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Pre-approved for healing

Ever get those credit card applications in the mail that say that you're pre-approved for a new credit card that has a 20.9% APR, no grace period, and a $40 annual fee? All you have to do is sign your name and send back the application. You're guaranteed to get the credit card, to say nothing of the right to have your supper interrupted for the next five years by telemarketers pitching supplemental hospital insurance, shopping services, travel clubs, and so on, all conveniently billable to your new credit card. If someone acted toward this offer the way Christians act toward their healing, he would: -- Send back the application with a list of good references who can vouch that he is truly deserving of this pre-approved credit card. "Joe has lived a good moral life. If anyone is deserving of this credit card, surely he is." -- Write a passionate letter pleading for the card. "PLEASE give me this card. If you do, I promise that I will rack up big bills with it. I will make only the minimum payments and help you build your next skyscraper downtown with all my interest charges." -- Throw up his hands and say, "Well! If they really wanted me to have this credit card, they would just send it to me. I guess they really don't want me to have it." -- Say, "No way do I want this credit card. Sinful Sam down the street got this same offer. I'm insulted to be offered exactly the same terms as Sinful Sam."

You can't do a thing to deserve your healing. Jesus made you worthy to receive it. Jesus already paid a price so that you could be healed. You are pre-approved for healing. I didn't receive my pre-approved credit card the last time I got one of those mailings. You know why? I didn't send in the Trust Rating application! (I get those offers every couple of weeks anyway. I've noticed that they don't send those things to people who really need % credit cards -- they send them to people who already have credit preachalways.tripod.com cards.) That wasn't the credit card company's fault. The only

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reason I didn't get it was because I did not act on the preapproved offer. God already made provision for your healing when Jesus bled and died. You had not done a thing to please God. Your salvation was reserved for you while you were still in sin. Healing is available on a gift basis only. It is not a trophy for a handful of especially consecrated Christians.

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The problem is not God, but modern philosophy and theology, as reflected in Proverbs 32:2-3: "For you never know what God will do. Sometimes he will say Yes, sometimes he will say No, sometimes he will say Wait, and sometimes he just won't answer. Surely God helps those who help themselves." These thoughts aren't in the Bible but people quote them things as if they were.

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aren't in the Bible but people quote them things as if they were. The truth of the matter is that God will never say no to a request backed by his covenant. 1 John 5:14-15 makes this clear. We even have people telling us that sickness is a friend and a blessing. If sickness is a blessing, instead of gifts of healings operating in the body of Christ, we should have gifts of sickening. Preachers should be heard saying, "There's a man in the third row, and God showed me that you are well. As I speak, God is blessing you with pain in -- I think it's your lower back, but I could be wrong...."

Healing is available to you on the same pre-approved basis as salvation from hell. It does not become yours until you respond to God's offer. The good news is that you can't be turned down when you send back your application in faith!
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