Sometimes people are not healed even though they gain knowledge about the spiritual sin in their thought life that lead to their disease and have repented of it. This is where we need to look deeper into our hearts and our souls for what is blocking us from receiving healing after repentance. In this case, there is a heart change that is still needed. Knowing the problem is not always the solution – you’re going to have to line up with God all the way. God is a holy God and He is not prepared to share you with the enemy. You may want to co-habit with the enemy by holding onto your un-forgiveness, for example, but God is not going to compromise. Even as believers we don’t want to go through the narrow gate. The doorway to the kingdom is not a wide door, it is a narrow door. Wide is the path into destruction; narrow is the door into eternal life (Matthew 7 v 13). You may be looking for a way out or a way to bypass the penalty of the curse without going the extra mile, but God will not allow it. You have to line up with His Word 100%. God does not honor partial obedience. For example, both King Saul and King Solomon died prematurely for not obeying God fully (1 Chronicles 10 v 13 – 14 and 1 Kings 11 v 4 – 11). Moses never got to enter the Promised Land because he only partially obeyed God. You’ve got to do it God’s way or there’s no way.
There a several blocks to healing that can be identified in Scripture. These blocks are very common Among Christians. They hinder us from receiving the fullness of God’s blessing and healing in our lives. These blocks need to be repented of from the heart, just the same as repentance is needed in dealing with the spiritual sin in our thought lives that caused the disease.
One or even more off these reasons can be the block to Divine Healing
1. Un forgiveness
2. No Relationship with God
3. Seeking God’s Hand Instead of His Heart
4. Prayer and Fasting is Not Part of Your Lifestyle
5. Is There Strife in Your Life?
6. Looking to Man Rather than God
7. Trying to By-Pass the Penalty of the Curse
8. Pure Doubt and Unbelief
9. I’ll Believe it When I See it
10. Looking to the Symptoms Instead of the Healer – Letting Fear Enter Your Heart
11. Pride and Expecting God to Heal You Your Way
12. A Hardened Heart
13. An Un teachable Heart
14. Murmuring and Complaining
15. Misunderstandings and Incorrect Beliefs about Healing
16. Lack of Knowledge
17. You’re Just Not Doing It
18. Lack of Temple Maintenance
19. It Is Not a Disease but a Side Effect of a Drug
20. Disobedience in Tithing
21. Past or Continued Involvement in Occultism
22. For the Sake of Saving the Child Because of the Sin of the Parents
23. Is Your Disease Genetically Inherited?
24. Not Maintaining Your Victory
25. Looking for Repeated Healing Instead of Living in Divine Health
26. Having Part or Believing in any False Doctrines of Demons
27. Taking Holy Communion with sin in your Life
28. Just Giving Up
1. Un forgiveness
Mark 11 v 25-26: “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father who is in heaven may
also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop. But if you do not forgive,neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings.”
In this book I’ve explained that according to the Bible, the condition for healing is repentance from sin.
Part of repentance involves asking God for forgiveness for the sin that caused the disease. However, God’s forgiveness for you is conditional. God has clearly said in His Word that He will not forgive you if you don’t forgive every single person you have ever known, whether they are living or dead, for every single wrong thing they have done to you. Un forgiveness is a major block to healing and it is one of the reasons why our churches are filled with disease.
2. No Relationship with God
You cannot claim what does not belong to you. If you are separated from God because you have not made Jesus the Lord of your life, you are not part of God’s family. Therefore His promises which include healing are not available to you.
Mark 7 v 24 – 30: “24 And Jesus rose and went away from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
And He went into a house and did not want anyone to know [that He was there]; but it was not
possible for Him to be hidden [from public notice]. 25 Instead, at once, a woman whose little daughter had (was under the control of) an unclean spirit heard about Him and came and flung herself down at His feet. 26 Now the woman was a Greek (Gentile), a Syrophoenician by nationality. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her little daughter. 27 And He said to her, First let the children be fed, for it is not becoming or proper or right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the [little house] dogs. 28 But she answered Him, Yes, Lord, yet even the small pups under the table eat the little children’s scraps of food. 29 And He said to her, Because of this saying, you may go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter [permanently]. 30 And she went home and found the child thrown on the couch, and the demon departed.”
When this foreign woman asked Jesus for healing, He said to her, “Let the children first be filled, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” In other words what Jesus was saying to her is, “You don’t qualify. You have no right to healing because you are separated from God – you are not under His covenant. You are asking for something that does not belong to you.” There are many unsaved people from New Age and false religions who want healing from God but do not want to accept Him. They are not interested in God the Father, His Son or the Holy Spirit, they just want the “fix” so that they can get rid of their incurable illness. I have already been approached by other doctors who have seen the success of this teaching in terms of people recovering from incurable diseases. They have asked me if they can take the teaching in this book, but take God out of it so as to make it more acceptable to the world, as not all people will accept God. My answer to them was this, “To take God out of the teaching in this book is like giving people a car with no petrol in it. The car will not be able to take them anywhere. Apart from God you can do nothing.”
John 15 v 4 – 5: “4 Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in Him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.”
God has healed people who are not saved as can be found in Scripture and for example in the testimony of the lady who went to Ethiopia. There were hundreds of severely deformed and sick people that were miraculously healed on a daily basis during this mission trip. Many of them did not even know God – but it didn’t take long for them to start asking, “Who is this God?” I have seen that when people experience the power of God moving in their lives they soon wake up to realize that He is real, and are drawn to want to know more about Him and are saved. You can be healed when you are outside God’s covenant but you better get into covenant quick because the Almighty God Who healed you is the One you should serve for the rest of your life. It is better to be healed and then born again, than to not be healed and to die. If you die, you’ll never be able to be saved. You cannot get saved after death – sorry but reincarnation is a farce.
Hebrews 9 v 27: “… It is appointed for [all] men once to die, and after that the [certain] judgment.”
That is not my opinion, it is what God said. Many people will perish because they do not know God
and refused to receive the Truth that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2 v 10 – 12: “10 And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved. 11 Therefore God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and strong delusion to make them believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe in [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely on] the Truth, but [instead] took pleasure in unrighteousness.”
People who reject God and the truth of His Word will go into a greater delusion and a greater separation from God. Disease is a result of separation from God. They cannot be healed because since they are not in covenant because they are not saved.
3. Seeking God’s Hand Instead of His Heart
A hindrance to our healing is sometimes the attitude of our heart…
Isaiah 29 v 13: “And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to Me with their
mouth and honor Me with their lips but remove their hearts and minds far from Me, and their
fear and reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned by repetition [without any thought as to the meaning].”
Jesus said to the Pharisees in Mark 7 v 6: “Excellently and truly [so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These people [constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far distant from Me.”
The scriptures above talk about empty man made religion which just involves going through the motions as though it is a mechanism or meaningless ritual. This is approaching God on the basis of what some man or religion has said to do in order to receive your healing from God. If you are merely going to go through the motions and apply the information in this book like a system or a mechanism or a scientific formula, it is not going to work. You can’t fool God – He can see your heart. He is not interested in external rituals and methods – He’s looking into your heart.
Ephesians 6 v 6: “Not with eye service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” KJV
I gave a warning in the introduction that this book is not a quick fix or “A ten steps to get what you want out of God” scientific formula – as if God is like an ATM machine where you press this button and that button and God delivers. The “Name it and claim it” teaching of many modern churches today is not scriptural. God is not like a vending machine where you put in a coin and you’ll get something out. God is God – He is Mighty, Indescribable, Awesome and Sovereign. He is to be reverentially feared. We are serving Him, He is not serving us. The “Name it and claim it” preaching is a compromised new age life enhancement gospel that preaches health, wealth and prosperity. While there is nothing wrong with these things and it should be a part of every Christian’s life, our focus should not be to seek God’s hand but to seek His Heart. We need to get to know Him through time spent in intimate fellowship with Him. We need to love God and serve Him, not for what we are going to get out of Him, but simply because He is worthy. Healing, wealth and all those other things will just be a by-product of getting to know the Father more. Healing is not the prime product.
Matthew 6 v 33: “But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and all these things taken together will be given to you besides.”
The information and teaching in this book, on both a scientific and Biblical level points you back to getting right with God and developing a more intimate love relationship with Him. If you try to use Him like an ATM machine, it’s not going to work. Your prayers for healing are in vain and God is not going to honor them because they are fraudulent.
James 4 v 3: “[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and selfish motives…”
You need to seek a relationship with God first. Just because you go to church and occasionally read the Bible does not mean you have a relationship with Him. How can you build a relationship or friendship with somebody without spending time with them? You need to spend time with God – you need to dwell in the secret place of the Most High that Psalm 91 talks about. On a daily basis you need to get into that quiet place where it is just you and Him.
Psalm 27 v 4: “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for and [insistently]
require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His Presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider and inquire in His temple.”
You need to spend time in God’s Presence, fellow shipping with Him. Fellowship involves talking to Him about the desires and plans of His heart, not just yours. Fellow shipping involves ministering to God through worship. Then after worship, petition can come. God once brought me to a place in my prayer life where the only thing He would allow me to ask of Him was for more of Him.
Exodus 33 v 13: “Father show me Your ways, that I may know You [progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with You, perceiving and recognizing and Understanding You more strongly and clearly].”
God sent His only Son to die for me and if He never did another thing for me,
that would be more than enough. The gift of salvation and the privilege of a relationship
with God is more than enough – the rest is just a bonus. The lesson here is to seek God’s heart, not just His hand. Seek Him and love Him for Who He is, not just for what He can do for you.
Jesus said in John 4 v 23: “A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true
(genuine) worshippers will worship the father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these His worshippers.”
4. Prayer and Fasting is Not Part of Your Lifestyle
This block to healing is very similar to the block I’ve just discussed about seeking God’s hand and not His heart. Failure to get away in prayer and fasting has to do with a lack of closeness in a personal and intimate relationship with God the Father.
Isaiah 58 v 1 – 8: “1 Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to My
people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins! 2 Yet they seek, inquire for, and require Me daily and delight [externally] to know My ways, as [if they were in reality] a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God [in visible ways]. 3 Why have we fasted, they say, and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no knowledge [of it]? Behold [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins], you find profit in your business, and [instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do] you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor. 4[The facts are that] you fast only for strife and God sent His only
Debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? [Is true fasting merely mechanical?] Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have]? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? 6[Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to lose the bonds of the wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke? 7 Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house – when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood? 8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.”
There is much confusion in the people of the Church regarding fasting and the reasons for it. In this block to healing I’ve got to confront some bad teaching that is very common in the church all over the world today. This teaching uses verse 6 in Isaiah 58 to say, “The fasting prayer (which involves abstaining from food) is the most powerful prayer – when all else fails, the fasting prayer will move the hand of God and set you free.” This teaching has taken Isaiah 58 v 6 out of context and no wonder it is not working. You see, fasting and prayer was not designed to receive anything from God. You pray and fast to meet God in relationship – to seek His face and to draw close to Him whether you receive anything or not.
In Matthew 9 v 14 – 15 John’s disciples came to Jesus and said, “How come Your disciples don’t fast and pray like we do?” Jesus said, “Because I am here. When I’m gone, they too shall fast.” That has to do with relationship. Fasting is where you set aside everything, including eating, so as to spend a period of time where you are totally alone with God and His Word for the purpose of relationship. This is about spending time just sitting at the Father’s feet, to love Him, fellowship with Him, make Him your focus and give Him the opportunity to speak to you.
In Matthew 17 v 14 – 21, the disciples were not able to cast out an evil spirit and heal a man’s son who had epilepsy. After Jesus healed the boy, the disciples went to Him and asked Him why they were not able to do it themselves. Jesus answered, “But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” The disciples had gotten so involved in making a science out of this new ministry of healing in Jesus’ Name that they forgot that they had to be in close relationship with the Father and Jesus.
The message here is this, if you don’t get away in prayer and fasting as part of your lifestyle, it will block the hand of God to heal you because that means that you are not making your relationship with Him the center of your life. You can’t make a law out of this but just out of interest, fasting for one day a week is very good for your health.
However, fasting involves more than just giving up food as a sacrifice for so many days. In Isaiah chapter 58 the Israelite’s were praying, fasting and seeking God for healing because they were sick and full of disease. They were getting disgruntled with God because He was not answering their prayers. There are many people like that today who are questioning God just like the Israelite’s were, “Hello God! I’m fasting and I’m praying but I’m not healed yet!” When the Israelite’s asked God why He wasn’t listening to them, He explained that it was because they were merely fasting and praying as a mechanical, external ritual.
Meanwhile they were living in strife, debate, division, accusation, envy and jealousy. In Isaiah 58 v 7 – 8 God changes the identification of the fast He’s interested in and this is a big secret to receiving: God explained that prayer and fasting is about serving God by walking in love toward others.
The fast that will free you from bondage and oppression, undo heavy burdens and break every enslaving yoke in your life (Isaiah 58 v 6) has nothing to do with going without food. The fast that God has called you to has to do with getting involved in the interests of strangers, starting to care for people and getting back into love with your family (Isaiah 58 v 7). And in your service to God, He will meet you and heal you (Isaiah 58 v 8). The “fast” that God calls us to is the love walk!
So fasting is not only about a love relationship with God, but also about walking in love in your relationships with others. If you say you love God, but are not loving your brother because you are into hatred and strife, your prayers and fasting are going to hit a brick wall and the skies of Heaven are going to seem closed to you. You cannot say that you love God and have a personal relationship with Him while you hate your brother. Right here is a big missing link to health.
1 John 4 v 20: “If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother [in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen cannot love God, Whom he has not seen.”
5. Is There Strife in Your Life?
James 3 v 16: “For where there is envying and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.”
This is a very similar block to the one I have just discussed above. When you are living in strife, you open the door to every evil work in your life. Strife includes bickering, arguing, fighting, gossiping, heated disagreements and angry undercurrents. On page 194 I discussed strife in detail and explained how it puts your body into a toxic state of stress and illness where there are high levels of stress hormones that affect almost every organ system in your body in a harmful way. One of the systems that is damaged is your immune system. When your immune system is weakened it is not going to be able to kill cancer, viruses, bacteria etc and therefore your body will not be able to heal. Strife will block you from receiving your healing – that is true both Bionically and medically. If you continue in strife, the high levels of stress hormones will continue to damage your body, keeping you in a toxic state of illness where your body is not able to heal.
The other problem is that you need faith in order to receive healing. However, the Bible says that faith works by love. Galatians 5 v 5 – 6: “For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit’s [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope. For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcised (i.e. the law) counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.”
Therefore if you are not operating in love because you are operating in strife, your faith will not work.
Some of the worst things that have happened to a person have not been a gunshot, or a hit with the fist or a stab with a knife. They have been the result of the sharp tongue of other Christians! Those same individuals who take their tongue and cut somebody to pieces will come to church the next Sunday and testify about how much they love God. They will quote the Word of God and say, “My God shall supply all my needs. By His Stripes I am healed.” They make all the right confessions and wonder why no money comes in and why sickness stays with them. It is useless to speak out faith confessions like, “I thank You Lord for my healing – By the stripes of Jesus I am healed (Isaiah 53 v 5)” if you are treating your spouse or your fellow brother in Christ like dirt. If you are speaking a faith confession over your life that “The Lord is going to meet all my needs according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4 v 19)” but you are a gossiper, slanderer and division maker who perpetually lives in strife, you may as well forget that faith confession and find a way to meet that need yourself. You have cut the life line between you and God because you are violating the law of love. Remember it all starts in your mind – don’t meditate on negative thoughts about anybody because that will hinder your love walk, which will then hinder your faith – which will then hinder you from receiving your healing from God. Can you afford not to walk the love walk? Can you afford to live in strife? Can you afford to hold onto that bitterness and un-forgiveness? Can you afford not to love yourself?
This is the bottom line – if you are not walking in love, your faith will not work and you will not receive your healing…because faith works by love. When you get your life and your actions lined up with the Word of God, and you place a strong guard on your tongue, you will find the love walk becoming automatic. Then it will dawn on you that while you are walking the love walk, you are not struggling with your faith, you are not having to make things happen, it is happening automatically as you walk in love. Your faith is strong, and faith works by love – God’s love – this is the God kind of faith and the love that conquers all.
6. Looking to Man Rather than God
I’m not against doctors and other healthcare workers otherwise I would not be a doctor myself. We do have a valuable role to play. For example as a doctor I can make a diagnosis – I can tell you what disease you have and what sin in your life or your thoughts lead to the development of that disease. However, if you look to me or to other doctors instead of seeking God for your healing, you’ve got a big block. You’ve got to look to God as your Source, not to man. As a doctor I am simply a sign on the side of the road, pointing you in the right direction, I am not your source. Don’t look at me because if you look at me you must realize that I’m looking to somebody else – I’m looking to My Heavenly Father, I’m looking to Jesus, I’m depending on the Holy Spirit.
There is a story in the Old Testament about King Asa. God had already proven Himself to King Asa by helping him in previous wars. However King Asa’s heart was hardened and he did not trust God in war or in his personal life. The Bible says that this is the reason why he died.
2 Chronicles 16 v 7 – 8 and 12 – 13: “7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah
and said to him, Because you relied on the king of Syria and not on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a huge host with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied then on the Lord, He gave them into your hand. 12 In the thirty ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet – until his disease became very severe, yet in His disease he did not seek the Lord, but relied on the physicians. 13 and Asa slept with His fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.”
God’s people have ended up looking to man for help, in part because of the failure of the Church. I mentioned in the beginning of this book that on average only 2% to 5% of people who are prayed for in the Church are actually healed. God’s children are perishing and many pastors seem to be doing nothing about it. Most churches preach to people that they must believe in God and they tell them how to get to Heaven, but they don’t preach about the consequences of sin in the area of disease. Sanctification for healing is a dimension that is not being taught in the Church today. The Church is not teaching why healing does not come. When the members of the church congregation come to the elders for prayer to be healed, they do not even consider that there may be a sin issue that needs to be dealt with first. They are anointing with oil, but they totally forget about the second half of the Scripture in James 5 v 14-15 which talks about confessing sin and being restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart.
Because the church is not offering any real answers, God’s people have nowhere to turn except to man.However, in this book I have given you knowledge and insight into disease from God’s perspective. Now you have no excuse to turn to man. It is important that we seek God and look to Him as our Source for healing. Looking to man brings a curse.
Jeremiah 17 v 5 and 7 – 8: “5 Thus says the Lord, Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who
trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord. 7[Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought nor shall it cease yielding fruit.”
7. Trying to By-Pass the Penalty of the Curse
You want your healing but you are not prepared to go the right route to get it. Instead of repentance and sanctification where you deal with the sin behind the Disease, you would rather take prescription drugs and use other modalities of medicine. This is merely an attempt to by-pass the penalty of the curse. You are wasting your time. When there is a spiritual sin behind a disease, no doctor or any form of medicine will be able to do anything more than merely manage the disease with prescription drugs that often complicate the disease with side effects. It also brings in occultism and sorcery which is another block to healing. The only way for the disease to be totally eradicated and for complete healing to come is by going through the right Doorway to get it and that is repentance and sanctification of the heart.
8. Pure Doubt and Unbelief
If you don’t believe that God will heal you, the bottom line is that He won’t. Jesus said in Matthew 9 v 29: According to your faith and trust and reliance [on the power invested in Me] be it done to you.” Doubt and unbelief is a major block to healing.
Even Jesus was not able to heal people in His own town because of doubt and unbelief: Mark 6 v 5 –
6: “5 And He was not able to do even one work of power there, except that He laid hands on a few sickly people [and] cured them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief (their lack of faith in Him)…”
9. I’ll Believe it When I See it
If you need to see a sign or miracle from God before you will believe that He can heal you…you won’t be healed. How many of us have said, “God if you do this, then I’ll believe You?” There are many people who will respond to this teaching by saying, “If what you say is true, if God really heals today then prove it. Do something and then we’ll believe you.” Who do you think I am? I’m not a magician that performs magic tricks. I couldn’t heal a fly with a headache if I tried. I’m just God’s servant. These people will come to me because they are sick, but in their hearts they are saying, “If what you teach is really from God then do something. If you can’t, it’s not.” What they are doing is tempting me to tempt God. An attitude like this will hinder your healing because you are not to look to me or to man – you are to look to God and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit and His Word. The devil also tempted Jesus to “do something” when He was fasting for 40 days in the desert:
Matthew 4 v 1 – 7: “1 Then Jesus was led (guided) by the [Holy] Spirit into the wilderness (desert) to be tempted (tested and tried) by the devil. 2 And He went without food for 40 days and 40 nights, and later He was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to Him, If You are God’s Son, command these stones to be made [loaves of] bread. 4 But He replied, It has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil took Him into the holy city and placed Him on a turret (pinnacle, gable) of the temple sanctuary. 6 And he said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge over You, and they will bear You up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said to Him, On the other hand it is written also, You shall not tempt, test thoroughly or try exceedingly the Lord your God.”
