Are you ‘waiting’ for God to heal you or are you ‘receiving’ healing
Filed under: Healing, MP3s, Receiving from God, faith
When it comes to receiving 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'.
Bible Faith receives
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 receiving 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/free_bible_teaching_mp3_downloads
Who initiated the Healing?
Filed under: Healing, Receiving from God, The Gospels, faith, scriptures
When we look at the healing ministry of Jesus in the Gospels, 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.
By studying healing in the Gospels from a point of view of 'who initiated the healing' we can see a very interesting pattern which helps us see when faith is required for healing and when it is not
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
Does healing require faith or not?
Filed under: MP3s, Receiving from God, The Gospels, faith
If you spend time reading the Gospels in the Bible, you will notice that sometimes when people were healed in Jesus' ministry, He commented on their faith. At other times faith was not present, or referred to in the account.
This has sparked debate in the church about whether faith is necessary in receiving healing or not.
Some choose to go with the scriptures where faith was NOT an issue in the healing and they use these scriptures to try to 'disprove' that faith is a necessary factor in healing. Others hold strongly to the scriptures where faith IS pointed out as the determining factor in the person receiving healing.
The problem is the Bible shows both, and we are not supposed to be picking and choosing the bits of the Bible we want to listen to, or the bits that 'prove' our doctrine. Nor are we supposed to be setting one scripture against another, trying to prove that because we can find a scripture which says 'one thing' we can 'write off' a scripture which someone else uses to show another thing!
That is NOT how we are to approach interpretting the Bible, but it often happens like that.
There have been times when I have been trying to help a person receive healing and I point out a particular scripture which shows faith as a factor in receiving healing, and the next thing, they jump quickly in to point out a scripture which they feel contradicts the one I have used, where the person received and faith is not mentioned
To be honest, we should be looking at how all of these passages fit together and endeavouring to understand why the Bible shows the 2 different sides, how they work together in the over all healing ministry, and how to know which applies in specific situations.
I have just uploaded 2 MP3s onto our website which look at this issue and I believe clearly show how to understand the Bible on this issue. The Bible shows a very specific factor that determines which approach to healing is needed in a particular situation and should solve the questions people have about whether they really do need faith or not to receive.
These 2 MP3's are actually only 1 teaching session split over 2 MP3's, so it will only take you an hour to go through them and find the Bible answers to this issue.
The MP3's can be found here:
Healing – By faith or not by faith? Part 1
Healing – By faith or not by faith? Part 2
There is a handout which goes with these teachings, listing who in the Gospels initiated the healing
Other great teaching MP3s can be found at: free_bible_teaching_mp3_downloads
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