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Ron's
Story
(Intro
by another believer.)
Army major healed of ALS!
Dear friends:
As the Holy Spirit leads, one of the things that I joyfully am called
to do is to "declare the works of the Lord" (Psalm 118:17).
This is a good one.
Ron White is a medically retired major in the U.S. Army and Vietnam
combat veteran and an email friend. In the early 1980s, he came
down with amyotrophic lateral scerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease,
and was told he would not live past 1983. According to human wisdom,
ALS is terminal.
But after he was prayed for in a church he was visiting, God supernaturally
healed Ron, and Ron has since had a healing ministry and has seen
others healed.
Below is his outstanding testimony, as described to a friend of
his who also has ALS. His friend had asked about "the
transition" between being nearly totally paralyzed and Ron's
recovery and "timing" of same.
I am passing this along to give glory to God and to also encourage
you as you may have or face any physical problems. His testimony
is an excellent teaching in itself about God's principles.
Ron mentions Charles Capps' book on healing, "The Tongue, A
Powerful Force". It is outstanding. Harrison House Publishers
has the booklet on sale for $1.59 each, marked down from $1.99.
Minimum order of ten. See http://www.harrisonhouse.com/BookDetails.asp?ISBN=089274815X
or order from your local bookstore. I recommend this book for anyone
who has any kind of need and is interested in their "soul"
prospering, as Ron quoted the Apostle Paul, I wish that all would
prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers.
This is one book that helps each of us learn one major way our souls
should prosper.
This is very long, but I believe it is worth your time and will
be a wonderful blessing.
TESTIMONY
Prior to onset of ALS, I was very active physically. My two neighbors
and I might jog five to 42 miles per week in evenings to relieve
stress, carrying on conversations the entire time without getting
winded.
One friend was a chaplain, Chaplain (LTC) Bob Vickers from Kentucky, and
the other the "top cop" or provost martial, LTC John Gillespie
from Oregon, military police for the military installation.
I was a major on active duty in the army and served as the Executive
Officer of the U.S. Army Intelligence School at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
The job was highly demanding, stressful, and I was the number three
person in a 2,300-person organization with a $42 million budget.
My predecessors in the same job worked for one year, and at the
end of 11 to 12 stressful months, they were near basket cases, yet
I had worked in this stressful job for two full years and was looking
forward to my third year, when I had a reduction in size of my left
calf---my first symptom. (Stress is very bad for ALS.)
When I casually mentioned this reduction in my left calf, my boss
ordered me to immediately go to the hospital. (My boss thought very
highly of me, and due to his being friends and next-door neighbor
to the hospital commander, I received VIP treatment----this resulted
in my being seen by dozens of neurologists over the next several
months.) One week, my left calf was larger than my right (as it
had been all my adult life), and the next week, it was smaller.
No pain. Nothing that caused me any worry, but doctors knew that
I had some type of neurological problem that needed investigation.
So, they sent me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., where I spent 30 days inpatient and had all kinds of neurological
tests done---Myelogram to check for spinal tumor, compression of
nerves, or injury. Electromyographies (EMG), CT scans, x-rays, blood
tests, urinalysis, physical strength tests and so on. Besides
a staff of a half dozen or more neurologists at Walter Reed, I was
seen by the president's own neurologist, plus doctors from Bethesda
Naval Hospital, plus doctors from Presbyterian Hospital in Washington,
D.C.
At the end of 30 days, I was released with instructions to return
in six months for more tests----as yet, undiagnosed.
In the following weeks, I was seen by some of the best neurologists
on the east coast and by some who literally "wrote the book"
on the field of neurology. Harvard, Yale, Boston General, Boston
University, Tufts New England Medical Center (where the Journal
of Neurology is written monthly), and doctors from Framingham, MS;
New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and other places examined me
and my medical records and tests---again, thanks to the prestige
and favor I had through my boss.
My wife and I later counted the approximate number of neurologists
whom I had seen, and it exceeded 55 total (but on one special occasion,
there were over 40 in a session all at one time). All kinds of tests,
muscle biopsies, muscle disease experts, and different specialists
with different specialties in neurology saw me.
(Concerning total number of doctors, I also had a medical board,
medical review board, who reviewed all the tests, records, diagnosis,
prognosis, and agreed with them---bringing the total to over 65,
perhaps closer to 75. The independent, individual and collective
diagnosis [dx] was ALS.)
Onset was about the first week in August 1981. I spent September
1981 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the next three months
being tested in the Boston area. The dx was given to me on January
5, 1982.
Muscle atrophy (wasting) started in my left calf, then progressed
to my left thigh, then to the right leg, trunk, arms and neck. I
kept the dx (diagnosis) out of my official military medical
records from January to July 1982 (thanks to my civilian neurologist
who wasn't required to abide by military regulations).
But by July, I was having speech, swallowing and breathing difficulties,
and I experienced apnea twice while sitting at home reading a newspaper
on a Saturday morning----I simply stopped breathing for about two
minutes each time. It was at this time that my doctor suggested
I put in my retirement papers, so I could still help my family after
my retirement.
I was medically retired September 1982, and my medical board certifications
said that, based on bulbar symptoms affecting speech, swallowing
and breathing, White would not live more than six months, and certainly
would not be alive at his next birthday in July 1983. (This is a
near quote.)
We retired to my home state of Oklahoma, by my wife's choice, after
she received counselling from a wonderful counsellor who had also
faced a terminal illness, plus terminal wounds in Vietnam, and overcame
both of them, reportedly by his faith and trust in God. (I didn't
realize it at the time, but God already had the ball in motion in
my favor, putting all kinds of wonderful people in my path and giving
me indications of things to come.)
In Oklahoma, I began working for the ALS Association as Regional
Vice President over five states (OK, TX, KS, NM, CO) and conducted
patients meetings for information, research progress, research goals,
and organized patients' support groups, fund raisers, made TV and
radio interviews and commercials, and dealt with a myriad of issues
with families in my five states. I also attended ALSA quarterly,
semi-annual and annual meetings and banquets in California.
By January 1983, I literally had one foot in the grave. Doctors'
prognosis were accurate, in that I was virtually living my last
weeks.
By December 1982-January 1983, I was sleeping an average of about
20 hours per day. I slept in a recliner in an elevated position
to prevent choking in my sleep, plus, the atmospheric pressure on
my chest made it difficult to breathe at all. My breaths were so
shallow that my wife would come by my chair where I was sleeping,
and she couldn't see my chest move at inhale or exhale, nor could
she see a pulse in my neck as she formerly could. So (as she later
told me), she would put her cheek up to my nose to feel me exhale
to see whether I had already expired.
