Healing is one of the most important things you can learn about in life. Why? At some point in your life, you or someone very close to you is going to need it. You or someone very close to you will be sick, and the options given you by the medical community will not be good ones. They may have nothing for you but means to prolong your life without giving you quality of life. You may have to take medications that have side effects as bad as the original condition.

I have learned that you don’t want to wait until you are diagnosed with something serious before you learn about this. That would be like going off to war without ever having gone to boot camp.

Healing for some people is like winning the lottery, but for most people it is like fighting off somebody who is trying to break into your house.

But beyond all this, healing will teach you more about God than you will probably ever learn otherwise. When you pray for other people and other things, you are not the only person who is involved in the outcome. So the first mountains you want to move are the ones in your own life and body. As you see these move, you will gain confidence to move others.

Healing might be the first place in which you will see miracles from God. God will seem more real to you, and you will become more aware of His love when you see Him work on your behalf.

In 1996, I was diagnosed with stage 3, mixed cell, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I refused all medical treatment and have not received any medical treatment since then for that. It was quite an experience, and I have written a book, called The Importance of Healing, that tells about it as well as just about everything else I have learned about healing from the Bible and life.

I am not trying to sell you a book here. I am trying to save your life. Or least give you an understanding of God and the Bible which is usually sadly missing today. I have started posting chapters from the book and will continue to do so.

You can get the book at amazon.com or other book sites on the internet.

I also have two other websites where I have posted my writings: poligion1.blogspot.com has my articles on politics, culture, and public life and LarrysBibleStudies.blogspot.com has my other articles on the Bible. And I have started to make videos on youtube.

If you want to contact me, email is best: lacraig1@sbcglobal.net

Thank you.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A Day of Distress


A Day of Distress
Psalm 50:15  Call upon Me in the day of distress (trouble), and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

            What is a day of distress?  A day of trouble?  And then what does it mean to be delivered out of that?  If sickness is not a day of trouble or distress, I don’t know what is.  People who have been around often say that if you have your health, you have everything. 
            As a Christian, we can think of something even more important than physical health.  But this passage was written to God’s people, so we’re back to where we started.  I contend that healing is one of the greatest needs that people will ever have.  If it was not that important, I can’t imagine why Jesus would have spent so much time doing it. 
            So if sickness is a need, then what is being delivered from it mean?  Being able to endure sickness with a smile is nice, but I couldn’t call that deliverance.  Dying and going to heaven may be nice for the dead person, but if that is deliverance, then what is not being delivered?
            I think sometimes we try too hard to get away from the obvious meaning of the text.    
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