When it comes to healing, the problem for most people isn't really a so called lack of faith. How much faith is required to be healed? The Word says that all we need is faith the size of a mustard seed to receive what we ask for in prayer.
Possible reasons some don't receive healing:
1. Timing. It might not be the time or season for your healing.
2. Too many limit God in the way He can heal them.
Many believers are taught to do nothing but just claim healing and believe for a miracle ( There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, God has healed me this way before).
I advise people to seek God first, speak the Word, believe they have been healed, but keep an open ear to hear if God wants you to do something.
Too often people die believing that they have been healed.
Right now, I'm reading a book called "How to heal the sick" by the Hunters. They mentioned how during one service how 3 different people with crossed eyes were healed in 3 different ways.
a. For instance, He might tell you to remove or add something to your diet.
I have heard of a lady with MS who would speak healing scriptures over herself. One day she heard God give her specific instructions on how to change her diet. So, she obeyed. And guess what? She was healed !!
My personal story- Once I got really sick. I had no idea what was wrong and I didn't have health insurance.
I figured that I just had a sore throat. I quoted scripture daily and declared that my sore throat was healed.
Just speaking the Word and claiming healing helped heal me once in the past. However, this time the pain just go worse.
I don't think the problem was faith since I had been miraculously healed before (so I had no reason to doubt God).
I really wanted to look my symptoms up to find out if I had something else beside a sore throat. However, I felt like by doing so would show a lack of faith. I finally decided to go to one of those health websites and came across a condition called thrush (found in people with low immune systems or poor diets). Thrush is characterized by white nodules/lumps on the back of the throat. I went to the mirror and was shocked to discover that my throat looked like the pitcures online.
Throughout the night, I would command thrush to leave my body, pray for God to strengthen my immune sytem and praise God.The next morning I got up and went to the tv (this is unusual for me since I don't usually start my day watching tv). The tv happened to be on a christian health program that was discussing thrush. Then another show came on and the health experts were also discusing my health condition. Then I went to Valerie Saxion's website (a christian naturopathic doctor) and her show that week was going to be on thrush and candida. So, I went to the health food store I got the recommended item and I was instantly healed. After that, I also made the necessary changes to my diet. If I wouldn't have figured out that I had thrush, then I would have ignored those shows and I wouldn't have made the necessary changes to get healed.
God could have healed me instantly ( like He did when I suffered with another ailment) but I believe He wanted me to become aware of the root of my problem. I needed to learn to take better care of my body so that I wouldn't go through this again.
b. God might tell you to let go of any toxic emotions (studies have shown that certain emotions can cause health problems)
Once I went on a fast to overcome my struggle with fear & anxiety and I was healed of a condition that I had suffered with for over 4 years. I think that a combination of releasing my negative emotions and fasting helped healed me.
c God might want you to accept accept His forgiveness.
A perfect example is the bible story where Jesus simple tells a man that His sins have been forgiven (luke 5:20).
d God might want you to go to the doctor.
Sometimes God could have a divine set up waiting for you.
Awhile ago, on Praise the Lord, a man gave his daughter's healing testimony. One day, he met a guy at the hospital with an injured hand ( he didn't know the guy was a surgeon). So, he helps rehab the guys hand. The man's daughter ends up needing surgery. It turns out that the guy's hand he rehabed is the only or one of the only surgeon's in the U.S. trained to do the particular surgery needed. So, his daughter has the surgery and gets better. Wow, isn't God amazing?!
3. Your healing might be blocked by a having a divided heart.
On the outside, you might confess that you have been healed but inside you might be more focused on fear rather than faith.
Your heart has to line up with what you speak. The Word tells us to guard our heart with all diligence. Where is your heart set? What is bigger in your eyes- fear or God's ability to heal you? I've been hearing how quantum physics relates to faith. If you sow fear, you reap the results of fear. In the bible, Jobs fears came upon Him. Also, fear has some sort of physiological impact on the body.
Also, you have to focus on what you want rather what you don't want.
Instead of saying," I don't want to die" say "I want to be healed". With the first phrase you are actually focused on death.
4. Some put off their healing for the future instead of claiming it now.
In the past, I thought it was ok to say "God will heal me" or " I'm going to be healed".
I heard a sermon by a pastor who found out that she had cancer. She remembered how her sister died of cancer believing that "she will be healed one day". The pastor said that God revealed to her that saying "I will be healed" pushes healing off into the future beyond your grasp and you never receive it.
When you say " I will be healed" your saying that God's work on the cross isn't done. The scriptures don't say that by Jesus' stripes you
will be healed.
When you claim that you are healed, it doesn't mean that you have to deny the facts of your condition. Just focus on the TRUTH that the blood of Jesus has healed you in the spirit rather than focusing on the FACTS of your ailment. The truth never changes but facts can change.
5.Then there are also other possible unknown reasons.
