“The true living God is greater and powerful than any other gods”
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II Kings 1:1-4, So Ahaziah sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury… Therefore this is what the Lord says, ‘you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’ (NIV).”
This is one of the weaknesses of Israelites to keep away themselves from Baal worship and worst sins often committed before God in their history. They knew that their God (YEWEH) is always their strength and power and yet it was obvious that they did not live out their faith in practical life. Their pagan beliefs in Baal and other idols were so big temptations and great challenges for them to turn away, they often turn back and became slaves to those gods, which is against the true living God. King Ahaziah of Israel did forsaken his true God and consult the god of Ekron and therefore the Lord dealt with his illness to death.
God is a God who can raise the dead even, life and death is in His hands and plans for each one of us. He is the divine healer, every kind of sicknesses are cured in His name. Jesus Christ is the great healer and the best physician where the best of this world can produce but can’t heal what Jesus can. He is the perfect healer of every sickness. On the other hands, since Old Testament times there had been many false teacher and healer such as the great magicians, the great healer, witch doctors, and different kinds of demonic power that heals various sicknesses. We are surrounded with so many demonic spirit and power and temptation that grasped the believers easily. What is our stand and belief in true God? Obviously and uniquely those false healer and power are just temporary healing and last for sometime. There is no life in their healing and their mission but to curse and condemn in the future. Yes we are in battle with this satanic force on earth wherein every believer has to confess and contend with the only true God who has the power to heal both spiritual and physical that will leads to eternity.
Acknowledging God’s sovereignty of divine healing does not mean earthly doctors, physicians and the medicines are no use. God uses different healing process and the doctors and physicians are one of the God’s design healers who minister the people of God in various ways and methods with genuine needs and cares. When only people use God’s wisdom and gift in wrong ways, the ultimate consequence is bitter, harsh and worst. There are many instances when the condition of a patient is bleak after being treated with good medicines and even consistent prayer had been offered to God. We are tempted to seek different ways to relief the pain and suffering of the patient and thereby there is always tendency to fall into the trap of such stronghold of satanic power and false healing. Only God holds our lives, future and knows the destiny there is no greater gods, no greater healer, no divine healing in anyone else except our Lord Jesus. Our God is greater than our present hopeless, problems, difficulties, and any circumstances of sickness or tragedy. There is no greater cost and cause to seek God than anything/one else!
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