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There are a lot of things I can tolerate but when believers tell other people they are sick because they have something like bitterness or unforgiveness in their heart and that God can’t heal them until they get rid of that, I feel the spirit of drop-kick come over me. This is one of the most prolific and deep seated old covenant mindsets there are in the area of supernatural ministry.
Whenever you tell somebody that ‘God can’t heal you until you do this’, then you are preaching the law. You are putting those people under works, trying to make them earn the freedom Jesus died to give them. You are establishing conditionals for reconciliation that God never did. If you do that, you are of the wrong spirit and wrong ministry (2 Cor 3:4-9).
2 Cor 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. (NIV)
God is NOT COUNTING men’s sins against them. That means He is NOT COUNTING your sins against you! Not now, not ever. Why? Because He counted them against Christ! If you are saying a certain sin is stopping God’s power, you are saying Jesus was a failure because He apparently didn’t die for that sin, and that God is still counting that sin against you. ‘Your sin is stopping God’s love’. What a load of bull! God loved you while you were yet sinners!
Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NIV)
His power is there to free you from sin. The Gospel is the power of God onto salvation. Jesus died to set you free. If the Power is there to free you, why do need the get free before you can gain access to the power so you can be set free? That is like telling a person in jail that they need to make their own key to unlock the prison door so they can and go out and get the warden’s key to open the same door. Why do you need 2 keys? Easy, you DON’T. Whenever you are telling people their sin is stopping God, you are counting their sins against them and then you operating in the ministry of death and condemnation (2 Cor 3:4-9). You have lost your saltiness because you are judging and condemning the very people you have been called to preserve.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (NKJV)
JESUS IS NOT CONDEMNING YOU!!!!
John 8:10-11 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” (NKJV)
If you are pointing out people’s faults, you are in the same group as these Pharisees who pointed the woman’s faults out to Jesus. You are ministering condemnation and death. But what does Jesus do? He says, “I can’t help you until you repent and seek forgiveness for this willful sin of adultery you are in, so sorry, I guess you are getting stoned today.” No, he chased them away and told the woman HE DOES NOT CONDEMN HER. He is not counting her sins against her or yours against you because He is counting them against Himself. He was made sin for you! Stop counting other people’s sins against them! But what about the ‘go and sin no more’ part? Even if she went and sinned again, Jesus is still not going to condemn her. If He was going to condemn her for a future sin later, then He might as well not have saved her then and just let them stone her. It would totally defeat the purpose.
So why did He tell her that? Because the devil is waiting for you to sin so he can attack you with something. And when he does, you will be inclined to believe it is because you sinned, that God is now again displeased with you. Then you are going to go try and work for His approval again so you can get free again. Like a yo-yo on a string you have allowed the devil to be your puppet master. Sin, bring a sacrifice. Sin, bring a sacrifice. Sin, seek forgiveness. Sin, seek forgiveness. Like a hamster in wheel you will get nowhere doing that. You will be in and out of guilt and condemnation and it will always be based on your ability to seek forgiveness. It has NEVER been about our ability to seek forgiveness. It has ALWAYS been about Jesus’ ability to provide forgiveness. All you need to do is believe it and accept it! Then exercise dominion and authority by commanding the devil to get out of your life because ALL ALL ALL ALL his works are illegal! If he is in your life, it’s because you have failed to kick him out with the power Jesus died to provide. So get up, get over yourself and kick the devil out of your life!
YOU ARE FREE! NOW LIVE FREE!
Cornel
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Just as a side-note before somebody tries to tell me off: I am not saying to ignore people’s sin. When a person is in sin, it is our job to get the gospel to them so they can get free from that sin, not to condemned them in their sin. So when you find somebody who is in sin, whether he or she is a believer or not, go with the gospel to reconcile that person. The gospel will deal with the sin and with the guilt and condemnation that results. Go in grace. It is a good thing to get people out of sin, because we know the destruction it causes. But you can do a good thing in a very wrong way. The law will not help to get people out of sin. Only Jesus can do that. Showing people areas where they are in sin is one thing, but showing them the way out and setting them free is another all together.
Cornel
Good word, Cornel. But I wonder if you’ve missed one of the root causes for this lie? You have accurately described this fine heresy! But I suspect that its source is often as bad: I have observed that many times when someone prays for the sick and they are not healed, then they have to explain why.
