How do I know if it's God's will to heal me?
Hi, welcome to today's a lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me.
This is another special DR Congo addition as I'm here for just a couple more days with
my heaven's family colleague, Dick Samuels, as we endeavor to take some baby steps to
launching Heaven's Family's Farming God's Way program here, which has helped lift thousands
of poor subsistence farmers out of their poverty in East Africa already, and we're hoping that
is the same thing that happens here.
But anyways, it's a noisy, typical morning here in Central Africa.
Churches start early every morning.
You hear these prayer meetings being broadcast over loud speakers and people singing and
praising and so forth.
It usually ends right about now, around 7:00 as people have to go to work.
But the Christians get up early in these places and seek the Lord and it's always a joy to
be here and be inspired by their devotion to the Lord.
All right, so we're going to talk about healing so far as the Bible is concerned.
I have just completed five little lessons asking the question is healing in the atonement.
If you didn't hear those ones, you might want to look those ones up and watch those ones
before we go into, we start this particular series because I want to talk a little bit
more about how we can know if it is God's will to heal us.
This is an important topic.
You may have some hesitation and some resistance.
I just ask that you shift into open mindedness and soft heartedness because I'm doing this
because I love you.
I'm not trying to make a point or prove that I'm right and somebody else's wrong.
My motivation is that God has revealed himself in the Bible cover to cover as the healer.
Anyone who's read the Bible knows that.
My goodness, you might have not paid attention to it, but oh my goodness, God has revealed
himself in the Bible as the healer.
We need to get to know him as the healer and you need to find out if you're ill or sick
or diseased, is it God's will for me to be healed?
Now some people of course will say, a lot of people in fact, will say, "Well, if it's
God's will for you to be healed, you'll be healed because God's will always comes to
pass."
I think I challenged that on our last little lesson, that the truth matter is God's will
rarely comes to pass.
This is why we pray every morning perhaps.
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, implies that God's will is really
not being done on this earth as it is in heaven.
Think about this.
Here's one way to look at it.
Every single person who's currently in hell, it was God's will for those people, all those
people to go to heaven.
And that's irrefutable.
I mean, God desires for all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
God's not willing that any should perish.
Jesus is the propitiation, not just for our sins, but for the sins of the entire world.
I could go on and on.
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
Again, I know that if you're a Calvinist, you're not going to agree with me there.
I don't have time to go into all that, but the fact of the matter is is that it was God's
will for all the people in hell to be in heaven.
It was God's will for all the children of Israel who wandered in the wilderness for
40 years, it was God's will for them to not wander in the wilderness for 40 years, but
to enter into the promised land.
Now, even the Calvinist have to agree with me on that one.
That's not up for debate at all.
It's so plain and clear from scripture.
God's will was not done.
It was not God's will for Israel to have a king, but they petitioned God for a king.
Eventually he gave in.
Said, "All right, you want a king like all the rest of the nations?
You're going to have a king and you're going to regret it.
But you don't want me as your king?
Okay, you can have your king."
He gave them a king.
It wasn't God's will.
It wasn't God's perfect will.
It was his permissive will.
Everything that happens, of course, is God's permissive will, but not everything that happens
is God's perfect will.
And healing, to make the assumption, well, if it's God's will for me to be healed, I'll
be healed.
So nothing I need to be thinking about.
What if he did that about salvation?
What if he did that about forgiveness of sins?
Well, if it's God's will for me to be born again and go to heaven, I'll be born again
and go to heaven.
Nothing I need to do about it, and think about it.
What?
You know that's crazy.
You have to do something about it.
It's God's will for you to go to heaven, but you have to do something about it to experience
God's will to go to heaven.
You got to believe in Jesus.
Right?
Right.
People can't be saved without believing in Jesus.
They're not going to go to heaven, even if it's God's will.
I mentioned you in those little lessons there in the last couple of months where think of
all the people that Jesus said to them after he healed them, "Your faith has healed you."
Think about all those cases.
If you just read that through the gospels one time, they popped up all over the place.
Right?
Right.
Jesus credited their faith for healing them.
Nobody can argue, unless you want to argue against Jesus.
Why were they healed?
Because they had faith in Jesus as the healer.
Well, what if they wouldn't have had faith?
Unless Jesus is a liar, they wouldn't have been healed.
Right?
Right.
But it was God's will for them to be healed.
Right?
Right.
Because the healed them.
These are irrefutable facts.
I'm going to to just do a little survey of the scripture to find out, is it God's will
for you to be healed?
Is there any evidence in the Bible for that?
There's so much evidence I'm going to have to limit myself.
I'm going to limit myself.
I'm going to say it right now, and hope I can keep this attention.
I'll try to follow the Holy Spirit, limit myself to 10 little lessons.
If you need healing, wow, this is going to be a real faith booster for you, a huge blessing
for you.
If you don't need healing, maybe you can learn about God the healer, get to know him as the
healer so you can maybe help somebody else.
How about that?
What a shame it is when people say, "Well, it's not relevant to me so I'm not interested
in it."
Well, you're not the center of the universe.
Maybe God will want to use you to be a blessing to somebody else.
So even if you're not sick, you listen to this and you help somebody who is sick.
You can show them the same scriptures that I'm going to show you, or maybe you might
get sick some day.
So this could be kind of building your faith up as a preemptive faith builder.
The evidence that God wants you healed and healthy is absolutely overwhelming in the
Bible, overwhelming.
You'll see that as we begin to go through some of these scriptures.
But let me say, we only have a few seconds left on this little lesson, do you ever think
about this?
God who created your body, your body always fights and resists sickness and always makes
an attempt to get healed if it's invaded by sickness.
Do you ever think about that, that that's how God made us to resist sickness and to
be healed?
If you cut yourself and it bleeds, well, God's designed this miracle that goes to work and
over after a couple of days, man, you can't even see that you were cut.
If you get a cold and something, you get the flu, you get a stomach virus, all these things
God's built into our bodies to expel the bad guys and to get you back in health again.
Well, that right there is just overwhelming evidence that God's a healing God.
You say, "Well, yeah, but sometimes sickness wins the battle."
Well, yeah, okay, I know that.
But I'm just giving you one very evident bit of information that shows you that God's in
the healing business and he's probably already healed you multiple times before you're watching
this right now.
All right, so I'm out of time.
I'm over my time.
So guess the next lesson we'll finally get into the scripture on this.
Thanks for joining me.