Becky Dvorak eviscerates the Bible to prop up her Christian cash cow - divine healing.

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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. -- James 5: 14 (ESV)

https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/70569-why-you-should-keep-running-toward-your-healing

https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/70557-your-secret-supernatural-weapon-to-smash-the-enemy-s-warfare

I was monitoring the responses on an article the other day and someone correctly stated that we should not cry heretic over minor doctrinal matters. Then they listed some examples and while many were spot on one leaped out to me. They listed divine healing in the atonement as a minor doctrinal disagreement to which I cannot disagree strongly enough. For the unaware, divine healing is the belief that God is required to always heal us. That Jesus purchased this right for us in the atonement upon the cross. It is preached by the most egregiously false cesspools on the planet such as Bethel and IHOP. It is rapidly becoming a hallmark of the up and coming youth false teachers such as Todd White and Hillsong. Make no mistake about it beloved. It is pure evil heresy. First of all it usurps power that belongs strictly to God. This is why word faith preachers fall for it so easily. It is completely contradicted throughout scripture. Why did Paul tell Timothy to drink wine for his stomach ailments if healing as always available? Why did God tell Paul that His grace was sufficient for him when he begged for the thorn in his flesh to be removed? Why even include the key verse today at all? Why instruct that church to have the elders pray and anoint with oil if we can just magically snap our fingers and demand healing? Because we can't. One of the staunchest advocates for this false teaching is named Becky Dvorak from Charisma News. Becky fancies herself a "prophetic healing evangelist." If you are wondering where in that came from you can rule out the Bible. May as well since Becky pretty much rules the Bible out when she writes. Her latest two articles are linked above. Let us reason once more beloved as we watch someone so desperate to prop up her false teaching niche that every bible verse she touches becomes a victim to her own false doctrine.

"The winner of the race is not sitting down on the sidelines. This person is not hidden from view, asleep, or complaining because the race is so difficult, but actively running. And the people watching knows this person is running. This person is the leader of the pack and is being highlighted to show others how to run their race successfully, how to run through and past that finish line to victory. Do you not know that all those who run in a race run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain it. Everyone who strives for the prize exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. So, therefore, I run, not with uncertainty. So I fight, not as one who beats the air. But I bring and keep my body under subjection, lest when preaching to others I myself should be disqualified (1 Cor. 9:24-27)." -- Becky Dvorak

Beck Dvorak has a false teaching to sell. She has written multiple books on the subject. She travels the world putting on conferences and church services; all surrounding her niche -- healing. Some people make merchandise of the sheep by selling prosperity. Others by selling the same sin that cast Lucifer from the heavens -- to be God. Still others are in the Christian entertainment business. Dvorak's niche however has always been healing. Now let me be clear up front. I am not a cessationist. I do believe the gifts are for today even though Charismania has warped them. I believe the God we serve can still heal and I have seen Him do so miraculously. I believe the decision to heal is a sovereign choice made by God based on each individual situation. Becky usurps that sovereignty and says God must heal you always and if you are not healed it must be some faith deficiency on your part that is preventing your own healing. I do not know why some live and some die but what I do know is we value the wrong life. This is why mandatory healing is part of the core of NAR teaching, which also values this mortal life above everything else.

So in this first article, Dvorak tries to lay a foundation regarding running the race. The implication here is that if you want your healing you have to pursue it, or run after it. You cannot get weary, slow down or give up. It sounds so pious and right doesn't it? No offense but I do not need to hear what Becky Dvorak thinks. I just need to know if this is what God has said. The really good news here is that whenever someone false tries to leverage Scripture they end being transparent and easy to debunk. Is 1Corinthians 9 a portion of Scripture where Paul addresses healing? No. Is it a portion that speaks to the atonement at all? No. The entire chapter is about self-discipline. Specifically about self-discipline to win people to Christ. This is the chapter where Paul says that he became all things to all people so that some might be saved. The portion referenced by Dvorak is about finishing the race strong. We are servants of the Gospel until the day He takes us home beloved. If you want some examples of what Paul is saying to avoid we need to look no further than people like Francis Chan or Harold Camping or Dr. Michael Brown. Chan was once the poster child for solid biblical preaching and then one day he fell in love with Mike Bickle and IHOP. Those seeds of rotten fruit have brought forth a harvest of even more reprehensible wolves that Chan now embraces publically including Rick Warren and Mark Driscoll. Camping was one considered sound but then he started predicting the end of the world. Dr. Michael Brown built up a reputation as a Biblical scholar over decades only to throw it away supporting Benny Hinn, Joseph Prince, and Bill Johnson, for example.

