Who Are We To Question?

‘I am Yahuweh, and there is none else – there is no Elohim besides Me. I gird you, though you have not known Me, so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none but Me. I am Yahuweh, and there is none else, forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, Yahuweh, do all these.’

“Rain down, O heavens, from above, and let clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, let them bring forth deliverance, and let righteousness spring up together. I, Yahuweh, have created it. “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

“Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you bringing forth?’ Or to the woman, ‘What are you laboring over?’ ” Thus said Yahuweh, the Set-apart One of Israel, and his Maker, “Do you ask Me about My sons what is to come? And about the work of My hands do you command Me? “I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.” Isaiah 45:5-12

What I have to share with you comes from my spirit. It is not from me but from Abba.

As human beings, we have so many questions. There are so many things we do not understand. Those of majority have grown up having a pre-formed idea of a ‘God’ who gives out but never asks for anything in return. We somehow expect Elohim to play the game and win for us without ever having to lift a finger. We expect Him to wave His magic wand every time we get into trouble.

We have been taught that the ball always remains in His court. We expect Him to play the game while we sit back and watch, yet it never was like that from the beginning of time. We have a responsibility to Him to hit the ball back when it is served to us. This is called a relationship. He gave us the “racket” by the death of His only Son, so that we can interact with a Creator who longs to fellowship with us. We were never called to sit on the side lines. We were created for a function and purpose.

In the Garden, we were called to ‘guard’ what is precious to Him – life. He promises to protect us as long as we guard what is precious to Him. Herein lies the meaning of life; the purpose for our existence.

Our earthly body is precious to the Creator. He is interested in the salvation of our entire being. Those who have gone on to be with Messiah will receive back their bodies and those who are alive and remain when He returns, will receive a transformation of their current bodies into a perfected and glorified state. Our hope is in the resurrection. If in this life only we have hope in Messiah, we are the most miserable of people (1 Corinthians 15:19 paraphrased).

For those who are desperately seeking healing, physical healing, remember, it is by our own choices that we tie (or untie) the hands of the Father. The Healer will not override our own will if we decide in our heart and by the words of our mouth that we choose death over life. By our own words and actions do we birth life, and by them, we also abort life. (Proverbs 18:21)

For those who have ever questioned why healing hasn’t come — think upon this. If we received our healing, what impact will it have on our relationship and walk with Father? Healing begins with honesty. Why do we want to be healed? Is it for our own selfish agenda in order to try and escape a little longer the miseries of pain just to continue on the road of — ‘life as usual?’

If we are healed and then sit on our testimony, what was the purpose for the healing? Healing in this life is merely the successful outcome of a temporary miserable state. Yes, Messiah bore our sickness and disease, but for what purpose? If nothing is learned along the journey of faith necessary to attain our healing, then we have only painted the picture of the ‘outcome of success’ according to our limited understanding of what He really truly desired and planned to accomplish within us. In other words, we cheat ourselves out of a deeper work if all we desire from healing is temporary relief to continue living our own agenda. He desires to paint a beautiful scene with our healing, but many deprive Him of what He needs to finish the work. He who began a good work in us will never be finished if we remove the brush from the Artist’s Hand.

Messiah, as our High Priest, is after the long term goal of making sure that we make it through to the end of our faith (which is the salvation of our soul). We will always be tested, always be tried. Why? Because the Creator of the universe is after much more than our temporary earthly comforts; He is after our eternal soul. This is not to say He will not heal us in this lifetime, but what is in a person’s heart (something we cannot see) is that which determines the extent of the healing. Some people may ask why a person wasn’t healed. Why do they ask this? Because as humans, we cannot see past our next breath. But the One who sees tomorrow will work all things toward the fulfillment of His good purposes. He is bringing about a greater plan. Who are we to question that?

It is much too easy to focus on why He didn’t do something today than it is to remember the times in the past where He did do something.