Possible reasons some don't receive healing:
1. Timing. It might not be the time or season for your healing.
2. Too many limit God in the way He can heal them.
Many believers are taught to do nothing but just claim healing and believe for a miracle ( There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, God has healed me this way before).
I advise people to seek God first, speak the Word, believe they have been healed, but keep an open ear to hear if God wants you to do something.
Too often people die believing that they have been healed.
Right now, I'm reading a book called "How to heal the sick" by the Hunters. They mentioned how during one service how 3 different people with crossed eyes were healed in 3 different ways.
a. For instance, He might tell you to remove or add something to your diet.
I have heard of a lady with MS who would speak healing scriptures over herself. One day she heard God give her specific instructions on how to change her diet. So, she obeyed. And guess what? She was healed !!
My personal story- Once I got really sick. I had no idea what was wrong and I didn't have health insurance.
I figured that I just had a sore throat. I quoted scripture daily and declared that my sore throat was healed.
Just speaking the Word and claiming healing helped heal me once in the past. However, this time the pain just go worse.
I don't think the problem was faith since I had been miraculously healed before (so I had no reason to doubt God).
I really wanted to look my symptoms up to find out if I had something else beside a sore throat. However, I felt like by doing so would show a lack of faith. I finally decided to go to one of those health websites and came across a condition called thrush (found in people with low immune systems or poor diets). Thrush is characterized by white nodules/lumps on the back of the throat. I went to the mirror and was shocked to discover that my throat looked like the pitcures online.
Throughout the night, I would command thrush to leave my body, pray for God to strengthen my immune sytem and praise God.The next morning I got up and went to the tv (this is unusual for me since I don't usually start my day watching tv). The tv happened to be on a christian health program that was discussing thrush. Then another show came on and the health experts were also discusing my health condition. Then I went to Valerie Saxion's website (a christian naturopathic doctor) and her show that week was going to be on thrush and candida. So, I went to the health food store I got the recommended item and I was instantly healed. After that, I also made the necessary changes to my diet. If I wouldn't have figured out that I had thrush, then I would have ignored those shows and I wouldn't have made the necessary changes to get healed.
God could have healed me instantly ( like He did when I suffered with another ailment) but I believe He wanted me to become aware of the root of my problem. I needed to learn to take better care of my body so that I wouldn't go through this again.
b. God might tell you to let go of any toxic emotions (studies have shown that certain emotions can cause health problems)
Once I went on a fast to overcome my struggle with fear & anxiety and I was healed of a condition that I had suffered with for over 4 years. I think that a combination of releasing my negative emotions and fasting helped healed me.
c God might want you to accept accept His forgiveness.
A perfect example is the bible story where Jesus simple tells a man that His sins have been forgiven (luke 5:20).
d God might want you to go to the doctor.
Sometimes God could have a divine set up waiting for you.
Awhile ago, on Praise the Lord, a man gave his daughter's healing testimony. One day, he met a guy at the hospital with an injured hand ( he didn't know the guy was a surgeon). So, he helps rehab the guys hand. The man's daughter ends up needing surgery. It turns out that the guy's hand he rehabed is the only or one of the only surgeon's in the U.S. trained to do the particular surgery needed. So, his daughter has the surgery and gets better. Wow, isn't God amazing?!
3. Your healing might be blocked by a having a divided heart.
On the outside, you might confess that you have been healed but inside you might be more focused on fear rather than faith.
Your heart has to line up with what you speak. The Word tells us to guard our heart with all diligence. Where is your heart set? What is bigger in your eyes- fear or God's ability to heal you? I've been hearing how quantum physics relates to faith. If you sow fear, you reap the results of fear. In the bible, Jobs fears came upon Him. Also, fear has some sort of physiological impact on the body.
Also, you have to focus on what you want rather what you don't want.
Instead of saying," I don't want to die" say "I want to be healed". With the first phrase you are actually focused on death.
4. Some put off their healing for the future instead of claiming it now.
In the past, I thought it was ok to say "God will heal me" or " I'm going to be healed".
I heard a sermon by a pastor who found out that she had cancer. She remembered how her sister died of cancer believing that "she will be healed one day". The pastor said that God revealed to her that saying "I will be healed" pushes healing off into the future beyond your grasp and you never receive it.
When you say " I will be healed" your saying that God's work on the cross isn't done. The scriptures don't say that by Jesus' stripes you
will be healed.
When you claim that you are healed, it doesn't mean that you have to deny the facts of your condition. Just focus on the TRUTH that the blood of Jesus has healed you in the spirit rather than focusing on the FACTS of your ailment. The truth never changes but facts can change.
5.Then there are also other possible unknown reasons.
To make them feel that to acknowledge reality when they do not get healed constitutes rebellion against God? To make them believe "obedience" to God involves LYING TO THEMSELVES???? WOW. TWISTED.
