O give thanks to the Lord , for He is good; For His compassion and lovingkindness endure forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region; And did not find a way to an inhabited city. Hungry and thirsty, They fainted. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He rescued them from their distresses. He led them by the straight way, To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes]. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men! For
Lord , for He is good; For His compassion and lovingkindness endure forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region; And did not find a way to an inhabited city. Hungry and thirsty, They fainted. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He rescued them from their distresses. He led them by the straight way, To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes]. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men! For He satisfies the parched throat, And fills the hungry appetite with what is good. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them from their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, And rescued them from their destruction. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men! And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And speak of His deeds with shouts of joy!
Psalms 107:1-2, 4-9,
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Background:
✅'Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them from their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, And rescued them from their destruction.'
Good morning and God's blessings. I have been making the case through a number of reflections I have shared recently that God's designated pattern for ministry if genuinely modelled has consistently resulted in healing, miracles, deliverance or Supernatural intervention in Bible days . It was the case with the Prophets in the Old Testament including Moses,Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel‼
✅In the New Testament Jesus Christ Himself was the living example of this performing miracles as He did❗
✔He raised the dead including Lazarus who had been dead for four days :
So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. And for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” So when Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away; Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give to You.” Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise [from the dead].” Martha replied, “I know that he will rise [from the dead] in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “ I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, relies on) Me [as Savior] will live even if he dies; and everyone who lives and believes in Me [as Savior] will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed and continue to believe that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God, He who was [destined and promised] to come into the world [and it is for You that the world has waited].” When Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews who had come with her also sobbing, He was deeply moved in spirit [to the point of anger at the sorrow caused by death] and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said, “Lord, come and see.” So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him [as a close friend]!” But some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the blind man’s eyes, have kept this man from dying?” So Jesus, again deeply moved within [to the point of anger], approached the tomb. It was a cave, and a boulder was lying against it [to cover the entrance]. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days! [It is hopeless!]” Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe [in Me], you will see the glory of God [the expression of His excellence]?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised His eyes [toward heaven] and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me and listen to Me; but I have said this because of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You have sent Me [and that You have made Me Your representative].” When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” Out came the man who had been dead, his hands and feet tightly wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and release him.” So then, many of the Jews who had come to [be with] Mary and who were eyewitnesses to what Jesus had done, believed in Him. But some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
John 11:14-15, 17-18, 21-27, 33-34, 36-46 AMP
‼It was a result of the miracles of Jesus Christ that the religious leaders decided to kill him:
very modern progressive leaning church has been powerless to resist this onslaught because of a theology which probably no longer believes in or advocates for Divine intervention!
‼No Persecution? ❗Yippee❗👍🏿.But what was it that triggered persecution in the time of Jesus?
1⃣So the chief priests and Pharisees convened a council [of the leaders
in Israel], and said, “What are we doing? For this man performs many
signs (attesting miracles). If we let Him go on like this, everyone will
believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our [holy]
place (the temple) and our nation.”
John 11:47-48 AMP.
❌ On that occasion it was triggered by raising of Lazarus, a man from the dead after four days.
❌ The religious leaders wanted to put a stop to the advancement of Jesus' movement and they alleged that doing so was in the national interest. This they reasoned would prevent the Romans from taking over what little they had left of their civic and religious life free of Roman control.
❌In our contemporary church, where healings and miracles in Christ are not celebrated and where the emphasis is on inspired preaching without producing proof, many things including the supernatural of God have been subsituted away from church life❗How? You may be asking❗
❌ In response to you I will say that suffering is no longer associated with being arrested and detained for healing the sick as happened to the early church! Instead the emphasis is on patiently enduring sickness, often at the expense of the ministry of healing because WE COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW THE WILL OF GOD UNDER SUCH MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES COULD WE?
❌The subject of Paul's thorn in the flesh is ofren brought up Through the use of one remote scripture in which Paul the apostle did not experience an instant intervention in answer to prayer a theology of sickness and suffering has been assemblied⁉Folks want to issue a rationale for notvperservering in prayer because they might be resisting God or going against His plan❗
✅In the synopsis of the minstry of Jesus Christ as recounted in the goodnews of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, He remained on a constant trajectory to deliver those suffering from the affliction of sickness and diseases and different forms of 'destruction'‼
‼Destruction is what sickness and disease is!
❌It is Satan's advance oppression of an individual or groups of people with a view to hurrying them into the grave of an early death.
2⃣‼The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].
John 10:10 AMP‼
‼These are the words of Jesus the Christ‼Do they sound like a shallow health gospel ⁉
3⃣The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8 AMP
✅Jesus Christ was focused on the destruction of Satan's works. He was on a mission to destroy every attempt of the kingdom of darkness to afflict, oppress and condemn humankind‼
‼Not once did Jesus compromise on His mission‼
✅Jesus Christ exercised perfect compassion towards the sick and dying and yet HE DISPLAYED NO ACCOMODATION AND NO TOLERANCE FOR THE SICKNESSES AND DISEASES THAT AFFLICTED THEM‼
✅He DROVE out the evil beings behind their afflictions‼Jesus Christ stopped at nothing in His quest to HEAL, DELIVER AND TO REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE‼
🏹Conclusion:
In order to recover lost territory and begin experiencing the healing ministry of Jesus once more in the church, we need to ABANDON, RENOUNCE AND PART COMPANY WITH THIS DOGMA, THAT PLACES SICKNESS AND AFFLICTION AS A PROCESS TO BE ENDURED‼
❌We need to develop a healthy hostility against sickness and if we do, our churches would be filled to overflowing with a waiting list just as our hospitals are‼
✅No one who steps in a hospital has any doubt that Doctors,Nurses, Clinical staff
are on the warpath against illnesses.
✅They send you home mainly after they have RIDDED you of your illnesses.
✅When they fail to do so, they take specimens, which their biomedical scientists and radiographers and other specialists investigate until they come out with a solution‼👍🏾
✅They have been researching solutions or the cure for nearly all forms of human diseases‼
✅These human investigators of the medical and Clinical profession dedicate decades of their lifetime to finding a cure.THEY DON'T JUST ROLL OVER AND THROW UP THEIR HANDS SAYING: Que sera sera‼Whatever will be will be‼
‼Clinicians do not necessarily construct a defeatist medical ideology based on their past failures to find a cure‼No‼They keep at it until they find a cure‼THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH MUST THEREFORE CARE ABOUT SICK PEOPLE AS MUCH AS DOCTORS, NURSES AND ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DO‼
✅Keep praying and trusting God to heal the sick UNTIL PEOPLE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE HEALING‼
✅Do not quit believing God heals, simply because a loved one or someone you care about failed to get healed‼Let's learn what we can from that tragedy or the loss and perservere(to be contd)
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