MORE THAN A METAPHOR!!

It is sad how many Christians will read the bible and alot of what they read they will say, oh this is just a spiritual metaphor. I get so tired of that. Alot of times if we are honest with ourselves we only say that because we have not experienced it so it must be a metaphor.

For example there are some christians that will take what Jesus said about healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising the dead and casting out demons as just a spiritual sayinget that means when someone gets born again you just rose them from the spiritual dead and healed their spiritual sickness. If you take the time to think about that assumption it just doesn't make sense. Everything Jesus said was for a reason. If he told us to raise The dead He could have easily said, tell them to repent and believe. Did he do that? NO. In fact he made it perfectly clear that he meant actual sicknesses and actual raising the dead and casting out demons.

How do we know this?

We know this because he continually told us that if we have faith and believe and do not doubt, that we would speak to the mountain and tell it to move and it would move. He also said, these SIGNS will follow those who believe, they will cast out demons ...etc etc.

The lie that alot of christians fall into is, oh I tried it a couple times and it didn't work, it must not be literal sickness. Again I will say. NO! Just because you tried and it didn't work doesn't mean Jesus didn't mean it literally, even the disciples were told by Jesus that they were faithless when they could not cast the demon out of the little boy.

Everything that has to do with healing and walking in the spirit of God has to do with faith and believing. This is why it is very crucial to continually renew our minds and keep our minds on heavenly things. So if you are not seeing healings or a year other spiritual gifts take place in your life. TALK WITH GOD ABOUT IT. He gave you the holy spirit to walk in the spirit, if you're not walking in the spirit then you obviously need some one on one time with our Lord. He is gracious, he's not going to tell you something that's going to hurt you, he will let you know where you need help with your belief system.

So please, next time you read the bible, know that Jesus  meant it literally when he told us to heal the sick. If you're not seeing it happen through you please don't make excuses, seek God and he will direct you.

God Bless!