Thank you for posting this, Truly!
There seems to be this movement afoot and I guess has been around for a while, of the return of the apostolic era bringing with it healing, signs and wonders.
The grace of God is not only damaged by the message of the law keepers but also by those who seek to add to the completed work of salvation by saying that believers, now in this life, have no disease if they only believe, and it is human reason and the carnal mind that inhibit the greater works of God in the life of the believer.
Surely this teaching of health, wealth and prosperity is set up by the enemy to create despair in the life of the believer not greater faith.
I Just walked through a health crisis. I woke up a few months ago with what I thought was a stiff neck, went to use the rest room and then found myself on the floor and had went into shock immediately with one of the most intense pains in my life.
4 hours later Chiropractor[also born gain and spirit filled] confirmed I had herniated the C6 disk in my neck. The disk had also rotated 180 degrees and wrapped the nerves and muscles on the left side of my shoulder, arm, hand and neck around itself. I could only place my left hand on my head to relieve the intense pain, that reaction is called the Bakody sign.
The MRI justified immediate and necessary neck surgery, but we could not get peace from the Lord on that option and instead trusted him. Our fellow christian brother chiropractor said something powerful, he said we will both stand on the Word for your healing and I will due my part as your Dr. and you do your part by trusting in the Lord with all your heart.
My pastor and elders all laid hands on me and prayed the prayer of healing, which I received. My healing was not instant and in fact I am still not 100%, but getting stronger every day. At around the 5th week, the Bakody sign stopped, but I could not use my left hand or arm and the pain was causing severe fatigue.
At around the 7th week I could not use my left arm and hand very, it had severe numbness running through it. The pain was the worst I had experienced with this wound. I remember laying in bed , meditating and confessing on all the healing scriptures and worshiping God and counting the trial all joy. God spoke to me in my Spirit and told me that my faith was evident and it pleased him, but I did not have to continually remind him of his word.
He asked me do you believe that my Spirit can heal you of your wounds & restore your health. I said YES Lord, He said Son, I want to remind you that faith is not reminding me of my word,always confessing my word, faith is simply resting in the fact I will do what I say I will....Weeping joyfully I said, Father....I now rest in you and your word....That very second, I encountered a peace I had not encountered ever in this type of situation, a Peace that kept sweeping over my body in warm waves.It continued, almost like it was rocking me to sleep. Before this happened it was difficult for me to sleep at all and what little I got was interrupted because my body was warring so badly with itself. I remember drifting to sleep as the peace kept waving
over me and it was about 10am. My wife woke me up at noon the next day and said I never moved once and she was crying tears of Joy. Without thinking my left arm and hand were working and the numbness was not as bad. I got to my doctor and while he was checking me out he looked at me with tears in his eyes and big smile and said, you had a visitor last night huh?
My left arm and hand were radically working and the disk was not protruding from the back of my neck and was in place. Another xray showed the herniation was going down.
I started work again last week, after being out of work for several months. I had STD insurance, which paid a lot lower than my salary, but every financial need was met. We never named and claimed anything for my health or our finances, we simply entered into rest based on belief.
Faith is not loud and proud, naming and claiming, confessing a blessing.
Faith is resting in the belief that what is unseen is already at work on your behalf. It is resting in the fact that Jesus paid it all.
I was not radically instantly healed, I walked through a fiery trial and when you count it all joy, you begin to understand what a blessing it is that God allowed you to be like Job. To be considered worthy of all that Satan thinks he can throw at you, while the Father already knows that your faith will see you through.
I say this to those here on his chat board that claim God does not use sickness, injury, or physical trauma to refine your character:
You cannot truly move in compassion to help correct a broken condition a person faces in a health crisis, unless you have been there and done it.
God uses doctors, medicine and many other practical things as gifts of healing, he also can and will heal instantly[I have witnessed it on others]
The greatest Lesson I learned was that most times with a health crisis, God is using it to refine your character or prove to Satan that though he slay me I will trust him and I will not be shaken or moved by the physical.....because my trust is based on nothing less than Jesus Christ and his righteousness!
Somebody on this thread asked me about this topic and I hope this helped you... I give it all back to the Father.
