Big Healing Book - God Uses So-and-So Powerfully Because She Was Paralyzed When

Objection: God Uses So-and-So Powerfully Because She Was Paralyzed When She Was Young

God does not use someone because that person is paralyzed. God uses anyone who is available, whether paralyzed or not. But that doesn’t prove that He wants the person to stay in that condition.

God can use people who don’t believe that He wants to heal them. Such people may have many good things to say about other topics, and you could miss out on a blessing by avoiding their writings completely because of their opinions about healing. Of course, it is unlikely that God would be able to use them to help others receive healing. However, a couple non-Spirit-filled people come to mind to whom I gladly listen because I benefit from things they say on topics other than healing. They teach their respective topics better than I do. They have a grace from God that I don’t have to teach on their subjects, and I respect them. Healing is not the only part of our Christian lives, although it is my personal passion.

You will have to give a person like So-and-So credit for not going through life angry with God because of what happened. Such a person can testify of the grace of God. However, the person could be a more dramatic example of the grace of God out of the wheelchair! Think of the impact the healing of such a person would have!

You must reject anyone’s claim that God “sent an accident” that resulted in paralysis, particularly if the accident was simply her fault because she dove into water that was too shallow. God does not cause accidents. If you are away from God, out from under His covenant of protection, you are in a place where you have no guarantee of safety. The devil has a certain right to harm you if you’re operating in his kingdom. You may look back at your accident and say that you got blessed because of it, but God would rather than you had heeded His words instead of getting hurt and then turning to Him in desperation.

Suppose for a minute that God “used” the accident and paralysis to “chastise” this person or to draw her closer to Himself. Indeed, she did get saved after her accident. However, she would have a right to expect to be healed after repenting. Do you keep spanking your children when they’re not doing anything wrong at the moment because they did something that deserved a spanking in the past? God would not continue to “chastise” someone who had already learned the lesson. Even in the extreme case where someone is “handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,” once the person repents, Satan can’t continue beating up his flesh.

People who raise this objection usually dare me, “Go tell So-and-So that she could be healed!” If you’re So-and-So, this book is designed to show you that you can be healed, and you can take it as my message to you. However, the objectors’ idea is really, “Go to her in a nasty, argumentative way and tell her that her own lack of faith is keeping her paralyzed.” That is just as stupid as saying, “Go tell a sinner in a nasty, argumentative way that his lack of faith in Christ is keeping him from eternal life.” Would you share Christ that way? I hope not. You would present the gospel as good news. You would present the solution rather than just stating the problem. The good news for the sinner is that he can be delivered from sin and have eternal life. The good news for the sick person is that he can be healed through faith in Jesus Christ. Who says that you have to be nasty about it? Some sinners don’t want to hear the truth. What do you do? You back down and just love them. Likewise, if someone does not want to hear about divine healing, you have to back down and just love him, too. Getting in strife with people over divine healing is unlikely to get them healed. Some people have made up their minds. Unless they become open to healing, the power of God will never heal them. That does not make them bad people. They may have a positive influence in the Body of Christ in another area about which they know more. Believe it or not, I have been on very good terms with multiple pastors who do not believe that our healing was already purchased. We can present truth to those who are interested, but we shouldn’t go around bludgeoning people with it.

There is a danger in testimonies that God broke someone’s neck or burned someone’s body or did some other cruel and hideous thing. Such testimonies misrepresent God’s character. God does not do these things. If you preach that He does, you risk driving people away from Him instead of toward Him. Would you be interested in a God who might want to do things like that to you to “help” you? If you were a sinner, you might figure you would be more comfortable staying away from a God like that. Perhaps you’d be more interested in Allah, Buddha, Krishna, or other false gods who at least aren’t presented as putting horrible things on you out of “concern” for your well-being.

I have nothing personal against So-and-So or anyone else with an opinion quoted or paraphrased in this book. However, when someone is brought up frequently by those who don’t believe in divine healing, we need to respond. We need to be just as bold as the critics are, without resorting to the tactics that some of them use. For example, we should not ridicule other preachers by name, quote passages of their books and CDs out of context, continue to quote old statements that they have publicly recanted, and bring up details of their personal lives that are nobody’s business, as some authors today have done. I could say that the sources of the objections in this book are unnamed, but that’s not technically true because they DO have names; I just don’t tell you what they are. (The articles and authors’ names quoted at the head of some objections in this book are fake, and rather obviously so if you look at their names, though they do have strong similarities to what certain real authors have written. They are generally shortened composites of different articles with the same objection. In some cases, you might figure out or already know who made the objection, but I’m not going to share names or actual book titles if you don’t already know.)

So here is the correct answer to those who ask, “Do you say that SO-AND-SO could be healed if she believed God wanted to heal her?” YES, she could be healed if she would believe the Bible on the subject of healing. God wants to heal her. He provided her healing at Calvary. She could read God’s healing covenant, act on her faith and be healed. She could get out of her wheelchair and join many others who were confined to wheelchairs before being healed by the power of God. One of the most famous faith teachers who ever lived was also paralyzed when he was young, but he believed God and received his healing. Today his teachings are still helping many others receive their healings. God did not love that man any more than he loves the woman in question.

It is ludicrous to think that such a person is “proof” that believing and receiving by faith does not work. You can’t work a principle that you don’t believe in. I would not be proof that a diet aid doesn’t work if I never used that diet aid according to the instructions because I didn’t believe that it would work for me.

I have no intention of calling up anyone and arguing about divine healing. I imagine that anyone who claims that God caused a disaster for a higher purpose would probably agree with me on more things than we would disagree on. It is possible to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace without agreeing on every doctrinal issue, including divine healing.

It is superficially true that God uses the woman in question because she was paralyzed when she was young. She did not turn to God until she was paralyzed, and the fact that she turned to God has enabled her to be used today. Perhaps she would not have turned to God if she did not have her accident. Still, that does not prove that God wanted the accident to happen. Many have turned to God without suffering terrible accidents first. God does not send terrible accidents to draw men to repentance. His goodness draws men to repentance (Romans 2:4). In fact, God has already told us in the book of Revelation that when he does send terrible tragedies upon the earth, many men will still not repent. Why would He use tragedies, which do NOT reliably get people to repent, instead of healing, which often results in many people turning to the Lord? Look at what will happen in the future when God DOES send plagues and calamities during the Tribulation period, and see if you think that tragedies are a reliable cause of repentance:

Revelation 9:20:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 16:11:
And [they] blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

I suppose that if you thought that God wanted to paralyze you, you would be a hypocrite if you asked God to undo what you think is His work in your body. However, it would be better to learn the truth and let the anointing destroy that yoke of bondage in your life!

One could also say, “Isn’t this woman an example of Romans 8:28?” The answer is a resounding NO. That verse doesn’t even apply to her conversion. Read it! Romans 8:28 only applies to people who love God, and she did not love God when she had her accident. Therefore, God was not working anything through it. She just “hit bottom” (literally) and cried out to God in desperation.