TRUST GOD!--About a Sick Missionary      DFO 1565         12/7/83

         [HomeARC note (10/98): The Charter states the Family's current principles, policies and attitudes regarding faith healing and getting outside medical attention, especially in regards to children.]

         1. IF A PERSON'S GOING TO TRUST GOD FOR HEALING, IT SEEMS LIKE HE WOULD JUST TRUST THE LORD! Otherwise, if you're going to go to the doctor, then go the limit! Get the best doctor, hospital, medicine & everything else you can! But if you're going to put yourself in the hands of the Lord, He doesn't need anyone!
         2. I'LL TELL YOU, WITH ANYTHING AS SERIOUS TO BE DIAGNOSED AS POSSIBLY CANCER, HE'D BETTER GET THROUGH TO THE LORD, & FAST, BECAUSE THERE'S NO KNOWN CURE! Anybody in his serious condition with a growing cancer ought to get desperate with God real fast! If God wants to heal him, He's going to heal him if he'll depend utterly on the Lord & give Him utterly the glory!--But not as long as he's leaning on the Laetrile crutch or any crutch & trusting God halfway & the Laetrile method the other half! There's no halfway with God! He'll have no other gods before Him! (Ex.20:3) And if God doesn't want to heal him, he'll just have to accept that & figure the Lord wants to take him Home, & the quicker the better!--Unless He just wants him to keep suffering in affliction to keep him humble or close to the Lord or something.
         3. MY MOTHER USED TO ALWAYS SAY THIS: As long as you are going to depend on doctors & pills & medicines & treatments & hospitals, how are you going to really be able to say when you're healed, if you're healed, that the Lord did it? How are you going to prove it was just God unless you just depend on the Lord?
         4. GO AHEAD & GET AN INSPECTION, CHECK-UP OR DIAGNOSIS! That doesn't entail treatment just to find out what you've got! And then when you testify that you're healed, you know what God healed you of & you can prove it because of the doctor's actual examination!
         5. FOR SOME THINGS, PURELY MECHANICAL THINGS, I THINK DOCTORS & HOSPITALS ARE SOMETIMES NECESSARY, like to set a broken bone or stitch up a cut, like a mechanic working on a car! But for some otherwise incurable things which doctors just experiment around with & use you as the guinea pig for a bunch of medicine & drugs & pills & other junk, they don't know what they're doing & neither do you! And who knows? It might do more damage than good!
         6. I'D SURE CAST MYSELF ON THE LORD & FORGET ALL THAT JUNK, TRUST GOD UTTERLY & STEP OUT ON A LIMB & PUT GOD ON THE SPOT! "Now Lord, I'm trusting You & I've left home & gone to the mission field & I'm doing my best for You, now You've got to do it! And either You do it or I'm not going to trust anybody else, certainly not the Devil & his methods!" (Maria: Or any kind of natural juices or anything, because he could even give those the credit!)
         7. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PROVE TO ANYBODY ELSE THAT IT WAS JUST THE LORD THAT HEALED YOU AS LONG AS YOU'RE GOING TO THE DOCTORS & getting shots & medicines or any treatment! There's always going to be doubt even in your own mind as to whether it was the Lord that healed you or the treatment. "I will have no other gods before Me! I the Lord thy God am a jealous God!" (Ex.20:3,5)--And He simply will not share His glory with somebody else or something else, much less a pill or a shot or a treatment or any doctor! (Is.42:8)
         8. IF YOU KNOW THE LORD & HIS HEALING & ABOUT TRUSTING GOD BY FAITH FOR YOUR BODY, GOD WILL NOT LET ANY KIND OF TREATMENT, DOCTORS, PILLS, SHOTS OR HOSPITALS HELP YOU! That sort of thing is for the poor sin-sick unbelieving World who have no other recourse, who don't even know the Lord or His healing. But as long as you know the Lord & His healing, He holds you responsible to trust Him for it & cast yourself utterly on Him!
         9. GOD KNOWS WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU! He knows first of all what's wrong with you spiritually & what He's dealing with you about & what He's trying to teach you. I'd rather let God do what He wants to do, than go fiddling around with the doctors & the hospitals & the medicines contrary to the will of God!
         10. I'D RATHER BE LIKE JOB & SAY, "THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM!" (Job 13:15)--And put my body in the hands of the Lord & trust God utterly! If He does kill me, at least I'll know it was the Lord & it was His will for me to die, rather than be fighting with doctors & treatments & medicines, & I might be fighting the will of God! He's certainly fighting the will of God by taking all those medicines & treatments & stuff, because I don't think that's the will of God!
