MaryFreeman

SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
I said all that to say this.... If anyone chooses to believe Matthew.... If anyone chooses to look at Isaiah's prophetic account through Matthew's eyes.... Then they do indeed have faith do they not? So that couldn't be why they don't immediately jump up out of wheelchairs.... Or give canes a toss.... Or remove leg braces and walk freely.... Or anything else people of this particular "persuasion" choose to tell them no matter what Scripture they try to wrap around this nonsensical opinion.... Because Matthew showed that Isaiahs account was true and correct.... And when Isaiah gave his account he said "With His stripes we ARE healed." But NEITHER gives a TIME for when the healing of our bodies would be manifest.... Nor the healing of the nation of Israel and her restoration to the vine.... However both men put together prove God has already.... since before the foundation of the earth.... provided healing for all who choose to believe in His Son....

IN MY OPINION:
Paul is the Apostle who's writing style most appeals to me in a purely enjoyment reading sense.... I also am not ashamed to say that it is Paul whom I can most readily relate to.... Paul was a pharisee.... Paul was a torturer of the christians and was the first to say he murdered them.... His suffering for what he had done plagued him for years.... Until he could finally let his guilt go.... And understand in his heart that God forgave him.... So it was time to forgive himself.... Now I shared that opinion with you to share why I can so readily relate to Paul....
In 1996.... I was living with my husband.... But we were not married.... I had already been a christian.... As I gave my life to the Lord at age 12.... I found out that year that I had gotten pregnant.... When I told him.... He told his son.... And they agreed together that he should tell me it was his desire that I have an abortion.... I did say no several times.... And I did try (to my shame) to force my body to release this child (as if there was a difference between that and having a "doctor" do it....).... Finally Dean told me that if I did not do this thing.... He would hate his own child.... To my shame.... I did not think to tell him I would leave should this be forced.... As I should have done.... I thought nothing beyond the fact that this childs own father would hate him.... So I finally agreed.... I murdered my child.... Who had done no wrong.... Who had never breathed a breath of air.... For a man who had already been breathing for 37 years.... Specifically so that I did not have to watch him show his own child hatred.... Speaking in defense of my husband.... He did indeed realize what he had done.... He did indeed state he was wrong and so was abortion.... He did cry once and say "I want my son back....".... But my husband did this thing out of ignorance of the truth.... I did so in spite of the truth....
Five years later I was standing in church mourning my terrible decision once again.... I once again asked for my assistant pastor to pray with me.... And when we did.... I heard that still small voice say "This is the LAST time you will cry for this (meaning IMO my sin)."
What happened next is something many will not grasp.... Some even to the point of eschewing it as silliness or even of the devil....
BUT I AM GOING TO TELL YOU ANYWAYS....
Jesus whispered in my ear what I told you above.... And then my legs.... without direction from my brain.... gave out on me.... I fell on my patootie and was laughing the very next instant....
AND TO THIS DAY.... I have never shed another tear regarding that sin.... EVER....
That is not to say that I don't cry at the pain my husband still goes through though he has hidden it from even himself.... That does not mean that I do not sometimes cry when sharing this testamony.... I do not.... And have not since that day cry over my sin.... Over what I chose to do.... The guilt was necessary.... But only for a time.... And when I had "paid my dues" as I call it.... He (Jesus) took that necessary pain away....
I told you that to say this.... Paul had a "thorn" in his side.... one that plagued him.... Some physical ailment in his body to my thinking.... And he begged and begged for God to take it away:

2Co 12:6 If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won't do it, because I don't want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message,
2Co 12:7 even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.
2Co 12:8 Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away.
Paul is not one I would consider devoid of faith.... Yet he asked God three different times to remove the thorn in his side.... And yet.... All three times.... Paul was told this:
2Co 12:9 Each time He said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.
I said that to reinforce the fact that just because someone does not jump up immediately and dance around when someone lays hands on them and prays.... It does not mean they did not have faith and so could not receive healing.... That is not true.... Plain and simple.... Paul had faith.... Yet he had a thorn plaguing him.... I have faith.... Yet I have chronic pain in several parts of my back.... The pinky side of my left hand is numb.... The degree of numbness is so bad at times I fear dropping things I am holding for more than a minute or two.... My husband asks why I will not ask the Lord to take this away.... My answer is simply this:
I have....
So has my grandmother....
My mother....
And several others....
And I believe what Isaiah said.... That by the stripes Matthew saw being delivered to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior.... I am healed....
WHEN THE HEALING I HAD BEEN GIVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD EVER CAME INTO EXISTANCE IS MANIFESTED....
Is merely a matter of TIME....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY (King James Version)?:
We already know that Isaiah has stated we have our healing.... Need a bit more than Isaiah and Matthew? How about Peter?
1Pe 2:24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By His wounds you are healed. (NLT)
Notice Peter uses the word "are".... Just like Isaiah did.... And we know Matthew said that Jesus was whipped...
　
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Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Read again in the New Living Translation:
Php 3:20 But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for Him to return as our Savior.
Php 3:21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like His own, using the same power with which He will bring everything under His control.
IN MY OPINION:
I believe wholeheartedly that I will receive a new body.... That when I do it will feel no pain.... Will not be corrupt.... Will not be dammaged or impaired in any way.... It will be JUST LIKE THE ONE JESUS RECEIVED when He was ressurected.... Glorious and perfect as the above Scripture states.... Which sounds like healing to me....
How about you?
So we know that healing has already been established and given to us before the world was created.... That it was given by a willing God.... That it was given through His Son and our Savior through the stripes He bore "In His own body, on the tree"....
As I have before stated.... Manifestation of that healing which we have already been given....
Is merely a matter of time....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY (New Living Translation)?:
1Co 15:37 And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.
1Co 15:38 Then God gives it the new body He wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed.
1Co 15:39 Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
1Co 15:40 There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies.
1Co 15:41 The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind. And even the stars differ from each other in their glory.
1Co 15:42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
1Co 15:43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.
1Co 15:44 They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.
1Co 15:45 The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit.
1Co 15:46 What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later.
1Co 15:47 Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second Man, came from heaven.
1Co 15:48 Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly Man.
1Co 15:49 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly Man.
1Co 15:50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever.
1Co 15:51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!
1Co 15:52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.
1Co 15:53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
1Co 15:54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die [and our mortal bodies have been transformed into immortal bodies], this Scripture will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? "
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
I am of the full belief that I am already healed.... I am also of the full belief that it will either manifest in this life or the life to come.... Either way.... I am fully convinced I serve a faithful willing God.... Who gave us our healing before we ever knew we needed it.... I am also fully convinced He will either heal this body.... Or transform it into one like The Son's.... But either way will be a manifestation of the healing I have already received through the wounds my Savior so graciously accepted in my stead....
It is just a matter of time....
Not my time....
His....
For now....
He is enough....