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Come to hear, not just be healed


Luke 5:12-15

Luke 6:17-19

In both of these passages, we read that people came to hear Jesus and to be healed of their diseases. If you want to be healed, it is important that you hear the Word of God. Do not simply run from one healing crusade to another, trying to get healed through "gifts of healings" in operation.

It shows a bad attitude to attend a healing crusade and nod off while the minister is preaching God's Word on the subject of healing. You have already missed it if you think, "Come on, preacher, let's get to the good stuff -- lay hands on the sick!" You can get healed 100% of the time by simply believing God's Word. You are not guaranteed to be healed through the gifts of the Spirit 100% of the time. If you are unwilling to be in faith when hands are laid on you, you should save your gasoline and your time and not bother attending. It is hearing the Word that produces faith. If you will not listen, no faith will be produced in you. If you will hear God's word, faith will rise in you and you will be in a position to receive your healing.


Remember Psalm 107:17-20! God sent his Word and healed them. His Word can heal you, too. To ignore the Word is to ignore God's primary avenue of healing for the believer. Hear and be healed!


Plant God's seed in your heart

Jesus told a parable about different people who heard the Word of God. The seed was the same in each case. The ground it was planted in determined the harvest. After telling the parable, Jesus made a very strong statement about hearing and not hearing the Word, and the results of each. Read the Parable of the Sower:

Mark 4:2-25

This last verse of this passage is puzzling if you do not read it in context. In context, it is crystal clear. Things will be given to him who has ears to hear. From him that does not have ears to hear, even what he has will be taken away. If you hear the word, you will receive things from God. If you refuse to hear to the word, you will not only fail to receive from the Lord, but you will lose things you already have. Hence the importance of continually hearing the Word, not just hearing it once and then saying, "Yeah, I heard that already."


It is difficult to preach healing to people who have a "Yeah, I heard that already" mentality. If they know that healing is theirs, why do they get picked off by every two-bit virus that comes along, just like the rest of the world? If we really know we're healed, we won't get sick even when everyone else does. We will stand out from the world. You cannot convince anyone you know that healing is yours until you start walking in it. Faith comes by continually hearing the Word, not by having heard it once.


Beware of offenses

You might as well be forewarned -- you will not be popular with a lot of churchgoers if you start believing God's Word about healing. Some people will call you a flake, others will call you a cult member, and still others will actively try to talk you out of your healing and defend to the death their own right to stay sick. Jesus warned that Satan will come to try to steal the Word from you. The anti-healing books on the market today are tools he uses for this. Jesus warned that there would be persecutions for the sake of the gospel. You must not cave in when people belittle you for your stand for God's Word.


Replies to common objections are included in this book so that you won't be scared off by something someone writes against divine healing.


When to plant seed

God's Word is his seed. Plant it in your heart and it will grow. By planting healing Scriptures in your heart, you are planting for a healing harvest down the road. It may not come overnight, but it will come if you are consistent about hearing the Word.

Don't do what most people do and wait until you get sick to start paying attention to healing Scriptures. When you are sick, you don't feel like reading healing Scriptures. You just want to lie in bed and moan. It is harder to concentrate on what you are reading.

If you wait until you are sick to read healing Scriptures, you are like a farmer who suddenly realizes that he has two days' worth of food left in his house. So he says, "Honey, we've got to plant some seed now, quick! We need a harvest in two days so we can eat!" It's a little too late then, isn't it?


I am not suggesting that you dwell only on healing Scriptures. If you want a better marriage, more money, a better love walk, or to walk in greater victory over sin, there are other topics you will have to read in the Bible. Reading healing Scriptures will not give you faith for these other things. Reading healing Scriptures gives you faith for healing. You don't plant corn and reap tomatoes.


Keep your ears open

Do you have ears to hear? Continue to hear the Word. You are God's husbandry [farm] (1 Cor 3:9). Let God's Word grow on the inside of you to produce a harvest of healing!

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