James 1:8 (Amplified) says, "For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute). (He is) unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything (he thinks, feels, decides)."
When we become double-minded about the Word of God, it effects everything in our lives. We don't know if God wants us sick or well, which is it? We don't know if God wants you blessed or poor, which is it? You don't know if we're truly righteous or not, which is it? Being double-minded keeps us from deliverance. There is no faith in a very definite "maybe." The word itself denotes doubt.
You don't need to be "puffed up in pride" to believe God's Word, even though you might be called that. Someone might not believe like you do, but that doesn't mean that you should go their way in order to be right. There are many people in the world today who do not even believe in Jesus. Are we supposed to go along with the majority or are we supposed to walk by faith in the Holy Spirit?
I know that not everyone gets healed, but my question is, "Do I have to go into the camp of those who don't get healed or do I choose to trust God for my own healing?" Romans 14:22-23 (Amplified) tells us that we don't have to stop growing in our faith and understanding simply because others might not know the same things or don't walk in what we are walking in. These things don't cause you to be any more or any less of a Christian, we are all Christians, according to Romans 14:22-23 (Amplified) which says, "Your personal convictions (on such matters) exercise (them) as in God's presence, keeping them to yourself (striving only to know the truth and obey His will). Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves (who does not convict himself by what he chooses to do). But the man who has doubts (misgivings and uneasy conscience) about eating and then eats (perhaps because of you) stands condemned (before God) because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin (whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful)."
The above scriptures are speaking about ritual and clean or unclean things in diet, but they are also an overall portrayal of the double-minded man pertaining to his faith. If you really believe God has placed a sickness or hardship upon you, then it's difficult to trust or believe Him to deliver you from them. We get double-minded about what "wisdom" comes down from above. James 3:14-15 (Amplified) says, "But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the truth this (superficial) wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal) and even devilish (demonical)."
I believe that the Church is in one accord in our faith unto salvation in Christ Jesus. I also believe we are divided in our faith in many things about our salvation in Christ Jesus. This doesn't imply that anyone who doesn't believe like I do is not real in his/her faith. I know many Christians who speak in tongues and I know many who do not. Are they not all Christians who are saved by the Blood of Jesus? Of course, they are. I've never found anywhere in the Word that says "Only those who speak in tongues are saved." I have found, however, where "All who call upon the Name of the Lord are saved."
These teachings aren't saying that one person in the Body of Christ is more important than another, but they say that each of us as sons and daughters of God can learn and know things apart from someone else. And, we can still be humble and truthful in our faith. The work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Jesus and the Father in all their glory to all the world. We still have many things to learn that will open numerous doors in our own fellowship with the Lord.
We must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to be our Guide and Teacher, not to set us apart, but to draws us closer in Love.
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