It takes more effort through patience, recalling His past faithfulness than the effort it takes to demand instant relief now. Human nature, in general, does not care about healings that took place in the past nor about healings that will take place in the future, but in instant relief right now. While He is the Elohim of the now, how we treat Him in the now through trusting in His healing, based upon what He has already done in the past, will determine our level of belief in the healings of tomorrow.

Doesn’t our Creator desire that we do well and be in health? Of course, but as it says in 3 John 1:2, our health and well being is in accordance with the prosperity of our soul. What is this prosperity? Riches? Wealth? Fame? No, none of these things. Prosperity means to ‘help on the road’ and to ‘succeed in reaching’ the purpose of the journey. If we pray for the healing of our bodies for the sole purpose of cushioning our life today and continuing our quest for easy living tomorrow, shall we squawk at the Creator if our prayers are not answered? Are we asking for healing for our own selfishness or the ability to continue serving others?

If Satan can get the children of Yahuweh to make the statement, “No God I serve would ever allow such and such….”, then he has won. He has won because he has sown the seeds of doubt. We do not always know why Elohim allows things to happen, but it is not always in our best interest to know why. Faith doesn’t ask why, but proclaims the truth of the matter…the Word and what He said.

The thing we have to remember is this. Sometimes Elohim’s answer is ‘no’. It is what we do with that answer that determines His future “yes”.

If we knew what Elohim knows.. we would never question the times He says ‘no’. This lifetime is a lifetime of learning to trust in Him. IF Satan can derail you into thinking there is no hope in trusting an Elohim who fails, then the enemy has won.

For those who are sick and seeking healing – you have already been healed. Messiah Yahushua died to bring you healing from the contamination of sin, sickness and disease.

Think of this – how certain are you, and how much faith do you have today in confessing out loud what happened to you yesterday? You see, if you went to the store yesterday, you will have the confidence in telling someone today that you went to the store yesterday. Why? BECAUSE it has already happened – you going to the store already took place in times past.

This is how we are to look at healing. We have such confidence and belief today that we are healed BECAUSE Messiah bore our sickness yesterday! Think of the centurion who said to Yahushua, “just say the word and my servant will be healed.”

What we do not know or understand as far as the ways of Yahuweh are concerned, should never cause us to ‘judge’ Him and question, but to humbly submit to Him saying, “you are Elohim and I am not”.

Yes, He promised never to let go of us, but do not forget this:

“Yahuweh is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you.” – 2 Chronicles 15:2

That’s something were never taught isn’t it? Again, in the 2^nd Commandment, it says that His loving kindness goes on for a thousand generations… for those that love Him and guard His commandments.

It is time we profess our love for Him and accept what He has to give no matter what. If we are not disciplined by our Father, than the Word says we are illegitimate children. Don’t work against Him…work WITH Him. It is time we abandon our rebellious ways and embrace a broken and contrite heart. Those that stand in obstinance against the Creator will never receive anything but obstinance in return. Some may say, “well, isn’t healing all part of the salvation package? Does He not want His children to suffer?’

Nothing is ever free. Our salvation is a gift yes, but it will cost us everything to possess it. What we do with that gift determines how much we prosper in this life and the life to come. He who the Son sets free is free indeed. Being set free by the Master means that we are no longer obligated to serve our own pleasure. Some may say that is bondage, but for those who really desire to be healed—it means total and complete freedom.

For when we are released from the slavery of serving our own pleasures, we are truly free to serve the One who released us. And when we finally find the joy in the freedom of serving the One who has released us, then our temporary plight of illness will become the shovel we use to dig a little deeper in establishing a bulldog faith that will never be shaken; regardless if the relief comes.

There is no joy in the sickness itself, but only in what has been set before us. It is the expectation of our eternal dwelling with Him, that we are able to endure through anything this life throws at us. If Messiah Yahushua became our example, then oh the joy in living according to the example He left for us. What other hope have we?

“We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us, looking to the Princely Leader and Perfecter of our belief, Yahushua, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.”

Hebrews 12:1-2