How do you come to the throne of God
Humble yourselves before the Lord. My son Isaac and I were eating in a Chinese restaurant; we had a great conversation about healing.
It was a great blessing to our life.
We left back home and while we were walking toward home the Lord put in my heart to share it with you his word.
I will begin by saying, healing is in the same measure as it is with salvation and other blessing of the Lord, it require to search the word to see what Jesus did at the cross for us.
He carry all our sin, pain, sickness and diseases so that you don't have to carry it.
For your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich or might have all your needs provided.
Jesus gave his word as medicine for our body for anyone who believe his saying.
A man that come before the Lord to cast all his cares and concern on him and fot God to answer his prayer request he must come to the Lord with a good and clear conscience.
God has condition. The word of God is his will and you have to submit yourselves to his word and obey it, in another word spiritually you must discern what's the Lord wills for your life.
God has a Legal 'Will' of promises for all the children of Abraham our father to inherit it.
This Legal 'Will' gives to the saints the right to ask.
It require that once you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, the Spirit of Life will make you free from the law of sin and death, you will live a life of blessing. (Romans 8:1.2).
The law of healing is your heritage and it is yours through Christ Jesus, but it will not happen if you doubt his word and disobey his commandment.
Jesus said to his disciples, "if you remain in me and my word remains in you and you in him whatever you ask, believing shall be done unto you.
Whatsoever you say shall be done; this is the keys that will open the door of the kingdom of heaven.
This is compare to a student who attends an university or a college.
To receive a diploma you have to take many classes for two years and in some cases for four years.
But the rules in the class is that you need to come prepared, during the school year be always on time, take notes, do your homework, study hard and pass all the test.
You will be tested over and over again until the final test arrive. And if your success all of them then after all those long effort of works you will be happy to know that you will graduate; you will receive a diploma of achievement, you have earned your reward.
The same thing here, we have Jesus Christ the righteous who advocate with the Father.
Jesus advocate with the Father, for he is the propitiation for our sins (1 John 2:1,2).
God’s Will is before taken possession of the family's heritage, he or she must submit to God word and obey Christ’s word and then he or she will inherit the family heritage.
He or she will have access to enter into the kingdom of God and possess the wealth of heaven.
You see by grace you are saved through faith; it is not of your doing; it is a gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Salvation is a gift but to possess it you have to do something about it, you have to welcome it, receive it, confess it and believe it.
With the mouth man confess it and with the heart man believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
When man confess and believe in his heart that Jesus is Lord and God raise him from the dead then man is save and become righteous.
When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, but for some reason you sins, immediately right there repent and asked God for forgiveness.
Maybe you might not feel forgiven by God at that moment, but your have to understand that we don't walk by feeling, feeling is the worst enemy any person can have.
If you let feeling to be the judge of your life, soon or later you will question your own salvation.
But the bible said, we walk by faith and not by sight.
If we confess our sins to God, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanses us from all our unrighteousness (1 John 1:9; 2:1-3).
Feeling should not be the proof of our salvation, but by grace through faith because salvation is a gift.
Taking God's gift and be careless with it, at the end God will request what you have done with it.
This is why the bible says, work out your own salvation, the gift of God most be work out with reverence and with fear, why?
God expect of us after he save us to obey his word.
Salvation you have it, but to disregard his word and the direction of the Holy Spirit will put a stop to the love of God to rule over you.
Jesus said, whoever obey my word (his commandments) love me and my Father will love him. ....
For the one who does not love me does not keep my word.... (John 15:21,23,24).
Jesus said to his disciples, those who do the work of the Father of heaven and does not work iniquity is the one who will enter into the Kingdom of God.
For by their fruit you will know them (Matthew 7:16-23).
Man has a race to run; a path to walk; a fight to fight and for him to win a crown of life he has to keep his faith in God's word.
There is a road and it is not an easy path to walk through but at the end you will receive the crown of life.
You have to work out your salvation with fear and trembling and finish the race.
Even if you walk through the valley of shadow of death don’t fear any evil because God is with you always.
Remember his saying comfort you (Psalm 23:1-6).
Begin by denying yourselves because your canal mind cannot understand the deeps things of God.
You will have problem with your faith if you continue to put all your attention and trust on your feeling.
Listen to the word of God, control your carnal desire with the word of God.
Submit yourself to God, to his word, resist the devil and he will flee from you.
If you continue doubting and living a sinful life, you will lose your battle of faith.
You have to stand on your ground, you have to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
Stay far away from sin, and from negative and doubtful people or else these negative and doubtful people will steal the word of faith, the seed that was planting in your heart, you will have problem to believe it and be saved.
Before you come to the throne of God be sure you are transparent like a crystal.
Come to God without spot and without stain of sin.
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
Clean the inside and use the word of faith as a shield and as a sword of the Spirit to stop all fear, doubt, and all lies of the devil.
If your hands is filthy and you have a doubtful heart then wash your hands and purify your heart of doubtful thoughts.
Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up.
A person who has a bitterness heart is not clear as a crystal.
If you have something against a brother, then your heart is filthy.
If a brother offends you and you don’t forgive him neither forget all the evil things he has done to you, and you have record of wrongdoing then again you are not clear as a crystal.
The bible says if you don’t forgive and forget your brother’s fault neither your Father in heaven will forgive your fault (Mark 11:22-26).
