"His Grace, His Strength"

I read a quote today and this is what it said,

Sickness has become the Goliath of the Church; People speak the name “Cancer” almost with reverence… (NO MORE)… It’s a devil, its an affliction, it steals, it takes from families, it robs time, it like all other afflictions and diseases steal from households, strength, and energy, it robs faith. 2000 years ago all sickness from the devil and healing was from God but today many people consider sickness from God to help them become more like Jesus… how far have we fallen in 2000 years.

People say, “Well how do we know its Gods will to heal?” Well he already told us. The man came to Jesus and said if your willing you can make me clean and Jesus said I’m Willing!!!! So the will of God is settled. What sickness is to you body, sin is to your soul, what sin is to your soul, sickness is to your body… Jesus wants you well!

How many of you just gave praise to the Lord because a women with MS was healed and was running around which she hasn’t done… how many of you praised God for it? Listen that is praise and Glory that God would have never received without that miracle. When we withheld the miraculous we withhold from God the Glory that is due to His name, we cannot rob God any longer!

I understand that God has healed and that healing was part of His program with the nation of Israel and was a sign to the people to clarify apostleship, but is healing going on today from God? I want to point out some things just from my understanding of Scripture. 1. When Christ healed He healed everyone. Christ was healing people in Israel and those in Jerusalem, because that is God's land promised to Israel. Christ was cleansing it, because "the kingdom of heaven is at hand", this was preached by John the Baptist and then by Christ the King Himself and in the Kingdom all sickness and all that stuff will no longer exist and it will be the Kingdom that God had created long ago with Adam being the king before the fall. 2. Where did the healing program go after Christ specifically with Paul and specifically later on in his ministry? It is gone, has anyone ever wonder why Luke traveled with Paul, just to write for him, or maybe to because he was a physician. Why does Paul tell Timothy to drink a little wine for his stomach (1 Tim. 5:23)? Why does Paul leave Trophimus sick in Miletum (2 Tim. 4:20)? According to the quote above, Paul had held back glory from God. Is this the answer, NO!!! What happened? Why is Paul so different in this area of healing compared to the rest of the scriptures? Why 2 Corinthians 12:9?

2 Cor. 12:7-10,
"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord THRICE, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE: FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I TAKE PLEASURE in infrimities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."

Paul took pleasure that he had infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecutions, and distresses and this was after asking for deliverance three times. Paul knew directly from revelations of Christ that Christ's power rested upon him in all these things when there was no deliverance and no healing. Instead, Christ said, "MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE!!!" How far have we fallen sense Paul's day to recognize that sickness and death is natural ever sense the fall of creation and because we live inside these vile bodies these things will happen to anyone. How far have we fallen to recognize that God does not bring about sickness, yet He uses it to show His wisdom is far greater than Satan's that because of Christ grace is sufficient, not to be healed, but not to be healed because our citizenship is in heaven glorified in Christ. How far have we fallen to think that we rob glory from God if one does not plainly and clearly see that God is not healing today, rather than understand the grace of God which is the power and strength of Christ to testify of His glory when sick, and in persecution, reproach, necessities, and distresses!!!!! What privilege we have as those who can go through the suffering of this fallen world and praise and glorify God through His Son Jesus Christ for His grace is sufficient!!!!! How far have we fallen to think that because you got healed that it was from God, that you had more faith than someone else, to think that you are strong, rather to see that God's power, grace, and strength are manifested when we are weak. His power, grace, and strength are not manifested in healing, but as Paul prays in Colossians 1:11, "Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, UNTO all PATIENCE and LONGSUFFERING with JOYFULNESS." How far have we fallen, because we go through struggles and infirmities and the sufferings of this world from nature or other people that God is not with us, but to know His Word and to know where His power and grace and strength are manifested in us. What would mark God's power resting in someone, one who can through persecution, reproach, necessities, and distresses be patient, be longsuffering all in joyfulness. That is God given power, how do I know, because everyone is looking to be healed. God can heal no doubt, but He isn't today like He was with the nation of Israel that is cut-off, fallen, diminished, for a season and a reason for the Kingdom on earth. One day Christ will bring the New Heavenly Jerusalem to earth, "His will be done on earth as it is in heaven" along with all OT saints and bring the FIRE of His wrath to cleanse and restore the earth without form or void, which was to happen when Christ told them to pray for it, but no one knew that there was a mystery of God's will to be revealed in due time which was given to the apostle Paul about Christ and His forming of the Body of Christ a heavenly people unlike the Nation of Israel His earthly people.

We need not forget that the signs done to Moses were done out of Moses' unbelief, I think it be that the Church the Body of Christ has fallen in unbelief by not listening to our God given authority in Paul from the Ascended, Glorified, Heavenly Christ and in consequence are confused by following the nation of Israel's program which is not to us nor not us at all, because we don't believe the things that GRACE teaches us, we want the phyiscal instead of the spiritual and have even been confused about what the spiritual is. It is time to renew our inner man, THE INNER MAN!!!