Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God’s mercy is better than justice. Sin demands the death of the unrepentant sinner. Mercy is anything less than death. If you keep creating problems in the church, if you remain stubborn and stiff-necked and refuse to change, God will move you, or God will move the church, says Pastor Flemons. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake If the Bible would be so bold as to name even the private female problem of the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5:25-34), how can we fathom that by simply not naming our issue, we don’t or won’t have it? Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy, says, “Name it! Give it to God. And when He delivers you, you can testify of His glory.” (Read more below.)
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For Heaven’s Sake…
The people of God were so stubborn and stiff-necked that God could not remain with His people, although that is where He wanted to be. If He showed up among them the way they were, they would have been consumed in an instant. In God’s mercy, He sent an angel ahead of them to prepare the way for His people. He even promised them a land flowing with milk and honey. But He moved the church (tabernacle) outside of their camp.
Read Exodus 33:1-15:
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
Pastor Flemons asked the all-important question: “How do we keep God’s presence?” He answered it with John 14:15: “If you love me, keep my commandments.” We keep God’s presence through paths of obedience. May God help us humble ourselves and be obedient before it is too late.
For Health’s Sake…
It has become a popular thing to dismiss a medical diagnosis simply by not naming it. To name it means to claim it, so it is said. But throughout Scripture, diseases were named and given to God for healing. After healing, they could give God the glory. “If you don’t have it, you can’t ask for deliverance,” says Pastor Flemons. And if you have nothing to be delivered from, how can you give God the glory?
The nobleman told Jesus that his son was at the point of death with fever and asked for healing. Healing was granted, and his son lived. As a result the father and his whole house became believers. (See John 4:43-54.)
An impotent man had sought for 38 years for healing. When he received healing from Jesus, he had a testimony to the Jews that Jesus had made him whole. (Read John 5:1-15.)
Simon Peter’s mother-in-law lay sick of a fever. When Jesus healed her, all the city heard about it and gathered around the home and witnessed the healing of all who were brought with various diseases and demon possession. (Read Mark 1:29-34.)
A leper came to Jesus. Jesus healed him of leprosy. The man glorified Jesus so that Jesus could no longer openly there in the city. People had to meet Him in the desert for healing. (Read Mark 1:40-45.)
An officer of the Roman army (a centurion) requested that Jesus heal his servant. The sickness wasn’t named, maybe because they didn’t know what he had. But they knew he was dying. Jesus healed the man. And we have the story of that testimony. Generations have come to learn about it. (Read Luke 7:1-10.)
Two blind men followed Jesus, crying aloud for mercy and healing. Jesus gave them sight and asked that they keep it a secret. But they told so many that Jesus became famous in that whole country. (Read Matthew 9:27-31.)
A man who was blind and had a speech impediment was taken to Jesus for healing. Jesus gave him hearing and plain speech. He directed them to keep it quiet. They didn’t. They gave God the glory. “And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.” (Read Mark 7:31-37.)
The list goes on of naming it, asking for healing, being healed, and praising God. If we can’t praise God, we can’t give Him glory. “If you deal with sin the same way you deal with sickness, you’d rob God of His glory,” says Pastor Flemons.
Where, then, did this practice of not naming it come from? Regardless of how it began, Pastor Flemons believes it is a spirit of fear. If so, this one is for you. “God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).