It’s certainly not God’s fault. And they are unwilling to consider that it might be their own fault, so that leaves one person to blame: “it’s your fault you’re sick! You must have hidden sin!”
True David, but I wasn’t really going there with this. It is human nature to blame-shift. Adam did it, Eve did too. “It was the woman YOU gave me.” He blamed Eve and God. “It was the serpent.” Eve blamed the devil. When we fail, we failed. Some how people have gotten this notion that if they prayed once and the answer doesn’t immediately happen that is must not have been God’s will. It can’t possibly be that they made a mistake…
That’s good preaching Cornel!
It seems to me that no one has the answer to these questions. i suffer from depression and other ailments. Years ago my well meaning pastor told me there was no reason a Christian should ever feel depression. Result was more guilt , more lack of faith, and a more critical attitude toward anyhting to do with God. i have to say that to this day I still love this preacher although I believe he was wrong. Today this man suffers from parkinsons and depression caused by it. I am not saying anyhting by this just that what he told me was bogus.How does one trust in God when everthing told about him just does not seem to pan out.The Church almost always shoots their wounded, no regeneration there. Perhaps we are all insane. I have noticed in our denomination that if the prayer of the elders does not produce a result than it must be the person who is being prayed for fault somehow. And yet this is not scriptural. When scripture says, Are there any sick among you? Call the elders to lays hand on you, and they would be made well and their sins would be forgiven. how simple is that? Notice that their sins would also be forgiven. So a prerequisite to healing cannot be sinlessness. All have sin in them. I think it it is time for the church to put up or shut up. If you really cannot help people, to lift their burdens, to heal, to set the captive free. Then stop all the play acting. If we have all missed something than what is the answer. I am very embittered with the whole thing, but I do not want to be. I want God to pick me up in his arms. I want the pain to go away. I want to know that my children will be safe. I want to trust again. When I was a small boy mu brother was critically injured and then died from a motorcycle accident. I trusted God for his complete healing. As a baby he had been healed from MD. I went to bed that night with assurance and peace that he would be fine. At :1;;00 int he morning I took the call telling us he had taken a turn for the worse. I was twelve years old at the time.I walked out on one of the roofs of the hospital ,fell on my face and pleaded with God to save my only sibling. It was to no avail. He died the next morning. I was alone. I was told I i didn.t have enough faith. I was told we must have been too wicked. I was told God took my brother for various reasons. I beagan to do something I never thought I would. I began to have a seething hatred towards God. but at the same time I knew it was wrong. Nobidy in the church tried to explain it right. No one told me that Satan was the one who killed my brother But 38 years later no one can tell me why God did not stop it. It is pointless to go on. There are no answers.
Hi Mark, I’m sure Cornel’s going to reply with something brilliant, sensitive and powerful, but let me put my two cents in here as this is something that resonates with me. I understand your frustration at a church that often seems powerless and clueless. I have some suggestions elsewhere for how we might improve things (http://escapetoreality.org/2010/02/27/building-ramps-for-the-mentally-ill/).
It sounds like you are starting to doubt God because you haven’t been healed and because your brother died. That was a tragic consequence of living in a fallen world. In the Garden God let us choose, we chose independence and put ourselves on the throne, and now the innocent die daily.
But God cares. Boy, He surely cares! How do I know? Because he gave Himself as a Savior to make right what man broke. How does a God who is in control reveal His hand without taking back the gift He gave us? Jesus is your Answer.
And even though we are still working out the cross-wrought victory, never, ever doubt that God can use tragic circumstances for His eternally good purposes. Death does not have the last word. No, the last word belongs to our good Father who loves us. The game does not end with a coffin in the ground. There may be no complete answers now, but one day the mist will lift and we will know fully.
