Impossible Healings: Modern Medicine

We have the Mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:16 (NKJV)

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NKJV)

It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)

So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 11:9-10 (NKJV)

Mental illness is a monstrous problem. Do monsters, a.k.a. demons, cause it?

  • The Great Physician showed us they CAN.

  • Mental illness plagued my own family.

What about our physical illnesses?

  • Most people depend on medical care.

  • Others (who lack funds or insurance) don’t.

  • Countless more live in desolate places.

What about the prescription drugs we take?

  • Undeniably, drugs bring side effects, sometimes requiring additional drugs.

  • Frustration comes when we try to divide cause from effect, action from reaction. 

Does God intend this painful confusion?

  • Surely, He doesn’t. ‘God is not the author of confusion’ (1 Corinthians 14:33).

But health “mysteries” can hit anyone--including His Spirit-filled believers.

  • Should we depend on the pill or the pew?

  • Should we check into the ward or the Word?

  • Should we wait on God to deliver us?

  • Should we ask church elders to pray for us?

  • Should we seek medical intervention?

Regarding the pain of mental illness, the church is divided, and judgment abounds.*

When Christians see with complete clarity, we'll be in Heaven. In this mean-time called “today”, I won’t judge.

  • I believe God heals through good physicians.

  • I believe God heals spontaneously.

  • I believe God heals through intercession.

As it was in Christ’s day, so it is now: God's treatment plan is a personal plan.

Do modern doctors have the right answers? Possibly yes… if Jesus works through them.

Impossible Healings: Modern Medicine (Part 10)

NOTE: This is a 2023 update of a 2013 Carey Lewis Devotion. You may see notes to 'Actors, Models & Talent for Christ.' If you think you're not in show business, think again. Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage and all its men and women merely players. Mostly true. But you're not merely players. You are messengers and ambassadors for the King of kings.

Carey Arban