May 6, 2019 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Steps to Healing & a Request

Everyone needs God’s healing and God indeed heals today. It is normal for God to heal—it is what Jesus did and what God still does today. But why do healings take so long and why does healing not come when I pray? These and other questions about healing I cannot answer with clarity, but I can help you with believing for healing and helping with growing your faith, so healing becomes common place in your life.

There are 3 things we must understand before healing comes our way. One, do not accept what you find out about your sickness. I had a friend who happens to be a medical doctor tell me this once I told him I was diagnosed with a medical condition. He told me three times within 2 minutes while I was talking to him, “Do not accept it.” I ignored him until he told me the third time, “Do not accept it.” There is something spiritual when even though we have a sickness to start from the position, not too accept it. We must be positive, knowing God wants and can heal us. Two, often we will have to overcome feelings of guilt and shame. Satan will always try to make us believe it is our fault just like the woman with the issue of blood. Old Testament law made it unlawful for her to be in public and have anyone touch her while she was bleeding, but she came to Jesus anyway. When she was discovered by Jesus, (Jesus said who touched Him because He felt healing virtue come out of Him) she became afraid and guilty. Whenever you get close to Jesus in coming to Him for healing, you can be made to feel guilty and ashamed—do not go there! Three, no two healings are the same. As sin is complicated so is healing. This is why there are “gifts of healing” and Jesus sent His disciples out in twos. Some individuals can pray for anyone with a specific condition and they are healed, but if they pray for people with a different medical condition no one gets healed. Healings are complicated (consider what Jesus said about healings to His disciples in the Gospels) so do not get discouraged. God will give you a way for every and any kind of sickness or physical problem. It is God’s promise and God keeps His promises.

Here are the four steps to healing: one, you have to choose to be healed. One may seek healing through many different options offered by the medical association, but before God gets involved with your healing, He first asks that you to choose Him. Healing is an active choice to come to God seeking healing just like going to a doctor to find help with a sickness. Two, one needs to expect God to do something. To continually and actively keeping your mind and heart toward expecting God to heal. My prayers and thought processes are in a state of expectation—I expect God to react and respond to what I am asking of Him. Three, one must believe. I pray scriptures and remind myself of stories of others being healed by God. I pray believing, I sing songs of worship believing, and I act in a positive manner believing that God can, will and respond to my requests, (not tomorrow but today), that “God is a rewarder to those to seek Him daily with passion.” Four, I speak (verbally out loud) what I am requesting. I confess with my mouth and not only believe in my heart what and why I am asking God to heal in a specific situation. Saying words out loud is important and Scripture says this is how God responds to us.

I have a personal request: I have a good friend whose son (Justin) has cancer. He is in high school and is a remarkable young man who is doing good with his medical treatment for cancer. His family asked me to pray—I have been praying for Justin for the past few weeks. We need a unified voice in our requests to God. So please pass the request along. Ask others to pray for Justin and anyone who have seen God heal those individuals with cancer—ask them to pray. God spoke to me to write this article and my heart moved me to ask you to pray. When we care enough and move God to act—Jesus always shows up. This is what Jesus would want me to do!

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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