Have you or someone you love ever experienced sickness or pain and believed that God has caused it, or perhaps that He is inflicting or allowing it in order to teach a lesson? This is a common misconception of God that the Bible reveals is simply not true.
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welcome to gospel truth with andrew
wommack a teaching ministry that focuses
on god’s unconditional love and grace
god would no more want you to live in
sickness than he wants you to live in
sin he has forgiven you of sin
and healed you of sickness the same way
it was bit by bit and we really had to
ease into it just because it was
everything against i’d ever been taught
our lives have been completely changed
now it’s normal for me and my brothers
to go and play soccer with friends i
didn’t think that that would become
normal for me ever
and now here’s andrew welcome to our
monday’s gospel truth broadcast this is
going to be a very special broadcast i
was praying about what to share and i
really felt like the lord spoke to me
about just sharing
on healing and i’ve got so much material
on healing that
it’s it’s nearly overwhelming if i was
just to teach and use all of the product
that we have on healing i could go at
least seven or eight months this is an
area
that has been a focus of mine and my
ministry and we’ve got a lot of product
we’re going to be advertising that
throughout this thing
but let me just say that as i was
praying about what to minister the lord
was just speaking to me that
this
is not a luxury
for most people i think that most
christians
they really do depend upon doctors
medicine
health things eating right exercise this
is where their focus is
for healing and prayer is kind of an
afterthought now i’m not against doctors
i’m not against exercise i’m not against
eating right i’m not against any of
these things but i
believe it everything is inverted it
should be exactly the opposite we ought
to look to god number one
for our healing and i’m saying this in
love
but the lord spoke to me
and i believe it’s true for the vast
majority of these people that are
watching this program that people do not
really know how to believe god for
healing now they pray for healing out of
desperation and they ask but they don’t
understand the authority that god has
given us they don’t understand it’s a
part of the atonement that the lord
provided there’s just so many things
that they don’t understand
and wrong thinking produces wrong
believing
you know it says over in second peter
chapter 1 it says that everything that
pertains unto life and godliness is
given unto us through the knowledge
of him that has called us to glory and
virtue and then the next verse verse 4
says by this knowledge has given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises
this word of god
are his promises it’s his knowledge and
this is how faith comes faith is based
on knowledge
and there are multitudes of christians
watching this program
who believe that god can heal and you
pray for it but you don’t it’s like you
can’t find a handle on it it’s like you
just throw your prayer out and hope that
god answers and if he does we’ll praise
god and if he doesn’t you just don’t
understand i’m telling you that is not
what the word of god teaches matter of
fact the lord gave us a command to go
out and preach the gospel heal the sick
cleanse the lepers and raise the dead
it’s a part of preaching the gospel
healing is like a bell that draws people
to god there’s some people that honestly
they are living in such a hell at this
moment they aren’t thinking about
eternity in the future
they are just trying to cope here today
and so they aren’t thinking spiritually
they aren’t thinking about eternal
things and when you start seeing
miraculous healings
come it’s a bell that gets their
attention and it draws people and i tell
you i have seen
i couldn’t
put an exact number on it but certainly
thousands probably tens of thousands of
people’s lives touched because of the
miracles that we report you know we now
have eight of these volumes
that we call healing journeys and
there’s usually there’s four to five
testimonies on each one so if there was
four on each one that’s at least 32 or
uh five this would be between 30 and 40
testimonies of people that were raised
from the dead healed of multiple
sclerosis
down syndrome healed
allergies healed brain
fog brain injuries and things like this
a brain aneurysm and just on and on it
can go we’ve got all of these things and
they are faith builders matter of fact i
prayed with a woman this morning i got
an emergency phone call from one of my
friends and
anyway a
woman’s husband had a brain aneurysm and
the doctors have him on life support but
says that he’s dead and there’s nothing
that they can do
and i was praying with her and i
referred her to that testimony that we
have about gina boop that was healed of
a brain aneurysm and i was just with
gina and bud last week and man she is
totally healthy and what back to being
completely normal and we have seen
miracles happen and i tell you this is
an important part of preaching the
gospel i know that there’s some people
who watch this program that you know you
may receive some of the things i say but
when it comes to healing there’s just
disconnect and there are many of you
that have been taught that healing can
happen if it happens well then praise
god but if it doesn’t it’s you it’s not
something that you have
as a right but jesus told the woman
that was healed
says
this is the children’s bread it’s not
right that we should take the children’s
bread and throw it unto dogs he was
talking about healing as being part of
what he’s provided it’s a children’s
bread this is something that god has
provided for us and you know i grew up
in a denomination my dad was the
chairman of the deacons he loved god he
led people to the lord of course he was
i was only 12 when my dad died he was 50
54 years old at the time of his death
and
you know i didn’t know him the way that
other people did to me he was just my
dad and he was sick my entire life he
actually died when i was two years old
and was raised from the dead
but had problems uh up until the time i
was 12. and anyway my point is he was
the chairman of the deacon he loved god
but he didn’t know healing
he didn’t understand healing and because
of it i lost my dad at a young age my
mother
she was a widow and i think
i forget the exact age but it was
48 or something like that she became a
widow and was a widow for
