HEALING
 
I have had some very dramatic, real  VALID personal experiences with Healing.. they were mostly unexpected ones
 
It all started mostly when my 6 month daughter was diagnosed as being seriously ill, likely to die a vegetable within 3 years. I had no experiences in healings. I had also just gone to a new church, the Christian Missionary Alliance church, and I had read their church doctrines on healing. She was diagnosed with  hydrocephalus, which  is derived from two Greek words, hydro, meaning water, and cephalus, meaning head, and once was called "water on the brain." Hydrocephalus is the condition caused by the accumulation of an abnormally large amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the skull, or cranium. Normally, CSF flows continually from the interior cavities in the brain (ventricles) to the thin subarachnoid space that surrounds the brain and spinal chord. 1/10000 babies are born that way.
 
My wife who was also a nurse was very very depressed about it.. so I suggested we separately read the Bible and ask God what to do about it
 
God next told us three things in our Bible reading-
1 She our daughter was not sick for our sin, or our fault
2: She will be healed God had needed her for his glory
3: I now was to ask the local church elders to pray for her healing.
(James 5:14 KJV)  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:15  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
 
When I approached the local Alliance Church pastor to have the elders to pray for my daughter he was hesitant, the local Church had really never done it before but eventually they agreed to come to our home two days later to pray for our daughter
 
About 6 elders came and prayed for her and next day God had told me she was healed, but physically there was no evidence of it.. her head swelling had not gone down... that was what I was expecting to happen.. I was really expecting a miracle, not a gradual healing.
 
I was dismayed next also that I got a phone call that two church elders who prayed for my daughter undeniably rather clearly got immiediately healed, one of a neck problem and one of an arm problem too.
 
Next day a local visiting evangelist a football player with the Montreal Allouettes came to speak to the Alliance church Wednesday night prayer meeting .. when I had mentioned that I  had wanted church prayer for my daughter and her sickness, he really was not concerned, for he was more interested in evangelism, so I really did not appreciate it.. because as a father I was really concerned about my daughter's health, immediate healing.
 
Next day I got a phone call from my brother who wrongfully had said that my daughter was sick cause God was punishing me for not being a Pentecostal,  and that Benny Hinn was coming to town next week and he Benny should pray for my daughter and her healing.
 
When I prayed about it God said there was no need for Benny's prayers for  my daughter had been healed.
 
but my brother realy insisted that I go to Benny Hinn.. when I prayed about it again God said to me I could go, but for me not to ask him to pray for her, God said that Benny will recognize her need but he won't be able to do anything. I went to the Benny Hinn service. That was the first time I encountered Benny Hinn and not the last.. After the Benny Hinn service Benny next came directly to us to pray for my daughter and he replied that there was nothing he could do for her. For especially God had told me it would not be a miraculous instantaneous healing but rather a gradual healing.
 
Next the local Shriner's children Hospital  called and wanted us to bring our daughter for medical testing and surgery. When I prayed God had replied that the doctors had told me she was sick, and the doctors would tell me she was well. When we went to the Hospital, I told the attending nurse that my daughter was healed but she of copurse  did not believe me. I als had told her no operation would be needed. On the next day at 8:30 am they took her for a brain scan, and hours later it became very quiet on the floor, the nurses were whispering. and 3 doctors dressed in white came to see me and my wife  and said.. we have no explanation for it but she has healed herself, there will need no need for surgery and I can take her home the next day.
 
My story did not end there, for the next day at 3:30 pm ,when my wife and I got in the family car to take our daughter home, and when I went to start the car, the gas accelerator got stuck and the car started to race down the street at rapidly accelerating speed on it's own. it was a dead end street too. And all I could do was cry Jesus help me.. and next the car stalled and stopped immediately.
 
God told me that the devil was mad, mad   that we had robbed him of a sick child and that he the devil was going to punish another child next, and that I was to pray for the child and the father. So I did right there I prayed for the unknown to me Child's protection and healing.
 
