So, I was praying this morning and something struck me! There I was praying for someone healing.
Healing? NOTHING! Could have amazed me to the extent that The Scripture spoke to my spirit!
Healing?
Who? What? And Why was man created? I cannot remember reading Adan with a broken leg or limp. Not any one in the early Scriptures. IF and when people did, it was for a purpose!
We will get to that in a ‘minute’! There were individuals who were pronounced and were essentially being mourned for, buried or on the way to be buried…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gotquestions.org/amp/raised-from-the-dead.html
Typically, I would write these out; but a whole lot simpler to provide the link.
And it does NOT stop there! Jesus said “Greater works than I do, shall ye do…IF you believe!” Faith again! IF you believe.
So many times we are hit with naysayers. “You all get sick! O so God doesn’t save you then!”
Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles. He moved in a supernatural ministry of miracles and signs, as it says in Acts 15:12 “Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among the Gentiles.” And in 2 Cor 12:12 we read, “Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.”
According to Acts 19:11-12, Paul also had extraordinary powers of healing. “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.” And, when he was shipwrecked on his way to Rome, he first survived a poisonous snakebite, then he healed every sick person on the island (Acts 28: 8-9 ).
In addition to his own supernatural gifts, Paul taught about the gifts of supernatural healing given to the church: “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills” (1 Cor 12:7-11).
There is no question that Paul knew the power of the Holy Spirit to heal. However, he did get sick himself. Gal 4:13-14 says, “You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as [Messiah] Jesus.”
He also referred to Timothy and Epaphroditis being sick (Phil 2:26 and 2 Tim 4:20). However all of the conditions appear to have been healed. There is no reference to any disease that was not cured, or any statement that sickness was God’s will for people. Paul prayed just the opposite, that we would be preserved, blameless in spirit, soul and body, for the coming of the Lord (I Thess 5:23).
Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh
Although Paul moved in the power of the Holy Spirit, his life was not easy. In many of the places he visited, the crowds were stirred into hysterical rage against him. He was beaten and imprisoned several times. In one town, he was stoned and left for dead. He was shipwrecked 3 times. Some scholars believe that it was a demonic agent in the crowd who stirred up such violence, and that this was Paul’s ‘thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan sent to buffet him.’
“I know a man in [Messiah] who fourteen years ago… was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter… And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor 12:2-10
This passage describing Paul’s thorn in the flesh follows a long description of the great persecutions and suffering that Paul endured during his missionary work. It is humbling to read these verses in 1 Corinthians 11 and to consider all the abuse that Paul experienced as he served God to found our church. Some scholars connect these persecutions to the suffering of Job, also caused by a demonic agent (Job 2:26). In fact, the term, messenger of Satan, is the Greek word angelos. It is used more than 80 times in the Bible and always refers to a spirit being. In addition, the term ‘buffet’ is highly suggestive of physical beatings.
FAITH is so much! Superceded by Love. You cannot believe IN something if it does not stir feelings in you.
Adoration? Leads to gratitude, worship and it goes on, a long list… and it end up on and in Love!
Can you be in Love with your Maker? Best believe it!
For every awesome thing in your life…chance, luck, effort…? A lot goes into physical gain.
Did we EARN The Love that was shown us first?
So much so that Love sent Love to Love us back to Love! A complex way of stating the simple…”God (Who is Love), in Love (God’s Essence), sent Love (Jesus) to show Himself to be Himself, so that we could; can; and will live Love ”
We have been over what I will state time after time. Jesus – God in the flesh. Being hu-Man waited KNOWING what was to be! His first public miracle (turning of water to wine) hastened His ministry. There was still hesitation till The Spirit moved Jesus to begin His ministry.
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.”
Matthew 4:1
You are healed:
We could discuss for hours. But, I will direct you on the path:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/healing-bible-verses/
https://www.ibelieve.com/faith/20-bible-verses-about-healing-that-only-god-can-give.html
https://dailyverses.net/healing/kjv
It is my prayer that this touches a chord in you that leads to unspeakable joy AND healing! Amen
(I guess I should have written ‘healing’ first. But, to know God is to know Love and to have Lovecin your life leads to joy – Inexplicable! Amen)