Why Sickness Is Not From God (Part 2)

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WHY

SICKNESS

IS NOT FROM

GOD (PART 2)

PASTOR NKECHI ENE (MRS.) In the previous article, we discovered that it is

Imagine what it would be when you have

poverty not only steals your conSidence, it

the will and desire of God to heal all diseases

inSirmities that show. Some were born that

embarrasses you as well. Reject sickness

and that God has absolutely nothing to do

way while for others it was due to

today.

with sickness; the only thing He has to do with

carelessness. That you found yourself like that

your sickness is to heal you of it. We also

doesn’t mean you have to accept it. Maybe

found out that since only good and perfect

yours is something on your skin that makes

26 and had suffered many things from many

gifts come from God, sickness can not come

you cringe all the time, limiting you to certain

physicians. She had spent all that she had and

from God because it is not good and perfect.

kinds of wears. It may even have limited the

was no better, but rather grew worse.

The Sirst and second thoughts we explored

kinds of job you can do and therefore the

were that sickness steals your joy and your

money you can earn. Sickness always robs you

time. It is not just a time waster but also an

of your conSidence. You may have heard

Notice that this verse didn’t say, “she spent

opportunity thief. In this article, we will be

messages or teachings about your identity in

most of her money” or “most of her savings”

exploring more truths about why sickness is

Christ consistently but you will never catch it

but “all that she had...” Everything she had was

not from God.

if you always think about that sickness.

stolen by sickness; taken by doctors who

Sickness steals your money

Mark 5:26

couldn’t help her and the Bible also says she

Sickness steals your con0idence

God’s desire for you is that you look at Calvary

had suffered much. So they would have

33 But the woman, fearing and trembling,

and the resurrection. Look at the new creation

injected her, poked her, checked this and done

knowing what had happened to her, came and fell

too. From whichever angle you choose to look

that but she wasn’t healed of her ailment.

down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

at a born again Christian, the design of God is

When I saw my daughter’s cartoon about this

to make you a very conSident person in who

story and how the woman was portrayed as a

Mark 5:33

He has said you are. Why does He tell you that,

very wealthy woman before her ordeal began,

This is the story of the woman who had an

“…You are seated together with Me in heavenly

that line of Scripture registered in my mind

issue of blood. When she came to Jesus, all she

places?” (Ephesians 2:6 ) He says that for you

because I miss it often. If the Scriptures

could think about was only touching the hem

to be conSident. Why does He say to you, “You

bothered to tell us that she spent all she had,

of His garment. I guess she may have settled

are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus?” (2

it means sickness is a devourer to your

the thought in her heart that everyone knew

Corinthians 5:21 ) It is to make you conSident

pocket.

what she was suffering from, but was that

of your identity. All His Word says about you

true? I don’t agree with her.

are thoughts to help you build your

Many times, one may not give God even half

conSidence. Don’t allow sickness, disease or

the amount of money you spend on sickness.

This clearly shows timidity or lack of

inSirmity break down your conSidence so

If you sit down to calculate how you spend

conSidence! Why did she go for the hem of his

much so that you can’t imagine that you can

your money, you will Sind out that the

garment and not the sleeves? Why didn’t she

be anything in God. Look at the story of the

devourer takes much more of your money

embrace Him or allow Him to hold her? She

prodigal son in Luke 15 and the father’s

than you are aware of. When sickness takes

probably would have thought Jesus could

response to the elder brother’s complain. God

your money, you don’t realize it but you think

drive her away if He saw her approaching.

wants you to have conSidence to walk boldly

it must be the church that takes your money.

Even when a sickness is not obvious to the

as a Christian. Poverty steals your conSidence

Sorry, the Church has not taken anything from

eyes, sometimes, a lack of conSidence may

too. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:16 that

you. It is the doctor, the pharmacist or the

make you think that everyone knows about it.

“Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is

chemist who is now your best friend that has

You may look hundred percent healed and

despised, and his words are not heard.”

taken something from you. Some won’t give

normal, but timidity may just get you to think

Sickness and poverty are curses. Have you

God anything but they can give it to their

it is visible to all.

ever seen a conSident poor man? Sickness and

doctor.