If I don’t become invisible to you and if you don’t look to God the Father behind me – if you look to
man for your healing then you’ve got a block. People who are chasing signs and wonders are going to end up disappointed. Jesus said that an evil and adulterous nation seeks a sign:
John 4 v 46 – 48: “46 So Jesus came to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was lying ill in Capernaum. 47 Having heard that Jesus came back from Galilee, he went a way to meet Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was lying at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, unless you see signs and miracles happen, you [people] will never believe (trust, have faith) at all.” Matthew 12 v 38 – 39: “Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, Teacher, we desire to see a sign and miracle from You [proving that You are what You claim to be]. But He replied to them, An evil and adulterous generation (a generation morally unfaithful to God) seeks and demands a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”
Signs and wonders follow them that believe – not the other way around. We are to seek God and believe His Word, not the signs and wonders as the foundation of our faith. Disease is as a result of separation from God in some area of our life. The key is faith in God and His Word on the basis of an intimate relationship with Him, not on the basis of signs and wonders.
10. Looking to the Symptoms Instead of the Healer – Letting Fear Enter Your Heart
Matthew 14 v 22 – 31: “22 Then He directed the disciples to get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent away the crowds. 23 And after He had dismissed the multitudes, He went up into the hills by Himself to pray. When it was evening He was still there alone. 24 But the boat was by this time out on the sea, many furlongs [a furlong is one-eighth of a mile] distant from the land, beaten and tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them. 25 And in the fourth watch [between 3:00 – 6:00 a.m.] of the night, Jesus came to them walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, It is a ghost! And they screamed out with fright. 27 But instantly He spoke to them saying, Take courage! I AM! Stop being afraid!
28 And Peter answered Him, Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water. 29 He said, Come! So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and he came toward Jesus. 30 But when he perceived and felt the strong wind, he was frightened, and he began to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me [from death]! 31 Instantly Jesus reached out His hand and caught and held him, saying to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
If you look at your symptoms rather than the Healer you are going to sink into fear and unbelief, just like Peter sank when he focused on the storm rather than on Jesus. However at least Peter got out of the boat! At least he tried which is more than many of us have ever done. When it comes to your healing, you need to keep your focus on God and His Word. If you are waiting for your symptoms to go away before you will believe, you are going to be waiting a long time. If you are waiting for your healing before you look to the Healer, you are going to be waiting for your healing for a long time! You see, the symptoms of your disease are just the fruit of the problem. Get to the root –
get into the Word and get sanctified from the sin behind the disease. Get your eyes off your disease and off your symptoms. Get your eyes back on the Lord and His Word and keep them there! When your eyes are on your symptoms and your disease – you will sink into fear and unbelief. When your eyes are on the Lord and His word you will rise up in faith. Fear and faith are opposing spiritual forces. Both demand to be fulfilled and both project into the future. Fear will quench your faith and faith will quench your fears. You have to choose which one will rule you.
2 Timothy 1 v 7: “God has not given you a spirit of fear, but power, love and a sound mind.”
Romans 8 v 15: For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing son ship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!”
11. Pride and Expecting God to Heal You Your Way
If you read all the miraculous healing that Jesus performed in the Bible, He never did exactly the same thing twice. Once He put mud on a blind man’s eyes, one woman received healing by touching His garment and other times He just spoke the word and healing came. We can’t expect God to work a miracle in our lives exactly the same way as He did for somebody else. Sometimes we get our own ideas of exactly how God should heal us and we try to put Him in a box. We tell Him what He’s going to do, how He’s going to do it and when He’s going to do it, exactly within the terms we have set.
2 Kings 5 v 1 – 14 tells the story of Naaman who was the captain of the army of the King of Syria. He
was considered a very great and distinguished man. The Bible says he was a mighty man of valor. However he had leprosy. He heard about Elisha in Israel and that he might be able to heal him. So he traveled a long way to see Elisha. The real kicker of the story is that Elisha did not even come out to meet him. Elisha sent a message with a servant telling Naaman to go and wash in the river Jordan seven times and then he would be healed. This certainly did not go down well with Naaman’s ego – he was a very important man! Elisha should have come out to greet and honor him!
2 Kings 5 v 11 – 14: “11 But Naaman was angry and went away and said, Behold, I thought he
would surely come out to me and stand and call on the Name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and heal the leper.” See here Namaan is setting out his terms of exactly how God should heal him. He was saying, “God, this is the way it should be done.” He had it all figured out as to how it was going to go.
“12 Are not Abana and Pharper, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in rage. 13 And his servants came near and said to him, My father, if the prophet had bid you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean? 14 Then he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, as the man of God had said, and his flesh was restored like that of a little child, and he was clean.”
Naaman had a spiritual problem of pride and it nearly cost him his healing. Healing begins with sanctification of the heart, which is getting rid of sin in our thoughts and life. However repentance has to start with acknowledging that the sin is there in the first place. Some people are too blinded by their own self righteousness and are too proud to admit to any sin in their life. This makes them appear holy when they are not and it is an existence that is fraudulent. God hates pride, hypocrisy and fraud.
1 John 1 v 8 – 10: “8 If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts]. 9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought and action]. 10 If we say (claim) we have not sinned, we contradict His Word and make Him out to be false and a liar, and His Word is not in us [the divine message of the Gospel in not in our hearts].”
Proverbs 28 v 13: “He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes his sins will obtain mercy.”
Psalm 32 v 3 and 5: “3 When I kept silent [before I confessed], my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long… 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord [continually unfolding the past till all is told] – then You [instantly] forgave me the guilt and iniquity of my sin.”
Pride is a dangerous issue because it will block you from receiving your healing and produce a fall. Proverbs 16 v 18: “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” There are many people that become nervous, uptight and defensive when approached about the sin in their personal life that is causing their disease. What are they afraid of? God already knows the depths of their heart – you can’t hide anything from Him! It’s a scary thing to be open, transparent and honest these days because we just can’t trust each other. When something is hidden in the dark in secret, the devil has a foothold in your life. Once it’s confessed and out in the open, it breaks the devil’s power over you. If you want to be set free from your disease, you have got to confess your faults.
James 5 v 16: “Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your
offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a
spiritual tone of mind and heart].”
Isaiah 57 v 15: “For thus says the high and lofty One – He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name
is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin].”
12. A Hardened Heart
There are people who are blinded by their own self righteousness or are too proud to admit that they have sin in their life. Their heart is hardened and they are unrepentant of their sin. They are not going to change. The sin is denied, justified or condoned. They continue in their flagrant or habitual sin because their heart is hardened. The only way that these people will receive their healing is to humble themselves before God, with deep conviction and heartfelt repentance.
Psalm 51 v 17: “My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and
a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.”
Isaiah 57 v 15: “For thus says the high and lofty One – He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name
is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin].”
You need to repent from the heart…
13. An Un teachable Heart
In Matthew 5 v 3 Jesus said “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.”The phrase “poor in spirit” means that your heart is open and you are teachable. You are not stubborn, you are not wise in your own eyes and you are not rebellious. If I am going to be able to help you at all, you have got to be teachable. I cannot bring you the kingdom of Heaven which according to Romans 14 v 17 is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost if you are not teachable.
Proverbs 5 v 11 – 13: “11 And you groan and mourn when your end comes, when your flesh and
body are consumed, 12 And you say, How I hated instruction and discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor submitted and consented to those who instruct me.”
There are some people who are just totally un-teachable. They are wise in their own eyes and unwilling to receive instruction and reproof that would bring them to repentance of their sin so that they could be healed.
14. Murmuring and Complaining
One of the things that provoked and angered God most about the Israelite’s when they were in the
wilderness on their way to the promised land, was that in spite of all the supernatural miracles He performed to save and provide for them, they still continued to murmur, grumble and complain. In I Corinthians chapter 10 Paul was talking about this and in verses 10 – 11 he writes: “Nor discontentedly complain as some of them did – and were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer (death). Now these things befell them by way of a figure [as an example and warning to us]; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period).”
In Numbers 12 v 1 – 13, Miriam and Aaron got leprosy for grumbling and murmuring against the wife
of Moses. Murmuring, grumbling, complaining and ungratefulness affects your health and an attitude like this will block God’s healing and blessing flowing into your life.
15. Misunderstandings and Incorrect Beliefs about Healing
Misunderstandings based on incorrect beliefs about the Bible are a major block to healing. One of
the blocks to healing mentioned earlier is unbelief. Unbelief means not believing in God or that He
will heal. However unbelief also involves ignorance (which is addressed in the block below) and incorrect teaching. There are many denominational sacred cows of theology and doctrine that do not match the Word of God. Some of these misunderstandings and denominational clichés include:
• I’m bringing God glory in my disease.
• My disease brings me closer to God – it is His chastening.
• It might not be God’s will to heal me. The justification for this belief is Paul’s thorn in the flesh.
• It might not be God’s will to heal me because my allotted time on earth is up.
• Healing is not for today – it passed away with the apostles 200 years ago.
16. Lack of Knowledge
God said in Isaiah 5 v 13 – 14 : “My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened herself without measure…”
In Hosea 4 v 6 God said that His people perish because of lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a form of knowledge but it is very dangerous to our health. Some people are not healed when they are prayed for because they lack the knowledge of God’s principles concerning healing. Therefore they do not know how to line themselves up with His Word so that they are in a position to receive from Him.
Proverbs 9 v 10-11: “The reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning (the chief and choice part) of Wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and understanding. For by me [Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied and the years of your life shall be increased.”
That is why in this book I hope to give you knowledge, understanding and wisdom on how to apply
God’s principles of healing and the prevention of disease.
17. You’re Just Not Doing It
James 1 v 22 and 25: “22But be doers of the Word [obey the Message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. 25But he who looks carefully in to the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to do it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).”
The teaching and principles in this book are not going to do anything for you until you put it into practice and apply it to your life.
18. Lack of Temple Maintenance
1 Corinthians 6 v 19 – 20: “Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.”
Our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit and we need to honor, value and respect it as such. If you asked me to pray for you for healing, but the disease is a result of negligence and not looking after your body, do you think God is going to answer my prayer? No. If you are drinking a liter of fizzy drinks every day, loading your food with sugar, preservatives and processed fat, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without adequate sleep and rest and/or not making exercise a priority in your life, then you cannot expect God to heal you, whatever your excuse is.
If you are not being a good steward of your body, you are going to pay a high price.
19. It Is Not a Disease but a Side Effect of a Drug
Many people are on a wide variety of medical drugs – their bathroom cupboard looks like a pharmacy. For example, diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) are in epidemic proportions world-wide and these diseases often occur together. A diabetic who also has heart disease can end up taking more than 13 tablets every day. Medical drugs carry with them side effects which are often a “Pandora’s box of hell.” The fourth largest cause of death is adverse reactions to prescription drugs. You may be suffering from what seems to be a disease, which is actually a side effect of a drug you are taking. For example a stomach ulcer is caused by a thought life dominated by fear, anxiety and stress.
However it can also be caused by the long term use of anti-inflammatories. Therefore check the package insert of the medication you are taking. If you don’t have a package insert, go to your local pharmacy as they should have a book that contains all the drugs and their side effects. There is no point trying to minister to a side effect of a drug – there is no healing for the side effects of a drug. Many people are wondering why they are not getting healed of a disease when in fact it is a side effect of a drug.
20. Disobedience in Tithing
Malachi 3 v 8 – 11: “8 Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob or defraud Me. But you say, In what way do we rob and defraud You? [You have withheld your] tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with the curse, for you are robbing Me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out for you a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer [insects and plagues] for your sake and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine drop its fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts.”
Often when an Old Testament scripture is quoted, people will dismiss it by saying, “I’m in the New Testament, I’m not under law.” Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek and the law of tithes was only given 435 years later. You must understand that everything you have actually does not belong to you, it belongs to God – He has just entrusted you to be a steward of it. I believe that one of the primary purposes of tithing is to test what pulls your heart strings the most – your wallet or your love for God?
Jesus said in Mathew 6 v 24: “24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions or whatever is trusted in.)” If God is not really number one in your life because you love your money more, you’re going to struggle giving away that 10% tithe. However if your affection is set on God, giving Him back that 10% won’t be an issue for you because you understand that it is His anyway. Tithing is actually a commandment, not a request if you feel like it or if you’re having a good month. When you are in disobedience to God’s Word in any area, and that includes not tithing, you open yourself up to the devil. What you may not realize is that if you don’t give that 10% to God – it goes to the devourer. According to a national statistic in America in 2002, the percentage of money given back to God in tithes and offerings from the gross national income is 2,7%. Where is the rest going? To pay medical bills and the debt load! When we walk in obedience, the blessings are automatic. When we are in disobedience, the curse will surely come. In the introductory chapters in this book I explained that part of the curse involves disease according to Deuteronomy chapter
28. If you want healing and to enjoy the fullness of what God has for you, withholding your tithe is not
an option. And while we are talking about putting God first – is He first in your time? I don’t want to get legalistic on this but maybe we shouldn’t just be using the 10% gauge with our material goods, how about the first fruits of our time? It’s just a challenge.
1 John 5 v 21: “Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods) – [from anything and
everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life].”
21. Past or Continued Involvement in Occultism
So long as you continue to be involved in occultic practices of any kind, you cannot expect to receive any healing. You must decide who is your master – Satan or the Living God? You cannot have one foot in each camp – it is either one or the other. Occultism includes being involved in Satanism or any other form of false religion that teaches anything other than the Word of God (the Bible) and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Occultism involves contacting mediums, consulting witch doctors, wizards or some other occultic practitioner, dabbling in sorcery and even contacting evil spirits by means of the Ouija board game. What do you think makes that board move and spell out those words? It is the first medium of contact with Satan in children. Levitation, table tipping and spoon bending are all part of the kingdom and the power of Satan. There are even some healthcare modalities that are part of the occult such as Eastern mysticism and yoga which are based on the demonic foundation of Kundalini. Looking into the future or trying to control aspects of the future through a fortuneteller or any medium instead of consulting God and His Word is idolatry and makes that person a “god” in your life that you trust in. Our knowledge and wisdom comes from the Word of God, not the study of creation such as the sun, moon, stars or what a diviner, astrologer or false prophet has to say about the past, present and future. Past involvement or continued involvement in occultic practices, thinking or modalities of healing that are not of God will prevent healing. Until you repent for this, the devil still has a foothold in your life and it will block your healing.
Occultic involvement and witchcraft in previous generations of your family that have not been repented for can also open the door for disease in your life and block your healing. Part of occultism is witchcraft and sorcery relating to the chronic use of prescription drugs as a way of life while the underlying sin behind the disease is not dealt with.
22. For the Sake of Saving the Child Because of the Sin of the Parents
This point is very hard to take but unfortunately there is often a harsh reality to rejecting God and walking in sin. I do not want to be insensitive to those parents who have suffered the terrible tragedy of losing a child. I am certainly not implying that this point refers to all cases where a child was lost.
Sometimes sin of the parents can block healing. it also affects our children. Children can become sick because of the sin of the parents. In 2 Samuel 13 – 14, there was a curse of death on David and Bathsheba’s child. The child died because of the sin of the parents (murder and adultery). 1 Kings 14 v 1 – 13 tells the story of Jeroboam who was an evil king and his son who was sick. There is a tremendous statement in this story about God taking a child in death. God looked down from heaven and saw that there was goodness in this child, but if this child was allowed to live, his disobedient parents who rejected God and His ways would pervert this child’s heart and God would lose him to Himself forever. So God did not heal the child and allowed him to die in order to preserve him for eternity.
1 Kings 14 v 1 – 13: “1 Then Abijah [the little] son of Jeroboam became sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, that you may not be recognized as Jeroboam’swife, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that I should be king over this people. 3 Take ten loaves, some cakes and a bottle of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child. 4 Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went [twenty miles] to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. 5 And the Lord said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her. When she came she pretended to be another woman.
6But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam, Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy news for you. 7 Go,tell Jeroboam, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My People Israel 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you – and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept my commandments and followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes, 9 but have done evil above all who were before you; for you have made yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke Me to anger and have cast Me behind your back – 10 Therefore behold I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from [him] every male, both bond and free, in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away dung till it is all gone. 11 Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and any who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat. For the Lord has spoken it. 12 Arise therefore [Ano, Jeroboam’s wife], get to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam’s family shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good and pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.”
This story gives a tremendous insight. You cannot make a law or doctrine out of it, but it does explain why God allows some children to be taken in disease or accidents. According to the words of Jesus, it appears that each child that is born into the world has a guardian angel assigned to him who is delegated by divine command to accompany the child through life and watch over him for his good.
Matthew 18 v 10: “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you,
That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.” KJV
Although the angel’s purpose is to protect the child, it is obvious that he has not been granted unlimited authority in this respect, but his protection is confined within certain limits. If this were not so, no children would die. The fact is the Bible shows us in 1 Kings chapter 4 that if a child of wicked parents shows spiritual promise, the Lord may permit the child to be taken from them so that he will not grow up in an evil environment that will contaminate him. In observing human nature there is sometimes a possibility that someone who God really wants for eternity could be lost to Him forever by falling away or situations in life separating them from God totally. When children die in their youth we have a tendency to think that this is a great tragedy. But this is not always true. God may foresee circumstances ahead in which it would be far better for the little one to be removed from the scene and taken by the angels to Paradise where the child will be properly looked after and preserved for eternity.
Whether or not the parents are Christians who love the Lord has much to do with the fate of the child.
According to 1 Corinthians 7 v 14, children are sanctified and made holy by believing parents. In Acts 16 v 31 Paul said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ [give yourself up to Him, take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this applies both to] you and your household as well.”
23. Is Your Disease Genetically Inherited?
Do other family members and those in generations before you have the same disease that you are
suffering from? Or do they have other diseases that have the same spiritual root that is behind the disease that you have? For example different members in a family tree can have depression, weight problems, diabetes and strokes. The spiritual root behind all these diseases is a low self-esteem and self-hatred and that is what is running through the family tree. Similarly there may be ADHD, epilepsy, dyslexia, color blindness, autism, learning disabilities and homosexuality in different members in the various generations – a deaf and dumb spirit is behind all of these diseases and it was given a foothold through a marriage where the woman dominated and ruled the home while the man sat passively in the background. If there is a similarity between your disease and your family members, you may be suffering from a disease that is genetically inherited.
24. Not Maintaining Your Victory
.” The knowledge that I have given you about how to get free is that same knowledge that will keep you free. In other words, when you apply these principles that I am teaching you and God heals you, you need to keep applying those principles even after you are healed. For example if you had depression because of a low self-esteem, and then you changed your thinking by renewing your mind with the Word concerning who you are in Christ and God healed you, you need to continue to think of yourself according to who you are in Christ. If you slip back into your old bad mind sets of a low self-esteem – guess what? The depression is going to come back and most probably worse than ever before.
Mathew 12 v 43 – 45: “But when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through
dry [arid] places in search of rest, but it does not find any. Then it says, I will go back to my house from which I came out. And when it arrives it finds the place unoccupied, swept, put in order, and decorated. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there. And the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.”
You see, when the enemy has been removed, he will come back to see if you are for real. The enemy
knows what it took to gain access to your life and he will try it again, but I have now given you the knowledge and tools to keep you free. When Jesus healed one man in the temple He said to him, “Go and sin no more or a worse thing may come upon you.” (John 5 v 14). If you fall back into the same roots of sin, then your chances of keeping your healing are not good. You have got to maintain your victory. If you don’t, it is a block to keeping your healing.
25. Looking for Repeated Healing Instead of Living in Divine Health
I just explained in the point above that you need to continue to apply God’s principles of health even after you are healed. There are some people who get healed, then slip back into their old sin, get sick again and then keep expecting God to heal them again. The same principles that will help you be healed are the same principles, which when consistently applied to your life, will keep you in divine health. God is not interested in healing you repeatedly, because God’s perfect will is not healing, His perfect will is that you don’t get sick in the first place.
