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

Oppressed by the devil


Oppressed by the devil

   Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. 

            This passage says that Jesus healed all who were oppressed by the devil.  Does this mean that Jesus healed only those who were oppressed by the devil, that everyone who was healed was oppressed by the devil, or the passage only chooses to mention the ones who were oppressed by the devil?
            I think the most obvious way to understand this passage is to say that everyone Jesus healed was oppressed by the devil.  When we read the gospel accounts, many times when a person had a physical ailment, it was directly attributed to a spirit or the devil.  Sometimes the accounts talk about Jesus casting out demons and healing, like these were two separate categories. 
            I offer the explanation that often people were afflicted by spirits, and there was no accompanying physical illness as such.
            We noted earlier the story of Job.  His friends attributed all Job’s problems to a direct hit from God, but no doubt if Job had consulted doctors, they would have noted all kinds of chemical changes in his blood and immune system.  They may not have been able to actually name a cause for Job’s condition, but they would have seen no reason to label it a supernatural one. 
            The Bible purports to give us information that we could not garner on our own.  The passage above doesn’t explain everything, but it helps us to understand better exactly what we are up against.


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