For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7
Cannot say how many times I've heard so many shy types say they had the spiritual gift of discernment. The Spirit makes one bold. Boldness and hope. How atheism can thrive looking ahead without hope is baffling.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.
To be in harmony with God and in His existence is extreme pleasure and priase beyond our full understanding. Loving God is to love His existence and the existence He has given us.
When I pray for healing I must believe for it and if it does not come then I never give up or quit until I do receive healing.
Persistence is the bedrock of faith. One thing no one must never say is that God changed His mind. It is written God is not a man that he will change His mind. Jesus stripes healed us already and we have only to accept it. God dos not make a covenant and then walk away from it. That is my understanding and this is my witness.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 "For I am the Lord, I do not change..." Malachi 3:6
Jehovah Rapha or God our healer. This is a redemptive name found in the Old Testament. (There are seven.)
"For I am the Lord that heals you" Exodus 15:26 "He sent His word, and healed them." Psalm 107:20
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed." Peter 2:24
We do not have to convince God to heal us. He has healed us already when He sent His only Son to the Cross for our sins and endured the stripes which healed us right then. We only have to believe and accept it. There is no time involved. If one has enough belief they will be healed. Bedrock of belief is persistence.
...and he...healed all that were sick; That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Matthew 8:16-17
Jesus healed all those who believed He could heal them. It was done, Jesus said, according to their faith in His faith.
Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he has borne our grief's and sicknesses, and carried our sorrows and pains; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of god and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our inequities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Educated out of God: Everything in the New Testament was prophesied in the Old. I never fully realized this because something else was taught in the cemetery and thus never mentioned in the little churchy on the corner I was born in. Sunday School was coloring books. Bible stories were not true, only the meaning was true. Sort of like Easter Eggs, St Nick, and the chocolate bunny. Adults put on the Pulpit Rock pretend show for the kids. The boys grew up and ran off at fourteen. The adults went to the bowling alley and after beer. Most were never seen in church listening to pulpit talk. Nothing was mentioned much either way. Break between Sunday School and church service, I talked baseball and the adults smoked. I myself was on my way to the smoking session of eternal life.
1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV
"What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived - the things God has prepared for those who love Him."
Soon: Healing verses....
