Ping
All prayers are answered. Sometimes the answer is “No”, and while the reasons are not immediately apparent to the petitioner, over time, the wisdom of the Deity shall prevail in the end.
The Universe can be a cruel and unforgiving place, if taken at face value. Patience and application of accumulated experience can find those tiny crevices and indentations on what may appear to be a sheer rock face, and what seemed an insurmountable obstacle may eventually be overcome.
I run into this issue with some word of faith acquaintances who use this verse to try to manipulate God into doing what they want.
So they name it and claim it and do not really know how to deal with it when someone isn’t healed or delivered from debt they incurred by being financially irresponsible.
They also claim that it’s God’s will for us to be healthy and healed cause after all, God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven and nobdy is sick in heaven. Right?
So when the healing doesn’t happen, then the blame game starts with the person not healed. It puts a lot of responsibility on the person for the outcome of GOD’S work and opens the floodgates for guilt and condemnation.
Yes, the major problem is other Christians deciding for God and others what God’s will is for their lives and how God should be (in their opinion) responding, instead of letting God be God.