IS HEALING NOT FOR EVERYONE? I AM FOLLOWING THE WICCAN PAGAN PATH. DOES THIS MAKE ME EVIL? HAS HE FORGIVEN ME, AND HOW DO I MOVE PAST THIS SPIRITUALLY?
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And welcome back
to "The 700 Club."
it's time to bring it on
with your email questions.
We're going to
start with Tiffany.
She writes, "first, I just
want to say I love you."
Well, we love you, too.
"I have been extremely ill
for almost seven years.
I pray.
I read the Bible.
I've asked for healing and have
been prayed over many times.
What hurts the
most is that I feel
abandoned by God when I
have loved him so much.
I have MS. I am chemically
and environmentally sensitive,
which means I am allergic
to many everyday things.
There are only a few
foods that I can eat.
I feel forsaken.
I've been watching your
show for a long time
now, waiting for my
name to be called when
you have a word of knowledge.
And I'm so happy for those who
say they are healed, but is
healing not for everyone?"
You know, when Jesus
was here on earth,
he healed everybody
who came to him.
There was not one
person who came
to Jesus who he turned back.
He gave them some
tests sometimes.
He made them struggle sometimes.
But every single one was
healed that came to Jesus.
Now, listen.
I have dealt with MS. I have
seen MS miraculously healed.
I know this sounds strange.
But I do believe that there
is a spiritual component in MS
that's like a daemonic.
And it's one of those
things that you literally
have to cast out.
But I have seen people with
MS get up out of a wheelchair
and push the wheelchair out
of the room where we were.
I mean, I've seen it.
I've been involved in it.
But it is a horrible thing.
It's a wasting disease.
It just eats all the energy
and the fiber and everything.
I would recommend,
among other things,
that you check with
an endocrinologist
to see if there's
something, some chemical
or something, that could
be done that would build up
that immune system
that you've got,
or something that you're eating
that's causing the problem.
But you need, in the name of
Jesus, to rebuke that thing
and to say to your body, you
will be whole, all right.
Amen, all right.
Rachel writes in, "I am
following the Wiccan Pagan
path.
Does this make me evil?"
No, it doesn't make
you evil, but it is evil.
It's so-called white witches.
They say, well,
we're good witches.
The others are black witches.
They're the bad ones.
We're the good ones.
There's no such thing
as good witchcraft.
I mean, you either are
with God, or you're not.
You're either for him,
or you're against him.
And it, quote, "doesn't
make you evil."
But if you pursue
a path of evil,
evil will come
and take you over.
So I would recommend that
you turn away from Wicca
and turn to the living
God and read his word
and give your life
to Jesus, all right.
I just got back from Haiti.
And they have what they think
is good voodoo and bad voodoo.
You know, even the
so-called Catholics
in Haiti, they believe that,
that there's good and bad.
You know, Aristide
declared that voodoo was
the official religion of Haiti.
Voodoo is the worship
of dead spirits.
It comes from Africa.
And, you know,
it's terrible, OK.
All right, Jillian
says, "I've been
married for more than 20 years.
I had an affair
about 10 years ago.
But I never told my husband,
who is a real good man.
I really regretted it and
asked God to forgive me.
I never looked back
at this other man,
but it still comes to my mind
that it was a horrible offense
against my marriage.
I understand that God
would have forgiven me
when I asked for forgiveness.
But I'm still having a
hard time forgiving myself.
Has he forgiven me, and
how do I move passed this?"
Well, I think the Bible talks
about having our conscience
cleansed from dead works
to serve the living God.
All right, you sinned.
You committed an
act of adultery.
Look at David.
Not only did he commit
adultery, but he
had the husband killed
in order to cover up
the fact that the wife
was going to have a baby.
I mean, it was murder.
It was adultery.
It was everything
you could imagine.
Now he had to go through
some tough times.
He really did.
His family rebelled against him.
I mean, it was awful.
But when it was all
finished, he said,
you know, restore unto me
the joy of your salvation
and take not your
Holy Spirit from me.
The Holy Spirit was
with him all the time.
And the joy had left,
but the joy came back.
And what you need to do
is confess to the Lord.
You already have.
I don't think after 10 years
you need to go to your husband
and say, hey, listen.
10 years ago, I had a fling
with this guy on a weekend.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it, exactly.
I mean, yes, before
the Lord, it's done.
And accept God's forgiveness.
Accept his love.
Read the 51st
Psalm, for example.
Read it over and over again.
"Restore unto me the
joy of your salvation
and take not your
Holy Spirit from me."
And begin to praise
God and worship God
and receive the forgiveness that
he has offered to you for this.
And get on with your
life, all right.
Because, you know, sometimes
it might make us feel better,
but it makes the other
person feel way worse.
And so you've got to ask
yourself if this is really--
All of a sudden,
the husband who
loves you and has been having
a great time, and you've
been living together in
marital bliss, all of a sudden
after 10 years he starts
being suspicious of you.
You just don't need that.
It's too late.
I mean, don't reopen that
can of worms, all right.
All right, Porsche says, "I
have suffered and struggled
with evil thoughts since I
was in my early to mid 20s.
I am now 30, and the devil
still torments me daily.
I was abused verbally as a
child by my older brother.
I pray to God every day for
healing and deliverance,
and I rebuke Satan
on a daily basis.
What more should I say or do to
get the evil one away from me
forever?"
You know, I
think in your case,
you need to get out of
your zone, whatever it is.
You know, I know it
sounds mind over matter.
But I think you ought to
get out and start running.
I think he you ought to
start jogging and running.
And get to the gym and start
doing serious exercises.
And see if you can change your
diet and eat more healthy food
and open your mind and
begin to praise God
because what you're doing is
dwelling on something that
happened when you were a kid.
And the more you dwell on
it, the more it's got you.
If you focus on evil,
evil will come to you.
And you're focusing on evil.
Turn your mind on the Lord.
Every day, start the
day off with a psalm.
Read a psalm.
"This is the day
the Lord hath made.
I will rejoice and
be glad in it."
Begin to praise the Lord.
But, seriously, get to a gym.
Get to a spinning class.
Get to some place where you
can get a personal trainer,
something or other to get
your mind off this stuff
and get your hormones flowing
and your melatonin flowing
and all the other
things that you need
to get flowing in your life.
Get outside.
Get in the beautiful out of
doors that God's given you.
Enjoy this world you live in
and get out of the darkness.
Go hiking.
Get in the mountains.
Go hiking.
Yeah, go to Mount Kilimanjaro.
Well, you don't
have to do that.
But hiking can be
very therapeutic.
Yeah, I'm sure it can be, if
you don't die in the process.
That was tremendous
practical advice.
Thank you so much, Pat.
OK, well, thank you
for those questions.