Healing and Deliverance According to the Bible
When we hear the word deliverance, we tend to associate it with “deliverance from evil”. Our Lord’s prayer includes this in the last line – we ask him to deliver us from all evil as we pray every day. Christian deliverance refers to God rescuing his children not just from demonic and satanic possession, but from bondage, oppression, hardship and temptation as well. We talk of various forms of deliverance:
• Spiritual: All Christians must believe in the uniqueness of God as the only divine being and desist from worshipping or even acknowledging the existence of any other form of divinity.
• Social: It is important that we remember God in all our social activities and avoid taking part in anything that detracts from His greatness and from the teachings of the Holy Bible.
• Physical: This refers to the exorcism of not just demons and other evil forms from the physical body, but also deliverance from our attachment to our bodies. We must not be so caught up in the way we look that we forget to worship God with all the devotion that the deed requires.
• Material: When we become attached and addicted to material possessions, it makes it that much harder to reach God and become one with him. We are so focused on amassing wealth and retaining it that we forget to offer thanks and praise the Lord for his goodness.
Most of all, we need deliverance from ignorance and sin – the first for all that we do unknowingly that is against the teachings in the Bible, and the second for all that we knowingly do just because we are overcome by lust and temptation for worldly and hedonistic pleasures.
Healing takes place when you truly repent for your transgressions and come back to the path of truth and follow the will of God. You must also give up all forms of temptations and dissociate yourself from situations that lead you to sin, knowingly or unknowingly. And most important of all, you must pray to God and ask him to guide you as you go through this deliverance and healing process and enable you to keep to the straight and narrow path.
Biblical deliverance and healing allow you to walk with God and abide in the teachings of Christ his son.
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This guest post is contributed by Karen Anderson, who writes on the topic of online bible colleges (http://onlinebiblecolleges.net/ ) . She welcomes your comments at her email id : karen.anderson441@gmail.com
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Road to Hell
There is an old saying in England – The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions. I just want to shed a little bit of what God showed me about it – some new light on that simple sentence.
Normally we mean that our own road to hell is paved with our own good intentions – and there is truth in that. Yet there is a greater truth that someone else’s road to Hell is also paved with your good intentions.
Have you ever intended to do something but, well, just never got around to doing it? Of course you did.
How many times have you heard something like a prophesy and said, well we shall see? “If the Lord does it then I shall believe it.”
When you heard about the poor people caught by the tsunami, or the people caught by the earthquake, or the people caught by the typhoon or storms – did you say to yourself, “I should try to help them.” But then thought, “But what use is my few pounds in the middle of such need?”
When we come to face the Lord and we are held to account for all that we DID do and all that we DIDN’T do – what will you say. “Well Lord, I meant to do that but you came back too quickly!”
What happens on the great day when an angel calls out “Chris Bennett, Evangelist, step forward!” “What? I’m not an evangelist. Who is he calling?”
“You”
“But but I’m not an evangelist. I am a pastor, a prophet, a healer. Thats the ministry you gave me, Lord !“
“No – I called you to be an evangelist. Remember that prophecy given to you in 2009? Why didn’t you listen to it?”
You see, we are all called to something and it will avail you very little to say, “yes Lord, I know, I meant to do it – you know Lord – one day I really did intent to do it.”
What do you think the Lord will say to you?
“Oh well, never mind – you did OK although you could have done a bit better.”
“OK – its shame cos I really wanted you to save all these people.” And He shows you crowds of people who were not saved ???
No – He may very well show you the crowds of people who might have been saved if you had obeyed your calling.
Then He may very well ask you for an account of each one of them as to WHY you didn’t preach the gospel to them.
He may show you how each of them who stayed un-saved (some will be saved by someone else) has walked a steady path right into Hell.
He Might even show you that their road to Hell was paved with your good intentions but because you stayed in disobedience to His call, they have gone to Hell.
He might even show you the way to the gates of Hell for being so disobedient saying, “Away from me you evildoer – I do not know you!”
Suddenly the panic grabs you, “But Lord, look at all that I did in Your Name. Lord, I healed the sick – I cast out demons – I gave people prophecies that changed their lives for You.”
“Yes, but I called you to be an evangelist and because you ignored me – because you only ever intended to evangelise but never did it – all these people went to Hell - Lost because of YOU!”
Its time to listen to what God is saying to each one of us. Its time to get ourselves into His will for our lives. Its time to start putting the road to Hell in its place – as a thing of the past !!
Normally we mean that our own road to hell is paved with our own good intentions – and there is truth in that. Yet there is a greater truth that someone else’s road to Hell is also paved with your good intentions.
Have you ever intended to do something but, well, just never got around to doing it? Of course you did.
How many times have you heard something like a prophesy and said, well we shall see? “If the Lord does it then I shall believe it.”
When you heard about the poor people caught by the tsunami, or the people caught by the earthquake, or the people caught by the typhoon or storms – did you say to yourself, “I should try to help them.” But then thought, “But what use is my few pounds in the middle of such need?”
When we come to face the Lord and we are held to account for all that we DID do and all that we DIDN’T do – what will you say. “Well Lord, I meant to do that but you came back too quickly!”
What happens on the great day when an angel calls out “Chris Bennett, Evangelist, step forward!” “What? I’m not an evangelist. Who is he calling?”
“You”
“But but I’m not an evangelist. I am a pastor, a prophet, a healer. Thats the ministry you gave me, Lord !“
“No – I called you to be an evangelist. Remember that prophecy given to you in 2009? Why didn’t you listen to it?”
You see, we are all called to something and it will avail you very little to say, “yes Lord, I know, I meant to do it – you know Lord – one day I really did intent to do it.”
What do you think the Lord will say to you?
“Oh well, never mind – you did OK although you could have done a bit better.”
“OK – its shame cos I really wanted you to save all these people.” And He shows you crowds of people who were not saved ???
No – He may very well show you the crowds of people who might have been saved if you had obeyed your calling.
Then He may very well ask you for an account of each one of them as to WHY you didn’t preach the gospel to them.
He may show you how each of them who stayed un-saved (some will be saved by someone else) has walked a steady path right into Hell.
He Might even show you that their road to Hell was paved with your good intentions but because you stayed in disobedience to His call, they have gone to Hell.
He might even show you the way to the gates of Hell for being so disobedient saying, “Away from me you evildoer – I do not know you!”
Suddenly the panic grabs you, “But Lord, look at all that I did in Your Name. Lord, I healed the sick – I cast out demons – I gave people prophecies that changed their lives for You.”
“Yes, but I called you to be an evangelist and because you ignored me – because you only ever intended to evangelise but never did it – all these people went to Hell - Lost because of YOU!”
Its time to listen to what God is saying to each one of us. Its time to get ourselves into His will for our lives. Its time to start putting the road to Hell in its place – as a thing of the past !!
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