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

The Sovereignty of God Romans 9:14



The Sovereignty of God   Romans 9:14

 Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid.  9:15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.  9:16 So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God who shows mercy. 
            It is often said that God is sovereign.  He can do what He wants.  He doesn’t have to heal anyone if He doesn’t want to.
            These are all true statements, but they miss the point.  God has given us the Bible to show us what He is like.  I have written the book, The Importance of Healing, partly to show that God wants to heal us.  We don’t have to wonder about what God wants or doesn’t want to do.  He has already told us. 
            These same people act as if there is no consistency in how God acts.  Today He chooses to do this, but tomorrow He may choose to do something else. 
            The point of the sovereignty of God is that no one can thwart God in His purposes.  What He has said, He will do. 

            The passage quoted above from Romans says that God will have mercy on those He chooses.  Where we go wrong is that we forget that those who believe in Jesus are those whom God has had mercy on (Ephesians 2).  It’s not as if God has mercy on us today, but tomorrow He may not.
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