By Ken Fletcher
“Are you willing to change according to what God has said about your healing? Many are not! Many want to keep believing what they have been told in the past. And, so, these dear ones want you, me, and others to pray for them–hoping to get healed if they get enough people to pray. That’s not going to work! They need to hear from the Lord!
Well friend, you could have 10,000 people praying for you. But, if you do not receive from God by your own faith, you could have 100,000 people praying, and it would not matter either way. Yes, it is possible to be healed by the prayers of others, but will it work without your own faith working to some degree? So, probably, you won’t receive healing through the Spirit, and end up going the natural medical path.
If it wasn’t for doctors and hospitals, most believers would be dead. So, thank God for them! But, they cannot help or are very limited to help in certain situations. Only God can fix some things in our bodies! Medical science is very limited. But, God is not limited at all! Nothing is too difficult for Him to heal in us! But, do you believe that? I mean, really believe it?
Well, some folks will say, I believe that God CAN (has the ability) heal me of my sickness and disease. But, does He want to? Maybe it’s His Divine will for me to suffer with this? Ah, that really is the question, isn’t it! Well, He tells us plainly and clearly what He wants to do. He tells us what He has done–which IS His will because He has already done it! But, do people believe that? If not, they are just wishing and hoping for God to do something for them. And, He won’t. No. He won’t!
Some will plead and beg for God to heal their bodies. Desperate. God, please do something and relieve my suffering, they may say in earnest. They are believing that God has not done anything about it yet. Waiting on God to move in their situation. So, they look to the future hoping God will take it away somehow someday.
BUT, GOD HAS ALREADY DONE ALL THE HEALING HE IS GOING TO DO! Did you hear this? He has healed us through the stripes of Jesus who’s blood was shed for THAT purpose specifically! Already done! Already accomplished! That IS God’s will. He HAS ALREADY DONE IT! And now, we are able to receive His grace through our faith! Oh, thank God!
My dear friend: Your faith will make you whole! Yes it will! Jesus said it! Jesus proved it! Go read it for yourself! You may say, brother Ken, you don’t know what I’m dealing with–how terrible it is. How much pain, etc. Well, certainly I do not know how bad it is for you. And, I, of course, hate that you are going through it! Yes, of course I do!
But, I can tell you that, by God’s grace, I have been healed before by faith from some pretty bad nasty painful stuff and also some not so bad stuff. And, it really does not make any difference how bad it is, in God’s eyes, it’s ALL bad! He hates it! And, He does not want it on you at all! Do you want that horrible crap on your kids? Of course, you don’t. That’s how love is!
And, so, since God has already done His part completely, He leaves it up to us to receive our healing by faith. We have an important part in this thing happening. But, Jesus has already done the hard part! Faith transactions are just as real as physical transactions are. Prayer is the vehicle. But faith must be the content in our heart, or the vehicle is empty of substance.
One thing I have experienced, if we are TRYING to believe, we are not there yet. If we are working to believe, we’re not there yet. You don’t work up faith. You’re either there, or not there. All in or not. The switch is on or it is off. The work of faith is actually resting in the Word of God.
The idea is to keep ourselves built up in faith–keeping doubt out of our heart. Because faith in our heart is the connection to the will and the power of God flowing to us! We rest in the knowledge that Jesus has already paid for what we are believing Him for. So, when we pray, we know that we have it. So then, we rest on His Word knowing it will come to pass in us.
A little doubt infects our faith. We must get all the doubt out. Stay full of God’s truth on faith and healing. We must lock in to what we are believing God for.–Regardless of the symptoms and pain, etc. You can’t look to the natural to check if what you believe is happening. It’s spiritual in your heart! You see yourself healed in your heart! That is where faith resides. In our heart–at the core of our being.
It is not mental. It is deeper than that! Deep in our soul! We must be full of the truth in order to stand in faith for whatever we are dealing with. We must look to the SOLUTION of our situation. Jesus is our solution to anything that we are confronted with!
I see many times people who are battling cancer or other life threatening diseases. They are fighting! With natural medicines and procedures, etc. But, they may not be fighting from the standpoint of faith in God’s Word for healing!
Yes, we should do the natural things the doctors are saying, if the Lord wills.–And, sometimes those methods help. Thank God they do! But, our main fight is a faith fight! A spiritual fight against what ever is trying to take us out! We have to build ourselves up in the truth first before we can fight to win! That’s the only fight that is good! When we win! The faith fight is a good fight! So, going in to the fight with full confidence of what we’ve got inside is impressive.” KF KenFletcher.org
Watch for the final part of, “Pray For Me? Part 3”, dropping tomorrow here!
