Unless We Exercise Faith In God’s Healing Power We Will Never Move From Being A Sick Sinner To Being A Healthy Saint Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1) Faith - https://youtube/watch?v=tkH39UCAADY When we go to God for healing where is our focus? Is our focus of receiving physical healing? Or, is our focus on receiving spiritual healing? There are so many of us who just want to feel physically better. The pain is sometimes too much to bear that all we desire is a relief from the suffering that we are undergoing. But have we ever wondered what God is really interesting in. Do we every really seek to know the will of God as it relates to our own illness? The writer of the lesson reminds us that while God is interested in healing us from our sickness, He doesn’t have any interesting in healing us so that we can remain healthier sinners. The lesson this morning is reminding us that God’s ultimate goal is to heal our soul from the sickness of sin. He is more interesting is getting rid of the negative effects of the results of sin on our body temple. We must cooperate with God to ensure that we feed our body temple with the nutrients that will make it healthy and read to receive the indwelling Holy Spirit. If we should take a close look at the healing miracles of Jesus we will see that for many of them, physical healing was accompany by spiritual healing. In the story of the paralytic man in Mark 2, before Jesus performs the healing work on his leg, Jesus forgives the man of his sins. My friend, here Jesus is reminding us that there is a close relationship between the sickness of our body and the sinfulness of this earth. It is because of sin why our bodies become sick. Some of the sickness results from our own sinful actions. Some of us continue to disobey the health laws and then find ourselves in a state of sickness. Do we except God to rid us of our physical illnesses when we have no desire to surrender to the total control of the Holy Spirit and allow Him to take full control of our lives? I pray that we will continue to confess our sins so that God can act on our prayers of healing. I pray that we will continue to exercise faith in the only one who can heal is physically and spiritually. God wants to usher us into His eternal kingdom but we must be willing to allow Him to take control of our lives so that He can complete the transformation of mind, body and soul. In their work of teaching and healing, the disciples followed the example of the Master Teacher, who ministered to both soul and body. The gospel which He taught was a message of spiritual life and physical restoration. Deliverance from sin and the healing of disease were linked together. And at the close of His earthly ministry, when He charged His disciples with a solemn commission to go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, He declared that their ministry would receive confirmation through the restoration of the sick to health. Ye shall lay hands on the sick, He said, and they shall recover. Mark 16:15, 18. By healing in His name the diseases of the body, they would testify to His power for the healing of the soul. Christ came to heal the sick, to proclaim deliverance to the captives of Satan. He was in Himself health and strength. He imparted His life to the sick, the afflicted, those possessed of demons. He knew that many of those who petitioned Him for help had brought disease upon themselves, yet He did not refuse to heal them. And when virtue from Christ entered into these poor souls, they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of their spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies. (Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students, pg. 465, 466 – Ellen G. White) It required nothing less than creative power to restore health to that decaying body. The same voice that spoke life to man created from the dust of the earth, had spoken life to the dying paralytic. And the same power that gave life to the body had renewed the heart. He who at creation spake, and it was, who commanded, and it stood fast (Psalm 33:9), had spoken life to the soul dead in trespasses and sins. The healing of the body was an evidence of the power that had renewed the heart. Christ bade the paralytic arise and walk, that ye may know, He said, that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. The paralytic found in Christ healing for both the soul and the body. He needed health of soul before he could appreciate health of body. Before the physical malady could be healed, Christ must bring relief to the mind, and cleanse the soul from sin. This lesson should not be overlooked. There are today thousands suffering from physical disease who, like the paralytic, are longing for the message, Thy sins are forgiven. The burden of sin, with its unrest and unsatisfied desires, is the foundation of their maladies. They can find no relief until they come to the Healer of the soul. The peace which He alone can impart would restore vigor to the mind and health to the body. (The Ministry of Healing, pg. 77 – Ellen G. White) Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. If these words of inspiration were obeyed, they would lead to such results as are set forth by the apostle Peter: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. All are fallible, all make mistakes and fall into sin; but if the wrong-doer is willing to see his errors, as they are made plain by the convicting Spirit of God, and in humility of heart will confess them to God and to the brethren, then he may be restored; then the wound that sin has made will be healed. If this course were pursued, there would be in the church much more child-like simplicity and brotherly love, heart beating in unison with heart. (Review and Herald, December 16, 1890 – Ellen G. White)
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