"What is the victory you need? For many of you, it is physical healing. Then you need to learn how to activate your faith and run your race all the way through the finish line--the manifestation of that healing and beyond. You need to stay focused on the goal and not be sidetracked by the voices of the doubters sitting on the sidelines, encouraging you to fail. Yes, in the Christian world, there are those who have aligned themselves with the team of Doubting Thomas. Don't listen to them. You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little yeast leavens the whole batch. I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But he who is troubling you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is (Gal. 5:7-10)." -- Becky Dvorak

Dvorak now transitions the concept of running a race into the pursuit of healing. Wait a minute Becky! You say that God must heal us! That it is part of the atonement! So why is this being portrayed as a marathon that I must race all the way to the finish line? I will tell you why beloved. Because the false god that Becky is selling you is a capricious god. He is up there in heaven with your healing in his hand. Sure he wants to heal you; heck he must! But apparently only after you have jumped through some hoops for him. You must activate your faith! What does that mean? It means nothing because Becky made it up. There is no section in the Epistles that addresses the doctrine of activating your faith. Jesus did not teach it during the Sermon on the Mount and Stephen did not address it in his sermon before being stoned to death for his obviously "activated" faith. The problem according to Becky is not this absurd god she has created that withholds your mandatory healing for some arbitrary level of faithfulness but rather people like me who insist on a little thing we like to call biblical accuracy. We are the doubters. Mind you what we doubt is the false teachings that are found nowhere in Scripture. Telling you the truth about what God has and has not promised does not mean we are encouraging you to fail. She then launches into two scripture references further revealing that she should not be trying to divide the word of truth. Doubting Thomas's is a reference to Thomas actually doubting that the resurrected Christ was real until he put his hands in the wound from the crucifixion. Nothing is sacred however when you are trying to sell out your next big healing crusade. The larger faux pas is the complete ignorance of what is happening in Galatians. She saw the line about running the race and just could not help herself. Those that hindered the Galatians were not people talking about healing. There was no problem with healing in Galatia. There was however an infiltration in the church by a group known as the Judaizers who convinced the church to include circumcision as a salvation requirement along with faith in Christ. This is a fundamental error in the Gospel that Paul had to address. Don't you just love the implied threat at the end? Paul is warning the Judaizers because they are preaching a different gospel and thus leading people away from Christ. The end result is the blood of those who follow them will be upon their heads. Becky is now essentially saying there is a blood penalty to be paid by those who insist on following the Bible for guidelines on healing. Wow.

"There are also other evil spectators, demons, and they come in the form of lying spirits whispering lies of doubt, unbelief and failure. They will even dress themselves as angels of light and disguise their voices to tell you they are a messenger sent by God. They declare evil lies such as, "God sent me to tell you He is not going to heal you. Instead, He is going to take you home now." This is a lie to stop you from completing your race, because you have all these spectators watching you to find out if what you've been saying, "According to Isaiah 53:5, I am already healed in the name of Jesu s" is true. Why the lies? To destroy your witness, and those who have been supporting you, and many others too. Surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed (Isa. 53:4-5)." -- Becky Dvorak

Not content with mangling the New Testament, Becky now dives into the Old Testament to show she understands neither. Yes it is true that the Bible says that the emissaries of Satan will disguise themselves as angels of light but that is dealing with false teachers, such as Becky Dvorak. Nowhere in that section of Scripture is healing discussed at all. Now mind you, I would be equally skeptical if someone said God told them He would not be healing them. This phenomenon is a sickness within Charismania alone; where people pretend to hear messages from God for other people. As if He lost their phone number and needs you to relay the message for Him. Perhaps no Scripture is more mangled by on demand healing pushers than Isaiah. This is of course from the prophecy of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. Now remember that Becky, healing pushers, and folks like the NAR all value this life. They are making money off the sheep in this life. So they read Isaiah 53:5 and assume that the healing His stripes purchased was our physical healing. Except it wasn't. The chastisement and stripes refer to the punishment He suffered and the eventual crucifixion. This healed us spiritually beloved. It restored us to our creator. Without it, we were on the outside of eternity facing a forever apart from God in eternal suffering. Don't believe me? Scripture always interprets Scripture:

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. - 1Peter 2: 24-25 (ESV)

We were straying like sheep but have now returned to the overseer of our souls! This is not dealing with physical illness beloved not even close. Sometimes the race ends. Sometimes it seems too soon for our liking. Sometimes He does call us home. If Becky is so right, how come there are not Christians living to 200? What does everyone turn in their faith when they accept their AARP Membership? This article concludes with one more mangling:

'You be faithful and complete your race. And your race is not finished until the manifestation takes place, and then there is a time of rejoicing. But it doesn't end there; you need to run past that finish line and start to testify of God's glorious manifestation in your life and lead others to His glory as well. Do all things without murmuring and disputing, that you may be blameless and harmless, sons of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world. Hold forth the word of life that I may rejoice on the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain (Phil. 2:14-16). So the next time you start to feel discouraged in your race, stir up that gift of faith within you and remind yourself that this race is not just all about you, but you have many spectators--good and bad--who need your witness of a faithful God who loves them and not only is able to heal, but desires them to receive their healing by faith. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, and I have kept the faith."' -- Becky Dvorak

So according to Becky Dvorak, the race is not over until you get healed. What about all of those people who never are healed? It's their fault! They did not activate their faith or they listened to naysayers. Look at the sheer confusion she sits under and then teaches! Because she has turned salvation into a matter of physical healing, salvation is secondary! Instead she wants you to testify about the physical healing. Not about being removed from darkness. Then she takes a portion of Philippians 2, which is also not about healing and somehow tries to shoehorn it into this absurd teaching. This portion of Philippians speaks about how we behave so outsiders can see Christ inside of us. How does this text say that we can assure ourselves of finishing the race strong? By holding onto the Word of God! The one thing Becky Dvorak paid no real attention to the entire article. The second link above is to a thankfully shorter piece that continues the pattern of mangling Scripture beyond recognition.

"The battle is raging, in the natural the odds are not in your favor, but does this mean you are defeated? No, it does not. Now is not the time to give up, but the time to pick up the sword of the Spirit and wield it in your favor. ^" Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph. 6:17). The sword of the Spirit is the spoken Word of God. And you have to take up the Scriptures and speak them aloud until they produce what you have need of. Do you allow Satan the last word in a battle? If so, don't. Words have the power to produce life or death. It's important to override the enemy's report of defeat and death with words of faith, life, and victory. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit" (Prov. 18:21)." -- Becky Dvorak

Because Becky is a word faith adherent and thinks nothing of usurping that which belongs to God alone, it is not surprising that she would believe the typical false teaching regarding the power of words. What the Proverb is stressing is a general statement of the power of words. What word faith false teachers turn it into is a lesson on self-talk, which it is not referring to. The only one whose words can actually produce life or death in reality is God. Notice here the depth of deception Dvorak is willing to sink to. Ephesians 6:17 says nothing about the "spoken" word of God. The helmet of salvation is the word of God, period. Wanting to turn this into a word faith text however, Becky mangles the verse and claims it means the spoken word. It does not.

"If you receive a bad medical report filled with death and doom, override it with spoken words of faith. Say aloud, "I shall not die, but I shall live and declare the works of the Lord" (Ps. 118:17). If they say, "There is no hope." You turn the situation around and speak forth, "Then I am in right standing for a miracle. According to Matthew 19:26, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Is this craziness? No, it's faith talk, and it is pleasing to the Father. And if you will work it, it will produce life and healing every time. But you must be consistent. And only speak God's healing promises over yourself. Do not speak about the death report. Speak God's report that decrees, "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you" (Rom. 8:11)." -- Becky Dvorak

Is this craziness? No, it is wickedness. This is how evil this teaching is. Someone gets a death sentence report from the doctor and Becky Dvorak instructs them to override it? With what? Psalm 118:17? Has she even read the context? This verse is David speaking as the Nation of Israel. It is the nation of Israel declaring that it will not die. It is not meant as prescriptive text for us to wield to dismiss legitimate medical reports. Matthew 19:26? This verse is dealing with how a rich man will ever enter the kingdom of heaven. Also realize that with God all things are possible -- not guaranteed. This is not faith talk nor is it pleasing to God. Why would God be pleased by a petulant child declaring and decreeing things He never said? Do not even speak about the death report? We have all read horror stories of people who never even sought treatment for themselves or their children because they were relying on evil teaching such as this. Can God heal? Absolutely and one should pray in faith that He would but realize that He is sovereign. To then take Romans 8:11, which deals with the promises of salvation and turn them into a carnal emergency room is just spiritually criminal. Dvorak concludes:

"The vocabulary of faith defies the natural realm of understanding. And it is a supernatural weapon given to us to use for God's glory in our lives. And if and when we do wield this weapon of faith and decree life in place of death, healing instead of sickness and strength over weakness, the manifestation of our much desired miracle will manifest." -- Becky Dvorak

Yeah, we have zero power to declare and decree anything other than we are a sinner saved by the grace of almighty God. The arrogance of this position is breathtaking and only overshadowed by the scope of Scripture mutilation. Becky Dvorak referenced10 Scriptures between these two articles and not one was understood, explained, or handled correctly. They were all mangled beyond recognition, revealing all you need to know about Becky Dvorak and the theology of mandatory healing. Neither is biblical.

Reverend Anthony Wade -- April 18, 2018

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.