3 John 1 v 2: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul prospers.”
26. Having Part or Believing in any False Doctrines of Demons
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27. Taking Holy Communion with sin in your Life
As Paul Explains . Going into Holy Communion and Having Holy Communion with sin in your love . turns over to Illness and sickness and can end up in death !
1Co 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
1Co 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1Co 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
1Co 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1Co 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
28. Just Giving Up
This block to healing is where you look at your symptoms and your prognosis, you look at the word “incurable” and the limited life span the doctors have given you, and you give into those labels and accept all this as the truth, rather than living by faith and not by sight and pursuing healing in the face of what everything in the physical realm says. If you have been diagnosed with what is considered an incurable disease, I would like to strongly encourage you to reject the label or the limited time span that the doctors have said you have left. If you give into it that is exactly what will happen. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23 v 7). Obviously you must not go into denial, you have to acknowledge the facts.
However, there is hope! No disease is incurable when God’s conditions for healing are met. The Bible says that the spirit of man will sustain him in his infirmity:
Proverbs 18 v 14: “The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?” King James Version: “The spirit of man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
I say to you, “Wake up Spirit of man! Get up! Take your place in the land of the living!” There is something that has to happen deep inside you for your so called incurable disease to be overcome and that is you must have the will to live! You must stop being hopeless and full of despair, just waiting for the fatalistic end of some conclusion. The Lord made a phenomenal statement to Joyce Meyer one day, “You can be pitiful or you can be powerful – make your choice.” Pity is like super glue that will bind you to your disease and keep you in your pit. Encourage yourself in the Lord – stand up spirit of man! Get up son or daughter of God! You have an awesome destiny and call of God on your life to fulfill in your generation that God saw from the foundation of the world!
Ephesians 2 v 10: “For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ
Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].” Only when you have finished that call, then you can lay down your spirit, and say, thank you very much!
Psalm 30 v 9: “What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit (the grave)? Will the
dust praise You? Will it declare Your Truth and faithfulness to men?”
Isaiah 38 v 18: “For Sheol (the place of the dead) cannot confess and reach out the hand to You, death cannot praise and rejoice in You; they who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness [to Your promises; their probation is at an end, their destiny is sealed].”
I want you to say this out loud to yourself, “I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord!” (Psalm 118 v 17).
Does God get any glory by losing you prematurely off this planet? God does not need you in Heaven
before your allotted time is up because you are of no earthly good in heaven. If you are not 120 years old yet, it is not time for you to kick the bucket – you still have work to do for God. If you’ve lost your purpose for living, you need to seek God until you find it again. You cannot retire – you need to re-fire! God can use you mightily if you will just make yourself available to Him. We need you. Your family needs you. Your cities need you. Mankind needs you. We need your wisdom. If you waste the last part of your life waiting to die, Moses is going to be waiting in heaven for you and he is going to put his finger in your face because he didn’t start his ministry until he was 80. At that age he ended up pastoring one of the largest churches in the history of mankind which included 3 and a half million Israelites. So what’s your excuse? And Moses couldn’t even talk properly, he had to have his brother speak for him. The great things that Abraham did for God for which he has been remembered throughout history was after the age of 75. You just need to go before God and say, “Use me Lord, I’m available. Take me, just the way I am, I give all I have to you…”
2 Chronicles 16 v 9: For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of then whose heart is perfect toward him…”
Let me tell you a little about who you are as a child in Christ: I want you to say this out loud to yourself, “I am a victorious over-comer (1 John 5 v 4; Revelations 2 v 11),
A mighty woman or man of valor, a champion overcoming warrior, who possesses dignity and honor. (Judges 6 v12)
I am more than a conqueror. (Romans 8 v 35)
In all things I gain a surpassing victory (Rom 8 v 37)
and in all things God leads me to triumph in Christ. (2 Corinthians 2 v 14)
Through my union with God, I am strong in the Lord and the power of His might.(Ephesians 6 v 10)
I have strength for all things in Christ who empowers me. I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me. (Philippians 4 v13)
Because I believe in, lean on, trust and rely on God, I do the things that Jesus did, and greater things will I do, for His Spirit within me knows no limit. (John 14 v 12 – 14)
Therefore I believe that all things are possible and limit not the Holy One within me. (Philippians 4 v 13)
As Jesus is, so am I in this world (1 John 4 v 17)
and the immeasurable, unlimited and surpassing power of God is on the inside of me! (Ephesians 1 v 19)
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! (Ephesians 1 v 20)”
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead and conquered the grave is in you! The immeasurable unlimited and surpassing power of God is on the inside of you! It’s time that you discovered your potential as a child of God! With the power of God on the inside of you, you literally have the potential to shake nations, never mind overcoming your so called incurable illness! Are you willing to stand up spirit of man and be what God has called you to be? Don’t allow the devil to rob you of your destiny by cutting your life short – aggressively take back the ground he has stolen from you. Encourage yourself in the Word and apply the principles I am teaching you. Jesus has conquered and broken the power of Satan, disease and death.
John 16 v 33: “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and
confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you]”
In Luke 10 v 17-20 “17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject
to us in Your name! 18 And He said to them, I saw Satan falling like a lightning [flash] from heaven. 19 Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
There is absolutely nothing that is impossible with God. He designed the human body and He knows exactly how to fix it. He is faithful to fulfill His promise for healing when His conditions are met.
Soms word mense nie genees nie al kry hulle kennis oor die geestelike sonde in hul gedagtelewe wat tot hul siekte lei en het hulle daaroor bekeer. Dit is waar ons dieper in ons harte en ons siele moet kyk vir dit wat ons keer om genesing te ontvang na bekering. In hierdie geval is daar ‘n hartsverandering wat nog nodig is. Om die probleem te ken, is nie altyd die oplossing nie – jy gaan die hele pad met God moet in lyn kom. God is ‘n heilige God en Hy is nie bereid om jou met die vyand te deel nie. Jy sal dalk wil saamleef met die vyand deur byvoorbeeld vas te hou aan jou onvergewensgesindheid, maar God gaan nie kompromieë aangaan nie. Selfs as gelowiges wil ons nie deur die nou poort gaan nie. Die deur na die koninkryk is nie ‘n wye deur nie, dit is ‘n nou deur. Breed is die pad na vernietiging; nou is die deur na die ewige lewe (Matteus 7 v 13). Jy soek dalk ‘n uitweg of ‘n manier om die straf van die vloek te omseil sonder om die ekstra myl te loop, maar God sal dit nie toelaat nie. Jy moet 100% in lyn met Sy Woord wees. God eer nie gedeeltelike gehoorsaamheid nie. Sowel koning Saul as koning Salomo het byvoorbeeld voortydig gesterf omdat hulle God nie ten volle gehoorsaam was nie (1 Kronieke 10 v 13 – 14 en 1 Kon 11 v 4 – 11). Moses het nooit die Beloofde Land ingegaan nie, want hy het God net gedeeltelik gehoorsaam. Jy moet dit op God se manier doen of daar is geen manier nie.
Daar is verskeie blokke vir genesing wat in die Skrif geïdentifiseer kan word. Hierdie blokke is baie algemeen onder Christene. Hulle verhinder ons om die volheid van God se seën en genesing in ons lewens te ontvang. Van hierdie blokke moet van die hart berou word, net soos bekering nodig is in die hantering van die geestelike sonde in ons gedagtelewe wat die siekte veroorsaak het.
Een of selfs meer van hierdie redes kan die blok vir Goddelike Genesing wees
EN OOK BLOKKE TEEN DIE DOPING VAN DIE HEILIGE GEES !
1. Onvergifnis of Onvergewensgesindheid
2. Geen Verhouding met God nie
3. Soek God se Hand in plaas van Sy Hart
4. Gebed en vas is nie deel van jou lewenstyl nie
5. Is daar twis in jou lewe?
6. Kyk na die mens eerder as na God
7. Probeer om die straf van die vloek te omseil
8. Pure Twyfel en Ongeloof
9. Ek sal dit glo as ek dit sien
10. Kyk na die simptome in plaas van die geneser – laat vrees in jou hart kom
11. Trots en verwag dat God jou op jou manier sal genees
12. ‘n Verharde hart
13. ‘n Onleerbare Hart
14. Murmureer en kla
15. Misverstande en verkeerde oortuigings oor genesing
16. Gebrek aan kennis
17. Jy doen dit net nie
18. Gebrek aan tempel onderhoud
19. Dit is nie ‘n siekte nie, maar ‘n newe-effek van ‘n sonde
20. Ongehoorsaamheid in jou tiendes
21. Vorige of voortgesette betrokkenheid by Okkultisme
22. Ter wille van die redding van die kind weens die sonde van die ouers
23. Is jou siekte geneties oorgeërf?
24. Behou nie jou oorwinning nie
25. Op soek na herhaalde genesing in plaas daarvan om in goddelike gesondheid te lewe
26. Deel te hê of te glo in enige valse leerstellings van demone
27. Neem Nagmaal met sonde in jou Lewe
28. Net opgee
1. Onvergifnis of Onvergewensgesindheid
Markus 11 v 25-26: “En wanneer julle staan en bid, as julle iets teen iemand het, vergewe hom en laat dit val (los dit, laat dit gaan), sodat julle Vader wat in die hemele is,
vergewe jou ook jou [eie] tekortkominge en tekortkominge en laat hulle val. Maar as julle nie vergewe nie, sal julle Vader in die hemel ook nie julle tekortkominge en tekortkominge vergewe nie.”
Ek wil dit duidelik maak – Volgens die Bybel die voorwaarde vir genesing = bekering van sonde is.
Deel van bekering behels om God om vergifnis te vra vir die sonde wat die siekte veroorsaak het. God se vergifnis vir jou is egter voorwaardelik. God het duidelik in Sy Woord gesê dat Hy jou nie sal vergewe as jy nie elke enkele persoon wat jy ooit geken het, of hulle lewend of dood is, vergewe vir elke verkeerde ding wat hulle aan jou gedoen het nie. Onvergewensgesindheid is ‘n groot blok vir genesing en dit is een van die redes waarom ons kerke gevul is met siektes.
2. Geen Verhouding met God nie
Jy kan nie opeis wat nie aan jou behoort nie. As jy van God geskei is omdat jy Jesus nie die Here van jou lewe gemaak het nie, is jy nie deel van God se familie nie. Daarom is Sy beloftes wat genesing insluit nie vir jou beskikbaar nie.
Markus 7 v 24 – 30: “24 En Jesus het opgestaan en daarvandaan weggegaan na die gebied van Tirus en Sidon.
En Hy het in ‘n huis ingegaan en wou nie hê dat iemand moet weet dat Hy daar was nie; maar dit was nie
moontlik vir Hom om weggesteek te word [van openbare kennisgewing]. 25 In plaas daarvan het ‘n vrou wie se dogtertjie ‘n onrein gees gehad het, dadelik van Hom gehoor en haarself voor sy voete neergeslinger. 26 En die vrou was ‘n Griek (heiden), ‘n Siro-Feniciese van nasionaliteit. En sy het Hom bly smeek om die demoon uit haar dogtertjie te verdryf. 27 En Hy sê vir haar: Laat die kinders eers gevoed word, want dit is nie gepas of reg om die brood van die kinders te neem en dit vir die honde te gooi nie. 28 Maar sy antwoord Hom: Ja, Here, tog eet selfs die klein kleintjies onder die tafel die klein kindertjies se kos. 29 En Hy sê vir haar: Deur hierdie woord kan jy gaan; die duiwel het uit jou dogter uitgegaan [permanent]. 30 En sy het huis toe gegaan en die kind gevind wat op die rusbank gegooi is, en die duiwel het weggegaan.”
Toe hierdie vreemde vrou Jesus vir genesing vra, het Hy vir haar gesê: “Laat die kinders eers versadig word, want dit is nie reg om die kinders se brood te neem en dit vir die honde te gooi nie.” Met ander woorde wat Jesus vir haar gesê het, is: “Jy kwalifiseer nie. Jy het geen reg op genesing nie omdat jy van God geskei is – jy is nie onder Sy verbond nie. Jy vra vir iets wat nie aan jou behoort nie.” Daar is baie ongeredde mense van New Age en valse godsdienste wat genesing van God wil hê, maar Hom nie wil aanvaar nie. Hulle stel nie belang in God die Vader, Sy Seun of die Heilige Gees nie, hulle wil net die “fix” hê sodat hulle van hul ongeneeslike siekte ontslae kan raak. Ek is reeds deur ander dokters genader wat die sukses van hierdie onderrig gesien het in terme van mense wat van ongeneeslike siektes herstel. Hulle het my gevra of hulle die leer in hierdie boek kan neem, maar God daaruit kan neem om dit meer aanvaarbaar vir die wêreld te maak, aangesien nie alle mense God sal aanvaar nie. My antwoord aan hulle was dit: “Om God uit die leer in hierdie boek te haal, is soos om vir mense ‘n motor te gee sonder brandstof daarin. Die motor sal hulle nêrens heen kan neem nie. Behalwe Sonder God kan jy niks doen nie.”
Johannes 15 v 4 – 5: “4 Bly in My, en Ek sal in julle woon. [Leef in My, en Ek sal in jou lewe.] Net soos geen loot vanself vrugte kan dra sonder om in die wingerdstok te bly nie, so kan jy ook nie vrugte dra tensy jy in My bly nie. 5 Ek is die Wingerdstok; julle is die takke. Wie in My lewe en Ek in Hom, dra baie (oorvloedige) vrugte. Maar behalwe My [afgesny van lewensbelangrike verbintenis met My] kan julle niks doen nie.”
God het mense genees wat nie gered is soos in die Skrif gevind kan word nie en byvoorbeeld in die getuienis van die dame wat na Ethiopië gegaan het. Daar was honderde erg misvormde en siek mense wat daagliks wonderbaarlik genees is tydens hierdie sendingreis. Baie van hulle het God nie eers geken nie – maar dit het nie lank geneem voordat hulle begin vra het: “Wie is hierdie God?” Ek het gesien dat wanneer mense die krag van God ervaar wat in hul lewens beweeg, word hulle gou wakker om te besef dat Hy werklik is, en word aangetrokke om meer van Hom te wil weet en gered te word. Jy kan genees word wanneer jy buite God se verbond is, maar jy moet vinnig in die verbond ingaan, want die Almagtige God wat jou genees het, is die Een wat jy vir die res van jou lewe moet dien. Dit is beter om genees te word en dan wedergebore te word, as om nie genees te word nie en om te sterf. As jy sterf, sal jy nooit gered kan word nie. Jy kan nie na die dood gered word nie – jammer, maar reïnkarnasie is ‘n klug.
Hebreërs 9 v 27: “… Dit is bestem vir [alle] mense om een maal te sterwe, en daarna die [bepaalde] oordeel.”
Dit is nie my mening nie, dit is wat God gesê het. Baie mense sal omkom omdat hulle God nie ken nie
en het geweier om die Waarheid te ontvang dat hulle gered kan word.
2 Tessalonisense 2 v 10 – 12: “10 En deur onbeperkte verleiding tot die bose en met alle goddelose misleiding vir die wat verlore gaan (na die verderf gaan) omdat hulle die Waarheid nie verwelkom het nie, maar geweier het om dit lief te hê sodat hulle gered kan word. 11 Daarom stuur God op hulle ‘n misleidende invloed, ‘n werking van dwaling en sterk dwaling om hulle te laat glo wat vals is, 12 sodat almal geoordeel en veroordeel kan word wat nie geglo het in [wat geweier het om te voldoen aan, vertroue in, en vertrou op] die Waarheid, maar [in plaas daarvan] het behae gehad in ongeregtigheid.”
Mense wat God en die waarheid van Sy Woord verwerp, gaan in ‘n groter dwaling en ‘n groter skeiding van God. Siekte is die gevolg van skeiding van God. Hulle kan nie genees word nie omdat hulle nie in die verbond is nie omdat hulle nie gered is nie.
3. Jy Soek God se Hand in plaas van Sy Hart
‘n Hindernis vir ons genesing is soms die gesindheid van ons hart …
Jesaja 29 v 13: “En die Here het gesê: Omdat hierdie volk na My toe nader met hulle
mond en eer My met hulle lippe, maar verwyder hulle harte en gedagtes ver van My, en hulle
Vrees en eerbied vir My is ’n gebod van mense wat deur herhaling geleer word [sonder enige nadenke oor die betekenis].”
Jesus sê vir die Fariseërs in Markus 7 v 6: “Uitstekend en waarlik [sodat daar geen ruimte vir verwyt sal wees nie] het Jesaja van julle, die voorgee en geveinsdes, geprofeteer, soos daar geskrywe staan: Hierdie mense [gedurig] eer My met hulle lippe, maar hulle harte hou stil en is ver van My af.”
Die skrifture hierbo praat van leë mensgemaakte godsdiens wat net behels om deur die bewegings te gaan asof dit ‘n meganisme of betekenislose ritueel is. Dit is om God te nader op grond van wat een of ander man of godsdiens gesê het om te doen om jou genesing van God te ontvang. As jy bloot deur die bewegings gaan en die inligting in hierdie boek soos ‘n stelsel of ‘n meganisme of ‘n wetenskaplike formule toepas, gaan dit nie werk nie. Jy kan God nie flous nie – Hy kan jou hart sien. Hy stel nie belang in eksterne rituele en metodes nie – Hy kyk in jou hart.
Efesiërs 6 v 6: “Nie met oogdiens, soos mensebehaers nie; maar as dienaars van Christus, wat die wil van God uit die hart doen.” KJV
Ek het ‘n waarskuwing in die inleiding gegee dat hierdie boek nie ‘n kitsoplossing of “‘n tien stappe om uit God te kry wat jy wil hê” wetenskaplike formule is nie – asof God soos ‘n OTM-masjien is waar jy hierdie knoppie en daardie knoppie en God druk lewer. Die “Noem dit en eis dit”-leer van baie moderne kerke vandag is nie skriftuurlik nie. God is nie soos ‘n outomaat waar jy ‘n muntstuk insit en jy sal iets uitkry nie. God is God – Hy is Magtig, Onbeskryflik, Ontsagwekkend en Soewerein. Hy moet eerbiedig gerespekteur word. Ons dien Hom, Hy dien ons nie. Die “Noem dit en eis dit”-prediking is ‘n gekompromitteerde nuwe-era lewensverbeterings-evangelie wat gesondheid, rykdom en voorspoed verkondig. Alhoewel daar niks fout is met hierdie dinge nie en dit deel van elke Christen se lewe behoort te wees, moet ons fokus nie wees om God se hand te soek nie, maar om Sy Hart te soek. Ons moet Hom leer ken deur tyd wat ons in intieme gemeenskap met Hom spandeer. Ons moet God liefhê en Hom dien, nie vir wat ons uit Hom gaan kry nie, maar bloot omdat Hy waardig is. Genesing, rykdom en al daardie ander dinge sal net ‘n neweproduk wees om die Vader meer te leer ken. Genesing is nie die hoofproduk nie. Harts bekering is!
Matteus 6 v 33: “Maar soek (mik na en streef daarna) allereers sy koninkryk en sy geregtigheid (Sy manier van doen en reg wees), en al hierdie dinge saam sal aan julle gegee word buitendien.”
Die inligting en lering in hierdie boek, op beide ‘n wetenskaplike en Bybelse vlak, wys jou terug na om met God reg te kom en ‘n meer intieme liefdesverhouding met Hom te ontwikkel. As jy Hom soos ‘n OTM-masjien probeer gebruik, gaan dit nie werk nie. Jou gebede vir genesing is tevergeefs en God gaan hulle nie eer nie, want hulle is bedrieglik.
Jakobus 4 v 3: “[Of] julle vra [God vir hulle] en tog versuim om te ontvang, omdat julle met verkeerde doel en selfsugtige motiewe vra…”
Jy moet eers ‘n verhouding met God soek. Net omdat jy kerk toe gaan en af en toe die Bybel lees, beteken dit nie dat jy ‘n verhouding met Hom het nie. Hoe kan jy ‘n verhouding of vriendskap met iemand bou sonder om tyd saam met hulle deur te bring? Jy moet tyd saam met God spandeer – jy moet woon in die geheime plek van die Allerhoogste waaroor Psalm 91 praat. Op ‘n daaglikse basis moet jy in daardie stil plek kom waar dit net jy en Hy is.
Psalm 27 v 4: “Een ding het ek van die Here gevra, dit sal ek soek, navraag doen en [aandringend]
vereis: dat ek al die dae van my lewe in die huis van die Here [in Sy Teenwoordigheid] mag woon, om die skoonheid [die soet aantreklikheid en verruklike lieflikheid] van die Here te aanskou en te aanskou en om te oordink, oordink en navraag doen oor Sy tempel.”
