Divine Healing Media

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blue_ladybug

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No i dont think so the OP is just talking about his experiences I dont think hes claiming that for everybody. Joni neck is broken I wouldnt say shes sick. My eyes are weak im shortsighted but my eyes are not sick. Weakness is not the same as disease. We are all weak in some areas not everyone is an ironman.

If a person's body is weak, it IS sick. You're short-sighted so your eyes ARE sick. Just as I have a weak back which pops out of place a lot. My back is extremely weak. And NOBODY is an "iron man". We are all weak, sick, fleshly mortals.
 
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No i dont think so the OP is just talking about his experiences I dont think hes claiming that for everybody. Joni neck is broken I wouldnt say shes sick. My eyes are weak im shortsighted but my eyes are not sick. Weakness is not the same as disease. We are all weak in some areas not everyone is an ironman.
I think you need to reread what the OP has said again, And the answers he has given others..
 

blue_ladybug

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Joni's neck is broken, yes, and that's why her body is sick, causing such things as bed sores, atrophied muscles, weak inner organs, etc. Her faith and brain are strong, her body is sick and weak.
 

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It is scripturally very evident that God’s utmost desire for his children is health (3John2). But then it’s also scripturally true that Christians’ health can be challenged due to any several reasons…

And for the later reason, God has also provided sufficiently for our healing and wholesomeness. So in this article we want to explore these media through which we can receive divine healing in our body. And also minister healing to others when their health is challenged.

The Divine Healing Media

Scripturally, God and his healing and deliverance power reside in every believer (see 1Corinthians 3:16; Matthew 10:1; 2Timothy1:7).But there are some scriptural media through which this God’s healing and deliverance power can be released for healing and deliverance when our health is challenged. And these media are as follows:

  • The Word of God: “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions”—Psalms 107:20
    The word of God is a principal media through which we can release or receive the healing power of God when our health is challenged. And that is why we have countless testimony of miraculous healing and deliverance while people are listening to the word of God being preached or taught.

    One of the ministers that record these kinds of miraculous healing and deliverance consistently at the instance of teaching is Pastor W.F Kumuyi.

    It is commonly reported that great miracles, including blind eyes opening, lame standing and walking, etc… often take place as he teaches God’s word. So if your health is challenged, you can receive healing and deliverance by standing on the word of God, through confession and mediation; and also by reading or listening to God’s word.

  • Faith in The Name of Jesus: “And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong whom ye see and know: yea the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all”—Acts 3:16

    The above scriptural quote is from Peter, explaining to the audience the secrets behind the miraculous healing of the lame man at the beautiful gate.

    He says the secret behind the release of the miraculous healing power of God for the healing of the lame man was faith in the name of Jesus. And this is why we have countless manifestation of the healing power of God today, as people exercise their faith in the name of Jesus for healing and deliverance.

    So if your health or someone’s health is challenged, the healing power of God can be released through faith in the name of Jesus Christ.

  • Laying of Hands: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongue; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” – Mark 16:17-18. The above scripture tells us that believers shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

    I have personally seen the healing power of God released on me and others through the laying on of hands. I had laid hands on points of pain in my body by faith and received healings. I had also laid hands on sick folks and seen them receive healings to the glory of God. So if your health or that of others is challenged, you can release the healing power of God through the laying on of hands by faith.

  • Praying and Anointing With Oil: “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him” James 5:14-15
    So the healing power of God can be released through prayers, coupled with anointing the sick with anointing oil by faith.

  • Mantle Ministration: In the context of this topic, ‘mantle’ stands for any material that is taken from an anointed minister, to transfer the healing power of God. This can be a shirt, apron or handkerchief. We can see a biblical example of mantle ministration in the ministry of Paul the Apostle.

    Here is exactly what the word of God says concerning this: “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them”.

    So the healing power of God can also flow through the mantle to cause healing and deliverance.

  • Prophetic Directive: The healing power of God can also be transmitted through some special divine directives. The directive may take any number of forms. It may be to breathe on the sick, to lie on the sick, to issue a command, etc. I heard a pastor testify of having to kick someone with a spinal cord challenge to receive his healing. And immediately he kicked him at the challenged spot, the spinal cord problem was instantly healed. Scriptural examples of healing through prophetic directive are:

    Nayman receiving his cure by going to river Jordan to deep himself from Elisha’s Prophetic directive. The blind man being anointed with saliva and clay by Jesus and washing at the Siloam. Ananias laying his hand on Paul to receive his sight through a prophetic revelation (Acts 9:11-18).
So there you have it. The list above, amongst others are the different scriptural media through which we can release the healing power of God for our divine healing; and ministration to others that their health are challenged.

Remain Blessed!

Emeke Odili
The fact that not of the 12 apostle around now prove that god not always heal his child.

