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

What is a Need?

What is a Need?

Philippians 4:19  My God shall fulfill every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
            If healing is not a need, then what is?  I have heard well-meaning people try to distinguish between a want and a need, as if they could not be the same thing, as if one is always selfish and immature and the other is always something we don’t want or even think about, something we aren’t even aware of.  We may think something is a need, but we are often told that we have a greater need and that we won’t have that need met if we have this first so-called need met.
            Confused yet?  Let’s make it simple.  If you are a parent of young children and you are dying, that is a need.  If you are sick and are missing work and you need the money, that is a need.  The way Jesus healed people, I would say that if you are sick period, that is a need.
            Why would we think that God might want our children to be orphans?

            If healing is not a need, then words have no meaning and communication is impossible.  If God doesn’t want to heal you when you are sick, what makes you think He will help you get a job, find a spouse, or fix the marriage you already have?  If it can be His will for a young parent to die a miserable death, then almost anything can be His will, and we know virtually nothing about God.  We can say that God loves us, but what does love mean if He will not act on behalf of His beloved?
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