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Why Is There Healing?

Establishing a Foundation For Believing

We must be convinced (established) in our heart about God's will in healing...(Click Here)

Healing Teaching

Healing is a Major Aspect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

The Healing Ministry of Jesus is Our Healing Ministry Too!

By B.D. Tate

Jesus’ Healing Ministry

     Healing is a major aspect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It has been said that Jesus spent as much as eighty percent of His ministry healing and delivering the people. It is one of THE ways God intended to draw all men unto Jesus. Healing acted like a beacon to the truth.  
     Jesus spoke to the Pharisees trying to reason with them that the signs, wonders, and miracles (works) were proof that God was in Him:

     John 10:37 "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
    38 "but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I  in Him."

     Furthermore, healing provided in real practical ways how God’s compassion was demonstrated towards them. Jesus healed all manner of illness and calamity that humanity was experiencing.
     It showed that Jesus is Lord over the very things people feared the most. It reached people in what mattered to them personally and got their attention so that they would hear the Word of God.
     Healing was meant to lead to the presentation of the kingdom of God. Although the word of God is all powerful in itself, people needed to have it manifested before them and in them. This is what helped them to believe…

    John 4:48 Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe."

    If someone is consumed with sickness and disease it will make it far more difficult for them to hear the good news—that God has sent His son into the world to save sinners. The apostle Paul put it like this:

    I Cor. 2:14 “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he     know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

        The natural man does not respond to the Word of God but through seeing or experiencing healing this awakens them to look into spiritual truth and the mission of Jesus.

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Consider These Booklets on Addressing Various Aspects on Healing...

Healing In Regards To Taking Care Of Our Bodies!
Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and we are stewards of them. This means we are to take care of them. We should eat wisely and exercise regularly. We need to get rest and proper sleep. We also need to debrief and find good friendship (Read More)
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Suffering And Pain, Is It God's Will? There is suffering God Calls us to and suffering God has called out of ...(Click Here For More...)

Looking For Immediate Results?

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We have such a tendency towards expecting things to happen immediately! When we pray for healing, deliverance, wisdom, guidance, protection, direction, we often expect immediate results. We have a fast-food mentality that once we’ve prayed we should get fast results. (Click Here to read more)
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Healing Scriptures to Meditate Upon (Click Here)
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A Letter To A Friend In Need Of God's Healing! By Adele Shaw (Click Here to read)
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Little Is Enough! It's not our little It's His!  The true mustard see of faith...(click here to read more)

Why Some Fail to Receive Healing
From Christ

(By F.F. Bosworth from His book: Christ the Healer)
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Why Aren't All Healed?

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By B. D. Tate

    There is great confusion when it comes to healing and God's will. For most in the church we have been taught that we should interpret the truth by our experiences. When experiences trump what the Word of God teaches we all lose.
     When someone is prayed for to be healed and that person doesn't get healed that raises a lot of questions. This article will seek to answer those questions.

Fundamentals are Vital

     A fundamental truth is one that cannot be removed no matter what else is said or experienced. For example, when it comes to healing we must begin with salvation itself. Whatever is true for salvation, as in being born again, is also true for healing (and any other benefit of salvation). This is a fundamental truth:

    Col 2:6  As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

        As salvation itself goes, so goes everything God has promised to us because it is all in Christ Jesus' atonement. Whatever Christ is has come to us in Him. These verses, and many others, witness to this truth:

    I John 4:17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

And,

    John 1:16  And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

        To begin to answer the immediate question: "Why aren't all healed?," we must build a foundation to stand on. Only when God's will is known are we standing on His foundation and not "sinking sands."
        What is the foundation for healing? It is the atonement itself, just as forgiveness of sins in salvation is in the atonement. We find the atonement being described in many places, but none as comprehensive as Isaiah chapter 53:3-5

    3  He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
    4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet  we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
    5  But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

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