JESUS HEALS

By Rick Mathes

Acts 9:34 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; arise, and make your bed.” And immediately he arose.

One of my pet peeves is when someone says, “I am trying.” I’m trying to quit drinking. I’m trying to stop using drugs. I’m trying to avoid pornography. I’m trying.

I learned in a Greek language class that a moving “ing” is called “continuous action.” Alone, it is none ending. Jesus never had a “You will get better” cure. Whenever He showed up, you were healed: ed not ing. The healings were always complete and final.

When Jesus says to you a believer, “Stop that” or “It is finished” or “you are healed”, it is a done deal. Don’t give me the “I don’t drink hard liquor anymore” when you are getting drunk on beer. Or “I haven’t used heroin for a year, when you are smoking crack. Do you get the message?

He spoke a word and the blind saw, the deaf heard, the lame walked and the dead sat up in their casket, got out and went home alive; Amazing days to be following along with the Great Physician! All it took was a touch and the power of the creative will flow through you and regenerate every cell in your body.

Another annoyance is when someone says, “I am getting better.” If you study the Lord healing experiences, the healing was complete and instantaneous. There wasn’t any “getting better.” You always get His best right on the spot, no second visit to the doctor.

One of the greatest alleged faith healers of our day was Katherine Kuhlman. She would have the sick and infirm lined up for healing a block long. When the TV cameras went off, she would leave them all standing in line and go home. They did a 10 year study on those that she healed and found that they all died of what she healed them of.

More recently we had our Oral Roberts who put the majority of his ministry money into a hospital that went bankrupt. Go figure: why would a faith ministry have a hospital? It’s laughable.

Jesus healed everyone. Today’s faith-healer performers prey on the four-percent that were psychosomatic (illness was imagined). He even healed organic disease such as blindness and leprosy. The final illness, death, stung Jesus and died so that we migh have the ultimate cure of eternal life in Him.

Don’t look out to the merchandising of Jesus. Look only upon Him and be healed!