ANOINTED WORD MINISTRIES :: What is your final choice?

WHAT IS YOUR FINAL CHOICE?

JoyUs Musing
Edition #10-09

I remember several years after my mom had been given a clean bill of health after her mastectomy. She'd just
begun to study about healing through some faith-based ministers and realized that, in truth, "...by His stripes, she
was healed."

She went to God in prayer, very angry. She said to God, "But I've been in church all these years and I NEVER
ONCE heard that You still heal today. If I'd known that I could have been healed from the cancer that attacked my
body, I would have stood for a healing. What about all those ministers who never said a word about healing from
behind the pulpit? What about the ones that say healing has passed away - that it was only for those disciples in
the Bible?"

As she later told me that God simply said to her (not in an audible voice, but in her spirit), "Eddie, I will take care of
those ministers who don't preach My Word. They are not your business. YOU had a Bible on your coffee table all
this time and My final Word about healing is in that Bible." She repented.

It is very important what you hear about the Word of God. What you feed your spirit is a matter of life and death,
and of victory and defeat. I refuse to sit under preaching and teaching that is contrary to the Word of God. I can't
afford to listen to someone's opinion about what God might have meant to say, because the Bible states that we
are to protect our heart (Prov. 4:23).

I can't be double-minded (or divided) on the topic of healing. I either believe it... or I don't. I am either in faith... or
I am not in faith. There is no grey area; no in-between.

If I spend my time hearing that healing is not for us today, or that there are certain diseases God won't heal, then
if my body is attacked by that disease or sickness, I will not have the faith to take a stand against that attack.
Romans 10:17 tells us how to develop the measure of faith God gave us - HEAR THE WORD - through
faith-based preaching, teaching, and reading faith-based books, articles and magazines.

So if I am sitting here with a runny nose, sneezing so hard my ribs hurt, coughing and wheezing, itchy eyes and
slight fever - what do I do? I do NOT say, "Wow, I am sick" and go to bed (although I sure may want to!). I say,
"These symptoms do not have a right to stay in my body" then I go get into the Word of God and study the
scriptures on healing. I listen to CDs and DVDs on healing and a CD I have where someone is reading all the
healing scriptures in the Bible; I read the books I have on the topic of healing. I fill my spirit with an abundance of
the Word of God so that Word can work in my body.

I do what God told my mom - realize that God's final Word on healing is the only word I need to believe.

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