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********************************** God Wants You Well! (cont.)***** God never says, “Forgiveness is not My will for you.” He never says no to those who sincerely ask—He always says, yes! The same is true when it comes to healing! Forgiveness and healing are from the same source. They are both readily available to all who want to receive them. They are benefits God unfailingly gives “to such as keep his covenant” (Psalm 103:18). Millions Healed at Once You can search the entire Bible and you’ll find that God always provided healing for His covenant people. And, He did it under the most difficult circumstances, too. Consider, for example, the time He brought the Israelites out of Egypt. He did such a mighty work of healing among them “there was not one feeble person among their tribes” (Psalm 105:37). That’s the way it ought to be for us today. In our families there shouldn’t be one feeble person. We should all be healed. It’s the will of God! “Yeah...but, the doctors tell me there’s no cure for what I have,” someone might say. Don’t you believe it! There’s no sickness anywhere God can’t cure. The Holy Ghost never met a disease He couldn’t conquer. He proved that when He healed all those Israelites. There’s no telling what kinds of dreadful diseases they’d been suffering with before God healed them. They had been slaves. They hadn’t been vacationing at some resort. They had been worked hard, whipped and mistreated. They’d been exposed to deadly, debilitating conditions. Given the kind of lives they’d had, numbers of them were probably weak, crippled and incurable. Remember the movie, 'The Ten Commandments'? In one scene it showed multitudes of sickly Israelites hobbling out of Egypt on crutches, being carried on stretchers, or being led along by the hand—too blind to see where they were going. The scene may have been accurate, but the timing was wrong! The Israelites might have looked that way before the Exodus, but the day they left Egypt, there wasn’t one feeble person among them. Even the old folks were strong. Imagine it! God healed millions of Israelites all at once. He is able to do that, so you can rest assured He can handle any sickness that might come against you. You’re just one person. Healing you of anything is easy for God! For Him to do it, however, you need to give Him something to work with. What do you have to give Him? Faith! Not just a vague kind of hope that everything will turn out all right. But real, Bible faith based on God’s Word. The kind of faith that makes you bold enough to believe and say, “As surely as it was God’s will to heal the Israelites, it’s His will to heal me. So I believe I receive my healing now. In Jesus’ Name, I AM HEALED!” A Bible Full of Promises I’m not suggesting you build your faith on just one scriptural account. As wonderful as the mass-healing of the Israelites in the book of Exodus may have been, the Bible contains many other passages about healing that are just as thrilling. And as Word-minded people, we should study all of them. In Deuteronomy 7, for instance, God made us this wonderful promise: “Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee...” (verses 14-15). Notice in those verses, as in Psalm 103, God connects being BLESSED with being healed. Why? Because healing is an inseparable part of THE BLESSING. By the same token, sickness is an inseparable part of the curse. Deuteronomy 28 describes the curse in detail, and says it includes: “great plagues of long continuance, and grievous sicknesses of long duration...all the diseases of Egypt...also every sickness and every affliction...” (verses 59-61, AMP). You can forget what you’ve heard about God sending sickness as a “blessing in disguise.” According to the Bible, NO sickness is a blessing. From colds to cancer, it’s all a manifestation of the curse. “But Gloria,” you might ask, “isn’t the curse still operating in the earth today?” Yes, but as New Testament believers we’ve been delivered from it. Galatians 3:13-14 says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.... That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” First Peter 2:24 explains it this way: “[Jesus] his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” *********ADVERTISEMENT************ Join us for: It’s a Digital Christmas 25 Days of Gifts--Dec. 1-25 KCMBlessings.com Download a new faith-building gift every day! ********************************** 30 : BVOV : DEC '13

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