Paul, first I would like to thank you personally for responding. I often do not kow how to articulate my frustrations with God himself. I know that he is not a gumball machine God. i also know that he can and does heal. I also know that I have failed him in many ways. Years ago I had an experience that I attributed to God but now i am not quite sure. My Grandmother who was sort of the spiritual patriarch of our family always upheld us in prayer. This woman was before Gods face every morning for hours pleading for our salvation and protection. After she passed away it seemed that most of our family began to wander, including me. One night a few years later i decided to try some wine, I was not a habitual drinker, but I had strayed into areas of thinking that I know were not pleasing to God. Perhaps I was trying to wash away the guilt. I drank a bottle of wine like it was water. needless to say I became inebriated. The next morning i took one look at my grandmothers picture and was immediately convicted of everything that was wrong with my life. I do not ascribe this to my Grandmother but to the memory of her teachings. I fell on ny face and began to cry out to God for forgiveness and mercy. I literally cried all day and into the night pleading for his hand on my life. I have only told a few of my nearest freinds of what happened next because I did not want to have people think I was a lunitic,and because I was not so sure of what happened myself. I pulled my sellf of the floor, i sat down on a nearby chair, i loked up,amd wham. I was bathed in a brilliant light. I am crying right now writing this. I did not go anywhere,i did not talk to anyone or see any entities or anything. when the light went away I remember hearing myself saying something I did not understand. I went outside and looked at everthing around me. Paul, it was a different world. I think i was seeing creation without all the dirt. Things were vibrating with life and purity. I experienced joy unspeakable and full of glory. To this day I cannot desrcibe to anyone how I felt, it truly was unspeakable. I immediately began witnessing in the name of Jesus. A few days later I fell, i felt this new feeling leave me . I pleaded with God once again . I became very afraid that I had commited the unpardonable sin. To this day i do not know how I could have been so stupid. Was it over confidence? Or not enough grounding in the ways of the enemy. I just know that I screwed up big time. When I think about it , it seems like it could not have been me.I have wasted so many years. how can I tell if God still wants me. How can I get my joy back. I wan t to be able to tell people again. I want to feel safe again. It seems like the only time i was happy in my entire life was for a couple of weeks. I sometimes wonder why God didn’t fully protect my thinking at the time. I am not blaming him, I just wish he had. I try my best to guide my youngest son. When he does wrong I correct him. I tell him why I correted him. Then i hug him and hold and tell him I love him. I know that God in his rightousness could not approve of what I did, I did not approve. I was caught up in the heat of eartrhly passions. I could not forgive myself. I still do not. I do not know how to. I judt wish for a moment that God would hold me again and tell me that he loves me again. That all is forgiven and I can come back now.That I and my family can have victory. i do not want psychobabble. I do not want people telling me it’s O.K.. I really need God to tell me. I do not want to leave this earthly existence without being more than just filler.
Hi Mark. Thanks for your honesty. I’m not sure if I missed something because you refer a couple of times to something “you did” where you screwed up, but I can’t see what it is. Doesn’t matter anyway – it’s in the past. I want to respond with some quick statements of Biblical fact that I hope reassure and encourage you:
1. God did not forgive you when you fell on your face and cried about it. God forgave you 2000 years ago at the cross (Col 2:13). You are not the first Christian to make a dumb mistake. In fact I never met a Christian who didn’t make dumb mistakes. You will likely make more dumb mistakes in the future. When that happens you might feel like you have fallen out of fellowship with God but that’s just a feeling. The truth is your behavior – good or bad – changes your secure position not one bit. Understand that God accepts you because of what Jesus did and Jesus never makes dumb mistakes. “As he is, so are we in this world.” You want to know that “all is forgiven”? God has already told you in the Bible. Read it again. Declare it like you believe it. If you still don’t get it, read this: http://tiny.cc/lt73p
2. Sounds like you had an awesome spiritual experience, an encounter with God’s glory. Treasure that. Long for more of him. But don’t judge your position in Christ on the basis of your current experience. Base it on his irrefutable promises. I don’t know anyone who is currently walking 24 hours a day in the manifest presence of God. Crave his presence but don’t condemn yourself if it’s not happening. Worship him in Spirit and in truth, and the truth is he’s never left you.
3. You did not commit the unpardonable sin. By definition, no Christian can. (Check this out: http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/unforgivable-sin/) Some other answers to your questions can be found here: http://escapetoreality.org/faqs/
4. You do not need to be grounded in the ways of the enemy. Your enemy is ancient and treacherous and brain cell for brain cell you can’t match him. Doesn’t matter. You have the Holy Spirit and he’s the most powerful spirit in the universe. Get grounded in the ways of the Holy Spirit. Ask him to fill you anew. Just ask, then receive.