Jy moet tyd in God se Teenwoordigheid deurbring, saam met Hom saamgestuur. Gemeenskap behels om met Hom te praat oor die begeertes en planne van Sy hart, nie net joune nie. Medevaart behels die bediening van God deur aanbidding. Dan na aanbidding kan petisie kom. God het my eenkeer na ‘n plek in my gebedslewe gebring waar die enigste ding wat Hy my sou toelaat om van Hom te vra, vir meer van Hom was.
Eksodus 33 v 13: “Vader wys my u weë, dat ek U kan ken [word algaande dieper en intiemer met U kennis gemaak deur U al sterker en duideliker te sien en te herken en te verstaan].”
God het sy enigste Seun gestuur om vir my te sterf en as Hy nooit iets anders vir my gedoen het nie,
dit sal meer as genoeg wees. Die gawe van verlossing en die voorreg van ‘n verhouding
met God is meer as genoeg – die res is net ‘n bonus. Die les hier is om God se hart te soek, nie net Sy hand nie. Soek Hom en wees lief vir Hom vir Wie Hy is, nie net vir wat Hy vir jou kan doen nie.
Jesus sê in Johannes 4 v 23: “Daar sal ‘n tyd kom, maar dit is reeds hier, wanneer die ware
(ware) aanbidders sal die vader in gees en in waarheid (realiteit) aanbid; want die Vader soek juis mense soos hierdie Sy aanbidders.”
4. Gebed en vas is nie deel van jou lewenstyl nie.
Hierdie blok van genesing is baie soortgelyk aan die blok wat ek sopas bespreek het oor die soeke na God se hand en nie Sy hart nie. Versuim om weg te kom in gebed en vas het te make met ‘n gebrek aan nabyheid in ‘n persoonlike en intieme verhouding met God die Vader. Jesaja 58 v 1 – 8: “1 Roep hardop, spaar nie. Verhef jou stem soos ‘n basuin en verkondig aan My mense hulle oortreding en aan die huis van Jakob hulle sondes! 2 Tog soek hulle, vra en vra My daagliks en verlustig hulle [uiterlik] om My weë te ken, asof hulle ‘n nasie is wat geregtigheid doen en die verordening van hulle God nie verlaat nie. Hulle vra van My regverdige oordele, hulle het behae om tot God te nader [op sigbare maniere]. 3 Waarom het ons gevas, sê hulle, en U sien dit nie? Waarom het ons onsself verdruk, en weet U dit nie? Kyk [Israel], op die dag van jou vas [wanneer jy treur oor jou sondes], vind jy wins in jou besigheid, en [in plaas van om alle werk op te hou, soos die wet sê dat jy en jou arbeiders moet doen] jy afpers ‘n volle hoeveelheid arbeid van u dagloners af. 4[Die feite is dat] jy vas net vir twis en God het Syne gestuur
Debatteer en om met die vuis van boosheid te slaan. Om te vas soos jy vandag doen, sal nie veroorsaak dat jou stem in die hoogte gehoor word nie. 5 Is so ‘n vas soos joune wat Ek verkies het, ‘n dag vir ‘n man om homself te verootmoedig met droefheid in sy siel? [Is ware vas bloot meganies?] Is dit net om sy kop soos ‘n bies te buig en sak en as onder hom te sprei [om ‘n hartstoestand aan te dui wat hy nie het nie]? Sal jy dit ‘n vas en ‘n aanneemlike dag vir die Here noem? 6 Is dit nie die vas wat Ek verkies het nie: om die bande van die goddeloosheid te verloor, om die bande van die juk los te maak, om die verdruktes vry te laat, en dat jy elke juk verbreek? 7 Is dit nie om jou brood met die hongeriges te verdeel en die hawelose armes in jou huis in te bring nie – as jy die naakte sien, dat jy hom toemaak en jou nie verberg vir jou eie vlees en bloed nie? 8 Dan sal jou lig uitbreek soos die môre, en jou genesing (jou herstel en die krag van nuwe lewe) sal vinnig uitspruit; jou geregtigheid (jou geregtigheid, jou geregtigheid en jou regte verhouding met God) sal voor jou uitgaan [wat jou tot vrede en voorspoed lei], en die heerlikheid van die Here sal jou agterhoede wees.”
Daar is baie verwarring by die mense van die Kerk oor vas en die redes daarvoor. In hierdie blok tot genesing moet ek ‘n paar slegte leringe konfronteer wat vandag baie algemeen in die kerk regoor die wêreld is. Hierdie lering gebruik vers 6 in Jesaja 58 om te sê, “Die vasgebed (wat behels dat jy van kos onthou moet word) is die kragtigste gebed – wanneer alles anders misluk, sal die vasgebed die hand van God beweeg en jou vrymaak.” Hierdie lering het Jesaja 58 v 6 uit verband geruk en geen wonder dit werk nie. Jy sien, vas en gebed was nie ontwerp om iets van God te ontvang nie. Jy bid en vas om God in verhouding te ontmoet – om Sy aangesig te soek en nader aan Hom te kom of jy iets ontvang of nie.
In Matteus 9 v 14 – 15 het Johannes se dissipels na Jesus toe gekom en gesê: “Hoekom vas en bid U dissipels nie soos ons nie?” Jesus het gesê: “Omdat Ek hier is. Wanneer ek weg is, sal hulle ook vas.” Dit het met verhouding te doen. Vas is waar jy alles opsy sit, insluitend eet, om ‘n tydperk deur te bring waar jy heeltemal alleen met God en Sy Woord is vir die doel van verhouding. Dit gaan daaroor om tyd te spandeer om net by die Vader se voete te sit, om Hom lief te hê, met Hom te gemeenskap, om Hom jou fokus te maak en Hom die geleentheid te gee om met jou te praat.
In Matteus 17 v 14 – 21 was die dissipels nie in staat om ‘n bose gees uit te dryf en ‘n man se seun wat epilepsie gehad het, te genees nie. Nadat Jesus die seun genees het, het die dissipels na Hom gegaan en Hom gevra hoekom hulle dit nie self kon doen nie. Jesus antwoord: “Maar hierdie soort gaan nie uit nie, behalwe deur gebed en vas.” Die dissipels het so betrokke geraak om ‘n wetenskap te maak van hierdie nuwe bediening van genesing in Jesus se Naam dat hulle vergeet het dat hulle in noue verhouding met die Vader en Jesus moes wees.
Die boodskap hier is dit, as jy nie wegkom in gebed en vas as deel van jou leefstyl nie, sal dit die hand van God blokkeer om jou te genees, want dit beteken dat jy nie jou verhouding met Hom die middelpunt van jou lewe maak nie. . Jy kan nie ‘n wet hieruit maak nie maar net uit belangstelling is vas vir een dag per week baie goed vir jou gesondheid.
Vas behels egter meer as om net kos as ‘n offer vir soveel dae prys te gee. In Jesaja hoofstuk 58 het die Israeliete gebid, gevas en God vir genesing gesoek omdat hulle siek en vol siekte was. Hulle was ontevrede met God omdat Hy nie hulle gebede verhoor het nie. Daar is baie mense soos daardie vandag wat God bevraagteken net soos die Israeliete s’n was: “Hallo God! Ek vas en ek bid, maar ek is nog nie genees nie!” Toe die Israeliete vir God gevra het hoekom Hy nie na hulle luister nie, het Hy verduidelik dat dit was omdat hulle bloot gevas en gebid het as ‘n meganiese, eksterne ritueel.
Intussen het hulle in twis, debat, verdeeldheid, beskuldigings, afguns en jaloesie geleef. In Jesaja 58 v 7 – 8 verander God die identifikasie van die vas waarin Hy belangstel en dit is ‘n groot geheim om te ontvang: God het verduidelik dat gebed en vas gaan oor die dien van God deur in liefde teenoor ander te wandel.
Die vas wat jou sal bevry van slawerny en onderdrukking, swaar laste losmaak en elke slawerige juk in jou lewe sal breek (Jesaja 58 v 6) het niks te doen met om sonder kos te gaan nie. Die vas waartoe God jou geroep het, het te make met om betrokke te raak in die belange van vreemdelinge, om vir mense om te gee en om weer lief te raak vir jou gesin (Jesaja 58 v 7). En in jou diens aan God sal Hy jou ontmoet en jou genees (Jesaja 58 v 8). Die “vas” waartoe God ons roep, is die liefdeswandeling!
Vas gaan dus nie net oor ‘n liefdesverhouding met God nie, maar ook om in liefde te wandel in jou verhoudings met ander. As jy sê jy het God lief, maar jy het nie jou broer lief nie omdat jy in haat en twis is, gaan jou gebede en vas ‘n baksteenmuur tref en die lug van die Hemel gaan vir jou gesluit lyk. Jy kan nie sê dat jy God liefhet en ’n persoonlike verhouding met Hom het terwyl jy jou broer haat nie. Hier is ‘n groot ontbrekende skakel na gesondheid.
1 Joh 4 v 20: “As iemand sê: Ek het God lief en sy broer [in Christus verafsku, verafsku], is hy ‘n leuenaar; want wie sy broer nie liefhet nie, wat hy gesien het, kan God nie liefhê nie, wat hy nie gesien het nie.”
5. Is daar twis in jou lewe?
Jakobus 3 v 16: “Want waar afguns en twis is, daar is verwarring en elke bose werk.”
Dit is ‘n baie soortgelyke blok aan die een wat ek sopas hierbo bespreek het. Wanneer jy in twis leef, maak jy die deur oop vir elke bose werk in jou lewe. Twis sluit gekibbel, stryery, bakleiery, skinderpraatjies, hewige meningsverskille en woedende onderstromings in. Twis VEROORSAAK dat jou liggaam in ‘n toksiese toestand van stres en siekte plaas waar daar hoë vlakke van streshormone is wat feitlik elke orgaanstelsel in jou liggaam op ‘n skadelike manier affekteer. Een van die stelsels wat beskadig word, is jou immuunstelsel. Wanneer jou immuunstelsel verswak is gaan dit nie kanker, virusse, bakterieë ens kan doodmaak nie en daarom sal jou liggaam nie kan genees nie. Twis sal jou verhoed om jou genesing te ontvang – dit is beide Bionies en medies waar. As jy voortgaan in twis, sal die hoë vlakke van streshormone aanhou om jou liggaam te beskadig, wat jou in ‘n giftige toestand van siekte hou waar jou liggaam nie in staat is om te genees nie.
Die ander probleem is dat jy geloof nodig het om genesing te ontvang. Die Bybel sê egter dat geloof deur liefde werk. Galasiërs 5 v 5 – 6: “Want ons, [nie op die wet vertrou nie maar] deur die [hulp] van die [Heilige] Gees], deur die geloof verwag en verwag ons die seën en die goeie waarvoor ons regte stand by God [ons gelykvormigheid aan Sy wil in doel, denke en optrede, laat ons] hoop. Want [as ons] in Christus Jesus is, tel nie die besnydenis of die onbesnedenes (d.w.s. die wet) vir iets nie, maar slegs die geloof wat geaktiveer en bekragtig en uitgedruk en deur liefde werk.”
As jy dus nie in liefde opereer omdat jy in stryd werk nie, sal jou geloof nie werk nie.
Van die ergste dinge wat met ‘n persoon gebeur het, was nie ‘n geweerskoot, of ‘n vuishou of ‘n messteek nie. Hulle was die gevolg van die skerp tong van ander Christene! Daardie selfde individue wat hulle tong vat en iemand in stukke sny, sal die volgende Sondag kerk toe kom en getuig oor hoe lief hulle God het. Hulle sal die Woord van God aanhaal en sê: “My God sal in al my behoeftes voorsien. Deur Sy wonde het ek genees.” Hulle maak al die regte bekentenisse en wonder hoekom daar geen geld inkom nie en hoekom siekte hulle bybly. Dit is nutteloos om geloofsbelydenisse uit te spreek soos: “Ek dank U Here vir my genesing – Deur die wonde van Jesus het ek genees (Jesaja 53 v 5)” as jy jou huweliksmaat of jou medebroer in Christus soos vuil behandel. As jy ‘n geloofsbelydenis oor jou lewe uitspreek dat “Die Here in al my behoeftes sal voorsien volgens sy rykdom in heerlikheid (Filippense 4 v 19)”, maar jy is ‘n skinderaar, lasteraar en verdeeldheid wat gedurig in twis lewe, jy kan net sowel daardie geloofsbelydenis vergeet en ‘n manier vind om self in daardie behoefte te voorsien. Jy het die lewenslyn tussen jou en God gesny omdat jy die wet van liefde oortree. Onthou dit begin alles in jou gedagtes – moenie oor negatiewe gedagtes oor enigiemand peins nie, want dit sal jou liefdeswandel verhinder, wat dan jou geloof sal verhinder – wat jou dan sal verhinder om jou genesing van God te ontvang. Kan jy bekostig om nie die liefdeswandeling te loop nie? Kan jy bekostig om in twis te leef? Kan jy bekostig om daardie bitterheid en onvergewensgesindheid vas te hou? Kan jy bekostig om nie vir jouself lief te wees nie?
Dit is die bottom line – as jy nie in liefde wandel nie, sal jou geloof nie werk nie en jy sal nie jou genesing ontvang nie…want geloof werk deur liefde. Wanneer jy jou lewe en jou optrede in lyn bring met die Woord van God, en jy plaas ‘n sterk wag op jou tong, sal jy vind dat die liefdeswandel outomaties word. Dan sal dit tot jou deurdring dat terwyl jy die liefdeswandel stap, jy nie sukkel met jou geloof nie, jy hoef nie dinge te laat gebeur nie, dit gebeur outomaties soos jy in liefde wandel. Jou geloof is sterk, en geloof werk deur liefde – God se liefde – dit is die God soort geloof en die liefde wat alles oorwin.
6. Kyk na die mens eerder as na God
Ek is nie teen dokters en gesondheidsorgwerkers nie, Hul het wel ‘n waardevolle rol om te speel. As dokter kan ek byvoorbeeld ‘n diagnose maak – ek kan vir jou sê watter siekte jy het en watter sonde in jou lewe of jou gedagtes lei tot die ontwikkeling van daardie siekte. As jy egter na dokters kyk in plaas daarvan om God te soek vir jou genesing, het jy ‘n groot blok. Jy moet na God kyk as jou Bron, nie na die mens nie. As dokter is ek bloot ‘n teken aan die kant van die pad, wat jou in die regte rigting wys, ek is nie jou bron nie. Moenie na my kyk nie, want as jy na my kyk, moet jy besef dat ek na iemand anders kyk – ek kyk na My Hemelse Vader, ek kyk na Jesus, ek is afhanklik van die Heilige Gees.
Daar is ‘n storie in die Ou Testament oor koning Asa. God het Homself reeds aan koning Asa bewys deur hom in vorige oorloë te help. Koning Asa se hart was egter verhard en hy het God nie in oorlog of in sy persoonlike lewe vertrou nie. Die Bybel sê dat dit die rede is waarom hy gesterf het.
2 Kronieke 16 v 7 – 8 en 12 – 13: “7 In daardie tyd het die siener Hanani by Asa, die koning van Juda, aangekom
en vir hom gesê: Omdat jy op die koning van Aram gesteun het en nie op die HERE jou God nie, het die leër van die koning van Aram jou ontvlug. 8 Was die Kusiete en Libiërs nie ‘n groot leër met baie strydwaens en ruiters nie? Maar omdat jy toe op die Here vertrou het, het Hy hulle in jou hand gegee. 12 In die nege-en-dertigste jaar van sy regering was Asa siek aan sy voete – totdat sy siekte baie erg geword het, maar in sy siekte het hy die Here nie gesoek nie, maar op die geneeshere vertrou. 13 En Asa het ontslaap met sy vaders, sterwend in die een-en-veertigste jaar van sy regering.”
God se mense het uiteindelik na die mens gesoek vir hulp, deels as gevolg van die mislukking van die Kerk. Ek het aan die begin van hierdie boek genoem dat gemiddeld net 2% tot 5% van mense vir wie daar in die Kerk gebid word, werklik genees word. God se kinders vergaan en dit lyk asof baie pastore niks daaraan doen nie. Die meeste kerke preek aan mense dat hulle in God moet glo en hulle vertel hulle hoe om in die Hemel te kom, maar hulle preek nie oor die gevolge van sonde op die gebied van siekte nie. Heiligmaking vir genesing is ‘n dimensie wat nie vandag in die Kerk geleer word nie. Die Kerk leer nie hoekom genesing nie kom nie. Wanneer die lidmate van die kerkgemeente na die ouderlinge kom vir gebed om genees te word, dink hulle nie eers daaraan dat daar dalk ‘n sondekwessie is wat eers hanteer moet word nie. Hulle salf met olie, maar hulle vergeet heeltemal van die tweede helfte van die Skrif in Jakobus 5 v 14-15 wat praat oor sondebelydenis en herstel word tot ‘n geestelike toon van verstand en hart.
Omdat die kerk geen werklike antwoorde bied nie, het God se mense nêrens om behalwe na die mens te draai nie. Ek het egter in hierdie boek vir jou kennis en insig gegee oor siekte vanuit God se perspektief. Nou het jy geen verskoning om na die mens te draai nie. Dit is belangrik dat ons God soek en na Hom kyk as ons Bron vir genesing. Om na die mens te kyk bring ‘n vloek.
Jeremia 17 v 5 en 7 – 8: “5 So sê die Here: Vervloek [met groot onheil] is die sterk man wat
vertrou op en maak staat op die verswakte mens, wat swak [menslike] vlees sy arm maak, en wie se verstand en hart van die Here afwyk. 7 Geseënd is die man wat in die Here glo, vertrou en op die Here vertrou, en wie se hoop en vertroue die Here is. 8 Want hy sal wees soos ‘n boom wat by die water geplant is en sy wortels by die rivier uitsprei; en dit sal nie sien en vrees as daar hitte kom nie; maar sy blaar sal groen wees. Dit sal in die jaar van droogte nie angstig en vol sorg wees nie, en dit sal ook nie ophou om vrugte te dra nie.”
7. Probeer om die straf van die vloek te omseil
Jy wil jou genesing hê, maar jy is nie bereid om die regte roete te volg om dit te kry nie. In plaas van bekering en heiligmaking waar jy die sonde agter die Siekte hanteer, sal jy eerder voorskrifmedisyne neem en ander modaliteite van medisyne gebruik. Dit is bloot ‘n poging om die straf van die vloek te omseil. Jy mors jou tyd. Wanneer daar ‘n geestelike sonde agter ‘n siekte is, sal geen dokter of enige vorm van medisyne iets meer kan doen as om bloot die siekte te bestuur met voorskrifmedisyne wat die siekte dikwels met newe-effekte bemoeilik nie. Dit bring ook okkultisme en towery in wat nog ‘n blok tot genesing is. Die enigste manier vir die siekte om heeltemal uitgeroei te word en vir volkome genesing om te kom, is deur die regte Deuropening te gaan om dit te kry en dit is bekering en heiligmaking van die hart.
8. Pure Twyfel en Ongeloof
As jy nie glo dat God jou sal genees nie, is die slotsom dat Hy nie sal nie. Jesus sê in Matteus 9 v 29: Laat dit aan julle geskied volgens julle geloof en vertroue en vertroue [op die krag wat in My belê is].” Twyfel en ongeloof is ‘n groot blok vir genesing.
