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shall recover (Mark 16:15). Believers will do the works Jesus did, and
greater works he will do (John 14:12).
9.6 Do I need to tithe for God to be able to bless me?
No. You need to believe in Jesus and the free gift of His righteousness.
God blessed you based on that and that alone. If you are tithing in order
to receive a blessing, it is vain worship because you are trying to buy
God‟s blessings. See what Paul told Simon when he tried to buy the free
gift in Acts: 8:18-23. So next time you hear somebody „begging‟ you for
money from the pulpit and they say something along the lines of “If you
don‟t give, God can‟t help you. You have to plant the seed so God can
grow the miracle,” just remember that your miracle lies in Christ, and you
can‟t buy Him, you can only believe. I have nothing against giving and I
give myself, but I do not expect a blessing from God because of my giving
or any other actions because that is called self-righteousness and it falls
under the law covenant. I expect God‟s blessings because I am the
righteousness of God through the obedience of the one Man, Jesus Christ
(Romans 5:19). Because I am an heir of God and co-equal heir of Christ
by faith (Romans 8:17). The New Covenant is by grace through faith, not
by grace through tithing.
9.7 Can anyone minister healing or is it a gift?
According to Mark 16:15-18 both healing and deliverance are signs that
follow ANY believer. If you believe in Jesus, then you can lay hands on the
sick and they will recover. There is no mention of a healing anointing in
the Bible. The gifts of healings do exist and do have a function, but we
believe in the priesthood of all believers, saints who are equipped by the
five-fold ministry gifts to enable us to do the work of the ministry. You
have the Holy Spirit and He has all the gifts anyway! Gifting is not an
excuse. God can use any Christian to heal anybody, He can use any
willing vessel including baby Christians that just got born again. God
used me to heal the sick through me even before I was baptised by the
Holy Spirit. During that time I was still a lay Christian not part of five-fold
ministries, so I attest to the fact that God can use any available willing
and obedient Christian to minister healing.
9.8 Is healing the will of God for every person every time?
Yes. It is true. Even though it is the will God that everyone should come
to the true knowledge and believe in Jesus Christ, however, it is not
everyone that believes in Christ and everyday there are people who die
without Christ and go to hell against the will of God. What we believe is
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Although the NKJ translators did not choose to use the words in bold,
they surely could have without distorting the meaning the original
hearers of Scripture understood. Because, as we have seen, the meaning
of “sozo” clearly includes deliverance from physical sickness. The true
meaning of these verses is not limited to physical healing, but certainly
includes physical healing. Faith works the same for receiving healing as it
does for receiving forgiveness of sins and the new birth.
“And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him;
for I did not come to judge the world but to heal the world (John 12:47
NKJV).
“Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and
takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be
healed (Luke 8:12 NKJV).
“For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men‟s lives but to heal them”
(Luke 9:56a NKJV).
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to heal that which was lost”
(Luke 19:10 NKJV).
„Who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be
healed‟ (Acts 11:14 NKJV).
“But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall
be healed in the same manner as they” (Acts 15:11 NKJV).
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know
God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to
heal those who believe (1 Corinthians 1:21 NKJV).
For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be healed” (Romans
10:13 NKJV).
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to heal sinners, of whom I am chief (1 Timothy 1:15
NKJV).
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