brings con-
fusion and condemnation into the minds of sincere
Christians, casting a looming shadow upon the true na-
ture of God.
There are both natural and supernatural causes for
sickness. But God is greater than disease. He desires to
heal and bless each one of His children. Yet, in His sov-
ereign will (Psalm 115:3), God may allow sickness as an
opportunity for a believer to glorify Him in time.
Though God does not enjoy seeing His people suffer,
He has great pleasure in men or women who will keep
following and revealing Jesus Christ in the midst of
sickness. God will reward this kind of faith by adding
degrees of glory to the believer's soul in time and degrees
of eternal glory to his future glorified body in heaven.
The Word of God also promises that this person will
reign with Christ on earth during His one-thousand-
year reign on earth (2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 2:26-28;
20:4). '
It is God's desire that Christians would be in good
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health and prosper even as our souls prosper (3 John 2 ).
God wants us to bring Him glory by letting Him work
His character into our lives. When it seems that God is
not healing us, our attitude should always be to trust
God for healing now, and then to rest in His love during
the times He allows sickness, knowing that His plan is
perfect.
This book came from a series of messages I preached
on healing. It is my heart that as you read it, you will
come to a fuller understanding of the nature of our God.
He always acts toward His children according to His in-
tegrity, faithfulness, lovingkindness, mercy, and grace.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One
MIRACLES ARE FOR TODAY ................ 13
Chapter Two
THE ETERNAL COVENANT OF THE TRINITY .. 17
Chapter Three
GOD WANTS TO BLESS HIS FAMILY .......... 23
Chapter Four
HAVE FAITH IN GOD ....................... 29
Chapter Five
PREPARING FOR A MIRACLE ................ 45
Chapter Six
HEALING: A GIFT OF GRACE ................ 55
Chapter Seven
HEALING: A PRODUCT OF ETERNAL LIFE .... 65
CONCLUSION ............................. 71
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Chapter One
MIRACLES ARE FOR TODAY
"He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and
worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (Galatians 3:5).
N
oah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
of the English Language defines a miracle
as u An event or effect contrary to the estab-
lished constitution and course of things, or a deviation
from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event."
He continues, uMiracles can be wrought only by
Almighty power."
There are some who claim that miracles are not for
today. They say that miracles were only for the time of
the Gospels and the book of Acts. Yet, Galatians 3:5 is
not in the Gospels or in the book of Acts. It is in the
church epistles, written much later, and says that God
works miracles in the midst of His church. If this was
true when the New Testament was written, then it is
certainly true for today. Has Jesus Christ changed since
He walked on the earth as the God-man? Has His com-
passion changed toward the needs of man? The answer
is emphatically, no. Malachi 3:6a says, uFor I am the
Lord, I change not." The New Testament echoes these
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words: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,
and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8).
Miracles are for today. Healing is for today. God's
love is for today. God's compassion, mercy, and grace
are for today. Genesis 18:14 says, "Is any thing too hard
for the Lord?" Jeremiah 32:27 says, "Behold, I am the
Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for
me?" The answer is found in verse 17 of the same chap-
ter: "'Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth
by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is
nothing too hard for thee."
God is a God for today. He makes things happen
today. The Word of God declares in 2 Corinthians 6:2,
"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the
day of salvation." Three times throughout Hebrews
chapter 3 and 4, the Holy Spirit inspired the words,
"Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts." God is ready to act today. He is ready to deliv-
er and heal today. He is ready to give us a provision for
today.
Galatians 3:5 also says that God works miracles
among us by the "hearing of faith." The key word is
/fhearing." Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
Word of God (Romans 10:17). As Bible believing
Christians, we must be careful never to make faith the
issue. Our faith must not be in faith itself, but rather in
the object of our faith, Jesus Christ and His Word. As
we will see in this book, the issue is not, "Do I have
enough faith to be healed?" The issue is, uDo I have the
right kind of faith?" It is true that Jesus said to a woman
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with a blood disease, "Thy faith hath made thee h o l e ' ~
(Matthew 9:22). It is true that He said to two blind men,
"According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew
9:29). But what He was saying to these people was,
uYour focus and reliance upon Who I am and the words
I speak will produce in you the faith to be healed.
Knowing the true source of our faith places the
emphasis upon God. We do not have to go around
bragging about how much faith we have. We can turn
our focus on Christ and rest in His love. Psalm 34:2 says
that humble believers "make [their] boast in the Lord:
the humble shall hear thereof and be glad." Notice that
first, this verse says that we boast in the Lord, not in our
faith. Also, it says that the humble hear the Word of
God, which produces the right kind of faith.
Because parents love their children, they want to do
what is best for them. Still, they may not always know
what is best for them. At times, it may not be within
parents' means to give children what they would like to
give. But with God, there are no limitations. He wants
the best for His children. Because He has all-knowledge,
He knows what is best. Because He has all-power, He
can give us what is best. And since He is everywhere-
present, He is available every moment to make it hap-
pen.
God has a provision for the whole man-spirit,
soul, and body. Do not be familiar with the "letter" of
the Scriptures. Receive it in the power of the Holy
Spirit. As you do, build yourself up in your most holy
faith, pray in the Holy Spirit, keep yourself in the love
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that God has for you, and look for His mercy to work in
your life (Jude 20-21 ). Live in the law of faith, not the
law of doubt and fear that interferes with the Holy
Spirit's power to minister miracles of faith. Live in the
law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, not in the law of
sin and death. Do not ever condemn yourself or
become introspective about your faith if you are not
healed instantly. God's plan for you is perfect. Your
miracle is coming. It could be today.
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Chapter Two
THE ETERNAL COVENANT OF THE TRINITY
T
he name Elohim Alah refers to a covenant
made before time in eternity past by the
Trinity on behalf of sinners. This covenant is
spoken of in Acts 2:23 when it says that Christ was
delivered up to be crucified by "the determinate coun-
sel and foreknowledge of God." In this eternal covenant,
the Trinity-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-agreed to
save sinners by grace through faith, giving us a provi-
sion to rebound in grace if we fail. They decided that
whenever believers do fail, Jesus will be there as an
advocate, an attorney to plead our cause (1 John 2:1-2).
They also determined that believers would not be utter-
ly cast down (Psalm 37:24), and that even at our worst
moment, there will be no condemnation (Romans 8:1).
In this plan of grace, the Trinity purposed that the ever-
lasting arms of God will be underneath every Christian,
to hold us up so we will never hit the bottom (Psalm
145:14; Deuteronomy 33:27).
In Hebrews 6:13-14, this eternal covenant was reaf-
firmed by God to Abraham. "For when God made
promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no
greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I
will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee."
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By His very nature, it is impossible for God to lie
(Hebrews 6:18).
The Trinity also agreed that the Holy Spirit will
stand by the believer when we become weak and can
not even pray. "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that
searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God" (Romans 8:26-27). They
decided that even if a Christian is backslidden, the
Holy Spirit will groan in intercession to the Father in
order to draw the child of God back into God's will.
In this eternal covenant, the Trinity purposed that
all things will "work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose" (Romans 8:28).
Before the foundation of the world, in His infinite
foreknowledge, God predestinated, called, justified,
and glorified every person who would believe on
Christ in time (Romans 8:30). The Trinity designed a
perfect plan for imperfect people, knowing every mis-
take we would ever make. In this plan, all the bad
things would be worked into a plan of divine good.
God Is For Us
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be
for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). If God
loved us enough in eternity past to predestinate, call,
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justify, and glorify us, and then design a perfect plan
for us, who could ever be against us? We need to
rehearse this verse often in our meditations, saying to
ourselves, ~ ~ G o d is for me forever."
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give
us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that con-
demneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or per-
secution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day
long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay,
in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us." (Romans 8:32-37).
Paul was convinced beyond any shadow of doubt
that nothing could ever separate him from God's love.
He mentions nine more things in verses 38 and 39: death,
life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things
to come, height, depth, "nor any other creature" -in
other words, anything else that might come against us.
