Hey Family, I'm facing a little crisis of faith (if you can call it that) at the minute and I would like some light shed on my situation.
I have a deeply beloved sister in the Lord who is ill at the moment. She is an elderly lady from my church who was diagnosed with MS in her mid-twenties. She's been wheelchair bound most her life now and has lost basically all the motor skills she needs to function independently, so she depends on the assistance of a helper all the time. Recently, we were hit with the news that she now has breast cancer in both breasts and because of her fatigue state, the doctors say there is a great possibility she may die on the table if she goes for the operation to remove it.
Here's my problem; I believe that in this fallen world, we all go through some form of sickness or other and death. I don't agree that just because you're a new creation in Christ, you are some how exempt from suffering. However, when I was praying the other day I asked the Lord to heal my friend because she will die either way if does not. Then as I though about why He heals some and not others, I thought about His earthly mission and the multitudes He healed and it dawned on me; there is no occurrence (that i know of) in the Gospels where Jesus didn't heal those who came to Him. He never said to a sick person "it is the Fathers will that you remain ill so that He will be glorified in your suffering". But that's what some people say in the church when we ask why God doesn't heal.
Jesus said He came to do the Will of His Father and He never turned a sick person away. So my question is, are we limiting God when we pray for our sick loved ones? Are we like waves that are being thrown around in the sea; asking for healing but doubting it will come?? I prayed for a friend a few months back who had a blood disease. I don't know where it came from, but this faith bubbled up inside of me and I began to really believe that God was at the moment in time working as we prayed and she was totally healed the following week.
I don't believe that our faith works when we have lots of it but I do believe when our faith is great in God's Faithfulness, He moves in mighty ways.
Opinions? And please keep my friend in prayer. Her name is Hazel.
God bless
I have a deeply beloved sister in the Lord who is ill at the moment. She is an elderly lady from my church who was diagnosed with MS in her mid-twenties. She's been wheelchair bound most her life now and has lost basically all the motor skills she needs to function independently, so she depends on the assistance of a helper all the time. Recently, we were hit with the news that she now has breast cancer in both breasts and because of her fatigue state, the doctors say there is a great possibility she may die on the table if she goes for the operation to remove it.
Here's my problem; I believe that in this fallen world, we all go through some form of sickness or other and death. I don't agree that just because you're a new creation in Christ, you are some how exempt from suffering. However, when I was praying the other day I asked the Lord to heal my friend because she will die either way if does not. Then as I though about why He heals some and not others, I thought about His earthly mission and the multitudes He healed and it dawned on me; there is no occurrence (that i know of) in the Gospels where Jesus didn't heal those who came to Him. He never said to a sick person "it is the Fathers will that you remain ill so that He will be glorified in your suffering". But that's what some people say in the church when we ask why God doesn't heal.
Jesus said He came to do the Will of His Father and He never turned a sick person away. So my question is, are we limiting God when we pray for our sick loved ones? Are we like waves that are being thrown around in the sea; asking for healing but doubting it will come?? I prayed for a friend a few months back who had a blood disease. I don't know where it came from, but this faith bubbled up inside of me and I began to really believe that God was at the moment in time working as we prayed and she was totally healed the following week.
I don't believe that our faith works when we have lots of it but I do believe when our faith is great in God's Faithfulness, He moves in mighty ways.
Opinions? And please keep my friend in prayer. Her name is Hazel.
God bless
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