“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”1 John 5:14 NIV
Do you hear people pray: “God if it is your will please heal aunty Betty”. We do not need to pray like that with regard to healing. Jesus paid the price for all our diseases.
Isaiah 53:5 says “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
Peter said: ““He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”1 Peter 2:24 NIV
Then why are some people not healed? I do not know. However, I do know that all who came to Jesus for healing went away healed. The fact that some go away I healed does not compute that it was not God’s will to heal them.
For myself I am constantly battling to step into divine health and refuse to accept sickness. I am there again. I hear my Lord say, step into healing and refuse to buy the lie! This can be challenging especially when all my nursing says sit, lay still. My God welcomes me to get up and walk past the sickness. He is God, I am not. If I let my natural training and understanding rule, I will be bound tight by disease. I cannot shop at the stalls of sickness. Amen!
First of all, great post! It’s funny how throughout our lives God shows us His divine grace over and over again yet somehow, we tend to repeat certain patterns in our behavior. There are some lessons that we need to learn and be reminded of time and time again no matter hire many times we’ve already walked down that same road. Whether it is denying sickness or being stuck in a less than suitable situation, it all boils down to listening to that still small voice and putting all of our faith in Him.
ReplyDeleteI am learning again that I need to let go of my worries and burdens and trust in Him that He will guide me through the challenges I am facing. It is much easier said than done I know. But I have seen both sides of this. I’ve seen what happens when you listen and act accordingly and I have seen the ramifications of not listening and trying to take care of things in my own. One thing is for sure, every time I don’t listen I end up in worse shape than I started and God shows me once more that I need to follow His guidance, out my faith in Him and let Him take the reigns.
As for why when we pray for healing of someone we love that since are healed and sing are not, I may be wrong but here is my take on that. We always want His will to be done and we think that it must not be His will. I think that in the cases that we pray for healing and that person possess on, God’s will is done and that person was in fact healed. His will was not to heal and leave on this earth and in this life, but to heal and take them home.
The kingdom of God is great and there is no better reward than to enter the gates of heaven and walk those streets of gold. So just because they died, it doesn’t mean the didn’t answer our prayers and give us exactly as we wanted. Whether His will or not is not the question. The real question is where they go once He heals them.
So good!
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