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 Will of God



The Will of God   I John 5:14

   I John 5:14 And this is the boldness we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.  5:15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of Him. 

            Do you see the problem with these verses?  It says that we can have a boldness with God.  The boldness comes from asking for things that are according to His will.  Because then we have an assurance that God has given us what we have asked.  Not even that God will give us these things, but that He already has.  We may not see the results right away, but the paperwork has been done; we are just waiting for the delivery.
           
            So what’s the problem?  The problem is that we have lost a sense of God’s will.  We don’t know what it is anymore.  And this applies especially for healing. 

            We have this 1,000 page book, the Bible, to tell us about God, but if we want to know what His will is, we don’t have a clue.  Instead of seeing a pattern in the Bible, we talk about God’s sovereignty and say that God can do whatever He wants to do, and that can mean almost anything. 
           
            So we pray for healing, but we have no idea if God wants to heal us.  We have taken the picture of God in the Bible and say that God works different ways at different times in history.  The problem with that is that the entire Bible is in a different time, so we need a new Bible to tell us what we can expect from God today. 


            We have lost something here, and we need to get it back.  Stay tuned.  Better yet, buy the book and start now.
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