We don't want the be healed. A lot of us can't be healed or delivered by God because that very thing He's trying to heal us from, we keep going back to!
A lot of people doubt the power of God when it comes to Him healing people because they can't fully comprehend how it works. For one, doubt hinders God from healing. How can you expect the Lord to heal you when you doubt that He can do it? Faith as small as a mustard seed is all you need but some people don't even have that. So, if you don't believe it, He can't do it.
Secondly, we continue to bring illnesses on ourselves. I'm not talking about chronic illnesses per se. Smoking cigarettes is a proven fact to cause cancer. Liver disease is caused by people who drink heavily. AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases is proven to be the result of people who have unprotected sex. Where is the wisdom in doing those things?!
Exodus 15:26 NKJV
“If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
I Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
If you have a drinking problem, smoking problem (not just cigarettes) or a sexual addiction and deep down you want to quit, there are some things you have to change in regards to your lifestyle in order for that deliverance to take place. Don't deliberately put yourself in temptation situations! If you know alcohol is going to be all around, don't go! If people are going to be smoking, don't show your face! If there's going to be provocativly dressed men or women or just a strong sexual environment, don't you dare walk out that door!
I Corinthians 10:13 NKJV
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
I believe this scripture is for when we don't willingly put ourselves in such situations. Where we weren't prepared and are cut off-guard. If you have your regular circle of friends, you pretty much already know what kind of festivities they'll be getting into. If it's going to cause you to suffer and hurt yourself physically, morally and spiritually, you needn't to be there.
Some of us end up missing our friends, the lifestyle or just that atmosphere and put ourselves in those environments before the Lord has completely healed us. Even when He does, it's not wise for us to go back to such things.
I Corinthians 8:13 NKJV
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
If people are really, truly your friends, they'd support and encourage you. Now, if they start acting funny towards you and give you a difficult time and make light of the situation, maybe you don't need them in your life like you thought. Lung disease isn't cool! Lung cancer isn't cool! Going into a drunken sprew and having blackouts isn't cool! Having chlamydia or AIDS isn't cool!
These are serious, real LIFE & DEATH matters that we can't worry about people no longer being our friend.
Romans 14:21 NKJV
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
When JESUS died on that cross, He paid our debt of all things! So, not only did He heal us from those examples I mentioned, but also from lying, stealing, cheating, adultery and thousands of other things! God can and DOES want to heal us! But at the end of the day, the choice is ours. Either we'll stay in bondage to our illness or we can be FREE, healthy and alive in the Lord!
Be Blessed & Encouraged in the Lord today! ♡♥