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The Bible says God will rebuke the devourer

can say sickness is from Him. Who is the

in Israel the covenant nation, there were

for your sake if you pay your tithe (Malachi

stranger that the Bible is referring to? Your

people that needed healing but Christ was

3:11). In other verses, you are told to use the

doctor! I do not speak against doctors or

telling this unbeliever woman that healing is

name of Jesus as a shield against the enemy,

intend to spoil their business, but there are

the right of the children. So each time you are

yet God takes the battle personally where

so many unbelievers out there to make

sick, it is equivalent to a hungry child wanting

your tithe is concerned. Who is the devourer?

money from and re-coup the wealth of the

to eat and somebody takes his bread away

The devourer is anything that takes or steals

wicked into your hospital. I often tell people

from him. It is your right, so you must

your money wastefully. How has God rebuked

that if you know you don’t have faith, you

approach healing with “It is my right” kind of

the devourer of sickness? By providing

know you haven’t learnt how to break bread

attitude not that you are going to beg for it.

healing in your covenant with Him! It means

yet and you know you cant handle it when

That woman had to beg because she was an

when you pay your tithe, you have a right to

you fall sick, please go and see a doctor. I am

unbeliever, which typiSies the state of a

say no when symptoms of sickness come

not a preacher that teaches that the hospital

modern day unbeliever. She begged Jesus but

against you because you are a tithe payer. Do

is sin but I belong to the church of Christ that

He wondered why He should take what

you know why you spend so much money on

is expected to give you the whole gospel and

belongs to the children and give to her.

sickness? Because you are afraid, so you take

show you how to maximize your healing

any advice or perceived solution from the

covenant. God expects you to eat well and

doctors.

drink what you laboured for. He said He ministers seed to the sower and also bread

Listen, healing belongs to the children, healing is the children’s bread and it is your right. Galatians 3:13 tells you that Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law, of

When you don’t have the knowledge of faith,

for your food. So, He wants you to work, He

you are prone to becoming afraid because

wants you to labour so that you can eat and

sickness comes to steal your life. That is why

you can sow your seed. He says He has given

you would always see people running all over

you the power to get wealth so that you may

the place, spending money they don’t have or

establish the covenant, do the work of the

money they borrowed on sicknesses. Jesus

ministry i.e raise churches, send people out

Christ is the only doctor with hundred

to preach the gospel. That is what the money

Sickness Does Not Glorify God

percent successes. So, with Christ there is no

He sends your way is for; not for doctors.

The last thing about sickness is that sickness

“if”. Unlike what human doctors would say to a sick person, “If you get well and you stay

Sickness steals your rights.

which one of such curse is sickness.

Therefore, healing is your redemptive right as a believer and you must approach it like that else sickness will steal your right.

does not glorify God. Everywhere in the Scriptures where you see Jesus Christ healing

well, you are going to pay the bills for one or

22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came from

someone, it goes on to add “and they gloriSied

two years.” There are people whose lives have

that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have

God” when the person got healed, not when

been devastated and broken forever because

mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

the person was still sick. The Bible tells you

one sickness entered the family. You have to reject it. It is not from God.

23 But He answered her not a word.

And His disciples came and urged Him, saying,

in 1 Corinthians 6:30 to “glorify God with your body.” How do you glorify God with your body if your body is broken from sickness and

18 Here is what I have seen: It is good and

“Send her away, for she cries out after us.”

Sitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the

24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent

good of all his labor in which he toils under the

except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

sun all the days of his life which God gives him;

25 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying,

for it is his heritage.

“Lord, help me!”

19 As for every man to whom God has given

26 But He answered and said, “It is not good to

body; it becomes strong and healthy and God

riches and wealth, and given him power to eat

take the children’s bread and throw it to the

is gloriSied. Glorifying God with your body is

of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his

little dogs.”

not just standing on God’s Word for healing, it

labor—this is the gift of God.

27 And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little

is also displayed when you don’t do things

dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their

that could cause sickness or harm to your

masters’ table.”

body, like abstinence from smoking and

1 There is an evil, which I have seen under the

28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O

drinking or when you diet and exercise. Not

sun and it is common among men:

woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as

when you eat heavy calories at eleven o’clock

2 A man to whom God has given riches and

you desire.” And her daughter was healed from

wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for

that very hour.

Ecclesiastes 5:18-19

himself of all he desires; yet God does not give

Matthew 15: 22-28

him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil afSliction.

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

Does God expect you to be spending your

Sickness steals what is rightfully yours. What Jesus called the children’s bread in verse 26

disease? You can’t glorify Him with your body.

All God wants is for His glory to be seen in you but when you are sick and diseased, you don’t glorify God. When you take care of your

at night. Some even get very fat and obese. some sicknesses are a result of overweight while others are a result of poor diet. Strike a healthy balance for your body because sickness does not glorify God.

was healing and He said He was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Showing that

money on sickness? No! If He does, then we The Carpenter’s Ministry: All rights reserved. No portion of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any other, without the prior permission