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Your Healing Is In Your Mouth

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FranklinB

In time of difficulty one of the most important things if not the most important thing is what you speak out of your mouth. In this instance we'll see what the Bible says about times of sickness. In Proverbs 4:20-22 it says "My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." The word health is translated in the Strongs Concordance as- a medicine, a cure, a remedy, healing(health). If you keep God's word in your eyes, in your ears, and in your mouth it will produce healing or health in your body. Proverbs 12:18 says "but the tongue of the wise is health", the tongue of the wise is the tongue that speaks God's word. Proverbs 16:24 says "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones." Notice in all of those scriptures words produce healing in your body.

Proverbs 15:4 says "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life". That word wholesome is translated as the word health in the previous verses. Notice a wholesome tongue, a tongue that brings healing to your body. Death and life are in the power of the tongue and you will eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21). Sickness comes under death and healing and health comes under life. Death is anything that takes away from a quality of life and life is anything that adds to a quality of life and they are both in the power of the tongue. Understand the word of God is quick and powerful (Hebrews 4:12). And God and his word are one so what God can do his word can do (John 1:1). God's word always has the power to heal (Psalms 107:20). And if you believe, according to your faith be it unto you (Matthew 9:29).

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Lysa

Proverbs 15:4 says "A wholesome tongue is a tree of life". That word wholesome is translated as the word health in the previous verses. Notice a wholesome tongue, a tongue that brings healing to your body. Death and life are in the power of the tongue and you will eat the fruit thereof (Proverbs 18:21).

Bro Franklin, I don’t know anyone who can disagree with this! Amen!

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savannah


FranklinB,

You said(among other things),

"Notice in all of those scriptures words produce healing in your body."

Would you please expound upon your brief post as I am unsure of what doctrine you may be advocating.

Thanks for your consideration

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enid

If our healing was in our mouth, who'd be sick?

Just a thought.

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FranklinB

Who'd be sick, those that don't do what God said as a lot of people do not.

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FranklinB

I'm just applying what the Bible says. Just as God himself told Joshua "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth" Joshua 1:8 and as a result he would make his way prosperous. The word of God coming out of his heart by his mouth made him prosperous. Well, that same principle works for healing. Thanks

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FranklinB

Amen and yet some people do. Thank you so much for reading this.

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ADisciple

Franklin, have you ever been sick?

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StarofG0D

Amen! Another wonderful post Franklin B!

Pro 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Pro 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.


Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

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StarofG0D

If our healing was in our mouth, who'd be sick?

These verses pertain more to spiritual healing, which can bring physical healing as well. Praise the Lord! He is good to us!

There will always be illness though. 'Til Christ comes!

But if we are healed spiritually, does the physical even matter so much. :P Just a thought to consider.


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FranklinB

Yes, I have been sick and I did just as I wrote that's why I know it works. Once you experience something for yourself nobody can talk you out of it. Thanks

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FranklinB

Thank you StarofGod for taking the time to read this article. Thanks!

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Lysa

I've had sick children I've prayed for and the next day they were well. Same with myself. I too, know God's word has power! Thank you Jesus for being the Word!

God bless,
Lisa

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Declare the deed done before you have any evidence .
Create the reality by speaking it into existence (by faith of course).
Your word( as a believer) have the same power as God speaking.
Can this be true?

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Paul should have read this article. He could have shown it to Trophimus in 2 Timothy 4:20, poor guy.

Do I believe in healing? 100%, no questions, yes!

However, there are times I've prayed with just as much faith in God as the times that I've seen healing, and I've seen nothing.

Smith Wigglesworth said that he'd seen just as many unhealed as healed that were prayed for, and he'd seen QUITE a few healed. There are also many guys like him, who preached the same message as "claim you healing by faith" who suffered with secret physical afflictions up until the day they died, every day telling themselves that they were healed. And if you want to talk about believing for healing, these would be the guys to talk to. These guys had experienced first hand the miraculous healing power of Christ in themselves and in others in times past. I'm sure they weren't lacking in what many seem to refer to as "faith".

Can God heal anything, anytime, every time? Of course. Does He though, is an entirely different matter.

There are plenty who I've seen declare themselves "by the Word" healed right into the grave. And I've seen those who've stopped taking their medication because they just declare themselves healed, only to do serious damage to their bodies. I've also seen those who have been healed. Unless God says something IS first, we don't have any business speaking on His behalf.

I'm QUITE willing to be wrong though, as I would much rather see everyone healed. I just haven't seen the Scriptural or physical evidence for such a claim yet. Just saying, that's all.

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sermonindex

"A wholesome tongue is a tree of life"

A wholesome tongue is merely an instrument of a very healthy heart.

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However, there are times I've prayed with just as much faith in God as the times that I've seen healing, and I've seen nothing.
There is a truth here that we are not seeing and it would help a lot of people find joy instead of confusion and condemnation. I agree with the above quote.

