God, Healing and the Bible

Author's Perspective: God, as the True Healer, has provided us with three key mechanisms to heal our bodies through His Name. During my diabetes lectures to various churches, I ask the congregation what are the 3 key mechanisms that God uses to help us heal our bodies from disease. Most people are able to guess one of those mechanisms (prayer), but they are unable to figure out what the other two are. As a result, a lot of people sit around praying, waiting  for God to answer them -- when God has already given them the answer! I can't tell you the number of times I've heard people tell me that God will answer their prayers -- when, in fact, God had already answered their prayers, but they weren't listening to His message!

There are many simple ways to tap into the power of healing your Body and Mind by reading the Bible and tapping into your inner spirit.

When we get sick and end up in the hospital, we praise God for saving our lives, but, we continue to ignore His message! We refuse to change our eating habits and lifestyle and follow the Scriptures. Instead we rely on man's drugs and medications instead of God's super foods!

God, Healing, and the Bible
As Mr. McCulley discovered during his near-death experience with diabetes, anyone of us can get sick at anytime -- even if we've never been sick or in the hospital.

Most of us are aware of the many diseases that can attack our bodies  and in some cases, seriously disable us. The top diseases that are disabling or killing us include heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzhemier's, Parkinson's, obesity, high blood pressure, etc.

When Mr. McCulley was told there is no cure for diabetes, it didn't make sense to him that God would create a disease that had no cure. However, as Christians, we have an all-powerful God who has the power to fully heal us from any specific ailment that may strike us.

But, the mistake that some of us make is that we sit around waiting for God to heal us. Or we pray to God asking him to heal us -- when, in fact, God has already answered our prayers!

God provides 3 key mechanisms to help us heal our bodies from disease: prayer/meditation, His super foods, and using our brains. Prayer allows us to communicate with God, but what good is prayer if we don't bother to listen to His message? God has created various super foods that contain the missing nutrients we need to fight diabetes and other diseases -- but, we fail to eat those foods! In addition, God has given each of us a brain to think and acquire the necessary knowledge to defeat any disease -- but, most of us fail to seek the knowledge!

God answers our prayers to help and heal us in several ways. Some of those ways include the following:

• God sends his message of healing via the Bible
• God identifies His many super foods in the Bible
• God sends his message to other people, who go out and help others
• God gives a disease to someone that He wants to go out and help others
• God creates an event that forces people to help others in need
• God has given us a brain to allow us to think and acquire the necessary knowledge to successful fight any disease

During one of his lectures, a woman told Mr. McCulley: "Thank you for sharing your story, but I'm waiting on God to heal me." Then, another woman spoke up and said, "Maybe God sent this man so that we can heal ourselves."

I'm sure many of you have heard the story about the man sitting on top of his roof after a major flood. When a helicopter and then a boat came by to rescue him, both times the man said: "Thank you, but God will come to rescue me."

When the man drowned and went to heaven, he was angry and upset and asked  God: "Why have you forsaken me?"  And, God said: "I  did not forsaken you -- I sent a helicopter and a boat to save you."

You see, many times, we have been saved or blessed by God, but, because we're not paying attention or because we're expecting God to save us in a specific way, we miss his message or the rescue.

When we pray, it is our way of talking to God. But, sometimes we need to shut up andlisten to God. Meditation is one way of listening to God.

Dreams may be another way -- according to the author's mother. While the author was in the hospital, he kept having nightmares about being in a graveyard. He thought it was a sign that he was going to die. But, his mother assured him that God was speaking to him through his dreams. In the dream, the author was walking towards a gravestone and he could see the first letter on the gravestone was a "D". He thought the "D" was representing the first letter in his name (DeWayne). 
          
But, as he walked closer toward the headstone, he discovered that the word on the headstone was not his name, but the word "Diabetes".

At that time, the author didn't know what that meant. But a couple years later, when he was struggling with the title for his book and what picture to put on the front cover of the book, his mother reminded him of the dream about the graveyard. That's when the author realized that the cover of his book should be a graveyard scene with 3 headstones labeled "High Blood Pressure", "Diabetes", and "Obesity". And, with his daughter's help, he came up with the title "Death to Diabetes", signigfying that the disease should be in the graveyard instead of the people who were dying from this disease.