Selfs Jesus was nie in staat om mense in Sy eie dorp te genees nie weens twyfel en ongeloof: Markus 6 v 5 –
6: “5 En Hy was nie in staat om daar selfs een werk van krag te doen nie, behalwe dat Hy die hande opgelê het aan ‘n paar siekes [en] hulle genees het. 6 En Hy was verwonderd oor hulle ongeloof (hulle gebrek aan geloof in Hom)…”
9. Ek sal dit glo as ek dit sien
As jy ‘n teken of wonderwerk van God moet sien voordat jy sal glo dat Hy jou kan genees … sal jy nie genees word nie. Hoeveel van ons het al gesê: “God as U dit doen, dan sal ek U glo?” Daar is baie mense wat op hierdie lering sal reageer deur te sê: “As wat jy sê waar is, as God werklik vandag genees, bewys dit dan. Doen iets en dan sal ons jou glo.” Wie dink jy is ek? Ek is nie ‘n towenaar wat towertoertjies uitvoer nie. Ek kon nie ‘n vlieg met ‘n hoofpyn genees as ek probeer nie. Ek is net God se dienaar. Hierdie mense sal na my toe kom omdat hulle siek is, maar in hul harte sê hulle, “As dit wat jy leer regtig van God is, doen dan iets. As jy nie kan nie, is dit nie.” Wat hulle doen is om my te versoek om God te versoek. So ‘n gesindheid sal jou genesing belemmer omdat jy nie na my of na mense moet kyk nie – jy moet na God en die heiligmakende werk van die Heilige Gees en Sy Woord kyk. Die duiwel het Jesus ook versoek om “iets te doen” toe Hy 40 dae lank in die woestyn gevas het:
Matteus 4 v 1 – 7: “1 Toe is Jesus deur die [Heilige] Gees gelei (gelei) in die woestyn (woestyn) om deur die duiwel versoek (getoets en beproef) te word. 2 En Hy het 40 dae en 40 nagte sonder kos gegaan, en later was Hy honger. 3 En die versoeker het gekom en vir Hom gesê: As U die Seun van God is, beveel hierdie klippe om brood te maak. 4 Maar Hy antwoord: Daar is geskrywe: Die mens sal nie lewe en deur brood alleen ondersteun en onderhou word nie, maar deur elke woord wat uit die mond van God uitgaan. 5 Toe het die duiwel Hom in die heilige stad ingeneem en Hom op ‘n toring (top, gewel) van die tempelheiligdom gesit. 6 En Hy sê vir Hom: As U die Seun van God is, werp Uself neer; want daar is geskrywe: Hy sal sy engele oor jou bevel gee, en hulle sal jou op hul hande dra, sodat jy nie jou voet teen ‘n klip slaan nie. 7 Jesus sê vir hom: Aan die ander kant is daar ook geskrywe: Jy mag die Here jou God nie versoek, deeglik beproef of uitermate op die proef stel nie.”
As ek nie vir jou onsigbaar word nie en as jy nie na God die Vader agter my kyk nie – as jy kyk na
man vir jou genesing dan het jy ‘n blok. Mense wat tekens en wonders najaag, gaan op die ou end teleurgesteld wees. Jesus het gesê dat ‘n bose en owerspelige nasie ‘n teken soek:
Johannes 4 v 46 – 48: “46 Jesus het toe na Kana in Galilea gekom, waar Hy die water in wyn verander het. En daar was ‘n sekere koninklike amptenaar wie se seun siek gelê het in Kapernaum. 47 Toe hy gehoor het dat Jesus van Galilea af teruggekom het, het hy ‘n pad gegaan om Hom tegemoet en begin om Hom te smeek om af te kom en sy seun te genees, want hy het op die punt van dood gelê. 48Toe sê Jesus vir hom: As jy nie tekens en wonderwerke sien gebeur nie, sal jy nooit glo nie (vertrou, glo) nie.” Matteus 12 v 38 – 39: “Toe sê sommige van die skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs vir Hom: Meester, ons wil graag ‘n teken en wonderwerk van U sien [wat bewys dat U is wat U beweer dat hy is]. Maar Hy antwoord hulle: ‘n Bose en owerspelige geslag (‘n geslag wat moreel ontrou is aan God) soek en eis ‘n teken; maar geen teken sal daaraan gegee word nie, behalwe die teken van die profeet Jona.”
Tekens en wonders volg hulle wat glo – nie andersom nie. Ons moet God soek en Sy Woord glo, nie die tekens en wonders as die fondament van ons geloof nie. Siekte is as gevolg van skeiding van God in een of ander area van ons lewe. Die sleutel is geloof in God en Sy Woord op grond van ‘n intieme verhouding met Hom, nie op grond van tekens en wonders nie.
10. Kyk na die simptome in plaas van die geneser – laat vrees in jou hart kom
Matteus 14 v 22 – 31: “22 Toe het Hy die dissipels beveel om in die skuit te klim en voor Hom uit na die oorkant toe, terwyl Hy die skare wegstuur. 23 En nadat Hy die skare weggestuur het, het Hy alleen na die heuwels opgegaan om te bid. Toe dit aand was, was Hy nog alleen daar. 24 Maar die skuit was teen hierdie tyd buite op die see, baie kilometers [‘n lang is een-agtste van ‘n myl] ver van die land, geslaan en geslinger deur die golwe, want die wind was teen hulle. 25 En in die vierde nagwaak [tussen 3:00 – 6:00 vm.] van die nag, het Jesus na hulle gekom terwyl hulle op die see loop. 26 En toe die dissipels Hom op die see sien loop, was hulle verskrik en sê: Dit is ‘n spook! En hulle het uitgeroep van die skrik. 27 Maar dadelik het Hy met hulle gespreek en gesê: Hou moed! EK IS! Hou op om bang te wees!
28 En Petrus antwoord Hom: Here, as dit U is, beveel my om op die water na U te kom. 29 Hy sê: Kom! Petrus het toe uit die skuit geklim en op die water geloop, en hy het na Jesus toe gekom. 30 Maar toe hy die sterk wind bemerk en voel, het hy geskrik, en hy het begin sink, hy het uitgeroep: Here, red my [van die dood]! 31 Jesus het dadelik sy hand uitgesteek en hom gegryp en hom vasgehou en vir hom gesê: Kleingelowige, waarom het jy getwyfel?”
As jy na jou simptome kyk eerder as die Geneser gaan jy wegsink in vrees en ongeloof, net soos Petrus gesink het toe hy eerder op die storm as op Jesus gefokus het. Peter het egter ten minste uit die boot geklim! Hy het darem probeer, wat meer is as wat baie van ons nog ooit gedoen het. Wanneer dit by jou genesing kom, moet jy jou fokus op God en Sy Woord hou. As jy wag dat jou simptome verdwyn voordat jy sal glo, gaan jy lank wag. As jy wag vir jou genesing voordat jy na die Geneser kyk, gaan jy lank wag vir jou genesing! Jy sien, die simptome van jou siekte is net die vrug van die probleem. Kom tot by die wortel –
kom in die Woord en word geheilig van die sonde agter die siekte. Kry jou oë van jou siekte en van jou simptome af. Kry jou oë terug op die Here en Sy Woord en hou hulle daar! Wanneer jou oë op jou simptome en jou siekte is – sal jy wegsink in vrees en ongeloof. Wanneer jou oë op die Here en Sy woord is, sal jy in geloof opstaan. Vrees en geloof is opponerende geestelike magte. Beide eis om vervul te word en beide projekteer in die toekoms. Vrees sal jou geloof blus en geloof sal jou vrese blus. Jy moet kies watter een jou sal regeer.
2 Timoteus 1 v 7: “God het julle nie ’n gees van vreesagtigheid gegee nie, maar krag, liefde en selfbeheersing.”
Romeine 8 v 15: Want die Gees wat julle nou ontvang het, is nie ‘n gees van slawerny om julle weer aan vrees te slawerny nie, maar julle het die Gees van aanneming ontvang [die Gees voortbringende seunskip] in [ die saligheid van] waarvan ons roep, Abba (Vader)! Vader!”
11. Trots en verwag dat God jou op jou manier sal genees
As jy al die wonderbaarlike genesing lees wat Jesus in die Bybel gedoen het, het Hy nooit presies dieselfde ding twee keer gedoen nie. Sodra Hy modder op ‘n blinde man se oë gesit het, het een vrou genesing ontvang deur sy kleed aan te raak en ander kere het Hy net die woord gespreek en genesing het gekom. Ons kan nie verwag dat God ‘n wonderwerk in ons lewens sal doen op presies dieselfde manier as wat Hy vir iemand anders gedoen het nie. Soms kry ons ons eie idees van presies hoe God ons moet genees en ons probeer Hom in ‘n boks sit. Ons vertel Hom wat Hy gaan doen, hoe Hy dit gaan doen en wanneer Hy dit gaan doen, presies binne die terme wat ons gestel het.
2 Konings 5 v 1 – 14 vertel die verhaal van Naäman wat die leërkaptein van die koning van Sirië was. Hy
was beskou as ‘n baie groot en vooraanstaande man. Die Bybel sê dat hy ‘n dapper man was. Hy het egter melaatsheid gehad. Hy het gehoor van Elisa in Israel en dat hy hom dalk kan genees. Daarom het hy ‘n lang pad gereis om Elisa te sien. Die eintlike kicker van die storie is dat Elisa nie eens uitgekom het om hom te ontmoet nie. Elisa het ‘n boodskap met ‘n dienskneg gestuur en vir Naäman gesê om hom sewe keer in die Jordaanrivier te gaan was en dan sou hy gesond word. Dit het beslis nie by Naäman se ego afgegaan nie – hy was ‘n baie belangrike man! Elisa moes uitgekom het om hom te groet en te eer!
2 Konings 5 v 11 – 14: “11 Maar Naäman was kwaad en het weggegaan en gesê: Kyk, ek het gedink hy
sou sekerlik na my toe uitkom en staan en die Naam van die Here sy God aanroep en sy hand oor die plek beweeg en die melaatse genees.” Kyk hier stel Namaan sy terme uiteen van presies hoe God hom moet genees. Hy het gesê: “God, dit is hoe dit gedoen moet word.” Hy het alles uitgepluis oor hoe dit gaan verloop.
“12 Is Abana en Pharper, die riviere van Damaskus, nie beter as al die waters van Israel nie? Mag ek nie daarin was en rein word nie? Daarom het hy omgedraai en woedend weggegaan. 13 En sy dienaars het nader gekom en vir hom gesê: My vader, as die profeet jou beveel het om iets groots te doen, sou jy dit nie gedoen het nie? Hoeveel eerder as Hy dan vir julle sê: Was en word rein? 14 Toe het hy afgegaan en hom sewe maal in die Jordaan gedompel, soos die man van God gesê het, en sy vlees het herstel soos dié van ’n kindjie, en hy was rein.”
Naäman het ‘n geestelike probleem van trots gehad en dit het hom amper sy genesing gekos. Genesing begin met heiliging van die hart, wat ontslae raak van sonde in ons gedagtes en lewe. Bekering moet egter begin met die erkenning dat die sonde in die eerste plek daar is. Sommige mense is te verblind deur hul eie geregtigheid en is te trots om enige sonde in hul lewe te erken. Dit laat hulle heilig voorkom as hulle nie is nie en dit is ‘n bestaan wat bedrieglik is. God haat trots, skynheiligheid en bedrog.
1 Johannes 1 v 8 – 10: “8 As ons sê dat ons geen sonde het nie [wat weier om te erken dat ons sondaars is nie], mislei ons en lei onsself op ‘n dwaalweg, en die Waarheid [wat die Evangelie aanbied] is nie in ons nie [nie in ons harte woon]. 9 As ons [vryelik] erken dat ons gesondig het en ons sondes bely, is Hy getrou en regverdig (getrou aan sy eie natuur en beloftes) en sal Hy ons sondes vergewe [ons wetteloosheid verwerp] en [voortdurend] reinig van alle ongeregtigheid [ alles nie in ooreenstemming met Sy wil in doel, denke en handeling]. 10 As ons sê (beweer) ons het nie gesondig nie, weerspreek ons Sy Woord en maak Hom uit as vals en ‘n leuenaar, en Sy Woord is nie in ons nie [die goddelike boodskap van die Evangelie is nie in ons harte nie].”
Spreuke 28 v 13: “Hy wat sy oortredinge bedek, sal nie voorspoedig wees nie, maar elkeen wat sy sondes bely en laat staan, sal barmhartigheid verkry.”
Psalm 32 v 3 en 5: “3 Toe ek stilgebly het [voordat ek belydenis afgelê het], het my gebeente uitgeput deur my gekerm die hele dag… 5 Ek het my sonde aan U erken en my ongeregtigheid nie verberg nie. Ek het gesê: Ek sal my oortredinge aan die Here bely [wat die verlede voortdurend ontvou totdat alles vertel is] – dan het U my [onmiddellik] die skuld en ongeregtigheid van my sonde vergewe.”
Trots is ‘n gevaarlike kwessie, want dit sal jou keer om jou genesing te ontvang en ‘n val veroorsaak. Spreuke 16 v 18: “Hoogmoed gaan voor vernietiging en ‘n hoogmoedige gees voor ‘n val.” Daar is baie mense wat senuweeagtig, onrustig en defensief raak wanneer hulle genader word oor die sonde in hul persoonlike lewe wat hul siekte veroorsaak. Waarvoor is hulle bang? God ken reeds die dieptes van hulle hart – jy kan niks vir Hom wegsteek nie! Dit is ‘n skrikwekkende ding om deesdae oop, deursigtig en eerlik te wees, want ons kan mekaar net nie vertrou nie. Wanneer iets in die donker in die geheim weggesteek word, het die duiwel ‘n vastrapplek in jou lewe. Sodra dit bely is en in die openbaar is, breek dit die duiwel se mag oor jou. As jy van jou siekte vrygemaak wil word, moet jy jou foute bely.
Jakobus 5 v 16: “Bely dan aan mekaar julle foute (julle glipsies, julle valse voetstappe, julle
oortredings, julle sondes) en bid [ook] vir mekaar, sodat julle genees en herstel kan word.
geestelike toon van gees en hart].”
Jesaja 57 v 15: “Want so sê die Hoë en Verhewe – Hy wat die ewigheid bewoon, wie se Naam
is Heilig: Ek woon in die hoogte en in die heilige plek, maar ook by Hom wat van ‘n deur en deur berouvolle en nederige gees is, om die gees van die nederiges te laat herleef en die hart van die volkome berouvolle [gekneus deur droefheid oor sonde] te laat herleef.
12. ‘n Verharde hart
Daar is mense wat verblind is deur hul eie geregtigheid of te trots is om te erken dat hulle sonde in hul lewe het. Hulle hart is verhard en hulle is onberouvol oor hulle sonde. Hulle gaan nie verander nie. Die sonde word ontken, geregverdig of goedgepraat. Hulle gaan voort in hulle flagrante of gewoontesonde omdat hulle hart verhard is. Die enigste manier waarop hierdie mense hulle genesing sal ontvang, is om hulleself voor God te verootmoedig, met diepe oortuiging en opregte berou.
Psalm 51 v 17: “My offer [die offer aan God aanneemlik] is ‘n gebroke gees; ‘n gebreekte en
’n berouvolle hart [gebroke van droefheid oor sonde en nederig en deeglik berouvol], sulkes, o God, sal U nie verag nie.”
Jesaja 57 v 15: “Want so sê die Hoë en Verhewe – Hy wat die ewigheid bewoon, wie se Naam
is Heilig: Ek woon in die hoogte en in die heilige plek, maar ook by Hom wat van ‘n deur en deur berouvolle en nederige gees is, om die gees van die nederiges te laat herleef en die hart van die volkome berouvolle [gekneus deur droefheid oor sonde] te laat herleef. ”
Jy moet jou uit die hart bekeer…
13. ‘n Onleerbare Hart
In Matteus 5 v 3 het Jesus gesê “Geseënd is die armes van gees, want aan hulle behoort die koninkryk van die hemele.” Die frase “arm van gees” beteken dat jou hart oop is en jy leerbaar is. Jy is nie hardkoppig nie, jy is nie wys in jou eie oë nie en jy is nie opstandig nie. As ek jou enigsins gaan kan help, moet jy leerbaar wees. Ek kan nie vir julle die koninkryk van die hemele bring wat volgens Romeine 14 v 17 geregtigheid, vrede en vreugde in die Heilige Gees is as julle nie leerbaar is nie.
Spreuke 5 v 11 – 13: “11 En jy sug en treur as jou einde kom, as jou vlees en
liggaam is verteer, 12 en jy sê: Hoe het ek tug en tug gehaat, en my hart het teregwysing verag! 13 Ek het nie na die stem van my leraars geluister nie en nie onderwerp en ingestem met diegene wat my onderrig nie.”
Daar is sommige mense wat net totaal onleerbaar is. Hulle is wys in hulle eie oë en onwillig om onderrig en teregwysing te ontvang wat hulle tot bekering van hulle sonde sou bring sodat hulle genees kan word.
14. Murmureer en kla
Een van die dinge wat God die meeste van die Israeliete uitgelok en kwaad gemaak het toe hulle in die wildernis op pad na die beloofde land, was dat hulle ten spyte van al die bonatuurlike wonderwerke wat Hy gedoen het om hulle te red en te voorsien, steeds aangehou het om te mor, te mor en te kla. In 1 Korintiërs hoofstuk 10 het Paulus hieroor gepraat en in verse 10 – 11 skryf hy: “Nog nie ontevrede soos sommige van hulle gekla het nie – en is heeltemal uit die weg geruim deur die verderwer (dood). En hierdie dinge het hulle oorgekom by wyse van ‘n figuur [as ‘n voorbeeld en waarskuwing vir ons]; hulle is geskryf om ons deur goeie onderrig te vermaan en toe te pas vir die regte optrede, ons in wie se dae die eeue hulle hoogtepunt (hulle voleinding en afsluitingstydperk) bereik het.”
In Numeri 12 v 1 – 13 het Mirjam en Aäron melaatsheid gekry omdat hulle teen die vrou gemor en gemurmureer het
van Moses. Gemor, gemor, kla en ondankbaarheid beïnvloed jou gesondheid en ‘n gesindheid soos hierdie sal God se genesing en seën wat in jou lewe invloei, keer.
15. Misverstande en verkeerde oortuigings oor genesing
Misverstande gebaseer op verkeerde oortuigings oor die Bybel is ‘n groot blokkasie vir genesing. Een van
die blokke vir genesing wat vroeër genoem is, is ongeloof. Ongeloof beteken om nie in God te glo of dat Hy nie
sal genees. Ongeloof behels egter ook onkunde (wat in die blok hieronder aangespreek word) en verkeerde onderrig. Daar is baie denominasionele heilige koeie van teologie en leer wat nie ooreenstem met die Woord van God nie. Sommige van hierdie misverstande en denominasionele clichés sluit in:
• Ek bring God eer in my siekte.
• My siekte bring my nader aan God – dit is Sy tugtiging.
• Dit is dalk nie God se wil om my te genees nie. Die regverdiging vir hierdie geloof is Paulus se doring in die vlees.
• Dit is dalk nie God se wil om my te genees nie, want my toegewese tyd op aarde is verby.
• Genesing is nie vir vandag nie – dit het 2000 jaar gelede saam met die apostels verbygegaan.
16. Gebrek aan kennis
God het in Jesaja 5 v 13 – 14 gesê: “My volk het in ballingskap gegaan, omdat hulle geen kennis het nie, en hulle eerbare manne is honger en hulle menigte het opgedroog van dors. Daarom het die hel haarself vergroot en haarself sonder maat oopgemaak…”
In Hosea 4 v 6 het God gesê dat sy volk vergaan weens gebrek aan kennis. Onkunde is ‘n vorm van kennis, maar dit is baie gevaarlik vir ons gesondheid. Sommige mense word nie genees wanneer daar vir hulle gebid word nie omdat hulle nie die kennis van God se beginsels rakende genesing het nie. Daarom weet hulle nie hoe om hulleself in lyn te bring met Sy Woord sodat hulle in ‘n posisie is om van Hom te ontvang nie.
Spreuke 9 v 10-11: “Die eerbiedige en aanbiddende vrees van die Here is die begin (die belangrikste en uitverkore deel) van Wysheid, en die kennis van die Heilige is insig en begrip. Want deur my [Wysheid van God] sal jou dae vermeerder word en die jare van jou lewe vermeerder.”
Daarom hoop ek in hierdie artiekel om vir jou kennis, begrip en wysheid te gee oor hoe om aansoek te doen
God se beginsels van genesing en die voorkoming van siektes.
17. Jy doen dit net nie
Jakobus 1 v 22 en 25: “22 Maar wees daders van die Woord [gehoorsaam die Boodskap], en nie bloot luisteraars daarvan nie, en verraai julleself [in misleiding deur teenstrydig met die Waarheid te redeneer]. 25Maar hy wat die onberispelike wet, die [wet] van die vryheid, noukeurig insien en getrou is om dit te doen en daarin volhard, terwyl hy nie ‘n onverskillige luisteraar is wat vergeet nie, maar ‘n daadwerklike [wat gehoorsaam] is, hy sal geseënd in sy doen (sy lewe van gehoorsaamheid).”
Die onderrig en beginsels in hierdie artiekel gaan niks vir jou doen totdat jy dit in die praktyk toepas en op jou lewe toepas nie.
