Believe It Or Not

Roman: Hi David. What I want to talk about is a bit outside of your usual topic here. My family is close to a very popular preacher who I think has made money off the backs of desperate, lazy Christians searching for healing and miracles. He’s been claiming he has seen thousands of healing miracles since he begun his ministry. He preaches a lot about seeing God perform healing miracles on a regular basis, which I doubt.

David Bondze-Mbir (DBM): Why do you doubt?

Roman: Because he fell ill some time ago, and the best physicians were arranged to his bed side. His wife fell ill some time ago, and it wasn’t some miraculous prayer he prayed that healed her. A doctor and his prescription drugs cured her. I feel like these pastors are lying to us. There is this one time I wasn’t feeling well. He called to pray and nothing happened. But I couldn’t tell him his prayers didn’t work.

DBM: Are you a believer in Jesus?

Roman: Yes

DBM: Do you believe the Word of GOD, I mean, over your own personal experiences or perceptions?

Roman: Yes

DBM: What’s written in John 14:12

Roman: “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” 

DBM: Meaning, you, not the pastor you don’t trust, but even you, can speak forth the miraculous and it shall/can/will come to pass. Healing is your portion. Miracles are your portion. Deliverance can happen as you call it into being.

Roman: I know, but I don’t understand why they have to lie to people in the house of God, about miracles and testimonies they know did not happen? Their children fall sick and the first person they call on is their personal physicians, and not God.

DBM: Let them!

Roman: But why? I need to understand the why behind their lies

DBM: It may be a lie to you but to them, it’s their truth

Roman: And their truth, they know is a lie. Sometimes, even their wives doubt their testimonies.

DBM: Let me use you as the perfect guinea pig: You’re choosing to dismiss them simply because their messages have no real demonstration of GOD’s power, no?

Roman: Yes

DBM: So, in order for their talk to not be that cheap, some wouldn’t mind spicing their messages with miracles that never happened.

Roman: Dave, I am being very honest with you. I have never seen this man heal anyone feeli-feeli through his ministry before, for as long as I have known him and his family.

DBM: Let them!

Roman: While they continue lying to, and profiting off people?

DBM: Let them!

Roman: You believe these people?

DBM: I believe in the fact that, Jesus heals to this day, and He expresses His might through the miraculous divine intervention of His power, and through medicine. That is why He has graced doctors and nurses who are attentive to deploying some of the remarkable advances in medical research to bring healing and good health to the sick.

Roman: I know that

DBM: Good! So, your pastor getting healed because he was attended to by his doctor is equally an outpouring of some of the signs and wonders accompanying his faith. That, is a message in the miracle of his healing.

Roman: Then the emphasis of their healing messages should be centered around the doctors and nurses.

DBM: Let them! Whatever makes them sleep well at night.

Roman: I hope I’m not boring you?

DBM: No, you’re not!

Roman: Thank you!

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