We next took our daughter home and the doctors told us that she would have headaches for a few days cause of the medical testing, and you could see her in pain, her eyes were rolling.. but I said if God could heal her of brain problems he can deal with a headache and I prayed for my daughter immediately at home  and clearly her headaches stopped.
 
The next day we got a phone call that the visiting Church football evangelist daughter was born that day at the same Shriner's hopistal with the same sickness my daughter had, she had hydrocephalus and spinal Biff.  The very next day I divinely met the same  football player on the street on the way to work unexpectedly and we both went for coffee. I told him that God had told me that he God would hear my prayer and his daughter too would be healed.. even though he may not believe me.. and she evntually was too.
 
Many years  later while I was next visiting my brother in Montreal, the same one who judged me and said God was punishing me by making my daughter sick,  by then  I had moved to Calgary, and I was then planning immediately to go back when God asked me to stay a few more days till my brother's daughter was born, so I did.. and  his daughter was next born also hydrocephalus, and next God told my brother that if he asked me to pray for his daughter God would heal her.. so he did, I prayed for her and I told him she would be healed and the specific date she would be discharged from the hospital. and it happened like God told me.
 
It was not all personally rosy for me after my own daughter's healing for too many  local Christian people got mad, jealous, bitter over the miraculous healing.. some even lied and said the devil healed her, and sadly eventually I had to leave this local church because of the too many unpleasantness. but a doctor in the same church was converted, he had recognized personally what sickness my daughter had being a doctor, and he next said only God could heal her and he accepted Jesus as his savior. And while God still heals the devil also still tries to rob it, to destroy it, to discredit it.. and he will even uses some professing Christians to do so.. sad isn't it.
 
But even today all 3 children mentioned were fully healed, they are healthy grown up adults   these days. I also learned firsthand  that not everyone who sees a miracle will believe in God or give him the credit for it sadly too.
 
I also know that confessing our sins, our personally living right and having a real active faith in God are essential aspects of our personal healing too.
 
(Mat 13:58 KJV)  And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
 
Now that was not my only healing experience.. when I was years later pastoring in Calgary I had a request twice by family members to pray for 2 persons who had a heart attack and both of them were hospitalized even. Their own church pastors had refused to go and pray for the sick outside of the church.. interesting.. they were too lazy.
 
The first sick person  was even paralyzed and I prayed for him in the hospital.. I came back next week and there was no change.. God told me to pray again, not to stop praying after one prayer.. I prayed for him and next week he was discharged from the hospital and he did gradually get better at home.
 
In the next case the sick husband  was admitted to a hospital with a heart attack and the wife  was told he would not make it through the night.. the wife asked me that evening to come and pray for him at the hospital .. I did.. when I came back next morning he was sitting up in bed and the doctors were in disbelief.. the wife told the DOCTORS PRESENT that I had prayed for him and as a result he got healed.. needless to say they did not believe her.. they started to run more medical tests on him to see what was happening. But God had also now told me that he would fully heal him, the husband, God told me he would restore his life for few months so he could get every thing first in order at home before he would die, and six month later he died like God had told me beforehand.
 
Now I had other cases where God instead of healing first had asked me instead to take my son for a surgery and God said he would do next what the doctors could not do.. for God also uses Doctors.
 
A few years ago I had a personally dramatic healing.. my own heart beat was about 120 instead of the normal 72 and there was not much the doctor could do and this was very serious. God asked me to go to see a visiting evangelist who was in town for a one weekend service. When I was there the healing evangelist on his own called me out and he specifically for my heart problem, he prayed for my heart condition and the heart beat came back to normal.. Praise the Lord...
 
(Acts 14:9 KJV)  The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,10   Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
 
By the way as a local praying church elder at the Alliance I had prayed for 28 people for healing, but only half were healed, even of cancer, and God had also told us beforehand as to why the other half would not be healed, it included even their own unforgivness towards others. While healing is the children's bread, by faith too, it is also conditional on holy, righteous living now  before God..  that means stop cheating, stealing, telling lies as well.
 
