Why Hasn't God Healed Me?

By Glenys Godfrey

Based on the author's experiences of teaching the Word of God on healing and praying with the sick, this little book uses a common-sense conversational approach to provide answers for those unhappy people who have not yet received the manifestation of their healing by God, and have failed to understand why. The author explains why the first requirements are a desire to be healed and accepting that sickness does not come from God, and how faith and the Word must work together to harness God's power for healing. The book explains how to deal with doubt and unbelief, as well as many other possible barriers to healing. The final message is that in seeking healing through God, we must never give up hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mereo Books
• Release date: Mar 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781861516367

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Why Hasn’t God Healed Me?

How faith and persistence can bring healing and wholeness to all of us

Glenys Godfrey

Copyright © 2016 by Glenys Godfrey

Glenys Godfrey has asserted her right under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

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ISBN: 978-1-86151-636-7

This little book was written to encourage and assist those seeking healing. Remember, God loves you and wants you well. Don’t give up.

Dedicated to my good friend Jean Attwood, without whose help it would not have been written.

Please note that all scripture is taken from the New King James Version and Strong’s Concordance of the Bible

Contents

Chapter 1. Why Hasn’t God Healed Me?

Chapter 2. What is a Covenant, and How Does it Affect My Healing?

Chapter 3. If Not From God, Where Does Sickness Come From?

Chapter 4. The Word of God, and What It Tells Us About Healing

Chapter 5. What Are You Saying About Your Sickness?

Chapter 6. What Do You Believe, I Mean Really Believe, About Your Healing?

Chapter 7. How Does God’s Healing Power Work?

Chapter 8. What’s This ‘Believer’s Authority’ I Heard About?

Chapter 9. What Can We Learn From the Ministry Of Jesus?

Chapter 10. I’ve Done All That and I’m Still Not Healed

Chapter 11. What About The Demons Jesus Mentioned?

Chapter 12. What Now?

The Things People Say

‘God is sovereign, so He can’t want me healed.’

‘My mother died of heart disease, so I probably will. It runs in the family.’

‘The doctors say I have 6 months to live but I’m believing for my healing.’

‘I have been prayed for many times and nothing has worked.’ ‘I have been a churchgoer all my life and God still hasn’t healed me.’

‘The whole congregation prayed and prayed and the vicar’s wife still died.’

‘I’m a good person and kind to animals. Why has God made me sick?’

‘God has made me sick to teach me something. I can see it has made me a better person.’

‘God made me sick so I would be more sympathetic to sick people.’

‘God made Job sick, didn’t He?’

‘What about Paul’s thorn in the flesh? He had some eye disease didn’t he?’

‘My brother died when he was ill, so I lost my faith in God.’ ‘When hands were laid on me nothing happened.

I didn’t feel a thing.’

‘I’m still waiting for my miracle.’

‘Healing went out years ago. It’s not for the church today.’

Chapter 1

Why Hasn’t God Healed Me?

The answer to that is of course that He has, according to His Word, though many have not yet received the manifestation of their healing. Unless we have been taught the truth of the Bible, that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and our sickness, we have no foundation for this belief.

Because there is so much sickness in the church today, many church leaders are reluctant to teach that healing is available today for those who seek it, largely because action will be involved on someone’s part. It also depends, of course, on what the leaders themselves have been taught, together as always with personal experiences.

The error has been in the translation of certain words in Isaiah chapter 53, which has led to contradictory interpretations of the truth. We always have to remember that the Bible is already a translation from the Hebrew and Greek languages and therefore open to shades of error, like any other translation. For instance, in Isaiah 53:4, the word ‘griefs’ is more accurately translated ‘sicknesses’, i.e. physical illnesses. Certainly in the New King James version this word is cross-referenced with Matthew 8:17 (Strongs 769) to mean ‘disease’ or ‘sickness’.

If we need further evidence, we see from Isaiah 52:14 where Jesus is described on the cross after crucifixion that ‘His visage was marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men’. In other words, Jesus, disfigured by disease, could not be recognised as having been human at all. Hardly the normal appearance of someone after dying on the cross.

Isaiah verse 53 states ‘And by his stripes we are healed’. This definitely refers to physical healing as by a doctor (Strongs 7495). This interpretation is further confirmed by 1 Peter 2:24 where ‘by whose stripes you were healed’

(Strongs 2390), the word ‘healed’ is translated ‘cured’. Of course it is much easier to suggest that these words cover only spiritual healing, leaving no responsibility with us to search for anything more, but this does a huge disservice to Jesus who paid the price for it all.

Certainly, if we add the view that sickness was directly related to sin, as it was in the Old Testament and there is a connection today, if the sin has been paid for, what reason would there be for the sickness to remain? Under the law of cause and effect, it would be illogical for this to be so.

There is a danger in this association that those who are sick immediately take upon themselves the guilt of sin, and it is obvious why this is. I wish to stress however that there is no reason for a sick person to be under such condemnation. Sin can be involved somewhere, but it is not necessarily the sin of the sick person. It can have generational roots and come upon a person for many varied reasons of which they cannot be aware. Sick people who believe they deserve to be sick because of this should dispense with this thought immediately.

When we say that God is a loving God and could not possibly make us sick, people will