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

Catching God on a Good Day



Catching God on a Good Day   Mark 1:40


   Mark 1:40 A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."  1:41 Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched  him, and said to him, "I want to. Be clean!" 

            Did this leper just happen to catch Jesus on a good day?  Are we to assume that Jesus’ answer would have always been Yes, or does it change from day to day? 

            Would Jesus’ response have depended on the spiritual life of the leper?  Today the leper didn’t have any unconfessed sins in his life, and he was particularly humble. 

            But we don’t know that.  We have to take the Bible for what it tells us and not try to read things into it that are not there.  We would never be able to understand any of the Bible if we had to do that.

            So the leper asks Jesus to heal Him, and He says: Of course, I will heal you.

            Now the only Jesus we know is the Jesus of the Bible.  Now some Christians will limit what they think God will ever say to them by what they read in the Bible, and that is another question.  But either way I think it is unsafe to think that now Jesus might say something different to that question. 


            If we hear a different answer, how do we know it was Jesus?  Why should we think the answer should ever be different?
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