{"id":3611,"date":"2017-02-04T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2017-02-04T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T15:29:07","slug":"another-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Another Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

They tell you to\u00a0ignore and deny\u00a0your sickness, depression, and pain. And when you pray, and nothing changes,\u00a0it’s\u00a0YOUR fault, because\u00a0you don’t have enough faith.<\/p>\n

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How many of you know\u00a0that’s a bunch of hogwash?<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, some people have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that depression and anxiety is an\u00a0illness and disability. Much like someone who lost an arm or a limb.<\/p>\n

However, there are some in Christendom who believe if you are struggling with any kind of illness or disease, it is either a result of unrepentant sin, demons, or a lack of faith. So, on top of suffering, there is the guilt, blame and shame added to the mix for good measure.<\/p>\n

I happen to be an open minded person, but I have a real problem with this false teaching being purported as truth. I have been exposed to a lot in my life, and have learned a great deal in my search for God. The one thing I can tell you is that\u00a0these so-called faith healers\u00a0are fake, and if they do\u00a0exhibit any so-called power to heal, you must question the\u00a0origin from hence it came, because not everything “supernatural” is of God.<\/p>\n

I am here to tell you, that if you are a Christian who struggles with any kind of illness or disability,\u00a0you are not alone and are no less a Christian for it. Jesus never said we\u00a0wouldn’t be sick or suffer here on earth. He said we will have to pick up our Cross and follow Him.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0read this morning in Matthew 10:18, “And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.<\/em>” Hmm, did you catch that… “not worthy of me<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Jesus said it like it is. These fresh revelations, or new insights of the Word of God that these self-proclaimed apostles and prophets tell you is not biblical doctrine, but another gospel.<\/p>\n

Today, the Church has strayed so far away from the truth, it’s sad. They have a distorted, confused and mixed up doctrine. What makes matters worse is that Christians don’t like to read their Bible. They’d rather be spoon feed, than dig into it themselves. What they fail to realize is they are doing themselves a huge disservice.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0do believe God heals. However,\u00a0I no longer believe in those who claim to be used of God\u00a0to heal others. God is God. He doesn’t need intermediaries. All God desires that we pray, have faith, and follow Him, whether we get healed or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They tell you to\u00a0ignore and deny\u00a0your sickness, depression, and pain. And when you pray, and nothing changes,\u00a0it’s\u00a0YOUR fault, because\u00a0you don’t have enough faith. How many of you know\u00a0that’s a bunch of hogwash? For whatever reason, some people have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that depression and anxiety is an\u00a0illness and disability. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,8,7,85],"tags":[453,1359,1362,1360,1363,97,591,891,396,1361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}