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a call to a higher trust in God, October 14, 2003
This book is not just about healing. It teaches very clearly, taking very many Scriptures that you don't often hear in this context. But it is also about a life of trusting God through and through, growing in trust and seeing God move. Andrew Murray says that we lose a precious opportunity to grow in the Lord by relying on man and the methods in nature, but he does not come across as forbidding going to physicians, but rather as earnestly urging us to go higher in faith, giving us a glimpse of the blessing of wholly trusting in God. And who can get enough of that? I do think that this alone makes this book an invaluable experience. Though I have been hearing teachings on healing for at least 10 years, the difference with this book is that when reading it, I sometimes feel I am on holy ground. Healing is not cheap, and Andrew Murray takes us on a journey with reverence and depth. You will be deeply blessed.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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a very good accurate view of the Bible's teaching on healing, October 17, 2009
This book is a very good accurate view of the Bible's teaching on healing, one of the best writings on the subject I have ever read. If you are ready it can help straighten out your misunderstandings that block the way to health from God but if you looking for some easy quick fix you'll probably be disappointed. True sometimes you can get a pretty quick and easy answer to prayer for healing but that is usually not the norm and usually it's for something minor, a headache, flu, cold, sprained ankle etc.. These things many times can take a pretty intense wrestling with the powers of darkness, something most Christians seem to know little about or have little stomach for.
Understanding faith and the healing that was accomplished for ever believer on Calvary is not something achieved through mere prayer and intellectual investigation it is something that comes through real humility, perseverance and Divine illumination. I really believe most Christians seem to know so little of the Spirit's illumination, we are so use to trying to understand the things of God with our mind alone that we do not realizing we are blocking God's light which comes through the spirit (Pro 3:5,6 ICor 2:14,15). We are too unbroken, reading Watchman Nee's "Release of the Spirit" might help to understand something of this.
I heard some readings from the life of Andrew Murray and his journey into finding out about Divine healing I think 97% of today's believers would have given up. It was quite difficult for him and it took a lot of patience to understand how God works in this area, this is the experience of many who have had success in finding God's supernatural healing. Extremely valuable things don't come cheap. The church being behind for so many centuries in this area is another thing that hinders the way for all of us, we've had few people who can do a good job of instructing us about God's healing power and what faith and trusting in God's promises is really like. Much of what Christians think they know about these things is just almost always very misguided, shallow or down right fake.
There are many temptations and subtle lies from Satan, many don't understand they are deceived by them. The Devil puts up an intense fight over this subject he enjoys watching Christians suffer more than anything, he hates them with a cruel and vicious hate and sickness is nothing but a curse and a work of pure hate. The Devil's diseases are a cherished tool he uses to rob and hinder the church of much usefulness in this world. The testimony that our God is the one and only real God is blocked as Christian's experience of sickness with no deliverance is usually not really any different than any other atheist or unbeliever's experience of sickness. So the world misses many opportunities to see a real God, it is just the same old theoretical powerless God in the sky that many believe in.
Of course many Christians are so use to self deception they haven't the slightest idea they are under its influence. So most of the time they will cover up for this embarrassment of having a do nothing, powerless God by trying to rationalize, excuse and substitute half truths with testimonies along these lines :" Yes I am very sick but God gives me courage and cheerfulness to endure and this is a testimony to the world of what Christ can do for someone".
Satan almost always seems to easily deceive and whip most Christians so they give up and adopt some pacifying deceptive excuse to explain why their God doesn't seem real when they need Him to heal them, when He promises to be their Healer and heal all their diseases, Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil etc... The promises of God's get explained away as not meaning what they really mean, or that was just for the Jews and not the Church etc.. Hence Christians come up with many bizarre theories and rationalizations to defend themselves with.
Faith is knowing you have something you can't see but most want to have something they can see before they believe they have it and this will never work, without faith it is impossible to please Him.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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For Those who want to Believe what the Word says!, June 27, 2008
Andrew Murray is one of my favorite Christian authors. I buy, read, and re-read just about all of this books. I recently was trying to decide whether or not to buy this one, and, believe it or not, even the negative reviews made me want to buy it!
There are undoubtably some phoney faith healers in the world today, there have been in days gone by, and there probably will continue to be until the Lord returns, but this book simply exhorts and encourages those who want to believe what the Word of God says about the Lord's power and willingness to heal someone afflicted of a disease.
Murray nowhere tells people not to seek the advice or help of physicians. He does say that when one receives healing by supernatural means without the help of natural remedies, one also receives spiritual blessings that don't accompany a natural cure, and this can and does bring a person into greater dependency (which is good) and trust in the Lord.
The language is very easy to read, the book is divided into 32 mostly very short chapters, the last two chapters are about 7 pages each, the others are 2, 3, or 4 pages. This book is exactly what I was looking for, I'm going to read it and reread it and reread it, and believe that Divine Health is for me, for the purpose of my being able to work for the Lord at His request and bring Him glory!
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