If you don’t love your brother then the love of God is not in you and you abide in death.
If you don't do the right before the eyes of God then you are not clear as a crystal.
People who don’t check their heart to see if they have the same faith, remain far away from receiving anything of the Lord.
Paul writing to the church of Corinthians he says to them, “Examine yourselves, whether you are in the same faith; heal your souls” (2 Corinthians 13:5).
Jesus says, “If you remain with me and my word remain with you, you will bear abundant fruit; whatever you ask shall be done for you; for without me, you can do nothing.
But he who does not love me does not keep my word, and is cast outside like a branch which is withered, which they (the angels) pick up and throw into the fire to be burned” (John 14:21,23; 15:1-8).
It is written that if you say that you love God and yet you hate your brother, you are a liar and the love of God is not in you and you are a murderer who abides in death.
If you love the world and the things that are in the world then you are an adulterer and enemy of God.
If you sow in people hearts doubts and become a stumble block to them, then you are a deceiver, and a wolf dresses in white cloth.
Therefore brothers examine or judge yourselves (before God judge you) to see if you are of the same faith; heal your souls (John 14:24; 1John 4:20; 3:14,15; 2 Corinthians 13:5).
When you are in trouble, immediately run to the Lord and he will hide you and protect you under his wings.
The Lord will cover you with his feathers, he will lift you up high, far away from any danger, the Lord will cover you under his wings until you grow and became strong in him ready to fight his battle.
Suffering and pain will not weary you out because God is your help and he sustain you.
If it was not for the mercy and compassion of God, you would not have been alive today, but thanks God that he love you and he will never forsake you.
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might; God's Spirit guide us and strengthen us through Jesus Christ.
Today you can said with much liberty: God has set me free, thank you God for setting me free; blessing be the name of the Lord, blessing be his holy name.
Give all the honor and all glory to God.
Be glad and very proud to have a good God.
With reverence worship the Lord and show him how much you love him.
If you want God to hear your prayer then humble yourselves and change your evil thoughts by changing your evil ways, seek his face with all your heart.
Brothers and sisters if you judge a brother because he first come to God for healing instead of going to the doctor, if you judge him for doing this then you are condemning yourselves.
You are causing a stumbling block in the way of your brother and by judging him without any cause you are condemning yourselves.
And if you judge your brother you will be judge too.
If you condemn him, you also will be condemn.
So be very careful of the word that comes out of your mouth.
Even if the person die before his time, we have no right to judge him, for example, never give this kind of comments: “He was a fool to go to God, instead of going to the doctor.”
Don't think in your heart like this either: “He could have been alive today if he would have seen the doctor first to treat his condition.”
Don’t think those kinds of thoughts in your heart neither comments these thing to anyone not even kidding around.
Those kind of thoughts and comments are evil report and it will provoke God.
Brethren, coming first to God is not a wrong decision.
There are scripture that tell us how to come to God and receive anything of the Lord and that include why people don't receive anything of the Lord.
We might not know the reason why a person die before his time but God knows it all.
Perhaps a person die before his time for having doubt in his heart.
Maybe a person die before his time for being disobedient to God's law.
It could be a person die before his time for having ought against a brother, we just don't know the reason why he die but only the Lord knows why.
You might replied back and say, “Well at least with the doctor you have a chance to live and not die.”
Perhaps if it is God's will he might have allow him to live.
But that kind of thinking putting doctors first and not God is carnally and danger.
Maybe it could be that you have more trust and faith in your doctor than God and this is why you feel more secure in letting your doctor help you.
There is nothing wrong going to doctors, doctors are there to help and save life, but what is wrong is to say that sick person should not put God first.
This is the same attitude the children of Israel had toward Moses, they complain and they repeat those words that the eight spies said to them, We can't possess the land, they are more stronger than us, we can't overcome them, in their side we look like grasshopper and etc... they murmur and murmur and provoke the Lord God and God destroy them in the dessert.
If you can not trust God to help you in your illness but your doctors, then what you are saying, I don't believe his saying, I don't believe he is able to do what he said he can do.
Why it is impossible and complicated for you to believe that he took all your pain and sickness on him so you don't have to and by his stripes you were healed two thousand years ago?
Because of your unbelief, there is no faith in you to believe his word, you are faithless person.
You can't see his ways because you can not understand his works.
You might think and says, waiting and trusting the Lord is risky and it is not worthy in putting your life in jeopardy.
If this is how you see the Lord, then keep your opinion to yourselves and don't be a stumble block to your brothers, respect people's beliefs who want to trust the Lord and wait on him.
There is a old saying, You will look beautiful with your mouth close.
Someone might cry aloud and says, “wait a minute look what happen to this person, he put all his trust and beliefs in God to heal him, but he die anyway, explain this to me?”
What happen to this other person does not necessary mean that God is not a healer nor that God did not wanted to heal him.
God heals yesterday, he still heal today and tomorrow, he wants to heal all of us, but there are law to follow for a man to receive healing.
Perhaps you believe God does not keep his word, and that he is a liar?
But I says, God is God and there is no one like him, he is a true God who doesn't lie.
Heaven and earth will pass away but his word will not pass away.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
You might stop me again and says, “Tell me why God let him die?”