(Gen 20:17 KJV)  So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
 
(2 Ki 2:21 KJV)  And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
 
(2 Chr 30:20 KJV)  And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
 
(Psa 30:2 KJV)  O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
 
(Psa 107:20 KJV)  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
 
(Isa 6:10 KJV)  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
 
(Isa 53:5 KJV)  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 6:14 KJV)  They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
 
(Jer 15:18 KJV)  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
 
(Jer 17:14 KJV)  Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
 
(Jer 51:8 KJV)  Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9  We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
 
(Ezek 34:4 KJV)  The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
 
(Ezek 47:8 KJV)  Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
 
(Ezek 47:11 KJV)  But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
 
(Hosea 7:1 KJV)  When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

(Jer 23:28 KJV)  The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

(Jer 23:29 KJV)  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

(John 5:24 KJV)  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

(John 8:31 KJV)  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
(Gal 6:1 KJV)  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
 
(Gal 6:3 KJV)  For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
 
(Gal 6:4 KJV)  But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
 
(Gal 6:5 KJV)  For every man shall bear his own burden.
 
(1 Cor 14:33 KJV)  For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

(Gal 6:7 KJV)  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

(Rev 3:19 KJV)  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

(James 2:17 KJV)  Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

(James 2:20 KJV)  But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

(James 2:26 KJV)  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

(Heb 13:8 KJV)  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

(Heb 13:13 KJV)  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

(Heb 13:15 KJV)  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

(Isa 53:5 KJV)  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. l we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

(1 Tim 5:20 KJV)  Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

(1 Tim 5:21 KJV)  I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

(1 Tim 5:22 KJV)  Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
 
(Mat 18:15 KJV)  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.18  Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

(John 8:32 KJV)  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

(John 8:33 KJV)  They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
 
(Heb 13:9 KJV)  Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

(1 Cor 10:21 KJV)  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

(1 Cor 11:27 KJV)  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 9  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 1  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 2  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
 
(Phil 2:30 KJV)  Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

(1 Pet 3:8 KJV)  Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10  For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11  Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12  For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 13  And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 14  But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

(1 Pet 3:17 KJV)  For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

(1 Pet 4:15 KJV)  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

(1 Pet 4:16 KJV)  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

(1 Pet 4:17 KJV)  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

(1 Pet 4:19 KJV)  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

(Mat 7:3 KJV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
 
(Mat 7:2 KJV)  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

(Psa 34:18 KJV)  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

(Psa 51:17 KJV)  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

(Isa 57:15 KJV)  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

(Isa 66:2 KJV)  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

(Rev 3:19 KJV)  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

(Mat 7:21 KJV)  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

(Mat 7:22 KJV)  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

(Mat 7:24 KJV)  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

(Mat 7:26 KJV)  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

(John 5:14 KJV)  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

(Rev 3:8 KJV)  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
 
(Isa 40:31 KJV)  But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

(Luke 18:1 KJV)  And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

(Rom 8:28 KJV)  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(Heb 13:5 KJV)  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
 
Some of the  distorted Pentecostals do too often do teach that any  Christian should not be sick at all and that we can always immediately claim our sickness healing by faith and God will always heal us. They seem too easily to forget that  a temporary human sickness can temporary serve God's purposes. But also yet the Fundamentals Evangelcials too now also go overboard denying that healing tend to exist today as well.
 
 A too common Pentecostal Word Faith teaching is that it is solely, always  your own personal fault for being sick. This false teaching can be found in Hinduism as well.   They teach that it is because of your own lack of faith and/or knowledge, unconfessed sins if you are sick or poor.   This unloving, cruel and unbiblical teaching does not come from God but from Satan who distorted God's basic truths on healing. Can you imagine the gall of anyone, even a false elder, pastor, unlovingly trying to tell a person to their face that the reason their daughter sick is because of their lack of faith?  or that God is punishing them of their own sin? Can you imagine the cruelty in telling a person bound to a wheelchair that if they had enough "faith" they would  surely  "Rise and be healed?" But what does the Bible say about it, teach.
 
