[CynicalBear]

I had tears welling up in my eyes reading that smvoice. I remember so well when I was very young, from 2yrs to 11yrs while I was going through all the operations because of my polio. I remember the times my parent would wheel me down to the little chapel or have the pastor there to pray with them. It’s as if it was only yesterday. I can remember the prayers that I would be given strength and peace and that what I was going through would be used for God’s glory. They prayed that God would give them strength to get through the tough times ahead and that He would supply all that would be needed. But most of all I remember how they prayed that God would be uplifted through all that was happening.

[smvoice]

AMEN, CB. What you described so beautifully IS what prayer is all about. God's will be done. God's peace and strength and His promise to never leave or forsake us. It's NOT about "give me this" or "show me that" or "take this from me". I pray that many on this forum re-think their relationship with God. Thank you for sharing your story with me. I really needed to hear that today particularly..:)

God Bless!

smvoice

[metmom]

You know, if God healed at everyone’s beck and call, all that would happen would that people would be using Him just for what they can get out of Him.

The same kind of mentality the name it and claim it crowd seems to have.

In the meantime, I will say with Job, though he slay me yet I will trust Him.

You know, I was thinking that we think death is about the worst thing that can happen to someone and for someone who is not saved, yes, that is true, but death is not to God what it is to us.

For God it’s about eternal separation from Him. Our physical death as believers amounts to *absent from the body is to be present with the Lord*. We already died to self spiritually and are alive to God in Christ. God cannot be charged with murdering His children because physical death occurs.