You and I might not know the reason why a person die, but for sure the dead person himself and God knows.
God is not responsible of a man actions, man has a will, he has to make his own decision; he is responsible of his own success and of his own failure, not God.
Man come to God volunteer, but sometime there are things in the heart of man that doesn't allow him to come closer to God and receive his healing.
Perhaps his prayer was not heard and God knows why.
For the scripture says, "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry [prayer].
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth ( [Psalm 34:15,16].
God does not want any man to die of sickness neither to perish, but unfortunately many are dying of sickness and many are perishing everyday for many reason but all of them are not God fault.
It is not God fault that man does not live long.
God is not responsible of man dying of sickness before his time.
The scripture says, receive my saying and the years of your life shall be many.
It also said, If you don't forget the law and you obey his commandments, then the length of days and long life will be added to you.
The bible says, reverence the Lord, and depart from evil.
It shall be healing to your flesh and marrow to your born (Proverb 3:1,2; 3:7; 4:10).
Paul writing to the Ephesus he said to them, ... Honor your Father and your Mother, that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth (Ephesians 6:1,2).
1 Peter 3:10-12, the Apostle Peter said, if you desires eternal life and wants to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile: let him refrain from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, but the countenance of the Lord is against the wicked.
Moses said to the Israel if they obey the voice of the Lord and do all that he says to them ...... and serve him, he shall bless their bread and water and he will take sickness away from their houses .... and the number of their days God will fulfilled (Exodus 24:22-26).
In the book of Hebrew 13:8 the writer wrote, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday [when he was alive on earth], today {he is alive in us] and forever [with those who come and receive him] and he changes not his words for nothing in the world.
His word stands forever.
I heard in a teaching service in a church about the topic of faith, I thought they were going to be solid on the subject and build a strong faith in the believers live but instead their teaching surprise me and discourage me because it did not base in anything but on excuses that have nothing to do with the scripture, they were man ideal and dogmas doctrine that does not help neither correct nor bless anyone to grow up strong in faith and in the power of his might according to the word of Jesus.
For example I going to mention one of them, let me ask you a question first, do you think sickness was created by God or Satan? And if you are like me who believe God is the creator, for all things were created through him, and without him not one thing that was created would have come into existing [see John 1:3].
If you believe God created all things then you must also believe that God created virus, germs, infection, bacteria etc... and if you believe like me then you know God created sickness and diseases that cause men and women to die daily.
Perhaps you may said, are you trying to said, God is responsible for the death of millions or trillion of people in the whole wide world? YES and NO.
Let me explain if we believe that God created all things then he must be the one responsible that all sickness exit today don't you agree?
Now, if diseases and sickness exit then he has some part of it but not the whole responsibility because there is another who like to see you dead and bury in the grave and his name is Satan.
Satan love to rob, kill and destroy, but he will do this only when he is allow to do so by you or by God himself.
By you, for many reason and one of those reason is for the lacking of faith by not trusting the word of God and stand on it until you stop breathing the last breath of life.
This is where I want to focus on even thou there is many reason, but this reason is what I want to teach because it is where many are having trouble in the church today.
By Satan because as I have said before he is actor of destruction, he only interesting toward you is to hurt you badly and kill you, he really wants to mess you up until you are dead dead.
Some people think because they are a good Christian and they tithes and come to church and they do good deed to their neighbor and pray a prayer in the morning when they get up and in the night before they go to sleep, that they are well firm upon the rock and that no sickness will come and touch them, wrong, you are wrong, ask Job he will tell you.
Job who was a righteous man did all of these good deed, in fact I dare to said what Job went through no one in this earth can compared to it especially one who does not know how to remain firm in God umbrella of protection.
The enemy, Satan use tactic to destroy everything Job possess or have, he wanted to kill not only his family but also Job.
To start off, he convince God to come against him, to destroy him without cause [Job 2:3], and when God gave him the green light he went destroy everything in his land: animal and people that include his children but he could not get Job to curse God, and then after he could not get him to curse God, then he came again for the second time with God acceptable approval, and touch his body with cancer from the top of his head to the sole of his feet, and that not all to make the situation better he has his wife who suppose to be his helper surprise him with soft word [yea right poison word] telling him to curse God and die [a person like that who needed enemy?].
But he did not stop there the devil is not done yet with him, his luck went from better to worst, the devil made an arrangement for his friends to show up to salute him to see how is doing [yea right to stave him on the back].
They were good in cheering up his spirit [yea right to destruction], these friends of Job came to his house and from the moment they step in their hands were not moving except to Job direction and in that direction their hand was rise up to praise the Lord [yea you wish on contrary], instead they point their fingers on him to accuse him, for he was the one to be blame for all the misery that had come into the house and into his life, their poison word made him weary to the point that he wishes that he was never born; that how far they went, Job was weary and he wishes he has never existing.
In imaging the pain he went through and yet he kept his integrity and did not sin before God and at the end the devil lost his accusation against him and God restore everything he lost and his wife bear him more children and at the end he was more blessed than in the beginning that is my God when a man or a woman stand firm in his word and hold fast to his or hers integrity at the end blessing will fall on them like rain of the sky.
The same go with the children of God, don't be proud but fear the Lord God and do good deed that bring fruits and read the bible and stand on the word day in and day out and be firm and not movable, don't allow the wave of life move you out of place but keep believing everything is well and confess it daily until it become a part of your life.
