Healing in Jesus' name!

As one who has seen and experienced God perform healings in accordance with his word, I was very interested with this below article. 

Seeking Miraculous Healings: Musings and Cautions

I would like to make a few comments in response to it:  Certainly, there are, and always will be "showboatmen" who abuse and exploit the Biblical teaching of healing... but it seems scripture teaches that it's really a matter of holiness, a.k.a. obedience to God's ways, repenting of our sins and living in holiness, with no sin seperating our triune being (body, soul, spirit) from God.

When Moses died, scripture says
Deuteronomy 34:7 ⁷ Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

Nothing in scripture is there without reason.  I believe this was mentioned because Moses had just laid out in Dt. 28 the consequences of covenant obedience and disobedience.  The consequences for disobedience to God's law was that He would bring on them the sicknesses and disease which they knew "while they were in Egypt" (living in idolatrous sin; pre-Torah).  Moses was a friend of God, and lived a life of holiness and sanctification before Yahweh, God of Israel.  This is why scripture says that his vigor (health) had not abated and his eye was not dim.  He lived a life of obedience to Yahweh, and was in perfect health.  Check out the consequences of sin laid out, before the Old Covenant with the Jews!

Deuteronomy 28:58-61 ⁵⁸ "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God, ⁵⁹ then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. ⁶⁰ "He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹ "Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.

"Confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed."  James 5:16
The problem with our world is that we "possess" our sicknesses and I identify our selves with the sickness (ex. "I" have diabetes/breast cancer, etc.) and get offended if someone tells us that it's the result of sin.  Paul tells us that the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23).  Cancer is death.  Whatever form of sickness you may have is death working in you.  Let me say again, the wages of sin is death! 

Scripture says much more on the topic, but if we seek the Lord, he can reveal to us sin hidden in our lives, or generational curses on our lives, or demonic oprression in our lives through some sin that remains unconfessed and unforgiven in our lives (i.e. harbored).  And this is not to say that there will always be a healing, but there will be many more, much more if we confess our sins to one another, pray for one another in the mighty name of Jesus (Jas. 5:16).

Many people know John 3:16, one of the most famous verses of scripture, but do you know Acts 3:16?
Acts 3:16
¹⁶ "And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.

A Response to Social Justice

On a newsletter mailing from Lighthouser Trails Publishing, they make a reprint of a missionary lady in Kenya.  I think thiks is a great answer to those who say we need social justice, and the eradication of poverty, espeically those in the Church.  Let's focus our eyes on what is truly important.
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I keep being told poverty must be eradicated. Everything is geared to that point of view. But, how can you convince a man who has "nothing" in the eyes of the world, that he is poor, when he sees his small garden is producing, his cow is giving milk, his children are healthy, his wife is happy and the chickens are laying? Well, his house may be made of mud with a thatched or iron sheet roof, the floors may just be dirt, he doesn't even have electricity and you wonder how can he live without a TV or a car. He doesn't have indoor plumbing and has to gather firewood to cook, but he is HAPPY!! What is wrong with this man? Well, this man is a Christian living deep in the interior of Kenya and though the world doesn't understand, he is a very happy man because he has in his possession something no amount of money can buy! A treasure above all treasures, and he is at peace and content just the way he is. I think poverty depends on how you understand it.




What is this wonderful treasure? Why, it is the BIBLE! The very Word of the One who created everything. The Bible has treasures beyond any human wealth.Those who understand this are truly the richest people in the world!! They can abase and they can abound. Their course is steady and they know the one they follow is faithful and true and that he will never leave them nor forsake them. He is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. When your mother and father forsake you He will take you up...a nursing mother may forget her child but he will never forget you. He has engraved you upon the palm of his hand.



The Word of God tells us that God KNOWS our every need and that we are to seek His Kingdom first. He will supply our NEEDS . . . food, clothing, something to drink. He tells us not to worry about these things, we are to cast every care upon Him for He careth for us.



The Word of God tells is IF we be risen with Christ our eyes will be on the things above, not on the things of this earth.



I must be faithful to speak the Word of God and to point people to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God, not to the material things of this world no matter how much better it will make their present life. So, yes, "some" people see the material and physical needs of others and are more concerned about their present condition in THIS world. Well, I'm sorry, but I will do what I can to help you, but my most important focus is on where you stand in your relationship with Jesus Christ FIRST.


I keep being told poverty must be eradicated. Everything is geared to that point of view. But, how can you convince a man who has "nothing" in the eyes of the world, that he is poor, when he sees his small garden is producing, his cow is giving milk, his children are healthy, his wife is happy and the chickens are laying? Well, his house may be made of mud with a thatched or iron sheet roof, the floors may just be dirt, he doesn't even have electricity and you wonder how can he live without a TV or a car. He doesn't have indoor plumbing and has to gather firewood to cook, but he is HAPPY!! What is wrong with this man? Well, this man is a Christian living deep in the interior of Kenya and though the world doesn't understand, he is a very happy man because he has in his possession something no amount of money can buy! A treasure above all treasures, and he is at peace and content just the way he is. I think poverty depends on how you understand it.




What is this wonderful treasure? Why, it is the BIBLE! The very Word of the One who created everything. The Bible has treasures beyond any human wealth.Those who understand this are truly the richest people in the world!! They can abase and they can abound. Their course is steady and they know the one they follow is faithful and true and that he will never leave them nor forsake them. He is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. When your mother and father forsake you He will take you up...a nursing mother may forget her child but he will never forget you. He has engraved you upon the palm of his hand.



The Word of God tells us that God KNOWS our every need and that we are to seek His Kingdom first. He will supply our NEEDS . . . food, clothing, something to drink. He tells us not to worry about these things, we are to cast every care upon Him for He careth for us.



The Word of God tells is IF we be risen with Christ our eyes will be on the things above, not on the things of this earth.



I must be faithful to speak the Word of God and to point people to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God, not to the material things of this world no matter how much better it will make their present life. So, yes, "some" people see the material and physical needs of others and are more concerned about their present condition in THIS world. Well, I'm sorry, but I will do what I can to help you, but my most important focus is on where you stand in your relationship with Jesus Christ FIRST.



I want people to have the bread of life before they have the bread of this world, I want them to drink from the river of life, the living waters that you can drink and never thirst again, rather than a soda that will cost you money, ruin your health, and make you thirst again.