Part 3 Hin­drances to Faith and Hin­drances to Healing

There are many rea­sons for hin­drances to faith and heal­ing but touch­ing on the high­lights some of the reasons.

Next area of Hin­drances to Faith and Hin­drances to heal­ing is Fail­ure to Tithe to God.

We have to real­ize every­thing we have comes from God.  So, if it all comes from God, since He is the cre­ator of the uni­verse, why do some rob God.  This brings a curse even though many peo­ple say that is not true today and that we do not live the Old Testament.

We are com­manded in scrip­ture to bring in our first fruit tot he store­house.  Mal. 3:8–12Mal. 3:8–12
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offer­ings. ⁹ Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithes into the store­house, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now here­with, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the win­dows of heaven, and pour you out a bless­ing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. pour…: Heb. empty out ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nei­ther shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. destroy: Heb. cor­rupt ¹² And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delight­some land, saith the LORD of hosts.  

WP-Bible plu­gin says “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nei­ther shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.  And all nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delight some land, saith the Lord of Hosts.”

What is keep­ing you from tithing to the Lord?  Is it not believ­ing in God’s word, doubt and unbe­lief He will take care of you?  Do you believe that tithing was under the law?  Lets remem­ber, before the law, Abra­ham paid a tithe to Melchizedek and so did Jacob before the law began.  So, that in itself proves tithing belongs to the Lord is not only dur­ing the time of the law.

In Luke 6:38Luke 6:38
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good mea­sure, pressed down, and shaken together, and run­ning over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same mea­sure that ye mete withal it shall be mea­sured to you again.  

WP-Bible plu­gin says “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good mea­sure, pressed down, and shaken together, and run­ning over, shall men give into your bosom.  For with the same mea­sure that ye mete withal it shall be mea­sured to you again.”

When you tithe, you are invest­ing in the eter­nal per­spec­tives that is for­ever to your ben­e­fit for the King­dom of God.  Look at it as an invest­ment for your future in eter­nal things which weigh much more than the things on earth which will all be burned to stub­ble or not worth anything.

Fail­ure to Con­fess Faults:

James 5:16James 5:16
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
16 Con­fess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effec­tual fer­vent prayer of a right­eous man availeth much.  

WP-Bible plu­gin says “Con­fess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.”

We all judge one another but fail to see the faults in our own heart.  We all need to take the time to check our own heart.  How can we know what is in our hearts.  When you read and study the Word and spend time with the Lord, He is gra­cious to show us areas that need to be dealt with or sanc­ti­fied or die to our flesh.

We serve a faith­ful God who is con­tin­u­ally work­ing on us but it takes spend­ing time and build­ing a rela­tion­ship with Him to become more Christ like.  It con­sist of not judg­ing oth­ers.  In fact, scrip­ture talks about not judg­ing oth­ers unless you want to be judged.  John 3:18John 3:18
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
18 He that believeth on him is not con­demned: but he that believeth not is con­demned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begot­ten Son of God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin

“18.  There is no judg­ment against any­one who believes in him. But any­one who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believ­ing in God’s one and only Son.”

Matthew 7:1–6Matthew 7:1–6
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
7 ¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged. ² For with what judg­ment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what mea­sure ye mete, it shall be mea­sured to you again. ³ And why behold­est thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but con­sid­er­est not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? ⁵ Thou hyp­ocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. ⁶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, nei­ther cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they tram­ple them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.  

WP-Bible plu­gin and 1 Corinthi­ans 10:23–241 Corinthi­ans 10:23–24
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
23 All things are law­ful for me, but all things are not expe­di­ent: all things are law­ful for me, but all things edify not. ²⁴ Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.  

WP-Bible plu­gin:

23. You say, “I am allowed to do any­thing”^[a]—but not every­thing is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do any­thing”^[a]—but not every­thing is ben­e­fi­cial. 24. Don’t be con­cerned for your own good but for the good of others.

Unwill­ing­ness to con­fess faults to one another indi­cates lack of con­fi­dence int he power of God to deliver them or there is just a lot of pride and the per­son is bound to pride.

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