Now some people said, that there are sickness that the devil has nothing to do with it, and that we should not be blaming the devil for everything because it is not him who put it but our lack of responsibility is the cause of sickness that have fall on our life.
Let me ask another question, in a cold and winding day if a person who suppose to put on warn cloth that include a good sweater and a heavy coat to keep himself warm, he suppose to zip up the zipper but instead he goes out without zip up the zipper and the cold air hit him very hard until he got sick and end up in the hospital. Now if that happen to you, you probably will says it is my fault for not taking care of myself the proper way, and it is not the devil fault but mine for not taken good proper care of my body in protecting myself against the cold weather.
Well, in part you are right but in part you are wrong, let me explain, like I have said before we know there is two who want you to go and walk his direction but one is the right direction and the other is the wrong one that lead you to destruction, his name is Satan.
The one who wants you to go to his right direction is Jesus Christ and his Father, but the chose is your to take.
Everything in life is a chose and you have to make a decision where you want to go; God says, he set before you today life and death, choose life so you and your descendants may live.
Now, the devil love to mess around with the mind of men and women, he put thoughts and ideal and imagination that sound and look good but at the end it is destructive.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly [John 10:10].
Jesus also said, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me [Revelation 3:20].
He also said, I am the way, the true and the life and no one come to the Father but by me [John 14:6]
All of this verses tell us that there is a devil who want you sick and dead and he is the one who put sickness in you, if you still don't believe see above what happen to Job his sickness was put by the devil, in fact the scripture said, Jesus went around during good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, it is the devil who oppress and put sickness on us.
Even thou, it was your fault that you did not take care of yourself but still the devil have also part of it, why I said this because sometime you think in doing stupid things which you end up in the hospital but those stupid ideal or imagination that you think and do some one put it in your mind, someone mess up with your mind, he prepare the bate and patiently he watch how you take the bate and the result of it is sickness and some time even death.
The enemy is the one that make you do things that is contrary to the nature of GOD and he also make you see and hear things and you do those things that displease God and at the end it reap everlasting destruction.
It is the mind where the devil work so hard to persuade people to do what he wants them to do but he does it in a deceiving way with lust, men and women who are weak and canal minded fall instantly because they are an easy target for the enemy to bring down fast.
The enemy has a part to do with the decision you make because even thou God gave you a will to make decision, the enemy is always alert like a roaring lion looking whom he may devour and believe me he will make sure you will chose and make the wrong decision that will ruin your life for ever.
Therefore, you have an obligation to do what is right before the Lord, but remember it is the enemy who is responsible of bringing lusts thoughts and imagination into you mind with the intention to trick you and deceive every one of you who is not watchful and alert at all time.
But Jesus who is the way, the true, and the life will keep you in his perfect peace and in his protection you are secured as long you continue firm on his word, for his word is your shelter and a safety wall that never fall and the end result will be life everlasting.
But we know that Jesus heal all disease and sickness.
If his word remain in you and you in him, his word will heal your sick body.
Remember sickness is subject to God's word.
That means there is healing in the word of faith.
Your healing is in the word of God and his word is in your heart and should comes out of your mouth.
If man wants to be clever and take the shorter road toward God he will never get closer to him and unfortunately at the end that man will find his own death.
There is only one way to the Father, and that way is through Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the way and the true and the life and no one can come to the Father except by him.
Jesus way, true and life is in his word and his word must be obey and remain in you.
If you obey Christ’s commandments and do his Father's will, anything you ask the Father [healing, supply all your need, and salvation] you shall have them.
Man has been redeem from the curse of the law.
God has promise man that if he obeys his commandments he will live a long life on earth, but if man does not obey his law; he will surely die before his time.
Any man who doubt that Jesus Christ is able to heal him, has lost a part of his heritage.
God's heritage [healing, prosperity, and salvation] belong to all the children of God equally.
Denying that Jesus Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law is to refuse to believe that God's heritage a part of it does not belong to you.
The people of Israel refuse to believe God, for they have hearkened to the evil report of the eight spies.
What was the evil report that these eight spies said to the people of Israel that convince them to doubt God?
The eight spies said to the people of Israel, we are not be able to take the land.
Giants we saw in the land and every one who heard the evil report were very afraid to go and possess the land.
God told them the land is your, go possess the land.
But Israel said with their mouth to the Lord, we cannot possess the land because there is giants in the land and they are more stronger than us.
They spoke evil report and God was displease with them.
Their evil report cause them to wander in the dessert and to die there.
The only two person from the old generation that was able to enter into the promise land with the rest of the new generation was Joshua and Caleb because they believe the Lord and spoke good report.
If you believe his saying and speak his good report then you will enter into his kingdom.
What was in the other side of the promise land?
The other side of the promise land there is life, prosperity and health.
Again only those who trust and believe his word will enter into the promise land, but those who provoke and doubt the Lord will be left in the dessert of affliction to be destroyed by the enemy of death.
Today people are having problem believing his word because of many stumble block, they has listen to evil report and this is why they can't escalate highest in the Lord.
God says, “you can have all things through Christ Jesus."
Don't says, “O’ man it is hard for me to believe that I can have it.”
God says, "all things are possible to him that believe."
Don't says, "impossible; it can never happen."
