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When God Heals… WHEN GOD HEALS… …AND WHEN HE DOESN’T Clare & Ezekiel du Bois Heartdweller Publishing Compiled and edited by Carol E. Jennings OUR BOOK POLICY vs. COPYRIGHT All of our books may by copied and distributed at cost only, not for profit. Anything I have created has been done with the Lord's help. He has freely given. Who can copyright the words of the Lord and make of them an item of profit and commerce? My heart is that all should have these at no cost, so you can go to our website Heartdwellers.org and download them for free. If you have no means to purchase any of our books, write to me at: Heart Dwellers P.O. Box 1113 Taos, NM 87571 I will send you whatever I have on hand at your request. The Love of Jesus be with you. Clare du Bois ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-9980597-1-6 Luke 9:23 Jesus said to all of his followers, “If you truly desire to be my disciple, you must disown your life completely, embrace my ‘cross’ as your own, and surrender to my ways. "Sickness is a cross. Just as man put the cross on My back, so does the enemy put the cross on you. And healing comes in My timing. Healing will come, but if you have made yourself a sacrificial offering, do not expect it to be released soon. "There is great despair and confusion fueled by the enemy in My Body concerning sickness. Many have fallen into despair, because they do not understand that I see that as a legitimate suffering, a fast offering. And I use it to keep you humble, as well. Paul had a thorn in his flesh. He was not physically perfect, as the Romans who worshipped physical fitness were. But he was holy, by My standards. He carried the cross I allowed for him. "Yes, 'By My stripes you are healed,' but in My timing, not yours. If I heal you immediately, it is My timing. If I delay your healing, you will still be healed, but in My timing. In the meantime, you are carrying a cross and doing a great work of mercy, backing up your prayers for others. AUTHOR NAME "This is the meaning of carrying your cross. What I allow is specifically fit for you and only you; it is indeed your cross.” — JESUS TO CLARE iv CONTENTS Section I TEACHINGS ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING 1.Touch Others Tenderly for Me, I Will Save Your Loved Ones, Trust Me …..2 2. Stand in Resolve, The Gift of Healing Being Released to You …..9 3. Gift of Healing, Points to Remember …..16 4. Formula For Healing From Jesus …..25 5. Water Your Gifts - Oct. 16, 2015 …..35 6. Jesus’ Name-Healing-Nightmares-Statues - May 20, 2016 …..42 7. Healing Tools In The Hands of Love …..45 8. Healing & Walking in Victory: Spiritual Warfare 6 …..55 9. Healing Miracles—I Am preparing You …..64 Section II TESTIMONIES ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING 1. Healed of Blindness by Jesus …..74 2. When Giving Up is NOT an Option—Ezekiel …..77 3. Interview with Ezekiel …..100 4. Ezekiel Snatched from The Jaws of Death …..113 Section III KEEPING YOUR HEALING 1. Spiritual Warfare 2: Ranks & Weapons …..121 2. Intensified Nefarious Tactics Against Us …..129 Section IV EMOTIONAL & SOUL HEALING 1. Wrap the Lost In the Blanket of My Love …..136 2. Open Your Heart All the Way to Me (Message from Jesus) …..140 3. Come Out of Religion…Come Dwell In My Heart …..145 4. Come to Me, My Lost & Lonely Ones …..151 5. Power in Reconciliation …..156 6. Make Amends …..160 7. You Are Ambassadors to the Desolate Soul …..165 8. A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break …..170 9. Why Temptations? & Hope for You Lost Ones …..174 10. Trust Me With Your Children & Drink from the River of Life in My Heart …..179 11. Enemy Tactics, Spiritual Warfare …..185 12. Locked Up Behind the Bars of Self-Pity …..196 13. Come to Me with Your Failures & Compulsions …..196 AUTHOR NAME Section V WHEN GOD DOESN’T HEAL 1. Why Wasn’t I Healed? (Teaching from Clare) …..201 2. Will You Receive This Splinter From My Cross? & When is Prayer Fervent?? (Teaching from Clare) …..217 3. Why Does God Allow Suffering? …..222 4. Suffering - Real Work in The Realm of the Spirit …..230 5. The Best Wine for Last: Jesus is Calling All Seniors to Pray …..236 6. I Need MORE prayers! Sanctify Your Sorrows …..243 7. Prayer & Suffering for America & Sickness: When is Enough, Enough? …..252 8. Extraordinary Sacrifices for America (victim souls) …..257 9. What I Have Said, That Will I Do/Don’t Let Holidays Take You Off Prayer! …..260 