Think of God's perfect plan for your life. No matter
what you have done, there is no condemnation. Just
remember that God is for you. If you are sick, God is for
you. If you are hurting inside, God is for you. If you are
going through a very difficult time, God is for you. Not
a thing can ever separate you from His love.
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"I Am n Is the One
The Lord is the One who heals us and provides for
us. In Exodus 15:26, God says, "I am the Lord that
healeth thee." The Hebrew words are Yahweh Rapha.
God is saying, "I am the Lord who heals you spiritual-
ly, mentally, emotionally, and physically. In Genesis
22:14, He is Yahweh Jireh, the One who will provide for
us. In Genesis 22, He provided a ram for a sacrifice so
Abraham would not have to offer his son Isaac. God
made sure the ram was there precisely when Abraham
needed it. The ram was for that particular day in
Abraham's life. In the same way, God says, "I have a
perfect provision for 'this' day. Because you are my
child, I call you by name. And whatever is going on in
your life, I am your Lord, and I desire to provide for
you and heal you.'/
In Ezekiel48:35, we find the name Yahweh Shamma
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meaning, the Lord is always there with us. He is inside
us through His Word. For this reason, the Word of God
says, /.(But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh
on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend
into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that fs, to bring
up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The
word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart:
that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved" (Romans 10:6-9). \aul said
in 2 Corinthians 4:13b, "I believed, and therefore have I
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spoken; we also belie:ve, and therefore speak." When
we believe the Word that resides in us and begin to con-
fess it, then we are confessing our faith in God's char-
acter. We are saying, "The Lord is here! He is here to
provide for us; He is here to heal us. He is here to love
us, to fellowship with us, and to guide every step we
take."
Let the Holy Spirit teach you to speak what you
believe. Let Him teach you to confess positive things, to
confess that all work together for good-
that God loves you and is for you. Nothing can sepa-
rate you from the love of God. All things are for your
sake, that the grace of God may flow from you and
cause others to give thanks (2 Corinthians 4:15).
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Chapter Three
GOD WANTS TO BLESS HIS FAMILY
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliver-
ance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised" (Luke
4:18).
''God is love. In this was manifested the love of God
toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son
into the world, that we might live through him. Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation [(mercy seat)] for our
sins" (1 John 4:8b-10).
"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that
which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans
5:8).
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hese verses tell us why Jesus Christ came to
earth as the God-man. His purpose today
remains the same. He has not changed. He
has not changed His mind about how much He loves
us. Psalm 46:1 tells us that God is a ve;cy present help in
trouble. We are His children, so why wouldn't God
want to help us? If He sent His Son to die for every per-
son who will ever live on the earth, including those
who reject Him, then how much more will He do for
those who accept Jesus Christ and become members of
His royal family?
God has a deep desire for His children to prosper-
physically as well as spiritually. He wants us to prosper
in marriage, family, church, and business. Consider the
following verses:
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth"
(3 John 2).
"Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to
profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest
go" (Isaiah 48:17).
"If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their
days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures" (Job
36:11).
Christianity is more than knowledge of the Bible; it
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is more than attaining something in this world.
Christianity is receiving the abundant life of God. Jesus
said, Iii am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10b).
David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, discovered how he
could have the abundant life. In Psalm 16:8, he wrote,
"I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at
my right hand, I shall not be moved." He went on to
say in verse 11, "At thy right hand there are pleasures
for evermore." This is why he could say, in Psalm 30:6,
"In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved."
We Are Jesus' Family
Ephesians 4:3-6 speaks of the seven-fold unity of
the Spirit: /fThere is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye
are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one
faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is
above all, and through all, and in you all." The one
mentioned first is "one Body" -God's family in heaven
and on earth.
In Luke 8:19-21, Jesus makes it clear who the mem-
bers of His family are. "Then came to him his mother
and his brethren, and could not come at him for the
press. And it was told him by certain which said, Thy
mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see
thee. And he answered and said unto them, My moth-
er and my brethren are these which hear the Word of
God, and do it." Marriage and family are sacred insti-
tutions of God. But what Jesus is saying here is that His
spiritual family-the royal family-is made up of those
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who hear the Word of God and keep it in the unity of
the Holy Spirit. The very reason that many marriages
and families are not close is because tl)_ey do not hear
the Word of God and keep it.
God gives good things to His family. Psalm 84:11b
says that He will not withhold any good thing from
those who walk uprightly. Matthew 7:9-11 affirms this.
"What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread,
will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give
him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, how much more shall
your Father which is in heaven give good things to
them that ask him?"
In light of this, why wouldn't God want to work
miracles for His family (Galatians 3:5)? He is waiting to
be gracious. "Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may
be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted,
that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a
God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him"
(Isaiah 30:18).
In Genesis 12:2-3, God made an unconditional prom-
ise to bless Abraham and his descendants. The Lord
said, "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and
curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all fami-
lies of the earth be blessed." This promise is reaffirmed
in Genesis 22:16-17, and again in Hebrews 6:14,
"Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will
multiply thee." In the dispensation of grace, God has
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extended the blessing of Abraham through Jesus Christ
to the Church: "That the blessing of Abraham might
come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we
might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith"
(Galatians 3:14b).
The Basis for All Blessing
The imputation of God's righteousness is the basis
for all blessings in the believer's life. To "impute"
means to reckon or charge something to someone' s
account. In the Bible, there are two kinds of imputa-
tions: judicial imputations and relative imputations.
There are two judicial imputations. First, all of
man's sins were imputed to Christ on the Cross (1 Peter
2:24; Isaiah 53:4-12). Second, all of Christ's righteous-
ness was imputed to us the moment we were saved
(2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:3-5). The unique thing
about these two imputations is that neither party is
deserving of them. Christ did not deserve to be charged
with our sins, and we certainly did not deserve to have
God's righteousness placed on our account. The only
grounds for God's judicial imputations is in the wisdom
of the Trinity (Acts 2:23), having ordained Christ's sac-
rifice for sinful men. Now, God's righteousness in us
becomes the basis for all blessing in the Christian's life.
Romans 10:3 says that Israel, being ignorant of
God's righteousness, went about to establish their own
righteousness. They did not understand that Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who
believes (Romans 10:4). Similarly, the Christian gets
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into trouble when he tries to produce his own right-
eousness rather than receiving it all from God. He may
get down on himself becal1se he tries to measure him-
self by his own righteousness. Any man-made system
of righteousness is all filthy rags before God (Isaiah
64:6). The key is admitting that we do not have any
righteousness and that we need to receive it all from
God. Jeremiah 23:6 says, "THE LORD OUR RIGHT-
EOUSNESS" (see also Jeremiah 33:16). Every believer
has been made the righteousness of God in Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:21 ). We are just as righteous as God is!
Once the righteousness of God has been imputed to
the believer, he has a basis upon which God may bless
him in his Christian life. These blessings are called "rel-
ative imputations." Because we have the Son's right-
eousness in us, God has to bless us and promote us.
Not only has God given us a robe of righteousness
(Isaiah 61:10); He also gives us an inner garment of
righteousness through the impartation of the Word and
the Spirit. He has to bless us on the basis of that right-
eousness, because it is not ours, it is Christ's. Even in
trials of our faith, His ultimate goal is to bless us even
more. He always looks upon His Son's righteousness
inside us whenever we ask for anything. The measure
that the righteousness of Christ abounds in us is the
measure He has to bless us. This is the reason John
14:13-14 says, "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name [which reveals my nature], that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any
thing in my [nature], I will do it."
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F
aith means to have repose in another's ability.
"Repose" means "to lay at rest; to rest in con-
fidence or trust; to place confidence in a per-
son's veracity." Therefore, faith is the believer resting in
the ability of Jesus Christ. It is placing trust and confi-
dence in His veracity. We enter into repose by reflecting
on who Jesus Christ is inside of us, by not being occu-
pied with our weaknesses, but with His strength. We
cease from our own works and focus upon Christ
(Hebrews 4:10; 12:2).
