Weekend Finisher

Pastors convince parents and followers they can pray

and heal troubled Children and each other. Is it true? No!

So often, Church people are fooled by pastors into thinking they are so Godly that they can pray for their children health, education, home, altitudes and behaviors and even pray them out of the world and into the Church. Not just their children but for themselves and others.

To fool these people pastors use scriptures or should I say take scriptures out of context from the bible to so-called proved their point. They will tell them that if God said it God meant it.
Before getting any deeper let me read a major scripture used by pastors to swindle millions of dollars from followers and into their greedy hands.

James 5: 13 - 16 read like this:
13. Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16. Confess your trespasses[e] to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit."

For many pastors, to get their followers into following them is to get them into believing in the pastor by telling them "God will give them any thing they ask for because the scriptures of James say so."  "That we must believe in it and not doubt and it will be given unto to you."  "All one has to do is get together pray and believe and the Lord will raise up the sick, the needy and come to the rescue of all your problems no matter what they are". "But you have to have faith and believe".  ....... "And I believe God will do what he said."  "Don't you believe it Church", the pastor will shout!!" And the people will say" yea!" "Amen!"...... Bam!.He's got em!

SUMMATION OF JAMES 5:13-16.....

First of all let me burst a few bubbles. James is speaking to those in the Church only or in that congregation of people that was having situations even though they believe in Christ.  He wasn't there to do any healing or he would have in every situation.  He knew there was sickness, pain and sorrow, suffering and sadness because this was common through out all Churches and people whether in or out of Church, especially the poor.

Some disciples like Peter did do a few healing's. However, many did not and could not. Even with Paul, he went through great tribulation. Such abilities was needed at the time by disciples and most especially by Jesus to convince people of the holy word and that Jesus really was the Son of God.
But soon afterward healing even faded out with the disciples. This happened much earlier than James which some believe came along around 1 A.D to 2 A.D and is some what questionable as if this was indeed James the brother of Jesus.

But in either case it really doesn't matter because this James was doing what pastors did from that time on up to now and that is to hold the people together. Get them to continue to believe in the Lord through all hardship. He was telling them these things will happen and to keep the faith because some troubles will past in time.

He could not have been telling them that God would fix all their problems. This is impossible. Not only is it but because it was a time when the Church and many people was suffering just like today. If this would have been taken literally then no disciple would have died. No sickness would have conquered any one. No one in the Church would ever suffer.

No problems would ever be unsolvable. Peter, Paul, John the Revealer and others would have not died or had to fear the ruling government.

One way that problems, healing can be conquered is by people getting the word of God into them by consulting a good minister and meeting with others of faith to discuss their situations on how to better handle them. You can pray to God for good understanding. That is, to find some way to get out of situations or how to be content, knowledgeable and even acceptable no matter what's going on.

Church people are suppose to work together. Prayer, being hope and want, come along with you having some one around you not afraid to help and tell you the truth. One must realize that some sickness, if not most, is brought on by the life style one live. For example, if you are fat and have heart trouble then consult a real heart specialist and lose weight. No praying to God the way the scripture is structured will cause God to perform heart surgery or put you on a weight loss treatment program when one is not doing a thing to help themselves.

Before one get sick or is sick they should try to live a healthy life by cutting out things that's unhealthy for them. Drinking alcohol is bad on the body. Eating fatty foods will clog your arteries. Excessive smoking will give you cancer. Stress and improper eating habits will give you high blood pressure.

Exercising will relieve some back symptoms and loss of weight. Going to school and then trade school will get you a better job. Going to work will get you some of the things you desire in life like a chariot, car, home, furniture and even pay your bills maybe even a space ship.  more