18. Gebrek aan tempel onderhoud
1 Korintiërs 6 v 19 – 20: “Weet julle nie dat julle liggaam die tempel (die heiligdom) is van die Heilige Gees wat in julle woon, wat julle [as gawe] van God ontvang het nie? Jy is nie jou eie nie, Jy is gekoop met ‘n prys [met ‘n kosbaarheid gekoop en betaal, Sy eie gemaak]. So dan, eer God en bring eer aan Hom in jou liggaam.”
Ons liggaam is die Tempel van die Heilige Gees en ons moet dit as sodanig eer, waardeer en respekteer. As jy my gevra het om vir jou te bid vir genesing, maar die siekte is ‘n gevolg van nalatigheid en om nie na jou liggaam om te sien nie, dink jy God gaan my gebed verhoor? Nee. As jy elke dag ‘n liter gaskoeldrank drink, jou kos met suiker, preserveermiddels en verwerkte vet laai, 24 uur per dag, 7 dae per week werk sonder voldoende slaap en rus en/of nie oefening ‘n prioriteit maak in jou lewe, dan kan jy nie verwag dat God jou sal genees nie, wat ook al jou verskoning is.
As jy nie ‘n goeie rentmeester van jou liggaam is nie, gaan jy ‘n hoë prys betaal.
19. Dit is nie ‘n siekte nie, maar ‘n newe-effek van Pharmakia –
Baie mense gebruik ‘n wye verskeidenheid mediese middels – hul badkamerkas lyk soos ‘n apteek. Byvoorbeeld, diabetes en hipertensie (hoë bloeddruk) is wêreldwyd in epidemiese proporsies en hierdie siektes kom dikwels saam voor. ’n Diabeet wat ook hartsiektes het, kan uiteindelik meer as 13 tablette elke dag neem. Mediese dwelms dra newe-effekte saam wat dikwels ‘n “Pandora se doos van die hel” is. Die vierde grootste oorsaak van dood is nadelige reaksies op voorskrifmedisyne. Jy ly dalk aan wat lyk na ‘n siekte, wat eintlik ‘n newe-effek is van ‘n dwelm wat jy neem. ‘n Maagseer word byvoorbeeld veroorsaak deur ‘n gedagtelewe wat deur vrees, angs en stres oorheers word. Dit kan egter ook veroorsaak word deur die langtermyn gebruik van anti-inflammatoriese middels. Kontroleer dus die voubiljet van die medikasie wat jy neem. As jy nie ‘n voubiljet het nie, gaan na jou plaaslike apteek aangesien hulle ‘n boek moet hê wat al die middels en hul newe-effekte bevat. Dit is geen sin om ‘n newe-effek van ‘n geneesmiddel te probeer bedien nie – daar is geen genesing vir die newe-effekte van ‘n geneesmiddel nie. Baie mense wonder hoekom hulle nie van ‘n siekte genees word nie, terwyl dit in werklikheid ‘n newe-effek van Pharmakia is. EN DIE COVID VACCINE IS DIE GROOTSTE VORM VAN PHARMAKIA – EN DIT IS ‘N PERMANENTE BLOK SONDER OPLOSSING.
20. Ongehoorsaamheid in tiendes
Maleagi 3 v 8 – 11: “8 Sal ‘n man God beroof of bedrieg? Tog beroof of bedrieg jy My. Maar U sê: Hoe beroof en bedrieg ons U? [Julle het julle] tiendes en offergawes teruggehou. 9 Jy is vervloek met die vloek, want jy beroof My, ja, hierdie hele nasie. 10 Bring al die tiendes (die hele tiende van julle inkomste) na die skathuis, dat daar voedsel in my huis kan wees, en beproef My nou daardeur, sê die Here van die leërskare, as Ek nie die vensters van die hemel vir julle oopmaak nie en stort vir julle ‘n seën uit, dat daar nie genoeg plek sal wees om dit te ontvang nie. 11 En Ek sal die eter [insekte en plae] om julle ontwil bestraf, en hy sal die vrugte van julle land nie vernietig nie, en julle wingerdstok sal sy vrugte nie laat val voor die tyd in die veld nie, sê die Here van die leërskare.”
Dikwels wanneer ‘n Ou-Testamentiese skrif aangehaal word, sal mense dit verwerp deur te sê: “Ek is in die Nuwe Testament, ek is nie onder die wet nie.” Abraham het tiendes aan Melgisedek betaal en die wet van tiendes is eers 435 jaar later gegee. Jy moet verstaan dat alles wat jy het eintlik nie aan jou behoort nie, dit behoort aan God – Hy het so pas aan jou toevertrou om ‘n rentmeester daarvan te wees. Ek glo dat een van die primêre doelwitte van tiendes is om te toets wat jou hartsnare die meeste trek – jou beursie of jou liefde vir God?
Jesus het in Matteus 6 v 24 gesê: “24 Niemand kan twee here dien nie; want óf hy sal die een haat en die ander liefhê, óf hy sal bystaan en aan die een toegewyd wees en die ander verag en teen die ander wees.
Jy kan nie God en Mammon dien nie (bedrieglike rykdom, geld, besittings of wat ook al op vertrou word nie.)” As God nie regtig nommer een in jou lewe is nie omdat jy meer lief is vir jou geld, gaan jy sukkel om daardie 10% tiende weg te gee. . As jou liefde egter op God gerig is, sal dit nie vir jou ‘n probleem wees om aan Hom daardie 10% terug te gee nie, want jy verstaan dat dit in elk geval Syne is. Tiendes is eintlik ‘n gebod, nie ‘n versoek as jy so voel of as jy ‘n goeie maand het nie. Wanneer jy op enige gebied in ongehoorsaamheid aan God se Woord is, en dit sluit nie tiendes in nie, stel jy jouself oop vir die duiwel. Wat jy dalk nie besef nie, is dat as jy nie daardie 10% vir God gee nie – dit gaan na die verslinder. Volgens ‘n nasionale statistiek in Amerika in 2002 is die persentasie geld wat aan God teruggegee word in tiendes en offers uit die bruto nasionale inkomste 2,7%. Waarheen gaan die res? Om mediese rekeninge en die skuldlas te betaal! Wanneer ons in gehoorsaamheid wandel, is die seëninge outomaties. Wanneer ons in ongehoorsaamheid is, sal die vloek sekerlik kom. In die inleidende hoofstukke van hierdie boek het ek verduidelik dat ‘n deel van die vloek siekte behels volgens Deuteronomium hoofstuk
28. As jy genesing wil hê en om die volheid te geniet van wat God vir jou het, is dit nie om jou tiende te weerhou nie.
‘n opsie. En terwyl ons daaroor praat om God eerste te stel – is Hy eerste in jou tyd? Ek wil nie wetties hieroor raak nie, maar miskien moet ons nie net die 10%-meter met ons materiële goedere gebruik nie, wat van die eerste vrugte van ons tyd? Dit is net ‘n uitdaging.
1 Johannes 5 v 21: “Kinders, bewaar julleself van afgode (valse gode) – [van enigiets en
alles wat die plek in jou hart sou inneem wat aan God toekom, van enige soort plaasvervanger vir Hom wat die eerste plek in jou lewe sou inneem].”
21. Vorige of voortgesette betrokkenheid by Okkultisme
Solank jy voortgaan om betrokke te wees by okkultiese praktyke van enige aard, kan jy nie verwag om enige genesing te ontvang nie. Jy moet besluit wie jou baas is – Satan of die Lewende God? Jy kan nie een voet in elke kamp hê nie – dit is óf die een óf die ander. Okkultisme sluit in om betrokke te wees by Satanisme of enige ander vorm van valse godsdiens wat enigiets anders as die Woord van God (die Bybel) en die Evangelie van Jesus Christus leer. Okkultisme behels om mediums te kontak, toordokters, towenaars of ‘n ander okkultiese praktisyn te raadpleeg, met towery te ploeter en selfs bose geeste te kontak deur middel van die Ouija-bordspeletjie. Wat dink jy laat daardie bord beweeg en daardie woorde uitspel? Dit is die eerste medium van kontak met Satan by kinders. Levitasie, tafelkip en lepelbuiging is alles deel van die koninkryk en die mag van Satan. Daar is selfs ‘n paar gesondheidsorg modaliteite wat deel is van die okkulte soos Oosterse mistiek en joga wat gebaseer is op die demoniese grondslag van Kundalini. Om na die toekoms te kyk of aspekte van die toekoms te probeer beheer deur ‘n fortuinverteller of enige medium in plaas daarvan om God en Sy Woord te raadpleeg, is afgodery en maak daardie persoon ‘n “god” in jou lewe waarop jy vertrou. Ons kennis en wysheid kom van die Woord van God, nie die studie van die skepping soos die son, maan, sterre of wat ‘n waarsêer, astroloog of valse profeet te sê het oor die verlede, hede en toekoms nie. Vorige betrokkenheid of volgehoue betrokkenheid by okkultiese praktyke, denke of modaliteite van genesing wat nie van God is nie, sal genesing verhoed. Totdat jy jou hiervoor bekeer, het die duiwel nog ‘n vastrapplek in jou lewe en dit sal jou genesing blokkeer.
Okkultiese betrokkenheid en heksery in vorige generasies van jou familie waarvoor nie berou is nie, kan ook die deur oopmaak vir siektes in jou lewe en jou genesing blokkeer. Deel van okkultisme is heksery en towery wat verband hou met die chroniese gebruik van voorskrifmedisyne as ‘n manier van lewe, terwyl die onderliggende sonde agter die siekte nie hanteer word nie.
22. Ter wille van die redding van die kind weens die sonde van die ouers
Hierdie punt is baie moeilik om te neem, maar ongelukkig is daar dikwels ‘n harde werklikheid om God te verwerp en in sonde te wandel. Ek wil nie onsensitief wees vir daardie ouers wat die verskriklike tragedie gely het om ‘n kind te verloor nie. Ek impliseer beslis nie dat hierdie punt verwys na alle gevalle waar ‘n kind verloor is nie.
Soms kan die sonde van die ouers genesing blokkeer. dit raak ook ons kinders. Kinders kan siek word as gevolg van die sonde van die ouers. In 2 Samuel 13 – 14 was daar ‘n doodsvloek op Dawid en Batseba se kind. Die kind het gesterf as gevolg van die sonde van die ouers (moord en owerspel). 1 Konings 14 v 1 – 13 vertel die verhaal van Jerobeam wat ‘n bose koning was en sy seun wat siek was. Daar is ‘n geweldige stelling in hierdie verhaal oor God wat ‘n kind aan die dood afneem. God het uit die hemel afgekyk en gesien dat daar goedheid in hierdie kind is, maar as hierdie kind toegelaat word om te lewe, sal sy ongehoorsame ouers wat God en Sy weë verwerp het, hierdie kind se hart verdraai en God sal hom vir altyd aan Homself verloor. God het dus nie die kind genees en hom toegelaat om te sterf om hom vir ewig te bewaar nie.
1 Konings 14 v 1 – 13: “1 Toe het Abia [die klein] seun van Jerobeam siek geword. 2 En Jeróbeam sê vir sy vrou: Staan tog op en vermom jou, sodat jy nie as Jeróbeam se vrou herken word nie, en gaan na Silo. Kyk, daar is die profeet Ahia, wat vir my gesê het dat ek koning moet word oor hierdie volk. 3 Neem tien brode, ‘n paar koeke en ‘n bottel heuning en gaan na hom toe. Hy sal vir jou sê wat met die kind sal gebeur. 4 Jerobeam se vrou het dit gedoen. Sy het opgestaan en [twintig myl] na Silo gegaan en by die huis van Ahia gekom. Ahia kon nie sien nie, want sy oë was dof vanweë sy ouderdom. 5 En die HERE het vir Ahía gesê: Kyk, die vrou van Jeróbeam kom om jou te vra oor haar seun, want hy is siek. So en so sal jy vir haar sê. Toe sy kom, het sy haar voorgedoen as ‘n ander vrou.
6 Maar toe Ahía die geluid van haar voete hoor toe sy by die deur ingaan, sê hy: Kom in, vrou van Jeróbeam, waarom gee jy voor dat jy ‘n ander is? Want ek is belas met swaar nuus vir julle. 7Gaan sê vir Jerobeam: So sê die Here, die God van Israel: Omdat Ek jou uit die volk verhef het en jou as leier oor My volk Israel aangestel het 8 en die koningskap van die huis van Dawid weggeskeur en dit aan jou gegee het, en tog het jy Hy was nie soos my kneg Dawid wat my gebooie onderhou het en My met sy hele hart gevolg het om net te doen wat reg was in my oë nie, 9 maar bo alles gedoen het wat voor jou was; want jy het vir jou ander gode gemaak, gegote beelde, om My te terg en My agter jou rug gewerp – 10 Daarom, kyk, Ek bring onheil oor die huis van Jeróbeam en sal uit hom uitroei al wat manlik is, beide slawe en slawe en vry, in Israel, en sal die huis van Jeróbeam heeltemal wegvee soos ‘n man mis wegvee totdat dit alles weg is. 11 Elkeen van Jeróbeam wat in die stad sterf, sal die honde eet, en elkeen wat in die veld sterf, sal die voëls van die hemel eet. Want die Here het dit gespreek. 12 Staan dan op [Ano, Jerobeam se vrou], gaan na jou eie huis. Wanneer jou voete in die stad ingaan, sal die kind sterwe. 13 En die hele Israel sal oor hom rou en hom begrawe; want hy alleen van Jeróbeam se geslag sal in die graf kom, want in hom is iets goeds en welgevalligs vir die Here, die God van Israel, in die huis van Jerobeam gevind.”
Hierdie verhaal gee ‘n geweldige insig. Jy kan nie ‘n wet of leerstelling daarvan maak nie, maar dit verduidelik wel hoekom God toelaat dat sommige kinders in siektes of ongelukke geneem word. Volgens die woorde van Jesus blyk dit dat elke kind wat in die wêreld gebore word, ‘n beskermengel aan hom toegewys het wat deur goddelike opdrag afgevaardig is om die kind deur die lewe te vergesel en oor hom te waak vir sy beswil.
Matteus 18 v 10: “Pas op dat julle nie een van hierdie kleintjies verag nie; want Ek sê vir jou:
Dat hulle engele in die hemel altyd die aangesig van my Vader aanskou wat in die hemel is.” KJV
Alhoewel die engel se doel is om die kind te beskerm, is dit duidelik dat hy nie onbeperkte gesag in hierdie opsig gekry het nie, maar sy beskerming is beperk tot sekere perke. As dit nie so was nie, sou geen kinders sterf nie. Die feit is die Bybel wys vir ons in 1 Konings hoofstuk 4 dat as ‘n kind van goddelose ouers geestelike belofte toon, die Here kan toelaat dat die kind van hulle weggeneem word sodat hy nie in ‘n bose omgewing sal grootword wat hom sal besmet nie. In die waarneming van die menslike natuur is daar soms ‘n moontlikheid dat iemand wat God regtig vir ewig wil hê, vir ewig vir Hom verlore kan gaan deur weg te val of situasies in die lewe wat hulle totaal van God skei. Wanneer kinders in hul jeug sterf, is ons geneig om te dink dat dit ‘n groot tragedie is. Maar dit is nie altyd waar nie. God kan omstandighede vooruit voorsien waarin dit baie beter sou wees dat die kleinding van die toneel verwyder en deur die engele na die Paradys geneem word waar die kind behoorlik opgepas en vir ewig bewaar sal word.
Of die ouers Christene is wat die Here liefhet of nie, het baie te doen met die lot van die kind.
Volgens 1 Korintiërs 7 v 14 word kinders deur gelowige ouers geheilig en geheilig. In Handelinge 16 v 31 het Paulus gesê: “Glo in die Here Jesus Christus [gee jouself aan Hom oor, neem jouself uit jou eie bewaring en vertrou jouself toe in Sy bewaring] en jy sal gered word, [en dit geld beide vir] jou en jou huishouding ook.”
23. Is jou siekte geneties oorgeërf?
Doen ander familielede en diegene in generasies voordat jy dieselfde siekte het as wat jy is
ly aan? Of het hulle ander siektes wat dieselfde geestelike wortel het wat agter die siekte is wat jy het? Verskillende lede in ‘n stamboom kan byvoorbeeld depressie, gewigsprobleme, diabetes en beroertes hê. Die geestelike wortel agter al hierdie siektes is ‘n lae selfbeeld en selfhaat en dit is wat deur die stamboom loop. Net so kan daar ADHD, epilepsie, disleksie, kleurblindheid, outisme, leergestremdhede en homoseksualiteit by verskillende lede in die verskillende generasies wees – ‘n dowe en stom gees sit agter al hierdie siektes en dit is ‘n vastrapplek gegee deur ‘n huwelik waar die vrou het die huis oorheers en regeer terwyl die man passief op die agtergrond gesit het. As daar ‘n ooreenkoms tussen jou siekte en jou familielede is, ly jy dalk aan ‘n siekte wat geneties oorgeërf is.
24. Behou nie jou oorwinning nie
.” Die kennis wat ek jou gegee het oor hoe om vry te kom, is daardie selfde kennis wat jou vry sal hou. Met ander woorde, wanneer jy hierdie beginsels toepas wat ek jou leer en God genees jou, moet jy aanhou om daardie beginsels toe te pas selfs nadat jy genees is. As jy byvoorbeeld depressief gehad het weens ‘n lae selfbeeld, en dan jou denke verander het deur jou gedagtes te vernuwe met die Woord oor wie jy in Christus is en God jou genees het, moet jy aanhou om aan jouself te dink volgens wie jy is in Christus. As jy terugglip in jou ou slegte gedagtes van ‘n lae selfbeeld – raai wat? Die depressie gaan terugkom en heel waarskynlik erger as ooit tevore.
Matteus 12 v 43 – 45: “Maar as die onreine gees uit ‘n mens uitgegaan het, dwaal dit deur
droë [droë] plekke op soek na rus, maar dit vind nie. Dan staan daar: Ek sal teruggaan na my huis waaruit ek uitgekom het. En wanneer dit aankom, vind dit die plek onbewoon, gevee, in orde gebring en versier. Dan gaan dit en bring sewe ander geeste slegter as hyself mee, en hulle gaan in en maak hulle tuiste daar. En die laaste toestand van daardie man word erger as die eerste.”
Jy sien, wanneer die vyand verwyder is, sal hy terugkom om te kyk of jy werklik is. Die vyand
weet wat dit geverg het om toegang tot jou lewe te kry en hy sal dit weer probeer, maar ek het jou nou die kennis en gereedskap gegee om jou vry te hou. Toe Jesus een man in die tempel genees het, het Hy vir hom gesê: “Gaan en sondig nie meer of iets ergers mag oor jou kom nie.” (Johannes 5 v 14). As jy terugval in dieselfde wortels van sonde, dan is jou kanse om jou genesing te behou nie goed nie. Jy moet jou oorwinning behou. As jy dit nie doen nie, is dit ‘n blok om jou genesing te behou.
25. Op soek na herhaalde genesing in plaas daarvan om in goddelike gesondheid te lewe
Ek het net in die punt hierbo verduidelik dat jy moet voortgaan om God se beginsels van gesondheid toe te pas, selfs nadat jy genees is. Daar is sommige mense wat genees word, dan teruggly in hul ou sonde, weer siek word en dan aanhou verwag dat God hulle weer sal genees. Dieselfde beginsels wat jou sal help om genees te word, is dieselfde beginsels wat, wanneer dit konsekwent op jou lewe toegepas word, jou in goddelike gesondheid sal hou. God stel nie daarin belang om jou herhaaldelik te genees nie, want God se volmaakte wil is nie genesing nie, Sy volmaakte wil is dat jy in die eerste plek nie siek word nie.
3 Joh 1 v 2: “Geliefdes, ek bid dat dit met jou in alle opsigte voorspoedig mag wees en dat dit goed met jou liggaam kan bly, soos dit met jou siel voorspoedig is.”
26. Deel te hê of te glo in enige valse leerstellings van demone
Maak seker jy glo in die Ware Evangelie en word nie mislei in een van meer as 13 Valse Leerstellings wat tans die Kerk oorstroom nie. Lees meer hieroor in Pastoor Dirk se eBoek. Die Groot Val Weg Die Ander Vroue! want Genesing sal nie plaasvind as jy in enige veranderde Leer van Demone glo nie.
The Great Falling Away via Doctrine of Demons deur Pastoor Dirk https://www.thegospeltruth.net.za/the-great-falling-away/
27. Neem Nagmaal met sonde in jou Lewe
Soos Paulus verduidelik. Gaan na Nagmaal en Nagmaal met sonde in jou liefde. draai oor na Siekte en siekte en kan in die dood beland !