nearly 50 years
and all of these things happened because
the denomination we went to chose to
focus on forgiveness of sins and say
that forgiveness of sins was essential
and important and that’s what they
focused on and they believed that god
could heal but they didn’t believe that
it was his will to heal every time they
certainly didn’t understand that they
had any control or any authority over it
the best they would do is just pray and
say god if it be your will
and i’m saying this in love this may
feel like it’s harsh to some people but
you’re gonna die
you’re gonna stay sick you will not see
healing manifest if you approach it that
way
the word of god has a lot to say
about healing
and as i said at the beginning of this
program i’ve got so much material that
there’s no way i mean i if i was to
cover everything that god has shown me
on healing it would literally take
months and months i could probably spend
a year doing nothing but just
ministering on this subject of healing
so this is going to be a condensed
teaching i do have this little
booklet here that summarizes a teaching
i have entitled god wants you well i’ve
got that on cd and dvd that i’ve got a
book on that i’ve got a study guide and
this is a summary of this and you know
at the back of this little book
there is a thing that just takes a
footnote from my living commentary and
it goes through and says that there are
17 times recorded in the gospel where
jesus healed all of the sick that were
present then there are 41 other times
recorded where he healed one or two
people at a time there is not one single
instance that he ever refused to heal a
person or told a person that they hadn’t
suffered enough or that god put this on
them to get glory out of it there is no
instance of that and we had one woman
who
the doctors had given her up to die she
had terminal cancer they had done
everything for that they could and so
they sent her home to die and she was on
her way to florida and she i forget the
exact details but a friend or something
had a condo on a beach in florida and
she thought she’d just go down there and
and die down there and so she was a
partner of ours she called our ministry
and just uh told us to you know stop
sending things to her because she was on
her deathbed wouldn’t be living
and the people that received her call
prayed with her and then they sent her a
bunch of these materials that we’re
going to be offering you and they sent
her this little booklet and she just
took this with this little booklet and
while she was down there in florida
waiting to die she got to just looking
up all of the times that god healed
people and started reading those
instances
and you know in psalms 107 20 it says he
sent his word and healed them and
delivered them from all their
destructions and so while she was down
there in this condo on the beach just
waiting to die she started reading the
scriptures and she got totally healed
after the doctors had sent her home to
die as far as i know she’s still alive
today but she recovered and sent in this
testimony and my point is that you don’t
have to just
you don’t have to be limited to what the
doctors can do to what medicine can do
to what diet and exercise and health
foods can do those things in their place
there’s a place for all of them but i’m
telling you that the word of god
is health unto all of your flesh and
life unto them that find it that’s in
proverbs chapter 4. in third john
chapter 1 verse 2
john wrote and said beloved i wish above
all things that thou mayest prosper
and be in health even as thy soul
prospers
god wants you well
god wants you well that is god’s will
for you
and i know that there are millions of
people we actually have over
5 billion people who can watch this
program any place in the world and out
of that number of people i can guarantee
you there are probably millions of
people that you’ve been told that god
wants you to suffer that god may have
put this sickness on you because you did
something wrong and this is his way of
punishing you or many people are just
taught that well god doesn’t intervene
like that today
that god doesn’t do miracles today
there’s all kinds of reactions out there
but i’m telling you in the name of the
lord that god wants you well he has paid
for your healing
and i’m going to be sharing scriptures
with you that i promise you if you take
these scriptures and if you were to take
advantage of all of the products that
we’re offering
it would be nearly impossible for you to
stay sick
and i know that that’s a shock to most
people sickness seems to be the norm for
most people but that is not what the
word of god teaches
and let me also start this whole
teaching by saying
this that
it’s like you know i have all of the
muscles
in my body then arnold schwarzenegger or
you could say the biggest weight lifter
or you know mr universe i’ve got the
same muscles as mr universe but they
aren’t developed i my muscles aren’t the
same as somebody that’s been pumping
weights and doing all of these things
but i have the potential
and if i was to so desire i might not
become the best in the world but i i
could just totally transform my body by
lifting weights and doing things i have
that potential you have that potential
did you know that all of us have the
potential of running a race
now some of you couldn’t even imagine
that you can’t hardly run across the
yard
your yard you couldn’t run a block but
did you know you have the potential to
do that
and
for you to just sit there and say oh no
i could never have one of these big
biceps or i could never build my body up
or i could never run a race you’re
denying the potential that you have now
it is important that you recognize you
may not be able to do that today
if you try and bench press 500 pounds
and stuff it could kill you if you don’t
if you don’t have any if you haven’t
built up your muscles man it that thing
could fall on you and could kill you and
so yes you do need to recognize where
you are but at the same time you need to
recognize what the potential is and this
is what i’m saying about healing that
you have the potential
to walk in supernatural health not to
where you just get sick and then once
you get sick you know how to pray and
believe and receive your healing you can
actually get to a place to where you
walk in health and you don’t get sick
and i can guarantee you there are
millions of people all around the world
right now saying that is not true you
cannot live that way i’m going to show
