Imitation. The well-known phrase “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” is from Hebrews 13:8, but people are usually unaware of verse 7 that immediately precedes it: “Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” Remember, those people whom we are told to imitate lived and walked in the supernatural, and when they prayed for sick people, the people got healed. And God says that we are supposed to imitate their faith! Paul also said, “I urge you to imitate me” (1 Corinthians 4:16), and “Be imitators of God” (Ephesians 5:1). In our culture and even in many of our churches that dismiss the supernatural, we usually write that off as meaning to imitate their moral qualities, and it does, but why would it not also mean to imitate other aspects of their nature and ministry as well? From all these examples in the Bible we clearly learn that it is God’s perfect will to heal and that His children be healthy. Knowing this, that we are actually agreeing with God and that we are praying in His will, it should be easy for us to pray the prayer of faith and receive from Him.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:30:17 +0000
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