Our God is a Merciful God

There are several principles that we need to learn if we really want to understand how God works.
The first thing you have to really grasp is how good and merciful God and Jesus really are. Every time God decides to heal someone, He is showing incredible mercy, love, goodness and compassion towards that person.
If you do not believe that God is a good, merciful, loving, kind and compassionate God – then you won't be paying attention when a stranger comes along with a message of healing that came from God! We assume that God is going to heal us directly but that's not always the case.
Here are some Bible verses that reinforce that God is merciful.

“The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.” Psalm 103:8

“… But You are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness …” Nehemiah 9:17

“Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness …” Joel 2:13

“The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Psalm 145:8

God Has the Power to Heal You

Sometimes when someone has been hit by an extreme sickness or disease, especially with one that may be considered terminal, our faith levels may be severely shaken – possibly to their core! You have been just diagnosed with terminal cancer and the doctors have told you that you only have 6 more months to live.
Though you know God is all-powerful – your situation looks so hopeless, that you start doubting whether or not God can really deliver you out of such a dire, extreme and hopeless situation.
You are so overwhelmed by the hopelessness of the situation, that you start forgetting how powerful God really is and that He does have the supernatural power to be able to fully heal you – no matter how grave the situation may appear to you in the natural.
These next three verses are telling us that nothing – I repeat nothing – is too impossible for God to be able to handle. Again, these verses should be burned into your memory banks so you can have them fully loaded up into your mind and spirit if you are ever faced with what appears to be insurmountable odds.
“For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 1:37
          
But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” Luke 18:27
          
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Ephesians 3:20

God Will Also Anoint You With His Power to Heal

Not only does God want to heal you, not only does His Son Jesus Christ want to heal you – but now God wants to take it one step further. He now wants to anoint His believers with the power of knowledge to help and heal others.
Do you get the big picture on all of this? If God is wanting to anoint His believers with His supernatural power to be able to heal others – then this is telling us that God is now placing the gift of healing as a major blessing within His Body so we can have it available to us when we may need it.
The reason for this is because God wants to anoint and empower His people to be able to go to work for Him in preaching the gospel to the rest of the world and doing what He wants them to be doing in their specific calls for Him.

You cannot work for God full force in this life if you are constantly battling one ailment after another. You have to be operating in some kind of good health in order to be able to max out in your specific calls and duties for the Lord.
Sometimes God will choose to heal you through the doctors and medical profession – other times He will heal you through your church pastor, priest, or other church leader, or through the prayers of other anointed believers. Or, He may heal you through other people who themselves have been healed by Him.
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15

“Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.” Luke 9:1

“And He called the twelve to Him, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits … And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.” Mark 6:7,13

“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.”Matthew 10:1

“But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:6
“Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.” Acts 19:11
“ ... For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.” 1 Corinthians 12:4

The Power of Prayer

By direct prayer to God – and sometimes that prayer has to be a prevailing type of prayer, which means you keep praying to God until you get the healing to fully manifest onto the affected part of your body that needs the healing.
There are many different types of prayer strategies that you can take with the Lord in your own personal prayers to Him. But, don't forget to not only pray to God, but listen to Him!!

“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray.” James 5:13

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.” James 5:14

"And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him.” Acts 28:8

Having Faith and Belief That God Can Actually Heal You

Having faith is very powerful -- it "connects" the Body, Mind & Spirit to drive you tochange your poor eating habits and help heal you.  If you continue to eat poorly, your Body will not be healed.
Sometimes God will move to heal someone who has very low levels of faith in Him – but there will be other times that He will want this person to have his faith levels built up a bit before He will move in with His healing power.
As you will see in the following Scripture verses, there was many a time that Jesus would ask the person He was wanting to heal whether or not that person had enough faith and belief in Him that He could actually heal them. Once that person said he had enough faith in Jesus that He could fully heal him, then Jesus would move in to heal him.
Jesus would then go as far as to tell this person that his faith was what got him healed! However, it was quite obvious that what got this person healed was the power of the Holy Spirit operating and manifesting through Jesus. However, what got the healing power from the Holy Spirit to manifest onto that person was the person’s faith and belief that Jesus could actually do this for him.
This is how powerful of a thing it really is if you can get your faith operating at higher levels with the Lord. If your faith is operating at these higher levels with the Lord, then God can manifest bigger and greater miracles either to you or through you to help someone else out.
If you are looking for God’s divine healing power to fully heal you or someone else you may know – the first thing you will need to try and do is to get your personal faith levels built up to a little bit of a higher range. And how do you do this?
The Bible tells us that faith comes by hearing the Word of God.  Hearing the Word of God means you are reading the Bible for yourself and believing what you are reading. If you are willing to do this, then the Holy Spirit will start to raise your faith to a higher level. And once your faith has been raised to that higher level – then God may move in to heal you or someone else you may be praying for.
You will need to read all of the verses pertaining to divine healing in the Bible. Really meditate and chew on these verses. Let them sink and settle down into you mind and spirit. Believe what you are reading.
Once these verses have really settled into your mind and spirit, and you are truly believing what they are telling you – then go into prevailing prayer for God to heal you with His healing power, or to give you the knowledge to heal your body, or to give that knowledge to someone else who will come and help heal you.
Tell Him that you are standing on the full power and authority of these verses. Tell Him that you have full faith and belief in what these verses are telling you.
Tell Him that you are going to take a hold of Him and that you will not let Him go until He heals either you or someone else you may be praying for.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”Hebrews 11:1

