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 (5)


All Things Are Possible (5)  Mark 9:28


   Mark 9:28 When He (Jesus) had entered the house, his disciples asked Him privately,  "Why could we not cast it out?"  9:29 He said to them, "This kind can come out only through prayer." 
  Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?"  17:20 He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith. For truly  I tell you, if you have faith as a mustard seed,  you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,'  and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you." 
            A man brought his son who had been afflicted with a demon for years to Jesus’ disciples, and they were not able to cast it out.  And Jesus got upset.  Not just with the disciples, but with that entire generation.  They should have been able to do it.  All of them. 
            The disciples, who had had some experience in these things, asked Jesus afterward why they couldn’t do it.  Both Matthew and Mark give accounts of the conversation.  Mark, the shortest of the gospel accounts, gives a one sentence answer from Jesus.  Matthew, whose gospel notes many references by Jesus to faith, records a little more of what Jesus had to say to that question. 
            Some people might be troubled by the differences of the two accounts, but we already saw earlier in Mark that Jesus’ faulted all of them already for their unbelief.  Here in Matthew He is making it clear that the disciples were included.  Mark’s account that this kind of demon can only come out through prayer would suggest a deficiency with the disciple’s prayer life.  So the two accounts are not really inconsistent but complementary.

            Today, we don’t want to think that a person not being healed has anything to do with us.  And nobody wants to say it does because we feel they have enough on their minds.  But that person needs help, and we are not helping them when we say that God denied their prayers for reasons known only to Him.
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