God's Will to Heal - Moore Life Ministries

297 Pages·2013·2.59 MB·English

by  Keith Moore

God’s Will to Heal
30 reasons we are sure it’s God’s will
for ALL to be healed

BY KEITH MOORE
GOD’S WILL TO HEAL

© 2013 Keith Moore
Faith Life Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-940403-00-7

BK2002

Moore Life Ministries
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Branson, Missouri
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www.moorelife.org

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this book are from the King James
Version of the Bible.
Table of Contents

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
Introduction How to Find the Will of God 1
1 God’s Word Is Medicine 15
2 A Strong Spirit Will Sustain You 19
3 In His Original Creation, There Was No Sickness 35
4 His Will for Heaven and the World to Come 39
5 The Origin of Sickness 43
6 Sickness Is of the Devil 47
7 The Covenant of Healing 51
8 The Eternal Names of God (Jehovah) 61
9 Sickness Is Part of the Curse of the Law from Which Christ Has 63
Redeemed Us
10 The Types of Redemption 79
11 Healing Is a Part of Redemption 101
12 The Firstfruits of Redemption 115
13 The Eternal Fatherhood of God 129
14 Healing Is the Children’s Bread 137
15 The Mercy of God 141
16 Authority Over Demons and Disease 153
17 The Ministry of Jesus 171
18 The Laying On of Hands 185
19 He Is Our Good Shepherd 193
20 Healing in the Acts 207
21 The Gifts of Healings 213
22 Scripture Prayers for Healing 223
23 The All-Inclusive Promises of God 235
24 He Has Promised Us Long Life 249
25 He Is the Vine, and We Are the Branches 265
26 Our Bodies Are the Members of Christ 267
27 Your Body Is the Temple of the Holy Spirit 271
28 We Are God’s Priests 275
29 Our Bodies Are Living Sacrifices 277
30 We Are the Bride of Christ 281
101 Things God Said 283
Works Cited 289