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.” 1 John 5:4

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life …” 1 Timothy 6:12
 
 … the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened. Matthew 9:28

“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” Mark 11:24

“And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.”Acts 6:8

“… and the prophets; who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.” Hebrews 11:32

“My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouth, so that they have not hurt me … So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because He believed in his God.” Daniel 6:22

Hindrances to Receiving a Healing

Sometimes God will not move to heal someone due to some type of block or hindrance. Once this person finds out what that block or hindrance is and gets it properly removed, then many of the time God will move back in to fully heal them.
The following verses will give you some major insight into what some of these hindrances and blocks can be. Again, study these verses very carefully and make sure you do not have any of these possible hindrances before approaching God for your own personal healing. If you do have any of these blocks or hindrances operating in your life – you will be wasting both your time and God’s time if you start trying to pray for a healing before that block is properly removed.
1.  The first block, and this is a major one, is the sin of unforgiveness. As you will see in the following Scripture verse, God the Father will not even begin to hear any of your prayers if you are holding any kind of unforgiveness towards anyone. And if He will not hear any of your personal prayers – then you will have little or no chance of getting any type of divine healing from Him.
If you are operating in this specific sin and are holding any type of serious grudges orunforgiveness towards anyone else – then you will need to go before God the Father, confess this sin out, and then tell Him that you will now fully forgive all of the specific people who have ever wronged you in your past.
Tell Him that even though you may not “feel” like you are forgiving these people within your own mind and emotions – tell Him that you are now taking a bold step of faith and that you will make this confession with your mouth, out of your mind, and that you will do your best not to hold the past against these people.
If you are willing to take this kind of powerful stand with the Lord, then over the course of time God will start to take out the negative emotions of that unforgiveness, and pretty soon you will no longer even feel this unforgiveness towards that person like you had in the past. God will do inner, spiritual surgery on the inside of you to remove all of those negative feelings.

“AND WHENEVER YOU STAND PRAYING, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” Mark 11:25
2.  If you are out cheating on your spouse operating in the sin of adultery, then there is a very good chance that God may not hear any of your prayers. And if God is not hearing any of your personal prayers to Him, then you may not be able to receive a divine healing from Him when you try asking Him for one.
So if you are really serious about wanting to approach God the Father for a divine healing, the first thing you must do is make sure that you do not have any sins that may need to be forgiven and washed clean under the Blood of Jesus. You may want to ask the Holy Spirit to help you out. Ask Him to show you if there are any sins that you may not be aware of that will need to be confessed, forgiven, and washed clean under the blood of Jesus.
If you are willing to go this far with the Lord, then you may have just removed any major blocks or hindrances in being able to receive a divine healing from Him. You may have just dramatically increased your chances of now being able to receive a direct healing from God.
Even though all of our past, present and future sins will be fully forgiven under the blood of Jesus, we still have to make every concerted effort on our end to try and stay out of sin. And once we know that we have fallen into a specific sin, then we have to recognize it and admit it before the Lord, and then confess it out to Him as a sin before we can receive His forgiveness for it.
I believe one of the main reasons why more people do not receive divine healings from the Lord may be due to sins that may not have yet been forgiven because they have not been recognized as actual sins, or that person is unwilling to have their sins be properly dealt with by God the Father.
A person may be operating in the sin of adultery and he simply does not want to give it up. And until he does, there is a very good chance that God will not be hearing any of his prayers, especially in the area of divine healing.
This is why I strongly recommend that anyone who is seeking after a major, supernatural miracle from God in the area of divine healing – that you ask the Holy Spirit to help you out in discovering what those sins may be that will need to be confessed and forgiven with God the Father. This principle right here may be the difference as to whether or not you receive a full, divine healing from the Lord.
“But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.” Isaiah 59:2
          