Most of the problem with the clear Christian teaching discrepancies on Healing and Sickness is due firstly to the real personal ignorance of what the Bible teaches even about Healing. Most Christian people wrongfully rely mainly on some famous preacher who is pro or con to healing and Not on God and his Word firstly. Many people have their mind made up beforehand anyway and are not honestly open to the subjects and they thus tend use out of context bible verses, the preachers quotations to try to suit, substantiate their own pet views.. they need to read these verses..
 
(Mat 8:7 KJV)  And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
 
(Mat 10:1 KJV)  And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
 
(Mat 10:8 KJV)  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
 
(Mat 12:10 KJV)  And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
 
(Mat 13:15 KJV)  For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
 
(Mark 3:2 KJV)  And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
 
(Mark 3:15 KJV)  And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
 
(Luke 4:18 KJV)  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
 
(Luke 7:3 KJV)  And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
 
(Luke 9:2 KJV)  And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
 
(Luke 10:9 KJV)  And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
 
(Luke 14:3 KJV)  And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
 
(John 4:47 KJV)  When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
 
(Acts 4:30 KJV)  By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
 
Just cause some preacher does not have the faith to heal, has never been used by God in healing does that now wrongfully mean the Holy spirit gift o healing has ceased? no! Of course not. So what if there any instances of believers in the Bible that asked God for a healing and were refused? Do we next make the false general statement wrongfully that God refuses all request for healing thus?  Did Jesus automatically heal all those who came to him? no? or there were conditions to be met to be healed by Jesus in the New Testament too. Now what were the conditions of healing?  And why were some refused their healings? just Unconfessed sins? Does the fact that a sickness may return nullify the first healing? No of course not.. I prayed for a person and he was healed.. years later the sickness return and I wanted to pray for them again but God said no, I will not hear your prayer, he is an unrepentant evil person. Are there any instances of believers in the Bible that remained sick or died from a sickness and does the death of any believer now  supposedly nullify any possible healing of others? of course not! ?  Is it not a fact that all  healing  are temporary anway for we all do die?
Now let us all  look at the common quotation of Apostle Paul  supposedly applicable on Healings  "For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong," 2 Corinthians 12:8-10.
 
It is agreed that the Apostle Paul had a thorn in the flesh that was particularly troublesome. Now was this thorn specifically a sickness and so what specific sickness? Partial Blindness? Why does God  in his word define it as a "thorn", a specific abusive messenger of Satan,  and not rather a specific sickness. Paul he had asked the Lord three times to take it the thorn, not to some it only means the  supposed sickness away but God said, "no."  So despite God's refusal to heal him? Paul rejoiced because of his infirmities? and where is such a reference in the Bible it is a sickness still?..  there is no such reference the bad preachers imply the thorn was a sickness cause it is convenient for them to do so.
 
Here is the undeniable reality God rather promised  the Apostle  Paul that he would next suffer physically  for Christ sake cause he persecuted Christians.. this suffering included  the physical persecutions he received while preaching the Gospel. (Acts 9:15 KJV)  But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:16  For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.  (1 Cor 4:11 KJV)  Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; (1 Pet 2:20 KJV)  For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. if you have doubts what it means to be buffeted see (Mat 26:67 KJV)  Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,)
 
"Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.  And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus," Galatians 4:13-14.

(2 Cor 4:7 KJV)  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11  For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
 
Now in the Old Testament King David said this about his own afflictions: "It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees...I know, O Lord, that your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me," Psalm 119:71, 75.  "The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death," Psalm 118:18.  "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word," Psalm 119:67.
 