I could barely be understood talking on the phone. I was
still trying to walk and drive, but I stumbled, tripped and fell
a lot. I had lost about 80 to 95% of all muscles in my body.
Bones and rib cage were pronounced; hollows in and around all bones
were like valleys. At 5' 10 1/2" I had never weighed more
than 160 pounds in my entire life, so I was little more than a
bag of skin, bones, ligaments and blood vessels at my worst.
Speaking, breathing, chewing and swallowing were becoming quite
difficult. One of the last meals during this period consisted
of one English pea, one bite of mashed potatoes, and one tiny bite
of chicken fried steak---such a small quantity of food, but my chewing
muscles were exhausted; when I took a sip of water, I choked so
badly that my total body was exhausted, so I excused myself
to return to my recliner to sleep another 20 hours.
As I excused myself from the table that day, the looks on my little
girls' and wife's faces at that moment are forever etched in
memory and still bring tears, even today. (Our daughters were about
ages 2 and 9 at onset. I was 38.)
In my early military days, I had a friend who served with me when
we were both assigned to Fort Devens, MA as privates and PFC, then
we both attended OCS and ended up in Vietnam as lieutenants. He
got out of the service, and I tried to maintain contact through
mutual friends. The last time I saw him was about ten years earlier
to this time when he was driving an 18-wheeler truck and when I
was in German Language school in Virginia.
This friend, Robert Young, had called me from Kansas where he, his
wife and children lived and had tried to come down for a visit in
Oklahoma City where his parents and siblings also lived. He finally
made that trip to visit on February 19, 1983, a Saturday, and we
visited that day as much as possible. As he was getting ready to
leave, he invited me to attend church with him the following day,
to which my wife agreed, and we met him the next morning.
At this church service, there was much singing. Then, before any
sermon, the pastor invited anyone forward for prayer who had any
kind of need. My thought was, "Well, I think I have a need.
I think I'll go forward for prayer."
I stood in line (there were perhaps a hundred or so people in line
for prayer for various needs). Pastors asked me what I wanted the
Lord to do for me.
I explained that I had ALS, a terminal disease in which all the
muscles in the body waste away causing paralysis and death, that
doctors had only given me six months to live, that I was at
the end of those six months right now, and that I would like
to be healed of Lou Gehrig's Disease.
They laid hands on me, anointed me with oil. Three different pastors
did this. I didn't know that I was supposed to return to my seat
following prayer by the first pastor, so I got three doses of prayer
and three anointings with oil by three pastors.
The date was February 20, 1983.
I didn't feel anything that day. I didn't have lots of faith, like
so many unknowledgeable folks may try to tell you one must have.
I didn't even know anything had happened. Following the service,
we bid farewell to my friends who had to return to Kansas to get
children in school the next day.
In my capacity as Regional VP for ALSA, I had been following ALS
research by a neurosurgeon in Houston, TX. He seemed to be unorthodox
and unusual in personality and approach to medicine---my kind of
guy. So in January 1983, I had made an appointment to see him on
an outpatient appointment the first week in March 1983 (about ten
days after I received prayer on February 20).
One facet of his research concerned lead poisoning. Reportedly,
he had treated two or three people who had lead poisoning and had
been misdiagnosed with ALS, so he was treating them with EDTA (calcium
disodium Ethalene-Diamene-Tetraacidic Acid) chelation therapy. Because
I had been in a hunting accident and shot with over 42 lead shotgun
pellets in the face, neck, head and shoulders on December 19, 1958
at age 15 and still had a dozen lead pellets in me, I was vitally
interested in his research. (I have since concluded that lead, mercury,
aluminum, cadmium, and other types of slow poisoning can cause ALS.
Toxicities are major culprits, even if ingested in early years.)
In his outpatient examination of me in March 1983, he all but forced
me to do things I had been unable to do for several months.
I actually argued with the doctor, telling him he was nuts and other
things to try to get me to do some of the things. In exasperation,
I tried to do as he asked, and much to my surprise and amazement,
I was not only able to do them, but I found it was as easy to do
them as any time in my entire life. I was shocked. Amazed.
He told me he didn't think I had ALS and wanted me to return for
inpatient testing a month later. (I later learned that he told ALL
his ALS patients this exact same statement, so he could get them
back to Houston to use as his guinea pigs for his pet research projects.
I referred several patients to him, and he told them all the same
thing.)
But I left his office that day "on cloud nine" as we say,
hardly able to think or believe what I had just experienced.
Then, as I was getting on the elevator, I had this first-in-my-life-experience
of hearing Satan, the devil, old Lucifer, the fallen angel, speak
to me.
He said, "Now, Ron. If I were you, I wouldn't tell my wife
what the doctor just told you. You know that the 65 or more doctors
couldn't possibly be wrong, and if you try to tell your wife what
the doctor just told you, it will only cause worse emotional problems
than you already have. I wouldn't tell her any of this, if I were
you." (This was like some little parrot sitting on my shoulder
talking to me, just as I was getting on that elevator that day.
It was a pretty nice sounding voice, and it sounded entirely congenial,
rational and logical.)
So that's exactly what I did. When I flew back to OKC and got home,
I simply said to my wife that this neurologist wanted me to
return for tests and didn't mention his thinking that I didn't have
ALS.
Then, that same afternoon and evening, as I was talking to other
PALS (person or people with ALS) around the state, I began
to talk to one PALS named Bill who lived in Norman, OK. I hadn't
talked to him in a few weeks, so I was telling him about my friend
Bob Young, attending church with him, being prayed for, then my
medical appointment today (that day)----and suddenly it hit me "like
a ton of bricks" (as we say) as I was talking to Bill on the
phone----the only way I could have done those things in the doctor's
office today is that the Lord gave me a healing touch ten days ago!!!!
I'm HEALED!!! I'M RECOVERING!!!! PRAISE GOD, I'M HEALED!!!
So, that was a Monday that I was talking to PALS named Bill, and
I knew that this same church had services on Monday nights that
most referred to as "Miracle Monday" services. I asked
Bill to meet me and attend the service that night. He gave all kinds
of excuses, saying it would be impossible for his wife to get home
from work from the bank so early on a busy Monday, but in the
end, he met me at the service and went forward for prayer as
I had done.
