GOD’S WILLINGNESS TO HEAL IS UNCHANGING Matthew 8:1-4
And
Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And
immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
(Matt. 8:3)
When I was sick as a teenage boy, I believed
that God could heal me. I believed that God was able to do anything. But I was
taught that He wasn’t willing today. I heard people say, “Now God can do
it. He has the power to do anything – if it is His will.”
I remember one particular pastor I heard on the radio who said just that. He
talked about a nine-year-old boy whose parents were members of his church. This
little boy was their only child. He was desperately ill and under the care of a
doctor.
The parents called this pastor, weeping, and said, “The doctor just left
and said, ‘I’ve done everything I know to do. There isn’t anything anyone can
do. I’m just going to tell you the truth about it. The child is not going to
live. In fact, he’s dying now.'”
I heard the pastor say on the radio, “I knew James 5:14 was in the Bible,
but I had never done anything about it.”
James 5:14 and 15 says, “Is any sick among you? 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 shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up….”
PRAYER LINE: I believe
what the Bible says. As others pray for me, anointing me with oil in the Name
of the Lord, I am healed, because the Bible says that the prayer of faith shall
save the sick. – by Kenneth E. Hagin.
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God knows us when we pray.