So where's the block?
I believe that for most of us, the block is (for the most part), that we do not accept that physical healing IS included in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That it has been promised to us in the same way as freedom from sin has been. We have not “aligned” our thinking with God’s on this one subject. Mark 11:24 says this “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
This is one of my ‘mini’ revelations. “Believe I have received it”….past tense. Have received. As in, finished work. As in, already accomplished. As in “You have been given everything you need for life and godliness, through….. through what? Through our knowledge of him who called us … The physical healing we are asking for has already been bought and paid for by the ‘stripes’ and ‘bruises’ of Jesus. It is part of the ‘everything’ we need for life. We are not asking for something new. We are asking for something that was accomplished 2000 years ago. We are not being presumptuous in asking for what he’s already said was ours. I can believe that I have received/will receive healing because it has already been bought and paid for. Jesus doesn’t die again and shed his blood again when each new person receives salvation, they receive what was done 2000 years ago. Same with healing, it is not something new that needs to be done by Jesus (three more lashes for this one), it is already done. I receive it when I believe (is acknowledge a better word?) that I have received what was done for me 2000 years ago. It has been signed (in His blood), sealed (by His Spirit) and….. ?delivered? (by faith). Not an ambiguous faith in the ability of God to perform miracles, but an expectant faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. The two are very different.
2 Peter says we have…through our knowledge. God said in Hosea 4 that His people, HIS people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Actually destroyed. Paul asks the question a number of times…”Do you not know??” Are our lives being destroyed for lack of knowledge?? Is it possible that His people, we the church, today are sick and even dying because of our lack of knowledge? Many people think I am saying we need more faith. I don’t think I’ve ever said that. But I do think we need more (or better) knowledge. We are told to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Look up the word knowledge and it’s associates in the Strong’s Concordance to see how many references there are, read the book of Proverbs to see how God feels about knowledge.
How many times do we hear the words of regret “if only I had known….” People, after being saved, have often made the comments ‘if only I had known this earlier, what a difference it would have made in my life and the life of my kids…” It’s not like we can’t know this stuff, like we can’t find it in His Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Proverbs says that Wisdom calls to us on every street corner. It’s not like we can’t ask the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, who is the teacher, to teach us. We can know, and we need to. People are suffering because we don’t know our stuff. We don’t KNOW our God. We don’t KNOW what was accomplished in Jesus’ sorrow (at Gethsemane), by his stripes, his death, and his resurrection. We know bits and pieces here and there, we know parts of the TRUTH. Let’s get to know the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH.
Mark 16:15-20 He (Jesus) said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked WITH them and CONFIRMED HIS WORD by the signs that accompanied IT.
I do not claim to have a handle on the TRUTH. I will know that I have it right when the Lord works with me, and confirms His Word by the signs that accompany it. I am pursuing Him. I am ‘applying my heart to Wisdom.” I am willing to think differently.
This is one of my ‘mini’ revelations. “Believe I have received it”….past tense. Have received. As in, finished work. As in, already accomplished. As in “You have been given everything you need for life and godliness, through….. through what? Through our knowledge of him who called us … The physical healing we are asking for has already been bought and paid for by the ‘stripes’ and ‘bruises’ of Jesus. It is part of the ‘everything’ we need for life. We are not asking for something new. We are asking for something that was accomplished 2000 years ago. We are not being presumptuous in asking for what he’s already said was ours. I can believe that I have received/will receive healing because it has already been bought and paid for. Jesus doesn’t die again and shed his blood again when each new person receives salvation, they receive what was done 2000 years ago. Same with healing, it is not something new that needs to be done by Jesus (three more lashes for this one), it is already done. I receive it when I believe (is acknowledge a better word?) that I have received what was done for me 2000 years ago. It has been signed (in His blood), sealed (by His Spirit) and….. ?delivered? (by faith). Not an ambiguous faith in the ability of God to perform miracles, but an expectant faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. The two are very different.
2 Peter says we have…through our knowledge. God said in Hosea 4 that His people, HIS people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Actually destroyed. Paul asks the question a number of times…”Do you not know??” Are our lives being destroyed for lack of knowledge?? Is it possible that His people, we the church, today are sick and even dying because of our lack of knowledge? Many people think I am saying we need more faith. I don’t think I’ve ever said that. But I do think we need more (or better) knowledge. We are told to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. Look up the word knowledge and it’s associates in the Strong’s Concordance to see how many references there are, read the book of Proverbs to see how God feels about knowledge.
How many times do we hear the words of regret “if only I had known….” People, after being saved, have often made the comments ‘if only I had known this earlier, what a difference it would have made in my life and the life of my kids…” It’s not like we can’t know this stuff, like we can’t find it in His Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Proverbs says that Wisdom calls to us on every street corner. It’s not like we can’t ask the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, who is the teacher, to teach us. We can know, and we need to. People are suffering because we don’t know our stuff. We don’t KNOW our God. We don’t KNOW what was accomplished in Jesus’ sorrow (at Gethsemane), by his stripes, his death, and his resurrection. We know bits and pieces here and there, we know parts of the TRUTH. Let’s get to know the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH.
Mark 16:15-20 He (Jesus) said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked WITH them and CONFIRMED HIS WORD by the signs that accompanied IT.
I do not claim to have a handle on the TRUTH. I will know that I have it right when the Lord works with me, and confirms His Word by the signs that accompany it. I am pursuing Him. I am ‘applying my heart to Wisdom.” I am willing to think differently.
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