There are a lot of variables to take into consideration when dealing with healing.

The top of the list is the Will of God. I believe the second is Desperation, the third is likened unto the second, Determination, never giving up until..

Sometimes we have authority that takes over and the need is met, while other times we wonder if God left the planet.

Healing is not an exact science, you can't pinpoint why certain people are healed and others are not. Could be timing, our faith is more fret which always leads to complaining, could be God is working things out to bring about healing. So many variable, we need the gift of discernment in operation.

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There are a lot of variables to take into consideration when dealing with healing.

The top of the list is the Will of God. I believe the second is Desperation, the third is likened unto the second, Determination, never giving up until..

Very well said.

Too much of what we see today doesn't have God's will as the foremost factor in the matter. It's become popular to promote having faith in faith, and not faith in God.

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Giggles

The man who wrote this:

http://theworksofgod.com/2011/02/15/presentation-to-joint-heirs-a-sunday-school-class-at-bethlehem/

is the father of this child:

http://theworksofgod.com/2011/02/09/500-posts-and-counting/

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Lysa

EverestoSama wrote:
However, there are times I've prayed with just as much faith in God as the times that I've seen healing, and I've seen nothing.

Approved wrote:
Healing is not an exact science, you can't pinpoint why certain people are healed and others are not.


I agree with what you both have said but I wanted to offer reasons possibly it is not an exact science or why some don't get healed....

The following is from Derek Prince’s sermon, “Invisible Barriers to Healing:”

Common barriers to receiving healing:

1. Ignorance (of God’s word and God’s will)
Isa 5.13
Hosea 4.6

2. Unbelief
Heb 3.12-13

3. Unconfessed sin
Prov 28.13

4. Unforgiveness to other people
Mark 11.25

5. Occult involvement
Exodus 23.24-26

6. Enter into a covenant with people who have false Gods
Ex 23.32 (Example Free Masonry)


This one came to me when posting this:
You husbands likewise... SO THAT YOUR PRAYERS MAY NOT BE HINDERED. ~ 1 Peter 3:7


I look over these myself and I'm honest enough to admit that I can see who, what, when and where I've been guilty and I wasn't blessed (so to speak).

I offer this in humbleness and anyone is free to reject or accept.

God bless,
Lisa


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I offer this in humbleness and anyone is free to reject or accept.
Anyone who dares to reject it does not know their bible. If we do not forgive men's trespasses God will not forgive us, and forgiveness is a type of healing. It restores the soul that had been bound by hate envy and strife or by an offence.

When I wrote that there are many variables to take into consideration, I had all those things that you listed in mind when writing but as a family here, another member expresses the way it should be expressed. Our Lord wanted what was necessary to be written at that moment so another can come in and help connect the dots.

Thank you for being apart of the contribution and connecting the dots. :o)

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Lysa shared

Common barriers to receiving healing:

1. Ignorance (of God’s word and God’s will)
Isa 5.13
Hosea 4.6

2. Unbelief
Heb 3.12-13

3. Unconfessed sin
Prov 28.13

4. Unforgiveness to other people
Mark 11.25

5. Occult involvement
Exodus 23.24-26

6. Enter into a covenant with people who have false Gods
Ex 23.32 (Example Free Masonry)


This one came to me when posting this:
You husbands likewise... SO THAT YOUR PRAYERS MAY NOT BE HINDERED. ~ 1 Peter 3:7

Thanks for this helpful list.

I would add: departing from the word of God,

or, sitting under leadership who do not preach truth, or, who do not believe what they preach.

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sermonindex

Franklin, those are some good points and I agree--to an extent. However, there are limits to the truth of that.

I know people in good health who have terrible mouths, but let's say it is because God only chastises His own. That still would not explain the fact that there are plenty of Believers who are more Godly than me and have better control over their tongues than me who are terribly sick with diseases.

For example, a Godly pastor Bob Jennings (see illbehonest.com) has pancreatic cancer right now (2011). Preacher Paul Washer, a man greatly used of God, had his hips replaced many years ago, while working as a missionary. If we all got sick every time we sinned with our mouths we would all have perished a long time ago.

In the Bible, Hezekiah got sick, but no where does the scripture connect it to anything he spoke. Many famous missionaries suffered terrible sicknesses or even died while working for God overseas. David Livinstone and others. It was said that David Livingstone looked like a living skeleton when a reporter finally found him (in Africa). His wife had also died of malaria. Basically, we all die like dogs, whether good or bad.

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Well said, Everestosama!

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I'll be sure to email the OP and that list to Joni & Friends. She can check her mouth first and then the list and then pass it on with those wheel chairs she brings to the crippled people around the world.
Wish Art Katz had this thread before ..... oh well.

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Forgive my reaction - but I truly don't care to hear what men teach about illnesses that take the lives of babies and some of the finest men and women on earth or 'disable' them in the eyes of the worldly.

