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THE LORD, YOUR HEALER
By Pastor Bert Hakansson.
"No Not One" |
Many people are searching for the truth about health and healing. Some
are searching in strange places, consulting witches and other occultists, while
some are looking only to the medical profession. Those who look to occultists
are really going to the devil for help, and many times find it. The danger here
is that the devil can get their soul forever.
The parents of a very sick girl had taken her to many doctors to no avail.
The girl had grown worse and had only a few months to live. Being told about
a faith-healer who was in town, they decided to take the child to him. He prayed
over the girl and gave her a medallion to wear around her neck. He told the
parents that the girl would be well as long as she wore the medallion. Sure
enough, the girl was well! Everyone was delighted and gave the glory to God.
The family started reading the Word and attending church regularly. The whole
family received Jesus as their Savior and were born-again. They saw in the Bible
that Gods method of healing had nothing to do with medallions. Consulting
with their pastor, they agreed that together they would remove the medallion.
Having done so, they broke it open. Inside was the inscription, Satan,
keep this girl well till you have her soul in hell. Her health was
a small price for him to pay for her soul! Throwing the medallion away, they
asked the Lord to forgive them for searching, in ignorance, for health in the
wrong way. They asked the Lord to heal their daughter, and Jesus did!
Many people suffer from arthritis. They wear copper or magnetic bracelets
looking to an unknown power for healing. There are other occultic things people
do searching for healing. It is really amazing. They argue that it is good,
that it helps them; therefore, it must be from God; if it heals, it must be
the power of God. Remember that everything God does will be based on His Word.
If it disagrees with the Bible, it is not from God.
Most of us at one time or another have gone to doctors for help and they
have helped us. We can praise the Lord for doctors and nurses, but the Lord
has prepared a way for us to grow up spiritually, reaching a place where we
dont need their services. Every Christian can live in complete and perfect
Divine health, never to be sick again, never to have fever again. You may not
believe this is true. It is my prayer that in this book you will see, by the
Word of God, that it is true, and that it can be yours if you will believe.
The Word is truth and is our only foundation in life.. For no one
can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Jesus Christ.
(I Corinthians 3:11)
Of course, we have to do our part. We cannot eat "junk food",
sleep too little, or have no exercise, and expect that God shall keep us healthy.
We have responsibility for our body and soul, to keep them in order. Our body
is supposed to be a temple of the Holy Spirit!
My family and I live in Divine health. We prove the Word of God daily
in our lives. My wife and I have three children. Since 1971 all of us have lived
in Divine health. This is not a result of our goodness or some special privilege,
nor positive thinking or confession. It is the grace of God revealed to all
His children in the Word. In our home we have no fever thermometer. We see in
the Word that believers are not supposed to have fever. Fever is one of the
curses. However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully
follow all His commandments and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses
will come upon you and overtake you... The Lord will strike you with wasting
disease, with fever and inflammation, with
scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until
you perish. (Deuteronomy 28: 15, 22)
We do not live under this curse, but under the covenant, under grace.
When fever comes, it is the devil lying to us. We have to rebuke him in the
name of Jesus. Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) If you believe, not doubt,
he will leave you and his works will leave with him.
People have a habit of judging everything from their own point of view,
with their own experience. When we hear that it is Gods will for his children
to live in Divine health, we immediately think of some people who live a holy
and godly life but are still very sick. We look at the experience, not the Word
of God. We want to add our own experience to the Word of God. We say that God
really used them in the hospital or during the illness so it must have been
His will that they be sick. We forget Romans 8:28 And we know that
in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called
according to his purpose.
God can bring good out of all circumstances if we allow Him to, but that
does not mean it was His will that we be in those circumstances in the first
place.
Lets look at Gods plan through the ages. It
has been almost 2,000 years since Jesus lived, gave His life for
us, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven. This marked the
beginning of the time of grace, but there is also an end to that
time. We are now living in the last days of this grace period.
The Word gives many proofs of this. Take, for example, the nation
of Israel. They lost their land in 70 AD, but they got it back
and became a nation again in 1948. This was clearly prophesied in
the Bible, and we have seen it in our generation. During these
last days, God is not only restoring His nation of Israel, but
also His body, the Church. You see, the Bible teaches us that the
nation of Israel is a pattern for the Church.
For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abrahams
children. On the contrary, it is through Isaac that your
offspring will be reckoned. In other words, it is not the natural
children who are Gods children, but it is the children of
the promise who are regarded as Abrahams offspring.
(Romans 9:6b - 8)
Everything that happened to the Jewish people is written
as an example for us. See I Corinthians 10: 6, 11.
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up: do you not
perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland. (Isaiah 43: 18, 19)
Something new is happening among Christians all over the
world. In some places it is called the Charismatic Movement. But
like most movements, if we are not careful and do not stay
grounded in the Word, we will get into error.
