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*********** ADVERTISEMENT *********** "God’s Prescription for Divine Health" If you’ve received healing, following this prescription will help you maintain your healing. If you’ve believed for healing, but are experiencing lingering symptoms, it will help you stand strong until you are completely symptom free. And if you’re healthy now, it will help you stay that way for the rest of your life. "God’s Prescription for Divine Health" paperback $3.99 reg $4.99 #B180601 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until June 30, 2018 ******************************************** ******* article continues below ********** God doesn’t get any glory out of putting sickness on people. He doesn’t put cancer on someone to make Himself look good. On the contrary! He reveals His goodness by taking cancer off people. He gets glory when people get healed, like they did when they came to Jesus. Matthew 15:31 says when He ministered, people “saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.” What’s more, the very idea of God putting sickness on His children to teach them things is ridiculous! No good parent would do that. Anyone who would give their child a disease to teach them a lesson would be considered a child abuser, and God is not a child abuser. He’s a good Father! He never appointed sickness to be the teacher of the Church. He gave us the Holy Spirit and His Holy inspired Word to instruct us (John 14:26; 2 Timothy 3:16). This one revelation by itself will help you a lot when it comes to healing: God is a good, good God! As Psalm 145 says, “The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works” (verses 8-9). Take a moment to think about those verses. They describe God as gracious, which means He is disposed to show favors. They say He is full of compassion, which means there’s no room in Him for anything else. They tell us that God’s mercy is great and tender and hovers over all His works. The phrase all His works doesn’t leave anyone out. It includes everyone—particularly those of us who are believers. According to Ephesians 2:10, we are God’s “workmanship,” so He’s especially merciful toward us. When we come to Him to receive healing, we don’t have to worry that He might ignore us or tell us we’ll have to stay sick a while longer. He would never do that! We’re God’s beloved children. He’s always quick to show favor to us. He’s always eager to do us good. James 4:8 says when we draw near to Him, He draws near to us. So we can be sure that, the moment we call on Him, He will respond to us immediately—with mercy! Think about how He responded to each of us when we first received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. He didn’t make us wait six weeks to get born again. He didn’t even make us wait until the next day. The instant we believed, all our sins were wiped away and God made us new creations—as though sin had never been. God wants us to receive healing the same way. And we would, if we had been taught about it like we’ve been taught about the new birth. If we had developed our faith for healing to the point where we were as confident of it as we are of forgiveness of sin, we’d draw near to God as simply as little children, expecting to receive it immediately. We’d be so confident in the goodness of God that we’d have no doubt that right here, right now, He wants us to be well! You Don’t Have to Choose Just One “But isn’t this perspective on healing something you faith preachers just recently came up with?” someone might ask. “Isn’t it relatively new?” Not at all. Healing has always been God’s will for His people—not only under the New Covenant but also under the Old. That’s why, in my own personal life and when I’m teaching Healing School, I read verses from every part of the Bible. All the promises of God are YES and AMEN to us in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:20), and in the Old Testament there are some very powerful healing scriptures. Take Psalm 103, for instance. It says: “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's” (verses 2-5). Talk about some powerful medicine! Those verses can strengthen your faith for healing in a lot of different ways. First, they can help you get free of the religious lie that receiving healing shouldn’t really be a big deal to you. Yes, it is a big deal! Those verses can keep your faith from being shaken when people say things like, “We don’t emphasize healing in our church. We just teach the new birth because it’s more important.” Whenever someone says that to me, I always think about how Psalm 103 says we’re to remember all God’s benefits. It doesn’t say we have to pick just one—and that’s all we can have. It doesn’t say that since healing only affects our temporal body, and the new birth affects our eternal spirit, we should just forget about healing and go for the new birth. God has never had that attitude! He’s a God of abundance. He’s so generous that He forgives all our sins AND heals all our diseases. 28 : BVOV

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