I've known far too many Godly families hit by cancer or other diseases, that none of these partial Scripture posts or lists to apply to.
Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake and frequent infirmities and Paul "gloried" in his.

GOD also allows these things at times, to put us where we can reach others, that we wouldn't have met otherwise - to HIS Glory - and that's all that matters.

There are things that people can do to stay healthier, that aren't even mentioned on this thread -

Watch what you eat is #1 on the list.

Read labels or better yet, buy organic and dump the junk food, because in this generation, most foods are full of chemicals --- so it may not be what's coming out of your mouth, but what's going into it.

That's just one thing, but it's the main thing on the "healthy living" list and the #1 killer. Think about it.

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Oracio

Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake and frequent infirmities and Paul "gloried" in his.

Amen. I came out of believing the "name it and claim it" health and wealth "gospel" and know firsthand how spiritually and emotionally damaging it is. It hinders many sincere believers who don't have enough discernment from the Word to see the deception from the enemy and the twisting of God's Word.

When considering the whole counsel of God we do not see physical healing or financial prosperity guaranteed in this life if we only have enough faith. On the other hand, spiritual health and prosperity IS always a guarantee for those who draw near to God with a contrite spirit. God is more concerned with our personal holiness than He is with giving us earthly blessings we ask of Him.

Satan is always trying to keep us focused on temporal rather than eternal matters.

We should never doubt that God has the power to heal anyone, but we should also never presume that He is bound to heal us if we meet certain conditions.

It is right for us to pray for physical healing for ourselves and others, but ultimately we must trust that He is all-wise and will do what He sees is best for us, whether to heal us immediately through prayer, or after some time of refining here on earth, or till we are glorified.

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How true Brother Oracio. Many were ripped apart when this teaching first became strong in the churches decades ago and many lost faith in GOD's goodness as well and His love for them personally. They lost hope that they would ever be good enough or have enough faith for their healing and the horrendous introspection of looking for something in them that caused the illness only served to make them sicker - but the losing faith was or is the severest part of this imbalance in the teachings on healing.

If we're Spirit led - the LORD will speak to our hearts when one is to be healed and we can proclaim it with great confidence in prayer, but if it's not Him speaking or leading, we can truly spiritually, emotionally and even further physically hurt someone with pronouncements that are not from Him. Condemnation follows always in those cases.
If we could only learn to wait on His Voice in these matters.

Satan, as you said and our own flesh or desire to be the "healers" ourselves for a piece of the Glory is indeed the eyes of the temporal.

Thank you Brother!

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sermonindex


To Jesus-is-GOD,

I would like to clarify that I know how pernicious the 'name it and claim it' doctrine is, and am not in agreement with it. Also, I agree that spiritual health is far more important. However, there are Christians who have experienced healing after putting everything in their life right with God, simply by obeying the many exhortations in scripture which define that rightness.

It seems to me that the important thing is to support the faith of the person who is going through illness, sickness or other kinds of health problems - could be stress and anxiety, or depression, or recovering from warzone trauma, or an accident - and NOT to criticise their lack of 'faith' for being in a process which manifestly, God has allowed in their life, according to His purposes and wisdom.

'Remember, it is the olive that has been crushed that brings the oil that heals others.' ~ GaryE

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Lysa

I don’t know that anyone was talking about me specifically and what I’ve posted but nowhere did I or was I referring to “name it and claim it” type healings, I definitely am not teaching ‘name it and claim it’ salvation. But neither will I hide from the verses that DO IN FACT declare specifically that we are allowed to ask to be healed:

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and HEALING ALL MANNER OF SICKNESS and ALL MANNER OF DISEASE among the people.
~ Matt 4:23; Matt 10.1; \t

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Matt 7:7; Luke 11.9; John 16.24

Lysa definitely does not believe in ‘name it and claim it.’ I don’t understand everything about healing but I find it sad that people tarred and feathered as ‘name it and claim it’ christians just because we dare to believe in the Scriptures that talk about healing.

God bless,
Lisa

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Tarred and feathered for the Word of GOD?
It should have been noticed in my post that I also "believe in the Scriptures that talk about healing."

Quote from my last post: If we're Spirit led - the LORD will speak to our hearts when one is to be healed and we can proclaim it with great confidence in prayer,
but if it's not Him speaking or leading, we can truly spiritually, emotionally and even further physically hurt someone with pronouncements that are not from Him.

I don't believe we have any less power or the gifts than the Early Church - we just need to know How they operate and how to pray when we ourselves are sick and not take a thread like this and think that it has all the answers for ourselves or others.
I posted the other side because of the damage I've seen done by a lop-sided teaching on healing. Where GOD's sovereignity and His 'other reasons' for not healing are actually a blessing to that person and those around them.

If you look or wait, you'll see the FranklinB is into name it and claim - which is = grab a Scripture verse and Make it apply when and how you want - even in - [edit for link] -

https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=37474&forum=34&9

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