Children of God if you want to receive anything of the Lord you have to change the way you think and speak, think and speak God's word, stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord.
The apostle Paul said, “you can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthen you.
The Apostle Paul is saying to us no matter what things comes against us, just think we can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthen us.
Jesus said, “all things are possible to him that believe.”
It is possible unto you if you just believe.
The bible says, "without faith man cannot please God; for he who come near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6)."
If you have faith in God and believe his saying and seek him, he will reward you.
If Jesus Christ said to you, "this sign or wonder will follow or accompany those who believe these things."
Then believe his saying because this sign or wonder will follow or accompany you.
What sign or wonder that will follow or accompany you?
They are: In his name you will cast out demons; speaking with new tongues; handling snakes (enemies); and if you should drink any poison of death, it will not harm you; you will lay hands on the sick, and they will be healed.
All of this sign will follow or accompany believers who believe these things shall come to pass.
But if you don’t believe this things then it will not follow or accompany you.
Speaking God's word, will prolong your life; but by speaking against God's word will bring death to you.
The scripture also say that Death and life is in the power of your tongue and those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof(Proverbs 18:21).
So be very careful with the word that comes out of your mouth.
Don’t judge neither condemns anyone unless it is a righteous judgment.
A righteous judgment is line up with the word of God.
God should not be blame of man sickness and death before his time.
A man reap what he sow, if man sow things of the flesh from the flesh man shall reap corruption or death, but if man sow things of the Spirit man shall reap life everlasting .
James the apostle wrote: a man who ask and then doubt, he is like the waves of the sea driven by the wind and tossed and this man will never receive anything of the Lord (James 1:6,7).
The scripture says, without faith it is impossible to please God; for he who comes near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6).
God reward faith, he reward those who believe he is able to do it.
God does not say something now and later change his mind.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
God does not play around with us he will not repent; He said it and he shall do it; His word endures forever.
Do you know when a man is doubtful, and confess anything without faith violates his beliefs; for whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23).
The bible says, a man who is doubtful and eat anything that is offer to idols or to the devil, or does things that his conscience tell him not to do he sin (Romans 14:23).
You might stop me right there again to demand me to explain why then this man who believe on God to be healed did not get healed, but instead he dies?”
I will reply to you that I have answer it, but just in case you are slow to understanding and need more time to comprehend this.
Let me tell you again, you have to come to the Throne of God transparent, clear as a crystal and far away from sins..
God can’t and will not help any person that does not come to him transparent, clear as a crystal and is not far away from sins.
You will die in your sickness unless you change your thoughts and bad habits and put on the new man, which is made by God in Righteousness and True Holiness.
Second, don't doubt his word, don't change or add his words, words you add or word you take away is evil report and God will not hear that kind of prayer either.
Thoughts that are negative and confusion is not of God neither please him.
Stumble block are evil and God will punish those who cause his brother to sin.
Double mind and evil words and bad deeds will violate and hid your prayer and you will never receive anything of the Lord.
Having no love in your heart is to speak lies, stealing, hurting and insulting people, and not doing any good deeds from the heart will violates your prayer and will never be answered.
The scripture teaches us that Faith work by love and have good report that is healthy for your souls.
You must believe that he is, and that he is able to reward you with healing, salvation and supply all your needs (Ephesians 4:22-24).
If from the heart come out: hatred, bitterness, rancor, unforgiven, thieve, lie, gossip, adultery, fornication, lasciviousness, idols, witchcraft, murder, war, discord, strive, fraud, and any other evil things, God will never hear your praying neither will you see good days nor live long on the earth.
You might yell at me with anger and say to me, “Are you saying a person who trust and believe in God to be healed but die anyway was his fault, because he allow fear and doubt to steal the word of God; or maybe he did not deal with sins and repented?
I will says to you again, I might not know the reason why he die in his sickness before his time, but God knows and his word is the one that judge and condemns man, not me, quoting the word of God does not make me a judge but a messenger of God that speak his word and his word is the one that judge man.
God commands believers, to expose any unfruitful works of darkness and to judge a righteously judgment which means to expose sins with the light of the word of God and to exhort, comfort and edify
Unfortunately there are men who does not want to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God neither do they want to be transformed by the renewed of the mind and this is the reason why people are sick and dying and many of them have die before their time and there are other who took the communion and ate the bread and drank of the cup in commemorate our Lord's death until his coming were unworthy and guilty because they did not discern the Lord's body and for this reason many of them were sick and weak among them and many were dying because they did not judge themselves [1 Corinthians 11:22-31].
God word is pure and should be preached in season and out of season.
We are to preach straightforwardly the word of truth and repute with all authority those who sins so that other will fear.
Quoting what the word of God said is God speaking unto man, read St. John 12:47-48.
You and I might not know the reason why this brother die before his time, but God does, but one thing I do know that God word is true and he does not liar, the bible says, let man be a liar but let God be true.
God's word is the one who judge and condemn man, I am quoting scripture which warn man to obey his word and to reverence God, and that is if he is still desiring to live a long life on earth.
Again I want to say that I am just quoting the scriptures and it is the scripture that judge and condemn man.
God has set a law for men to follow and for them to obey.
God has established his commandments, and he has set before men, life and death, blessing and cursing and men must choose the path he want to take(Deuteronomy 30:19).
