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Issues: Does God (Still) Heal?
Lisa Fruchtman says, “We were just these two Jewish kids from Brooklyn who didn’t have a clue about anything biblical.” But when she and her husband, Jeff, came to know the Messiah of Israel, they also discovered his healing power. Read on!
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I started being nagged with the idea of Jesus being the Jewish Messiah and the only way to know God. It wasn’t so much that it was a problem for me because I was Jewish and didn’t want to believe in Jesus. It was more that I didn’t want to close myself into what I thought was a narrow way of thinking.
I was happy for Lisa, and I’m certain that I already believed intellectually that Jesus was who he said he was. But I wasn’t ready to follow him.
The doctor had already come in that morning to tell me about the cancer. I got emotional and cried. But I was already prepared by the time Jeff came in. Then Jeff told me that he had received Jesus as his Messiah, and that God told him I was going to be okay. And I felt pretty confident that I would be.
God brought us Messiah to restore things to the way they were meant to be. The time is coming when disease will no longer exist and all will be made new.