Jesus said to his disciples in Mark 11:22-24, "Have
faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them." This passage does not say that the moun-
tain will be removed if it is God's will. It says that
whosoever can have whatsoever. It says that whatever
your mountain is-sickness, financial problems, a bad
marriage-you can cast it into the sea. But the key is
that you do not doubt in your heart. The Lord Jesus
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Christ wants us to say what it is that we want, and
believe that when we pray, we receive the things that
we desire.
What is it that enables God's people to have such
boldness of faith? It is a personal revelation of and a
simple trust in the character of God. If the Father loved
us enough to send His only Son to Calvary and die for
us, how much more will He do for us now that we are
His sons and daughters?
The Basis for Faith: Trust in God's Character
God always addresses His children through a reve-
lation of His character-who He is, what He is like, and
what He has done. Exodus 34:5-7a is a proclamation of
God's name, which reveals His nature. "And the Lord
descended in the cloud, and stood with [Moses] there,
and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord
passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The
Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and
If
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Jesus Christ is the Living Word (John 1:1,14).
Therefore, the written Word always reveals His charac-
ter. When we receive the written Word through the fill-
ing of the Holy Spirit, then we receive a revelation of
the Living Word-God's character. This is the basis for
faith, as described in Romans 10:17, "So then faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
''But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
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he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him"
(Hebrews 11:6). We must believe that He is. Our faith is
first directed to\vard God's character-who He is and
what He has done for us. It is vital that we trust in His
character before we look to His promises. Why?
Because the integrity of character is behind every
promise! When we begin to understand God's charac-
ter, then He can address our faith in what He says to us
about His character.
In order to have a personal revelation of God's
character, we need to receive a steady diet of Finished
Work messages from the Word of God. We need to hear
that God is love (1 John 4:8), that all His paths are mercy
(Psalm 25:10), and that He is waiting to be gracious to
us (Isaiah 30:18). We need to hear that He is the God of
all grace (1 Peter 5:10), the Father of mercies (2 Corinth-
ians 1:3 ), and that He is a God of forgiveness and
patience. As we become established in Finished Work
teaching, He can begin to address our faith in the
integrity of His character to fulfill every promise.
Faith in the Old Testament means to have confi-
dence in God and to lean on His character. For example,
Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In
all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths." Psalm 28:7 says, uThe Lord is my strength and
my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped."
And in Psalm 56:3, uwhat time I am afraid, I will trust
in thee."
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An evangelist once said, "If you trust in yourself,
you will be doomed to disappointment. If you trust in
your friends, they will eventually die and leave you
alone, even if they were good friends. Trust in money,
and you're bound to lose it. Trust in reputation, and
some slanderous tongue can change it overnight. Trust
in God, and you will never be confounded in time or in
eternity."
Jeremiah 17:5 says, "Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm." Certainly
we should respect, love, and honor one other in the
Lord, but Christ should be the object of our trust. Even
Jesus, in His humanity, would not commit himself to
men because He knew what was in all men: a wicked
and deceitful old sin nature (see John 2:24).
God's question to all of us is, "Will you trust Me
with all your heart? Will you trust Me to reveal My
nature to you as I work My promises into your heart?"
Partake of God's Divine Nature
uGrace and peace be multiplied unto you through
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, accord-
ing as his divine power hath given unto us all things
that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowl-
edge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
whereby are given unto us exceeding great and pre-
cious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust.
"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
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faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowl-
edge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kind-
ness; and to brotherly kindness charity" (2 Peter 1:2-7).
Through faith in His exceeding great and precious
promises, God has given us a way to escape the cor-
ruption of Satan's world system. God's promises are
"precious," that is, they are worthy of the highest honor
and esteem. Why? Because every promise is backed by
the integrity of God's character. Hebrews 10:23 says,
"For he is faithful that promised." God cannot lie (Titus
1:2). In fact, it is impossible for God to lie (Hebrews
6:18). 1 Kings 8:56 testifies of God's immutable charac-
ter: "There hath not failed one word of all his good
promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his
servant." "For all the promises of God in him are yea,
and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (2 Cor-
inthians 1:20).
The key to our escape from the corruption of the
world is found in the words, "By these [the exceeding
great and precious promises] ye might be partakers of
the divine nature .... " When we receive God's promises
with meekness (James 1:21) and mix faith with them
(Hebrews 4:2 ), we become partakers, or sharers, of
God's nature! This takes us beyond mere knowledge
into the power of the promises to deliver and heal us.
Through His promises, God is inviting us to share in all
He is, all He has done, and all He wants to do for us
now.
The success of the spiritual life is based upon the
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charader of God undergirding everything He says to
us in His Word. For example, in Ezekiel 12:25, He says,
"For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I
shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more pro-
longed: for in your days, 0 rebellious house, will I say
the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God."
Jesus said in John 14:29, "Now I have told you before it
come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might
believe."
There was a pastor in our church who had a disease
that caused his body to shake severely. Unable to work
for nine months, his wife did the best she could to make
ends meet. Then during a Wednesday evening church
service, he heard a promise from_ God about healing. In
a moment, he acted upon the character of God by mix-
ing faith with that promise. After the service, when he
got into his car to go home, he began to feel better. All
of a sudden, the shaking stopped. He was completely
healed.
The Right Quality of Faith
I'N ow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seenn (Hebrews 11:1). aBut with-
out faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Hebrews
11:6). These verses address the quality of the believer's
faith.
In Luke 17:4, Jesus said to His disciples, ulf [a broth-
er] trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven
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times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou
shalt forgive him." The disciples responded by saying,
"Increase our faith" (verse 5). They thought they need-
ed more faith. But the lesson that Jesus was trying to
teach them was that they did not need more faith; they
needed the right kind of faith. The issue was not quan-
tity, but quality. He told them if they had the faith of a
grain of mustard seed then they could say to a tree, "Be
thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the
sea," and the tree would obey them. According to
Matthew 13:32, the mustard seed, smallest of all seeds,
grows to be one of the largest of all trees.
Throughout the Gospels, we see Jesus looking for
the right kind of faith in people-faith that would trust
in His character. In Matthew 8:23-27, Jesus and His dis-
ciples got into a boat to cross over the Sea of Galilee.
During the night, a great storm arose and water began
to pour into the boat. Jesus was asleep on a pillow in
the back of the boat (Mark 4:38). Fearful that the boat
would sink, the disciples woke Jesus and said, "Don't
you care that we are perishing?" Jesus got up, rebuked
the demons that had caused the storm and then said to
His disciples, "Why are ye fearful, 0 ye of little faith"
(Matthew 8:26). The Greek word for "little faith" indi-
cates that the disciples lacked confidence in Christ for
the situation at hand. Hebrews 10:22 instructs believers
to draw near to God with "full assurance of faith,"
with maximum confidence in the character of God.
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Heroes of Great Faith
In Matthew 9:2, some of the people of Capernaum
brought a man sick with palsy to Jesus. The Word of
God says that Jesus saw their faith and healed the man.
Jesus is always looking for faith in His people. He sees
whether we have little faith or great faith.
The story of the Syrophenician woman in Matthew
15:22-28 is one of the most remarkable stories of great
faith in the Bible. She came to Jesus crying, "Have
mercy on me, 0 Lord, thou son of David; my daughter
is grievously vexed with a devil" (verse 22). Jesus was
silent. The disciples wanted Jesus to send her away.
Then Jesus said, ui am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel." That did not discourage this
woman. Verse 25 says that she worshiped Jesus and
said, "Lord, help me." He answered again and said, "It
is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to
dogs." But she kept on believing. "Truth, L o ~ d : yet the
dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's
table" (verse 27).
Finally, after testing her faith, Jesus said, "0
woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou
wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very
hour" (Matthew 15:28). This woman had a quality of
faith that could not be hindered by delays. It was a faith
that could neither be discouraged by silence nor robbed
of its fulfillment by the unkind words of the disciples.
