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God
Initiates Some Healings on His Own
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
For
an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the
water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in
was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.(John 5:4)
There is a difference between God initiating healing and you initiating
healing. In John chapter 5, the Bible tells us that there was a pool
called Bethesda in Jerusalem. And around this pool were five porches
full of the weak, sick, and maimed.
They were all waiting for an angel to come down periodically and trouble
the water. And then the first person in would be healed. Everyone else
had to wait until the angel came down again.
God initiated that on His own. He didn't ask you or me whether He could
or not. He didn't ask the Sanhedrin or anybody else whether He could or
not, because He is God.
God can do whatever He wants to do, and we know that whatever He does
will not violate His Word, because if He violated His Word, He would be
a liar - just as you would be a liar if you violated your word. But we
know that God cannot lie (Num. 23:19).
Well, of course, healing doesn't violate God's Word, because the Word
teaches us that He is a healing God. Sometimes I think that God just did
things such as troubling the waters every so often to let people know
that He was still alive and doing well.
I don't know for certain, because the Bible doesn't say, but I think God
was trying to get the people to start believing what He had already told
them.
God does initiate some things on His own, such as in the example of His
sending an angel down to that pool. The healing at the pool of Bethesda
was a healing initiated by God. Man didn't ask Him to do it; He just did
it.
Confession Some healings are initiated by God, but I can receive
healing anytime through faith in God's Word. I can stand on the Word of
God and receive my healing.
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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