Now Bill was almost as bad as I was, worse in some areas. For example,
his arms and hands were almost entirely paralysed, and his speech
was worse than mine.
Earlier, I had called the senior pastor of the church, told him
about my previous visit and prayer, told him about my visit to the
doctor this day and what the doctor had said, and I told him that
I believed I was healed of ALS----would it be okay if I brought
another ALS patient to the service for healing tonight?
(The pastor was in a meeting and on a speaker phone, so when I made
these statements and asked the question, the folks in the meeting
went ballistic in shouting, laughing and applause. I was told later
that my statements and question brought many tears of joy to all
the staff.)
(There are many other segments of the story that are good, such
as my being interviewed on Channel 5 TV and being on the news a
few days earlier, one of the pastor's wives, Lorena McFarland seeing
me on TV, speaking my healing into existence [like Charles Capps
teaches in his book], her seeing me in the service on Sunday Feb.
20th, and other things that I will abbreviate here.)
Bill went forward for prayer that night, and as the pastor was praying,
he stopped and told Bill, "Now Bill, the power of the Holy
Spirit is going to go through you in a moment, and when it does,
I want you to lift your hands as high as you can and begin to thank
and praise the Lord for your healing."
So the pastor again began to pray. Within seconds, Bill lifted his
formerly paralysed hands above his waist, then shoulder high. The
pastor opened his eyes and said, "That's it, Bill, just raise
your hands and thank the Lord for your healing."
Suddenly, Bill lifted his hands straight up in the air as high as
he ever had in his life and began to make fists and stretch his
fingers out and clench them again, and he began to lift his weight
up on his toes like he was about to jump off a diving board into
a swimming pool!!!
The church was packed with people and the entire place went absolutely
ballistic. Bill's wife's and two children's eyes were wide
like saucers with tears of joy and expressions of delight and unbelief
on their faces!
Bill received instantaneous healing that night. In a matter of a
very few minutes.
Then, I began to have prayer for others, some in person, some by
phone, and others were healed of ALS and a multitude of other maladies.
The very first PALS I met and prayed for was a visitor
from Arkansas to OKC. He was vile and had a foul mouth like I used
to have. He also threatened me by saying, "If you're one of
those Christian nuts, I've got a 12-gauge shotgun right here beside
my chair, so if you even mention the name of Jesus or anything of
that nature, I will blow your _______ head off." He was angry
and sounded like he meant every word of his threat. (He did not
use the word "nuts" but a lot of gerunds and participle
phrases.)
Well, I've never been one to be easily intimidated. I must have
weighed 140 pounds sopping wet at this time, but I used to stand
up to general officers when only a captain, had fought in a war,
drove a Jeep into the middle of enemy territory under fire
to rescue and save a woman and her children, and other things, but
I was a bit concerned about this guy who sounded a bit like a lunatic
who had also been dx'd with ALS.
As I got out of my vehicle to meet this guy at the 1:00 P.M. appointment,
I breathed a prayer and said to God, "Lord Jesus, if You will
open the door for me to witness about You, I will witness to him
about Jesus, in spite of the threats."
I knocked, was invited in, saw the double-barrelled shotgun beside
his chair, exactly as he said, and within two minutes I was telling
the man about Jesus and that Jesus died for his sins and paid the
price in full for his salvation and healing, that he needn't be
plagued with ALS all his life, nor should he believe what the doctors
say, that one has a terminal illness and to go home, get one's house
in order, and prepare for the inevitable.
As tears streamed down his cheeks and he began to tell me how he
needed to ask his ex-wife for forgiveness, I led the man in a prayer
of forgiveness to receive the free gift of eternal life through
Jesus Christ, then anointed him with oil, prayed for his healing,
and the man was healed in minutes, doing things he couldn't do when
I arrived.
Then, in July 1983, I was a guest on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network)
Christian TV and interviewed by Dr. Dan Shaeffer about my healing
of ALS. He interviewed me for about a half hour, then as I was leaving
the studio, one of the phone prayer partners, Roger Short, who receives
calls for prayer spoke to me, indicating a woman with ALS asked
if I would pray for her over the phone. I agreed.
She was a woman in her 70s, home alone at the time, since her daughter
had just gone to the store. She was paralysed in her legs and trunk,
had to be lifted from bed to wheel chair, then from wheel chair
to the arm chair where she was when she called for prayer.
I prayed for her, then asked her to "prove God" and to
put "action" with her faith, since faith without works
(action) is dead (without results), so I asked her to do something
she was unable to do before prayer.
To make a longer story shorter without relaying many other notable
events, she got up out of her chair and walked---not once, but twice.
Then began to almost jump and walk rapidly around her living room,
kitchen and dining room----screaming at the top of her lungs every
time she did something she couldn't do earlier. (She literally caused
the hair to stand up on the back of my neck with her shrill screaming----I
was thinking that she may have fallen and couldn't get up or something
worse!!! Oh, ye of little faith!!!)
She was also healed instantaneously, within minutes of prayer.
So, because I took this call and was the one who had prayer for
the lady, I filled out the "Praise Report" to be sent
out to Dr. Shaeffer. As he read it, he said on live international
TV, "Folks, I have to read something very important. We just
interviewed Major Ron White who was healed of ALS by the Lord Jesus,
and Ron just had prayer for a lady who is a member of my church.
She had ALS, and she hasn't been able to attend our church
for over five years due to this disease, but she has just been healed
and is up walking around praising God. Folks, let's give the Lord
thanks and praise!!!" (The TV studio audience went wild in
shouting and applause.)
The following morning was Saturday, and I intended to sleep late,
due to the exciting activities of the previous night that wouldn't
allow me to sleep. I had given the lady my home phone number and
invited her to call anytime. So at about 8:00 A.M. Saturday, she
woke me up and said in her "little ol' granny voice",
"Mr. White? Do you remember me? I'm the one you prayed for
last night."
I said, "Yes ma'am, I remember."
She said, "Well, you told me to call anytime, and I just wanted
you to know I'm doing my favorite hobby and pass time activity that
I haven't been able to do in five years."
I said, "Yes ma'am. What might that be?"
She said, "Baking blueberry pies." And she began to laugh
and cry in joy. Then she said, "I really just called to let
you know that I'm still healed."
It was a beautiful Saturday morning!!!
About ten years later and after we moved to Colorado, I called that
lady's phone number in OKC and learned from her surviving nephew
that the elderly lady had lived several years in very good health
and died quietly and naturally in her sleep of old age and
natural causes in her 80s. He said she was very happy and led a
very full life all the way up to the very night she passed on. He
was pleased that I had called.
