Jesus wants to heal all your diseases. The thing is many Christians openly wonder about that. And many people have become former Christians because they ask why does God not heal me.
I actually completely get this, and it needs to be addressed.
1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
The Bible is a marriage contract, and we are the Bride of Christ. When you come to Jesus, you give yourself to Jesus, not just your heart but all of you. So, Jesus can use you to bring people to Jesus through your life. But I want to be healed. this doesn’t seem fair that I am not.
Read I Corinthians 15:51-58. It says that death has no power of us and that one day we will have a perfect body in heaven. We will be in heaven for a very long time. That is comforting, but what about now? We do seem to focus on the now, don’t we?
We want to please the one we love, and Jesus wants to put you in a position for His glory to shine through, so others can experience THE HEALING (salvation) in their lives.
In college I had an injury that caused seizures. I claimed to be healed in Jesus’ name. I refused to take the medicine. Guess what, I still had seizures. I prayed for them to go away, and they kept coming and I got mad at God. Then I started taking the medication, and they still came, and I was even more mad at God. I then tried all kinds of other things, and they still came. Then one day, I was like Whatever God, just heal me. Now when I said whatever it was not a nice conversation, but God knows your heart. God said listen to your wife. My wife had been telling me to take my meds and do what I needed to do from the doctors. God said I need you to be a witness to them. I said OK. Since then, I have not had one episode in 10 years. The doctors still have no idea why I had them to begin with and have no idea why I don’t have them now since nothing seemed to work before. Now I go to the doctor’s for my meds, and I share my testimony that I would not be able to share before.
God gives us a right to not have to worry about the disease and live an amazing life despite it. What is healing, making something better than it was.
If you are a believer, you have the guarantee that you have a perfect body waiting for you that will never get sick and tired again! So, can God be putting you in a position to bring someone to Jesus through what is going on? When we look at it like that and say! go ahead and use me anyway you want, the amazing will happen.
Back to being Jesus’ bride. Do you think Jesus wants to hurt or shame you. Absolutely not. He wants to shine His glory through you in a way that gets others attention, and where you also experience something amazing!
God is not looking for fair weather Christians, He is looking for the faithful. Faithful no matter what. When we become that, the stuff we want to see will happen because we are His bride!
Remember Jesus loves you; I love you, and you are awesome!
What is God’s will for my life? I get asked that a lot, and a lot of people say that they just want to do God’s will. A lot of people get frustrated with their faith, because they wonder if they will ever know what His will is.
The answer to this question is very, very simple. We as humans tend to overcomplicate it.
I Timothy 2:4 states, "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth".
So, God’s will for your life is two-fold.
- God wants to have a relationship with you. He doesn't just want to save you, but He wants you to come to the knowledge of the truth. That happens as we deepen our relationship with Him.
- God wants you to then share that message with every other human being that you come in contact with. Tell them that Jesus wants to have a relationship with them.
God’s will, is for everyone, and I mean everyone, to have a relationship with Him. It does not matter what you think of those around you. To be in God’s will, you have to look at each one knowing that God’s deepest desire is to be in a relationship with them too, just like with you.
You may then ask God what He wants you to do to help make that happen. When you decide to make that your goal in life, you are right in the middle of God’s will for your life. Then God will reveal things and do things for you so that you can help meet God’s greatest desire.
While you do that, God will bless you along the way. The devil cannot win. The devil can only thwart God’s will in this world by keeping people from a relationship with God. So, the devil will oppose you, make no doubt about it, but God is greater, stronger, and smarter. As long as you decide to show others who Jesus is, God will bless you so that you can overcome, and not just overcome, but succeed in ways that will blow your mind.
If you want to see the Book of Acts come alive, and also want to see revival and the signs following, then you need to decide right now that this is your mission in life. If you do so, then you will always be in the center of God’s will. God will take notice, and God will do the amazing through you, not only to show others how great a real relationship with Him is, but also to show you how much He loves you.
If you want to be at the center of God’s will, then make this choice and it will all become crystal clear. Have you ever heard the phrase, "not my will but Your will be done? Many use that phrase as a cop out, but when you actually practice it, it is sacrificial love. That is the best kind of love, and God will respond.
Psalm 37:4 states, "Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart".
This verse says to be happy going after what God wants and watch how God goes after the things you want!
Remember Jesus loves you; I love you, and you are awesome!
