PRAYING FOR PHYSICAL HEALING !

PRAYING FOR PHYSICAL HEALING: This is also true of physical healing, but it seems more difficult to to practice faith for physical healing than for anything else, because we have the body, with all its feelings and symptoms, to contend with. Most people will believe God has healed them when they can see their condition has grown better, or when the symptoms are gone. Anyone can believe what he or she can see or feel. What Jesus was teaching here is that we should believe when we pray and then we will receive. (Psalms 107: 20). "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." For many years I have practiced this kind of faith, (Mark 11:24) has been my standby. I have experienced it in my own life as I have pray for the desires of my heart, believing that I receive them. It is true not only for healing, but also in every other area of life. No matter what the need may be --- material, spiritual, or financial --- God is faithful to his word; this is the way we receive. Smith Wigglesworth says some people are ready to give up if their prayers aren't answered immediately. However, The Word say. "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will (word), he heareth us; and if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desire of him." (1 John 5:14-15). But, he said, this proves that they never believed God in the first place, what I mean is because of the symptoms or the feelings they do not take hold of the Word of God and believe it. (1 Peter 2:24). "Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed." Often God permits our faith to be tried and tested right up to the end. When you believe God, you can stand firm, even though you are tested. What is being tested ? Is what you said concerning the Word or concerning your words. The enemy only comes for the Word sake. I have been there and I know by experience. I learned many years ago to laugh all the more when the going gets rough. I don't always feel like laughing, but I make myself laugh right in the face of the devil. I smiled and said that I believe God. Holding fast to the confession of my faith in His Word which is the object and basis of faith in God. When Paul was on a ship bound for Rome, a great storm arose. Because the ship was in danger of sinking, the crew attempted to lighten it by throwing cargo overboard. This didn't help the situation, and the stone continued, night and day, for "many days." Finally the crew and passengers gave up all hope that they or the ship would survive. However, right in the midst of the storm's fury, Paul addresses them, saying he believed God: (Acts 27:25). "Wherefore, Sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. You and I may not have to face a stone- tossed sea, but we do have to face storms in life. We, too, can stand with the faith of Paul and announced that we believe God.