10. Sanctification Through Suffering …..264 11. The True Purpose of Suffering …..273 12. The Treasures Released Thru Suffering …..279 Section VI FINDING HEALING IN JESUS 1. Count the Cost (intimate relationship with Jesus) …..289 2. Jesus Calls Us to “Rest in Me” …..303 3. Your Past Is In Our Way (to connect with each other) …..308 4. I Arrange Your Lessons For The Day. Savor Them (healing in His presence) …..312 5. My Heart Skips A Beat (coming to Him for inner healing) …..319 6. My Heavenly Bride (comfort from dwelling prayer) …..326 7. Come to Me Ready to Dance …..337 Section VII THE POWER OF OUR LOVE TO HEAL JESUS’ HEART 1. Oh, How You Comfort My Heart! …..345 2. The World to Come …..348 3. Come To Me In Joyful Expectation …..362 4. The Secrets of Worship & Does God Suffer? …..359 Section VIII EZEKIEL: THE STORY OF A VICTIM SOUL’S JOURNEY vi RESOURCES FROM STILL SMALL VOICE If You Are New To Our Ministry We want to welcome you here! The Lord has been speaking with Clare and Ezekiel for over 30 years, and in 2012 asked her to establish the Still Small Voice YouTube Channel to spread the word about His wonderful love for us, and to get His Bride ready for the coming Rapture. Since then, the Channel has grown from just a handful to nearly 25,000 subscribers. Hundreds have found the Lord here for the very first time. Hundreds more have found that Jesus Himself was vitally interested in us, talks to us all day long— and wants us to HEAR what He has to say! And many hundreds have found out just what Jesus desires from us, so that we will truly be a pure and spotless Bride when He comes for us. Jesus loves us all SO very much! We have so much that He has given us to share with you. Following, we have pulled out just a few of the most important, most common questions that we have been asked over the past 3 years— and links to the messages that will answer some of those questions. UPDATE: Just before this volume was published, we were abruptly deleted from the YouTube Channel. As were many other Christians sites, for no apparently valid reasons… So, we have moved the Channel to Vimeo.com/stillsmallvoice We pray that you will find us, wherever the Lord moves us to. He is seeking His Brides! As He moves you—come and join us! AUTHOR NAME viii BOOK TITLE SECTION I Teachings About Physical Healing 1 AUTHOR NAME Chapter One TOUCH OTHERS TENDERLY FOR ME I WILL SAVE YOUR LOVED ONES TRUST ME SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 he Lord bless you, Heartdwellers. The Lord had a very encouraging message tonight. He’s quite interested in us reaching out to others, and He T gave us some interesting ideas, some beautiful ideas for how to touch the people around us. But first He talked about our relatives. What do you have for your chosen ones tonight, Lord? "Tell them I love them and each day I share in their sufferings and joys. I know only too well how dark things are in many of their hearts. I know all about their struggles over loved ones who as yet do not know Me. But have I not promised "Believe in Me, and you will be saved, you and your household?" Acts 16:31 “Why do you suppose I made that promise to you, dear ones? Did I not foresee the agonies you would suffer as you watched your loved ones turn away from Me, one by one? I have made 2 BOOK TITLE provisions for all of your loved ones. I know them each intimately and also know exactly how to move on their hearts, as well as how to arrange circumstances so they can no longer resist Me. In that critical moment, their minds will be cleared of all the clutter and they will see clearly their choices. Do not worry, I have them covered. “Because these times are so frightful, I need you all to trust Me to greater depths. I need you to release your loved ones to Me in such a way that you do not agonize day after day after day. Rather, take care of My children and I will take care of yours. Yes, do pray, but do not continue to agonize, I heard your prayers a long time ago and continuing to beg Me in this way is futile.” But Lord, you said… "Yes, to be a pest and I will answer. And I will answer the prayer because you bothered Me and woke Me up from a sound sleep?" Well…now that you put it that way, Lord… "The better way to pray when you think of your relatives is to lift them up to Me and say, "Jesus, I trust in You." And then be settled in your mind that this prayer was heard without wailing and travail.
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