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Don't Put A Question Mark Where God Put A Period.
Contributed by Pastor/Author: Terry Sisney on Sep 11, 2005 (message contributor)
Summary: The difference between receiving your miracle, your healing, or your deliverance may be as simple as getting rid of the question mark.
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Mat 8:1-3 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Mk 1:39-42 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.
40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Lu 5:12-13 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
It is sad today that much of the church world has followed the example of this poor leper, and has put a question mark where God put a period.
It has been said that this leper had some sort of discerning that in the purposes of God it may not be Gods will to heal everybody (This is a view that is held by much of the church world).
The fact that Jesus revealed his willingness to heal this leper shows us that it was not a revelation of the purposes of God that the leper had, but in fact it was an ignorance of the purposes of God he had.
How sad it is to take the view that this leper may have had a revelation of the purposes of God that he stay sick:, rather than to take the entire volume of the scripture that clearly teaches that Jesus healed all that came to him.
And that in doing so he was manifesting the perfect will of God:
Jn 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Jn 6: 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Jn 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Everything Jesus did and said was a perfect revelation and manifestation of the Fathers Will.
Jesus willingness and Healing of this poor leper is proof that it is Gods will to heal every leper that will come to him and receive him as their healer
Ac 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
MATTHEW 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.
MATTHEW 12:15 But when Jesus knew [it], he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
LUKE 6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed [them] all.
PSALM 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
ISAIAH 53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Jer 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD;
1 PETER 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
The whole of scripture teaches us that it is just as much Gods will to heal all those who come to him in faith as it is to save those who come to him in faith.
In fact God tied them together in the atoning work of Christ.