People spend billions every year to retain or restore health. No one wants to be sick. Yet, religion often tells us that God is either causing sickness or allowing it for a reason. But that’s not true—GOD WANTS YOU WELL.

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Wommack a teaching ministry that focuses

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and now here’s Andrew welcome to our

Friday’s broadcast of the gospel truth

today I’m continuing a series that I’ve

been talking about healing all week long

and I’m saying it’s God’s will for you

to be well and I tell you I have covered

a lot of things and this is a subject

that I’m passionate about because

personally I’ve given this testimony but

my father died just a few weeks after I

turned 12 years old he was sick and in

the hospital when I was 11 years old and

I grew up without a father my mother was

a widow and I forget exactly the age I

think it was around 47 or 48 years old

she became a widow we were thrown into

financial problems and there was

hardship just growing up without a

father my mother being a widow she was a

widow for 48 years and there is just

things that happened in our life and my

dad loved God my dad was the chairman of

the Deacons in our Baptist Church he was

a godly man

the pastor when I was born again when I

was eight years old my pastors Fred

Harris and he lives in Tyler Texas now

and he watches this program every day

and I tell you brother fred has been a

real blessing to reconnect with him and

he and my dad we’re best friends and

honestly you know when I was really

young you just don’t think about your

parent you don’t look at him as anything

except a dad and I didn’t know him from

you know perspective like I would know

him today but brother Fred Harris who is

his best friend and the pastor of the

Baptist Church in that situation said

that he’s one of the most godly men that

he ever knew and my dad he was a godly

man and he loved God and yet the church

that we grew up and just chose to

separate salvation into different pieces

and the only piece that was essential

the only piece that was emphasized was

the forgiveness of sins they didn’t talk

about healing they didn’t deal with

I don’t know all the reasons why I’m

sure a lot of it’s just to avoid

problems in contention and and it’s a

difficult subject to deal with you know

this last summer I was part of a group

that went and meant with Oral Roberts in

his home and there was a lot of things

that came up but one of the questions

was about how do you minister to a

person who has tried to believe for

healing and they did everything that

they knew to do and yet their loved one

dies what do you say to him and oil

Roberts basically said there’s really

nothing you can say to him he says

that’s a terrible situation and that he

never really had a good answer and so

then a follow-up question is well how

does that affect you and his answer was

he says it probably bothered him more

than anything else all of the people who

weren’t healed and he said it was such a

weight on him that he actually

considered quitting the healing ministry

and not praying for the sick because it

hurt him so much when he didn’t see

every single person heal but he said

that as he prayed about it the Lord just

spoke to him and he says you know what

if you only get one person heal that’s

one person that wouldn’t have been

healed and the Lord told him he says I

want people well I want you to continue

on and you may not be doing it perfectly

you may not get every single person

healed but you do what you know to do

and that’s those are people that would

be healed that wouldn’t have been healed

otherwise and basically just said that

he focused on the ones who were

receiving and not the ones who didn’t

receive and I promise you I deal with

this I’ve got friends I’ve got people

that I love that I’ve prayed for that

weren’t healed and I I have to struggle

with this but I have just gone to the

Word of God and the Word of God has

proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt

that it’s not God who doesn’t heal it’s

us who don’t always know how to receive

and how to get it and see the moment

that you start saying that I can

guarantee either some people mad at me

saying so you’re saying it’s my fault

that this person died or my fault that

I’m still sick it’s not that simple I’m

not sure that it’s just one

we’ll think there’s multiple things at

Princeton cinmarc chapter 6 there’s an

instance where Jesus went into his

hometown and it says he could do no

mighty work mark 6 5 it didn’t say he

didn’t want to do it it says he couldn’t

do any mighty work and if you look at

that same story that is recorded in

matthew chapter 13 verse 58 over there

it says because of their unbelief

it was the unbelief of other people that

stopped Jesus and so it’s not as simple

as just saying if you really believe

then you automatically see things happen

other people can affect you the

atmosphere around you affects people

this is why Elijah when he raised a

person from the dead Elijah and every

person in scripture Peter and Paul when

they raise people from the dead they

sought seclusion Jesus even put out all

of the people who were mocking him and

laughing at him when he went in to raise

Jairus his daughter from the dead he

cast out all of the scorners you know

why because other people around you

their unbelief can affect the results so

it’s not as simple as to just say well

it’s your fault because you didn’t

believe you could believe but you could

be in such a bad situation the person

you’re praying for has a part to play

it’s a complicated issue and I’m going

to deal with some of these things in

more detail as I continue through this

series but I’m just saying that for

whatever reason people don’t want to