Why man should die before his time when we have God's word that is full of life to those who find it and health or medicine to all his flesh [Proverbs 4:22].
Brothers and sisters in the Lord, God has not change his mind.
He is still healing today as he did yesterday, he heal all of those who come to him by faith and believe he is able to do what he said he can do for us.
God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should be given counsel; he speaks and he shall do it, and his word abide for ever (Numbers 23:19).
His word goes forth out of his mouth; and will never return to him void, but it shall do what his please and it shall accomplish that for which he sent it (Isaiah 55:11).
God's word was sent to his people.
God the Father, his word came out from the mouth of his begotten son Jesus Christ.
He said, have faith in him, if you says to the mountain move and cast into the sea, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said shall come to pass; you shall have whatever you saith.
For all things are possible to him that believe.
God will watch over his word to perform it; for the word that come out of your mouth is God's word (Jeremiah 1:12).
Heaven and earth will pass away but his word will never pass away.
There are people who will take these scriptures and fight over it because it is hard for them to understand it and to practice it.
Other don't want to hear it because they think and believe that miracles and healing was long pass gone after the last Apostle die.
They says the Apostles were the only people who had the gift of healing in their ministry in those days.
They don’t understand the saying of Jesus Christ: that those who believe in him shall do the work that he did and even greatest than this thing they shall do, because he is going to his Father (Mark 9:23; 11:22-25; 16:17-18;).
Jesus did not says only his disciples will do the work which he did and even greater than this thing they will do, no brethren that is not what Jesus said, Jesus said, he who believes in me shall do the works which I do; and even greater than these things he shall do, because I am going to my Father
Jesus said wonders will follow those who believe these things, in my name they will cast out demons; and they will speak with new tongues; and they will handle snakes; and if they should drink any poison of death, it will not harm them; and they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be healed (Mark 16:16-8).
If you believe then you will do these things too.
Jesus did the work of his Father and he finish it” (John 4:34; 9:4)
Jesus went around preaching and teaching the kingdom of God and healing those who were oppress by the devil and many miracle he did, he spoke his Father's word and he did his Father's work.
Jesus words are spirit and life (John 6:63).
And Jesus says, ".... the words that I speak, I do not speak of myself; but my Father who abides with me does these works (John 14:10).
The word that Jesus spoke are of the Father and he does these work and he wants us to do the same things, he wants us to do the work of the Father too.
Moreover Jesus says, “he who oppresses me and does not receive my words, there is one who will judge him the word which I have spoken, it will judge him at the last day.
For I did not speak of myself; but the Father who sent me, he commanded me what to say and what to speak (John 12:48-49).
If you don't receive his word, and you oppresses him, the word that Jesus spoke will judge you at the last day.
Jesus Christ was preaching and teaching the kingdom of God and healing all kind of sickness.
But the most important thing here is that Jesus where doing the work of the Father and speaking what the Father commanded him to say.
Therefore The word of his Father was said for the benefit of everyone who believe these things and doubt not in their heart, but if you doubt then you are already condemn and you shall not see life.
This is why many who have doubt and did not believe his good report has die before their time (John 3:16-35).
Listen again what Jesus has taught with authority: "If you have faith in God and say and doubt not in your heart; but believe that what you have says shall come to pass, you shall have whatsoever you say."
This sign or wonder will follow them that believe (He did not says, this sign follow only the Apostles, no, no but he says), this sign will follow them that believe.
If you believe these things it will follow you and you will not fail.
Do the works of the Father and you shall please him, and in return you shall have a long life and overcome the world.
When an Police officer arrests a criminal is because the law was broken.
If a person commit a crime the officer has the power to arrest him and put him in jail.
In the day of judgment the judge will hear the officer and the prisoner, he will listen to both of them carefully, but at the end he will execute justice.
If the judge condemn him in prison is because the law of justice have found him guilty of a crime.
Therefore he will receive his sentence of punishment according to the crime he have committed.
The Judge sit on the judgment seat to execute justice and if any man is guilty he will be sent to prison and if any man is not guilty immediately he is released of any crime.
Man has the will of power to choose the direction he wants to go, but the people of God has the obligation to rebuke and correct with love.
God does not interfere with man decision, but he wants man to know the true and escape death and hell.
God does not force any man to come to him, but he hope that man makes the right decision and come to him.
If man doesn’t want to come to him then man will bring to himself suffering and destruction.
Did you understand what I have said, it is man who bring to himself suffering and destruction not God.
Man who select evil and sin, has select death and destruction.
Man bring his own death and destruction, not God.
As long man stand inside the circle of life he is save but once man cross over the circle line he is no longer secured, he is risking his life in falling in the quick-sand of death.
God wants everyone to walk his path of life, God has shown his people his way, but he will not obligate or force any men to walk on it.
God has created a bridge of salvation, it is up to you if you want to cross it over.
If you walk on his bridge and cross it over you will find in the other side your freedom, your salvation and you will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Question, if God would say to you, "listen and obey my commandment and the years of your life shall be many.
And don’t be wise in your own eyes; but revere the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be healing to your flesh and marrow to your bones.
Would you believe and obey it or not?
You do well if you believe it and do them and your reward will be increase.
His word will do so much to your life and to your soul. (Proverbs 3:7,8; 4:22).
