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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Monday, June 25th, 2007 www.orm.cc Somebody Needs Your Prayers Richard Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "One day I was teaching a class at oral Roberts University when a student walked to the front of the room and interrupted me. I asked what she wanted, and she said that a 13-year-old boy in her family was going through open-heart surgery right then. We stopped the class and prayed for him. That incident was a living example of how Jesus ministered. he wasn't bothered by interruptions. Mark 2:1-12 tells us that Jesus was preaching in a crowded house when four men who were bringing a paralyzed friend to him for healing couldn't get in. so they broke a hole in the roof and lowered the sick man down into the middle of the meeting! Jesus wasn't upset over the interruption. He was touched b their faith, and he healed the man. According to the Bible, every Christian has a healing ministry in a general sense. Mark 16:17, 18 says, These signs shall follow them that believe . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Sometimes it's not convenient to minister to people. But rarely is anything we're doing so important that we can't stop and allow the Holy Spirit to use us. It happens to me wherever I go. I can be standing at a checkout counter, and people will come up and ask me to pray for them. But I don't mind! It didn't bother Jesus, and it doesn't bother me, because those people need prayer. Someone may need your prayers today. It might be in the grocery store, at a restaurant, or on the job. When God presents the opportunity, don't be too busy, and don't let the setting bother you. let Him use you today to bless someone who is hurting and needs the healing touch of the Lord." ON DOCTRINE NOTE: If a person takes Richard Roberts' statements at face value, then they will quickly realize that there is a very serious problem, because all believers do not have the ability to lay hands on the sick so that they will all recover. All Christians do not have a healing ministry, even in the most general sense. Since that is the case, then how is a Christian supposed to deal with Richard Roberts' claim and with what is written in Mark 16:17-18? Mark 16:17-18, makes some outrageous claims regarding the abilities of believers that Richard Roberts has left out of his quote. The verses quoted in their entirety are as follows: "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." (NAS)Richard Roberts has made a similar claim in another article, Doctors Treat, But God Heals, in which he states, "Every born again believer is to have a ministry of healing." He bases his statement on Mark 16:18. Although he tries to find a foundation for his claim in verses that are found in most versions of the Bible, the verses he uses are not original to the gospel of Mark and were not written by Mark. Verses 9-20 are an interpolation, a later addition to the Scripture that is not true Scripture and does not represent what the rest of Scripture says in relation to the subjects mentioned in the verses. The spurious nature of the verses is not a secret and is noted in most Bibles, including the KJV, NKJV, NAS and NIV. Richard Roberts should not attempt to support a teaching by using verses that are not properly part of Scripture and do not say or agree with the rest of the Scripture on the subjects mentioned. SEE the article, Doctors Treat, But God Heals |
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