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These two accounts for some reason have left people to believe it is not possible to get every person healed every time because Paul the great apostle left somebody sick and he told his successor Timothy to drink wine for frequent stomach problems. Let’s look firstly at Timothy’s stomach.
1 Tim 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities. (NKJV)
I find most often that people with a western culture can’t seem to get this. If you come from Africa or Asia and other impoverished areas, it is easy to understand. For the 3 years my wife and I lived in Asia, we never drank tap water. Why? Because it makes you sick. So instead of having to sit with frequent stomach problems, we bought bottled water. Any doctor will always tell you “Prevention is better than cure.” Why do you think they are pushing healthy eating and living so much? It decreases the risk of contracting illness, it is preventative. In the same way, Paul told Timothy to not just drink the water wherever he went but to instead drink wine. Red wine actually has anti-bacterial properties. Paul wasn’t telling Timothy to take medicine or not to believe for divine healing, he was merely saying prevention is better than cure. “Timothy, every time you go on a mission’s trip you drink the water and your stomach gets upset. Just stop drinking only the water, and have some wine. Then you won’t be sick so often.” It’s not rocket science people. It’s just good common sense.
2 Tim 4:20 Erastus stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick. (NKJV)
Paul left somebody sick. Many people believe because of this that he couldn’t get all healed so therefore we can’t expect to get all healed. Funny. Jesus healed them all and said we are to the same and greater. Did Jesus ever leave anybody sick? Yes, actually He did.
Luke 17:11-15 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” 14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed. 15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. (NIV)
The scriptures says “As they went, they were cleansed.” That means the healing didn’t manifest instantaneously but some time had to have past. So Jesus left them sick. As they went, they got healed. One came back. This pattern stills repeats itself today. You pray for so many people but less than 1 in 10 actually get back to you about what happened. We have had it happen so often when we by chance come across a person we prayed for weeks and even months before where we didn’t see an instant healing and they tell us, “Oh yeah, I meant to call and say I woke up the next morning without any pain.” “I haven’t had any symptoms since then.” If we can not get in touch with somebody with today’s modern telecommunications to find out if they got better, how much more difficult was it for Paul back then? Why do people have a natural tendency to believe the worst scenario? “Not even Jesus could heal all at Nazareth.” I will explain that one next time…
You are anointed, act like it!
Cornel
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July 3rd, 2010 at 6:56 PM
I guess what I’m having difficulty understanding [keep in mind I do very much believe that everyone is anointed and can heal because of the authority that Jesus gave us] is why it appears that the healing I encounter seem delayed where as everyone Jesus touched was healed right at the moment even if He wasn’t in the vicinity. I know this definitely doesn’t stop me from praying for every sick person we see, but I’m just wondering what is the difference between myself walking in authority in healing and Jesus’s authority if my authority is the same as His.
I want to walk in the authority in which at the very word that everyone would receive healing. Or even a shadow like when Peter healed. Is there something I’m missing? If God already gave me everything, is it more of an issue of my own understanding of God’s power and character that prevents people from receiving the same measure of healing that Jesus encountered?
PS: i love this blog
July 3rd, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Destroy those demonic doctrines that hold people captive! Thanks for that encouraging word brother!
July 3rd, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Hi Daniel
As Luke 17 above shows, not everyone Jesus healed got their healing instantaneous. They were healed as they went. Jesus even prayed for one blind man twice before the healing happened.
The difference between you and Christ is what you believe the difference to be. Jesus didn’t need to renew His mind. Our lives are transformed by renewing our minds to think like Jesus with the mind of Christ we have in our spirits. Now mind-renewal is more than just getting revelation. That is one part of the mind, the intellect. Your mind also has a will, emotions, imagination, memory etc. If all you rely on knowing revelation, you only renewed about 20% of your mind. You have to retrain your will, emotions, everything to renew the whole mind.
Don’t allow what you don’t yet understand to rob you of what you do understand.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:09 AM
Daniel:
1. As Cornel pointed out, not every healing of Jesus was immediate. Not only were some healed as they went away, but others were healed “within the hour” (Mt 8:13; Mt 15:28).
