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

Every One

Every One     Matthew 4:23

   Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. 

            Did something look strange in this Bible passage? 
            If I were writing about Jesus’ ministry, I would have said that Jesus healed every person who was there.  But the passage says that Jesus healed every sickness.
            Other passages talked about the people that Jesus healed, but this shows us something else about Jesus’ ministry and God. 
            We often act like Jesus, or God, healing people is quite an arbitrary act, at least from our point of view.  Maybe, when Jesus was on earth, He healed everybody who came to Him to prove a point, that He was the Messiah. 
            But here Jesus is showing what is really on God’s mind.  Jesus healed every sickness, because sickness is a blight on God’s creation.  Sickness is not God’s will.  How can we really be sure?
            Your very body is programmed to heal itself.  If you cut yourself, you don’t even have to think about it, but your body gets to work trying to repair the damage.  Sometimes the damage is too great for your own bodily system, and sometimes that same bodily system breaks down.  But that’s the whole point.
            When everything is working right, your body will heal itself.  That is the way you were designed and built.  For it not to be God’s will to heal you is to say that God does not want something that obviously was His will. 

            We know that God works in mysterious ways, but sometimes we act like God can’t make up His own mind.
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