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

Behind the Scenes



Behind the Scenes


   Job 2:3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job?  There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil.  He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."  2:4 Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin!  All that people have they will give to save their lives.  2:5 But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."  2:6 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life."  2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

            If Job had gone to Mayo Clinic, what would they have said to Job and what would they have done?
            For those to whom this story is not familiar, let me give a little background.  The devil told God that Job only served God because God blessed him so much.  If God were to take His blessings away from Job, Job would no longer love and serve Him.  So God let the devil take away all Job’s possessions, including his children.
            Job continued in his worship of God, so the devil went a step further.  Take away Job’s health, and he would curse God to his face.
            The devil was permitted to afflict Job but not to take his life.  (There are a lot of questions that this story raises, which we can’t go into today, but we will.  Today I just want to stick to our original question.  If you can’t wait for the other questions, buy the book.  Even when we ask the other questions, the book will still have more information than we can give here.)
            So Job is now in the Mayo Clinic.  Job doesn’t know how he got this condition.  The doctors don’t know.  They do a blood test and find abnormalities.  They give him an ointment to relieve some of the itching.  They give him antibiotics to fight the infections.  They may even give his condition a name: Job’s syndrome.
            But the source of Job’s illness is spiritual, supernatural.  At the human level, we speak of viruses and bacteria, but we rarely ever know how a person got what they got.
            There is far more to life than just those things that we can see and measure.  The Bible shows us some of those things that take place outside our normal human knowledge.  Without those insights, we will never understand all that we need to understand about life.


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