Are you ‘waiting’ for God to heal you or are you ‘receiving’ healing
When it comes to healing or getting answers to prayer, many people have the mentality of ‘waiting for God’ to do it
They pray, ask God for healing, then sit back and take a position of ‘waiting’. They say things like, ‘I am waiting for God to heal me’. They even claim this is a stand of faith they are taking, saying, ‘I am in faith, believing God, now I am just waiting for God to do it’
What people don’t realise is that this is NOT the Bible position of faith we are supposed to be in! Bible faith is not passively sitting ‘waiting for God to do it’
This mentality has ‘crept in’ to the church, even Word churches, but is not a Bible teaching. It is actually hindering many people from receiving healing from God. as well as many other answers to prayer
When it comes to salvation, do we teach people to come to the altar, pray the ’sinners pray’ to receive Jesus, then tell them, ‘Now you are just waiting for God to save you, keep coming to church, you have prayed the prayer of faith, now we are all going to stand with you and trust God to save you’.
NO, that is not how we handle salvation. The prayer of faith for salvation is a ‘receiving prayer’, not a waiting prayer
Once a person prays it, we tell them ‘they ARE saved’.
We tell people we HAVE received Jesus, not that we are ‘waiting to recieve’ or believing to receive’ Jesus
From the moment they prayed the prayer of salvation we teach them to have the attitude they ‘have recieved Jesus’
There is no ‘waiting to receive’ involved.
However, when it comes to receiving anything else from God by faith, we change the rules (the Bible does not), and suddenly go from an attitude of ‘I have received’ to an attitude of ‘I am waiting to receive’
In this powerful audio series, we examine this mentality from the Bible, looking at the attitude the Bible teaches we are supposed to have when we pray for anything, including physical healing. These teaching show that the ‘waiting’ attitude is not Biblical, and help us to see things from a Bible perspective.
As you study this series, you will see clearly how to go from ‘asking God’ for something to the point of ‘receiving it’ and walking in the full manifestation of it. We use healing as an example, showing how to receive healing from God, and to stop waiting for it!
This is a four part audio teaching, called ‘No more waiting! It’s time to Receive’
You can download this series for free at http://www.exceedingfaith.org/audio.html
Who initiated the Healing?
When we look at the ministry of Jesus, we will soon notice that in some of the accounts of people being healed, Jesus mentioned the person’s faith as being involved, while in other accounts, no mention of faith is made at all.
This has caused confusion in the church, as some teach we need faith to receive healing from God while others strongly oppose this, claiming we do not.
In the previous post we mentioned a new mp3 teaching I have put on our website that studies this issue in depth, helping us to fully understand when faith is REQUIRED for healing and when it is not.
To add to this teaching, I have now uploaded a page to our wesbite which lists the healings in Jesus’ ministry by category of ‘who initiated the healing’ – In other words, who made the initial approach, was it Jesus going to the sick person, or the sick person coming to Jesus.
This simple division between the various healings in the gospels shows a very interesting pattern, as you will notice. The healings that Jesus initiated, going to the sick person, do not reference faith, while those that were initiated by the sick person going to Jesus do.
I encourage you to listen to the accompanying MP3s which look into the doctrine behind this.
MP3 – Healing by faith or not? Part 1
MP3 – Healing by faith or not? Part 2
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