deal with this it’s easier to just let

it go and let’s just talk about

forgiveness of sins and not talk about

healing and I admit that there are going

to be people who will be mad at me there

will be people who’ll quit watching this

program because I teach on healing and

it’s going to make them feel upset or

whatever and there will be people with

negative reactions but I can also

guarantee you this that there are going

to be hundreds if not thousands and tens

of thousands of people who will grab

hold of the truth and who will be healed

and miracles will start operating in

their life and rather than just avoid

this because I’m going to upset somebody

or offend somebody I’m trying to teach

the truth of things that God has spoken

to me that are working in my life to

help you and even though there are some

people who will be upset over this

know what I’m looking at the people who

are receiving and therefore I’m

persevering and going through this and

I’m just encouraging you to open up your

heart and receive these truths God wants

you well healing is in Christ atonement

for you it’s part of what he purchased

for you and you need to believe and you

need to receive that you know here’s a

little booklet that today I’m going to

make this available to you as a gift

it’s entitled God wants you well and it

covers the exact same things that I’m

teaching in this CD set by the same name

and in my book it covers these same

things but it’s just in a condensed

version it has a couple of testimonies

in here and one of the things on the

back page of this I’ve got actually a

footnote from my life for today’s Study

Bible I’ve got a 600 plus page Study

Bible that is the four Gospels put into

chronological orders with footnotes on

it and at Matthew chapter 8 I believe

it’s verse 16 or 17 I’ve got this

footnote and I just wanted to bring some

of these things out to make this point

that God wants you well because it says

in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 that Jesus

is the Express image of the Father that

word Express image is talking about he

is a perfect representation an exact

duplicate when you looked at Jesus jesus

told his disciples in the 14th chapter

of the book of John if you have seen me

you have seen the father Jesus

represented God like none of us his

followers since that time have ever

represented him he represented his

father perfectly there wasn’t a single

thing that his father wanted to do that

Jesus didn’t do Jesus was the perfect

representation and just look at what the

scripture says about what Jesus did

concerning this subject of healing

you know before I get right into this

let me just say that there’s a lot of

people that they form their opinions

about it being God’s will to heal or not

to heal not based on what the word says

they look out here and they see people

who are good people who tried to pray

and believe God for healing and it

didn’t work and so they form their

opinion based on what they’ve

experienced in life and they just don’t

let

the Word of God get in the way of what

they believe and you know what that’s

sad that’s sad

you shouldn’t interpret the Bible by

your experiences you ought to interpret

your experiences but what the Bible says

the Word of God is absolute the Word of

God is always true so for those of you

who will let the word of God influence

what you believe listen to what the Word

of God says there are 17 times in the

Gospels where Jesus healed all of the

sick that were present you know again I

hadn’t got time to read through every

one of these I couldn’t cover the first

point here if I read through every one

of these I just want you to get this

overall concept and again I’m going to

offer you this little booklet so you can

get this this will be our freebie to you

we’ll just sew this into your life if

you want it and you can look these up we

actually had one woman who called in and

she had cancer

and the doctors had given her treatments

and said that it was just too aggressive

it had metastasized gone throughout her

entire body and they sent her home to

die so she called into our helpline and

just was telling us that her situation

that she was going to a friend’s home I

think she lived way up north like in

Michigan or someplace and she was going

to a friend’s home in Florida to spend

her last days down there and die and she

was just telling us about her change of

address and what her situation was and

what was going on they prayed for and

they sent her this little booklet this

exact booklet right here that says God

wants you well and she went to Florida

and she just took the back page of this

little booklet and looked up every verse

and begin to study this in about two

months later our helpline called her as

a follow-up just to see how she was

doing and they asked and they got ahold

of her and said how are you doing and

she said oh I just came from a back back

from a doctor’s appointment and there is

not a single trace of cancer she hadn’t

had any more treatments they hadn’t done

anything it wasn’t a miraculous medical

cure it was the Word of God literally

set her free these exact spur

pictures and so I’m not going to take

time to read every one but you need to

get this book if not for yourself for

somebody else and study this and I’ll

tell you this had set you free but there

are 17 times in the Gospels where Jesus

healed all of the sick not just one or

two but all of the sick every single one

of them there are 47 other times where

he healed one or two people at a time

not in the sense that he only wanted to

heal one or two but he just singled out

somebody like at the Pool of Bethesda

fifth chapter of the book of John he

healed that one man who was lame and

impotent and then he left but so if you

add this all together there are a total

