Questions about divine healing, part three.
Hi, welcome to today's little lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me.
We are trying to answer some of the questions that our viewers have written in response
to the 10-part teaching I did entitled Is it God's Will to Heal Me, and excellent questions
or comments.
Thank you so much.
This is a very sensitive subject and controversial.
So we're trying to do it with sensitivity and with love and with biblical basis.
And my main point was trying to show that the overwhelming evidence of scripture is
indicative of the fact that it is God's will to heal his children, okay?
And that's just the simple summary of all of it.
And pardon the sun going in and out behind the clouds here.
That's why we're getting this variation.
But my camera knows that and it adjusts.
It's amazing.
It just takes a second to adjust to the lighting conditions in my room here.
Here's a question that someone wrote.
Actually, this was more of a comment, but I'm going to just comment on the comment.
"I've been praying for my father to be healed of kidney failure, but I have not received
an answer to my prayer.
I believe, and so does my father, that there's a lot of internal hurt that he needs to let
go.
Unforgiveness can hinder healing."
Okay.
Well, a couple points could be made about that comment.
Very good comment.
Yes, I would agree entirely.
We talked about how sin, known sin, unrepentant sin can hinder healing and obviously, unforgiveness
is a sin and we need to forgive.
That being said, if he wants to minister healing to his father and he's worried that unforgiveness
is standing in the way, needs to, if you're going to minister healing, minister the truth
of God's word about forgiveness, okay?
And I've done some teaching on that.
I think you could look for it here on YouTube or at davidservant.com and just type in unforgiveness
and see some of the things I've written about it, because there's more to it than a lot
of people let on, not in complexity, but I think in just keeping it balanced within the
understanding of the entire bible.
But harboring bitterness against somebody definitely could be a hindrance to healing,
and by the power of the holy spirit, it's possible to let go of that, okay?
And really, if we love those who offended us, we'll be praying for them and we'll be,
if it's all possible, going to them to gently confront them, to tell them that we value
our relationship with them, but there's a breach there and we would like to a chance
to work through that with them by communication.
That's how it's supposed to work according to bibles.
Jesus said, "If your brother sins, go to him."
This is in the bible.
So a lot of people try to jump to the forgiveness thing while ignoring the confrontation thing,
okay, and that's a mistake, all right?
Because 9 times out of 10 when you go to another believer and confront them gently and with
love, it's going to wind up in reconciliation happening without going to any further steps.
Now, I also want to point out, as I tried to point out in my 10-part series, that this
person says, "I've been praying for my father to be healed to kidney failure.
I have not yet received an answer to prayer."
And he says, "I believe, and so does my father."
Okay, your faith cannot push healing off on your father.
At bare minimum, your father is going to have to work it out for himself, working out the
unforgiveness, but also of course the faith that God requires.
And so the best way to minister to him in that regard would be to feed him with God's
word, all of the healing stories, all of the healing promises.
Just go from cover to cover in the bible and let him soak in and saturate in the promises
that build his faith.
And then he's going to have to not believe that he's going to be healed someday whenever
it's God's will.
Jesus said, "Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive."
And so there has to be a point where you release your faith as it were and say, "From this
moment forward, God has heard and answered my prayer and I am rejoicing in receiving
what he's promised to me."
And at bare minimum, you're going to start rejoicing and thanking and praising him, right?
Okay, and the stories that I have heard ... Now, I've never been dramatically healed because
I've never been dramatically sick.
I have gotten older and my hair has gotten gray, but there is no a promise to stop us
from growing old.
And one day we're all going to die.
There was no promise for that either, okay?
And I'm trusting God to die without sickness or disease.
"With long life, he will satisfy me and show me his salvation."
That's what he's promised.
And that's what I'm striving for.
You can't believe against wrinkles and getting older, but sickness and disease, that's something
else.
And I have been healed plenty of times of minor things, but never had a need to be healed
of kidney failure, for example.
In any case, I would be reading the testimonies of other people who are healed.
I'd just be focused on that as much as I possibly could, okay?
So then a second question, and I just have two minutes for this one, "Can you speak to
the situation of when the sick person desiring healing does have faith but the healing doesn't
happen?
It doesn't happen.
What happened then?
Does this reveal their lack of faith?"
Yes, okay, unless God is a liar, and this is not to say it in some accusatory, finger-pointing
fashion, "Oh my goodness."
No, no, no.
And this is why people shy away from teaching about this, and this is why no one ever gets
healed through their ministries or through their teaching because they shy away from
it.
You have to be bold, and a percentage of people will get it, a percentage of people will not
get it, and some of that percentage they won't get it will hate you.
Well, but we still love them because we're trying to get them healed.
We're trying to build up their faith.
We're trying to turn them on to the word of God so that they can be amongst the multitudes
of people whom Jesus has healed over the centuries, that Jesus has been doing that, okay?
But you have people [inaudible 00:07:08] that don't get it.
And I think we should just be honest enough and mature enough and humble enough to admit
that maybe it wasn't God's fault.
Maybe I can't pin this on God and say, "Well, it must not have been his will for me to be
healed."
Well, if you're saying that, then you don't believe all the promises that promise healing
for whoever will believe.
So that's your choice.
But in good conscious, I just can't go that way.
Let's say you have something very critical, cancer, that's eating away your body or something
that is terminal and so forth.
Well, if you pray and believe God, quote unquote, "believe God" or do your best to trust God
and you don't get better fast, you run to the doctor.
Run to the doctor, because when you delay these things, you could delay them too long.
And I've seen people who have done that, okay?
You read the healings that Jesus performed.
Not all of them were instantaneous.
The 10 lepers were healed as they went and the nobleman's son began to heal from that
hour or something, I think.
And Jesus said, "They'll lay hands upon the sick and they will recover."
That implies a process of time.
But when I hear people say, "I've been believing God for two months for my healing," I honestly
tell those people, "You need to stop, back up and ask yourself, 'Am I really believing
or am I actually hoping it's going to come and I'm waiting for it?'"
Because you haven't believed you receive or else God is a liar.
That's your choices.
Okay.
All right.
Out of time for today.
I think I'll talk about this on the next little lesson a little bit more.
I hope you still love me.
See you next time.