Another example.
An elderly couple came to our church and introduced themselves.
The wife had ALS. The husband, whose name I understood as Charles,
was terribly hard of hearing and wore hearing aides. The pastoral
staff and I had prayed for the woman several times, and she seemed
to get slightly better at times, then she would regress a bit, then
get better, then slide down hill a bit.
One day, the husband called to apologize for their not attending
church and that his wife had forced him to call to explain that
he was sick. (Actually, I knew their son had just been indicted
for fraud of several hundred thousand dollars and had tried to swindle
another family out of their farm, and the elderly couple were embarrassed. These
stories had been front page news.)
I was having to shout at the top of my lungs for Charles to hear
me over the phone, and even then, he kept asking me to repeat myself
over and over due to his deafness.
Finally, I understood that Charles had influenza, so I asked if
I could pray for his healing of the flu and for his hearing. He
agreed.
Following prayer, I shouted, "Well, how do you feel, Charles?"
He shouted rather angrily back at me, "I FEEL FINE!!! AND MY
NAME IS NOT CHARLES!!! IT'S JOE!!! AND WOULD YOU STOP THAT CONFOUNDED
SHOUTING AT ME ON THE PHONE???!!!!"
I didn't answer immediately, but when I realized what had just happened,
I was laughing so hard that I could hardly answer. I had been calling
this guy by the wrong name for months, PRAYED for the wrong name
for healing, yet "Joe" was healed of influenza AND deafness!!!
God certainly must have a sense of humor.
The wife? I don't know. I never saw them nor heard from them again
"directly", but I heard from friends that they were too
embarrassed over their son's misadventures, and the wife was doing
very well physically. She was emotionally distraught, but doing
well physically, so I took that to mean that she, too, was healed
of ALS.
I have had prayer with and for many. Some have been healed. The
majority have not been healed----at least, more have not been healed
than those who have been. Of the several hundreds, I've only encountered
about four PALS who absolutely refused to allow me to pray for them---one
was Jewish, one a Mormon (who allowed me to pray for him, but wouldn't
allow me to anoint him with oil because I wasn't "anointed"
by one of their church elders), one was Muslim, one was a pitiful
man who had been so despised and rejected by his family that ALS
was the only way and time in his life that anyone had given him
any attention or approval, so he didn't want to be healed----he
preferred to die with his family's attention and approval than to
get better and again be faced with the possibility of being rejected.
Sad.
For several months after February 1983, I will tell you that the
devil, Satan, Lucifer, the fallen angel, tried any number of times
and ways to steal my healing, tried to get me to lose faith, tried
to get me to think I wasn't healed or to cause me to doubt.
Fasciculations was one of these ways. Every time I would have a
muscle twitch, he would say, "See, Ron, you aren't really healed!!!
Get real, man!!! You know what fasciculations mean better than most.
Just look at your shirt sleeve move!!! You aren't healed!!! All
those bright doctors were right. All of them COULDN'T be wrong,
Ron. Really!!!"
And similar things. And this type of thing was experienced all through
the summer, fall and winter of 1983. The devil tried his best to
get me to renounce my healing, admit to ALS, get me to speak ALS,
get me to speak ALS back into existence, to exercise doubt and unbelief, and
a number of different things, especially if I accidentally tripped
or fell or dropped something or had muscle cramps or choked on water
or other thing.
Even when I first began to tell folks at church in March 1983 in
my "drunk's voice" (my voice and word enunciation still
sounded like a drunk person) that I was healed, many would
nudge others or roll their eyes like, "Yeh, right!!! Ron doesn't
need a neurologist---he needs a psychiatrist now!!!"
Finally, I got tired of this type of thing, and one day as I was
walking out of the house to our patio, I began to have fasciculations
in my left arm when the devil began his routine onslaught of negatives,
so I got pretty angry. I said, "SATAN, IN THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST OF NAZARETH, GET AWAY FROM ME, AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'M
HEALED, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND NOTHING YOU SAY OR DO IS GOING
TO PREVENT MY BELIEVING THIS FOR AS LONG AS I'M BREATHING!!! SO
GET AWAY FROM ME!!! I REJECT YOUR LIES!!! I REJECT YOUR HATE!!!
I REJECT YOUR DOUBT AND UNBELIEF!!! I'M HEALED OF ALS, AND THERE
IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, SO I COMMAND YOU TO FLEE, TO GO,
AND LEAVE ME ALONE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!!!"
And he did. He left. And he didn't try to convince me I wasn't healed
for several more years. Scripture says we are to resist the devil,
and he will flee from you, so I was just exercising my right to
reject and resist the evil one. Jesus also said that
whatever we ask in His name, it shall be done by the Father in heaven.
It was a constant battle against Satan, against my own mind, and
against all logic, all rationalization, all medical scientific evidence,
and against the signed statements of over 65 very bright doctors.
For almost a year.
It was a "process".
Unlike a few folks, and like most folks whom I've seen recover from
ALS, I was healed gradually. The examples above were healed in minutes,
but my healing was gradual. Over a long period of time. God gave
me about 80 to 85% of my STRENGTH back in a matter of a few days
to few weeks----but to this day, I only have about 65% of all the
muscles and muscle bulk or mass returned that I lost by wasting
and atrophy.
I will also say that I have not received 100% restoration of muscles
and strength as others have. I firmly believe, however, had I not
asked God to show me effective treatments and/or cures for ALS,
that I would most definitely be 100% recovered today. (Yes,
I still believe God is going to help me and that I will somehow
be instrumental in finding effective treatments and/or cures for
ALS. Having "been there", I have a particular affinity
and love for PALS and their families, and I continue to study the
Bible, along with neurology, ALS research, and to use the mind God
gave to me. I've already been blessed to influence positively
some in the ALS research community, but I don't think I've yet scratched
the surface of what God is about to do through me to find ALS
treatments and/or cures.)
Why? God knows I'm not a doctor or research scientist. So,
one way I've been doing unscientific "research" is by
trial and error on my own body for the purpose of sharing and benefiting
others (which I believe is one of the reasons for my existence today).
If something I try is good or beneficial, then I know and feel the
difference. If some "trial" thing or drug or whatever
is detrimental, I very definitely know it in a matter of days or
weeks. In essence, I've been using my own body as a living, walking
test laboratory for the past 20 years----off and on, a few days
or weeks or months here and there. If something is detrimental,
I stop, and I always recover in hours or days. (AND I DO NOT SUGGEST
THAT OTHERS DO THIS!!!!!)