of 64 times in the Gospels where Jesus

healed one or two or multitudes at one

time and you know I don’t have any way

of figuring out what the exact numbers

are when He healed all there could have

been a hundred people in each of those

or two hundred people or who knows what

it was but these 64 times and these are

all separate instances I’ve allowed for

the fact that the gospel sometimes

report the same instance and so I’ve

separated those out these are 64

separate instances where jesus healed

people from one up to a hundred or more

at a time now the fact that he did that

that is phenomenal phenomenal that shows

you that this wasn’t an anomaly this

wasn’t an exception this shows you that

Jesus didn’t just touch people every

once in a while this shows you that this

is Jesus representing the father again I

go back to a scripture I used in the

beginning of this program Hebrews 1:3

that Jesus is the express image of the

Father he is an exact copy the very fact

that Jesus went about and healed so many

people shows that it is God’s will to

heal and then you put with that Acts

chapter 10 verse 38 and that verse says

how that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

with power and with the Holy Ghost who

went about doing good healing all that

were oppressed of the devil man there’s

a lot in that verse

this was actually Peter preaching the

gospel to Cornelius a Gentile and he was

telling him about how that God anointed

Jesus of Nazareth with power and with

the Holy Ghost to win about doing good

he said it was good to heal people today

much of the religious Church says oh

that’s a bedeviled it’s amazing to me

how they could say something is of the

devil that just comprised the bulk of

Jesus ministry and so people are doing

the same thing that Jesus is doing and

they’re saying that’s of the devil you

know in Isaiah chapter 5 I believe its

first 20 it says that people will call

evil good and good evil and we are

living in a day where that’s happening

and not only are the non-christians

doing this and they’re calling things

like homosexuality as being a good thing

and this is the way God made me and

they’re calling immorality and we’re you

know in the secular world there’s plenty

of people calling evil good and good

evil but sad to say even in the church

the church is doing the same thing you

can have people that say it’s of the

devil to believe that God wants you well

and that God wants to heal but then

they’ll turn around and things that are

clearly from the devil they will embrace

and there’s portions of the church today

that are promoting things that I

guarantee are demonic and never were

God’s plan and so we see that in the

last days people are calling evil good

good evil the scripture says acts 10:38

that Jesus went about doing good healing

all that were oppressed of the devil

Healing is good it brings glory to God

it causes people to be born again it

causes people to recognize that God is

alive and real and healing is not bad

healing is good Jesus went about doing

good healing all not some all that were

oppressed of the devil noticed they were

oppressed of the devil not oppressed of

God again you have a large segment of

the body of Christ that says God put

this sickness on you to teach you

something God put this on you to humble

you and make you better

that’s not what the scripture says Jesus

healed all that were oppressed of the

devil they were not oppressed of God and

I’m going to deal with this more as we

continue through this series but when

you put all of this together here’s one

of the things that convinces me that

it’s God’s will to heal because jesus

healed everybody now again I already

used that verse in mark chapter 6 verse

5 where it says he could do no mighty

work say that he laid his hands upon a

few sick folk he didn’t heal everybody

in Nazareth in his hometown but it’s not

because he didn’t want to it’s because

he couldn’t do it because of their

unbelief

Jesus was operating in faith perfectly

and yet he couldn’t overcome the

unbelief of those people you know

there’s a similar passage of scripture

in mark chapter 8 I believe it’s verse

22 where jesus healed a man who was

blind and he took that man by the hand

and led him out of the town and you know

sometimes when people read the Bible

they just don’t think they just read

through it and don’t think why didn’t

Jesus take the man by the hand to lead

him out of town was it because he just

wanted to go for a stroll was it because

he just needed to get away and spend

some time alone or you know it’s obvious

that Jesus was busy you know I’m busy

and if you want me to pray for you if

you come to one of my meetings I’m not

going to grab you by the hand and walk

for an hour out into the country and

minister to you I just got too much to

do and I can guarantee you there was a

greater demand on Jesus than there is on

my time Jesus didn’t take this man by

the hand and walk out into the country

just so that he could have something to

do or because it’s weird there’s a lot

of people that think God does things

just so that nobody can figure him out

he just does things to keep you off

balance now there’s a reason why God did

things this man came from let me just

read this to make sure that I don’t make

a mistake here but this is Mark chapter

8 and in verse 22 he came to Bethsaida

and they brought unto Him a blind man

and besought him to touch him and he

took the blind man by the hand and led

him out of the town and when

had spit on his eyes he asked him if he

saw out he says I can see men as trees

walking so Jesus prayed for him a second

time and his eyes were completely open

but see again the reason that he took

this man by the hand and led him out of

the town if you would read in Luke

chapter 10 Jesus put a curse on

