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Signs and Wonders

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By Buddy Dawson

Finding truth

Week 23 in a multi-part series

Over the past few months I have endeavored to establish biblical truth about the true nature of God. Many people are confused on the subject of healing and the roll of the Holy Spirit in the church today.

Jesus used signs and wonders as a dinner bell, drawing all men to Himself and His ministry. Why would we think that His ministry, or ours, no longer need them today?

I believe that we need the power of the Holy Spirit and His gifts more today than any other time in History. ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men (shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams’ (Acts 2:17 NKJV). It is obvious that God is going to re-establish His powerful church to the original state that once ‘turned the world upside down’ (Acts 17:6).

It is wonderful to know that through faith in the shed blood of Jesus my sins are forgiven for eternity and heaven is my new home. However, as dynamic as that promise is, it is also exciting to know that because my sins are forgiven, my body is also healed (Isaiah 53:4,5). When I became the righteousness of God through His sacrifice, sickness or any other penalty for sin can no longer live in or on my body, unless I allow it.

Some do not believe it is God’s will to heal, while others do believe it is His will to heal, but not to heal everyone.

Still others erroneously believe that God uses sickness and suffering to teach us something, or to establish humility. Or that He uses suffering to correct us when we sin, or to get our attention when we fail to listen. None of these false doctrines are true and in several past issues of SIGNS AND WONDERS, I have illustrated this from Scriptures.

Armed with the truth of God’s Word, and knowing His will, we can stand on His promises daily, receiving whatever He has promised. Without knowing His will, I am building on sinking sand, without faith to stand on.

As long as we do not know the will of God concerning sickness, when we believe that somehow God allowed or did it, we will not fully stand against it. And believing that lie, if God allowed it, to resist sickness, would that not then be resisting God?

However, once we received from Scripture that Jesus is the “express image” of the Father, we can look at Him in the gospels and see the true nature of God (Hebrews 1:3).  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? (John 14:9 NKJV). Jesus not only uses miracles, signs and wonders to draw people into His Kingdom but to reveal the true nature of God.

When God created man, He gave him dominion and authority over the earth (Genesis 1:26). When Satan seduced Adam and Eve into sin, he stole that power and authority for himself, plunging all of creation into corruption and spiritual darkness (Luke 4:5,6) (Romans 8:22). However, there is good news, for when we become believers in Jesus, we are restored to that original dominion and no longer subject to Satan’s rule.

All of this and much more are spelled out from scripture in past articles of SIGNS AND WONDERS. I believe we cannot truly love God until we know Him and begin to understand His insatiable love for each of us.

Buddy and Maude Dawson are the founders and directors of the River of Life Worship Center, 3504 Carolina Beach Rd., Wilmington, NC. therolwc.org/[email protected]

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