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You might ask, “What if I don’t see it? What if someone I know prayed…? What if…?” Do you
know anyone who didn’t receive Jesus? Have you heard about anyone who rejected Jesus and
didn’t change it before they died? Was it the will of God for them to die like that? No. Just
because something happens, that does not prove the will of God. Just because something does
not
happen, that does not prove the will of God.
Where are you going to find the will of God? In the Word of God. This is it, and this is what we
believe. No matter what we see, no matter what we don’t see, this is what we believe. We walk
by faith. We don’t have to see it to believe it. Glory to God.
How many people were there? It wasn’t just a multitude, or even a great multitude. It says,
“Great multitudes came to Him.”
Someone at that meeting might have said, “Man, come on! You can get healed down there!”
“Yeah, but I haven’t always lived right.”
“Hey man, I saw some people that looked worse than you down there get healed. Come on.”
“Yeah, but you know how bad I’ve been.”
“Hey, let me tell you about some people I saw in line yesterday. You look good beside them.
Come on man, come on. I’m telling you, ‘Everyone is getting healed down here. Everyone.’”
Let’s believe that. We believe that concerning being born again. You couldn’t knock it out of us.
Nobody can come and tell us, “Oh, no, it might not be God’s will to save them.” Are you
kidding! No way are they going to make us believe that. “No, but they’ve been mean. They’ve
been bad. They’ve done this.” No! It is God’s will for all to be saved. It’s not His will that any
should perish.
Now, when we get to where we believe like that about healing, we’ll see healings just as
regularly as we see new births. We’re having to overcome centuries of error being taught in the
Church. But, we’re getting there. Stay with it. Don’t be mean or pushy, just don’t change from
the Bible.
Matthew 15:30 says, “And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were
lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed
them.” Not part of them—He healed
them
. “Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they
saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they
glorified the God of Israel.”
It’s not disease that glorifies God, it’s healing that glorifies God. It’s not sin that glorifies God,
it’s salvation that glorifies God. It’s not destruction, it’s deliverance. It’s not poverty, it’s
abundance that glorifies God.