In Matthew 8:5-10, there was a centurion who had
great faith. He came to Jesus on behalf of his servant
who was at home, sick of the palsy. Jesus offered to
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come and heal the servant, but the centurion said, "I am
not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof:
but speak the word only, and my servant shall be
healed" (Matthew 8:8). This centurion recognized the
authority of Jesus' word. "For I am a man under
authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this
man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it"
(verse 9). To this Jesus said, "I have not found so great
faith, no, not in Israel" (verse 10). In verse 13, Jesus said,
"As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee." Jesus
rewarded his faith by giving him exactly what he had
asked for. This is the kind of faith that pleases God.
Embrace the Promises
"These all died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them afar off, and were per-
suaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth"
(Hebrews 11:13).
Every circumstance in life is an opportunity to
switch on a positive faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ
and embrace His promises. The Old Testament saints
mentioned in Hebrews chapter eleven, "The Faith Hall
of Fame" were so intimately acquainted with the prom-
ises that they were persuaded by them. They
"embraced" the promises-that is, they held on to them
tightly because of deep love. These people had no room
in their hearts for doubt or wavering.
On the other hand, Hebrews 3:8-11 and 3:16-19
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reveals how a particular generation of Israelites never
entered the Promised Land because of their unbelief.
The Lord spoke of this generation in Deuteronomy
32:20b, "They are a very froward generation, children in
whom is no faith." Second Thessalonians 3:2 says, uFor
all men have not faith." The only two exceptions were
Joshua and Caleb. The other two and a half million
Israelites died in the wilderness because they fell short
of faith in God's promise to bring them into rest. They
failed to embrace the promise. But Joshua and Caleb
took God at His Word and lived byl it.
God gave the nation of Israel a promise that He
would bring them out of the bondage of Egypt into
Canaan where they would find rest. uLet us therefore
fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his
rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them:
but the word preached did not profit them, not being
mixed with faith in them that heard it" (Hebrews 4:1-2;
see Exodus 6:6-8).
Long after the unbelieving generation of Israelites
died in the wilderness, Caleb continued to embrace the
promise. In Joshua 14:10-12, he confessed, uThe Lord
hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five
years .. .I am this day fourscore and five years old. As
yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that
Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my
strength now ... now therefore give me this moun-
tain .. .if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be
able to drive them out, as the Lord said."
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Think of it. Forty-five years prior to this time, Caleb
embraced a promise from God-the very promise that
had been given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and to the
nation of Israel. Caleb carried the promise in his heart,
embracing it for forty-five years without any evidence
of its fulfillment. Numbers 14:24 says that Caleb had
"another spirit" -a spirit of faith that did not waver. In
Joshua 14:8, he said, "I wholly followed the Lord my
God." (see also Deuteronomy 1:36). In Numbers 32:12,
Joshua and Caleb wholly followed the Lord.
As Christians living in the twenty-first century, we
can embrace the promises as Joshua and Caleb did. We
can receive victory over emotional wounds and
garbage from the past by wholly following the Lord. As
sacred and precious as the promises are, however, they
will not profit us unless we mix faith with them when
we hear. We will fall short of inheriting any promise
that we do not embrace. But the more we hear, read,
and meditate on the promises, the more we will be per-
suaded by them, and embrace them.
Don't Forfeit the Power of a Promise
When we mix faith with the promises, the Holy
Spirit transfers them from the pages of the Bible into
our hearts. They become ours. Everywhere we go, the
promises go with us. But the moment we begin to
rationalize our circumstances or live in our emotions,
we reveal that we have left the promises in the Book.
Because of self-occupation, we forfeit the power the
promises could have had in our lives. When we spend
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time being anxious and upset about something, not
only do we leave the promises in the Book, but we
grieve the Holy Spirit inside of us. Instead of leaving
the promises in the Book for that occasional time when
we may feel stimulated to quote them, it is much better
to pick them up, embrace them, confess them, and
carry them with us every moment.
Unless we wholly follow the Lord, we will only be
half the Christians that we could be. The Word of God
should come before everything else in a Christian's life
because it is the Word that will evalvate us at the future
"Beman (judgment) Seat, which will take place in
Heaven after the Rapture of the Church (see John 12:47-
48). That is why, unless we are sick or working, we
should faithfully attend every service at our local
assembly.
Faith always leads to obedience. The Israelites in
the wilderness never obeyed God's Word because they
did not have faith. They never learned to follow the
faith of Joshua and Caleb. God desires that we identify
with other believers who have a strong faith. He wants
us to be around them and follow their example of faith.
"Be not slothful, but followers of them vvho through
faith and patience inherit the promises" (Hebrews 6:12).
The Reward of Faith
IJ'Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he
that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (He-
brews 11:6).
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"There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his
feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who
never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who
steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had
faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright
on thy feet. And he leaped and walked" (Acts 14:8-10).
God promises to reward those who have an active
faith-a faith that acts on the promises and on the char-
acter of God behind the promises. Paul told the lame
man in Acts 14 to get up and walk because he discerned
that this man had faith to be healed. Where did this
faith come from? He heard Paul speak the Word of God.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of
God (Romans 10:17). The lame man exercised a certain
kind of faith that came from a precise word spoken by
the Holy Spirit through Paul, which resulted in a mira-
cle of healing. This kind of faith pleases God because it
comes from God in the first place.
Galatians 5:6b says that faith "works" by love. A
Christian who has an active faith will build an Ark, as
Noah did, with no prior experience. He will leave his
"Ur of the Chaldeans" as Abraham did, without any
help or encouragement from his friends. Abraham acted
in faith and went out, not knowing where he was going
(Hebrews 11:8).
Abraham was strong in faith. Likewise, a person
who derives his faith from the Bible will always
respond to Jesus Christ and the Word of God as the
objects of his faith. He begins his Christian life by acting
in faith toward the death, burial, and resurrection of
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Christ. After he is saved, he acts in faith-obedience
toward what God says to him through the Word.
Just as the nobleman in John 4:46-52, we believe
that things will happen according to the Word we have
heard. We act upon it because we have the power of
faith inside us. The nobleman believed his son would
be healed if Jesus would just speak a word. Verse 50
says, "The man believed the word that Jesus had spo-
ken unto him." This kind of faith pleases God.
~ ~ B y faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death" (Hebrews 11:5a). Try to_imagine the conver-
sation God and Enoch might have had:
"God," Enoch said, ui don't want to die."
"You don't?"
"No, I don't. I just want to walk with You and fel-
lowship with You all the time. I'm believing that You
will hear my prayer-I don't want to die."
"You really don't want to die, Enoch?" God said.
uNo."
"And you have faith to believe that you won't die
as long as you continue to walk with Me?"
"Yes."
"Then you will not die. I will take you up to be with
Me in heaven."
It is interesting that the very next verse in Hebrews
11 says that without faith-the kind of faith that Enoch
hadO-it is impossible to please God. Only a living,
active faith can please God. The Word of God says we
must believe that God rewards those who diligently
seek Him. What was Enoch's reward? He did not die.
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What was Noah's reward? He and his family were
delivered from the Flood (see Hebrews 11:7). What was
Abraham and Sarah's reward? God fulfilled His promise
to give them a son, Isaac (see Hebrews 11:8-12).
God desires to train every believer in the school of
faith through the Bible. He has given to each person a
measure of faith (Romans 12:3 ); yet, this faith needs to
be cultivated. God wants to take us beyond just having
faith to be saved. He wants to lead us into a personal,
living faith in His character. We need to hear messages
from the Word of God about faith, sing about faith, and
confess our faith. We need to build up our faith at night
before we go to sleep and in the morning when we
wake. As our capacity is enlarged to trust God's char-
acter, we will have a quality of faith to believe Him for
anything at anytime. Our hearts will truly be ready for
a miracle!
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Chapter Five
PREPARING FOR A MIRACLE
II And [Elisha] said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this
valley full of ditches. For thus saith the Lord, ye shall
not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley
shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and
your cattle, and your beasts. And this is but a light
thing in the sight of the Lord ... " (2 Kings 3:16-18a).
