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Physical Healing - Is it in the Will of God?

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Joel:
Hi Jong
God is always on time with what he intends to do.
Ecclesiastes 3:3
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.
Jesus did the things he did, just as planned before hand, and he read as a wittiness to this in Luke 4:18-19 fom Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised.
 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
There are a lot of people in the Church world that need delivering from doctrines of devils, more than anything these days. That really makes a person better both physically, and Spiritually I think. :)
Paul spoke of this in 1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
John writes in 3 John 2
Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

I don't like sickness any more than anyone else, but it does have it's place in our growth and development, and I have learned a lot through the things I myself have suffered.
I do thank the Lord for the healthy days though. :)

Joel

stanstillwhite:
We see in 1 Co 11 that sometimes we bring sickness on ourselves.

1Co 11:29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1Co 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

I'm not saying all sickness is a chastisement from God, but when I get sick the first thing I do before asking God to heal me is examine myself.  I ask God is I have inadvertently brought something on myself.  I also see in scripture where faith and attitude play a part even when Jesus was the healer:

Mat 13:58  And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

I also think we need to remember that this body was not meant to be permanent. It wares out.  Has anyone else noticed that nobody dies from 'natural causes' any more?  We are not to be to comfortable in this skin. 

octoberose:
 John 9- As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Isn't being born blind the same as having a sickness? If not exactly the same (as mentioned already, our behavior can affect our health) it is our bodies failing us. If we are never ill, we would be without understanding of those who are. If we never suffer, we would have no idea at all what others suffer. Right now my husband has what looks like a growth on his adrenal gland. We'll know more next week after the MRI. Am I liking this? Not a bit. But who do I go to? Only the Lord can heal. We are doing everything we know to do and he's in the care of an alternative doctor at the moment, but I truly believe this is a journey God has set for us right now. There are so many ways for the "work of  God to be displayed in his life" because of this.
 The rest of the verse in John, "night is coming (when Jesus leaves I'm thinking) when no one can work." If it still is applicable to this thread, I wonder what you all think about the "no one can work" part of the verse?  Also, Jesus is going from the man born blind and ending with Him being the light of the world. I bet there's a lot there I'm not even seeing.

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