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

Facing Our Enemies

Facing Our Enemies

   I Samuel 17:23 As he (David) talked with them (his brothers), the champion, the Philistine of  Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines,  and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.  17:24 All the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from him and were very much afraid.

            The question is often asked why if healing is God’s will for His people, why there isn’t more of it.  The story of David and Goliath shows us why.
            The Philistines were the enemy of God’s people, but the Israelites were afraid of them, at least of Goliath, their champion.  Out of the entire Israelite army, not one man was brave enough to face him.  Until David a shepherd came to visit his brothers in the army.
            Why didn’t God just strike the Philistine down Himself?  Didn’t the Israelites pray for deliverance during the 40 days of that standoff.

            Maybe the bigger question is: did God just supernaturally fill David with confidence and strength for this one task, or should all the Israelites have been able to kill Goliath because of their own faith in God?  When sickness comes, do we stand helpless before a giant pleading with God to intervene, or like David say that this giant must fall because it is challenging the people of God?
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