Page 55 - Evidence of Things Unseen

II Chronicles 16:9-10
"For the eyes of Yahweh move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly
support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this.
Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars." Then Asa was angry with the seer
and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this.

At the end of his life Asa still was looking to the hand of man for all of his needs, and
preferred to trust in physicians rather than to seek God for healing. Asa did not turn to God
even when the physicians could not heal him.
I know I must be very plain in what I say here, lest some twist and distort my meaning.
I am not saying that God will never use physicians as a source of healing in our lives, nor
was Asa criticized by God because he obtained the services of a physician. The error
manifested by Asa, and by a multitude of saints, is that he failed to seek God in the matter.
Asa never even considered that God might heal him, so He never sought out God to know
His mind.
Many saints today never give a thought to God’s ability, or willingness, to heal them.
When they are faced with an injury or sickness they run immediately to the arms of the
physicians. Some men and women trust the physicians so completely that they will allow
them to cut off a limb, fill their body with toxic chemicals, bombard them with deadly
radiation, operate on, or remove, some part of a major organ, or perform some other risky
and potentially life threatening procedure, without ever seeking a witness from God.
Is it not a great sign of unbelief that Christian’s will not seek God when they are met
with a physical trial? The prophet declared that King Asa was acting in unbelief, and was
dishonoring Yahweh by completely bypassing Him as a source of deliverance and healing,
while preferring to trust in man. The words of the prophet have become a theme in my life
that I have quoted many times, and have often recited them to God in prayer.
“The eyes of Yahweh move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly
support those whose heart is completely His.”
Oftentimes when I discerned that the Spirit would have me cast myself wholly over
into God’s care, and there was some great risk involved, I would meditate on these words
and I would be comforted in knowing that Yahweh was searching earnestly for those who
would give their hearts completely to Him.
I was very concerned when I first heard that Richard was going to seek the physicians.
I knew he had grown impatient in waiting upon God, and his confidence that God would do
anything for him was weak. Richard shared more about this matter when he was gathered
together with the other ministers and their wives in my home. He told us, that as a minister,
he could receive this medical treatment free, and that the physicians performing this
procedure had set-up a clinic in the basement of a church. He told us this clinic was located
in Thebes, Illinois.
When Richard mentioned Thebes, the Spirit quickened me to go get my dictionary and
look up the name of this town. My dictionary gave the following definition, “The capital of
ancient Egypt in the period of its greatest glory.” I had previously shared my study on the
medical profession, and the caduceus, with Richard and the other ministers, and they
understood Egypt’s link to both the Caduceus, as well as its Biblical typology of representing
the systems of man and all those who rely upon the arm of the flesh.
I shared with these men that I did not believe this was God’s provision for Richard’s