Is sickness a blessing?
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Please be Very Richly Encouraged In Christ And
In His Word Of Truth, Rightly Divided!
Is sickness a blessing?
Not always, but sometimes. Sometimes it is the only thing that is loud enough to wake us up to our spiritual need for total dependance upon Him. Having said that, we must never judge the sick but are rather commanded to comfort them and pray for them.
We need to remind each other that these trials and hardships are only temporary circumstances and...
Romans 8:28
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Not always, but sometimes. Sometimes it is the only thing that is loud enough to wake us up to our spiritual need for total dependance upon Him. Having said that, we must never judge the sick but are rather commanded to comfort them and pray for them.
We need to remind each other that these trials and hardships are only temporary circumstances and...
Romans 8:28
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
It does seem insensitive at the very least. Pain is painful indeed. I'm not exactly the Spartan type either.
I have some minor infirmities. "Thorns in the Flesh" perhaps. The Lord will heal us soon. In the meantime, lets pray for one another to be comforted and, yes, even healed this very day and that He be greatly glorified in it.
I have some minor infirmities. "Thorns in the Flesh" perhaps. The Lord will heal us soon. In the meantime, lets pray for one another to be comforted and, yes, even healed this very day and that He be greatly glorified in it.
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There is a sickness unto death, as seen in this example:
2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
And there is a sickness not unto death, as in this example:
John 11:4
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
And there is a sickness not unto death, as in this example:
John 11:4
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
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Sickness isn't a blessing it has to do with separation in what you think vs what God thinks and not participating or agreeing on and with what God has said/done through Christ. When i was sick and almost died i had to get on what He thought and out of my own perspectives to be able to recieve healing. What God has done is something spiritual and at some point in order to be able to recieve it a person would have to give evidence or substance after it because that's what faith is, the body/person after what God said.
when i was sick i couldn't eat or drink hardly anything for weeks dying and i was praying, rebuking, confessing and asking for healing over and over again and it wasn't working and it was like talking to a wall. After a while i just made it up in my mind that i can't keep serving the purpose of being sick and asking for healing over and over again because in doing so im actually agreeing with it. I just got up each morning and sat at the dinner table with an empty bowl and spoon and pretended to eat and drink twice a day to serve Gods belief and purpose through Christ that i was healed and after 4 days of serving Gods purpose i was healed.
When a person serves Gods purpose they end up getting healed and a lot of christians as christian as they are aren't actually serving the purpose but that's about to change soon enough though.
when i was sick i couldn't eat or drink hardly anything for weeks dying and i was praying, rebuking, confessing and asking for healing over and over again and it wasn't working and it was like talking to a wall. After a while i just made it up in my mind that i can't keep serving the purpose of being sick and asking for healing over and over again because in doing so im actually agreeing with it. I just got up each morning and sat at the dinner table with an empty bowl and spoon and pretended to eat and drink twice a day to serve Gods belief and purpose through Christ that i was healed and after 4 days of serving Gods purpose i was healed.
When a person serves Gods purpose they end up getting healed and a lot of christians as christian as they are aren't actually serving the purpose but that's about to change soon enough though.
There is nothing in the word saying sickness is a blessing. God use it for His glory and I don't mean by staying sick or what ever. There have been times like for every one else this world hits us hard and in those times its not a blessing yet I praise Him in that moment thanking Him for Isa 53:5 1st Peter 2 24 for Acts that name faith in that name healed that man. And what ever it is it ALWAYS leaves.
Everyone Christ touched was healed. Now today there are many like the town where all Christ could do was lay hands on a few and teach because of doubt. We tend to look around at others as the proof for what God can and can not do. Christ said a kingdom divided against its self will fall. He does not make anyone sick to then heal. Like Christ saying Satan can not cast out Satan. This is a fallen world what we do think say watch eat all plays a part in what happens to us. Again just another thing where FAITH comes into play yet never talked about. We quote so much of Matt-John ..ooh OBEY if you love me, keep my words really a big one and Sabbath yet Christ talking about the sweet holy Spirit Luke 11 13 = pass. Or what is Mark 11 24 I think what ever you desire when you pray believe you receive it you shall have it = pass. Acts Peter and John never once asked or prayed to God or Christ to heal that man. Right there we can back up to what Christ said "these signs "shall" follow them that believe. So Peter and John just said hey man we don't have any silver or gold but what we do have in JESUS NAME. Now God made sure you read before that the man EXPECTED to receive something.
They said after words why look at us as if we did this by our own power? Its that name faith in that named that healed this man. I am so sorry but Peter and John didn't have more power more Christ in them then you or I do. They just believed. Yes I would agree walking with Christ for 3+ years really would help you believe So get to KNOW HIM! What He did for them He does for all that will believe.
Everyone Christ touched was healed. Now today there are many like the town where all Christ could do was lay hands on a few and teach because of doubt. We tend to look around at others as the proof for what God can and can not do. Christ said a kingdom divided against its self will fall. He does not make anyone sick to then heal. Like Christ saying Satan can not cast out Satan. This is a fallen world what we do think say watch eat all plays a part in what happens to us. Again just another thing where FAITH comes into play yet never talked about. We quote so much of Matt-John ..ooh OBEY if you love me, keep my words really a big one and Sabbath yet Christ talking about the sweet holy Spirit Luke 11 13 = pass. Or what is Mark 11 24 I think what ever you desire when you pray believe you receive it you shall have it = pass. Acts Peter and John never once asked or prayed to God or Christ to heal that man. Right there we can back up to what Christ said "these signs "shall" follow them that believe. So Peter and John just said hey man we don't have any silver or gold but what we do have in JESUS NAME. Now God made sure you read before that the man EXPECTED to receive something.