Introduction: How to Find the Will of God
In Luke 5:12, it says, “And it came to pass, when he [Jesus] was in a certain city, behold a man
full of leprosy; who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt,
thou canst make me clean.”
Here is a man who Doctor Luke said was full of leprosy. Others just say he had leprosy, but
remember, Luke was a physician, so he gives you more detail. Even today, there are situations
that men say are incurable. Not only could man not help him—so it was considered a death
sentence—but it was also a sentence of being ostracized, being cast out and not able to have any
fellowship with his family or friends. It was a living death in many ways, and his case was far
advanced. He was full of the devilish leprosy, and it was awful.
However, the Word tells us that he found Jesus. Don’t you know he was already heading in the
right direction, if he found Jesus? He said something to the Master. What did he say? He said, “If
you will, you can make me clean.”
There are millions of people who believe in God and are right there, with some form of physical
problem in their body. I could name denomination after denomination, without exaggerating.
There are millions of people who believe in the Lord and have physical problems and would like
to be healed. If you heard them praying, they might sound identical to this man right here. “Oh
God, I know You can heal me...,” but then what do they add? “…if You will.” Or you can use the
King James Version and say, “If it be Thy will.” But it’s the same thing. “…if You will.”
Now what did Jesus say? What did He do when this man, full of incurable leprosy, said, “Lord, I
know You can heal me if You would. If it was Your will”? It says in verse 13, “He put forth his
hand, and touched him.” Now that says volumes. The man does not look like anything you want
to touch. His skin is broken and oozing; he looks awful. He probably smells bad. Jesus reaches
out His hand in response to this man coming and saying, “Lord, I know You can make me clean
of this terrible stuff, if You would.” Jesus reaches out His hand, puts it on his oozing flesh, and
says, “I will: you be clean.”
Oh, glory to God. What did Jesus say? He said, “I will: be thou clean,” which means, “You, be
clean.” What happened? It says, “And immediately,” immediately this leprosy, this living death,
this incurable stuff, “the leprosy departed from him,” and he was healed. Glory to God.
Do you believe this really happened just like it says? This is no fairy tale. This man lived. He
met Jesus and talked to Him. He saw Him. This is a historically-accurate account. What is the
good news though? Jesus is the same yesterday and right now.
What if someone came and fell before the Master today? If they could see Him, and said, “Lord,
I know You can heal me, if You would,” what would He tell them? If He wouldn’t tell them the
same thing He told this man, then He has changed, or He’s a respecter of persons. Neither of
these can be so because the Bible says He does not change, (Malachi 3:6) and He is no respecter
of persons. (Acts 10:34) If you believe the Bible, then you have to believe that anyone who asks
this question, anywhere in the earth, will get the same answer. “Lord I know You can heal me if
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You would. Lord, please, if it be Your will.” We have to believe that anyone who is asking that
question, if they are listening, has the answer: “I will. Be thou clean.”
What did the Lord say? Did He ever say, “I won’t”? You cannot find even one response of “I
won’t” when anyone asked Him to be healed.
In order for something to be “scriptural,” what must you have to support it? Scripture. There are
people who find fault with us and don’t like what we teach about this. They teach that it’s not
always God’s will to heal, but where is their scripture? We have a scripture when people say, “I
know You can, if You will,” and He tells them, “I will.” Where is their scripture when Jesus tells
people, “I won’t”? You cannot find it, because it does not exist.
Yet, that is more commonly held and believed than what you and I believe. There are many,
many millions more Christians who believe, “Sometimes He will, and sometimes He won’t,”
than who believe this. I never read anywhere that He said, “I won’t.” Have you? Can you show
me? Can you tell me? I’ve read it several times, and I have never seen where He said, “I won’t.”
I do see very clearly—and this is not the only place—where He tells a man, “I will.”
So, that’s my answer. I’m satisfied. If He said, “I will” then, He’s saying, “I will” now, and He’ll
say, “I will” tomorrow. If He said, “I will” to the man with leprosy, He’ll say, “I will” to you,
and “I will” to me. That’s my answer.
Still, there are so many hundreds of thousands and millions of people in sick beds and hospital
rooms begging God, “Lord, I know You can, if You would. If it’s Your will.” They don’t know
whether it’s God’s will or not.
There was a time when I was in that same place. There was a time when I went around with
other ministers and prayed for people, and this is how we prayed: “Oh, Lord, heal them if it be
Thy will, and if not, Thy will be done.” We thought we were being submissive to the will of
God. We thought we were doing what we should be doing, but I don’t pray that way anymore. I
don’t pray that way any more than I would ever pray for someone to get born again by saying,
“Lord, save them if it be Thy will.” I don’t pray that way because I have discovered His will. I
have found His will. And it is not His will that any should perish. It is His will that all should
come to repentance and to the saving knowledge of the Master. How do I know that? I have
verses of Scripture for it. So, I never pray for anyone “if it be Thy will” to be saved. Do you?
Nor do I ever pray for anyone to be healed with an “if it be Thy will.” I have found it in the same
Bible, and not just in this one verse.
I’m going to emphasize this until any remote thought of doubt about God’s will for your healing
is like a long-distant dream. It’s going to be gone so far that it will be hard for you to ever
remember that you questioned the will of God about healing.
Now, if you think you don’t agree with this so far, that’s fine, but stay with me and prepare your
case. Put your scriptures together. Do you know what I mean by that? People require me to prove
what I believe. Prove to me from the Bible why it’s not God’s will for us to be healed.
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How can you ascertain the will of God? This is a big question, not just for healing, but for
