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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Monday, August 22, 2005 www.orm.cc I JUDGED WRONG! Oral Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "As the evangelist prayed for tuberculosis to leave my diseased body that wonderful night in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1935, strength flooded my being. Once again I was able to take deep breaths with the full capacity of my lungs. When I returned home, I thought to myself, I'm completely healed. My body is fully restored. There's nothing more I have to do. But I judged wrong. What I failed to understand was that while my body had experienced a healing, I, as a person with a spirit, mind, and body, had not been made completely whole. As a result, after a few days of feeling on top of the world, my strength began to fade. Rather than becoming stronger, I seemed to become weaker. Soon the old devil was telling me that I had not been healed after all. The more discouraged I became, the more I wanted to crawl back into bed. Sensing my discouragement, my mother said, 'Son, you're healed, but it's going to take awhile for you to get your strength back.' Then she said something that saved my life. 'It's all right to take a nap in the afternoon, but don't crawl under the covers; just lie across the bed.' She believed that by lying on top of the bed I would be demonstrating that my faith was strong. Sure enough, within two months after being healed, I regained my strength, preached my first sermon, and won two souls to Christ! Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood, Thy faith made thee whole (Mark 5:34). I discovered after I received god's healing touch in my own body that whole-person healing was both a beginning act and a process, one that never stops. But it doesn't automatically happen. Wholeness comes as we continue to walk in faith." ON DOCTRINE NOTE: Here is Oral Roberts' explanation for the nature of his healing, "I thought to myself, 'I'm completely healed. . . .while my body had experienced a healing, I, as a person with a spirit, mind, and body, had not been made completely whole." So, apparently God heals the specific disease at the time, but the person isn't really completely healed and can relapse into the disease. Like he claims about salvation, the healing can be lost if the person does not exercise continuing faith, and they can succumb to the disease from which they were supposedly healed. Then Oral Roberts quotes Mark 5:34 in order to support his claim, but the verse says that healing makes the person well, cf. Luke 8:48, Matthew 9:18-19, 23-25), and the woman was told by Jesus Christ "go in peace," indicating that she was no longer to worry or have any concern about what had been her previous condition. There is a complete disconnect from the manner in which Jesus healed in Mark 5:34 and the manner in which Oral Roberts claims God heals today. Oral Roberts is claiming that God only removes the disease itself at the time, but the residual effects and symptoms remain, and the reality of a complete healing is in the future and is not dependant on the power of God to effect the healing but on the faith of the person to maintain the healing. He not only claims that it is faith that brings about an initial healing (which is not actually effective), but it is necessary to continually exercise faith into the future in order to make the healing complete or effective. Is it convenient that the "Seed Faith" doctrine was developed, claiming that donations of money to a ministry can bring about faith and as a consequence, the continuing faith necessary to maintain a healing can be obtained by the continual giving to a ministry by the person throughout their lifetime? What were the results of the healings accomplished by Jesus Christ? Were the afflictions removed from the people while the symptoms remained and they reverted back to their weakened and emaciated conditions? Peter's mother-in-lawIf the results of any of the above listed miracles conform to Oral Roberts' experience, then there must be some type of teaching or admonission by Jesus Christ about the possible effects that a healing might have on a person's mind or emotions. However, that is not the case. None of the people were shown to have still been weak or suffered from the effects of their illness or affliction after they were healed. SEE: ORAL ROBERTS "Does God Still Heal" "For What Did Christ Atone In Isa. 53:4-5" [Requires Adobe Acrobat® Reader] |
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