God bless all those here with health problems, but I think God is far more interested in your after life than how long we can live on earth.
We get what we need, not what we want and the healings are nice and all, but heaven is the goal, not earth.
Prayers for healing for my wife as she is set to undergo her second battle with cancer after 6 years of remission.
She starts this Wednesday.
I have bad news for you: everyone dies eventually.
The good news is that the Lord will be there with us in our suffering.
Frank,
I have to take great issue with munch of what you wrote here. One of the first things you mentioned you mentioned is that God is not a respect or if persons . What does that mean? Would have been nice for a little exegesis.
Secondly if you are suggesting what I think you mean then why in Romans does Paul say “I will have compassion on whom I have compassion and show mercy on whom I sow mercy” and “shall not the potter have the right to make some pots for honorable and dishonorable use?” Or the whole idea of of God choosing...yes choosing Israel out of all the nations and peoples of the world and saying as He did in Amos that they were the only people that He had known. What did He mean by the word “known”...fore loved...because He surely knew about all the other nations. So in essence your interpretation of His not being a respect or of persons is found wanting. God doesn’t show favorites on anything “inside” of man because we are all sinners and vile but He chooses some and works thru some and yes heals some for His own purposes. As some one already said He is more concerned about our eternal healing than this temporal healing.
Thirdly you make the insulation that if one is not healed it is because they lack faith. That is totally false maybe God is using the lack of healing for His higher purpose. For example a couple in my church lost a child in infancy. That child and the witness of those parents in the NICU at the hospital had a tremendous impact on the staff and brought a person to Christ. Same thing with another couple in our town.
Below is a link to a talk Joni Erickson Tafa gave. The title is called “A Deeper Healing”. In it she relates what I mentioned above that Hod is more interested in the eternal aspects of our lives, the spiritual aspects than the physical. It is 27 min long. If you don’t want to listen to the whole thing start at min 19:30. In it she relates stories of those who tried to pray for her physical healing and what she really asked them to pray for..a change of her heart...and then she relates a story of her trip to Jerusakem and the Pool of Bethesda where she thanked God for NOT healing her and the reasons why. The whole talk is excellent.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NI22o5u32z0
If God wanted you to have an certain affliction to assist you towards relying upon Him, would you want to be healed?
You can’t expect to be fully healed until you get to Heaven. Much suffering is of God’s will, because without it the soul would not attain salvation. This is the idea of Redemptive Suffering.
**God said, “Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”**
And still they all died in the desert.
Jesus heals his people spiritually. At times God will heal us physically, but to make the claim that He heals us all physically is pure blasphemy.