[Faith-talk] healing and faith

[Linda Mentink]

This looks like false teaching to me.

At 11:54 AM 1/25/2015, you wrote:
>       I really like the devotions from Joseph 
> Prince daily grace message.  This was his for 
> yesterday and I thought I’d pass it along 
> since we’ve been talking about 
> healing.       If you are sick, you must know 
> that you are already healed because of the 
> finished work of Christ. Don’t ask, “Do I 
> have enough faith to be healed? Do I have the 
> right kind of faith to be healed? What if I am 
> lacking in faith?” You are focusing on 
> yourself and your faith, instead of Christ and 
> His finished work.       You should be asking, 
> “Did Jesus take away this sickness? If He 
> did, then He must have done a perfect work.” 
> In other words, fix your eyes on Jesus and His 
> perfect work.       AB Simpson, who lived in 
> the 19th century, wrote an article entitled 
> Himself. In it, he mentioned his exhausted 
> nervous system, and broken-down heart which 
> could have proved fatal any time. So he sought 
> the Lord for healing. God showed him Matthew 
> 8:17, which says that Jesus “Himself took our 
> infirmities and bore our 
> sicknesses”.       AB Simpson said that 
> though he believed that Jesus had borne away 
> his sicknesses, he saw many hindrances which 
> stood between him and his healing. And they all 
> boiled down to one thing—his preoccupation 
> wiith his faith! He had believed that if only 
> he had the “right” kind of faith, he would 
> receive his healing instantly.       He 
> eventually came to the realization that he had 
> to remove that last hindrance—his foocus on his 
> faith—and just rest in the finished work  of 
> Christ. That revelation marked his complete 
> recovery from his sicknesses.       When you 
> ask yourself, “Do I have enough faith?” you 
> have already put faith as a hindrance between 
> you and Jesus’ finished work. The more you 
> focus on your faith, the more faith slips away. 
> But if you focus on the finished work of Christ 
> and see God’s grace toward you, God sees that 
> as faith! Without realizing it, faith is there 
> in your heart to believe that you will not die 
> of what Christ Himself has already borne away 
> completely for you, and you will see your miracle manifest!