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- 'I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm.' Joel 2:25.
- There is also another promise Isaiah 35:3-6 ‘Say unto them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong and fear not, your God shall come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.'
- Even though we may have serious physical difficulties God wants us to learn inside to be good people with pure motives.
- In this world He can give marked physical improvements, increased mental clarity and a more cheerful outlook through a new lifestyle, but in heaven there will be new glorious bodies.
There is hope. God has promised a future.
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Trust in divine power - or positive thinking?
They are NOT the same thing. Positive thinking can be learned. But it does not reach beyond our own personal resources - being optimistic and hopeful, expecting the best. It is like hands that reach up and out, but do not find anything to hold on to, or eyes that just keep smiling with no one to smile to.
Trust in divine power combines hope and optimism with resources that can recreate and build. It is a positive experience not positive thinking.
What about faith healing? Isn't that Trust?
Can God legitimately heal us, if we do not change our lifestyle for the future? Our habits? In the New Testament Jesus often said when He healed someone - ‘go and sin no more’. True healing will restore the character that is our true self. Genesis 1:31 ‘And God saw all that he had made and behold it was very good.’ This is what God wants to happen to us again. God is looking for people who are clean, pure and holy—like Himself. |
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Faith healing often looks only at ridding the body of a sad health condition - a quick solution so that we can carry on with our lives with little thought of change of heart - or even change of lifestyle. Very many people are disappointed by faith healing. But in this plan using God’s gifts, there is always the blessing of God.
God's plan is true restoration.
The apostle Paul, the great Bible missionary was not physically healed, but he was restored from being a persecutor and murderer. That was a miracle indeed. He knew the promise 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And he learned to live with his disability, but also to trust God. His sight did not improve and he always had to write in very big letters, but he was one of the most changed people in the Bible. Although his life was not easy, God preserved him and gave him the strength that he needed for the task he had to do.
Paul trusted God’s plan for him and although the physical problem did not go away, even though Dr Luke was with him, and even after praying three times for healing. However he co-operated with God to be made ‘well’ in the total sense and had an abundant life with a deep sense of mission to share his God with others. He could see beyond the problems to a full trust in God, in whatever God allowed to come to him. This is restoration rather than ‘healing’. He turned from hating the things of God to fully serving God.
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His trust was never betrayed. “For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” 2 Timothy 1:12 .
Paul had hope and inner health. |
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