I
n 2 Kings 3, Jehoram, king of Israel was prepar-
ing to stop the rebellion of Moab against Israel.
Seeking passage through Judah, Jehoram asked
king Jehoshaphat to join him in the battle against Moab.
The king of Ed om, also under Judah's authority at this
time, joined the allicu:lce. Jehoshaphat had no business
joining this alliance with king Jehoram. Following in
his father Ahab's footsteps, Jehoram was still support-
ing Baal worship. At one point when things were not
going so well, Jehoshaphat suggested that they seek
counsel from a prophet. The prophet was Elisha.
Elisha's counsel from God was, "Make this valley
full of ditches." That was their responsibility. It was up
to God to supernaturally fill the ditches with water.
This is a picture of what God wants to do with His chil-
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dren. Digging ditches represents an act of humility on
the part of the believer (James 4:10). It means that we
develop a capacity for God to fill us and to do His super-
natural work in and through us. God does not dig the
ditches for us. We must do it by faith-without seeing
wind or rain. Digging ditches is preparing for a miracle.
aBut he giveth more [(greater)] grace. Wherefore he
saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto
the humble" (James 4:6). Many people have difficulty
humbling themselves because they are not filled with
the Holy Spirit. Apart from the Spirit, any effort they do
make to humble themselves is only an act of self-efface-
ment in the flesh. God's people can humble themselves
only when they live in the truth of Galatians 2:20: anot
I, but Christ." Christ must take the believer's place in
every situation. Humility then becomes an automatic
response, and God floods the Christian with greater
grace as a provision for every problem.
First Peter 5:5 tells us to be clothed with humility.
This means that once we have received the Word of
God with meekness (James 1:21), it produces a healthy
spiritual life. We begin to produce the inward fruit of
the Holy Spirit: love, joy, and peace. Then people
around us see the manifestation of this fruit: longsuf-
fering, gentleness, and goodness. This manifestation of
the fruit of the Spirit is the outer garment of humility.
Finally, our lives minister back to God through the
upward fruit of the Spirit: faithfulness, meekness, and
temperance.
Jehoshaphat humbled himself and exercised faith in
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Elisha's message from God. The result? u And it came to
pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with water. And
when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come
up to fight against them, they gathered all that were
able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the
border. And they rose up early in the morning, and the
sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the
water on the other side as red as blood: And they said,
This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have
smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil"
(2 Kings 3:20-23). As Moab went down to the spoil,
Israel rose up and defeated them. The water had the
appearance of blood to the Moabites. This is a beautiful
picture of our supernatural victory over our enemy
through the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Prepare for a miracle of faith. Humble yourself in
the sight of God and He will lift you up in His time.
God is saying that instead of asking others what you
should do, just start mpking your valley full of ditches.
You may not feel anything, no wind or rain. If you walk
by sight, there will appear to be no answers. But it has
to be this way because God desires to do a supernatu-
ral work. He wants us to see how He will honor our
faith in Him.
Raise Your Level of Consciousness
"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacri-
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fices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5).
''But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves
In the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (Jude 20-21 ).
. prepares each one of us for a miracle of faith by
raising our level of consciousness t-oward His supernat-
ural power. He does this by building up our faith in
specific areas of truth that correspond to our precise
need. As we continue to receive the Word of God line
upon line and precept upon precept, our level of con-
sciousness is raised to a place where we know God inti-
mately and sense His compassion toward us. This
releases us to act in faith upon His promises.
Being built up as a spiritual house means that the
members in the Body of Christ build each other up in
love. For example, if five people see you during the day,
and they all express love through their countenance
and their words, then your consciousness of God's love
for you is raised. Your self-image is defined by the love
of God. The more you are conscious of love, grace, and
the of the Finished Work, the more you are ready
for a miracle to take place in your life.
. When people come into my office for counseling, I
will have them turn to particular verses in the Bible that
reveal God's provision for their problem. Then I ask
them to read the verses out loud. I encourage them to
do the same thing at home several times a day. Before
long, they are completely delivered. Why? The letter of
the Scriptures becomes the Word of Life inside, and
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they are built up into higher levels of faith-expectation.
Eventually, the energy of faith translates into a faith
walk. Now they easily trust in the compassion, the
promises, and the desires of Christ for their life.
Have an Expectation
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give
you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and
ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto
you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:11-13).
God is looking for people who will seek Him. He is
not a respecter of persons. He says that anyone who
searches for Him with all his heart will find Him. In
Matthew 9:29, Jesus said," According to your faith be it
unto you." God honors the believer who will stretch
out his hand in expectation to receive exactly what he
needs from Jesus.
In Matthew 9:20-22, a woman with an issue of blood
sought after Jesus just so she could touch the hem of
His garment and be 'healed. Her disease caused her to
be ostracized by her community, excommunicated from
the synagogue, and divorced from her husband. She
was so contagious that she was not even supposed to
go outside her house. Nevertheless, in an attitude of
faith-expectation she said to herself, "If I may but touch
his garment, I shall be whole" (Matthew 9:21 ). In
Luke's account of the same story, he writes that as soon
as she touched Jesus' garment, she was immediately
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healed. Jesus asked, "Who touched me?" (Luke 8:45).
At this point, Peter spoke up and said, ''There's a whole
crowd of people here, Lord. Many people have been
touching You." But Jesus said, "No, someone has
touched me in faith. I perceive that virtue has gone out
of me" (see verse 46). is the, power of compas-
sion executed through the authority of resurrection life.
Trembling, the woman came before Jesus and fell at His
feet to proclaim her healing. Jesus told her, "Your faith
has made you whole."
The story of this woman's great faith is recorded a
total of three times in the Gospels: Matthew 9:20-22;
Mark 5:25-34, and Luke 8:43-48. When God says some-
thing twice, it is important. But when He says some-
thing three times, it is extremely important. He does
this to teach us the spiritual law of repetition: The more
we read or hear truth, the more our faith is built up to
trust God. The Holy Spirit inspired three different
gospel writers to record Jesus' words, "Thy faith hath
made thee whole." God wants us to know that our faith
pleases Him.
What was it that drew virtue from Jesus to heal this
woman? It was her expectation of faith-faith in who
Jesus is and why He came, personal faith in His nature.
Psalm 62:5 says, "My sout wait thou only upon God;
for my expectation is from him." Proverbs 24:14 says,
"So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul:
when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward
I
and thy expectation shall not be cut off." This woman's
faith was rewarded because she sought after Jesus with
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all her heart, expecting to be healed.
As in Matthew 8:5-13, the centurion's faith in the
authority of the Word was rewarded. He sought after
Jesus with his whole heart and found Him faithful to
heal.
In Matthew 9:27, two blind men followed Jesus and
cried out, "Thou son of David, have mercy on us." Jesus
said to the two men, uBelieve ye that I am able to do
this?" And they replied, "Yea, Lord." "Then touched he
their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto
you. And their eyes were opened ... " (Matthew 9:29-30a).
These two men had a faith that expected Jesus to give
them their sight. They believed, and confessed that He
could do it-and He did.
We can see this same kind of expectation at work in
a man who sought after Jesus for healing from leprosy.
As he came and worshiped, his confession was, "Lord,
if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Matthew 8:2).
The result? "Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, I will; be thou dean. And immediately his lep-
rosy was cleansed" (verse 3). The reward for this man's
faith was immediate cleansing.
Sadly, unbelief-the opposite of faith-expectation-
is at work in the hearts of many. Unbelief is a powerful
force. Matthew 13:54-58 records how that Jesus was
rejected in His own country. When He came to the syn-
agogue in Nazareth to teach, those who knew Him
said, "Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these
mighty works? Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his
mother called Mary? And his brethren, James, and
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Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they
not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these
things? And they were offended in him" (Matthew
13:54b-57a). They did not believe in Him because they
were familiar with Him. Verse 58 says that Jesus was
not able to do many mighty works in Nazareth because
of their unbelief. \
Come unto Jesus
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and
ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30).
