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Heal me, O LORD

Redemptionsong

Well-Known Member
Jeremiah 17:14. 'Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.'

Do you have faith that the LORD will heal you?

What kind of healing, if any, can you expect from the LORD?
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Relief of the need to be perfect. The need to have all of the answers.

The need to be perfect can be pretty oppressive, mentally fatiguing. So mental/spiritual health. Although Jesus also gave sight to the blind and allowed the lame to walk. I don't know about that but mental health can also help with one's physical health. Perhaps peace fo mind.
 

Redemptionsong

Well-Known Member
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Relief of the need to be perfect. The need to have all of the answers.

The need to be perfect can be pretty oppressive, mentally fatiguing. So mental/spiritual health. Although Jesus also gave sight to the blind and allowed the lame to walk. I don't know about that but mental health can also help with one's physical health. Perhaps peace fo mind.
What you say makes sense but there are scriptures that tell believers to be perfect!

2 Corinthians 13:11. 'Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.'
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Jeremiah 17:14. 'Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.'

Do you have faith that the LORD will heal you?

What kind of healing, if any, can you expect from the LORD?
From a Biblical perspective, any and all.

In Isaiah 53 - the same word translated into our sins being removed and carried away to a far place (Nasa) - is the same word for sickness being removed and carried away to a far place.

Does it mean we don't sin? no... but we have recourse.
Does it mean we don't get sick? no.... but we have recourse.

And if G-d used a doctor in the process... that also is just fine.
 

Redemptionsong

Well-Known Member
From a Biblical perspective, any and all.

In Isaiah 53 - the same word translated into our sins being removed and carried away to a far place (Nasa) - is the same word for sickness being removed and carried away to a far place.

Does it mean we don't sin? no... but we have recourse.
Does it mean we don't get sick? no.... but we have recourse.

And if G-d used a doctor in the process... that also is just fine.

I recently attended a Baptist meeting without realising that they were strict Baptists. When discussing their beliefs concerning the Holy Spirit, l discovered that they did not believe the gift of healing (as 1 Corinthians 12) was available now. They believed that 1 Corinthians 13:10 was a reference to the coming of the 'perfect' (full canon of) NT scripture, not to the coming of Christ.

I cannot accept this interpretation. Where do you stand?
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
I recently attended a Baptist meeting without realising that they were strict Baptists. When discussing their beliefs concerning the Holy Spirit, l discovered that they did not believe the gift of healing (as 1 Corinthians 12) was available now. They believed that 1 Corinthians 13:10 was a reference to the coming of the 'perfect' (full canon of) NT scripture, not to the coming of Christ.

I cannot accept this interpretation. Where do you stand?
I agree with your viewpoint.

If we take 1 Corinthians as a strict Baptist and look at it closely:

1 Cor 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

If we were to apply their position that the perfect is the full cannon, then knowledge should have vanished too but we are increasing in knowledge and it has not passed away. Prophecies have not passed away and neither has tongues.

Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit are very real and a very present truth that God uses to express His manifestation of love. IMO
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
What you say makes sense but there are scriptures that tell believers to be perfect!

2 Corinthians 13:11. 'Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.'

I would say to be perfect is to be whole, to be complete. To acknowledge that as with God, within you there is nothing lacking.
 

Redemptionsong

Well-Known Member
I agree with your viewpoint.

If we take 1 Corinthians as a strict Baptist and look at it closely:

1 Cor 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

If we were to apply their position that the perfect is the full cannon, then knowledge should have vanished too but we are increasing in knowledge and it has not passed away. Prophecies have not passed away and neither has tongues.

Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit are very real and a very present truth that God uses to express His manifestation of love. IMO
I agree.

Now let me throw this scenario at you.

You talk with a neighbour over the fence. You ask him how he's keeping. He says, Not so well. I've just had a diagnosis of cancer. Hopefully they've caught it early enough to treat, but who knows?

What is your response?
 

Redemptionsong

Well-Known Member
I would say to be perfect is to be whole, to be complete. To acknowledge that as with God, within you there is nothing lacking.
To be 'whole' must be in body, soul and spirit.
Do you think that God wants to heal people of physical sickness and disease?
 
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