1Co 11:20 Wanneer julle dan op een plek saamkom, is dit nie om die nagmaal van die Here te eet nie.
1Co 11:21 Want deur te eet, neem elkeen sy eie maaltyd voor die ander, en die een is honger en die ander is dronk.
1Kor 11:22 Wat? Het julle nie huise om in te eet en te drink nie? of verag julle die gemeente van God en beskaam die wat nie het nie? Wat sal ek vir jou sê? sal ek U hierin loof? Ek loof U nie.
1Co 11:23 Want ek het van die Here ontvang wat ek ook aan julle oorgegee het, dat die Here Jesus in dieselfde nag waarin Hy verraai is, brood geneem het.
1Co 11:24 En nadat Hy gedank het, het Hy dit gebreek en gesê: Neem, eet; dit is my liggaam wat vir julle gebreek word; doen dit tot my gedagtenis.
1Kor 11:25 Net so het Hy ook die beker geneem toe hy die maaltyd geëet het en gesê: Hierdie beker is die nuwe testament in my bloed; doen dit, so dikwels as julle dit drink, tot my gedagtenis.
1Co 11:26 Want so dikwels as julle hierdie brood eet en hierdie beker drink, verkondig julle die dood van die Here totdat Hy kom.
1Co 11:27 Daarom, elkeen wat hierdie brood eet en hierdie beker van die Here drink, op onwaardige wyse, sal skuldig wees aan die liggaam en bloed van die Here.
1Co 11:28 Maar laat iemand homself ondersoek en so van daardie brood eet en uit daardie beker drink.
1Co 11:29 Want wie op onwaardige wyse eet en drink, eet en drink ‘n oordeel oor homself, sonder om die liggaam van die Here te onderskei.
1Co 11:30 Daarom is baie swakkes en siekes onder julle, en baie slaap.
1Co 11:31 Want as ons onsself sou oordeel, sou ons nie geoordeel word nie.
1Co 11:32 Maar as ons geoordeel word, word ons deur die Here getugtig, sodat ons nie saam met die wêreld veroordeel mag word nie.
1Co 11:33 Daarom, my broeders, as julle bymekaarkom om te eet, vertoef vir mekaar.
1Co 11:34 En as iemand honger het, laat hom by die huis eet; dat julle nie saamkom tot veroordeling nie. En die res sal ek regmaak as ek kom.
28. Net opgee
Hierdie blok vir genesing is waar jy kyk na jou simptome en jou prognose, jy kyk na die woord “ongeneeslik” en die beperkte lewensduur wat die dokters jou gegee het, en jy gee in daardie etikette en aanvaar dit alles as die waarheid, eerder as leef deur geloof en nie deur sig nie en streef na genesing in die aangesig van wat alles in die fisiese ryk sê. As jy gediagnoseer is met wat as ‘n ongeneeslike siekte beskou word, wil ek jou sterk aanmoedig om die etiket of die beperkte tydsduur wat die dokters gesê het jy verlaat het, te verwerp. As jy daarin gee, is dit presies wat sal gebeur. “Soos ‘n man in sy hart dink, so is hy.” (Spreuke 23 v 7). Natuurlik moet jy nie in ontkenning gaan nie, jy moet die feite erken.
Daar is egter hoop! Geen siekte is ongeneeslik as daar aan God se voorwaardes vir genesing voldoen word nie. Die Bybel sê dat die gees van die mens hom sal ondersteun in sy swakheid:
Spreuke 18 v 14: “Die sterk gees van ‘n mens onderhou hom in liggaamlike pyn of benoudheid, maar ‘n swak en gebroke gees wat kan opstaan of verdra?” King James Version: “Die gees van die mens sal sy swakheid onderhou; maar wie kan ‘n gewonde gees verdra?”
Ek sê vir jou: “Word wakker gees van die mens! Staan op! Neem jou plek in die land van die lewendes!” Daar is iets wat diep binne jou moet gebeur vir jou sogenaamde ongeneeslike siekte om te oorkom en dit is jy moet die wil hê om te lewe! Jy moet ophou om hopeloos en vol wanhoop te wees, net wag vir die fatalistiese einde van een of ander gevolgtrekking. “Jy kan jammer wees of jy kan kragtig wees – maak jou keuse.” Jammerte is soos supergom wat jou aan jou siekte sal bind en jou in jou put sal hou. Bemoedig jouself in die Here – staan op gees van die mens! Staan op seun of dogter van God! Jy het ‘n ontsagwekkende bestemming en roeping van God op jou lewe om te vervul in jou generasie wat God gesien het vanaf die grondlegging van die wêreld!
Efesiërs 2 v 10: “Want ons is God se [eie] handewerk (Sy maaksel), herskep in Christus
Jesus, [opnuut gebore] dat ons daardie goeie werke kan doen wat God vooraf vir ons bestem (beplan) vir ons [pad loop wat Hy voor die tyd voorberei het], dat ons daarin sou wandel [die goeie lewe lei wat Hy vooraf gereël en gereed gemaak het vir ons om te lewe].” Eers as jy daardie oproep voltooi het, dan kan jy jou gees neerlê, en sê, baie dankie!
Psalm 30 v 9: “Watter voordeel is daar in my bloed as ek in die kuil (die graf) neerdaal? Sal die
stof U loof? Sal dit U Waarheid en getrouheid aan mense bekend maak?”
Jesaja 38 v 18: “Want die doderyk (die plek van die dooies) kan nie bely en die hand na U uitreik nie, die dood kan nie in U loof en jubel nie; hulle wat in die kuil neerdaal, kan nie hoop op u trou [aan u beloftes nie; hulle proeftydperk is op ‘n einde, hulle lot is verseël].”
Ek wil hê jy moet dit hardop vir jouself sê: “Ek sal nie sterwe nie, maar lewe en die werke van die Here verkondig!” (Psalm 118 v 17).
Kry God enige eer deur jou voortydig van hierdie planeet af te verloor? God het jou nie in die Hemel nodig nie
voor jou bestemde tyd om is, want jy het geen aardse goed in die hemel nie. As jy nog nie 120 jaar oud is nie, is dit nie tyd vir jou om die emmer te skop nie – jy het nog werk om vir God te doen. As jy jou doel vir lewe verloor het, moet jy God soek totdat jy dit weer vind. Jy kan nie aftree nie – jy moet weer vuur! God kan jou kragtig gebruik as jy jouself net aan Hom beskikbaar stel. Ons het jou nodig. Jou gesin het jou nodig. Jou stede het jou nodig. Die mensdom het jou nodig. Ons het jou wysheid nodig. As jy die laaste deel van jou lewe mors en wag om te sterf, gaan Moses vir jou in die hemel wag en hy gaan sy vinger in jou gesig steek, want hy het nie sy bediening begin voordat hy 80 was nie. Op daardie ouderdom hy het uiteindelik een van die grootste kerke in die geskiedenis van die mensdom gepas, wat 3 en ‘n half miljoen Israeliete ingesluit het. So wat is jou verskoning? En Moses kon nie eers behoorlik praat nie, hy moes sy broer vir hom laat praat. Die groot dinge wat Abraham vir God gedoen het waarvoor hy deur die geskiedenis heen onthou is, was ná die ouderdom van 75. Jy hoef net voor God te gaan en te sê: “Gebruik my Here, ek is beskikbaar. Vat my, net soos ek is, ek gee alles wat ek het vir jou…”
2 Kronieke 16 v 9: Want die oë van die Here loop heen en weer oor die hele aarde om sterk te wees ten behoewe van wie se hart volkome teenoor Hom is …”
Kom ek vertel jou ‘n bietjie oor wie jy as kind in Christus is: Ek wil hê jy moet dit hardop vir jouself sê: “Ek is ‘n oorwinnende oorwinnaar (1 Joh. 5 v 4; Openbaring 2 v 11),
‘n Magtige vrou of dapper man, ‘n kampioen oorwinnende vegter, wat waardigheid en eer besit. (Rigters 6 v12)
Ek is meer as ‘n oorwinnaar. (Romeine 8 v 35)
In alles behaal ek ‘n oortreffende oorwinning (Rom 8 v 37)
en in alles lei God my om in Christus te triomfeer. (2 Korintiërs 2 v 14)
Deur my eenheid met God is ek sterk in die Here en die krag van sy sterkte.(Efesiërs 6 v 10)
Ek het krag vir alles in Christus wat my krag gee. Ek is gereed vir enigiets en gelyk aan enigiets deur Hom wat innerlike krag in my inspuit. (Filippense 4 v13)
Omdat ek in God glo, daarop steun, vertrou en op God staatmaak, doen ek die dinge wat Jesus gedoen het, en groter dinge sal ek doen, want Sy Gees in my ken geen beperking nie. (Johannes 14 v 12 – 14)
Daarom glo ek dat alle dinge moontlik is en beperk nie die Heilige in my nie. (Filippense 4 v 13)
Soos Jesus is, so is ek in hierdie wêreld (1 Johannes 4 v 17)
en die onmeetlike, onbeperkte en oortreffende krag van God is aan die binnekant van my! (Efesiërs 1 v 19)
Dieselfde krag wat Jesus uit die dood opgewek het, leef in my! (Efesiërs 1 v 20)”
Dieselfde krag wat Jesus uit die dood opgewek en die graf oorwin het, is in jou! Die onmeetlike onbeperkte en oortreffende krag van God is aan die binnekant van jou! Dit is tyd dat jy jou potensiaal as kind van God ontdek! Met die krag van God aan die binnekant van jou, het jy letterlik die potensiaal om nasies te skud, moenie omgee om jou sogenaamde ongeneeslike siekte te oorkom nie! Is jy bereid om die gees van die mens op te staan en te wees wat God jou geroep het om te wees? Moenie toelaat dat die duiwel jou van jou lot beroof deur jou lewe kort te knip nie – neem aggressief die grond terug wat hy van jou gesteel het. Bemoedig jouself in die Woord en pas die beginsels toe wat ek jou leer. Jesus het die mag van Satan, siekte en dood oorwin en verbreek.
Johannes 16 v 33: “Dit het Ek vir julle gesê, sodat julle in My [volmaakte] vrede kan hê en
selfvertroue. In die wêreld het jy verdrukking en beproewings en benoudheid en frustrasie; maar hou goeie moed [hou moed; wees selfversekerd, seker, onverskrokke]! Want Ek het die wêreld oorwin [Ek het dit van krag ontneem om jou skade aan te doen en het dit vir jou oorwin]”
In Lukas 10 v 17-20 “17 Die sewentig het met blydskap teruggekom en gesê: Here, ook die duiwels is onderdanig
aan ons in U Naam! 18 En Hy sê vir hulle: Ek het die Satan soos ‘n weerligstraal uit die hemel sien val. 19 Kyk! Ek het aan julle gesag en mag gegee om op slange en skerpioene te vertrap, en [fisiese en geestelike krag en vermoë] oor al die mag wat die vyand [besit]; en niks sal jou in enige opsig skade doen nie. 20Moet julle egter nie daaroor verheug dat die geeste aan julle onderdanig is nie, maar wees bly dat julle name in die hemel opgeskryf is.”
Daar is absoluut niks wat by God onmoontlik is nie. Hy het die menslike liggaam ontwerp en Hy weet presies hoe om dit reg te maak. Hy is getrou om Sy belofte vir genesing na te kom wanneer Sy voorwaardes nagekom word.
Bible Verse and Prayer for Today
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
—John 3:17
God sent Jesus to save the world. God is not the mean ol’ Scrooge in the sky, critically looking down on his flawed children, waiting to condemn them for their mess-ups. Instead, our Father in heaven saw how broken, flawed, and messed up we were, and he entered our world in Jesus to save it and save us from ourselves. God’s purpose in sending Jesus was to give us lasting life, eternal salvation, and out of that grows our earthly mission — to join God in saving the lost world.
Prayer
O heavenly Father, deliver us from the sin that entangles our actions and pollutes our hearts. Create in each of us a clean heart and renew a right spirit in us through your sanctifying Holy Spirit. Please, awaken us to our salvation so that we don’t keep it to ourselves, but share it with those who desperately need it. Thank you for your forgiveness, grace, and salvation. In Jesus’ name, we pray with thankfulness and a renewed sense of our purpose. Amen and Amen
Bybel Vers en Gebed vir Vandag
Want God het sy Seun nie in die wêreld gestuur om die wêreld te veroordeel nie, maar om die wêreld deur Hom te red.
—Johannes 3:17
God het Jesus gestuur om die wêreld te red. God is nie die gemene ou Scrooge in die lug wat krities neerkyk op sy gebrekkige kinders en wag om hulle te veroordeel vir hulle gemors nie. In plaas daarvan het ons Vader in die hemel gesien hoe gebroke, gebrekkig en deurmekaar ons was, en Hy het ons wêreld in Jesus binnegekom om dit te red en ons van onsself te red. God se doel met die stuur van Jesus was om ons blywende lewe, ewige verlossing te gee, en daaruit groei ons aardse sending – om by God aan te sluit om die verlore wêreld te red.
Gebed
O hemelse Vader, verlos ons van die sonde wat ons dade verstrengel en ons harte besoedel. Skep in elkeen van ons ‘n rein hart en vernuwe ‘n regte gees in ons deur u heiligende Heilige Gees. Maak ons asseblief wek tot ons verlossing sodat ons dit nie vir onsself hou nie, maar dit deel met diegene wat dit desperaat nodig het. Dankie vir u vergifnis, genade en verlossing. In Jesus se Naam bid ons met dankbaarheid en ‘n hernude besef van ons doel. Amen en Amen.
Bible Teaching of the Day
Divine healing involves a supernatural act which resolves a physical, emotional or spiritual problem. In a Christian context, the supernatural element is God, many times through the agency of the Holy Spirit.
Non-Christian Views on Divine Healing
Most of the major world religions believe in some sort of supernatural healing. Islam uses Ruqya (incantations) to cure disease by countering black magic and casting out Jinn. Tibetan Buddhists employ Gso-wa Rig-pa, which includes elements of medicine, mantra and meditation. Those who hold to modern pantheism, such as New Age philosophy or cosmic humanism, use a wide variety of techniques from ancient religions and the occult.
The constant among all of these views of divine healing is the necessity of ritual. Healing, in the non-Christian religion’s view, requires a physical ritual to coerce a deity into action or to manipulate an impersonal healing force.
New Testament Divine Healing
Approximately one fifth of the Gospel narrative is devoted to Jesus’ healing ministry. At the start of His ministry, Jesus “went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people” (Matthew 4:23).
Later, when Jesus sent His twelve disciples out to preach the gospel, He gave them authority to heal the sick (Luke 9:1-2). After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, the apostles continued healing many (Acts 5:12-16). Acts records a number of healings by Peter, John, and Paul (19:12; 28:8-9).
Christian Divine Healing Today
Concerning divine healing today, there are a couple different schools of thought. Some Christians believe the gift of healing (1 Corinthians 12:9) ceased along with the sign gift of tongues. This position is called cessationism. Other Christians believe all of the sign gifts are still in use today.
While we take the cessationist view, we do believe that God is still “the LORD who heals” (Exodus 15:26). He has not lost His ability to heal, and His love for His people has not diminished. Divine healing may come through traditional medicine or through direct intervention by God in response to prayer. Or, if God wills, wholeness may not come until the ultimate healing in heaven. God is the Great Physician, and all healing, physical, emotional, and spiritual, belongs to Him.
Bybel Lering vir die Dag
Goddelike genesing behels ‘n bonatuurlike daad wat ‘n fisiese, emosionele of geestelike probleem oplos. In ‘n Christelike konteks is die bonatuurlike element God, baie keer deur die Heilige Gees.
Nie-Christelike Sienings oor Goddelike Genesing
Die meeste van die groot wêreldgodsdienste glo in een of ander soort bonatuurlike genesing. Islam gebruik Ruqya (beswerings) om siektes te genees deur swart magie teen te werk en djinn uit te dryf. Tibetaanse Boeddhiste gebruik Gso-wa Rig-pa, wat elemente van medisyne, mantra en meditasie insluit. Diegene wat aan moderne panteïsme vashou, soos New Age-filosofie of kosmiese humanisme, gebruik ‘n wye verskeidenheid tegnieke uit antieke godsdienste en die okkulte.
Die konstante onder al hierdie sienings van goddelike genesing is die noodsaaklikheid van ritueel. Genesing, in die nie-Christelike godsdiens se siening, vereis ‘n fisiese ritueel om ‘n godheid tot aksie te dwing of om ‘n onpersoonlike genesingskrag te manipuleer.
Nuwe-Testamentiese Goddelike Genesing
Ongeveer een vyfde van die Evangelie-narratief is gewy aan Jesus se genesingsbediening. Aan die begin van Sy bediening het Jesus “deur Galilea gegaan en in hulle sinagoges geleer, die evangelie van die koninkryk verkondig en elke siekte en kwaal onder die volk genees” (Matteus 4:23).
Later, toe Jesus Sy twaalf dissipels uitgestuur het om die evangelie te verkondig, het Hy hulle die mag gegee om die siekes te genees (Lukas 9:1-2). Na Jesus se opstanding en hemelvaart het die apostels aangehou om baie te genees (Handelinge 5:12-16). Handelinge teken ‘n aantal genesings deur Petrus, Johannes en Paulus aan (19:12; 28:8-9).
Christelike Goddelike Genesing Vandag
Wat goddelike genesing vandag betref, is daar ‘n paar verskillende denkrigtings. Sommige Christene glo dat die gawe van genesing (1 Korintiërs 12:9) saam met die tekengawe van tale opgehou het. Hierdie standpunt word cessationisme genoem. Ander Christene glo dat al die tekengawes vandag nog steeds in gebruik is.
Terwyl ons die cessationistiese siening inneem, glo ons dat God steeds “die HERE is wat genees” (Eksodus 15:26). Hy het nie Sy vermoë om te genees verloor nie, en Sy liefde vir Sy mense het nie afgeneem nie. Goddelike genesing kan kom deur tradisionele medisyne of deur direkte ingryping deur God in reaksie op gebed. Of, as God wil, mag heelheid nie kom tot die uiteindelike genesing in die hemel nie. God is die Groot Geneesheer, en alle genesing, fisies, emosioneel en geestelik, behoort aan Hom.
Today’s Devotional
Emotional healing is something that every person needs, to one degree or another, for we have all been wounded emotionally. There are many variations of emotional brokenness and pain—as many as there are types of people. Whether the cause is natural or because of another’s sin, the majority of people fight some type of emotional battle.
Some of the most common symptoms of emotional harm are sleeplessness, detachment, depression, anger, isolation, bitterness, frustration, and fear. Some of the most common causes are abandonment, broken trust, chronic pain or illness, rejection, a lack of community, and a sense of life’s meaninglessness. Unfortunately, modern culture is a veritable breeding ground for these emotional destroyers. We are increasingly drawn away from community and toward individualism, away from trustworthy behavior and toward selfishness, away from morals that give our lives purpose and toward existentialism and post-modernism that detach us from one another and from our humanity, away from healthy choices and healthy practices and toward instant gratification that degrades our physical health. How can a person flounder to the surface of this cultural wave and find emotional healing?
There is no quick and easy path to emotional healing. Some will say that all we need to do is accept Jesus and we will be suddenly healed of our maladies—emotional and otherwise. The fact remains, however, that we are flesh-bound creatures. Jesus said, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41); the apostle Paul battled with the flesh and spoke of how it stubbornly resisted the desires of his will and mind to follow God (Romans 7:18–25).
Following God is the first step to emotional healing. He is the One who restores our souls (Psalm 23:3); Jesus came, in part, to heal the brokenhearted (Luke 4:18). But we must remember that healing is a process. It involves moment-by-moment choices to trust and obey the Lord. We must choose healthy interactions with others (1 Peter 3:8–12), healthy thinking based on the truth of Scripture (Philippians 4:4–9), and healthy activities that benefit our bodies (2 Corinthians 7:1).
Here are some practical things a follower of Christ can do to find emotional healing:
1) Meditate on God’s Word, the Bible. God’s instructions are “life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body” (Proverbs 4:22). The person “whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night” is blessed (Psalm 1:1–2).
2) Confess any known sin to God. Then take God at His word: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
3) Take control of your thoughts—better yet, allow the Holy Spirit to take control of those thoughts. In the Spirit, “we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
4) Refuse to fall back into old, sinful habits. “We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin” (Romans 6:6). You have been called to holiness and to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).
