Christ the Healer: Sermons on Divine Healing by F. F. Bosworth

Author:F. F. Bosworth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: miracles, Bible, Christ, Jesus, Healing, signs, Christ the Healer, Christianity, wonders
ISBN: 9781436674805
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: 2008-06-12T22:00:00+00:00

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HOW TO HAVE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED

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THE PAST TENSES OF GOD'S WORD

It is important that those who seek for the mercies of God see that appropriating faith is taking and using what God offers to us.

Hope is expecting a blessing some time in the future. Faith is taking now what God offers.

We are to believe what God says He has done for us and act on it. We are to take our blood-bought liberty just as the slaves of the South did after the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.

The Gospel is a worldwide emancipation proclamation of liberty from service and bondage to the old tyrant master of sin and sickness, the devil. When Jesus said "It is finished," He meant that the work was done. As God sees it, it is completed.

God expects us to reckon as done what Jesus says was done. The past tenses of God's Word mean a settled, sealed, and final decision of His will.

In Galatians 3:13 we read "Christ hath [past tense] redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." God has put our redemption from the curse of the law in the past tense.

We receive our deliverance when we do the same. In the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, we see that the curse of the law includes all diseases.

In God's Word we read, "Surely he hath [past tense] borne our sicknesses and carried our pain.... Himself took [past tense] our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.... By whose stripes ye were healed."

God wants us all to appropriate the past tenses of His Word regarding His redemption of our souls and bodies from sickness and disease. He wants us to go forth in obedience acting as if we believed Him. When God puts a promise in the past tense, He thus authorizes and expects us to do the same. Nothing short of this is appropriating faith.

In Mark 11:24 Jesus authorizes and commands us to put the reception of the blessing we pray for in the past tense. He says that when we ask for the promises that He offers, we should believe that we have received them, and that we shall have them.

We are to continue to believe that God gave us what we asked for when we prayed. We are to continue to praise and thank Him for what He has given us. It is after we believe we have received what we ask for, after we believe He has heard our prayer, that God goes to work. Then the imperishable seed, His Word, begins to grow.

The farmer has to get the sowing of his seed into the past tense before it is possible to reap a harvest. The permanent receiving of God's Word, the imperishable seed, has to be sown into the "good ground" of our heart. It is necessary to get the sowing into the past tense before the seed can begin its work.

Believing that God has already heard our prayer before the blessing is manifested is the good soil in which the imperishable seed, His Word, grows and bears fruit.

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