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Don’t Look To Your Faith, Look To Jesus


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#1 Candice

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Posted 23 January 2016 - 01:18 PM

Is this healing possible today?

 

Hebrews 12:2  Llooking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...
 

If you are sick, you must know that you are already healed because of the finished work of Christ. Don’t ask, “Do I have enough faith to be healed? Do I have the right kind of faith to be healed? What if I am lacking in faith?”You are focusing on yourself and your faith, instead of Christ and His finished work.

You should be asking, “Did Jesus take away this sickness? If He did, then He must have done a perfect work.” In other words, fix your eyes on Jesus and His perfect work.

AB Simpson, who lived in the 19th century, wrote an article entitled Himself. In it, he mentioned his exhausted nervous system, and broken-down heart which could have proved fatal any time. So he sought the Lord for healing. God showed him Matthew 8:17, which says that Jesus “Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses”.

AB Simpson said that though he believed that Jesus had borne away his sicknesses, he saw many hindrances which stood between him and his healing. And they all boiled down to one thing — his preoccupation with his faith! He had believed that if only he had the “right” kind of faith, he would receive his healing instantly.

He eventually came to the realization that he had to remove that last hindrance — his focus on his faith — and just rest in the finished work of Christ. That revelation marked his complete recovery from his sicknesses.

When you ask yourself, “Do I have enough faith?” you have already put faith as a hindrance between you and Jesus’ finished work. The more you focus on your faith, the more faith slips away. But if you focus on the finished work of Christ and see God’s grace toward you, God sees that as faith! Without realizing it, faith is there in your heart to believe that you will not die of what Christ Himself has already borne away completely for you, and you will see your miracle manifest!

-Joseph Prince



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Posted 25 January 2016 - 04:43 AM

I’ve both witnessed and experienced healing by Divine hand but ‘faith healing’ as a religious tenet is a red herring. I had to learn the difference the hard way. 

 

I agree that making ‘faith’ the focus is indeed a pitted path. Many dogmatically teach the concept that healing is the result of ‘pure faith’. But the catch is that the definition of ‘pure faith’ is usually left to the individual or individuals who lead the flock. That’s where the waters get murky. I have a large file of serious personal experiences with this kind of religious sheep manipulation. One in particular stands out as a turning point for me. It even made the national news. I would like to share it if you are interested. 



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Posted 25 January 2016 - 05:12 AM

I agree with you that I believe by faith God can heal but I do not believe in self proclaimed faith healers. I know of a man and woman who went to the altar of a"faith Healer" who told them that they had to leave everything in the collection box. They did, including their shoes and they were not healed (because they did not have enough faith!) The Faith healer drove away in his Big Cadillac they went home broke.