5) Forgive those who have hurt you. This is important. “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32). Be cautious of any root of bitterness in the soul (Hebrews 12:15).
6) See yourself as God sees you: loved (Romans 5:8); gifted (2 Timothy 1:7); set free (John 8:36); and washed, sanctified, and justified (1 Corinthians 6:11).
7) Get involved in a Bible-teaching local church and open yourself to their fellowship and teaching ministry. God gives spiritual gifts to His church “to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up” (Ephesians 4:12). Part of a church’s function is to aid the healing process of those who are emotionally or spiritually wounded.
Jesus Christ can help us find emotional healing. His Spirit is a Spirit of kindness, selflessness, truth, and trustworthiness, and He finds joy in producing such qualities in us (Galatians 5:22–23; 1 John 3:19–24). When we are indwelt with His Spirit, He can and will delight to turn us around and make us the kind of people who can trust and be trusted by others, resulting in better relationships all around (John 7:38).
Here are some other passages in the Bible that will help bring emotional healing to the hurting: Psalm 73:23–26; Psalm 34:17–20; 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 147:3; Psalm 30:11; John 14:27; Matthew 11:28; Romans 5:1; and Romans 8:32.
Vandag se Bemoediging
Emosionele genesing is iets wat elke persoon nodig het, tot die een of ander mate, want ons is almal emosioneel gewond. Daar is baie variasies van emosionele gebrokenheid en pyn – soveel as wat daar soorte mense is. Of die oorsaak nou natuurlik is of as gevolg van ‘n ander se sonde, die meerderheid mense veg een of ander soort emosionele stryd.
Van die mees algemene simptome van emosionele skade is slapeloosheid, losmaking, depressie, woede, isolasie, bitterheid, frustrasie en vrees. Van die mees algemene oorsake is verlating, gebroke vertroue, chroniese pyn of siekte, verwerping, ‘n gebrek aan gemeenskap en ‘n gevoel van die lewe se betekenisloosheid. Ongelukkig is die moderne kultuur ‘n ware teelaarde vir hierdie emosionele vernietigers. Ons word toenemend weggetrek van gemeenskap en na individualisme, weg van betroubare gedrag en na selfsug, weg van morele waardes wat ons lewens doel gee en na eksistensialisme en postmodernisme wat ons van mekaar en van ons menslikheid losmaak, weg van gesonde keuses en gesonde praktyke en na onmiddellike bevrediging wat ons fisiese gesondheid afbreek. Hoe kan ‘n persoon na die oppervlak van hierdie kulturele golf strompel en emosionele genesing vind?
Daar is geen vinnige en maklike pad na emosionele genesing nie. Sommige sal sê dat al wat ons hoef te doen is om Jesus aan te neem en ons sal skielik genees word van ons kwale – emosioneel en andersins. Die feit bly egter staan dat ons vleesgebonde wesens is. Jesus het gesê: “Die gees is gewillig, maar die vlees is swak” (Matteus 26:41); die apostel Paulus het met die vlees geveg en gepraat oor hoe dit hardnekkig die begeertes van sy wil en verstand weerstaan het om God te volg (Romeine 7:18–25).
Om God te volg is die eerste stap na emosionele genesing. Hy is die Een wat ons siele herstel (Psalm 23:3); Jesus het deels gekom om die gebrokenes van hart te genees (Lukas 4:18). Maar ons moet onthou dat genesing ‘n proses is. Dit behels oomblik-vir-oomblik keuses om die Here te vertrou en te gehoorsaam. Ons moet gesonde interaksies met ander kies (1 Petrus 3:8–12), gesonde denke gebaseer op die waarheid van die Skrif (Filippense 4:4–9), en gesonde aktiwiteite wat ons liggame bevoordeel (2 Korintiërs 7:1).
Hier is ‘n paar praktiese dinge wat ‘n volgeling van Christus kan doen om emosionele genesing te vind:
1) Mediteer oor God se Woord, die Bybel. God se instruksies is “lewe vir die wat dit vind en gesondheid vir die hele liggaam” (Spreuke 4:22). Die persoon “wie se vreugde in die wet van die Here is, wat sy wet dag en nag oordink” is geseënd (Psalm 1:1–2).
2) Bely enige bekende sonde aan God. Neem dan God op Sy woord: “As ons ons sondes bely, is Hy getrou en regverdig, Hy vergewe ons ons sondes en reinig ons van alle ongeregtigheid” (1 Johannes 1:9).
3) Neem beheer van jou gedagtes – nog beter, laat die Heilige Gees toe om beheer oor daardie gedagtes te neem. In die Gees “neem ons elke gedagte gevange om dit aan Christus gehoorsaam te maak” (2 Korintiërs 10:5).
4) Weier om terug te val in ou, sondige gewoontes. “Ons weet dat ons oue mens saam met Hom gekruisig is, sodat die liggaam van die sonde tot niet gemaak sou word en ons nie meer die sonde sou dien nie” (Romeine 6:6). Jy is geroep tot heiligheid en om in ‘n nuwe lewe te wandel (Romeine 6:4).
5) Vergeef diegene wat jou seergemaak het. Dit is belangrik. “Wees vriendelik en hartlik teenoor mekaar, en vergeef mekaar soos God julle ook in Christus vergewe het” (Efesiërs 4:32). Wees versigtig vir enige wortel van bitterheid in die siel (Hebreërs 12:15).
6) Sien jouself soos God jou sien: geliefd (Romeine 5:8); begaafd (2 Timoteus 1:7); vrygemaak (Johannes 8:36); en gewas, geheilig en geregverdig (1 Korintiërs 6:11).
7) Raak betrokke by ‘n Bybelonderrig-plaaslike kerk en stel jouself oop vir hul gemeenskap en onderrigbediening. God gee geestelike gawes aan Sy kerk “om sy mense toe te rus vir werke van diens, sodat die liggaam van Christus opgebou kan word” (Efesiërs 4:12). Deel van ‘n kerk se funksie is om die genesingsproses te help van diegene wat emosioneel of geestelik gewond is.
Jesus Christus kan ons help om emosionele genesing te vind. Sy Gees is ‘n Gees van vriendelikheid, onselfsugtigheid, waarheid en betroubaarheid, en Hy vind vreugde daarin om sulke eienskappe in ons te produseer (Galasiërs 5:22–23; 1 Johannes 3:19–24). Wanneer ons met Sy Gees bewoon word, kan en sal Hy dit verbly om ons om te keer en ons die soort mense te maak wat ander kan vertrou en deur hulle vertrou word, wat lei tot beter verhoudings rondom (Johannes 7:38).
Hier is ‘n paar ander gedeeltes in die Bybel wat sal help om emosionele genesing te bring aan die lydendes: Psalm 73:23–26; Psalm 34:17–20; 1 Petrus 5:7; Psalm 147:3; Psalm 30:11; Johannes 14:27; Matteus 11:28; Romeine 5:1; en Romeine 8:32.
The Collectors of Manna – Women of the Word // Gaarders van Manna – Vroue van die woord
Dilize Light has Managed a TruLight Ladies Group on Telegram for the Past 6 Years and from Today . she will be Sharing her Manna with the Ladies in The TruLight Daily Manna Platform . Dilize is the only Daughter of Pastor Dirk and has been part of the Ministry since the age of 11 . Dilize is also the Radio Host for the Popular TruLight Top 10 that airs on TruLight Radio XM saturdays at 17h00′
Dilize Light bestuur die afgelope 6 jaar ‘n TruLight Damesgroep op Telegram en van vandag af sal sy haar Manna met die Dames deel op die TruLight Daaglikse Manna-platform. Dilize is die enigste dogter van Pastoor Dirk en is deel van die bediening sedert die ouderdom van 11. Dilize is ook die radio-aanbieder vir die gewilde TruLight Top 10 wat Saterdae om 17:00 op TruLight Radio XM uitgesaai word.
God Ons Rots:
Hoog op die klimmuur, kon Sarah voel hoe paniek oplaai terwyl haar swakker vingers greep op die handvatsels begin verloor het. Hoe hard sal ek die grond tref? het sy gewonder.
Maar die instrukteur het aanhou versekerings van onder af uitroep. Terwyl die “borger” aan die ander kant van die tou vasgemaak was aan Sarah se harnas met ‘n katrol, sou sy gewig haar hou as sy sou val. “Ek is baie swaarder as jy!” het hy geskree. “Laat net los.”
So het sy gedoen – en eenvoudig van die muur af geswaai om veilig in die lug te hang.
Die voorval het Sarah ‘n nuwe perspektief gegee op die prentjie van God in Psalm 18:2: “Die Here is my rots, my vesting en my verlosser; my God is my rots… my vesting.” Sarah het opgemerk: “God is soveel swaarder as al my probleme. Ek kan my bekommernisse en vrese laat vaar, en Hy sal my vang.”
Koning Dawid het die woorde van Psalm 18 gesing nadat God hom uit “diep waters” gered het – dit was sy “magtige [vyande]” wat daarna gestreef het om sy “dag van . . . ramp” te bring (vv. 16-18).
Selfs al het sy probleme nie verdwyn nie, het hy geweet dat hy sy almagtige Verlosser kon vertrou en dat God styf aan hom vasgehou het.
God Our Rock:
High on the climbing wall, Sarah could feel panic rising as her weaker fingers began to lose their grip on the handles. How hard will I hit the ground? she wondered.
But the instructor kept shouting reassurances from below. While the “guard” on the other end of the rope was attached to Sarah’s harness with a pulley, his weight would hold her if she fell. “I’m much heavier than you!” he shouted. “Just let go.”
So she did—and simply swung off the wall to hang safely in the air.
The incident gave Sarah a new perspective on the picture of God in Psalm 18:2: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock… my fortress.” Sarah observed, “God is so much heavier than all my problems. I can let go of my worries and fears, and He will catch me.”
King David sang the words of Psalm 18 after God rescued him from “deep waters”—his “mighty [enemies]” who sought to bring on his “day of . . . calamity” (vv. 16-18).
Even though his problems did not disappear, he knew that he could trust his almighty Savior and that God held him fast.
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TruLight TV – THE BIBLE COLLECTION: JEREMIAH
The film depicts Jeremiah’s journey as a young man chosen by God to deliver a message of repentance to the people of the Kingdom of Judah. Despite facing persecution and rejection from Judean laymen and leaders, Jeremiah remains faithful to his mission, warning of impending disaster if the people do not turn away from their wickedness. Throughout the film, Jeremiah’s faith and courage inspire others to join him in his mission, and his prophetic warnings ultimately prove to be true as Judah falls to the Babylonian Empire. Despite the tragedy that befalls his people, Jeremiah remains steadfast in his faith and trust in God. The film explores themes of faith, obedience, and perseverance in the face of adversity, and highlights the importance of speaking truth to power, even when it is unpopular or dangerous to do so.
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BIBLE PROPHECY IN THE NEWS
The Rise Of AI Christianity: Most Pastors Now Use AI For Sermon Preparation
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming virtually every major institution in our society, and that even includes church. In the not too distant future, you may find yourself in a service where the songs have been written by AI, the prayers have been written by AI, and the sermon has been written by AI.
I realize that this may sound like science fiction to many of you, but the truth is that many churches are already leaning very heavily on AI technology. In fact, one recent survey discovered that most pastors are now using AI tools to help prepare their sermons…
A majority of pastors are now using artificial intelligence to prepare their sermons, with ChatGPT and Grammarly reported as the top two AI tools, new survey data shows.
“ChatGPT is the most visible generative AI tool that can engage in human-like conversations and assist with a wide range of tasks, from answering questions to generating content,” researchers wrote in “The 2025 State of AI in the Church Survey Report” prepared by AiForChurchLeaders.com and Exponential AI NEXT.
Needless to say, most people that are listening to these pastors have no idea that they are using AI technology.
And if nobody ever complains, they will just keep on doing it.
Personally, I had no idea that this had become so widespread. It is being reported that the survey actually found that almost two-thirds of all church leaders that prepare sermons “use AI tools in their sermon writing process”…
The data, based on responses from 594 pastors and church staff members, shows that church leaders are now more concerned about “the weighty ethical and practical considerations involved” in the use of AI as they continue their rapid embrace of the technology.
Nearly two-thirds of church leaders surveyed who prepare sermons say they use AI tools in their sermon writing process, the researchers note.
“This suggests that AI is quickly becoming a key tool for pastors in their weekly message preparation,” they wrote.
You would have to be pretty lazy to ask ChatGPT to write a sermon for you.
But even more important are the spiritual implications.
If pastors are relying on AI rather than God for their sermon ideas, what is being spiritually communicated to their flocks?
The same thing applies to the AI-generated Christian music which is now popping up on the charts.
Recently, an AI-generated “Christian artist” known as “Solomon Ray” went all the way to the top…
An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.”
Described as a “Mississippi-made soul singer carrying a Southern soul revival into the present” on his Spotify profile, Ray made waves after releasing the five-song EP on Nov. 7.
The record rose to No. 1 on the iTunes Top 100 Christian and Gospel Albums chart within days, and two songs from the project – “Find Your Rest” and “Goodbye Temptation” – currently sit at No. 1 and No. 2 on Billboard’s Gospel Digital Song Sales chart, respectively.
The greatest Christian songs throughout history have been written by men and women that were being moved by God.
If God is not the spiritual source of Solomon Ray’s songs, where are they coming from?
What we are witnessing is the rise of “AI Christianity”, and that should chill all of us to the core.
Podcaster Joe Rogan is even suggesting that AI could be involved in the second coming of Jesus Christ…
The prophesied Second Coming of Jesus Christ may be triggered by an advanced, God-like computer, according to the world’s most famous podcast host.
Joe Rogan recently told the American Alchemy podcast that AI-powered machines could one day have a ‘virgin birth,’ creating advanced robots, or ‘offspring,’ capable of performing real-world miracles using technology.
‘Jesus is born out of a virgin mother. What’s more virgin than a computer?’ Rogan told podcast host Jesse Michels during the interview released on Sunday.
‘So if you’re going to get the most brilliant, loving, powerful person that gives us advice and can show us how to live, to be in sync with God, who better than artificial intelligence to do that?’
Really?
Has Joe Rogan totally lost it?
AI is not the savior of humanity.
Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity, and we need leaders that are willing to preach that message with authenticity and passion.
In a time when there is so much that is fake all around us, people are searching for what is real.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Will Age Verification Become The Trojan Horse For A National Digital ID?
There are moments in public policy when a proposal is presented as pure common sense–so obvious, so morally packaged, so politically irresistible–that few stop to ask the harder question: At what cost? Today, that moment is the swift and global push for mandatory age verification across the internet.
Last week, members of Congress reviewed 19 separate “online safety” bills, each promising to protect minors from the worst corners of the web. It sounds noble. It sounds responsible. It sounds overdue.
But beneath the surface, a different story is unfolding–one that privacy experts, digital rights organizations, and increasingly wary citizens are sounding the alarm over. The growing wave of age-verification requirements in the U.S., Europe, and now Australia’s sweeping new social media ban for teens, may well be the biggest step yet toward what governments have quietly desired for years: a national digital identification system.
The true danger lies not in the protection of minors, but in the system required to enforce it.
A Global Tide of Age Verification
The numbers are staggering:
25 U.S. states now require some form of age verification for accessing large categories of online content.
The UK has passed the Online Safety Act mandating verification.
And on December 10, Australia implemented a historic new law forcing social media platforms to delete or deactivate all accounts held by anyone under 16 years old–an unprecedented mandate that major platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have already begun complying with.
Australia’s move is especially important. For better or worse, it acts as a policy test case for the rest of the Western world. When Australia imposed some of the strictest pandemic rules on Earth, other nations followed. When Australia launched sweeping online content restrictions, similar efforts emerged across Europe. It is widely expected that the teen social media ban will inspire new age-verification pushes in Canada, the UK, and eventually the United States.
Once the global policy dominoes start tipping, there’s no turning back.
The Trojan Horse: From “Protecting Kids” to ID-for-Everything
Advocates for digital liberty warn that mandatory age checks require one thing above all: identity proof. It may begin with uploading a driver’s license or submitting to a facial scan to prove you’re not a minor, but the long-term implications are far deeper.
Fight for the Future, a digital rights organization leading a week-long protest campaign, frames it bluntly:
Age verification means identification, and identification means surveillance.
Once the government or third-party firms must confirm your identity to access social media, video platforms, e-commerce, or even news websites, a universal digital identity infrastructure becomes unavoidable.
This is the Trojan horse.
Not because the government demands a national digital ID outright–but because age verification laws force it into place through the back door.
Every adult, of every age, would eventually be required to prove they are not a minor before accessing basic online utilities. As Fight for the Future campaigner Sarah Philips put it:
“In actuality, if we age-gate the internet and implement mandates, you have to prove that you’re not a child–whether you’re 18 or 50. Everyone will have to interact with this.”
Data Breaches, Third-Party Scans, and Permanent Digital Profiles
In most states, age verification is outsourced to third-party companies. These companies already struggle with breaches, hacks, and rampant data harvesting. Now imagine those same entities storing:
Facial scans
Government IDs
Browsing habits
Identity verification logs
All tied to a person’s permanent digital footprint.
Suddenly, online anonymity–the very thing that has protected political dissidents, whistleblowers, abuse survivors, and persecuted religious minorities–is gone.
And once governments discover the power of tying identification to content, the temptation to expand its use will be unstoppable.
Safety Is the Sales Pitch. Control Is the Destination.
No one denies the genuine need to protect children online. The dangers are real–predators, explicit content, radicalization, and exploitation.
But the question is not the goal. It is the mechanism.
Mandatory ID checks give governments something they have sought for years through proposals like REAL ID expansions, digital driver’s licenses, and global biometric travel systems:
a centralized identity layer that can track, monitor, restrict, or approve access to the digital world.
Today it is online safety.
Tomorrow it may be political speech, “misinformation,” religious content, or “extremism.”
And history teaches us that governments rarely abandon new powers–they expand them.
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Australia: The Signal to the World
Australia’s teen ban is being hailed as “the beginning of a new era.” But for privacy advocates, it resembles the beginning of a new surveillance architecture–one that other nations are already poised to adopt.
If every user must prove their identity to access social media, the infrastructure for universal digital identity is effectively built. Compliance becomes mandatory. Enforcement becomes automated. And dissent becomes traceable.
The Real Solution Congress Refuses to Touch
Digital rights groups insist the real path forward isn’t age verification–it’s comprehensive privacy legislation and strict limits on data collection by corporations.
Instead of creating a digital passport system for the entire population, lawmakers could simply regulate Big Tech’s predatory business models.
But those proposals don’t expand government reach. Age verification does.
A Future Defined by Permission Slips?
The great irony of this moment is that the push for safety may result in a world where every citizen must show digital papers to enter the online public square.
The question we must ask is simple:
Do we want a future where the government, or its corporate agents, must verify our identity before we speak, read, watch, or participate online?
Because that is the direction these laws are moving–quietly, quickly, and globally.
And unless citizens push back now, age verification may go down in history as the Trojan horse that delivered the first true national digital ID to the Western world.
GOG AND MAGOG UPDATE
IDF troops open fire on armed men approaching position in southern Syria
IDF troops operating near Khan Arnaba in southwestern Syria opened fire at a group of armed men traveling in pickup trucks that approached their position, according to Israeli media reports on Tuesday.
Soldiers identified several individuals advancing toward them and initiated a standard arrest procedure, which began with warning shots into the air in an effort to force the group to retreat.
When the men continued moving toward the forces, the troops shifted to live fire and struck two of the suspects, prompting the remaining individuals to flee the area.
Syrian outlets later reported that three civilians were hurt by what they described as the IDF’s “distancing fire,” noting that all three received medical treatment following the incident.
The episode took place amid heightened tension along the Syrian frontier, where Israeli forces have been working to prevent armed groups from approaching the border and to limit attempts by hostile organizations to use the area for infiltration or attacks.
Last month, IDF troops from the 55th Brigade killed three operatives of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya during a raid in Beit Jinn in southern Syria, an operation that also left six Israeli reservists wounded when their convoy was ambushed as it withdrew.
The group, tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and active alongside Hamas and Hezbollah since the start of the war, was responsible for repeated attacks on Israel.
Syrian media reported multiple casualties in the area, including civilians hurt by warning fire near Khan Arnaba earlier in the day.
In early December, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the wounded soldiers and said Israel is prepared to explore an arrangement with Damascus if it includes strict security guarantees, including a buffer zone preventing hostile forces from approaching the Golan Heights.
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