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.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

All God’s Promised Lands Have Giants


All God’s Promised Lands Have Giants


   Numbers 13:27 And they (the spies) told him (Moses), "We came to the land to which you sent  us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.  13:28 Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the  towns are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw  the descendants of Anak there.
            Where most of us make the mistake on healing is that we think of God sitting on His throne granting and denying requests for reasons known only to Himself.  We call this the sovereignty of God.
            A better picture is that God has given us far more than we can imagine, if we can but believe Him for them.  God promised the Israelites a land flowing with milk and honey.  A relief to them after having spent 400 years in slavery in Egypt.
            When they finally arrived at this Promised Land, they were surprised to find the land already occupied and that by giants.  But God expected them to go into the land and conquer it.  We would have said that it must not have been God’s will after all.  We were mistaken. He gave us such high hopes, but clearly it is not meant to be.  What we thought He said is impossible.
            You can look at life and decide from that what is possible and what is impossible.  Here we see that God intentionally brought His people to a situation that clearly looked impossible.  Now who were they going to believe?   God or how things looked.
I make the statement that all God’s Promised Lands have giants.   The Bible is full of all kinds of great promises that God makes for His people.  The fact is that they are not automatic.  In many cases, you will have to believe for them in the face of insurmountable odds and all human probability. 

Far too often Christians just give up, saying that it wasn’t God’s will after all, they were mistaken, and if God wanted for them to have it, He would have given it to them a long time ago.
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