Hizikyah, this is one of the two Scriptures God gave me when I challenged Him to proof that He is for real.
I prayed for many people on all kinds of stuff. Some got miracilously healed, and others did not. On one particular night after we showed the Jesus-film in an African lanuage to a soccr field full of black South Africans in Orange Farms Squatter Camp, I prayed for a two yearold boy. He had a misformed hip. God did not heal him... I was FURIOUS at God.
So after I dropped off all people and parked the mini-bus, I went to my study, and took up a Bible and prayed.... Lord, God this is your lat chance with Cobus. Why did you not heal this boy tonight? There were so many souls to save, a miricle would have had them all turn to you. Why is it some times You heal people when I ask, and some times You do not! If you are for real, SHOW ME NOW!!!!! Amen!
I opened the Bible and this came up..... 1 John 3:9... Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God..... I said.... NO LORD this Bible is lieing to me now, we will always be sinners working iniquity, doing sin..... Again my Bible opened at Mat 7: 21 to 23... Not all who say Lord Lord will enter, go away from me Cobus, you who work the iniquity. And I was SHOCKED to the bone....
I saw myself in these two verses, SO CLEAR.... I work iniquity and heal people in the name of Jesus! If I have to be 100% honest I have to say, even while I healed people in the Name of Jesus, I knew there was something wrong ALL the time. Something just was not right, but as I did not KNOW GOD OR HIS WILL, He still knew how to WORK ON ME!
I was reminded of these verses EVERY time I saw a miricle.... Beware of false prophets, that looks like sheep but inwardly they are wolves.... and the other verse... Whatever you ask me I shall do, my prophets will speak, and ALL will come true...
It was not only the NO from God when I prayed that bothered me, it was the miricles themselves as well.... Why only SOME TIMES did the miricles happen. Then when I read Matthew 7 I realized it was NOT GOD that healed but it was part of me as FALSE PROPHET, PREACHER, TEACHER, that healed with SATAN! IT was not God that healed the people it was SATAN! God did not know me, He NEVER KNEW ME! WOW!
I asked the Lord... WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? HOW CAN YOU KNOW ME? AND HOW CAN I DO YOUR WILL? And in a VERY CLEAR VOICE BEHIND ME MY EARS HEARD : " GENESIS 1:1 START! "
I did, and from the FIRST verse in the Bible, I started to get to know God and His will. WOW! What a journey that has been, to read the Bible, and God HIMSELF explaining. The revelation of Scripture is God OPENING HIMSELF to us, we get to know Him and the One He sent, and He knows us, because HE REVEALS HIMSELF to us.
God LOVES to SHOW HIMSELF to us, so that HE MIGHT KNOW US AND WE MIGHT KNOW HIM, and that is eternal life, ETERNAL HOLY LIFE.... To know Him. And not one person will know God, unless God knows that person.... And because I know HIM NOW, He will NEVER SAY .... Go away Cobus, I never knew you. I know now, that He knew me from before the earth was made, because HE DESTINED ME TO BE PERFECT RIGHT HERE ON EARTH... TO DO HIS WILL: This is HIS WILL... Matthew 5:48... BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.... LOOK it is the perfect people in the world who has their FATHER IN HEAVEN....
Not one person who has God as Father, will not be made perfect for HIS GLORY right here on earth... Even thou they are here on earth they are as perfet as their Father in heaven....What an AWESOME God this is... Praise Jesus Christ and Father Yaweh, and Spirit Christ Jesus, for HE IS PERFECT! AMEN!