Many years ago, in the 90s, my wife had a workout partner who got breast cancer. It was stage 4 and she had the Chemo. lost the hair, and everything looked bleak. She was Catholic. She knew that we were Assemblies of God and she did not know much about it but she knew we believed in praying for the sick and that miracles can still happen like what she read in the bible.
She invited all her friends over to her house to pray for her one evening. She asked me to lead it. Which makes sense because her friends were a mixed bag and I would say none of them really believed she was going to be miraculously healed that night. They wanted to offer those, "We have to accept the will of God" type prayers of doubt and unbelief.
I was able to figure that out by giving a time of teaching through the scriptures on healing. As I read scripture after scripture you could see faith rising in her and her husbands eyes but disgust in some of the others. But this changed after more and more scriptures were read in context.
By the time I laid out the many scriptures that promised healing by the atonement there were many who were eager to believe. Some were still wanting to put their "but not everyone gets healed 2 cents in" so I had to do what Jesus and Peter did.
I boldly looked at everyone in the room and I slowly told them. "If anyone here does not believe that Sarah is going to be healed of cancer tonight by divine miracle of God in the Name of Jesus I would ask you to please leave the room before we pray. I want only those who believe it is actually going to happen to stay and pray in agreement for her to be healed TONIGHT. Not some day, not after she is dead, TONIGHT!"
Some were smiling with faith, some were smiling with a smirk, some would not make eye contact. But no one left.
We prayed for her a simple faith filled prayer that she was healed tonight by the stripes Jesus bore on the cross and my prayer was full of scripture to instill faith.
Then soon after that I left because I told her I don't want to get into any discussions with some "theologian wannabe" who wants to argue about it and speak doubt. She was so grateful and her eyes were full of joy. You could tell something had happened.
The next week she called my wife and told her that she was in remission. That is what the Doctors say when you get healed from stage 4 cancer over night when praying Pentecostals teach you the scriptures and you put faith in them and in what Jesus promised. They call that remission. LOL. Hallelujah! I'll take it.
She was so thankful that I did it the way I did it. We all learned something that night.
I share it with you because I believe that sometimes people don't get healed because they have been talked out of believing for it.
And I don't care if people get angry with me for saying it. It says so in the bible. We don't need to be worried about false outrage from those who want to make it a point of contention. There are plenty of verses that emphasized the importance of faith about healing.
I would not tell someone, that you are not healed because you don't believe. That will never be my place. I don't think like that about anyone. I don't know the heart.
My point is that faith is critical and we know that from reading all the scriptures about it. So therefore we should take the time to build up someone's faith with scripture promises until we perceive that they have faith to be healed, and then pray for them.
Many just pray for people with no discussion at all and many people they pray for have no expectation of healing, they aren't even asking for it, instead they are asking that God comfort them and help them endure it. That is what they get.
So we have to take the time to teach scriptures to instill faith for a miracle before we pray for one. Then we will see these things happening today.
I do it. I do see signs. I do see miracles. I do have medical proof. I won't argue about it with people who don't believe. We don't have time for all that. A Storm is Coming and we need to fulfill the mission of "release" from the bondages of satan that Jesus sent us on. Not many will get up off their couches and from in front of their TVs and Go. But those who do see the same signs today when they preach the full Gospel.
I agree that many so called "Pentecostals" are just talk. They say they believe these things but they don't really Go forth and do them. There will only be a remnant that actually live what Jesus preached. He came to call those who would go all the way. They are always the few.
“So we have to take the time to teach scriptures to instill faith for a miracle before we pray for one. Then we will see these things happening today.”
eggzactly
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 KJV
faith is waining mightily on earth because we’re parting from the word and trusting in what he said to the church
“I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?”
Luke 18:8
not if we keep rejecting and altering his word that creates faith thkngs are getting dire on earth but this
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preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
2 Timothy 4:2-4 KJV
from the truth of the gospel and word of Christ that gives us saving faith to lies meant to lead us away from the word of faith . Will lead to this which drains faith from us d creates barriers for when we hear Gods truth
“This know also, that
in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV
As we turn our ears away from Christ Jesus word we are turning our hearts away from faith
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