04/06/2022
PART # 1 THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF Maria Woodworth-Etter's LIFE TEACHINGS – by Roberts Liardon - Chapter 19
Divine Healing “Health for body, Soul, and Spirit”
“Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses, in His own body on the tree” “If we really believe this wonderful truth believe this wonderful truth, we will claim our deliverance and step out, acting as we believe. In seeking healing for our bodies, we are so apt to look at feelings or symptoms and believe we are healed just in proportion to the amount we see and feel when in reality, we are healed when we believe.
“Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye have received and ye shall have.”(Mk.11:24) The work was all finished on Calvary. On Calvary’s tree the remedy is found that will heal all sicknesses and diseases of the soul and body. Jesus offers it unto us free. It is “look and live.” Therefore, all we have to do is to appropriate it to our own individual needs. Sometimes it is instantly realized in the body, but more often it is a gradual deliverance, requiring us to step out in faith before we see any signs of having it.
We have salvation the same way- claiming it by faith before we feel any change in our hearts. So we must see with the eye of faith, our body healing, before it can be made manifest in us. Now faith is not natural sight; if it was it would no longer be faith, but reality. Faith is believing God and His Word and that He will do all that He has promised. “It counts the things which be not (like perfect, well bodies) as though they were”; and the things which be (like feelings and symptoms) as though they were not, because God said so and what He says is true. Faith looks away from the natural, from the things of the senses, and see the fulfillment of the promise through Christ’s complete work on Calvary.
It see every need supplied through the atonement. It then believes and acts and will soon bring forth the fruit—a healthy body. We must believe after the prayer of faith has been given, for “Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye have received, and ye shall have.” We must cling to the promises of Jesus instead of looking at our feelings, or going by them, for our senses are false witnesses unto us when we step out in faith.
If we are looking and going by our feelings, we are believing them instead of believing God. We are to believe as we pray. We often ask God to heal us and then we begin to note how we feel, and worry and fret about the things that are seen. We concluded because we didn’t feel any better, that God had not healed or heard our prayers. What’s the matter? Simply, we were believing feelings instead of God and His Word. The believing is not in accordance with the praying.”
(This is what I was taught and preached in the mid 80’s in the faith movement, and I haven’t gone to the doctors since 1984, Jesus heals me every time. I put faith in Him and His Word. It was nice to come across this teaching from Grandma Maria, and she had the signs following to confirming the Word, Mk.16:20 Jack Welch 6-18-19)