Some may think this is a pretty stupid thing to do, and they may
be right. But they don't know that I pray and have prayed about
this subject many times, and I have a peace about whatever test,
trial or whatever before doing it. I trust the Holy Spirit in this,
and I firmly believe He has kept me from trying some things that
would have been seriously harmful.
Now, perhaps I haven't fully answered questions about the "transition"
or "transformation" from going downhill to recovering,
but perhaps with the circumstantial subjects and activities that
I actually lived, along with other examples, perhaps I've helped
answer these in part.
When I tell you it is very important to do this or that, please
believe me that it is very important. For example, the things that
Charles Capps teaches in his book and the power of the tongue----it's
the power of the tongue, prayers, faith, belief and trust in God
and His Word, and fighting the devil that are major reasons I'm
alive today. Without a doubt.
I know some folks who didn't take my suggestions seriously, were
healed, then lost their healing and died----some because they weren't
consistent---some didn't want to make any changes in their lives----some
only wanted their healing so they could return to their old ways
(and they died)----some didn't want to stay focused on Jesus, His
Word, or didn't want to pray or develop a daily prayer life----some
didn't want to make Jesus first priority in their lives----some
didn't want to bother with living the seven priorities in life that
I wrote----and other "reasons" or "logic" their
way instead of God's way.
One man was a Baptist. Their church didn't believe in baptism in
the Holy Spirit, didn't believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit
as outlined in I Corinthians 12 and 13, and following the man's
healing of ALS and his total recovery, his pastor talked him out
of his healing, and the man died within about eight months. He was
totally healed and restored to health, but again experienced ALS
symptoms and went downhill and died----and he absolutely refused
to call and talk to me after his pastor began the deluge of negatives,
saying to the man that healing and other gifts stopped when the
last Apostle of the New Testament died, so any healing today is
of the devil!!! Amazing!!
Unbelievable!!! But what this pastor said and the man's again experiencing
ALS symptoms and dying is true!!! He believed his pastor over God's
Word and promises in Scripture!!! (Take note of this and beware!!!
YOU must know what Scripture says FOR YOURSELF, so YOU know, NOT
what someone else TELLS you it says!!!! That "someone
else" includes Ron White!!!)
Another man, polished, well-heeled, wealthy, former pro-football
star, son of a retired Air Force colonel, was healed. Then, he made
arrangements to come for another visit to OKC from Dallas to see
me, and leave his absolutely stunning, gorgeous wife at home----he
wanted to meet his old girlfriend in OKC and sleep with her. He
didn't want to live the life required of Scripture, and he wouldn't
lay his old ways aside that he had been living since college days
as the popular "stud" to whom the girls flocked in droves.
He died. Healed and near 100% recovered over a period of months,
and then got back into his old ways and died. He had so much potential
to reach many other folks for the cause of Jesus Christ and to be
such a wonderful blessing to so many others!!! He had charisma and
appealed to most every type of person, which is one reason he was
so successful in investments and the stock market. His good
looks, worldly successes, and lust for beautiful women proved to
be his undoing.
God had a plan for that man, just as God has a plan for every PALS
ever dx'd with ALS.
I've found the same weakness to be true of many folks who come
down with ALS----at least, among many of the men. Many have committed
adultery or had affairs right before coming down with ALS. Not all.
But more than 50% of men and a significant portion of women. (About
25 to 50% of PALS, male and female, also have had genital herpes,
a viral sexually transmitted disease, for months or years before
onset of symptoms---I believe ALS can also be of viral, bacterial,
fungal/yeast origin as well as other causes.).
It's so very easy to have such things forgiven and to receive the
Holy Spirit's help to repent (meaning to feel so sorry for the action
that one "turns away from the sin"), receive forgiveness,
and begin life anew. So simple. It's a choice.
This and many other reasons is one of my basis for discussing and
emphasizing the importance of repentance and forgiveness.
Unforgiveness or lack of forgiving or asking for forgiveness is
the most common (and perhaps the primary) reason that many prayers
are hindered----not answered----which may include lack of healing,
lack of blessings, lack of whatever one's need.
This is emphasized by Jesus Himself in the New Testament.
One doesn't need to go into explicit gory details about some sin----one
need only to go to another person and say, "I have sinned against
you, and I'm sorry. Will you please forgive me?" Then
one must truly "repent" and "turn away from"
the sin and try very hard not to repeat it nor continue practicing
that sin.
The Apostle Paul admonishes us to "confess our sins one to
another" in the New Testament---confession to God is important
and paramount, but it is also important to confess sins and ask
for forgiveness of humans, coworkers, spouses, parents, or others.
A young woman's son was healed of muscular dystrophy, only when
she forgave her abusive ex-husband who beat and raped her after
the divorce. The little boy took off his braces and walked
without canes, unassisted, but ONLY after THE MOTHER forgave her
ex-husband!!!
Sometimes, the Holy Spirit may want to do something in the family,
sometimes with a spouse or family member, not necessarily the patient
themselves, in order that healing is manifested.
(As a cautionary note, please do not convince yourself or allow
the devil to convince you that some type of embarrassment is too
great a price to pay for getting rid of any potential hindrance
to answered prayer---ALS is a life or death situation, to put this
in perspective---a small amount of embarrassment may be hindering
all kinds of wonderful blessings. Please do not allow nagging
doubts or embarrassment to be a hindrance to answered prayer.
After all, God knows about it anyhow, even if others do not.
One man received answers to prayer after making restitution and
asking forgiveness for stealing some small thing in his youth---some
small insignificant thing that had been nagging his conscience for
decades.) When people are healed, I'm happy. Ecstatic.
It's when people are NOT healed that I grieve. Terribly.
I've spent so much time in grief over those who were not healed,
that I began a long process of studying the Bible to determine "hindrances"
to answered prayer, hindrances to God's will, and anything and everything
that might prevent one's being healed.
As a result, and for the past several years, if someone isn't healed
in a few weeks or doesn't show very positive improvement in a few
months, then I begin to counsel with the person to attempt to determine
the "hindrance". I normally go through and review all
the things I've attempted to teach or share. Then I begin to look
further and attempt to investigate the possible hindrances from
a biblical perspective and the "conditions" stated in
Scripture.