The practical application for the word ulabour" in
Matthew 11:28 is someone who has caused their own
problems. Being "heavy laden" refers to someone who
is a victim of what others have done.
As Jesus looked upon the multitudes, He was not
thinking of what made them the way they were. He did
not think, "Drugs and alcohol did this," or, "Immoral-
ity caused this.n He did not decide who deserved heal-
ing and who didn't. He had compassion on them all.
He acted in grace-giving each one something they did
not deserve.
Maybe you have caused your own problems. You
may feel that it is your fault that your marriage is bad
or that your family is divided. But your pain is still just
as real as someone who is an innocent victim of cir-
cumstances. You hurt just as much as they do. But Jesus
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is saying, "Just come-as you are."
Sometimes people may think, "That person was on
drugs for fifteen years. He deserves to reap what he has
sown." But do you know what God says to that person?
"Come." He may still be on drugs, but God says,
"Come as you are, yoke up with me, and I will take
away the desire for drugs, and remove the guilt and the
pain."
In Matthew 11:29, Jesus says, "Take my yoke upon
you." When two animals are yoked together as a team,
the stronger animal always leads. In the same way,
when we yoke up with Jesus, His strength leads us. As
we walk together, yoked up with Him, we begin to
learn about His nature. We learn that He is meek and
lowly. We learn to think right about ourselves and
others. We learn that the battle is the Lord's. He is lead-
ing. He is resolving the things in our lives that have
been left unresolved. We learn that His yoke is easy and
His burden is light. As we walk with Him, we become
meek and humble because we are being conformed to
His image.
Notice that Jesus did not say He would take away
the burden. He said it would be light. He also said it is
His burden. For example, a mother may be heavy laden
because her alcoholic son has caused her so much pain.
The promise in Matthew 11:28-30 is not that Jesus will
take away our problems all at once. He promises to
give our souls rest, making the burden light and the
yoke easy. That woman's son may not stop drinking
right away, but Jesus says to h e r ~ "Bring the burden to
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Me, and it will be Mine. I will bless you and help you.
I will make this burden light and your yoke easy, and I
will teach you how to trust Me for your son's deliver-
ance."
After many years of marriag-e, a husband left his
wife for another woman. She was heartbroken. She was
heavy laden. Her husband caused her much pain. But,
through it all, she learned that her greatest need was
not to have her husband back. Her greatest need was to
come to Jesus. Maybef in time, He would bring her
husband back. But that was not the issue. It was more
important that she allow Jesus to take her burden and
make it light.
Healing is a gift of grace-something we do not
deserve and cannot earn. Yet, grace never rules out
human participation. God filled Jehoshaphat's ditches
with water, but Jehoshaphat and his men had to dig the
ditches. God builds our faith in His character, but we
must choose to hear the Word of God that produces our
faith. God gives us a personal revelation of His love
and compassion, but we must seek after Him with all of
our heart. Jesus Christ promises rest from the burdens
of life, but we must draw near to Him. God is ready to
do a miracle in your life. Are you ready to receive it?
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Chapter Six
HEALING: A GIFT OF GRACE
Why Jesus Heals
C
ontrary to the belief of some today, Jesus did
not heal people in order to fulfill Old
Testament prophecy. There is a belief that
some of the healings recorded in the New Testament
were done to fulfill Isaiah's prophecies. Others believe
that Jesus healed to prove His deity. Though the fulfill-
ment of prophecy may have been a result of His acts of
healing, that certainly was not the motive behind the
healings.
Jesus healed people simply because He loved them.
Romans 5:8 tells us that this love is the reason that God
sent His Son to die for us: "But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us." If Jesus Christ loved us so much that
He died in our place, then why wouldn't He want to heal
us? "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give
us all things?" (Romans 8:32). Psalm 84:11b says that
He will not withhold any good thing from those who
walk "uprightly" in the gift of His righteousness. All
that God wants is for us to respond to Him so we can
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receive what is ours. If He can just get us to look unto
Him, and trust in His character, then we will be able to
receive what His love already desires to give us.
Healing begins, on our part, by recognizing who
God is in His essence, and then who He is in us. It
begins by realizing that whenever God's people gather
together, His power is present to heal (Luke 5:17). The
words He speaks when He is present will produce faith
in us to be healed.
The Word of God says in Jeremiah 17:14, uHeal me,
0 Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be
saved: for thou art my praise." The Lord is saying
through Jeremiah that just as salvation is a gift of grace,
healing, too, is a gift of grace-something we don't
deserve and cannot earn. Yet, God is just waiting to
give it to us freely.
Is It God's Will to Heal Me?
"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it"
(John 14:14).
Many Christians pray, uGod, if it is your will .. . n
and then they tell God what it is they would like Him
to do. But John 14:14 does not say, "If you ask some
things in my name, I will do it." In fact, there is only
one time in the Bible that God's will is mentioned in the
equation: "And this is the confidence that we have in
him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he
heareth us" (1 John 5:14). God does not want us to be
occupied with whether or not it is His will to heal us.
He wants us to be bold, trusting, and confident in His
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ability to heal. God is no respecter of persons. However,
in the sovereignty of His perfect plan, it may not be
God's will for some people to be healed. His plan may
be to bring the trial of their faith (1 Peter 1:6-8), and to
allow suffering for a season. This trial not only works
God's nature into the lives of those who suffer, but it
produces degrees of reflected glory in the soul-both
now and for the future. That's right! There will be
degrees of glory and happiness given to individuals
for all of eternity. (For further study on undeserved suf-
fering, see Romans 8:18, and 2 Timothy 2:12.)
As our faith begins to rest in His love for us, we
learn to accept the integrity of His character toward our
needs. We learn to approach God boldly on the basis of
His compassion for us. From human viewpoint, this
may be considered as running a risk. "What if it does-
n't happen? What if I don't get healed?" These are some
of the questions the natural mind poses. But according
to divine viewpoint, faith in God is never a risk.
Abraham was "fully persuaded" that what God had
promised, He was able to perform. There is no risk in
that equation. Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:12, "For I know
whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is
able to keep that which I have committed unto him
against that day."
Psalm 107:20 says that God sends His Word to heal.
As long as we do not exalt a man, a church, or a partic-
ular emphasis in the Word above Christ, then His Word
can come forth to heal with the power and authority of
His life. Our part is to exalt the King of Kings and the
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Lord of Lords, not worrying about whether or not it is
His will to heal us. He is the Lord over death, the Lord
over sin, the Lord over disease, the Lord over forgive-
ness, and the Lord of all mercy and grace. He is the
Lord over everything that could ever happen to man.
And when a member of His royal family needs some-
thing, He is not going to turn a deaf ear to them.
You may have a physical, emotional, or spiritual
need today. But no matter what your condition is,
release your faith in the God of all grace, the God of all
compassion, and the Father of mercies. He is a God of
integrity who stands behind every promise in the Book.
He is a God of love, just waiting to be gracious to you.
Only believe. In your desire to see God work, learn to
"say" what it is you want Him to do for you. Then
believe that what you say will come to pass. God loves
to reward this kind of faith with precise healing.
Remember, Mark 11:22-24 does not say that the moun-
tain will be removed if it is God's will. It says that
whosoever can have whatsoever if he believes and does
not doubt in his heart.
The Compassion of Jesus
Jesus heals out of compassion-a fervent, over-
whelming desire in Himself to express His love to meet
our every need. In Matthew 14:14, Jesus was "moved
with compassion" toward the multitude, and He
healed their sick. The word "moved" in this verse is a
constative aorist passive indicative in the Greek syntax.
The constative aorist takes into view an action in its
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entirety. This means that Jesus was moved with com-
passion constantly throughout His ministry on the
earth. Every time He saw people in need, He was was
moved with compassion. It was a deep, indescribable
yearning in His heart to help them. According to
Lamentations 3:22-23, it is because of the Lord's mer-
cies that we are not consumed. God's compassions fail
not, and they are new every morning.