The lying bad Preachers here too try to tell you this affliction was a sickness of David .Yet we have no mention at all in the Bible that these afflictions were any specific sickness, rather David clearly was persecuted by his son, and others.. and all as a direct result of his adulterous sin with Bathsheba  and the murder by David of her husband now as well. What the preachers too do not know the Bible well enough to share the truth? it sure seems so.
 
Let us all refer also to the case of Job and his sickness.. who said " Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD...Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?  Curse God, and die.  But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.  What?  Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil (Calamity)?  In all this did not Job sin with his lips...Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him," Job 1:21, 2:9-10, 13:15.
 
Clearly note that Job was eventually healed and lived to an old age.. this is undeniable too. (Job 42:10 KJV)  And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
 
(Job 42:11 KJV)  Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
 
(Job 42:12 KJV)  So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
 
(Job 42:16 KJV)  After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
 
Some people are sick due to their own fault.. but not all persons. We need spiritual discernment on how to deal with the sick..
 
(1 Cor 10:21 KJV)  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
 
(1 Cor 11:29 KJV)  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.31   For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
 
(James 5:14 KJV)  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
 
I rightfully suggest all person themselves now really go back to the Bible.. even on the subjects of healing and sickness.. I believe in going to see a doctor  after we prayed about it.. still God has promised for his children he would do not for them what the Doctors cannot do. WE as Christian operate also under a higher law than the earthly laws of medicine.
 
 By the way the best, the most humble pastor, preacher that I had ever met in my personal life was  not a man, but a women.. "Katherine Khulman"..  Benny Hinn worked for her before he went on his own.

There are good preacher but also bad ones.. good and bad churches.. it has nothing to do with the denomination.. it is their own free will choice... AND I HAVE BEEN TO MANY CHURCHES, DENOMINATIONS NOW TOO..
 
Sadly I still have also helped  rightfully to fire many an unrepentant bad male pastor, preacher in my life, and I had removed 3  original church founding bad pastors as well.. BOTH FUNDAMENTAL AND PENTECOSTAL ONES.

 I had also helped to close for good a large corrupting  Pentecostal church, with congregation of about 1700 people at the 3 services per week.. I had witnessed the pastors cheating, stealing, lying and they had refused to repent.

Sadly today even too many Professing Christians are wrongfully  bashing Benny Hinn but  to date not one charge of wrong doing against Benny Hinn personally has ever been openly substantiated, supported, only all alleged , to my own knowledge, experiences. 
HERE IS ONE EXAMPLE  THAT I AM PERSONALLY VERY MUCH AWARE OF TOO...

A Christian Brother that I have known personally many years is often quoted now  on the Internet in support as to how bad Benny Hinn  supposedly is, while in reality firstly  I do even find it ludicrous really that  anyone would even firstly believe what this brother  had said for I personally  had priory  witnessed the same brother and his wife cheating, lying, stealing, slandering, abusing others,  even committing tax evasions AND they now still claim to be honest Christian orators themselves.  Their supporting churches EVEN endorses  them, the  bad husband and bad wife  still cause they readily give 10 percent of their incomes and they do this  still no matter how they now even got it too. And while you will see on the Internet their own Christian books, their OWN writings about Biblical prosperity, these same persons now  firstly do not seem to talk abut helping any of the poor persons with it... for they despised them instead as I had observed firsthand many times too. One's attitude towards helping the poor persons show more truth than one's thousands words of preaching to others too... and no one can deny what I had personally witnessed and saw too in their immoral computer business and personal practices... I had myself had asked them personally to repent of their listed wrong doings and they had refused to do so... and there was a witness of it too. I feel the devil uses a lot of jealous, envious Christians to bash Benny Hinn.

