There is no memory verse competition. Instead, you distorted and twisted the Word of God. You made it say something it didn't.
Anyone can easily put a few key words in a google search, with the word Bible after it. You will find every verse, usually one, where those occur. Then, copy and paste it, and put it in your post! It takes about a minute to do. I don't know the whole Bible by memory, although I do have a lot memorized. So, I do this all the time. No genius or amazing memory feats required. (And I do tell people to do this, all the time, too!)
Oh, I detest Word Faith as a lie from the pit of hell. It is all about half truths and twisting Scripture. So, you come on here, asking about it, with bad quotations and no addresses, how do you think I am going to respond?
To me, people who misquote verses, don't care what they actually say, whether Word Faith or anything else, have a very low view of Scripture. So yes, it is that serious to me!
PS. I was sure you were asking about it, because you just wanted to know more, one way or the other. But, there is no way I will not warn people about that heresy. I've have had friends die because they claimed a healing, and others give their life savings, ($50,000) for a 100 fold return, and they got nothing back!
I apologize if I offended you, in my zeal!
I know a married couple whose 14 year old daughter developed scoliosis.
Hunch back due to mis alignment of the spine. It’s awful it puts pressure on the
lungs, causes back and shoulder ache and spams due to poor posture. She can’t sit
or stand up straight.
The parents are WOF people and were convinced she would be healed and that by her
healing, miracles would start to happen in the church. As a result they refused to allow her
to have the surgery to correct the problem.
The surgery is no picnic and has it’s own dangers it involves splinting the spine with
metal rods, almost like fitting scaffolding to the spine. But the earlier it’s done the
easier it is and the better the results, before the body becomes too twisted and
other problems occur like damaged and scarring to the lungs, muscle problems etc.
Anyway we are now 8 years gone, the daughter is now a young woman. She has not been
spontaneously healed despite their daily prayers and insistance God will heal her.
She had to drop out of art college as she cannot sit for long, she cannot work as she is
more disabled than ever.
Doctors are saying they can still operate but it will be much more difficult and the increased
chances of more complications and now the daughter is too scared to go through with
it now that she can make her own decisions. She is very much still influenced by her
parents.
She still lives at home, it’s unlikely she could live independently due to her
disability but her parents won’t be around for ever.
Those same parents who refused to allow her to have crucial surgery. They even went so
far as to hide hospital letters from her even when she was old enough to deal with her
own letters. Letters regarding hospital apppintments which she missed as a result.
This all came to light when another friend had a dream about a letter which could not be
delivered and she told the daughter who was 18 by then. It all came out and the parents
admitted they had been hiding letters from her.
Can God heal her, yes He can. Will He, well we don’t know.
People also don’t seem to realise that God uses others to heal as well, people like
doctors, surgeons, mental health workers, etc.
Her parents still think God will heal their Daughter and all they have to do is keep
declaring her healing and prayer. They have now got it into their head that their
daughter is going to be a missionary to Japan. The reason being is that she became
interesting in learning another language and decided to pick Japanese.
So the parents think this means she will become this massive missionary and that
somehow her poor twisted back and bent body has something to do with that.
They change their story each time something different happens in their lives.
They rebuke anyone who tries to tell them they made a mistake and maybe they need to
look at what is available medical. They left our church (the one which was supposedly
going to have revival due to their daughter being healed). They got offended when
people kept saying they should consider medical intervention.
The older the daughter gets the harder it will be to correct the problem until medically it
will be impossible and the damage done to other parts of her body will be irreparable.
All in the name of WOF.
The daughter is such a beautiful talented person, amazing at art but she cannot sit up for
longer than 20 mins at a time. She can’t work, needs help just to get dressed etc.
Such a waste.