Let me be clear. I pray that this girl was genuinely healed. I am more skeptical of the people around her. The child says she knows she was healed because she knows God was there. But God is everywhere, no? Did her family have to travel ten hours to find God and His healing? More importantly, these two conditions must have been documented medically and if she has genuinely received healing their cure can be as well! What a way to show God to the lost world! What a way to lend immediate credibility to Asbury! What a glorious opportunity we have. The world is waiting.
While we wait on that case, we also have the second link above to consider where a local pastor is claiming a woman had three toes miraculously restored to her foot! Proving this case should be a slam dunk as medical records should show the woman minus three toes before the meeting and after, restored! Let us reason together this article from Charisma to see what is going on.
"In a world that intensely hates God and His Word, it all comes down to this. Do you believe that God can do what He says he can do? Do you believe the miracles Jesus did in the Bible? Do you believe what it says in John 14:12-14: "Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in Me will do the works that I do also. And he will do greater works than these, because I am going to My Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." - Charisma News
Charismania is all about the show. It is all about power. The humble servant of Christ has no desire for usurping the power of God. The poorly taught read these verses and assume God is saying our works will actually be greater than that of God Himself! Greater in scope! Greater in audacity! Greater in power! Greater in glory! Except God does not share His glory. God does not share His power. God does not share the credit with His creation. The one translation that was lost on them was that the works will be greater in number. The ministry of Christ was only three years. His apostles would live for decades past that. As the gospel continues to rise up new believers, their lifetimes will exceed that of Jesus Christ, always providing an opportunity for a greater number of works. Let's see where this is going though:
"For non-believers, it's a given. Jesus isn't real to them and they don't believe in the Bible. For any miracles that Jesus performs, there is a scientific and logical explanation. For Christians, it's a matter of faith. What happened recently at an outlet of James River Church in Joplin, Missouri, may take a great deal of it. Pastors Bill Johnson of Bethel Redding in California and Mike Lindell of James River Church have testified to something miraculous God did on the night of March 14 at James River's Week of Power Prayer Revival. Johnson was a guest speaker at James River Church in Springfield, Missouri, that night. During Johnson's sermon, simulcast to all the church's branches, Johnson asked if anyone was in need of a "creative miracle." Johnson has witnessed many of them in his decades of ministry." - Charisma News
So, the foreshadowing is that God did some fantastic act of supernatural healing. Let me again say that God can heal. God does heal. He does so sovereignly. He does so sparingly. The problem with this set up is we are supposed to believe that God responded to a request for a "creative" miracle from one of the biggest heretics on the planet in Bill Johnson. Johnson is leading tens of thousands if not millions of people to hell. One of his false teachings is divine healing, where he routinely robs the sovereignty of God by teaching God MUST always heal us. This abhorrent teaching shipwrecks the faith of many people.
'After Johnson's inquiry, 46-year-old Kristina Dines, who lost three toes in 2015 when her now ex-husband, Stephen Thompson, broke into her home with a 12-gauge shotgun and shot her, spoke up saying she needed three toes to grow back. Several women around her, she says, came to her and knelt down and prayed for her foot. That's when God's Holy Spirit power shone through. Johnson told his own congregation Sunday, "So, this gal was at one of the other campuses and said, 'I want my toes back.' And so, another gal was praying for her, and I have the statement, but it took about 30 minutes they said they saw the bone come, wrapped in flesh, completely grown out and by morning, she had toenails and she got three completely brand-new toes. "One of the women who was praying for her, her husband is a medical doctor. He came and examined her and yet she's got three brand new toes. I guess the person with the three new toes would know, but it's also nice to have a doctor come and check things out and say, 'Guess what? This is for real.'"' - Charisma News
Listen beloved. Can God do this? Of course! He is God! The real question is would He? Would God answer healing miracles in an apostate church after a rank heretic like Johnson spoke? No, He would not. The bigger problem for Ms. Dines is that she goes to a false church, that preaches a false gospel and she is on the broad path that leads only to destruction. It was a nice touch to add this bit about there being a doctor but even his story is entirely anecdotal! There is nothing in this story independently verified!
