In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the promise to heal.

There are many promises God has given us in His Word.

We love them because they are for our benefit.

And so when you think about all these promises,

I could ask you, do you have a favorite one?

More than likely, you would say I do.

But there's one promise that is the most difficult of all,

the one we have the most problem with, and that is any promise that has to do

with healing, probably because we've had disappointments, or maybe because deep down inside of us,

we don't really believe it. Or maybe we're just ignorant of what the Bible teaches about healing. We've seen exaggerations.

We've heard about them. We've seen people who have claimed to be healed, and then the next

thing you know, they write back where they were before. So lots and lots of questions about it.

But isn't it interesting that being a believer and believing that God is a healing God,

that when we get sick or something happens to us, the first thing we do is we want to call the doctor.

The truth is there's only one physician, and that's the great physician who is God.

And I think it's very interesting that they say about all these other

doctors they're practicing medicine.

God doesn't practice.

He knows everything perfectly about you and me.

And isn't it interesting knowing that he's who he is?

That we first of all run to the doctor first, and then when we get desperate, then we go to prayer.

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