Have you ever heard the phrase “Count your blessings.”? If you think about that it, it really isn't a good phrase. In order to count your blessings, you have to keep score, and you do not want to keep score with God. When you do, you will be disappointed. You will count the blessings, and then you will think that there should be more. You will also begin to think that is how God blesses, and then when God wants to bless you in other ways, you will miss it. As humans, we tend to think that we should get the same result, but God wants to do so much more for you.
Sometimes when we count our blessings, we then ask God for one more thing. God can and will do one more thing, but what if God wanted to do 10 more things? We have then in turn actually limited God in how much He can bless us by putting our own qualifications on it and Him.
When we "count our blessings", that saying also indicates that we should be satisfied with the "little" God did for us. God does not want to just do "little" things for you. He may do a bunch of what you call little things, that then produce something amazing.
The story is told of two women in Shanghai who were discussing the topic of pride and began to wonder if Hudson Taylor was ever tempted to be prideful because of his many accomplishments. One of the women decided to ask Taylor’s wife, Maria, about it. Maria promised the woman that she would find out. When Mrs. Taylor asked her husband if he was ever tempted to be proud, he was surprised. “Proud about what?” he asked. “About all of the things you have done,” his wife explained. Taylor responded, “I never knew I had done anything.”
Live like you haven’t done anything. Let God be the Judge, not only of what is wrong, but of what is right! Let God do right by you with no restrictions.
In Luke 14:28, God tells us what we should count, "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it."
We are to count the cost of following Jesus, and it will cost you something to truly follow Him. To truly follow Jesus, you have to surrender your whole life to Him. Let me say that again, your WHOLE life. Everything that is a part of your life, to be used by Jesus when Jesus needs it.
That is a huge cost, and Jesus wants to know if you are really in.
Now, here is the good part, when you do choose to count the cost, Jesus does the same. Jesus knows that we will need help, because we may not know how much we have to give. It won’t be enough to do all He wants to do, and that is where the blessings will come, to not only make up the difference, to not only get the job done, but to also reward you for your service.
You go all in, and Jesus will go all in with you, but if you only go part way in, what do you expect Jesus to do?
Now, depending on where you are in your walk with Jesus, being "all in" will look different for each of us. We are in a relationship, and Jesus will see our heart on this journey. Hebrews 4:12. He knows when you are all in. He also knows that each of us have a different definition of that, and as we continue on this journey, we will find that our definition of all in will change, and we will see God bless us even more.
Count the Cost and accept it, and you won’t have to count the blessings, because you won’t be able to keep up with how much God wants to bless you!
Remember Jesus loves you; I love you, and you are awesome!
God helps those who help themselves. Have you ever heard that phrase? Many people use it, but it really isn’t good.
This phrase allows people to justify not helping someone else. When they use it this way, they apply their standard to the situation. That is a dangerous place to be, because God will judge you by the measure or standards you use.
Others use this phrase to say that God owes them something for all that they did. News flash, God does not owe you anything. We are always in debt to God. The great news is, that God never wants to collect on that debt. He just wants to forgive.
Now, God does want you to work and enjoy the pleasures of having a purpose in this life. So, let’s change this statement a little to bring it in line with what God teaches.
We are in a relationship, and we need to view God in light of the relationship that God desperately wants to have with us.
God blesses (better than helps) those who put God’s interests above their own. When you do that, you in effect are helping yourself, but you are not putting yourself first.
In a relationship, the key is to put the other’s needs in front of yours. When you do, the one who loves you should respond in kind, simply because they love you.
When you do this, God, since He is God, has the ability to help or bless you beyond what you can imagine.
You can’t do anything to make God bless you. What you can do, is impress the one you love in such a way that God is inspired by your actions of selfless love to want to bless you in a dramatic way.
When this happens, it is glorious, and you really feel the love. If God does something for you simply because you helped yourself, then it is not out of love, but out of obligation. When someone does something nice for anyone out of obligation it is hollow and cold at best.
When someone blesses you because they were inspired to do so, it's warm and loving and means so much more. That is what God wants to do for us.
What God wants to know is, are we serving Him out of obligation, or are we serving Him simply out of love, just because?
God loves it when we do things for Him for no other reason than, “just because". God then responds to show you how much He loves you, “just because".
Remember Jesus loves you; I love you, and you are awesome!
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