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If one can be double minded and believe also in Mammon, would your perspective of expecting the Lord to cure them then not deny the Word in James 1:7-8, which states not to expect any help from the Lord?
James 1:7 [FONT="]For [/FONT][FONT="]let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord[/FONT][FONT="].[/FONT][FONT="]8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.[/FONT]
James 1:7 [FONT="]For [/FONT][FONT="]let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord[/FONT][FONT="].[/FONT][FONT="]8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.[/FONT]
Does that have anything to do with healing?
James 1:2-7
Profiting from Trials
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
James 1:2-7
Profiting from Trials
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
True, but don't expect the Lord to give you what you want if you are double minded.
We should continue to hope, and pray, and study the Word, to increase in faith and be more the Way the Lord wants us to be (singularly minded) in faith towards Him and not Mammon as well, so that we can do all the things they who are singularly faithed in Him can do.
We should continue to hope, and pray, and study the Word, to increase in faith and be more the Way the Lord wants us to be (singularly minded) in faith towards Him and not Mammon as well, so that we can do all the things they who are singularly faithed in Him can do.
Lot of interesting things being discussed. Different angles. I would like to say that for us to be frustrated with God (as I am guilty of) is to be in deception believing a lie of the enemy, in order to break fellowship with God. To be frustrated, to be angry, with God is to be in opposition to the One who holds the keys to your freedom. We only work against ourselves in alienating ourselves from the Lord. Who are we to bring a charge against the Lord? He will not be found guilty, for He is righteous.
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The last I heard you opened and pointed to find what to read in the Bible. That's more like slicing a deck of cards. Everyone always picks the middle somewhere, but at least in a deck of cards it's not expected to be one long story.
Seek.
-- Pick a book where it sure looks like God was just messing around with the person, (Job, Jonah, Hosea), and glean why he wasn't. Ask/pray why he wasn't. (Hard to believe I went in reading Hosea, as if why did God mess this guy's life up so bad, and walked away rejoicing. Really looked like God intended to mess up Hosea's life. Even more so than Job or Jonah.)
-- Figure out word studies and how to do one, and then do that. (A concordance with appropriate Bible version helps.)
-- Figure out how to do subject studies. (Vine's Expository is a good starting place.)
-- Do a study on God's promises, if you have to. (That's where Joni took hers. I don't get that. After all. If I'm hurting, I kind of don't particularly care to see the promise of long life, so not my style, but it worked for her.)
-- Read the Bible all the way through if you have to.
Your answer is in there. Seek means "put in the effort to find it."
Guaranteed -- God is NOT silent when reading his word. (Often annoyingly loud, actually. Did I mention I hate patience?)
Seek.
-- Pick a book where it sure looks like God was just messing around with the person, (Job, Jonah, Hosea), and glean why he wasn't. Ask/pray why he wasn't. (Hard to believe I went in reading Hosea, as if why did God mess this guy's life up so bad, and walked away rejoicing. Really looked like God intended to mess up Hosea's life. Even more so than Job or Jonah.)
-- Figure out word studies and how to do one, and then do that. (A concordance with appropriate Bible version helps.)
-- Figure out how to do subject studies. (Vine's Expository is a good starting place.)
-- Do a study on God's promises, if you have to. (That's where Joni took hers. I don't get that. After all. If I'm hurting, I kind of don't particularly care to see the promise of long life, so not my style, but it worked for her.)
-- Read the Bible all the way through if you have to.
Your answer is in there. Seek means "put in the effort to find it."
Guaranteed -- God is NOT silent when reading his word. (Often annoyingly loud, actually. Did I mention I hate patience?)
If you read my earlier posts you will see why people today are not healed as they were during the first century AD. Most Christians today, myself included are double minded, having faith both in Christ and Mammon. Rather than my repeating all the posts and scriptures I showed to support this perspective, you can simply go through the pages and find those with my name on top to review.
James 4:1-8, further confirms why many who ask do not receive being due to their double mindedness.
James 4:1 [FONT="]From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
[/FONT][FONT="]2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.[/FONT]
[FONT="]3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.[/FONT]
[FONT="]4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.[/FONT]
[FONT="]5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?[/FONT]
[FONT="]6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.[/FONT]
[FONT="]7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.[/FONT]
[FONT="]8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.[/FONT]
James 4:1 [FONT="]From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
[/FONT][FONT="]2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.[/FONT]
[FONT="]3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.[/FONT]
[FONT="]4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.[/FONT]
[FONT="]5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?[/FONT]
[FONT="]6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.[/FONT]
[FONT="]7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.[/FONT]
[FONT="]8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.[/FONT]
For those of us who are not pre tribulation raptureists, there is good news, in that we who go through the great tribulation (wether live or dead) will be made white from our current double mindedness (Daniel 11:32-35).
Daniel 11:32 [FONT="]And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.[/FONT][FONT="]33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.[/FONT]
[FONT="]34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.[/FONT]
[FONT="]35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.[/FONT]
Daniel 11:32 [FONT="]And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.[/FONT][FONT="]33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.[/FONT]
[FONT="]34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.[/FONT]
[FONT="]35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.[/FONT]