If every time Paul sick god heal, he still live to day, Peter, john still preach to day
 

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Joni at the time of her accident was 19, she broke her neck when she dove into shallow water.
People are in wheelchairs for different things. Some people have had accidents and some were born with afflictions, some were born blind and people would ask Jesus had they or parents sinned, Jesus replied that no this man was born blind for the glory of God to manifest in him.
He got healed, but then Helen Keller was not healed of her blindness yet God did great thing through her, as He did through Fanny Crosby. The thing is when people are weak if they have support and people to care for them it shows faith and love as well. Otherwise would babies just be born without needing our help to look after them?
If we have faith in Jesus, and not faith in our own abilities, that is all that is required. Some people have pride in their own abilities. Like Job they may find these are taken away from them, but we do know Job was patient, he endured, and he was restored when he prayed for his friends. He didnt blame God for any of it.
 

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Joni at the time of her accident was 19, she broke her neck when she dove into shallow water.
People are in wheelchairs for different things. Some people have had accidents and some were born with afflictions, some were born blind and people would ask Jesus had they or parents sinned, Jesus replied that no this man was born blind for the glory of God to manifest in him.
He got healed, but then Helen Keller was not healed of her blindness yet God did great thing through her, as He did through Fanny Crosby. The thing is when people are weak if they have support and people to care for them it shows faith and love as well. Otherwise would babies just be born without needing our help to look after them?
If we have faith in Jesus, and not faith in our own abilities, that is all that is required. Some people have pride in their own abilities. Like Job they may find these are taken away from them, but we do know Job was patient, he endured, and he was restored when he prayed for his friends. He didnt blame God for any of it.

It's true that many are born with afflictions, and others are due to illness, injury or accidents. BUT God allows all that for reasons that He alone knows. God heals whomever He wills to be healed, and whomever He wills to remain ill, either for awhile or their entire lifetime.
 

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Bro for real. Can you do something and pray for me? PRay that my vision is healed, ive always had poor eye sight.

If I get healed, i'll join you.

I will pray for your vision but if you are daring God's children or God, Himself, you prayers may go answered with a no...….I get lots of no's but then I always pray in the will of the Father, therefore I pray, in His will, that you eyesight be restored, perfect in Jesus Christs name, Yeshua, amen
 

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While I believe He is purifying, strengthening, perfecting, establishing, healing us, through sanctification making us Holy because He is, our hope in the blameless condition He will present, is in Him and His deity alone, not of ourselves. In our weak flesh, we will always need His grace, His tender-mercies. His purified nature belongs to Him. Our only claim to His righteousness is that we belong to Him; still, it is His!!! The spiritual healing we obtain is a miracle and it is promised. The healing of the flesh is wonderful but never promised.
 

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Being sick and being called home are differnt things, it is the health of our souls that God sees, as long as our bones are not rotted away for those of us who believe that Jesus rose from the dead, He can do anything. He can make dry bones live, so I would not put a damper on anything God chooses to do. Even death cannot hold us down. Death has no power over us. If we have the holy spirit living in us, we will rise again just as a living seed sprouts to life in spring. Whatever satan tries to do to our bodies he cannot destroy a beleiver's soul.

Anyway, just some thoughts, to encourage others. We all need encouragement to stand against satan's lies. Jesus is our saviour and he gave his life for us. He came to give us life and life in abundance. What are we doing with the life he has given us? Whether it is short or long, live it for His glory. If youve still got breath in your body, you can praise Him.
 

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I believe that the son of a dog is a puppy.

You may be a son of God as stated in the bible but you are definitely not a god or God. As far as healing is concerned God heals those that He choses to heal regardless of faith.

People can lay hands on someone and then say that by the power of God that person is healed but what is supposedly healed is a headache, a backache or perhaps a hang nail, or maybe even a toothache, but that would probably require anointing with oil. They don't heal people that are blind or severely crippled with arthritis or replace a missing limb. In fact, in most cases, no such physical healing takes place. The person that does the healing might feel good about themselves but the patient is still sick.

God can heal me at any time but in the meantime I'll just pop a couple Advil and call it good. It's advanced medicine for pain.
As for the issue of being god or not I'll post a thread soon on the topic for elaborate discussion.

But as for your divine healing, I refuse a 'wishy washy' approach to divine healing. When I approach God for healing I do so with a violent and desperate faith with assuring expectation from God. I don't approach with any alternative in my mind. You remember the syrophoenician woman? Jesus praised her faith. Do you also remember the parable of the wicked judge and the widow? Jesus recommends her kind of persistent faith. Not a passive one.
 

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As for the issue of being god or not I'll post a thread soon on the topic for elaborate discussion.

But as for your divine healing, I refuse a 'wishy washy' approach to divine healing. When I approach God for healing I do so with a violent and desperate faith with assuring expectation from God. I don't approach with any alternative in my mind. You remember the syrophoenician woman? Jesus praised her faith. Do you also remember the parable of the wicked judge and the widow? Jesus recommends her kind of persistent faith. Not a passive one.
I guess Paul, Timothy, Trophimus, etc., just didn't have as much faith as you. :rolleyes:
 

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As for the issue of being god or not I'll post a thread soon on the topic for elaborate discussion.

But as for your divine healing, I refuse a 'wishy washy' approach to divine healing. When I approach God for healing I do so with a violent and desperate faith with assuring expectation from God. I don't approach with any alternative in my mind. You remember the syrophoenician woman? Jesus praised her faith. Do you also remember the parable of the wicked judge and the widow? Jesus recommends her kind of persistent faith. Not a passive one.
I agree that Jesus will indeed heal those that have faith but He does not heal everyone immediately or even in their lifetime.