“The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.” Proverbs 15:29
          
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11
          
“And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” 1 John 3:22
          
“My son, do not forget My law, but let your heart keep My commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you.” Proverbs 3:1
          
“If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”Exodus 15:26

Psychological Factors

There are sometimes psychological factors that will come into play when dealing with different types of sicknesses and illnesses.
If someone is severely depressed, there is a good chance that there immune system may not be working as well as it should be, and they thus can be more subject and prone to getting certain types of sicknesses or diseases as compared to someone who is always upbeat, happy, cheerful and doing something positive with their lives.
The world of alternative medicine has already found this link – that sometimes good health can be directly related to having a good, positive mindset. The Bible has several very interesting verses on this mind-body connection and how it can relate to our physical health.
“A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.” Proverbs 14:30
          
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.”Proverbs 13:12
          
“A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.” Proverbs 15:13
          
“A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
          
“Anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.”Proverbs 12:25
          
“There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health.” Proverbs 12:18
          
“Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.”Proverbs 16:24

God Provides the Recipe for Healing Through His Food

God tells us in the Bible what we should eat to be healthy.  If you continue to eat poorly, your Body will not be healed.
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.Genesis 1:29

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it. 
Proverbs 15:17

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. Genesis 1:30 

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. Romans 14:21 

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Genesis 9:3 

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you ... Leviticus 11:1-47

The Bible Tells Us What to Eat and Not Eat

Many pastors and church leaders today are suffering with diabetes, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. The majority of these "men of God" rely on man's prescription medications instead of God's super foods! In addition,  very seldom do you hear a sermon about the importance of nutrition and taking care of our bodies.  Do you see the irony in this?

Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

We have taken the seed out of our diet nearly 100%. The seed is supposed to be a main course in our diet, just like it is among the cultures talked about in the video tape whom never get cancer.

Ezekiel 4:9 Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.

The recipe for Ezekiel bread has key nutrients in it and was given as the key food for Ezekiel while he was to lay on his side for 390 days.

Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank...

Daniel 1:12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse (lima beans) to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel 1:15 And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

Daniel had knowledge from our Creator about what was in the food the king ate as well as what God had told him to eat. So Daniel asked to test the food by letting him and his three friends eat what God said to eat and the other people were to eat the king's meat.  After ten days Daniel and his friends are found to be healthier than those who eat at the king's table.

Here are some other Bible verses about food, plants and herbs:

Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Revelation 22:2 Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Ezekiel 47:12 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Genesis 1:29 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Ezekiel 4:9 Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.

Daniel 8:12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse (lima beans) to eat, and water to drink.

Daniel 1:15 And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

The Bible also mentions the importance of knowledge, for, without it, we will perish, i.e. get sick and die from eating all the dead food and taking all the man-made drugs and other pills.

Hosea 4:6 "My people perish for lack of knowledge."

This is a powerful verse that the author of "Death to Diabetes" references in his book and on his website.  The author believes that we can improve our health, wealth, and any area of our life with the power of knowledge.