Why? Because Jesus paid the price in full for our salvation, healing,
and well-being in all things, and if we don't receive the things
for which the price has been paid in full by Jesus, then something
is not right on our end. HE has done His part----in full. So any
hindrance MUST be on OUR part. (And I don't say this to cause anyone
to go on a "guilt trip" over anything----NOT AT ALL!!!)
I say all of these things to say this: God has many hundreds of
promises in the Bible. Promises for good, and not for evil, to give
us a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
But virtually EVERY promise has its condition. A condition or prerequisite
in order for us to receive the promise. When we meet the conditions,
then the promises are ours to have and keep. It's that simple.
For example, salvation or eternal life has the conditions/prerequisites
that we believe in Jesus Christ, repent of sins, invite Jesus to
come into our hearts, and try to live life by Scripture. That is,
faithfulness and obedience to God and His Word. When we do this,
then any and all God's promises apply and are available to us.
Further, because God so loved the world (us) that He gave His only
begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish (die)
but have eternal life. He gave His Son Jesus to die for all
mankind----every soul on earth. And whoever believes in Him (the
condition) shall receive eternal life (the promise).
Just as God intended for every man, woman and child on earth to
receive the free gift of eternal life for which Jesus paid the price
in full, so too, did Jesus pay the price for our healing---for as
it is written, it's by His stripes that we are and were healed.
If Jesus paid for our salvation, and salvation is for us all (which
it is), then so was our healing paid for by Jesus and is available
to every one who believes.
But salvation and healing are NOT given automatically and without
condition---otherwise, every soul on earth would be saved, healed
and have perfect health.
WE must MEET THE CONDITIONS!!! For salvation. For healing. For whatever.
Few seminary graduates (clergy) give any indication of knowing these
simple facts, but these are very true.
I've had seminary graduates (clergy) tell me, "Oh, Ron, you
are placing this 'condition' thing on people, so you have an excuse,
in the event someone is not healed."
My response: Far from it. I have studied the CONDITIONS so I can
counsel with folks concerning things in Scripture that I KNOW have
conditions in order to receive the promise. JESUS PAID THE PRICE
IN FULL, so whatever has been paid for in full is OURS!!!!
If we meet the conditions. And I want to determine whatever little
or big hindrance there may be, so that EVERY PALS can receive what
is paid for in full!!! I've personally seen far too many folks healed
and recovered, but only after determining and addressing the hindrance
or condition!
We don't leave a new car on the dealership, if we've paid for it
in full, do we? So why leave ALS in place, when the price for healing
of ALS has been paid in full??? Maybe we merely have to sign a title.
Perhaps we only have to do some small thing, like pick up a key.
And it's worth it to me and to many others to determine what that
"little thing" might be, and I can't know this much of
the time without further counsel, further investigation, perhaps
asking questions.
Often, it may be some small insignificant-to-me or others that it
may seem silly to us, but it may be very important to God. The subjects
are so many and varied that I often rely on the Holy Spirit to tell
me what the hindrances might be.
For example, a couple came from California to visit, to receive
counselling, and to "explore" this "healing"
thing. The wife had ALS. She was raised Mormon, and the husband
was raised Methodist, but both were near atheists, and neither could
tell me what they believed.
The wife had been married and divorced seven times and the husband
married and divorced six times. The Holy Spirit showed me that the
tiny, petite woman, kept marrying husbands, because she wanted a
"father" figure as a husband, and her current husband
had gone through so many wives because he was looking for a "daughter"
figure as a wife. Their current marriage originated in a bar over
drinks and had lasted longer than all previous marriages combined,
because they had "found" what they wanted in a spouse.
(I think this is funny, and I can't keep from laughing whenever
I think of the couple---even though the situation is really sad
by any perspective. Sorry here for the digression; I take
this work very, very seriously, but I also have a sense of humor.)
So, after hours and hours of convincing them that they needed to
accept Jesus Christ as Lord and to receive the gift of eternal life,
I prayed over them, broke curses over them, did a deliverance (exorcism),
and a few other things. By the Holy Spirit's telling me a few things,
I led them in prayer and asked each of them to ask God to cause
them to grow up and be the mature Christian and person that God
originally intended. I led them in prayer to say things that would
ask for healing of their unnatural desires (without actually coming
out and saying these things).
So, as soon as we said "Amen", the little petite wife
said, "I've got to stop this silly little girl thing and grow
up and be the adult wife my husband needs."
I could hardly keep from laughing out loud right there and then,
and the husband's mouth flew open in shock and surprise---and he
said, "Yeh, and I've got to do the same thing and be a man
and husband. Clowning around was fun, but I don't think it's going
to be fun anymore."
When I told my own pastor about these experiences that same afternoon,
he was laughing so hard that he ended up in the floor and slapping
his thigh, yelling for me to stop, stop, please stop---and the entire
church administrative personnel were crowding around to learn what
was happening to their spiritual leader who was rolling on the carpet
laughing and crying at the same time. They thought something was
terribly wrong, but he was simply laughing at the spiritual and
human ramifications of the day's experiences.
When I told my pastor that we Christians need to
stop using the Scripture about evil spirits returning seven fold
and using this as some excuse not to do deliverances (exorcisms)
without the person's "permission", he was laughing so
hard that he was begging me to stop. (Perhaps you don't understand
why this is so humorous to us, and it might require some time, biblical
knowledge and experience to do so.)
Without smiling or laughing at all, I was joking, "hamming
it up" a bit and clowning around with my pastor while he was
rolling on the office carpet, so I said, "I can't vouch for
what this sixth and seventh marriage is going to turn out to be,
but I can guarantee you, it will never be the same. No more 'daddy'
and 'honey daughter' thing with that couple!!!"
With that comment, my pastor was literally screaming, laughing and
crying at the same time with tears running down his cheeks.
The woman was healed of ALS, and I never heard from them again after
their return to California. I hope she kept her healing. And stayed
married to the same person.
Many who don't stay in contact with me lose their healing for some
small thing, easily rectified, if they would simply maintain contact----not
that I'm anything special---it's the Holy Spirit who does all the
work, but one doesn't receive in just any place the quality nor
quantity of biblical counsel that I normally provide.
I've been in lots of different Protestant and Catholic churches,
counselled with dozens of Mormons, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews,
Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Protestants and others, and not
one of them provide what I provide nor with the tenacity---not one
church, not one priest, not one pastor, not one bishop, not one
psychologist, not one doctor, not one lay person---giving up is
simply not God's cup of tea nor mine.