SPECIFCALLY THIS SAME BAD  UNREPENTANT LOCAL CHRISTIAN HAD NOW WORKED WITH BENNY HINN IN MONTREAL QUEBEC  FOR ABOUT 18 YEARS OR MORE, AND AS HE TOLD ME HIMSELF HE NEXT NOW  HAD MOVED TO BE NEAR BENNY HINN IN FLORIDA, AND THIS BROTHER HAD BECAME VERY UPSET BEFORE MOVING THAT BENNY HINN WAS NOT MY IDOL TOO.i MERELY CONSIDER BENNY HINN ANOTHER  HUMBLE SERVANT OF THE LIVING GOD. I RIGHTFULLY DO NOT AT ALL HERO WORSHIP ANY PASTORS, EVANGELISTS, HEALERS.. OR POLITICIANS FOR THAT MATTER OR ANYONE ELSE.. GOD ALONE IS TO BE WORSHIPPED.

NEXT THE SAME ABOVE PROFESSING CHRISTIAN BROTHER BECAME BITTER AGAINST BENNY HINN IN FLORIDA WHEN BENNY  RIGHTFULLY NOW HAD IN FLORIDA HAD REFUSED TO ACCEPT HIS CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP AND AFTER 5 YEARS  THE BROTHER NEXT MOVED BACKED TO CANADA, AND SICNE THEN IS NOW OPENLY BASHING BENNY HINN.

NOW ALL PERSONS SHOULD  AND DO FIRST  NEED TO VERIFY THE CHRISTIAN LIFE OF THIS  BROTHER  HIMSELF, AT HOME AND AT HIS BUSINESS NOW TOO... AND THUS ALSO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE REASONS HE IS, WAS BASHING BENNY HINN, FOR IN REALITY THE CRITICIZING BROTHER WAS HIMSELF A FALSE PROPHET, A FALSE CHRISTIAN AS I HAD OBSERVED. HE IS ACCUSING BENNY OF DOING THE THINGS HE HIMSELF HAD DONE IT SEEMS.

All of  the people who believe his  biased distortions  to me are clearly  fools themselves. Many people criticize Benny Hinn and they personally do not even know hi, that is also ridiculous.
 
I too would rather firstly see a sermon lived by all than one merely preached, the critics included .. like humility..

By the way a few months before it happened God had also spoke to me first, personally and God had told me how next he was going to punish this unrepentant brother, and God did next what he had said to me too. God often reminds me it is his job to punish the wicked person and not mine, all I can do is ask them rightfully to repent.

Over the last many years there are two things that ready astound me still

1: Firstly it is really always amazing still to me as to how many the still mostly self centred Christian and non Christians persons wrongfully still do wrongfully believe that they will not reap here on earth personally any negative consequences for their own unrepentant sins here on earth, and what God still punishes people personally for their OWN wrong doing here on earth? of course!

Note this also that the length of our personal life on earth is related to how we personally do treat our parents, children, others as well as our own righteous works too..

(Some people are sick as a direct result of punishment of God where as others are sick cause they are afflicted by the devil because they are doing God's work

2: The second thing that really astounds me IS that people are so quick to judge others but not FIRSTLY not to judge themselves.

It has been my own real , valid personal experiences that pastor who were openly criticizing, critical of the other Pastors, were often themselves false.. even in the so called Victory churches... really!

It is undeniable that many people are looking for victory in their life, or are they actually looking for a more easier life where they do not have to renounce their sins it seems now too often as well.  But it is also  sad that  my own personal experience with Victory called Churches has actually been mostly negative, not the evidence of Godly victory I had expected rightfully but I saw that  their pastors, and their leaders do  lie, cheat, slander, steal and also watch dirty movies. They were, are the false prophets still too.
 
Like i have said  I too rightfuly would rather see a sermon lived than one merely preached and one's attitude towards money, by helping the poor in reality persons show more truth than one's thousands words of preaching to others too.

All of  the people also STILL SHOULD PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH firstly TO OTHERS such as "JESUS, FORGIVE ME OF ALL MY SINS.  I REPENT.  COME INTO MY LIFE.  FILL ME WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.  I COMMAND EVERY LIE AND  DEMON IN ME TO LEAVE NOW, IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

and what God still punishes people personally for their wrong doing here on earth? of course
 I WAS NEXT  REMINDED BY GOD THAT WE ALWAYS PERSONALLY HAVE TWO THINGS WE CAN COUNT ON.. and should daily practice personally ourslves now too

1:PRAYER

2: GOD'S WORD AND PROMISES... even for healing..
 
