Prophecy

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Sickness: A Fish or a Serpent?
By Patricia Backora, author of the Book
Tough Love in Christ’s Millennium
Which you can order online from: http://www.publishamerica.com
Matt. 7:7-11; John 11:1-46; I John 3:8

Some skeptics argue that you’ve got to accept all illness as being from my hand and give Me thanks for it because Paul said in Ephesians 5:20: Give thanks for all things. Truly when you receive a gift of love from someone, you thank the one who gave it, not the one who didn’t give it.

Every good and perfect gift comes from My hand, saith the Lord. But if you ask Me for a fish, would I give you a serpent instead? If you asked Me for an egg, would I give you a scorpion? If you pray for health and satan tries you for a time with a severe illness, who gave you that sickness, Me or the devil? And if you are blind enough to you see your condition as a precious gift from My hand, are you not contradicting yourself when you pray for deliverance from it?

The wrong interpretation of Paul’s message is ludicrous. Taken to extremes, it means you could thank Me for every sort of crime or war going on in the world today. No, that verse means you should give Me due thanks for bestowing kindness and favor which I bestow upon you as a child of God.

It was a sad day when Lazarus died of illness. But Jesus was still able to give Me thanks. He thanked Me that My glory would be manifest in the situation by raising Lazarus back to life in perfect health. Jesus did not thank Me that Lazarus had had such a miserable time, and did not thank Me for the illness itself. Christ knew it was the devil who had made Lazarus sick, not Me. But because of the mighty miracle Jesus performed, many believed unto everlasting life. That which the devil meant for harm was used for good.

My Son came to destroy the works of the devil, not give thanks for them!

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