This is not a theory of man neither a philosophy of man, but the true and that very true is freedom (John 8:31,32).
Who is responsible of you not receiving your healing?
I could hear some one say it is the devil and in part it is true, but not the whole true.
The truth is, you and I, we are responsible of our own failure, our unbelief and disobedience have stop and hid our prayer.
Our own word will bind on earth and in heaven our prayer.
We are the one to be blame, not God.
If you desire live long, then refrain you lips from evil and your tongues that they don't speak guile, walk right before the Lord.
If you want God to hear your prayer then stop sinning and follow after peace and righteousness.
Begin to sown good report and reap eternal life through Christ Jesus (1Peter 3:10-12).
There are many people that look like they are in a war zone; they are always battling with their brothers in the church before the unbelievers.
They always causing fight and problem everywhere they go.
These people are the one who God is saying you must change your way of living if you want God to hear your prayer and forgive your sins.
No matter how much prayer you make if you have ought against a person you will not live long on the earth.
God will not hear your prayer because God hears the prayer of a righteous man.
God hear a sincere heart that humble himself and seek his face and depart of all evil.
Man must love God above all and his neighbors as himself and he must be able to die for his sake.
God's word does good.
Having faith in his word but with a heart full of evil will never open the storehouse of heaven to rain in the land in due season.
People who does not stand in his word firmly shall receive nothing.
It is not a matter of knowing the scripture and believe in it, but to obey it and forsake sins.
Even the devil believe and knows the scripture but he does not stop sinning because he is a liar from the very beginning.
The bible also teach us the devils believe and tremble, Satan knows the scripture.
The scripture says that Satan quotes scriptures to the Son of God to tempt him (Matthews 4:1-11; James 2:19).
This is not a matter of you knowing and believing the scripture, but doing the will of the Father in heaven.
If you want to enter into the Kingdom of heaven and see your name written in the book of Life, then let his word remain in you and you in him, keep and obey his commandments, preach and teach his word and then the Father of heaven will be please with you (John 14:21,23,24; 15:1-8; Matthews 7:19-23).
Jesus says to the believers to love your enemies and do good to those who hate you; and bless those who curse you and pray for those who compel you to carry burdens.
And to him who strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other (in another word walk away and don’t fight), and to him who takes away your robe, do not refuse your shirt also; Give to every one who asks you; and from him who takes away what is yours, do not demand it back again; love your enemies and do good to them, and lend and do not cut off any man’s hope; so your reward will increase and you will become sons of the Highest; for he is gracious to the wicked and the cruel; be therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful; Just as you want man to do to you, do to them likewise” all of these will open the door of heaven for God blessing to come down on you and overtake you (Matthews 6:27-36).
Never avenge yourselves, the apostle Paul exhort the church to, “Avenge not yourself, but rather restrain your wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will execute justice for you, said the Lord.
Therefore if your enemy hunger feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head (he will regret of all the evil things he has done to you).
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:19-21).
Doing all of these good deeds with love is doing the will of the Father.
People who only concern in gaining the whole world the scripture says, for how would a man be benefited, if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
To those who think they are the son of God because the gift of the Spirit, sign or wonder follow them, the scripture says to you, it is not everyone who merely says to me, My Lord, my Lord, who will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
And a great many will say to me in that day, My Lord, my Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in you name cast out devils and in your name do many miracles? Then I will declare to them, I have never known you; keep away from me, O you that work iniquity.”
Paul said, the gift of the Spirit: prophesying, healing, miracles are divided to the church and Jesus said these sign shall follow them that believe.
Casting out devil, prophesying, healing and miracles are all gift but the sign does not save anyone.
You will never know them by the sign that follow them, but by their fruit you will know them.
And what fruit he is talking about?
The fruit of the Spirit which is: joy, peace, love, patient, gentle, compassion, mercy, pity, forgiveness, humble spirit, faith, righteousness, goodness, power, self-control and etc ....
Christ's commandments which is the fulfillment of the law and cover multitude of sins is his love and his love has been pour into our heart by the Holy Ghost that is given to us.
We love in deed and in true and his love gain all.
Paul writing to the church of Corinth he said to them, if you have faith to move mountain; if you give you body to be burn; if you give all your good to feed the poor, but you do not have love in your heart you gain nothing.
Love suffer for the sake of the gospel and for the sake for the body of Christ.
And love never fail you, in another word love will gain all through Christ Jesus our Lord (1 Corinthian 13:1-8).
Jesus says, he who hear his word and does it is like a wise man who built his house upon the rock and nothing can’t bring it down.
But he who hears his word and don’t do it is a man who house will fall and be destroyed because it is not built upon the rock (St. Matthews 7:21-27; 16:26).
Therefore it is not a matter how much you known the Holy Scripture neither how much you believe in his word nor how much the gift of the Spirit operating in your life, but being a doer of God's word of love.
If you love you brother then you are born of God and you know God and you triumph over the world, and this is victory that overcome the world even your faith.
Faith which works or it is accomplish by love will bear good fruit and you will never fail but you will success and proper everywhere you go.
Love opens the door of communication with God.
This is why God said to his people, “if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land” that include your body.
Look at the love of God, how much he love you that he is willing to forgive your sins and heal your land if you humble yourselves and pray and seek his face and turn from your wicked ways.
