John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (undeserved, unearned favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
Many in today's Church, have never accepted many of the things that our Redeemer paid for with His Blood. It's not because these things aren't available or that they're "for certain ones only," but that we were never taught from God's Word, that THEY ARE OURS. The Spiritual Blessings and Gifts are ours through Jesus. They are many and for all who will believe.
Our believing is limited to what we've been taught and have learned, over our Christian lives. We are believers, but there are so many Promises of God, that we're not partaking of. 2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) tells us, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency, to the Glory of God."
There are more than 370 Promises made to us, through our union with Jesus and these each have their "Yes and So be it, to God's Glory." Healing isn't just something we agree or disagree with, but it's a Promise that is Yes and So be it, in Jesus. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the speaking in tongues, isn't just something we preach, while others don't. It is a Promise that is fulfilled to those in Jesus Christ.
They Church has made the reality of God's Promise "to all that will believe", just a doctrine or religion. We were all saved by putting faith in the death and Resurrection of Jesus, thus we are all believers. If you're born-again, then you are a good Christian, because God never birthed a bad Christian.
Paul writes about the growing of our faith, in Romans 1:17 (Amplified),saying, "For in the Gospel a Righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith, that arouses to more faith, as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." We must continue in faith, so we can receive and partake of God's Promises, that are already ours in Christ Jesus.
God has made our understanding His will, available to us, by His Word. Jesus is the Word made Flesh. He was (and still is), the Perfect will of God, for mankind. We stumble when hearing, "Healing and prosperity are for us today," but Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified) says, "Jesus Christ (the Messiah), is always the same, yesterday, today, yes, and forever to the end of the ages." It was God's will for Jesus to heal deliver, prosper and help mankind, while He was here on earth and it's still God's will, through Jesus, to do it now.
Sickness was part of the Curse of the Law and we've been redeemed from that, as a part of the Blessing we've inherited through Jesus. Some believe that God uses sickness and disease to teach them or that "God has chosen them to carry the burden of disease and sickness." It's like we cannot distinguish between what is God's will and the enemy's attempt to destroy us. We've all but accepted a spirit of infirmity to teach us, instead of receiving God's Spirit. When someone accepts satan's lies that, "God is making them sick, in order to teach them something," then sickness becomes an on-going factor in their life.
Are there Christians who are not healed and who are sick? Of course there are, but is that God's will? No, not anymore so than it's God's will for people to remain unsaved. God's will was and is, that "None should perish and come to the knowledge of God," according to 2Peter 3:9 (Amplified). If it's God will that everyone should be saved, then why are so many still unsaved? They're unsaved because they never initiated faith to God's Promise that, "All who call upon the Name of the Lord would be saved." Romans 10:13 (Amplified) says, "For everyone who calls upon the Name of the Lord, invoking Him as Lord will be saved."
We've been faith to preach about salvation and being born-again, but we haven't done so about healing and God's Blessing, so the people haven't heard and do not believe. Romans 10:17 (KJV) says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Romans 10:14 (KJV) asks, "How will they hear without a preacher?" Jesus taught about the Laws of the Kingdom that both He and we, are subject to, in Matthew 18:18 (Amplified) saying, "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth, must be what is already forbidden in Heaven and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
This scripture tell us that sickness, disease, hunger, being maimed or being in bondage, and the things Jesus did for the people He ministered to, were already forbidden in Heaven. The Spiritual Laws that govern Heaven tell us that, "Sickness, disease and the other things Jesus delivered the people from, are not permitted and are unlawful in Heaven."
Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:9-10 (Amplified) saying, "Pray therefore, like this, Our Father Who is in Heaven, Hallowed (kept holy), be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." If we're to expect Kingdom result in our prayers and deeds, then we must know what is Lawful and unlawful in Heaven. Apparently, the things Jesus delivered the people from, were unlawful according to the Spiritual Laws that govern the Kingdom into which we've been born into. Jesus also taught this in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at, and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness, His way of doing and being right, and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
All of these things are given by the Wisdom of God, to every believer, according to 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) which says, "But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God." It's not a lack of Wisdom that is holding Christians back, but a lack of understanding and perception. Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom)! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."
Without understanding, we reach our own understanding, with our own thoughts, using our own interpretation. We miss the Wisdom of the Kingdom and the Laws that govern it. 2Corinthians 3:14 (Amplified) says, "In fact, their minds [those under the Law] were grown hard and calloused, they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding; for until this present day, when the old covenant is being read, the same veil still lies on their hearts, not being lifted to reveal that in Christ Jesus it is made void and done away with."
Today's Christians are in danger of losing the power of understanding, when it comes to our laws of different doctrines. Anything that comes against what we believed we knew, is either cast away or simply ignored. We've lost the understanding about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues, because of our own, carnal understanding. Jesus said to, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His way of doing and being right."
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