         11. THE ONLY WAY I EVER GOT HEALED WAS TO COMMIT MYSELF UTTERLY TO THE LORD & TRUST THE LORD! And of course at the same time, to do my best to obey the Lord & follow the Lord & live right, sleep right, exercise right, take good care of my body & not abuse the temple of the Holy Ghost! You can't expect God to do it for you if you don't give Him a little cooperation & use the normal natural methods of taking care of yourself--proper diet, proper exercise, proper rest & proper living. You can't expect God to heal you when you're abusing your body.--And with all that medicine, pills & shots, you're probably abusing your body!
         12. SO WHY NOT TRUST GOD?--But trusting God means trusting Him utterly, & nothing & nobody else!--Just God!--Then He'll get all the credit & all the thanks & all the praise! You'll know it was God & so will everybody else! It's just that simple!--You're either trusting God or you're not! You're either trusting God or you're trusting the medicine! You cannot do both if you're going to expect God to heal you. You're not trusting God utterly as long as you're leaning on something else!
         13. WHY DON'T YOU JUST TRUST THE LORD & FORGET ALL THAT OTHER CRAP! Why waste all that time & money & agony on it if you know the Lord & know He can heal you? "Cast thyself utterly on the Lord & He shall sustain thee!" He is able to save even unto the uttermost all them that come to Him! (Ps.55:22; Heb.7:25)
         14. THEN IF YOU'RE UTTERLY TRUSTING HIM & NOTHING ELSE & HE DOESN'T HEAL YOU, THEN YOU KNOW IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL TO HEAL YOU! Otherwise you may be fighting His will, & if it's not His will to heal you, nothing's going to heal you! If He wants you to suffer & die, you will suffer & you will die! Period! But if He wants you to live & serve Him, you'll live & He'll heal you, & He doesn't need any help! PTL!
         15. TRUST THE LORD! HE'S THE ONLY REAL HEALER! HE MADE YOU & HE CAN FIX YOU, SO WHY DON'T YOU TRUST HIM? Why don't you trust the One Who made you? Nobody knows the product like the Manufacturer! Send yourself back to the Manufacturer & let Him fix you! He's got all the parts & everything you need, & He's the only One that really knows you & how to do it.
         16. HE NOT ONLY CAN HEAL YOU, BUT IT'S HIS WILL TO HEAL YOU, or He wouldn't have put all those Scriptures in there on healing! He wants to heal you & He certainly wants you to serve Him, but He does not want to give the glory to anything or anybody else, or for anything or anybody else to get the credit for it!
         17. BUT UNLESS YOU ARE OBEYING GOD & DOING YOUR BEST TO SERVE HIM & DO HIS WILL & TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY, WHICH IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST, YOU CAN'T VERY WELL HAVE FAITH FOR HEALING! (1Cor.3:16,17; 6:19; 2Co.6:16.) If you're abusing your body or abusing your job or abusing your finances or abusing your family, you can't very well expect God to take care of them if you're not doing the best you can. But when it comes to healing, let me tell you, your best is to call on the Lord & depend on the Lord utterly, because there's obviously nothing you can do! You found out that there's nothing you can do & there's nothing the doctors can do, & like the old lady in the Bible, you've "suffered many things of many physicians & are not better!" (Mk.5:26) So it's time for you to wake up to the fact that only God can heal you & to cast all the rest aside & cast yourself utterly on the Lord & trust the Lord entirely, completely, utterly!
         18. WHEN MY MOTHER HAD CANCER, GOING ON THE GRAPE DIET DIDN'T HELP HER A BIT!--IT WAS TOO LATE! She got worse! It was only God by a miracle that healed her! They only gave her a few days to live. Then she had a vision of this horrible sickening yellowish-green word in great big letters on the wall: CANCER! And then all of a sudden, all the letters began to be gobbled up by great big beautiful pure red letters: CHRIST! Then she heard this voice saying, "Christ is greater than any cancer!" She believed she was going to be healed & took a step of faith by accepting an invitation to hold meetings & be on radio all Summer, and the Lord healed her!
         19. YOU GET HEALING THE SAME WAY YOU DO SALVATION, BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, & that not of yourself! It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph.2:8,9)--Or lest you should boast of any man or doctor or medicines! You get healing by utterly trusting God for it & not anything else.--Grace plus Faith plus Nothing! "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us." (Tit.3:5) Amen?--So why not trust God? GBAKY!--In Jesus' name, amen.


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