Bethsaida and Capernaum and he said woe

unto thee corazon one two the best

sailor and anyway in other places I

think there was another town that was

included in there but nonetheless this

town of Bethsaida right here he cursed

them saying if the mighty works that had

been done in you had been done in tyre

and sidon or sodom and gomorrah they

would have repented a long time ago in

sackcloth and ashes but in the day of

judgment there’s it’s going to be easier

on those people way back then than it is

on you because you had such a greater

manifestation of God’s power and so

anyway my point is that Bethsaida was

one of the two cities that Jesus said

was so full of unbelief that it was

going to be worse on them than it was on

the cities of sodom and gomorrah and if

you couple this together with what I was

saying in mark chapter 6 where Jesus

could do no mighty work because of their

unbelief then you see that the reason I

believe he took the man by the hand and

led him out of the town was because of

all of the unbelief of those people it

would have affected him from receiving

and even though he got the man out of

the town he hadn’t gotten all of the

town out of the man this man was still

struggling with unbelief and that’s the

reason that at first he only received a

portion of his healing and so Jesus had

to minister to him a second time because

there was still unbelief in this

atmosphere of Bethsaida was inside of

this man and Jesus had to deal with it

and so jesus healed all now there were

people that obviously didn’t get healed

but not because it wasn’t his will and

when you put that together with Hebrews

1:3 that says Jesus is Express image of

the Father then this to me is one of the

greatest indications that God wants you

well is to look at Jesus how did Jesus

minister jesus healed all that were

oppressed of the devil Jesus went about

doing good healing all that were

to the devil there isn’t a single

instance where Jesus puts cancer on

somebody and says this is to humble you

you’re going to be better you will be

much more mature if you suffer and go

through this there isn’t a single

instance where he left somebody

paralyzed saying that you know what this

is your cross that you have to bear if

Jesus truly reflected God the Father

then Jesus would have failed in that

mission by not giving sickness to people

if it was God’s will for sickness to be

a part of your life but see you don’t

find that you don’t find a single time

where Jesus put sickness on a person

refused to heal a person because God was

working some redemptive purpose in their

life and he wanted them to suffer a

little longer you don’t find that you

find where Jesus went about doing good

and healing all that were oppressed of

the devil he is the perfect

representation of God and therefore by

looking at Jesus you can see that God

wants you well God doesn’t want you

suffering it is not God’s will for you

to be sick and I know that there’s some

of you watching this program saying all

right already I get it you’ve been

saying this all week long tell me how to

do it well I’m going to if you’ll

continue to listen I’m going to start

talking about how to receive but I’m

telling you that this is a hurdle that

you have to cross you have to get over

this thing about does God want me well

God can heal but maybe God is allowing

this because I deserve it maybe I’m not

worthy maybe he put this on me to

glorify Him you got to get rid of that

kind of thinking or you are not going to

get healed I refer back to a verse that

I used earlier in the week in James

chapter 1 verse 5 and it says if any man

lacks wisdom let him ask of God that

gives to all men liberally and

upbraideth not and it shall be given him

but let him ask in faith nothing

wavering he that wavers is like a wave

of the sea driven with the wind and

tossed let not that man think that he

shall receive anything of the Lord a

double minded man is unstable in all of

his ways if I had time to just take

those verses and dissect them you could

see that if you say that well I

leave it’s God’s will for me to be

healed but then at the next breath you

think about I wonder if he really wants

me healed or maybe I’m supposed to bear

this this is my cross to bear maybe God

wants me to suffer a little bit longer

to make me holy maybe I don’t deserve

this maybe I haven’t done everything

right see that’s wavering and it says

that if you waver you shall not receive

anything of the Lord and I’m telling you

this is where a lot of people are

missing their healing they know that God

can heal another very fun you know

definition if God is God he can do

anything he’s God he can do it

people don’t doubt God’s ability to heal

they doubt his willingness to heal and

I’m trying to establish that God wants

you well it’s in Scripture it’s a part

of you the atonement of Jesus Christ

Jesus gave us the perfect example in

Jesus went about doing good healing all

that were oppressed of the devil you

know I’m out of time today but I will

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website at aw mu net I was diagnosed

with multiple sclerosis more than 20

years ago I started getting this bad

stomach pain that happen every time I

ain’t something she said that the

cheekbones were flattened the nose bone

was not visible at all the pinky fingers

on both hands the third digit the was

missing from the pinky I have decided

that I was going to run from God and I

was never going to let anybody have that

much control to hurt me that much ever

again his ribs were busted his sternum

was busted one hip was crushed and the

femur was broken real close and the

nurse had told me told my wife later

says people younger would die God wants

you well continues next week on gospel

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