Note: This is a 6 part series. Click here to read the other parts:

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In Part 5 I ended by saying “If your gospel is not followed with signs and wonders, you are not fully preaching the gospel. If you are not fully preaching the gospel, you are not establishing people in the faith. If you are not established, you are double minded, unstable in all your ways and it is very difficult to receive from God in this state.” I was referring to James Chapter 1 of course:

James 1:6-7 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;  (NKJV)

The process of establishment is the same process of rooting out doubt. If you doubt, you are not convinced of that which you profess to believe. If you are not fully convinced, you are not fully established either. I am going to try to parablize this one:

Like most other men I love to watch the show ‘Top Gear’ where Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond get to drive the best of the best when it comes to cars. I have not driven any of the supercars they have, and so my knowledge of these cars is limited to what I can read about them. The Top Gear guys also have the stats and figures I have, but they also know how the different cars handle for instance. Now imagine that I am talking to Jeremy Clarkson and he says that an Aston Martin’s handling is better than a Ferrari’s. If he can spew out a lot of facts and figures, I would be inclined to believe him. The next day James May tells me that a Ferrari’s handling is better than an Aston Martin’s. He also spews out a lot of facts and figures. Since I have never driven either of the two cars, I have no way of really knowing which car handles better. I can compare facts and figures all day long, but until I drive both cars, I will be double-minded, unstable in all my ways concerning the handling of an Aston Martin vs. a Ferrari. Until I drive both, I can trust and doubt the handling ability of both cars. I will be tossed like a wave to and fro between believing Aston Martin is the best to believing Ferrari is the best. I hope you got that parable…

When it comes to healing and other supernatural things, there are many people who have lots of knowledge (or theology if you want) and they have very different opinions on different things. Yet in the end of the day, TRUTH CAN NOT BE RELATIVE. Something is not true because you believe it is or because you want to be true. Believing something doesn’t make it true. Truth is truth and you either believe it or you don’t. If you are double-minded about truth, you are not established regarding something. For instance, some people fervently profess that Christians need to tithe, others like me believe we don’t have to.  In the end, one group is right, the other is wrong. Or we are both wrong, but we can’t both be right when we profess completely opposite things. We can throw out scripture after scripture like the debates on facebook pages, but in the end of the day you have to get convinced and established for yourself. Don’t try to walk in somebody else’s revelation before you are established in that same revelation. You will only get frustrated and more doubtful.

Unfortunately a lot of believers hear about healing, go out and pray for a sick person and don’t see instant results. They are immediately confused, frustrated and doubtful whether divine healing is real. This is where discipleship comes in. Jesus, yes Jesus The Son of God Himself needed almost 3 years to try and get 12 guys operating in Kingdom Power and 1 didn’t even make it. Only 11 made it through to go on and change the world. Only 11 got established and it took 3 years of spending day after day with Jesus Himself. You will NOT get established in conferences, through books, mp3’s or podcasts, laying on of hands, impartations or even going to church on Sunday. You will only get established by getting discipled by somebody who is consistently doing what you want to do and even then chances are you might not make it. We are called to persevere, not to try once and give up.

If you have given up on healing or any other promise, get quiet, know that God is God and listen to that flicker of hope that refuses to die deep inside you. That promise cannot die, you know it is true and it is just waiting for you to believe it. Don’t try to prove to yourself or God you believe either, just believe and act accordingly.

With love and grace,

Cornel

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