In Mark 6, Jesus took His disciples to a place where
they could rest and have something to eat. Verse 33
says that many saw where Jesus had gone and ran after
Him. When Jesus saw the multitude coming after Him,
He
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'was moved with compassion toward them,
because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and
he began to teach them many things" (Mark 6:34).
Here, the Greek word for "compassion" has the same
meaning as in Matthew 14:14-a deep, indescribable
yearning. Here, He had a deep yearning to teach them
and to impart the truth about Himself as the Shepherd.
In Matthew 15:32, Jesus had the same yearning, but this
time to feed the multitude who had been with Jesus for
three days and had nothing to eat.
Every time Jesus saw a need, He was moved with
compassion. In John 5:6, Jesus saw a lame man. In John
9:1, He saw a blind man. He was always searching for
someone to save, to heal, to make whole, to feed, or to
comfort. In Matthew 4:23-25, multitudes of people
came to Him-the diseased, epileptics, paralyzed peo-
ple, and those under the power of demons-and He
healed them all. In Matthew 9:35, "Jesus went about all
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the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing
every sickness and every disease among the people." In
verse 36, He saw the multitude and was umoved with
compassion" because they fainted and were as sheep
scattered, having no shepherd. Luke 6:19 says, "The
whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went
virtue out of him, and healed them all."
Why did Jesus keep on healing all who came to
Him? Because He was moved with an intense yearning
to impart all that He is. To Him, it didn't matter what
caused a person's condition. It could have been deep
sin or something someone else did to them, but the
issue was only, uHow can I help them?" Acts 10:38
summarizes Jesus' whole life: uHe went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil."
The Battle Is the Lord's
God fights our battles for us. In 2 Chronicles 20,
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, faced one such battle. The
people of Judah had no place to go. It seems that their
enemies were closing in on them from all sides. Though
Jehoshaphat was afraid, he set himself to seek the Lord
and proclaimed a fast throughout the land (verse 3). In
great reverence and respect, he reasoned with God
regarding His greatness. He said, "Aren't You God in
heaven? And don't You rule over all the kingdoms of
the heathen on earth? Don't You have so much power
that no one can withstand You? Didn't You drive out
the inhabitants of this land for Israel so we could dwell
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in it and build a sanctuary for Your name? And did we
not say that if disaster came upon us that we would
stand before this temple in Your presence and cry out to
You, and you would e m ~ and deliver us?" Jehoshaphat
was saying, "Lord, during this battle, I want you to
keep on doing what You have always done for Your
people. Be faithful."
After diligently seeking God's face, Jehoshaphat
said to the people of Judah, f/Thus saith the Lord unto
you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's" (2
Chronicles 20:15). Then he instructed the people in
verse 17, "Ye shall not need to fight this battle: set your-
selves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord
with you, 0 Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dis-
mayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord
will be with you." And Jehoshaphat and all Judah fell
before the Lord and began to worship. They under-
stood that the battle was not theirs to fight.
One of the professors in our Bible college went
through a battle with cancer and discovered that the
battle was the Lord's. Here is his testimony to our
church after God healed him:
"Six months ago, I had a headache that just would
not go away. When I finally went to the doctor to have
it checked out, he told me I had a small tumor in my
brain that had to come out right away. Surprise! The
operation went alright, but I was up and down for
months after that because the doctors were trying to
make my pituitary gland get back into operation.
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uThen a couple of weeks ago, the doctors gave me
some bad news. They said my tumor was growing
back. They gave me three options. The first one was to
operate and take the tumor out again. I said to myself,
'How long is this going to go on?' The second option
was radiation, and the third option was to wait and see
what happens. I said to the doctor, 'I don't like any of
those options. I'm going to see my pastor, and we're
going to pray.'
uwe prayed both privately and with the church. I
can't begin to tell you the power of faith that was gen-
erated in the presence of God. I could literally feel it.
But I will be honest with you. I had a little bit of doubt.
As one of the elders anointed me with oil, I thought,
'Why not pour out the whole bottle?' You know, if a lit-
tle bit is good, then a whole bunch is a lot better!
ui went to a number of doctors after that. Finally, I
went to one who examined me and said, 'Well, there is
no tumor in there.' Somehow I knew he would say that.
By faith I knew God would remove the tumor when He
was ready. Of course, the other doctors wanted to
examine me again as if to say, 'We just want to make
sure it's gone.' I told them, 'The tumor is gone. I feel
better. I look better. I seem better. I am better. It's gone.'
They said, ~ ' W e l l , we're going to do some more tests
anyway.' I said, 'Go ahead and do the tests, but the
tumor is gone.' And it is gone!
lilt is incredible what can happen when the Body of
Christ focuses their faith together toward God. It's like
the sun's light shining through a magnifying glass on
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one object until it starts a fire. The corporate faith of the
Body focuses the power of God toward the objects of
His love until the fire of the Holy Spirit begins to burn
in us and supernatural healing takes place.
"It is so good to stand before you and thank you for
your prayers. I have so much to be thankful for."
A precious young woman in our church has
leukemia. I talk with her on the phone as often as I can.
Recently I asked her, "Janis, whose battle is this?"
She said, ''The Lord's."
Again I said, uWhose battle is this?"
She said, "The Lord's."
Then I asked her, do you think He will do
about the battle?"
She said, "He'll win."
I said, "That's right, so we will keep on believing
you are going to be healed until there is evidence to
prove otherwise."
What was I doing with Janis? I was giving her hope.
Hope is based on something we cannot see. Romans
8:24-25 says, "For we are saved by hope: but hope that
is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he
yet hope for? But if we hope that we see not, then do
we with patience wait for it." Ezekiel 13:6 says that we
can make others to hope. Colossians 1:27 says that
Christ in us is the hope of glory. Every time that I talk
with Janis, I'm going to say, "Let's believe God for
today. Let's trust in His love for today. Let's have a
renewed hope that God will heal you today."
We can give people hope because the battle is the
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Lord's. Even if someone has been confined to a wheel-
chair for many years, it doesn't mean that he will be
there for the rest of his life. And even if he never gets
healed, he will be happier and more peaceful if he can
learn to live in hope each day. One thing is for sure. His
hope of being able to walk will be realized when he gets
to heaven, even if it never was realized on earth.
The same God who created the heavens and the
earth is our God. The same God who made the sun and
the moon stand still for one day (in Joshua 10:13) is our
God. The same God who parted the Red Sea is our God.
The same God who gave the children of Israel manna in
the wilderness is our God. The same God who made
water flow from a rock in Exodus 17 is our God. The
God of the miracles in the Old Testament is our God
today. Nothing is impossible with Him (Luke 1:37).
Nothing is too hard for Him (Genesis 18:14). Just as He
fought the battles for the Old Testament saints, He will
fight our battles today. All He asks of us is to eat the
words of the Bible; breathe them, think them, confess
them, and dream with it. Go to bed at night thinking
about the promises of God. Get up in the morning with
an expectation toward His Word for today. God will do
the rest. The battle is His.
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Chapter Seven
HEALING: A PRODUCT OF
ETERNAL LIFE
When God created man from the dust of the earth
(Genesis 2:7), He gave him human life. In the Greek lan-
guage, this is known as bios-man's biological, or phys-
ical, life. The Greeks also had another word for life-zoe.
In the New Testament, zoe came to mean eternal life, or
resurrection life. According to John 5:26, zoe is the very
life that God has in Himselt shared with His Son, Jesus
Christ. "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he
given to the Son to have life in himself."
Because eternal life is the life of God, it has no
beginning and no end. We could say that it is "unearth-
ly" life, that it is not of this world. When Jesus walked
on the earth as the God-man, He carried this unearthly
life inside of Him. Wherever He went, the manifesta-
tion of eternal life would bring love, encouragement,
compassion, grace, and healing.