My late second wife suffered horribly for years from debilitating psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. She was a woman of deep spiritual faith. She prayed for healing for years but eventually gave the matter to God and just prayed for His will and desire by done in her life. She accepted her condition and as a result was able to minister to others who were suffering or tormented. She had many siblings, her brothers, who were Nazarene ministers would always question her faith, since she wasn't healed she must lack faith. This hurt her deeply and it made her question her own faith. Perhaps it was their own faith that was lacking since they prayed for her healing also and anointed her with oil which, in most cases, is a worthless exercise in futility and grossly insensitive.

It is not biblical to claim that if you have faith you will be healed immediately or at least eventually in your lifetime. Paul wrote that he petitioned to God 3 times to remove the thorn in his flesh but God said that His grace was sufficient. Paul accepted this, in fact it strengthened his resolve to continue to fight the good fight keeping his eyes on the prize.

Please provide documentation of someone who is missing a limb, eyes, is deaf or paralyzed that possesses faith, is prayed over by those who profess great faith and then can see, hear or stand up and walk, otherwise your testimony of healing is of no use and in fact, does more harm than good.

Peter whacked some guys ear off once, and Jesus stuck it back on. There was no mention at all whether or not this guy had any faith at all, in fact, he was in the group that was arresting Him. Jesus healed the man because He has compassion, mercy and empathy, not because the guy had faith. He will heal us too, because of our faith or despite our faith, but ultimately for our benefit that leads to the glory of God.
 

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I guess Paul, Timothy, Trophimus, etc., just didn't have as much faith as you. :rolleyes:
Apparently, they didn't even have the faith of a mustard seed. I guess that I don't either. Thank God for doctors and nurses and OTC medications.
 

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If a person's body is weak, it IS sick. You're short-sighted so your eyes ARE sick. Just as I have a weak back which pops out of place a lot. My back is extremely weak. And NOBODY is an "iron man". We are all weak, sick, fleshly mortals.
No one is a Man of Steel either.
 

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God is strong in the weak!

God gives grace to the humble. Nothing more humble than claiming to be a god im sure.
 

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God is strong in the weak!

God gives grace to the humble. Nothing more humble than claiming to be a god im sure.
I detect a hint of sarcasm. Jesus often used sarcasm as well, and one instance was when He said that there are those that are gods. There was a certain amount of arrogance in the OP, that's for sure.
 

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Sister Angela,

It's been quite a while. Great to hear from you again.

Now let's jump right on to the scriptures.

Acts 10:38
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

From the context of the above scripture you'll agree with me that the healing and deliverance mentioned here has to do with physical healing. And Peter mentions it as the good Jesus went about doing.

I believe that should underscore the importance God places on healing and deliverance.

Yes, it may be temporal, but it does cause men to give to glory to our father in heaven.

Then about your last question concerning suffering.

Yes, I do rejoice in suffering knowing that its only but for a moment. That help is not far. And that it will eventually turn out to me for a testimony to the glory of God. And of course, they do turn out to become testimonies, because God's word cannot be broken.
I noted very clearly that Jesus healed. It fuflilled prophecies, and it was also consistent with the character of God, that Jesus had compassion. BUT, it does not mean healing is part of the gospel. It was part of the "signs" as John called them, so the people would know who Jesus was. There were also healings in Acts, of course, as they were a sign to the church that God was with them. BUT, never a part of the gospel.

Again, the gospel is about Jesus dying on the cross to saved us from our sins. Healing is not part of that, although God can heal who he wants, when he wants. But NOT because we claim it, name it, demand or even ask pretty please! This whole healing thing is fine, if you understand it it NOT part of the real gospel. But, you might not know what the gospel actually is. Please see my post above.

As for Acts 10:38, I do not deny it, I have already said many times, that Jesus fulfilled the OT prophecies. What I find weird, is that the entire chapter 10 of Acts, is about God calling a Gentile, and using Peter to preach to him, despite Peter's sel-righteous Phariseeism. And yet, you pull one verse out of context, which was part of the witness of who Jesus was, and make it into another gospel, rather than the statement of who Jesus Christ was. Acts 10:38 is not the gospel. Read the whole chapter about 10 times, and maybe you will understand what it is about. In fact, look at Peter's speech. That is just one verse describing who Jesus is, and what he did on earth.

"Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.37 You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

39 “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ateand drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” Acts 10:34-43

I don't know how anyone could read that verse in context, and possibly think it is part of the gospel, instead of a fulfillment of OT prophecies. This chapter is about Peter preaching the good news to a Gentile, part of which was explaining how Jesus was baptized and went about doing good. The whole last part is about Jesus being raised from the dead, commanding us to preach that, and how he will one day judge the living and the dead. And those who believe, receive forgiveness in his name.

You really need to learn how to do proper exegesis and some hermeneutics. Then you would not be pulling verses out of context all the time, to prove something that is not Biblical.