When Your Theology Becomes Your Prison

We all know the verse that says that the mouth has the power of life and death.

But did you also know that your proclamations have a direct relationship with how your life comes out?

I want us to look at just one aspect of this because it has been popularized by the prosperity ungospel over generations.

It says, many times by implication that all sickness is of the devil and that Christ is there to heal all sicknesses and afflictions a believer has.

As such, seeking medication is treated as a demonstration of lack of faith or even sin.

But it becomes even worse to some who become miracle peddlers because it leashes them to miracle healings since all must be walking in healing.

What then happens when their prayers refuse to heal them?

How do they tell them that they sought medical attention?

I know you are aware of many of them who use gimmicks to demonstrate the fact that they are able to heal all sicknesses, from healing whole ‘cripples’ to chasing demons from actors. Remember the one who the other day ‘raised’ the dead who was later proved to be a member of his team. Sadly he not much later actually died.

Otherwise what does one do to prove to the audience that they really are channels of healing? How do they prove that all sicknesses must be healed in their meetings especially as they ask people to bring all their sick to their meetings?

But that is not the real problem. The problem is assuming that God must bend to their theology; that Jesus is subject to their anointing.

Jesus never called out anybody to come to Him for healing. Jesus never called a meeting to drive out devils.

Jesus intervened in the situations that He came across in the course of His ministry. He responded to the cries made to Him as He was about His Father’s business.

Do you think Jesus never passed through the gate beautiful where the cripple that Peter and James healed was positioned? Why then did He not heal him?

You see, Jesus came to heal people from the sickness that is sin. Physical healing is a secondary aspect of that healing, an overflow of that healing. That is the reason He did not concentrate His effort on it. And that is why He at times forgave some their sins of those who had come for physical healing.

It goes without say that concentrating on physical healing is actually diluting the Gospel. Placing it at par with salvation is demeaning the work Christ came to do. Using it as the bait to draw people to attend your meetings or church is spiritual harlotry.

God will not be bound to protect or even justify your false theology since He is only bound to what He has said (Psalm 138:2).

I am writing this as someone who was deep in that theology earlier (after responding to God’s call) until God had mercy and refused to cooperate.

After the heartbreak and discouragement, I went into the scriptures to understand ‘everything’ the Bible talks about healing. And I got healed of spiritual error.

That is not to say that I gave up on miracles.

By no means. I still walk in the miraculous.

But now miracles are the consequence and not object of my spiritual life. Miracles simply follow my obedience, whether it is healing or provision.

Sadly, most of the people who taught me, especially through books, still walk in that error. That is one reason I am writing this.

What happens when a miracle refuses to respond to your prayer of faith? What happens when God refuses to heal you of something he has always used you to heal others? And what happens if that is your selling point?

You may realize that is the reason such ministers become completely removed from their followers. You may never be able to get close to him (or her) apart from when and where they are ministering. You see it might expose their medicine chest. How will they explain all those drugs if they are teaching their flock to walk in divine healing?

But coughs and colds and headaches are easy to conceal as they are easily concealable.

How about terminal illnesses?

Sadly, for their clout they try their best to conceal them.

Then they will become very prophetic about their death since reality is not easy to conceal.

Then they will die as they prophesied.

But that is because they are riding on a false theology.

Had they been humble or obwdient enough, they could have asked for prayer even for the healing of that terminal illness. But they are the only ones with guaranteed prayers according to the narrative they peddle.

But an even greater fear is suppose God does not heal them? What will the flock think of their theology?

They will therefore suffer silently and alone to protect their theology since it cannot protect them.

Yet the Bible is liberating. But it does not answer to our theology. It only points us to God.

I like this verse

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. (John 20:31)

I repeat, and will do as emphatically as I can that God heals, and heals even incurable and terminal sicknesses. He even raises the dead.

But it is His prerogative as to who and when and how and whether He does the healing.

We walk in divine healing when we are walking in obedience because we will then be surrendered to His revelation and will. We will be utterly surrendered to that will.

As an example did you know that Elisha who healed all sorts of illnesses and even raised the dead died from sickness?

Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. (2Kings 13:14a)

But that theology will never want to even look at a verse with such revelation.

They would rather live in denial outwardly than confront the errors of their theology. Yet that is the reality.

When will you break out of your theological prison?