When Jesus died on the Cross, eternal life did not
die. Only His human body died and was placed in the
sepulcher. His soul went into Hades to announce His
victory on the Cross to the demons of hell, and His
human spirit went to the Father. Three days later, eter-
nal life resurrected the body of Jesus Christ and
empowered Him to ascend into Heaven where, after
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presenting His blood as payment for the sins of the
world, He would sit down at the Father's right hand.
Beyond Salvation
Whoever believes on the death, burial, resurrection,
and ascension of Christ can nuw receive the gift of eter-
nal life. "And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand" (John 10:28). u And this is the record,
that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in
his son" (1 John 5:11). As Christians, we have an
unearthly life dwelling in our earthen vessels.
Eternal life, however, does more than save us from
hell. It heals us. Jeremiah said under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit, "Heal me, 0 Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise"
(Jeremiah 17:14). Healing is not separate from eternal
life; healing is in eternal life. Eternal life is healing for
the whole man. It is perfect life. It contains no sin or
death, for sin and death would make eternal life some-
thing less than eternal, something less than perfect.
The word "give," in John 10:28, is a present active
indicative in the Greek. This means that eternal life
goes beyond saving us from hell. Jesus wanted us to
have an ever growing surplus of eternal life for our
experience. He keeps on giving us eternal life through
His Word and the filling of His Spirit.
John 10:10 also speaks of this surplus of eternal life.
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and
to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that
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they might have it more abundantly." Abundant life
superabounds beyond any conceivable measure. It is
more than enough to meet every need.
The devil, on the other hand, is always trying to
steal from the believer. He steals happiness and health.
He steals by luring people into habits that they can't
break. He tries to destroy marriages and relationships.
He does everything within his power to diminish the
believer's self-worth and to destroy his capacity for
God.
Because we live in bodies of death, we will have
times of sickness and disease. Satan tries to get us to
focus on the sickness rather than on eternal life. He is
well aware of the power of eternal life when it is
released inside the believer. He knows that wherever
eternal life is being manifested, there will be faith,
hope, courage, vitality, and a special unction from the
Holy Spirit.
When eternal (zoe) life takes over the biological
(bios) life of a believer, then the biological life begins to
experience the supernatural effects of eternal life.
Eternal life doesn't require healing. It needs to be
released inside someone who needs healing.
Lay Hold on Eternal Life
Psalm 107:20 tells us that God "sent his word, and
healed them, and delivered them from their destruc-
tions." There is healing in God's Word because there is
eternal life in God's word. That is why 1 Timothy 6:19b
says we can /flay hold on eternal life." In other words,
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we are to receive the abundant life of Jesus Christ
through His Word and Spirit, letting that life do the
healing. Proverbs 3:8 says that the Word of God is
health to the navel and marrow to the bones. In the
Hebrew, unavel" refers to the nervous system. The
"marrow" is the place where red and white blood cells
are formed. Eternal life is our health-the health of our
heart, our blood, our nerves, our muscles, and our
mind and emotions. It energizes every cell of the body.
It is time that Christians learn to do what the apos-
tle Paul did in Acts 27:25. In the midst of a severe storm
that appeared to have no promise of survival to the
ship or the crew, Paul confessed, "Wherefore, sirs, be of
good cheer: for I believe Godf that it shall be even as it
was told me." We can believe God because He cannot
lie (Titus 1:2). In fact, it is impossible for God to lie
(Hebrews 6:18). "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?" (Numbers 23:19). Abraham was
strong in faith and staggered not in unbelief (Romans
4:20). He believed the promise God gave to him. When
we believe the promises that God gives to us, we are
laying hold of eternal life.
God has many desires. He desires that people
would be saved and come to an experiential knowledge
of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). He desires that no one
should perish (2 Peter 3:9). He desires to be our provi-
sion, our life, our power, our peace, and our prosperity.
He wants to cleanse us and forgive us as often as we
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need itf even if we fail seventy times seven times in a
day. It is possible, however, that God's greatest desire
for us is that eternal life would heal us from the top of
our heads to the soles of our feet. The Holy Spirit wrote,
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth"
(3 John 2).
God is saying to His children, "Ask, and I will hear
and answer. My love and compassion will release My
power to give you what I already am in My eternal
life." All He wants us to do is to mix faith with His
promises (Hebrews 4:2 )f trust in His omnipotence, rely
on His omnipresence, look for His compassion, receive
His love, and let Him care for us. Instead of exalting
problems or being occupied with our sickness, we have
the opportunity to respond to God's nature and receive
eternal life by fellowshipping with Christ, the One who
has eternal life inside of Him. We do not have to try to
work something up in our emotions. We simply believe
that things will be according to what God has said in
His word-whether we feel it or not.
God also desires to heal our ways. He wants to heal
our finances, our businesses, our family situations, and
our relationships. Isaiah 57:18-19 says, "I have seen his
waysf and will heal him: I will lead him also, and
restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create
the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off,
and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal
him."
Christ is our Savior, our Justifier, and our Sanctifier.
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He is our life (Colossians 3:4a; Philippians 1:21). He has
given us a glorious position in Him forever. One day,
He will resurrect the dead (1 Corinthians 15:51-53). We
will experience the glorious redemption of our bodies
(Romans 8:23). Philippians 3:21 says that God will
"change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body .... " Though this is true, thanks
be unto God that He is the resurrection and the life
today (John 11:25). Jesus Christ paid for our sins once
and for all, but He gives us spiritual health today so we
don't have to live in the experiential effects of sin.
Christ is the health of the Christian's life because of His
life that is in the Christian.
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CONCLUSION
"And ye are complete in him, which is the head of
all principality and power" (Colossians 2:10). As we
have seen, God is interested not only in physical heal-
ing, but also in healing the whole man. By faith, the
woman with the issue of blood in Matthew 9:22 was
made "whole" from the very hour that she touched the
hem of Jesus' garment. Matthew 14:36 says that as
many as touched Him were made "perfectly whole."
Paul prayed in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that God would
preserve our spirit, soul, and body blameless until
Christ's return. In the Greek, the word for "preserve"
indicates completeness. God is interested in healing the
soul and the body, inner as well as the outer man.
Intimate fellowship with our Creator and Redeem-
er promotes the healing of the whole man. A recent
study at Duke University on prayer and health, showed
that people who pray or are prayed for by others are
healthier than those who do not pray. In fact, God has
called each of us into the fellowship of His Son
(1 Corinthians 1:9). Christians who answer this call to
fellowship will experience the eternal, abundant life of
Jesus Christ.
Let's go forward together enjoying the Christian life
to the fullest. Do not settle for less than God wants to
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give us. God is waiting to be gracious to us. He is wait-
ing to bless us, to share all that He is with us. Let's draw
near to the God of grace, mercy, love, integrity, and
compassion. Trust Him to work a miracle of faith-
today.
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About this Book
Many Christians can believe God for their eternal salvation, yet they
may not trust Him in the details of their lives. In fad, as much as we love God
for what He has done, many of us do not know Him well enough to love Him
for Who He is.
The Bible says He is our healer, that He looks for opportunities to bless
us. If that is true-and it is-then we are left with nothing to do but to find out
what He has to say to us in His Word, claim His promises, believe, and rest.
Every promise is attached to a purpose: that we would know God and
be conformed to Christ's image. Sometimes God's sovereignty overrules our
desire to be healed immediately because of the greater plan of the Father.
Still, the Holy Spirit comes alongside to comfort us and plead our case in the
hardest times.
Don't put God in a box by declaring a limit on what He will do. Believe
God for a miracle, and rest in faith. It will be as He said it (Acts 27:23-25).
About the Author
Pastor Carl H. Stevens, senior pastor of the
Greater Grace World Outreach Church in Baltimore,
Maryland, has been teaching the finished-work
gospel of grace for nearly half a century. This min-
istry has borne fruit in over 175 countries as Pastor
Stevens hosts the award-winning international live
radio broadcast of The Grace Hour, directs a world-
wide missions organization, and trains leaders in
the Maryland Bible College and Seminary, which he
founded in 1987. He and his wife, Barbara, reside near Baltimore.
ISBN 157907149-X
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