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PAIN

Pain: It’s purpose is to warn us that something is wrong with the body, like in the case of appendicitis or a heart attack, so that we will get help. If we have pain, we should never ignore it, we should find its source and do our best to deal with it.

But chronic pain is a completely different thing. It doesn’t help us and it does hinder us and keep us from being as happy and productive as we could be. It can also cause us to behave in a way that is not “like us”. Chronic pain affects the sufferer and the people around him or her.

When pain is intense, it can cause us to be supersensitive to everything and everyone around us. Sometimes, when we are in pain, we lash out at those around us for no reason, or for some slight reason that wouldn’t bother us if we were not in pain.

One of the worst things about being in constant pain is that sometimes, you begin to think that you must somehow be at fault. Maybe you’ve sinned and maybe God is angry at you. But, if you are in pain IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. And, it doesn’t mean that God is angry at you.

Some doctors believe that when there is chronic pain there is an emotional root. While I believe that is certainly possible, I think it’s ridiculous to believe that all or even most chronic pain is due to emotions. There are many illnesses that produce chronic pain, such as Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Degenerative Disc disease---and many more. But, having said that, let’s not overlook our emotions. Things like continued sadness, anger, bitterness, depression will definitely take its toll on our bodies—besides having an effect on our spirits.

Most pain can be helped by medication, but some pain will not respond. Then, the sufferer is left in a constant state of pain. Sometimes, it becomes unbearable. Why does God allow that to happen? I don’t know. I don’t really think anyone knows, even if they claim to. Oh, there are some occasions when we do discover reasons but, generally, it remains a mystery to us.

What is clear, however, is that God is right there with us while we are suffering and that He will help us though it. And, in many cases, He will take the pain away. When He doesn’t (and for me He hasn’t) we need to live every minute of our lives dependent on HIM. That’s the only way we’ll make it through. Actually, everyone needs to live their lives that way, they just don’t realize it.

BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF PAIN AND SICKNESS:

Philippians 2:25-30 "Epaphroditus... was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him... for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death"

1 Timothy 5:23 "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities."

2 Timothy 4:20 "Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick."

Jeremiah 15:18 "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?

Psalms 116:3 "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow."

Job 33:19 "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain."

Isaiah 21:13 "Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down..."

Psalms 55:4 "My heart is sore pained within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me."

Jeremiah 4:19 " My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace..."

HEALING SCRIPTURES (KJV)

James 5:14-15 "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

Jeremiah 30:17 "For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord."

Isaiah 53:4-5 "Surely He hath borne our griefs (Lit. sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (Lit. pains) yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and by His stripes we are healed."

Jeremiah 33:6 "Behold, I will bring you health and cure, and I will cure you, and will reveal unto you the abundance of peace and truth."

1 Peter 2:24 "Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-- by whose stripes you were healed."

Psalm 103:2-3 "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who heals all thy diseases"

Psalm 42:11 "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."

3 John 2 "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

Jeremiah 17:14 "Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise."

Deuteronomy 7:15 "And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you."

Psalm 34:19 "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all."

Romans 8:32 "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"

Mark 16:17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

Romans 8:11 "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal (Natural, Earthly) bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you."

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus (which was for our victory), that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh."

2 Peter 1:3-4 "As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

Matthew 18:18 "Verily I say unto you, whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Isaiah 54:17 "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment YOU shall condemn. This is the heritage (birthright) of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me," says the LORD."

I John 4:4 ". . . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."

I John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

Isaiah 40:31 "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint."

Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us"

Matthew 18:19 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on Earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven."

Mark 11:24 "Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." Surely this includes healing.

Isaiah 58:8 "Thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee: the glory of the Lord shall be thy rear guard."

1Thessalonians 5:23 "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless [sound, complete and intact] unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

John 10:10 "The thief (satan) does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

Luke 10:19 "Behold, I give unto you power (authority) to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you

Isaiah 41:10 "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

CLOSE ALL DOORS TO THE ENEMY--MAKE JESUS LORD OF YOUR LIFE ON A DAILY BASIS.

Proverbs 3:7-8 "Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones."

Exodus 15:26 "If thou will diligently harken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put (permit) none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee."

Exodus 23:25 "So you shall serve (worship) the Lord your God and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you."

Psalm 91:9-10 "Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."

Malachi 4:2-3 "But unto you that fear (reverence, worship) My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. You shall trample the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this says the Lord of hosts"
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