100% perfect health is not a prerequisite to be used in divine healing. If you are fighting some kind of physical condition, don’t let that be a roadblock that keeps you from stepping out in faith and ministering to others. But, part of the healing that God ministered in this story was restoring the ability of the women in Gerar to conceive. 3 – The person that is ministering healing may be in need of a miracle as well.Īt the time this story took place, Abraham and Sarah were childless. This is huge, and it is the main point I want to get across in this article. Divine healing is based on God’s divine goodness, not your human goodness. But, don’t fall for the temptation to think that God won’t use you because you aren’t good enough. This shows us that our ability to avoid sin is not a prerequisite to operate in divine healing. Abraham was dishonest, but he was the one that ministered healing. Yet, Abraham is the first person that God works through to demonstrate healing power. 2 – God works through flawed people.Ībraham is the one at fault here. God desires to do miracles through us, but we have to be willing to do our part and cooperate by taking steps of faith. God works through human beings to release, exercise, or manifest His power in the tangible, physical realm. This very frequently the way that miracles work throughout the Bible. Abraham was cooperating with God to bring about God’s will. In the story, nobody got healed until Abraham prayed for healing. Now I want to identify some principles based on this story that carry on throughout the Bible and on into the present day. It is a strange story that does not go the way most of us think it should go. Then Abraham prays for healing for Abimilech and everybody else, and God heals them all. In fact, he’s going to die, and the women in his land are no longer able to have children! God makes it clear that it is in Abimilech’s best interest to return her to her husband Abraham, because some bad stuff is going to happen if he doesn’t. Abimilech finds out about Sarah somehow, and he takes her to be in his harem.īefore Abimilech is able to have relations with Sarah, God warns him in a dream that she is Abraham’s wife. The king of this city is named Abimilech. In Genesis 20, Abraham and Sarah journey to a city named Gerar. On several occasions, he asks Sarah to lie and say she is his sister.Īs strange and awful as that sounds, that is backdrop for this story.Abraham is afraid of someone harming him in order to take his wife.Here is a brief background of the story, followed by a short summary of the story. We are going to look at the first time divine healing is mentioned in the Bible. That concept is the basis for this article. When studying the Bible, you can find some great truths if you examine the passages where a subject is first mentioned.
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