wanted to make some stuff clear before I even begin to talk about the normal yet miraculous ministry of Jesus in healing people spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Please understand and hear me when I say that I am not the smartest dude, I don’t know it all, and I fail often. That being said, I want to make very clear that if you ask me about healing and doctrine or theology about healing,
I am going to talk about Jesus. He is the root and author and substance and finish line of healing. He is the model of ministry. In the book of Hebrews it states that Jesus Christ is the picture of God the Father. His heart his mind his will his intention his power his wisdom his authority everything that we as man need to see about God and what he would do if he were here, we see in Jesus. That is SOLID TRUTH. If we want to see God, look at Jesus. Does God heal people, Did Jesus? Does God physically make people sick to teach them lessons- Did Jesus? What is the Will of God for the Sick?-Jesus So healing is all about Jesus. He is the total understanding encapsulated in human flesh. He is the knowledge of the Holy One. He is the center point of this issue.
So we in sleeping giant are just dudes, and I am just a dude with my own relationship with Christ Jesus, and I (we) believe that Jesus as the Bridegroom God loves to Partner with his Bride- and bless the people he loved and died for. He almost refuses not to use people to do his work I swear. It would be easier if he just did it himself but, that is not in line with his character towards his people from Genesis to Revelation he has designed partnering with people to do his will in the earth, the only one to fulfill it and do it 100% was Jesus Christ which is one more reason why I love him. He is so perfect and glorious and wonderfully complete that he makes up for my imperfection and ugliness and insecurities.
Jesus is all we need. Ok so, He can heal people all by himself but his preferred method of working and administering justice mercy and righteousness is through the ones who carry his spirit on the inside. So he uses us now. Jesus in us, the hope of Glory, the worlds only hope is on the inside of us now, and he can and will get out and touch people if we will let him be God and do it. SO healing, right- Did Jesus ever turn anyone away and send them home without healing ever??? In the bible??? No. That’s the standard, (EVERYONE IS HEALED) just because you pray and don’t see it right then and there does not mean that his Character changed on us in our day. Jesus Christ the same Yesterday Today and Forever it says and we either believe that or we don’t believe ANY OF IT RIGHT?? Right. So Biblically Jesus of Nazareth healed Every single person that came to him to be healed. In every Synoptic Gospel there is not one written account of anyone not receiving physical healing from the Lord when they came and asked. AND just to take away the ammo to the whole, “well he was God so he can we can’t…” you need to look and be encouraged by the testimony in Acts Chapter 5 as the early disciples did the EXACT SAME THING, it is written in the immutable unchangeable infallible WORD that we all say we believe in that these simple men who followed Jesus healed ALL who came to them as well.
I say that just to underscore the principle I am talking about, THE cross covers all Sin all Iniquity all disease all of the works of the enemy. ALL of it is under his heel now. We participate and demonstrate that when we heal the sick and preach the gospel and comfort the mourning and visit the orphan or widow. Our Model and our standard for Healing the Sick by the Power and authority of Jesus Christ and No other is in fact Jesus Christ-Jesus Christ healed the sick, what was the will of the father in the last days even just by the weaker hands of the disciples- healing all who came to them to bring glory and honor and renown and lives to God the Father. It’s the same for us now. I would like to explain more but the only real thing I have to say about healing or anything else right now is that we have decided to follow doctrine, church teachers, pastors and biblical apologists to construct our versions of Christianity, not realizing that the only real foundation anyone can lay is Christ himself. That is all the way around-
Our model for, “Christian” living, loving, relationship, and ministry- needs to be Christ himself. Jesus knew about the Kingdom he belonged to and that was the message he preached and told his disciples to preach- The Kingdom of heaven is the true reality. When we substitute our experience of disappointment and frustration on top of the message of Jesus Himself, we will come up with a Jesus that is not quite the Jesus of the Bible. That is unfortunately the Jesus I think most of the body is convinced of. Jesus lived in a daily relationship with the Father through the Holy Spirit, hearing his voice, interacting in daily life, and following his lead into and out of situations.
Most of the church still has doubt fear and apprehension about whether or not God could even speak to them about daily stuff. And most of the Church is still very divided about the HOLY SPIRIT. Jesus’ Spirit is really not given free and full expression at church on Sunday, yet people want to live like Jesus on Mon- Sat. Come on. Open up the doors that the King of Glory can come in and wreck our pretty services and maybe teach us how to live and operate with the authority of truth- The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. We can touch it feel it know it because It is actually HIM- Jesus. Visit Tommy Green at myspace.com/sleepingxgiant
