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

All Things Are Possible (1)


All Things Are Possible (1)  Mark 9:17

  Mark 9:17 Someone from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought  you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak;  9:18 and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams  and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your  disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so."  9:19 He answered them, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you?  How long shall I put up with  you? Bring him to me."  9:20 And they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.  9:21 Jesus asked the father, "How long has this been happening to him?"  And he said, "From childhood.  9:22 It has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us."  9:23 Jesus said to him, "If you are able! --All things are possible to the one who believes." 

            This is a very difficult passage.  Why?  Because it says a lot of things that we don’t want to hear.  It goes against a lot of the things we have been taught and believed.
            Jesus asked the father how long the boy had had this spirit tormenting him.  The father says: “From childhood.”  That wouldn’t make much sense if the boy was still young, so we are talking about a long time.
            Did the father pray for his son?  Of course, he did.  Did He cry out for God to deliver him?  Of course, he did.  Yet nothing happened.  For years, nothing happened.  We are commonly taught that God must have wanted this to last for some reason, some higher good, part of God’s mysterious ways with us. 
            But that was not Jesus’ attitude.  When the man asked Jesus if He could help him, Jesus told him that all things are possible to the one who believes.  Jesus essentially told the man that he could have delivered the boy himself years ago, if he could have believed. 
            It was not God’s will for the boy to be tormented this long.  It wasn’t God’s will for this boy to have this torment at all.  But like David and Goliath, it was a giant that the man felt was too big for him.
            We attribute many things to God’s will that are not God’s will.  God wants us to rise up in faith and stand boldly against the enemy and declare God’s victory over the situation. 
            It make take some time for you to develop this faith.  That’s why you need to start now, because the time will come when you will need it.




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