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

Killing Giants

Killing Giants

   II Samuel 21:16 Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose  spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was  fitted out with new weapons, said he would kill David.  21:17 But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and attacked the Philistine and killed him.  Then David's men swore to him, "You shall not go out with us to battle any longer, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel."  21:18 After this a battle took place with the Philistines, at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.  21:19 Then there was another battle with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.  21:20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great size, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; he too was descended from the giants.  21:21 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David's brother Shimei, killed him.

            When the Israelites were first challenged by Goliath, a giant from the Philistine nation, no one in the Israelite army had the courage to face him, yet alone kill him.  After David killed him, now a number of Israelites were able to kill giants.
            Did God change?  Did God now supernaturally endow more people with courage and strength?  No.  It took seeing someone else do it to help them believe that they could do it too.

            We don’t see too many miracles today, so it is hard to believe for one in our own life.  It is not that God is unwilling, but it’s always harder to be the first.  We may need to be the first in our neighborhood, like David, to believe God for a miracle, and then others will follow.  We don’t want to wait for someone else to do it first, because we don’t know when or if that will be.
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