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listening, and the list goes on. That’s why I thank God for forgiveness and healing. In the same
verses, you can be forgiven, you can be healed, and it can all be made right.
He said, “Heal her now.” Would it be okay to pray the Bible? As you notice, there is no ‘if it be
Thy will’ in that prayer.
In Psalm 38, this man is sick, and it’s very obvious. In verse 3, he says, “There is no soundness
in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.” Can
sin get you into trouble physically? Yes, it can. Is it always because of known violations that
someone is sick and in trouble? No, it’s not.
Do you remember the man who was blind? They asked why he was blind—was it because of his
sin or his parents’ sin? Jesus said it was neither one. (John 9:3) Yet sometimes people have
opened the door through their ignorance. They’re not violating the light that they have, but still
they have opened the door, or they don’t know it’s God’s will, so they don’t know to stand
against it. There are any number of things that are involved.
He said in verse 5, “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.” You know,
you can be foolish and cause yourself problems and get in trouble.
“I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled
with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.” Is he in trouble?
In verse 10, he’s fading. “My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes,
it also is gone from me.” He’s leaving here; he’s losing this battle.
Skip down to verse 21. “Forsake me not, O L
ORD
: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to
help me, O Lord my salvation.”
The English Version says, “Help me now, O Lord my Savior.”
The New English Translation says, in verse 22, “Hurry and help me.”
That’s what haste means. When you look at other translations, it brings it out. We read that
Moses said, “Heal her now.” Here David says, “Hurry up.”
What if you and I prayed that way? “Heal them now God! Hurry up!” People would say, “Ahhh!
How dare you talk like…you better calm down and say, ‘if it be Thy will.’” Yeah? Then they
had better show us where that is in the Bible, in connection with healing. It’s not there. We’re
looking at Scriptures, the Bible. The other is people’s tradition. They think it’s in the Bible, and
it’s not—it’s just their thinking. “Yeah, but that’s how granny believed, and if it’s good enough
for granny…” Well, how did it help granny? Did it work for granny? No. Maybe she might have
loved God, but just because granny believed it, doesn’t make it so. “Well, that’s what my
preacher….That’s what our group…That’s what our denomination….” Still, it does not make it
the truth.