That is the Question in Life

Theology
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Purge or Pass-Over?

Purge or Pass-Over?
That is the question in Life…
Whether to face your fears and relive them until you’re bored;
Or die to your Sins and receive Him whilst still alive?

There is undoubtedely a well-established practice,
Of facing your fears instead of confessing…
Of course we refer back to not hurting a single soul;
But of repeating our hurts that is quiet usual…

But Christ bids us to move on, often easier said than done,
The sick thing is we end up liking what we were exposed to, probably the brain trying to ease our burden…
Many things have altogether gone and been taken away, it’s the old evil sick wicked things that remain;
That were not my fault, I know and forgive myself; but who can tap a Magic Wand and make them all go away?

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As we focus our minds and hearts on things above, like the Lordship o Christ, the things of this world will grow strangely dim. I the process of healing certainly those things that we hope will fall off do burden us until they do, We sometimes heal through a process and sometimes it is immediate. God is with us ether way.

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There is No ‘ magic wand ‘ in Christianity.

Remove that thought system and vocabulary from your mind.

God will forgive us All our sins if we repent of them. Basic Christian fact.

God knows our weaknesses, just as he knows our strengths.

Our fears aren’t ‘magically removed, rather God gives us, moment by moment the strength and grace to face them and live through them.

We need to cling to God by our finger nails, if need be, for that ability to face each and every second of our fears.

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Learn the Word. Confess. Repent.

Dying to sin requires incredible courage, boldness, and bravery.

Confession is facing your fears, choosing the deepest honesty over all suffering and shame, and embracing the consequences in tearful contrition.

Honesty is a very difficult process to get going to the point of consistently practicing truth.

Get closer to God, store His Word in your heart, strive to see more of Him than you presently do, and He will keep all of His promises.

I have an intense story, but it was all worth it because He truly is faithful, He does bless, He does heal, he does make it all better.

But you have these questions because you don’t know Him, and the only way to know Him is to seek Him desperately, in truth and sincerity with deepest honesty.

Learn how to be reverent to God, or as some translators said it, “fear God,” as reverence for God and the majesty of His ways will lead you to understanding and healing.

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Yes, Many times we will not heal of something spiritual or physical until we learn to do what God has clearly said we should do, or grow in a certain way and this often is by overcoming some habit of ours that is hard to overcome. Sometimes we will not ever heal of a limp that God gave us to show that He has taken over our life (like Jacob) or a “thorn in the flesh” He has put there for a reason, that He has told us and He will not take it away.

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I think it is normally the will of God to heal His people. He says that the stripes he bore from His flogging before His crucifixion have purchased our healings (not guaranteed them but provided for them) just as His death itself has purchased our forgiveness. We have to take both by faith. Then there are the many conditions that must be met for a healing prayer will be answered. We must forgive, must pray according to God’s will, must be persistent, must use the authority of Jesus’ name, submit to God’s will and do everything in view of glorifying God, etc.

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@peaceful23, you are right to say that it is “normally the will of God to heal his people”; but sometimes he leaves pain, emotional or physical, as our “thorn in the flesh” that Paul talks about in his life, to teach us very valuable lessons:

2Co 12:7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
2Co 12:8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
2Co 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co 12:10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Of course, we all look forward to the final healing of our bodies in our resurrections after Jesus returns.

Php 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Php 3:21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Rev 21:5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Rev 21:6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Rev 21:7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

The key promise for me in Revelation 21:4 is that there will be no more pain.

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Sometimes we use the knowledge that we will be healed in the Resurrection as an excuse for not praying for a healing now. The default position is that God wants his people healed, unless we have something in us that stands in the way of healing or He has explained that He will not heal is this particular instance and has a purpose for the illness or injury that we are experiencing. If we always fall back on the ultimate healing in heaven or at the last day, some people will never be seriously prayed for and that will be a fault of the church, especially the elders.

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Praying for healing always puts us at risk of criticism and disappointment. We stick our necks out in faith. God may respond to our prayer or our faith or not, but we still are to pray, unless He has made clear to us that we should not. Prayer for healing is one of the tools of the church to advance God’s Kingdom on earth and our place is to both take authority against satan and to do it with humility toward God.

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If we are appropriately humble when we pray for healing, we are in our right place and allowing God to be great. Every time I pray for something I have no control over, I have to see myself as small and God as great. My prayer sets down the facts. I can only plead, and only God, not me, can bring the person healing. My place is to give thanks because I really do believe God will answer my prayer. I can never get glory for myself by praying. I am just being obedient and obeying God to ask Him for this healing. I as Jesus Himself just showing Christian love to the ill or injured person as Jesus would.