5. You wonder why the Father doesn’t convict you of sin. He never said he would. Jesus said the Holy Spirit would convict you of your righteousness in Christ (Jn 16:10). This is a wonderful thing. When we screw up and our consciences hammer us, the Holy Spirit comes along side reminding us that we are still accepted in the Beloved. It’s not about you. Never was. It’s all about Jesus. Get your eyes off your problems and back onto the Author and Finisher.
6. Finally, the gospel is 100% good news. There’s no bad news in the good news. The good news is that God loves you. You say you don’t know this. Look to the cross. There is the best proof I can offer. Start thanking Jesus for the cross and see if that doesn’t set you free. It’s not psychobabble – it’s the awesome, unmerited favor of our Father who loves us even more than we love our own sons.
My prayer is that you will read these familiar scriptures with fresh eyes, that you will have an encounter with Truth, and he will set you free from the doubt, depression and the guilt that racks you. Please feel free to write to me directly if you have more questions. I’m happy to help any way I can. You can get my address from Cornel. God bless! Ps 20:5
Hi, I apologize if this topic has been adressed here, but I could not find it after going through the archives, I would like you to please give an explanation on why so many people are not getting healed then. You seem to give plenty of reasons and perfectly valid explanations on how it is God’s will to heal everyone, and how we as the body should simply keep on praying and exercising our authority in Christ, and if it doesnt work, to keep praying again and again…but you do not adress why people still do not get healed then (unless i missed it, apologies). The fact remains:
There are millions of people who are not getting healed when prayed for.
Indeed millions of people are also getting healed. Which is awesome, but personally I believe that there is something we simply don’t understand yet regarding healing, every preacher has his/her own way/reasons/explanations… and going around preaching a personal “truth” as a universal truth (God heals all people) that contradicts reality (people don’t get healed after praying for them) is doing nothing good to those who are of young faith, or have no faith at all (yet).
Lastly, if it is truly God’s will to heal all people, then why didn’t Jesus heal everyone? He didn’t heal every sick person that came across his path, only one lame man at the pool of cant-remember-the-name got healed. what about the rest of the sick people that were there? Did Jesus not do his fathers will? Was He too busy? He had a valid reason for each and every action he performed… i think we simply don’t get it yet. and until we do, id rather Love all people than heal them, cause after all, Paul said that to love is greater than all of the visible-outpourings of the holy spirit (1 cor 12/13)
Perhaps I have a long way to go in my grace walk with Christ, and I perhaps have to get rid of some unbelief, but Id rather heal someone with a friendship than having an unhealed-prayer for a sick person and then not having an answer as to why my God did not heal them.
Greetings
Francois
Hi Francois
Your questions are very valid and let me assure you that every person I know that ministers in healing is constantly searching for answer to explain all these things. I am going to tell you what I have found thus far, but please know that I am also still on this journey.
Biblical reasons for not being healed:
1. Traditions of man nullify the Word of God. (Mark 7:13)
2. Unbelief. (Matt 17:20)
3. Not discerning the Lord’s Body. (1 Cor 11:29-30)
My fourth reason, one which I don’t have a scriptural basis for but only a logical one is that most believers try to minister healing through hope instead of through faith. Hope says, “I hope something happens when I pray.” Hope will give hit-&miss results. Faith and hope are not the same thing. Faith pleases God. Many people are also more focussed on their own faith and have faith in their own faith instead of in God.
Yes many people are sick around the world. If believers would get out of the four walls of their religious organisation and go serve them in power that equation will change. As for ‘reality’ I understand what you mean. But without being to deep, not everything that is real is truth. My reality is determined not by my circumstance but by the Word of God. Just like the law of flight supersedes the law of gravity when planes fly. Gravity is real, but there is a higher law. Your circumstance/sickness might be real, but there is a higher law. Jesus provided everything for people to get saved, but not all people get saved. Is because God didn’t provide for them or because they didn’t place their faith in Jesus? The higher reality/truth is that Jesus provided for them. Their reality is they are lost and sick. Two realities. Which one you believe to be true is the one that will be real to you. This article will explain this better:
http://www.charismaministries.org/little-faith/
As for Jesus and the common assumption that He didn’t heal everyone at the pool of Bethesda: Scripturally there is no indication that Jesus only healed the one man there. Only this one man’s testimony made it into the Bible, and John himself said that if he had to write down everything Jesus did there would not be enough books in the world to do that. When you look at the scriptures, we read of this one miracle taking place. But at the end of the story we find this verse:
Joh 5:16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
The words ‘these things” tell us that Jesus did more than one miracle at this place. In my own opinion, I see this to mean that Jesus healed all, only one’s story was told.
