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 (2)


All Things Are Possible (2)   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." 
            We said yesterday that this is a difficult passage.  Look at verse 19.  A man has a son who has a demon.  Neither he, the disciples, nor anyone the man has known had been able to cast it out. 
            And Jesus gets upset.  Jesus, meek and mild, Jesus the perfect man, Jesus the Son of God, didn’t get upset too often.  He got upset at moneychangers in the temple, and He got upset with the Pharisees for the hardness of their hearts.  And here He is upset with an entire generation because they can’t cast out a demon.  And it’s because of their unbelief. 
            Do you think they thought they had unbelief?  The disciples at this point had done a lot of miracles in their brief time of ministry.  They had seen God work through them. 
            But the bigger question is why should any of them have thought that they could cast out a demon?  But wait.  That’s not how we talk today.  We would say that God chose not to answer our prayer for deliverance for reasons that only He knows. 
            But Jesus would have none of that.  He was angry.  For some reason He expected that people, people everywhere, should have seen that this situation was not something that God wanted and that they should have been able to rectify it. 

            If we had been there, what would we have done?  If we couldn’t have helped the man, then we need to admit that we have work to do.  We need to get hold of God and His Word and say, Lord, teach me about faith, your will, and how I can see Your will done on earth.
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