(Isa 53:5 KJV)  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.
 
(Isa 53:6 KJV)  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
 
Like I have said Preaching the Gospel is not an acceptable alternative to living it now as well for anyone, the preachers included.. that includes even living by faith, praying for healing too.
 
that was my real experiences related to the subject of healing through Jesus Christ.. and while God still heals the devil also still tries to rob it, to destroy it, to discredit it.. and he will even uses some professing Christians to do so.. sad isn't it.
 
(Gal 6:7 KJV) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
 
A few years ago a manager of a local Home Mortgage company had abused me in dealing with a renewal of a Home mortgage.. needless to say I was rightfully upset and I wanted to deal with him immediately but God clearly had asked me leave it in his hand and God he told me he would deal with it.  About two years later I started to wonder if I had a mistake, and I was planning to go back to the office and to make a complaint against the manager when my phone rang and a man asked me to sell his home, being a Realtor I jumped at the chance. the next week I had some free time at the Realtor's open house of the home I now had for sale and id decided to pursue my complaint about the bad mortgage manager. When I next had called his firm they had told me he had been promoted to vice president for the firm, he was totally in charge also pf it now. But what I had also found out was that the home I had for sale was this vice president of the mortgage company as well.. the home owner had not been totally honest with me again too, in fact he actually had been laid off, he was forced to sell all of his possessions because it was too expensive to move them to his new job location in South Africa. and I was unable to sell the home because it went into foreclosure too, the value of the mortgage exceed the selling value of the home.. In fact a christian brother and I prayed with this ex home manager and hsi wife before he left the country.. God has dealt with it full too.
 
When I was employed as a professional engineer the purchasing manager did not like me witnessing on the job and he swore that he would fire me, he was hostile with me for many years.. a few years later I had moved, and I was attending a Benny Hinn service, I was asked to pray with some of the people who had come forth at the service. to my own surprise one of the first persona I prayed with was this same purchasing manager, who was now unemployed, lost his home an and his wife had divorced him... and I prayed with him.
 
I was discussing with a local pastor my study of tithing per the Bible and how a portion of the tithe should be used to look after the local poor people in the church. I was surprised next when the same local church pastor told me that if I preached those facts at his church he would kick me out of his church. A few years later the very same pastor was laid off.. and he came to me asking for a job cause he could not find one. I did not give him one. He really did not deserve to Pastor anymore.
 
The senior Pastor of a large church had been unexpectedly slandering me to my surprise. I went to God and I prayed about it and God told me he would take care of it. a few years later I clearly saw a vision, it was a home, and there was a garage sale there.. God next told me he wanted me the following Saturday to go this garage sale and so I did .. when I had arrived there the people having the garage sale were clearly embarrassed to see me.. and I could not understand why? So I prayed about it and God immediately revealed to me that the people were the family of the pastor who had slandered me, they were having a garage sale cause he had lost his job and was moving out of the city and that was why they wee embarrassed to see me there too.
 
Another local church that was bad mouthing me too.. and again God said to me that he would take care of it.. and as result next very shortly the Sunday school teacher of the very same church was arrested for sexually molesting Sunday school children and now people were talking about them instead
 
I have had many similar experiences in life..
 
funny how some people think they can get away with it her eon earth still too..
 
(Mat 18:6 KJV) But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
 
(Mat 5:22 KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. 25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
 
(Nahum 1:3 KJV) The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked:
 
(Ezek 33:11 KJV) Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
 
(Ezek 34:10 KJV) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
 
(Prov 11:20 KJV) They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
 
(Prov 11:21 KJV) Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
 
(Psa 2:11 KJV) Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
 
(Psa 1:6 KJV) For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.