Introduction:
--You can believe strongly and confidently that God will perform a miracle for you. We will see in the scriptures today that He has always worked for all His people with signs and wonders and with miracle working power, for their full deliverance unto the glory of His name. We will also see that He still works this way today and always.

GOD SET HIS PEOPLE FREE FROM EGYPT WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS
--Signs and wonders given to Pharoah (Ex. chapters 5-12;   Ps. 78. 43).
--He led them out with a fire by night and a cloud by day (Ex. 13. 21).
--He healed every one of the people, and they had just come out of the hard labor of the slime pits (Ps. 105. 37).

IT WAS PROPHESIED THAT JESUS WOULD ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS
--Malachi 4. 2. Like chicks running to a mother hen, God's people would be able to run to Jesus for refuge.

JESUS CAME HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL --Matt. 4. 23, 24;   8. 16, 17;   14. 34-36;   Lk. 6. 17-19

JESUS TRAINED HIS DISCIPLES TO GO AND HEAL ALL
--Matt. 10. 1, 7

THE EARLY CHURCH TAUGHT AND PRACTICED FORGIVENESS AND HEALING FOR ALL
--Acts 10. 34-48
--Acts 5. 12-16

THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IS CLEARLY THE SAME TODAY AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN, AND ALWAYS WILL BE--TO HEAL ALL
--Heb. 13. 8, 9, 20, 21. He's the God of peace and perfection (wholeness) in every way.
--Rev. 22. 1-3. This healing stream is flowing to all nations of the earth.

Conclusion:
--Rev. 22. 17. He invites you, if you will, to come to Him for fullness of life in spirit, soul, body, in family, in finances, and in every way. Come to Jesus, and take of the water of life freely.

JOB, PAUL, CHASTISEMENT, AND, "IF IT BE THY WILL, O LORD"--
SOME CLEAR FACTS ON WHICH YOU CAN BASE YOUR FAITH

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivereth him out of them all" (Psa. 34. 19). Notice, it says, all.

JOB
--Scholars say Job's affliction lasted approximately 9 months at the most. Job went through an affliction clearly because of Satan's strategies (Job 1.6-12; 2.1-7).
--God brought total deliverance to Job, and gave him twice more than he had before (42.10).

PAUL
--Paul's thorn is expressly stated to be a messenger of Satan, sent to buffet him because of the abundance of revelations given to him by God, lest he should be exalted above measure (2 Cor. 12. 7-10).
--God has always given revelation to his people to exalt them over their enemies--Abraham, Joseph, Ruth, Esther, Job, David, Jesus, and the early church, and, the true church down through the ages. With every temptation, with every trial and every test that besets us by the strategies of Satan, God makes a way of escape. Ps. 37.34.
--Paul expressly stated to Timothy that God gave him deliverance from every persecution and every affliction, and he was confident the Lord would deliver him from every evil work and present him unto His heavenly kingdom (2 Tim. 3. 11;
4. 18). Surely we can understand that "every" would include Paul's thorn given by the evil working of Satan. Paul was delivered from his thorn in the flesh by a revelation of all sufficient grace. This revelation of grace is no doubt being expressed in Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
--Paul won thousands to the Lord in his day, and he is still winning millions to the Lord through his letters. Paul was and is now being exalted "above measure", in an unlimited way, according to the promise God made to Abraham (Gen. 22. 17), that his fruitfulness would be as the stars of the sky and as the sand of the sea-- "above measure". Paul overcame all things and entered the joy of the Lord, running his course with joy and victory to the end (2 Tim. 4. 7,8). He is a pattern for us all (1 Tim. 1. 16).

CHASTISEMENT
--Jesus is the "express image" of the personality of God (Heb. 1.3). People expressed their concept of God in the Old Testament by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with a "knowing in part".The law was given by the inspiration of the Spirit, as a revelation of God, "in part" (1 Cor. 13. 12). But Jesus is the full expression of the Father (Jn. 14. 9; Col. 2.9). We can look at Jesus and get the full picturre. We see that He was anointed with the Holy Ghost and power and went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him (Ac. 10. 38). By looking unto Jesus we can see very clearly that the oppressor is the devil, and God is the deliverer.
--Given this clear understanding of the nature and operation of God, we can understand that neither God, nor Jesus, ever lays sickness, hardship, and affliction on His people. He always works to give reproof and instruction to set people free. With every temptation, test, and trial, He is always right there with us to show us the way of escape.
--Many people, realizing God's ever-presence to help us, have interpreted that God lays things such as sickness, disease, and calamity upon us, particularly when we err, to teach us a lesson. They call this chastisement. But this concept does not fit in with the over-all picture of the nature and operation of God we see operating through Jesus.
--Hard times comes from Satan and from us going astray from the ways of God (Jas. 1. 13-16). Chastisement is God's reproofs and instruction to us, while we are in the midst of hard times, to show us the way of escape, and, to train us in His ways to avoid the same mistakes.
--The word chastisement literally means, "tutorage i.e. education or training". It is also translated "nurture". Our own stupid, obstinate ways, and Satan, is the source of our afflictions, not God. God is always right there with us in the midst of it all to teach and deliver.

"IF IT BE THY WILL, O LORD"
--With an understanding of how God always seeks to exalt His people over their enemies, and with an understanding of Job's deliverance, and Paul's deliverance, and with an understanding of chastisement, and that God gave His only begotten Son, who was bruised and broken for our healing (Isa. 53. 4, 5), we can only have one conclusion regarding any sickness in our life--IT IS ALWAYS GOD'S WILL TO SET US FREE AND HEAL US. We see Jesus demonstrating this by healing all (Matt. 8. 16, 17). The early church demonstrated this by healing all (Ac. 5. 16). We can know and be entirely confident that it is God's will to heal us and every person. So, we should not pray any prayer regarding healing, using the words, "If it be thy will...". It is God's will to heal.
--If there is a question as to whether it is God's will to heal, then we should never so much as take an aspirin for a headache or seek remedy of any kind, since we could be going against the will of God by so doing. If it is God's will for us to suffer in order to teach us a lesson, then we should never go to a doctor, for in so doing, we would be going against the will and purposes of God.
--No. It is always God's will to heal, either supernaturally, naturally, or through medical science or by using natural means. To pray the prayer, "If it by Thy will, O Lord" regarding healing, is a prayer of ignorance of God's Word and Way, and unbelief, and we are wasting our breath to pray such a way.

Conclusion:
--Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mk. 9.23). "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Heb. 11. 6). "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10. 17).
--If we will hear the simple Word of God and let faith arise in our hearts, then we will see that God has made full provision to heal us, and as we diligently seek Him, believing, we will be rewarded with the fulfillment of the promise of His Word.
--BE HEALED, IN JESUS' NAME!!