anything. How can we find the will of God? There are so many people who talk about it so
mysteriously. “Oh, if we only knew the will of God. If we could find the will of God.” Well, how
are you going to find it? How are you going to know when you get it? How can you know the
will of God? Millions of people believe that when something happens, some way or another it
was the will of God, and we don’t understand it all, but it was His will.
When I’ve gone to pray for someone to be healed and asked them, “Do you believe it’s God’s
will for you to be healed?” they’ve said, “Well, I don’t know. I hope so.” So I asked, “How
would you know?” They answered, “Well, I thought you’d pray, and if I get healed, then it was
God’s will, and if I don’t, then it meant it wasn’t His will.”
So how are they ascertaining the will of God? By results or lack of results, aren’t they? People
don’t do that in every other area, though. They only do it in specific, traditionally-slanted areas.
People don’t do that with salvation now do they? What if we did that with people getting born
again? How would we know if it’s God’s will for them to be saved or not? Well, if they make
heaven, we’ll know it was God’s will, and if they bust hell wide open, then we’ll know it was not
God’s will for them to be saved.
No, this is the most important thing about a person’s life. Are there people who are perishing
without the Lord? Is it the will of God? No, it is not. Well then, is it true that everything that
happens is God’s will? No, it is not, and if it’s that way with the most important thing—our
eternal salvation—why would we think it’s so different concerning something temporal like our
healing, or like the meeting of our physical needs?
You cannot ascertain the will of God just by what happens. That is a spiritually-irresponsible
stance, a spiritually-lazy position. It’s mighty convenient to say that everything that happens is
the Lord’s will, and everything that doesn’t happen is the Lord’s will. You hear people,
Christians, who you rub shoulders with, talking about this. They’re late, or they didn’t get
something done, or they mess up, and they say, “Well, it must have been God’s will.” It was
God’s will for you to goof off and watch TV all night and not be ready? That was God’s will?
Or they’re reaching to the floorboard, trying to find the cheeseburger that they dropped, and they
run through an intersection, have a wreck, tear up their car, and say, “We don’t understand it, but
it must have been God’s will.” Really? It was God’s will for you to be looking for a
cheeseburger on the floorboard and have a wreck? Do you see what I’m talking about?
“Well,” they say, “we just don’t understand all these things, but you know, everything happens
for a reason.” Have you heard that before? “Everything happens for a reason…” That’s like
saying, “The sun shines, and we can see…We get in water, and it’s wet...” You haven’t said
anything. Well, sure, there’s a reason. The reason could be you weren’t paying attention. The
reason could be you didn’t listen to God.
Prideful people don’t want to take responsibility for anything, and so it’s very convenient to say
that everything that happens is mysteriously the will of God. What’s so convenient about it is
that they never get called on anything. They’re never held accountable for anything. Why?
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Because, “Hey, it was the will of God, and we don’t know why it all happened or didn’t happen,
but hey, don’t question the will of God.” This is a very subtle way of saying, “Don’t ask me any
more questions about it or make me have to answer or face it or deal with it.” It’s very
convenient, but it’s a lie and deception.
I’m asking and answering the question “How can we find the will of God?” because millions of
people believe what we’ve been talking about: If they get healed, then it was the will of God. If
they didn’t get healed, then it must not have been the will of God. If they get blessed and prosper,
then it was the will of God. If not, it was the will of God for them to be poor. I’m sorry, but that is
just unacceptable in light of the Bible. Is it true that everything that happens is somehow the will
of God? I think not.
Romans 12:2 says, “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that ye may prove…” Prove means “test and find out.” What are you going to find
out? “…what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
Now, if everything that happens is the will of God, why do you need this “renewal and testing
and proving”? You wouldn’t need any of that because everything is the will of God. He’s saying
you’ve got to get your mind renewed so that you think right. You’ve got to learn some things and
be taught and understand some things so that you can test everything that’s around you and
decide: Will of God? No, that’s not the will of God. Or that’s good; that’s the will of God. Or
that’s sort of the will of God. That’s half way it…, oh man, that’s the perfect will of God! Or
that’s absolutely not the will of God.
Are we supposed to learn how to discern, prove, test, and find the good, acceptable, and perfect
will of God? Who’s supposed to find out what the will of God is? You are. I am. Is it going to
take a little doing? Yes, it is. You’re going to have to make some changes in your thinking. Your
mind needs to be renewed; it’s kind of like being reprogrammed. “Renewed” indicates
something was in there, and we need it renewed. We need something else to go over it. There are
going to be some changes in how you think.
I’m still talking about how we find the will of God. Some people say everything that happens—
good and bad—is the will of God. First Thessalonians 4:3 says this: “For this is the will of God,
even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.” Is there any fornicating going
on? Any adultery going on? Is it the will of God?
You cannot just pick and choose. If you believe that everything that happens with men’s and
women’s bodies in healing and sickness is the will of God, then why doesn’t it apply over here
too?
What is the will of God? Control yourself. Possess your body. Don’t have affairs. Don’t be in
fornication. Don’t be in adultery. That is the will of God. The Bible says it very plainly. Is the
will of God happening everywhere, with everyone? No.
Are there things happening on the earth that are not the will of God? Who is supposed to find out
the will of God? We are. How are we going to find it? We need some mind renewal.
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