I have had the privilege of teaching in Europe and the
United States to different denominations, Protestant and Catholic.
I have seen the same thing everywhere. God is restoring unity and
power to His Church. We have fellowship regardless of
denomination. We love each other when we have the same Jesus. We
realize that we all belong to His Body, the Church (if we are
"born again"). As little as fifteen or twenty years ago
this would have been impossible, but today it is a reality. We
are becoming one in Christ.
The people of the world have seen the division among
Christians even clearer than we ourselves. They think that all we
do is fight one another. Many dont want to become
Christians for that reason. Our division and fighting have sent
many people to hell. We need not be condemned; God will forgive
us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and
will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
(I John 1:9)
Now we need to turn our attention on what God is doing in
His Church today. One thing is the restoration of healing.
In Malachi 4:1, we read what God will do to the ungodly: Surely
the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant
and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming
will set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty. Not a root or
branch will be left to them...
Verse two of Malachi 4 is for those who love and obey the
Lord.
But for you who revere my name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will
go out and leap like calves released from the stall...
This Scripture is referring to the healing and
deliverance ministry which the Lord is restoring to His Church
today. Although it has always been available to the believer, the
church has not taught or practiced it for over 1900 years. Today,
almost every Christian knows about these things even if he doesnt
know how or why they work.
When I started teaching deliverance from evil spirits in
1973 in Sweden, many people thought I was teaching error. Those
who believed were delivered. As they testified about their
experience, others could see the reality and accepted the Word.
Today, many are ministering deliverance to the Body. Some people
do not believe that Christians can be oppressed by evil spirits (demons).
If any of these people are oppressed they wont admit it and
ask for deliverance. Nothing short of a miracle can help them.
Through the years, we have been taught in the church that
sickness is inevitable and that we must learn to live with it.
Some ministers even say it must be Gods will for us to be
sick because they have prayed and people have not recovered. This
is basing doctrine on experience not on the Word of God.
The Word of God is truth. Why do we call ourselves
believers if we do not believe the Word? That is hypocrisy. If we
believe the Word, then we must act on it, not just talk about it.
This is not always easy. But we have to believe it in our hearts
and reprogram our minds to act in accordance with the Word. When
the Word does not agree with our experience, we cannot just
explain it away and judge according to the circumstances. The
Word of God is truth!
In Malachi 4:3, we read: Then you will trample
down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet
on the day when I do these things, says the Lord Almighty.
This talks of the restored authority of the believer in
the restored Church or Body of Christ. This is obviously not
talking about heaven since the wicked will not be there. It is
talking about Gods people on earth who have healing,
freedom, and authority available to them.
Statistics show that in the average congregation, about
eighty percent of the people are sick, mentally or physically.
This should not be so. The Lord has commanded us to go into all
the world and preach the gospel, baptizing them and teaching them
to obey His Word. We cannot do this if we are sick, and not doing
this is disobedience to God.
In Hosea 4:6 we read: My people are destroyed
from lack of knowledge. The Lord tells us here why we
are destroyed. It is because of lack of knowledge. What
knowledge? Human knowledge is abundant. The Bible is talking
about spiritual knowledge. We can see this in Hosea 4:1b There
is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.
How does the knowledge of God give us health? The
following story will explain how knowledge can change
circumstances.
An elderly lady lived alone in her home in the country.
She had no financial assistance, not even social security. She
was indeed very poor. One day a friend visited her and seeing her
plight, asked if her son didnt ever send her any money.
The lady told her friend that she often received letters from him
and that he always included a small piece of paper that looked
like bookmarks, but never any money. The friend asked to see one.
It was a thousand dollar check. With these checks,
the friend exclaimed, you are a wealthy woman.
Checks? What are checks? the lady asked.
As you can see, we can live in poverty even though we are
rich. All of Gods people have signed checks for health,
freedom, joy, peace, and much, much more. But we need knowledge
about how to cash these checks.
Grace and peace be yours in abundance THROUGH THE
KNOWLEDGE of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has
given us everything we need for life and godliness THROUGH OUR
KNOWLEDGE OF HIM who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Through these he has given us his very great and precious
promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine
nature and escape the corruption of the world caused by evil
desires. (II Peter 1: 2-4)
The knowledge we are talking about is the knowledge of
God, not human knowledge. Most people are so highly educated
today that they are blind to this Truth. Human knowledge is good,
but it can keep us from having childlike faith in the Word of God.
Everyone who has any knowledge of God at all would agree
that indeed He can heal. He has all power in heaven and on earth.
Then Jesus came to them and said, All authority
in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with
you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew
28: 18-20)
Here we see that He not only has the authority but has
delegated this authority to us. We have it and should be
exercising it to overcome the power of the enemy.
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