How do I know if it is God's will to heal me?
Part Three.
Hey, welcome to today's Little Lesson.
This is another special edition in the DR Congo.
We're talking about, is it God's will to heal me?
How do I know if it's God's will to heal me?
Well, the only way to find out God's will is to hear from Him, right?
Right.
And unless God speaks to you from heaven or somehow He speaks to you in your heart, because
if you're a believer in Jesus, He lives inside of us, right?
We are indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
The only other way to hear from God is to go to the Bible and look at His Word.
And of course, you're not going to find your name in there anywhere.
So if it's God's will for you to be healed, you're going to have to find something general
that applies to a group of people, of which you are included in that group.
Okay?
Now, as I've already said, some folks would say this is not relevant to me because I'm
healthy.
Great, great.
But this could be faith building as a preemptive thing if you do find yourself facing illness,
to get to know the Lord as your healer.
Sure, sure.
Or you might know somebody who needs healing and you could help them to find out what God's
will is for them concerning healing, as you share with them what I'm going to share with
you.
All right?
So the Bible is overwhelmingly pro healing.
And that's just irrefutable.
And so I'm limiting myself, I've said, to 10 Little Lessons.
I could go on and on and on, way beyond that, but I'm just going to look at 10 Little Lessons
and we'll look at some scriptures.
And so our very first one, we mentioned this one briefly in our last lesson.
This is early on in the Bible when God's revealing Himself to the children of Israel.
And in Exodus Chapter 15 and verse number 26 He says to them, "If you will diligently
listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in His eyes and
give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes."
And He said that, here's the promise.
"I will put none of these diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians.
For I, the Lord, am your healer."
Now we can learn a lot about that from that one verse of scripture in Exodus.
And I'm not all that interested in the Israelites myself.
The people that He was talking to back then are all dead and gone.
I'm interested in me.
I'm interested in you.
I'm interested in us.
We're the ones who have a relationship with God on the earth now.
And you know what?
People say, "Well, that's under the old covenant.
God made that promise to them."
Okay, I'm glad you're acknowledging that.
That's under the old covenant.
But God hasn't changed.
Do you really think that God, since that time said, "Well, I've changed.
I used to love keeping my people healthy.
And when they got sick, I used to love healing them.
But no more."
This is the God that the Bible says does not change.
Because you see, when you're perfect, you don't have any need to change.
God never woke up one morning and said, "I need to, I need some self improvement here."
Or "I've seen things a little differently now and I need to adjust."
No, no, God's perfect.
And He's, God is love.
And of course God loves to heal people.
He loves His children.
These people he's talking to here weren't even His children.
They were the people of Israel.
They were His people, but they weren't His children.
And they had this provision for healing in their covenant.
And if you were with me in those previous Little Lessons, not the last couple, but I
did five before then asking the question, is healing in the atonement?
See that talking about our covenant through Jesus, which the book of Hebrews says, "We've
got a better covenant established on better promises."
I'm wondering how our covenant wouldn't include some provision for health and healing when
the old covenant did, and we've got a better covenant?
See that's just one of a zillion faith building truths.
And so there's a lot we can learn about healing and God.
God reveals that healing is really part of who He is.
He said, "I am the Lord your healer."
Literally, in the Hebrew it says, "I'm Jehovah Rapha."
So, I'm the healer God, I'm the healer.
Do you know God is your healer?
Well, you should.
He's probably healed you many times over your life.
Just the natural healing process he's put into your body.
He's big enough to do that.
He's big enough to take care of what maybe your body's not able to successfully counteract.
God's bigger than all that, right?
Now we also learned from this that there is a contingency for the Israelites to be healthy
and to be healed.
And that is they have to be obedient.
They have to listen to God.
And that theme is pretty easy to find all through scripture.
There is a relationship here between walking in divine health and being healed and being
obedient.
And I was telling you in my last Little Lesson about what precipitated me talking, I wanted
to talk about this to you.
Because a dear friend of mine just passed away.
Went to heaven, a man of God, a preacher for decades.
Good preacher, holiness preacher, dedicated, devoted man of God.
Wonderful, wonderful family.
But he contracted Type 2 diabetes and it got worse and worse, progressively worse.
And he's on dialysis and then finally decides I'm not going to go on dialysis any longer.
I'm going to just trust the Lord.
If He wants to heal me, He'll heal me.
If not, He can take me home.
Well, I've noticed anytime anyone does that, God takes them home.
And I've been around for decades watching this.
Okay?
So it's not working.
It's not working.
And I told him that.
I wrote to him a long text, and I said, "Brother, brother, brother, you're listing examples
of people's human experiences."
He made a list of all the preachers who preach about healing who got sick.
And many of them, I knew enough about them to know that their problem was obedience.
Yeah.
It wasn't that they didn't understand something about the Bible, about healing.
But there were blatant, blatant things wrong in their ministries that anybody could see,
who isn't gullible and naive and knows a little bit of the Bible.
Right?
When you're preaching that bizarre prosperity stuff where God wants everybody to be fabulously
wealthy and wear designer clothes and designer shoes and have the luxury car.
And that's God's will.
"Look at me.
It's working for me."
The guy that takes up an offering from all these stupid people every week.
"Look at my car, look at my clothes."
You see, well, you can't preach that stuff and stay healthy.
Come on, give me a break.
Give me a break.
Where's that in the Bible?
Yeah, God supplies all of our needs.
Yeah, God prospers us.
He blesses us to make us a blessing so we can care for the poor, and not so you can
become more greedy.
Come on.
Greedy people go to hell, the Bible warns.
So, telling me about prosperity preachers who are also health and wealth preachers who
got sick and didn't get healed and who died.
And that's proof to me that God doesn't want me healed.
Well, I'm not a prosperity preacher.
I'm not a nutcase, telling everybody that they should give to my ministry so I can buy
a bigger jet.
So those guys don't apply to me and they don't apply to you either, unless you're one of
them.
And if you are one of them, then I encourage you to repent and maybe you'll get healed.
All right, well, we're out of time.
We'll come back to this on our next Little Lesson.
Okay.
Hope to see you then.
God bless you.