you from god’s word that you can there
are promises that he will turn
off sickness
on the inside of you
man some of you are thinking where is
that you need to listen to this series
i’m just giving an introduction right
now but if you never see the potential
if you never head in that direction if
you are a couch potato and if you think
that this is the way that god wants you
to live and you never exercise you’d
never walk
man you would you know i’ve got
friends when i go on meetings uh
i always take the stairs when i am in a
hotel i remember going to uganda
and i had a guy go with me and the ceo
of our ministry says you’d stick with
him wherever he goes whatever he does
and we were on the sixth floor of a
hotel and i walked up and down those
stairs every single time
and this guy i mean at
level three he would stop and have to
catch his breath and say wait a minute
and stuff and i said look you can take
the elevator it’s fine he says no i’m
going to stay with you but see there’s
some people that honestly walking six
flights of stairs is just something that
you you can’t even imagine doing but you
have that potential but it’s not going
to happen unless you apply yourself
unless you begin to exercise yourself
and i guess this is the point i’m trying
to get across today is that healing is
for us god wants you well
god wants you well as much as he wants
you to be free from drugs and alcohol as
much as he wants you to not live in sin
healing isn’t separated into all of
these different parts and forgiveness of
sins is the only thing that god is
really concerned with his is concerned
about your body that verse that i just
read beloved i wish above all things
all things that’s a huge statement i
wish above all things that you may
prosper and be in health even as your
soul prospers
god wants you well but it’s not going to
happen unless you begin to apply
yourself you aren’t going to run a
marathon unless you start training and
get up off of the couch and start doing
things and it takes a while to do that
god wants you well just as much as you
have the ability to lift weights and to
build muscles and do things you may not
be there today and it’s not going to
happen unless you start training if you
don’t live five pounds you’ll never lift
a hundred pounds if you don’t lift the
hundreds you’ll never lift two hundred
you gotta start working towards it and
in the same way you need to start
believing for healing and here’s one of
the motivations
that i believe god really impressed on
me why it’s important for me to be
teaching on healing because we’re in the
midst at the time i’m making this
program we’re in the midst of a pandemic
and we’ve now been in it for two years
again i’m not condemning anybody else
it’s like a person that runs a marathon
a person that runs a marathon shouldn’t
condemn a person that can’t run across
the yard but at the same time you
shouldn’t condemn a person that runs a
marathon and so you shouldn’t be doing
that no you have the potential to do
that and if that’s the way you choose to
live well then that’s fine
you shouldn’t condemn me because i’ve
exercised myself in this area of healing
and i walk in health and i don’t get
sick i don’t believe in getting sick you
can’t make me sick now there’s people
that will get upset at me and say things
and say you’re condemning people i’m not
condemning a person any more than a
person who runs a marathon condemns a
person who can’t run a marathon but i’m
saying that you can live
in a way where you overcome sickness and
sickness does not have any receptor in
you
and i’m just trying to paint a picture
here that god wants you well
god wants you well more than you want to
be well
and i know that there are people
watching this thinking well then why
aren’t i healed
well one of the things i’m going to be
teaching here is there are laws
that govern healing just the same as
there are laws that govern electricity
you may want the lights turned on in
your house but you know what you’ve got
to generate the power you’ve got to pay
the bill you’ve got to flip the switch
it doesn’t come on just because you pray
there are natural laws
associated with electricity and with
your car running and things like this
there are spiritual laws that govern
healing and god cannot
override
these spiritual laws and just a little
taste i’m not going to explain this in
depth but one of them is proverbs 18 21
death and life are in the power of the
tongue death and life not only life but
death and life and you many of us are
hung by the tongue we’re sitting here
speaking that well i don’t know if god
wants to heal me somebody says how are
you doing and you just tell them every
hurt and every pain what the doctor says
but you don’t speak what god says
in psalms chapter 91 a scripture that
promises all kinds of health that no
plague will come nigh are dwelling verse
2 says i will say of the lord he is my
refuge he is my fortress faith is voice
activated the healing power of god is
voice activated that’s one of the laws
that governs healing i’m going to be
teaching on this
in depth as we go through it but this
first program is just to try and present
that this is not a luxury this is not
just an add-on
i’ve had people criticize me and say you
just ought to stick to preaching the
gospel i am this is part of the gospel
it says in matthew chapter 10 go preach
the gospel heal the sick cleanse the
lepers raise the dead jesus spent more
time healing people than he did doing a
lot of things
i’m telling you that this is important
and so i want to encourage you to please
go to the effort
to listen to these programs i don’t know
everything that there is to know about
healing but what i do know
has enabled me to see people raised from
the dead blind eyes open deaf ears open
people come out of wheelchairs it’s
enabled me to walk free of sickness
it i may not know it all but i’ve
learned enough that it’s working to a
large degree and praise god i offer it
to you it will be a blessing to you we
got a lot of things this again is a free
little pamphlet that kind of just
summarizes many of the things then i’ve
got this teaching on god wants you well
in cd or in dvd form and then we have a
book entitled god wants you well we’ve
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we’ve got these healing journeys eight
volumes of this we’ve got a healing
university which is over 60 hours worth
of teaching not only by myself but a lot
of my staff people that have seen
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