Miracle Healing

[Marathoner]

53 minutes ago, Sower said:

I've testified here to this before, I was a smoker for over 50yrs, and could never quit.
I tried prayers and everything except hypnotism. I could never quit.
Haven't smoked now for over 10yrs. A friend prayed over me, hands on my shoulders.
I was delivered.
It was God that delivered me, not myself nor my friend. All the Glory belongs to God!

God's promises are true. Accept that God's ways are not man's, nor his timing.

1st,
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

             The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective"
 

I'll never forget when the Lord promised to deliver me from smoking, brother. I would know when that was going to happen.

One morning, the Lord instructed me to dispense with the tobacco I had and everything associated with it (lighters, ashtrays, etc.). To ensure that I wouldn't be tempted to recover those things, I cast them into a perfectly horrid dumpster outside. 

I never suffered from withdrawal. As the Lord promised, He delivered me from that terrible habit. I praise the Lord for us both!

[Marathoner]

21 minutes ago, Cyoder said:

If they aren't hurting anyone, I totally agree but what if your grandmother is sending them her life savings?  Then it's not about mocking someone.  I think if we see someone that is obviously taking advantage of people we should try to help.

I'm not one to dwell upon hypotheticals, which is the stock and trade of those who relish pointless argumentation. There's always a "But...", yes? It never ends and serves no purpose apart from stirring up strife. Hypothetical argumentation is an exercise in bad faith.

Is this happening to your grandmother? Then do what you must to aid her in her peril. Beware that she might despise you for it. 

[Marathoner]

It would be good to share more regarding how the Lord chose to display His power in me in light of what afflictions remain, my friends. Our Lord did not by any means cleanse this corruptible flesh entirely of maladies; indeed, it pleased Him for some to remain. What remains?

Evidence in this body of what I endured when I was close to the grave. My lungs were permanently scarred from fungal pneumonia, and those lymph nodes closest to my heart --- called the mediastinal lymph nodes --- were calcified. They were turned to stone. Calcified remnants of old granulomas in various parts of this body tell the tale of systemic infection by bacterial and fungal invaders. Infection was indeed systemic (spread throughout the body), and my mouth was not spared from harm. Every tooth sported an abscess and virtually all of the teeth in my mouth were themselves infected, causing bone loss in surrounding skeletal matter. Medicine had no effect. Was it a miracle that I did not succumb to sepsis over those two years of a slow, agonizing death? Yes. I only endured because it was the will of the Lord that I live. I only lived because the Lord intended to display His power in me by raising me up from the horror I endured, and others witnessed. 

My brain was damaged from infection and the effects of sustained malnourishment (I struggled to keep food and water down during the last year of the trial). The Lord rejuvenated the damaged area (Broca's area), making it possible for me to speak and articulate thought into speech, but I had to learn how to think and speak all over again. The Lord taught me how to do both because it pleased Him to raise me up in such a way. This body bears the scars of what I went through. 

Close to a decade after the Lord did these things, the muscular dystrophy I inherited from my mother presented itself. Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy generally doesn't manifest until one reaches the age of 40 - 60, which is when it was diagnosed in the woman who gave birth to me. I remember the surgery she had done to make it possible to open her eyelids normally (and keep them open); I was the same age she was when I had that surgery done to my own eyes. The Lord sent me to the doctor who performed that procedure; He instructed me to follow the doctor's directions faithfully, which I did. 

The type of MD I have is known to occasionally affect muscles in the arms and legs, and my legs were growing progressively weaker due to affected muscles. I'll never forget that day in the Neurology clinic when the doctors informed me that it was only a matter of time before I would need a wheelchair. I was at peace with this... I thanked the Lord for revealing Himself to me all those years ago, for isn't that the greatest honor that any man or woman can receive? To be known by God, and to know Him? Yes! I wasn't bothered by this at all. I have faced far worse in this world. 

I stirred early the next morning with the strangest sensation in my legs... the same warmth I had experienced when the Lord displayed His power in me in a tiny church, healing a defect in my spine, wrapped around my legs. That, and it felt like a minor electrical current was coursing through the muscles. When I touched the muscles in those legs with my hands, I bolted upright in shock. What? How could this be?

It was like the old days when those muscles were strong! I leaped out of bed on those legs, and I jumped up and down in astonishment. I headed outside of my apartment into the stairwell and proceeded to run up and down the stairs like a kid. I struggled to speak to the Lord at all, for I had neither asked for nor expected Him to do such a thing! The Lord declared that the physicians were in error. 

Every time I report to Neurology for an appointment, the doctors subject this body to poking, prodding and specifically, test my limbs for the possibility of being affected by muscular dystrophy. My legs were like rubber during the wheelchair proclamation visit... but now? The doctor couldn't budge my legs no matter how hard he tried.

It's not a matter of the Lord dispensing with all of our afflictions, my friends. Not at all. God does whatever He pleases; if He moves a servant to pray for another and they are healed, then this is the Lord displaying His power in not just one of us, but two of us! Ah, but we don't wait for the Lord to do anything for us. It is our honor and joy to serve others in the name of Jesus Christ regardless of what afflicts us. Praise the Lord! 

Edited October 5, 2024 by Marathoner

[Biblican]

On 10/3/2024 at 5:41 PM, missmuffet said:

I have known some people who called themselves a Christian that left God completely because they were so devastated because of a loss and blame God.

I have too. I think we need to remind them of Isaiah 57:1 - "The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." God sees the future of anyone and sometimes when He takes someone home it is for their protection.

Jesus said we must love Him more than any loved ones. Those who fall away obviously loved other people more than the Lord who could save their souls. Not wise.

 

[missmuffet]

50 minutes ago, Biblican said:

I have too. I think we need to remind them of Isaiah 57:1 - "The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." God sees the future of anyone and sometimes when He takes someone home it is for their protection.

Jesus said we must love Him more than any loved ones. Those who fall away obviously loved other people more than the Lord who could save their souls. Not wise.

 

Those who fall away did not love God in the first place.

[Biblican]

5 hours ago, missmuffet said:

Those who fall away did not love God in the first place.

You are right. Their seeds fell on the stony places.

[Marathoner]

Things are not always as they seem to eyes and minds of flesh. 

[Your closest friendnt]

4 hours ago, Biblican said:

You are right. Their seeds fell on the stony places.

Who are you to Judge? 

 

[Your closest friendnt]

10 hours ago, Biblican said:

I have too. I think we need to remind them of Isaiah 57:1 - "The righteous perish, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." God sees the future of anyone and sometimes when He takes someone home it is for their protection.

Jesus said we must love Him more than any loved ones. Those who fall away obviously loved other people more than the Lord who could save their souls. Not wise.

 

I am wondering about many things. And always will. 

I think what Marathoner said that we need to remain humble  always and love Jesus because he does many wonderful things to us and we do not know. Sometimes we do and sometimes we are surprised and sometimes we learn about it sometimes later. 

When we think about JESUS and we do not try to explain him HE LOVES US. 

thank you for your post. 

[Marathoner]

9 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:

Who are you to Judge? 

 

I "fell away" for years. That's why I caution others to beware what eyes and minds of flesh see, as the former is blind and the latter is opposed to the Spirit. The religious men who judged me were proven wrong. 

I don't understand what compels some to judge others harshly. The same will be returned to them by the Son of God. 

Edited October 7, 2024 by Marathoner