And it's NOT me who provides anything----it's the Holy Spirit who
does it all---through me---but BY the Holy Spirit. So only He can
take credit for anything. He and He alone. ALL glory, honor, credit,
and praise belong ONLY to the Lord Jesus!!! It's just that
the Holy Spirit has given me the dogged determination to "stay
the course", to not give up on anyone, and to get to the bottom
of any possible hindrance, so people like you can be healed
and restored by the Holy Spirit as God wants and intends.
Your responsibility is to stay in contact with the Lord and with
me---because neither one of us ever gives up. Please understand
this!
In summary: "Transition" and "transformation".
My friend, I'm still in "transition" and still being "transformed"
22 years after onset and 20 years after healing. I have not "arrived"
spiritually nor physically. The "primary" transition and
transformation is a spiritual one. It is ongoing. Continuous. And
will be continuous. Throughout the rest of my life. Until God gives
me my "new" immortal body. The transition and transformation
is also emotional, both funny and sad, both joyous and less so in
some regards.
The "time" or "timing" of the transition and
transformation is not specific in most cases, and it would probably
be futile for me to address an applicable time or timing in your
or anyone's case----except to say, it pretty much depends on you,
your attitude, and your willingness to accept, believe, receive
and practice the contents of God's Word, the Bible. Generally, the
sooner your transition and transformation spiritually, the sooner
your physical transformation and healing---not always, but generally.
As I've said before to others, God may have used ALS to get your
attention, as He did to me. Everything happens for a reason and
purpose (or many), including ALS. Further, God ALWAYS "wants"
to turn bad to good, but His "wanting" to turn bad to
good may be entirely dependent on OUR choices----not His. He has
already done all the real "work" on our behalf----God
the Father gave His Son to die for us---God the Son gave His life
for us and received stripes by beating and scourging that we might
be healed.
So, since God the Father and God the Son have already done their
part, the rest is up to us. To believe, receive, and meet His minimal
conditions.
And that's not too tough, is it? The "real" work is already
done. Ours is to believe, receive, not doubt, meet minimal conditions,
and drive that new car right off the dealer's lot. It's OURS!!!
Paid for IN FULL!!!!
So get that "key" out, my friend. As the Volkswagen commercial
says, "Drivers wanted!!!!" Okay???
There is absolutely nothing that prevents your getting up out of
your chair right this minute and dancing a jig around the house
where you are. Absolutely nothing. It's your choice!!! You and I
prayed. We prayed in agreement as two or more. We joined our faith
together---and our combined faith is just enough---just enough for
you to receive your healing of ALS!!!
If this doesn't happen, then we need to talk. And pray. To determine
what, if any, hindrance there may be. BUT A WORD OF CAUTION HERE:
Do NOT go on some guilt trip, if you don't or can't dance a jig
this minute!!! God's timing is important, just as He wanted to use
my healing as a witness to the orthodox Jewish neurosurgeon in Houston
who had not yet believed in Jesus Christ as the true Messiah. God
may have His own timing for manifestation of healing or any other
for His own reasons. Far be it from me to attempt to pre-empt or
assume God's timing!!!
Yes, we live in a "now" generation that wants their sound
bytes and news or emails in details that can be put on a 3 X 5 card
(unlike my verbose writings), or we want or McDonald's hamburger
yesterday or weekly pay check and wealth before age 30, but God's
timing isn't normally anything like society's or the world's. The
"now" generation is not God's way.
God is never late. God is ALWAYS on time. God NEVER gets in a hurry.
About 99.999% of the time, we may be the ones in a great hurry,
but in actuality, God is waiting on us or waiting for us, perhaps
waiting for us to learn, perhaps to grow, perhaps to mature a bit,
perhaps to do, perhaps to believe and receive, perhaps to forgive
or be forgiven or to forgive our own self, or perhaps some
other huge-small things.
We may think, "Hey, God!!! It's ME!!! I need this or that!!!
Do you hear me, God???!!! Why don't You hurry up??? Don't You know
I NEED this or that???!!!"
And He is most likely up there smiling, in essence saying, "Hey
guys, I love you, and I want My very best for You. I paid the price
for it all. But you need to go get the 'keys' before you can drive
that car home. The 'keys' are in My Word. Plus, I sent you some
folks who will help you learn how to use those 'keys', apply brakes,
or shift gears and accelerate. So you aren't waiting for Me---I'm
waiting for YOU!!!"
A few of spiritual "truths" may be worth repeating here:
1. The stronger I got SPIRITUALLY, the stronger I became PHYSICALLY.
(This is not a feeling, is not attending mass or church, but it
is "relationship" with the Lord Jesus, communing with
the Holy Spirit minute by minute, and growing, maturing in Him by
faithfulness and obedience to God and His Word----ALL of it. YOUR
relationship, not the priests', pastors', Ron's or someone else's,
but YOUR relationship with the Lord. I capitalize words for
emphasis, because these statements apply to about 9 of 10 churches
and denominations in the United States today.)
2. YOU are not waiting for God to do something (healing), HE is
waiting FOR YOU!!!
3. The sooner YOU become what God wants, the sooner God gives what
you want!!! Most often, in that order or sequence.
Now, on whom does that place the onus of responsibility??? Who is
waiting on whom??? Timing???
It's all in your own hands. Your own priorities. If you want quick
healing, then grow spiritually quickly. Meet all His conditions
until the right one counts. To learn what those conditions are,
one must read, study, and learn His Owner's Manual, the Bible.
Plus, He sent you a friend named Ron to help you out whenever, however,
with whatever. Your friend was the most undeserving of
healing or any of God's favor (grace) and mercy, and I am an unproud
but very experienced sinner with knowledge and experiences of the
worst---and I speak of that friend in the third person, because
"that person of the past" is now a changed person.
Please, please, don't allow this to be frustrating in the least
to you----God doesn't want this to be a frustrating experience,
but one of joy, hope and everlasting peace. Not that you won't encounter
frustrations---you will, if you're a living human---but in all my
"walk" with the Lord, most frustrations came from myself
or other humans, not God, not the contents of His Word, not in living
and serving Him in faithfulness and obedience.
He most likely has your attention, now, right? And you now know
that He has some pretty wonderful things in store for you, most
likely a "higher calling" on your life than ever previously
imagined. You must change some things, but they won't be difficult
nor impossible, because with God, nothing is impossible. The
Holy Spirit will help you. You are in a "transition"
and "transformation" period, whether you know or realize
it or not. You've just begun. This journey will require
changes on your part, but nothing you can't handle---if I could
change, you can change. The journey may not be all rosy and
smooth. But it will be full of wonderful blessings beyond description,
if you will be faithful and obedient to God and His Word.