The Sin of Gluttony

I know this next topic will be a very sensitive one for many people in this day and age. There are many in our society who are grossly overweight or diabetic. For many of these people, there are certain malfunctions within their bodies causing this abnormal weight gain. However, for many others, this weight gain is the result of simply gluttony – overeating of the wrong kinds of foods. 
With all of the good, nutritional information that is now available, we all know what these bad foods are. There is also a ton of educational material that is out there showing us what the good foods are and how to structure our diets accordingly to take off a lot of this excess weight.
However, for whatever their personal reasons may be, many people who are overweight simply do not care they are overeating and that they are grossly overweight. God may have been striving with them, trying to get them to get their eating habits under better control. However, sooner or later, the human body can only take so much abuse, especially in the area of what we feed it – and then the breakdown comes. A cancer or diabetes could set in or a major heart attack could occur. There are many different kinds of sicknesses and illnesses that can strike your body if you do not properly feed it and take proper care of it.
The Bible tells us that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit.  God the Father wants us taking proper care of our bodies. If we do not, and we steadfastly refuse to heed His warnings and promptings – then God may choose not to want to heal you if you end up coming down with a major sickness as a result of deliberately overeating and abusing your body over all of those years.
The same thing can occur for those who smoke or drink past any reasonable moderation. In our walk with the Lord, we have to do the best we can with what we are suppose to be doing for Him.
With none of us being perfect, there is a certain amount of slack with God the Father for some of our weaknesses and character flaws. However, where we will get in major trouble with the Lord is when we push the envelope too far with Him and tread past those slack lines where we should not be going.
There is a slack line that operates in how we take care of our bodies. God is all right with a certain amount of excess body weight due to our own imperfections. However, where we will get in trouble is when we start to go past our own individual, slack lines with Him.
If that should happen, then God will start giving you major warning signs and signals that you are getting to far off base. If after a certain amount of time you do not heed those warnings and you keep going in the direction you are going – then God could pull back His hand of protection on you, and you could then end up coming down with a major sickness or disease.
Remember – some of the above verses state that if you do what is right in the sight of the Lord – then He will not put any of these diseases on you. Going against the Lord by overeating and abusing your body is not doing what is right in the Lord, and He thus could pull back His hand of protection on you and your life.
Here is one very interesting verse that tells us to only eat what we really need lest we be filled with it and vomit. In other words, you can get physically sick by overeating.
“Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.” Proverbs 25:16
Conclusion
If you closely study all of the above verses from Scripture, the evidence is absolutely overwhelming that God the Father really does want to heal many of the times if He is properly approached in your prayers to Him.
However, there is one more big debate going on in the Body of Christ right now on the subject of divine healing. Many are teaching that it is the will of God that you be healed every single time that you pray and ask for one – and that if you are not healed – then there is something wrong with you. Either your faith was not operating at a high enough level, or you have some kind of bad sin that you may be living in.
Granted, there are times that God may want your faith operating at a higher level than where you may be at right now. If that is the case, then He may want you getting more into the Word to study all of the verses pertaining to divine healing before He will move in to heal you. You also could have some type of sin as discussed above that needs to be taken care of before He will move in to heal you.
But what about the Christian who is already operating at a very high level of faith and they have a clean slate with the Lord with no sins that really need to be confessed and forgiven? How do you explain it when they are doing everything right in the Lord, and then all of a sudden they need a physical healing for their own self and God does not heal them. How do you explain this kind of scenario with the way all of the above Scripture verses are worded?
God is still sovereign in all of His ways – which will include when He will manifest the gift of healing on someone. The Bible says that we can only know in part while living down here on this earth. Sometimes God will tell us why He does what He does and other times He will not.
If God makes a personal decision not to heal someone when they are properly approaching Him in prayer for their healing – then there is always a specific reason as to why He is choosing not to heal this person at that time. Sometimes He will tell you what that reason may be and other times He will not. If He chooses not to tell you, then you have to have full faith and belief that He must have a very good reason for not wanting to heal you or the person you may be praying for and to let it go at that.
There could be a multitude of reasons why God may choose not to heal someone. I have given this example in several of my other articles and it is definitely worth repeating for this one. A woman had been praying for her son’s healing. He was only 10 years old and he came down with an incurable disease and was only given a short time to live. God kept telling her that He did not want to heal him and that she was to let the matter go.
The woman would not take no for an answer and kept pressing into God that He heal her son. Due to her continued persistence, God finally healed the woman’s son. However, her testimony ended stating that she lived just long enough to watch her son get hanged as a criminal for a murder he ended up committing when he was 41 years old.
God obviously knew what his future held in store for him. He knew that he was going to end up committing this murder. God was actually showing incredible love and mercy by wanting to take him home early with the incurable disease instead of letting him live long enough to commit this horrible murder.
His mother obviously could not see into his future or understand the big picture, and she thus should have never been questioning God’s knowledge and wisdom on this matter in the first place, since God knew what was going to happen in this boy’s future and she did not.
Though there are times God will decide not to heal for whatever His personal reasons may be – there are definitely going to be other times that He will move in to heal if He is properly approached in your prayers to Him. Since God is sovereign in His very nature and in all of His ways – this means you never know when He may move in to heal someone.
This is why you should never be afraid to approach God’s throne boldly and with confidence if either you or someone else you know is needing a physical healing from Him. You have nothing to lose in trying and everything to gain by pressing in.