DON’T BLAME GOD
DON’T BLAME GOD:
IF YOU HAVE PRAYED FOR A
HEALING MIRACLE AND STILL
HAVEN’T GOT ONE, THEN YOU
ARE THE ONE TO BLAME!
JAN LILLEBY
Sorry friends, but we cannot blame God for our own stumbling errors.
Errors that occur mostly because of our lack of knowledge in the Word of God.
My headline above is pointing to a problem which, in Christianity, is a huge and wide-spread matter, and it has become one of the most misunderstood ones in history.
Simply because God, Who so graciously sent His beloved Son Jesus to save us, never ever promised the Church those same Holy Spirit miracles and power, as seen with the Lord’s apostles.
These mighty signs of healings and miracles, and of speaking in tongues, and prophesying – it was given to the believers of God’s nation Israel as signs; signs which were meant to prove that God was with the apostles.
Mark 16:17-20, NASB, testifies in past tense, saying,
17 "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover *."
19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.] [And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. ] “ (Editor’s emphasize)
Miracles, healings and signs stops right there. This was only given to the twelve apostles, plus later on also to Paul.
In the Bible we cannot find such super-natural signs post-Acts. It stopped abruptly because of Israel’s failure to receive Jesus as their Messiah.
The final testimony of God performing healing miracles in the New Testament, was when Paul arrived Malta in Acts 28:8, 9, NASB,
“8 And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.
9 After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.”
THE HOAX OF AZUSA STREET ‘REVIVAL’ 1906-1913
In my website I have published tons of articles, even books, on how it is that God NEVER sent any ‘New Pentecost’ to earth, like we learn of Pentecost in Acts 2.
This is simply a lie, a false teaching which cannot be found in the Bible. You can check out my articles for yourselves.
So whenever a believer in Christ pray to God in Jesus name, that He should be merciful and heal him of his sickness and infirmities, - having believed this false ‘healing gospel’, found in Pentecostal camps, there comes no answer from heaven. The miracle hoped for never shows up. Its total silence…and then many desperate believers start blaming God for not listening to prayers.
Stop blaming God, and START understanding the Bible rightly.
HOW ABOUT GOING TO YOUR DOCTOR FOR CURE?
Probably 99% of you believers out there already go to the doctor. Even undergoing serious surgery in hospitals. And at the same time praying to God for help. That is actually all we can do about it.
But many sick people are on medication for their sicknesses. This is normal. But then many believers make an error: When the medications seem to work and the sickness goes away, then all of a sudden, ‘GOD HAS DONE A MIRACLE FOR ME’. He healed me, praise Jesus!
But is this really true?
You know the answer to that. Getting gradually cured by the use of medicine, and eventually getting all well, is NOT a miracle of God.
Yes, you can thank God for having helped you, indirectly, in that He put medical stuff (poisons actually) in many of the plants He once created. Medical raw material which, when refined by medical science, comes up with painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-bacterial pills and all these sorts we find on the pharmaceutical market today. Thank God for having already created such aid for our health and well-being. But of course, none of this can compete with God when He performs His wonders, signs and miracles.
Getting cured by certain pills is NOT a miracle. But God can be praised for having made it possible for humankind to obtain help by medicine. Do always praise God in Jesus name, but NEVER must you think of blaming Him, - for anything whatsoever.
WHEN GOD HEALED LAME PERSONS
IT WENT LIKE THIS!
It was not medicine which healed the lame beggar at the temple gate in Acts 3:3-10, NASB, it was a great miracle sign of God,
“3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.
4 But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, "Look at us!"
5 And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene -walk!"
7 And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
8 With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God;
10 and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.”
This great SIGN of healing by the apostle Peter, made the whole place stirred up in amazement of seeing that well known lame beggar go leaping and walking around in the temple site! Verse 9 and 10 says it all.
The Pentecostals and Charismatics stubbornly holds to the false idea of miracles and healings having been ‘inherited’ through generations of believers, and since Azusa Street 1906 it all came to full ‘blossom’ so that Christians can have God perform same type of miracles as seen in Acts.
Well keep on dreaming if you so wish, but I would rather recommend getting into reality instead. There is no Bible word or apostolic teaching saying that we can have these things in Church dispensation. The Bible proves to us it was given by Christ and the Holy Spirit for His apostles to be SIGNS so Israel could repent to Jesus.
The reason you never get God’s miracles and healings for your sick body, is not because you have ‘too little faith’ – no, it is because of the fact that God NEVER promised or ordained such powers for the Church. This was only given Israel in the time of the apostles, 28 – 60 CE.
Acts 5:12-16, NASB, pointing to miracles (signs) which were given BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES, (we certainly cannot see any apostles in the world today!) -
“12 At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's portico.
13 But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem.
14 And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number,
15 to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.
16 Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.”
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