Who could do that for you but only God because he love you.
Now if you don’t follow his saying neither obey it then your sin will never be forgiven neither your land and your body wouldn't be healed because God said he only hears the prayer of a righteous man who has departed from their wicked ways.
Righteousness in the Old Testament was by the works of the law, but in the New Testament, righteousness is by faith in his name to all who believe.
Paul exhort the church of Corinth, he said to them, believing in the Son of God is declared the righteousness of God through Christ and once a man is declared righteous, people are to awake their heart to righteousness and sin not, for some have not the knowledge of God [1 Corinthians 15:34].
In Roman 6:12-19 Paul said to the church of Rome, Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither should you yield your members as instruments of iniquity to sin, but yield yourselves to God, just as if you were men who had risen from among the dead and let your members be instruments of righteousness to God.
Sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law but under grace.
Paul here he is saying we are under grace and we should not sin but we should be obedience to righteousness.
Now, being made free from sin, become the servants of righteousness.
Again, yielding the members to the servitude of righteousness and holiness.
Man's mind should be renewed and he should put on the new man who is created by God in righteousness and true holiness; he should put away from him lying and speak the truth and should never let the sun go down upon his anger neither give the devil a chance.
Paul continue saying, from henceforth let him that stole steal no more neither let evil word proceed from his mouth nor grieve the Holy Spirit of God; all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamoring and blasphemy be put away from you, together with all malice; and be kind one to another and tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven us through Christ.
Paul exhort the church of Corinth and he said to them, God will cause the fruits of your righteousness to grow how? after you sow your seed of love. [1 Corinthians 9:10; Ephesians 4:22-32]
Peter exhort the church again and he said to them: ... the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by the peacemaker [1 Peter 3:18].
Lack of knowledge of the word of God is a reason why people never live long life on earth and are cursed.
A man who had repented and had been a good steward doing the work of the Father of heaven even if he die before his time, I am sure he is with the Lord.
How do I know if this is true, look what happen to Moses and Aaron, God told Moses to take the rod, and gather the assembly together, and to speak over the rock before the eyes of the people; and it shall give forth its water.
But instead of Moses and Aaron speaking to the rock as God has commanded them to do, Moses did the opposite he took the rod and lift up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; water came out abundantly from the rock and the people drank and all their cattle also, but God was not please with them.
God said to Moses and to Aaron, Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the presence of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Because Moses did not believe (I dare to says, he disobey God commands) God did not allow him to live and to enter into the promise land.
The bible make it specific that Aaron later die in the mount of Hor and the people of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
God allow Moses to see with his eyes the promise land, but the Lord told him that he shall not go over to it.
Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord (Number 20:2-29; Deuteronomy 34:1-8).
If God did not allow Aaron to see the promise land but allow Moses to see it with his eyes, but Moses was not allow to go over it; if they who did not enter the promise land because they did not believe God's word, what make you think that you will live to see many days and reach a full healthy old age if you don't believe his word either?
What make you think if you doubt his saying you will be delivered from any sickness? (Psalm 91:16)
No brother if God did not allow Moses and Aaron to cross over to the promise land because they did not believe, perhaps God will not allow you to enjoy another year on earth for doubting his word too.
Brothers examine yourselves to see if you are of the same faith [fix your life, repent of your sins]; heal your souls (2Corinthians 13:5).
Come openly to the throne of his grace, so like that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
People who care a lot for the poor people and help them with donation is fine.
But caring and helping them with donation does not necessary means he is walking in God's love.
Donation is good deed and I believe the poor people will benefit from it.
But the question is, is donation insure a person that he is walking in God's perfect love?
In the eyes of God giving donation is good deed, but if you do this thing without God's love in your heart, according to the scripture everything you do will be of nothing.
There is a difference between God’s love and man’s love (Corinthians 13:1-8).
Man’s love is limited and can be selfish, interested and hypocrite.
If you are not careful and alert, one of this days when something goes wrong and it doesn’t goes his way and it does not benefit him anymore, you will see how rapidly his giving and kindness change and you will wonder what happening to him.
Man’s love that doesn’t get things his ways and does not benefit him will rapidly change and fade away.
But those who has God's love in them their love does not changes, but continue to be understandable, grateful, merciful, forgivable, giver, gentleness, patiently, peaceful, loveable, happily, joyful and thankful.
Man who walk in the road of God's love knows how to smile in the middle of trials and when thing go badly, he doesn't allow anything to come between God and him and he will continue to conquer all odd that come against him.
He will keep on doing the good deeds no matter what happen to him.
While man’s love last short and fail; God’s love never fails and remain forever.
A man who dwells in God's love everything he does bear good fruit in abundant.
The Spirit of love helps and remind man what to do in time of needs.
Love does not expect anything neither is looking for praise nor is interesting of being recognized, but love wants to please God in well doing as to a faithful Creator who reward every man according to his deeds.
All good deeds flourish and are blessed by God.
This is the true word of God for your life (1Peter 4:1-19).
Therefore brethren come to the throne of God transparent, clear as a crystal, with a sincere heart and full of faith which worketh by God's love.
Obey his word and believe his saying, be in peace with all men, that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.
May God continue from heaven to pour out his blessings into your heart like rain in the morning that fall from the sky. Amen.
WRITER: JRR