The real question is not “Why did God not?” The real question is where is my faith? When I minister and somebody doesn’t get better, I apologize for failing them. Then I go and stir myself up and go back to minister again. Sometimes it took going back 10 times to see the healing. 9 times I was embarrassed for failing. The 10th time made it all worth it. We only fail when we give up. Jesus doesn’t give up on people. People give up on people.
If there is anything I left out or if you want to ask me more questions, please do so. You can email me too at cornel@charsimaministries.org
I would recommend you also listen to the Divine Healing Training MP3. Download them here:
http://www.charismaministries.org/jglm/
God bless
Cornel
Thanks Cornel,
It does make sense what you said. It’s quite a revelation on the 2 realities, I’ll go wrap my mind around this one for a while… all about position and not condition…thanks.
I’ll go through those MP3′s.
Blessing ahead for you and what you are doing.
Francois
Jesus has come in the flesh, and he is the revelation of Gods will to us. We don’t have to wonder what Gods will is, in fact Jesus said that its a slave that doesn’t know what his master is doing but he has called us friends(John 15:15)
The problem is that we must understand that though God is soveriegn, he has delegated authority on earth to man, and that man is in charge on the earth.(ps 115:16) This is very clear through the scriptures, and it is the reason that Jesus had to come as a man. What God wants to do on earth he does through revealing his will to man and putting his spirit in men and cleansing men from sin, making them holy. The church is the body of Christ. It is Christ in us the hope of glory, not God somewhere out there who will do something if he wants.
The church is growing up in all things into him who is the head, that is Christ. The church is being built up until we attain “the full measure of the stature of Christ. We are going from glory to glory as we are transformed by seeing His glory, we are going from strength to strength as we praise him. There is a greater strength and a greater glory, and when the sons of God are revealed the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption.
If I touch someone on Jesus name and they aren’t healed, i don’t doubt who God is! The bible says as a general description of Christs ministry that he went through all the towns and villages healing every sickness and disease. I see Gods will through Christ. I know that I am growing up in all things into Christ, and that there is a greater glory and a greater strength as I am transformed by seeing the Lords glory, so that this thing will happen for me. Its not a condemning thing, its an exciting thing. I’m always seeing possibilities and greater and greater things are happening.
When I recieve righteousness through faith in Christ there is peace, there is perfect love that casts out fear, joy unspeakable and full of glory. As I believe the gospel and these realities dominate in my heart to a greater degree, there is a greater manifestation of Christ through me.
If we don’t understand that God has given authority on earth to men, we think as if there was no reason Jesus that had to come in the flesh, and as if God has not been revealed to us or put his spirit in us. The logical conclusion to this is that God is evil, because evil things happen and God must’ve permitted it if he is soveriegn in the way that we have thought of his soveriegnty. So we become angry at God and in our hearts feel like he must be stingy because not much is happening.We cannot see God as he is because we see him through lifes happenings instead of through Jesus.
And if God is soveriegn in that way(not understanding that he has delegated authority on earth to men) then there is no reason for us to pray, faith is not necesarry because God is soveriegn and he’ll do whatever he wants, and we have a belief system that gives us no reason to stand firm as scripture commands or to persevere and persist and fight the good fight. We expect God to do what he has entrusted us with and then little happens so we assume God must not want to do much. So we are tossed to and fro by the waves of the sea.
There are so many things that I was moved by in the past, not because of Gods will but because I wasn’t strong enough. I have begun to see many of them move. I went from seeing no one healed to seeing at times everyone healed, and it wasn’t because God started wanting to do more stuff, but because I was strengthened in the Lord and all that is in Gods presence began to dominate in my heart more and more. When I don’t see someone healed my response must be to look to Jesus and be strengthened in him, to strengthen myself in the Lord as David did. “with my God I can route a troup, with my God I can leap over a wall” It is not a condemning thing for me, I know I wasn’t ready for it yet but I get all the more agressive untill I see it move and Gods will is done through me in that situation.
Right on, Jonathan.
Preach it, brutha.