GOD WILL NOT USE EVIL TO TEACH YOU A LESSON

  GOD WILL NOT USE EVIL TO TEACH YOU A LESSON.

Luke 13:16” This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn't it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?"

     There is a false theology which says God sometimes uses evil such as sicknesses and diseases to teach His people valuable lessons. This obviously portrays Him as an evil task master and it runs contrary to His nature as benevolent and all-good. The bible says in Exo.15:26 “..i am the Lord that heals you.” It does not say ‘I am the Lord that makes you sick’ Sicknesses are the work of Satan - not the work of God. Satan had bound (not blessed) this woman, a daughter of Abraham by her permission for eighteen years. Satan capitalizes on the ignorance of men to afflict them this woman did not know that a good health was part of her inheritance.   God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea4:6);.

         Sometimes we teach one aspect of truth to the extreme and neglect the other and this exposes us to erroneous beliefs. We cannot teach on the grace for healing in the exclusion of faith for healing. The two must be balanced for healing to take place.    To say that sickness is actually an act of providence with a blessing in disguise, because the Lord is working His plan in one's life, is not found in scripture. God is not the author of confusion He can’t be the healer and the sickness- giver at the same time. There are forty seven times in the bible when Jesus healed a few persons at a time and seventeen when He healed all of the sick that were present. The very word "save" (Gk.-"sozo") is translated "made whole" in reference to physical wellbeing in Matthew 9:22 and in James 5:15 says "the prayer of faith shall save (Gk.-"sozo") the sick."  
          If sickness was His plan for us, then asking His ministers to heal the sick and raise the dead is contrary to His will. Matt 10:8” Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.” And  Acts 10:38 says, Jesus "went about doing good, and healing all that were OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL .
     Jesus never refused any person healing as this was an integral part of the salvation experience. It is the failure to believe that has made many of God’s people ill despite the fact that it His will for us to be healed, this is summed up in  3 John 2NLT ” Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit”. As you read this receive your healing now in Jesus name.