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Lesson Eighteen: by turtle
If you have not read lesson seventeen, please do so before reading eighteen. There is a major reason.
When discussing God's divine will and healing one must look at God's will also with emphasizes on God
will as a provider. Everyone seems to have the need to understand God's will for their life, but when life
hands you sickness or disability it makes it hard to understand why God does not heal instantly all the
time. Faith healers on TV are shown as being all powerful. Lights are flashed around as a show. I do not
doubt someone can get healed at these types of services, but a lot of times it is just an act. Whether the
minister of these shows realize it is a show, I have no clue.
Watching a crippled boy walk down the isle of the church with hope that today is his day, breaks the
hearts of many born again believers. With faith we know it is possible for healing to take place, for God
created everything, but those that understand God will at the present maybe for a person to go through
this suffering is another thing. I suffered eight long years before I got my miracle from God, but actually
my pain started over 14 years prior. Imagine my happiness of being pain free and wanting others to have
what I had, and yet not understanding why all did not receive healing that were prayed for.
Oh how easy our minds forget it was fourteen years before i got my miracle. God moved in my life and I
was healed. We know people that suffer longer then fourteen years and we wonder why? And not one
minister seems to have the answer most need. Some will claim a lack of faith, while others say it is
because of sin. I never heard a minister talk about testing of our faith, or God will being not right now. I
was told by church people I had no faith. And in my life I probably believed more in God then people
realize. One because of the miracle of life when I should of been dead. What I am talking about I was hit
by a train. T-boned in the driver side door. I was in the hospital a week. With miraculously with no
physical trauma, except for a few cracked ribs and bruises. I remember crying out to God. I said Lord
you can stop this train. Family often feels God literally must of wrapped his arms around me. I have no
doubt this is true, for the sweet peace of God's presents in the mist of the wreck.
I never question why me why did I get hit. I never quite got to a place of asking God to take my pain
away at that time. I think in my heart I always thought I get better and I did not in fact things seemed to
get worse for me physically.
Looking back I think I understood more then I did a few years ago about God's will. How God wants to
refresh his will in our life. He desires to know us individually. How he wants to take us through our hope
that one day healing will take place. Whether miraculously on instantly is the hope that one day healing
will take place. Whether miraculously on earth or when we see earth or when we see Jesus in heaven. In
order to get through the rough times, we must come to a stance like Paul did in his life. Know one knows
what Paul's problem was. There seems to be a lot of theories. What Paul found was God's grace despite
the problem. How wonderful to understand God's grace in life situations.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 KJV
(7) And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given
to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
(8) For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
(9) And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
(10) Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for
Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Our ability to endure and survive through are hurts has to be founded in the grace of God. Without
struggles and difficulties we often come to a place of I can do it on my own. When life gives lemons we
often blame God, instead of looking to his comfort and love for us. This maybe why some feel that sin is
to blame for some that do not receive their miracle. Pride and blame being sin. But in truth it might be
that but it might not be God's timing.
When miracles happen it is always for God's glory.
John 9:1-3 KJV
(1) And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
(2) And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born
blind?
(3) Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be
made manifest in him.
Have you ever looked at the stories in the gospels of healing. No matter the problem or situation God
was glorified. We see the same thing happen in the old testament as well. Naaman had leprosy. He was
healed after dunking in the Jordan seven times, but with his healing came faith in God.
We often fail to realize that faith is a big part of healing, but it is not a lack of faith necessarily, or even
an abundance of faith. It only takes a mustard seed of faith to move a mountain, but some fail to exercise
their faith. What I mean do what the Lord says to do. Naaman if he had failed to do what the prophet
told him to do, his healing would not been received. We often want a miracle our way not God's way.
2 Kings 5:11-13 KJV
(11) But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me,
and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover
the leper.
(12) Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash
in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
(13) And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee
do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee,
Wash, and be clean?
God desires us to follow his will and leading in our life not our own.
Learning to rest in God's grace, waiting on God to move and doing what God says is all apart of walking
in God's will. We must follow Jesus according to his plan for our life.
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