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The Ministry of Jesus
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Now, friend, if it was occasionally the will of God or even rarely the will of God for someone to
get sick and stay sick, you would have seen it in Jesus’ ministry, because He said, “I didn’t come
to do my own will. I came to do the will of Him that sent me. I only say what I hear Him say. I
only do what He shows me to do.” (John 5:19,30) Everything He did is a revelation of the will of
God. That is what this whole book is about—God’s will to heal. If you can’t find the will of God
looking at Jesus, where are you going to look?
If we’re going to say, “Well no, sometimes it’s His will and sometimes it’s not,” then we ought
to be able to see it in the ministry of Jesus. We should find one or two or a few instances when it
wasn’t the time for the person’s healing, or when God was teaching them something, developing
them with it, or it just wasn’t the will of God. There ought to be at least a few times. But instead
of that, we see
all
of them,
every
one of them.
Still some people argue, “Yeah, but I know So-and-So, and he was a good man. He prayed hard,
and he didn’t get healed.” Or, “I prayed hard myself for a long time, and I didn’t get healed.” Or,
“I know So-and-So. He was a good preacher but didn’t get healed.”
So that proves the will of God? You’ve got to make up your mind now.
Others say, “Well, everything that happens is the will of God.”
So people who don’t believe on Jesus, people who are lost and go to hell, that’s the will of God?
They say, “Oh, no.” Now, wait a minute. You said
everything
. Everything that happens is the
will of God. You can’t have it both ways.
“Well, no, they have to believe it, and they have to receive it.” Exactly.
A man one time wanted to take me to task about these things, and he said, “We don’t believe
that. We don’t preach that in our church. I have never seen any healings.”
I said, “Hmm. You don’t preach it. You don’t believe it, and you don’t see any healings.”
He said, “No, I’ve never seen a healing.”
I said, “Hmm. We preach it, and we believe it, and there are notebooks full of testimonies,” and I
pointed to the table. “I wonder if there’s a connection here. You don’t believe it, you don’t
preach it, and you don’t have it. We believe it, we preach it, and we have it.” These signs don’t
follow them that doubt it and disown it and say it has passed away. These signs follow them that
believe.
Do you believe that all of them were healed, every one of them? We are looking at the direct
manifestation of the unchanging will of God for all men for all time. Glory to God.
How are you going to ascertain whether it’s God’s will for you to prosper or not? Where are you
going to find out if it’s the will of God for you to be broke all of your life or for you to get along