Euphoria means an intense excitement and happiness. In my experience with some Christians, who receive fatal doctor’s reports, they slip into what I call, the devil’s euphoria. Let me share a phone conversation I had with a lady who was in 4th stage cancer that will help you to understand what I mean. 

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I was asked by a woman who attended my Healing Room meetings to call her mother and pray for her to be healed. I don’t usually minister to people I don’t know unless they ask for prayer. Her mother was not asking for prayer, so I didn’t want to do it. But she, the daughter, almost begged me, so I consented. 

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Just as I expected that phone conversation did not go well. I asked her what church she attended. I assumed it was an Assembly of God because that was the kind of church her daughter attended and I know they do not believe the Bible on divine health. Their theology on health and healing can be found in their statement of divine health named Article 12. However, her answer surprised me. She said that they had not attended church in 5 years because they couldn’t find one they liked, so she and her husband just had church at home. I could then see just how that was working out for her. A year or so prior her husband almost died of heart issues and continues to stay sickly. 

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Without a shepherd the sheep—the lives of people will be scattered with everything the enemy offers—the curse of the law. (Matthew 9:35-36) Not attending church is a direct violation of the Word of God. Disobedience puts you living on the devil’s territory from where we’ve been redeemed. (Hebrews 10:25, Psalm 92:13-14) Even Jesus, on the Sabbath, could be found in the synagogue. He went to church!

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This lady and her husband were experiencing a scattered life of sickness and disease because they did not have a shepherd. She continued to share that she did not want to be healed because she had never felt so close to God before. That’s what I’m talking about, the devil’s euphoria. She died just weeks after our phone conversation. 

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Many years ago, when I didn’t know as much, this famous southern Gospel couple did a guest spot on the Gathers Gospel program. She testified about how God healed her of cancer, she then said, “I thank God for my cancer, it taught me how to love.”  Again, I didn’t know much but I knew that was a mess. Where does I Peter 2:24 and the other healing scriptures come in? And why was she thanking God for cancer as though He had some cancer to give her? I remember thinking, 'Lady, if you don’t get your doctrine straight, your cancer (as she called it) is coming back.'  

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Listen, we don’t need the devil’s stuff to teach us anything. We have the Word and the Holy Spirit to teach and guide us into the things of God and things of earth.

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In both of these situations the devil’s euphoria, which feels so good to the hurting, took possession of their mind and they thought this beautiful feeling was God comforting them, so they turned on God and fellowshipped with the devil because it made them feel so close to God. 

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One Pastor of a Mega Assembly of God stood behind his pulpit and glorified sickness. He had a family member dying of cancer. He comforted the large number of people in his congregation who were sick with words like, “My brother told me he never felt so close to God and that he no longer wanted to be healed; he just wanted to go to Heaven.”

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The danger in that is those who glorify sickness are glorifying the devil from where sickness comes. In this mega church I heard, from the pulpit, more than once about how wonderful sickness is. Those people had the idea that they were suffering with Christ in being sick.  The problem with that is Jesus was never sick, so how is suffering with sickness suffering for or with Jesus?

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Don’t get caught up in the devil’s euphoria. Stick with the Word. God does not put sickness on us; He has no purpose to use sickness against us. Let me ask you this, where would God get sickness? Is it part of His creation . . . on what day did He create it? Is there sickness in Heaven for Him to send here to earth to afflict—to test those He chooses to glorify Him in spite of having to bare this suffering of sickness? 

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This junk is conjured up by the willingly ignorant who can’t explain why their tongue talking, full of faith, daddy died with cancer, so they wrote an evil doctrine with NO scriptural foundation what-so-ever. 

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I have a sound mind regarding these things, so when symptoms have tempted me to be sick, I just reminded it of the healing Word and it slithered away. 

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Sickness is not a comfort it is of the devil, and should be resisted by the Word of God. (James 4:7, Luke 13:16)

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Have a wonderful week and remember that Jesus is coming soon.