They said after words why look at us as if we did this by our own power? Its that name faith in that named that healed this man. I am so sorry but Peter and John didn't have more power more Christ in them then you or I do. They just believed. Yes I would agree walking with Christ for 3+ years really would help you believe
So get to KNOW HIM! What He did for them He does for all that will believe.
There is nothing in the word saying sickness is a blessing. God use it for His glory and I don't mean by staying sick or what ever. There have been times like for every one else this world hits us hard and in those times its not a blessing yet I praise Him in that moment thanking Him for Isa 53:5 1st Peter 2 24 for Acts that name faith in that name healed that man. And what ever it is it ALWAYS leaves.
Everyone Christ touched was healed. Now today there are many like the town where all Christ could do was lay hands on a few and teach because of doubt. We tend to look around at others as the proof for what God can and can not do. Christ said a kingdom divided against its self will fall. He does not make anyone sick to then heal. Like Christ saying Satan can not cast out Satan. This is a fallen world what we do think say watch eat all plays a part in what happens to us. Again just another thing where FAITH comes into play yet never talked about. We quote so much of Matt-John ..ooh OBEY if you love me, keep my words really a big one and Sabbath yet Christ talking about the sweet holy Spirit Luke 11 13 = pass. Or what is Mark 11 24 I think what ever you desire when you pray believe you receive it you shall have it = pass. Acts Peter and John never once asked or prayed to God or Christ to heal that man. Right there we can back up to what Christ said "these signs "shall" follow them that believe. So Peter and John just said hey man we don't have any silver or gold but what we do have in JESUS NAME. Now God made sure you read before that the man EXPECTED to receive something.
They said after words why look at us as if we did this by our own power? Its that name faith in that named that healed this man. I am so sorry but Peter and John didn't have more power more Christ in them then you or I do. They just believed. Yes I would agree walking with Christ for 3+ years really would help you believe So get to KNOW HIM! What He did for them He does for all that will believe.
Everyone Christ touched was healed. Now today there are many like the town where all Christ could do was lay hands on a few and teach because of doubt. We tend to look around at others as the proof for what God can and can not do. Christ said a kingdom divided against its self will fall. He does not make anyone sick to then heal. Like Christ saying Satan can not cast out Satan. This is a fallen world what we do think say watch eat all plays a part in what happens to us. Again just another thing where FAITH comes into play yet never talked about. We quote so much of Matt-John ..ooh OBEY if you love me, keep my words really a big one and Sabbath yet Christ talking about the sweet holy Spirit Luke 11 13 = pass. Or what is Mark 11 24 I think what ever you desire when you pray believe you receive it you shall have it = pass. Acts Peter and John never once asked or prayed to God or Christ to heal that man. Right there we can back up to what Christ said "these signs "shall" follow them that believe. So Peter and John just said hey man we don't have any silver or gold but what we do have in JESUS NAME. Now God made sure you read before that the man EXPECTED to receive something.
They said after words why look at us as if we did this by our own power? Its that name faith in that named that healed this man. I am so sorry but Peter and John didn't have more power more Christ in them then you or I do. They just believed. Yes I would agree walking with Christ for 3+ years really would help you believe
So get to KNOW HIM! What He did for them He does for all that will believe.
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Surely we four are not the Only ones in here, in agreement With
God's Word of Truth About Today's Dispensation Of Amazing Grace In
this Current "age of infirmities"?:
Have the others not yet heard of having amazing faith for
These Truths?:
Wait! Help, Not healing?
Wait! not "heal them," But "bear their infirmities"???
Wait! the apostle only should "glory" or, we also?:
Wait "Sufficient Grace and Power Of Christ" Is Not A Glad Blessing?:
+ This question:
"God's Strength Is Made Perfect" Today, How? by "everyone healed"?
or:
By God's GRACE Word for our infirmities
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Should we "just discount and ignore" These Wonderful Scriptures
For us, Today, Under Grace, Which Are:
Rightly Divided (2 Timothy 2:15) From “Things That Differ” (online):
And Not wrongly homogenized with God's Other program
"under law/covenants where Everyone is healed"?
Oh when oh When, are we ever "going to be Approved"?:
God's Word of Truth About Today's Dispensation Of Amazing Grace In
this Current "age of infirmities"?:
Have the others not yet heard of having amazing faith for
These Truths?:
Rom_8:26 "Likewise The Spirit also HELPETH our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but
The Spirit Himself Maketh Intercession for us with groanings
which cannot be uttered."
Wait! Help, Not healing?
Rom_15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Wait! not "heal them," But "bear their infirmities"???
2Co_11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of
the things which concern mine infirmities.
2Co_12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of
myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
Wait! the apostle only should "glory" or, we also?:
2Co_12:9 And He said unto me, My GRACE Is Sufficient for
thee: for My Strength Is Made Perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that
The Power of Christ May Rest upon me.
Wait "Sufficient Grace and Power Of Christ" Is Not A Glad Blessing?:
2Co_12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses
for Christ's Sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
1Ti_5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine
for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
+ This question:
"God's Strength Is Made Perfect" Today, How? by "everyone healed"?
or:
By God's GRACE Word for our infirmities
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Should we "just discount and ignore" These Wonderful Scriptures
For us, Today, Under Grace, Which Are:
Rightly Divided (2 Timothy 2:15) From “Things That Differ” (online):
And Not wrongly homogenized with God's Other program
"under law/covenants where Everyone is healed"?
Oh when oh When, are we ever "going to be Approved"?:
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