Being faithful and obedient to God and His Word means or includes
"the entire enchilada", my friend---all of it---but don't
ever think this "process" means "overnight"
or "perfection" for none of us is perfect by any
measure. (Those who teach "perfection" should learn
that Jesus meant "perfect in love", when He said, Be you
therefore perfect, even as your heavenly Father in heaven is perfect.)
It's YOUR choice. And when you've done all, stand. Paul tells us
this---when you've done all, to simply stand on God's Word and believe
it as if your very life depended on it---which it does. When you
"stand", you are giving ALS to God, almost like stretching
your arms and hands out as if holding a plate or platter and saying,
"Here, Lord. I give this ALS bug to You. I don't want it and
don't know what to do with it, but I'm sure You know, and You can
get rid of it for both of us." Then rest in Him. In peace.
With the full knowledge and belief that He will do exactly as you
ask in accordance with His will and Word. It IS His will to
heal----healing is NEVER something we have to ask His will or "if
it be His will".
As Inventor and Creator of these human bodies, God certainly
knows how to fix them when something goes wrong or breaks down.
You won't do this alone nor by yourself. You have God the Father.
Your have God the Son, Jesus Christ. You have the Holy Spirit. You
have the Word. You have the blood of Jesus. You have prayer. You
have your loving spouse who can join you in prayer and in agreement.
And I'm happy to call you friend. I'm here for you.
As Paul wrote (and this is one Scripture I ask you to memorize today),
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Say it again. Memorize it right now.
Another is, "With God, nothing is impossible."
Another is, "ALL THINGS are possible to him who believes and
is called according to His purpose."
Memorize these three simple Scriptures today and say them over and
over to yourself every day for the rest of your life. They are NOT
"simple" but they are simply and easily learned.
Now, it doesn't matter what others may think, say, or do, nor is
it all that significant that others may think you or I are nuts
for thinking or doing or saying such things. It's what God thinks
that truly matters. Agreed???
Laugh a lot. Smile a lot. Have joy. Proverbs says laughter is good
medicine---laughter releases all kinds of endorphins, seretonin,
dopamine, amino acids, and good brain chemicals that bring
healing. I've known of people who were dx'd with terminal, inoperable
cancer, one of whom watched Laurel and Hardy comic movies
day after day, laughed and laughed, only to return to the doctor
with no cancer. Laughter is good medicine.
Sing and listen to good Christian music. As Scripture says (and
the fourth I want you to memorize today), "The joy of the Lord
is my strength." Say it aloud. Again. Repeat it over and over.
The joy of the Lord is my strength!!!
(When you speak these Scriptures aloud, repeatedly, and when the
meanings of them get down in your heart and soul, they will be reality.
Without a doubt!!! When they do, nobody on earth can prevent your
dancing a jig!!!)
1. I can do all things through Christ who STRENGTHENS me!!!
2. With God, nothing is impossible!!!
3. All things are possible to him who believes and is called according
to His purpose!!!
4. The joy of the Lord is my STRENGTH!!!
You are embarking on the most joyful, beneficial, challenging, rewarding
journey of your life, my friends.
Make it count.
Hugs and blessings to you,
Ron White
Let us pray:
Father, in the precious name of Jesus Christ, I plead the blood
of Jesus over, and may Your Holy Spirit minister truth of Your divinely
inspired Word to every PALS, CALS, their families' and others' hearts.
May Your perfect divine will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
By Your Word, we know it is ALWAYS Your perfect divine will to give
the free gift of eternal life and the free gift of healing in all
cases for every person, for the price for these is, and has already
been, paid in full. Now, may we appropriate that for which You have
paid on our behalf, and may Your work and payment not have been
in vain. If there are any hindrances to answered prayer, we
ask You and trust You to show and tell us what they may be. By Your
power, Holy Spirit, I speak healing and wholeness to each and all
of these, that You shall receive praise and honor. Through
this writing, may others make contact and receive the free gift
of eternal life. We pray this prayer to the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. We thank You,
Father, for hearing and answering our prayers, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Dance a what???? Just DO IT!!! BY FAITH!!! IN THE NAME OF JESUS
CHRIST!!! I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!!!!
To repeat and emphasize....
For those who may be unfamiliar with this type of prayer and practice,
try to think of receiving divine healing similar to your acceptance
of Jesus Christ, which is and was "by faith". We
don't actually "see" God the Son in person when we believe
and accept Him, but we believe and receive Him as Lord and Savior "by
faith". Likewise with healing. Just accept God's
will for you to be healed "by faith".
For God so loved the world (every person in the world) that He gave
His only begotten Son (to die for each and all of us) that
whosoever believes in Him (the condition) shall not perish (die
spiritually) but have eternal life (the promise) (John 3:16).
This means that God the Father and God the Son Jesus Christ have
paid the price in full for every soul on earth to receive eternal
life. But do all receive eternal life? No. Why?
Because they don't meet the minimal conditions of believing
and receiving.
Likewise with healing. The Apostle Paul wrote by the unction
of the Holy Spirit, I wish above all things that you would prosper
and be in good health (the promise), even as your souls prosper
(the condition). When we believe, receive, and meet God's
scriptural conditions (in this case, our souls prospering, meaning
our minds or intellect, wills and emotions), then it is "always"
God's will to heal---just as it always God's will to give each of
us eternal life.
The Apostle Paul also wrote, I wish that none would perish (die
spiritually) but that ALL would come to repentance (meaning receive
eternal life).
Again, do all people on earth receive eternal life? No.
Why? Because they refuse to meet God's minimal conditions
in order to receive the promise.
Jesus paid the price in full for both eternal life and healing---both
are received in the same ways---by faith. Whatever Jesus Christ
paid for in full is ours to have and receive, regardless of
teachings coming out of seminaries to the contrary.
If what you have been taught contradicts this thinking, it is your
God-given choice to believe Scripture over man-made philosophies
and doctrines or vice versa. Just as it is God's will for
everyone to be saved and receive the gift of eternal life, so is
it God's divine will for everyone to be healed. For me.
For you. Awesome!!!
(Perhaps it might be helpful if we think of "God's will" to
mean "God's desire". He gives each of us a free
moral agency to choose for self---therefore, it is up to us to believe
and receive or doubt and do without---a choice---our choice.
It's much more complex in some ways, but it's also that simple.)
May God's most loving blessings be to you and yours, including
divine health.
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