2. The only way to experience the same results you read about in the life of Jesus and in the Book of Acts is to start living it. If you know you’re a gifted athlete but have never dedicated time to REALLY BUCKLE DOWN and train, you’ll never make it to the Pros. Gifting does not do take you to your destiny, it only reveals your potential. You gotta take what you already know and begin to USE IT. If Jesus had to suffer obedience, and wait till he was 30 to begin to minister (Jewish culture dictated that at 12 one became a ‘man’), then we need to appreciate the fact that we grow by experience, perseverance, and training/repetition.
3. As for Peter, he didn’t just receive the Holy Ghost and immediately start ‘shadow healing’. It was a progression: In Luke 9 he went out for his first street ministry; Luke 10 he got to go again with more people. Some of those same disciples (not Peter, though) failed to later heal a demon possessed boy (Lk 9). Peter then abandons Jesus, and later doubts that he has been raised from death. Then the Spirit comes, and he begins to get it. Revival breaks out, and as the momentum picks up, so does his confidence. He begins to preach, and live out the things that Jesus had taught him. That’s how Peter got to ‘shadow healings’.
Anyways, as Cornel said, renew your mind: read read read the Bible. Listen to teachings that talk about these things. Watch videos that demonstrate these things. Filter what come in to your mind, allowing only things that build and edify come in. Don’t waist time on trash.
Your faith is your confidence in the authority you have through Jesus and Holy Spirit.
My 2 cents
July 4th, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Thanks for the responses you too!
July 9th, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Another interesting part of scripture about the fact that it can take time for something to manifest is in Mark 11 when Jesus curses the fig tree. It is not actually until the morning that the disciples see the results and notice that the tree has withered from the roots. Did the tree die when Jesus spoke to it … my belief is yes … but the evidence of that was not seen until later. Similar to when you cut a rose. When you cut it, it is officially “dead” because it loses it’s life source. The manifestation would not be seen until later, however, for our eyes to see.
This fact has kept me in greater faith many, many times when speaking healing over someone. I need to believe that it happened and the actual manifestation can/will happen later. That being said, however, I’ve also gotten more disciplined to continue to pray especially if someone reports partial healing. I love how Todd White asks the person for a percentage and then keeps going. If Jesus can do that much, He can do it ALL!! I’ve gotten over the belief that the first prayer you pray must be a prayer of “doubt” if you continue on. It’s all in how you look at it and where your heart is. Sometimes pain needs to be spoken to multiple times before it releases.
Thanks, Cornel, for this GREAT blog!!! And THANK YOU for your book … LOVE IT!!!
~Laura
July 15th, 2010 at 1:48 PM
OH YEAAAAAH!
July 31st, 2010 at 2:10 AM
This is strong stuff Cornel!
One by one the excuses for not being healed and walking around powerless, are coming down. God bless you for faithfully stewarding the revelation He’s given you. Many people are being set free and minds are being renewed at an amazing rate!
You remain close to my heart my brother.
In Grace
Andre
http://www.NewCovenantGrace.com
August 4th, 2010 at 2:11 AM
Hi Cornel, On July 3 you wrote to Daniel, “Jesus even prayed for one blind man twice before the healing happened.” Respectfully I must say, not so. Actually, Jesus prayed first for the blind man’s spiritual eyes to be opened and the blind man saw men walking about like trees. Scripture often refers to men as trees. This was the awakening of the blind man’s spiritual eyes. The second prayer was for his physical eyes to be opened. The creator of the Universe who did only what He saw the Father doing and spoke what He heard the Father saying did not “miss it” on the first prayer, nor was His first prayer only partially effectual. They were two prayers for two separate healings…one spiritual and one physical. That being said, I have prayed multiple times for a person as they progressively became well. I do not, however, find any example or pattern in Jesus ministry to support this. But it is a common pattern in my ministry that I have learned by experience. If my first prayer does not achieve the result I keep praying. My 15 year old daughter recently prayed 7 times for a blind woman before she received her healing. steve
August 4th, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Hi Steve
I understand what took place, what I drew the attention to was not the focus of the prayer but the amount of times He prayed. Curry Blake says that healing most often manifests on the outside when we get people past 70% healed on the inside. What I was saying is that Jesus didn’t give up. He did what needed to be done until He saw the result that was requested. I have often times ministered to people where they experience freedom in other areas before the healing happened in their body. The point is that we deal with whatever is brought to light but we don’t quit until we see the healing manifested too. Some people minister and when the person receives freedom in an area not requested for directly, they think God doesn’t want the person well physically and this other freedom was more important to God than their healing. That is nonsense.
Thanks for your comments
In Grace
Cornel