I have to side with the God healers here. Although I go to the doctor, I pray as well. I never use the common Christian prayer of “giving wisdom or guidance to the doctors” because God doesn’t need a doctor to perform healing. I ask God to perform the healing. He can use doctors if he wants to and often does. BUT, I’m not going to tell Him how to do it. Pet peeve if you will. I know those asking for God to give the doctors guidance mean well, but like I said, I let God decide how to do it. I am against FORCING medical care on anyone who chooses to rely on prayer for healing. It’s their decision. Not the one I would make, but I don’t know the strength of their faith.
1)They preach that God is in control and has an ultimate plan for everyone, but then they turn around and pray asking for God to do this or that for their situation. If there is a plan and God is in control, why pray for anything other than understanding and thankfulness?
2)And this is my biggest pet peeve. When a religious person, usually Christian but not always, claims that they escaped great harm or survived a terrible disease because they believed in God (faith) or prayed or something along those lines. Unfortunately, they seem to overlook that there are probably many Christians who also had faith and also prayed and probably did all the same things that they did but suffered terribly or died. If God is really in control and everything happens according to his plan, then it really doesn't matter how much you prayed or believed before or during the event. Just pray for thankfulness after the fact because no doubt, some very fine, upstanding, religious folk have had their lives cut short and it wasn't for lack of praying or faith! It just always sounds so insensitive to other Christians when they do that.