Physical Healing Through Prayer

sk8brdkd said:

Last Sunday, my pastor spoke about healing through prayer and invited people to come up to be prayed over. I would guess around 200 people went forward for prayer. Myself included.

I have a tough time with physical healing thru prayer Because God partially healed me back in 2006.

So, my question is...

Why does God choose to heal for a short period of time, (24 hrs = partial healing), but then gives the problem back and makes it continually worse over time? I heard God wants to fully restore and heal us, but, maybe he has a different plan for me? Why heal me, only to bring the pain back?

I experienced a 24 hr healing in 2006 at Nyack College in a divine healing class. My medical problem was prayed over and for Exactly 24 hrs, I had 0 pain, but then the lightness/peace left, and the heaviness and pain returned. I don’t understand...

I can go into more detail if need be, but, I want to leave it at this for now

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Full physical restoration comes in the next life.
You have that to look forward to.
Spiritual Healing is much more powerful and
life changing and is fully accomplished here.
Who Else Want's Their Prayers Answered Even Before You Pray?

This is a good question. I think that one answer is that in some cases the healing is not from God and so it doesn't last. In the same way that there are false signs and wonders there are false healings. Im not saying this is necessarily your case Im just throwing it out as a possible reason for partial healings. Especially because the normal sign of a work of God is that it slowly gets better over time not worse.

I think the other possibility is that it just wasn't a very powerful healing.

James says:
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

The implication is that if you have faith you will receive something from the Lord. But it doesn't say you will receive exactly what you prayed for. What you receive I think depends on a number of factors, one of them being whether or not you persevere.

Luke says:
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

It is possible to pray(with faith) and then lose heart and stop praying. I think that that is when we only get "half an answer" to our prayer.

I have experienced on multiple occasions God answering my prayer but only halfway (or less) because I only half prayed.

And imagine the same applies to healing situations.

I think there are a lot of factors that affect how effective our prayers (or healings) are.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Fervency and righteousness affect our prayers.

I wouldn't be discouraged at half answers or half healings. I would be encouraged to pray more fervently with greater perseverance for a greater healing.

Give Him no rest.

Mike

sk8brdkd said:

Last Sunday, my pastor spoke about healing through prayer and invited people to come up to be prayed over. I would guess around 200 people went forward for prayer. Myself included.

I have a tough time with physical healing thru prayer Because God partially healed me back in 2006.

So, my question is...

Why does God choose to heal for a short period of time, (24 hrs = partial healing), but then gives the problem back and makes it continually worse over time? I heard God wants to fully restore and heal us, but, maybe he has a different plan for me? Why heal me, only to bring the pain back?

I experienced a 24 hr healing in 2006 at Nyack College in a divine healing class. My medical problem was prayed over and for Exactly 24 hrs, I had 0 pain, but then the lightness/peace left, and the heaviness and pain returned. I don’t understand...

I can go into more detail if need be, but, I want to leave it at this for now

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I can't say, because I don't know. However I have seen a few long term healings from prayer in Jesus name, i.e. sick people prayed for remaining well.

If you like I will join with you in prayer for your illness to be healed. I normally pray until the healing manifests, i.e. keep praying until something changes.

sk8brdkd said:

If you're willing to do that, I would be grateful. I've never had anyone willing to do that w/ me as I usually only go up for prayer in church and what not asking prayer for healing for my body/muscle pain. What I had been wanting for the last several years, is for the pain I'm expereincing to just decrease so I can do more of my activities, but, I would even be more thankful for a full healing since this problem affects around 85-90% of my body.

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No worries. Will begin to pray for you. Jesus is good, let's seek Him for a good outcome.

sk8brdkd said:

How could the healing come from anyone other then God?

I do understand the false signs but, I didn't think false healings were possible... Though, i have heard that if a person praying for an individual doesn't have enough faith, or has doubts, that that would cause the healing to fall through possibly.

I just remember how the professor told me that he could see the Holy Spirit working within my group while they were praying for me, plus, I was feeling peace flowing throughout my body. It was the most amazing feeling/experience ever.

But, yes, that's what has always confused me --- like you said w/ the healings that it normally gets better not worse over time. I've really been thinking more and more about this --- my one friend from the college, she had cerebral palsy --- when she took that class, she did not stand up to be prayed for, for healing --- she said she didn't want to be healed --- she wanted to use what she had to her advantage by telling others about God through her disability, so, I've been wondering, if that's also what God wants to do through me? But, often times, for me, the pain is so debilitating. Sure, I could tell others about God through the pain I experience, and, yes, I could tell them about that healing experience too, but, how much of a witness would I be if I told them how good God was to me for 24 hrs, healing me and taking my pain away and then telling them, but.... then he gave it all back to me. I feel like that would not be a very good story.

So, do you think what should've been done in my case, that they should've prayed for healing for me more then once? That, I was healed for 24 hrs, but, then they should've prayed again? I mean, I have heard that it's not always a 1 time thing. That you do need to be prayed for numerous times by the same or different people -- but, that was a class, and that healing prayer ministry, was the last day of class for the semester... I just let it go after that because I didn't understand but, I also didn't lose faith but, kept pressing forward instead. I was hurt, discouraged by losing that peace/lightness and no pain, but, I figured God had a reason and whatever that reason was, I had to let it go and trust him. But, what questioned my faith more over the last 13 years is how much this pain has spread to different parts of my body and how much more it has increased --- that's been more difficult then anything else...

Can you explain to me what you mean by half prayer?

Lately, I have been struggling w/ a lot of different things and have also been struggling w/ prayer (faithfulness), I am forcing myself to pray even when I don't want to, but, I have more or less been praying for strength within myself, more faith w/ trusting God and praying for my ex and my 2 other non-christian friends. I've been struggling lately to pray for much anything else. Oh and have also been asking God to show me his faithfulness. But, to pray for healing... I've only gone to others to pray for healing for me instead of praying for myself for that. I have asked God to reduce the pain that I'm experiencing, but, that's as far as I've truthfully gone w/ that. Maybe I need to make more of an effort to pray harder about that.

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By half praying I mean starting to pray and then losing heart after a while and giving up before you see the answer come. I think often in those cases God may send an answer but it wont be the "full answer". Thats just my opinion I dont have a solid text to prove that. I think that prayer is something that Christianity as a whole has not yet really learned to do. Jesus said "If you ask anything in my Name I will do it." And towards the end of His ministry on earth He told His disciples "until now you have asked nothing. Ask and you will receive"

We tend to define asking as lifting a request up to God one time for 3 seconds. I find it vary hard to believe that this is Jesus's definition of asking because He tells His disciples (who are all religious praying Jews who have given up everything for the kingdom of heaven), He tells them, "I have literally not seen you pray(ask) for one thing in all the time Ive known you." (paraphrased).

I think Jesus's definition of asking was more like the persistent widow who wouldn't give up till she got what she wanted (now that is asking). Like I said I dont think Its something that the church has learned to do yet.

Jesus said all things are possible for one who believes. A lot of Christians think that God has a predetermined destiny for everyone and so it really doesn't matter if you pray or not. The bible says God is in control but It also says you have not because you ask not. Nowhere does it indicate that the power of God should stop us from praying for the things that we want. On the contrary. Also a lot of Christians think if you pray for something that you want then you are selfish and God wont listen. That is asceticism in my opinion and I dont see it anywhere in the bible. Jesus said "Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full."

Christians will come at you all day long with argument after argument for why God doesn't want to give us anything we want and why we shouldn't pray. But if you really look into the scriptures they use you see that they are using there proof texts to say things that the scripture doesn't really say.

Satan does not want the world to see legitimate powerful healings from God or any other answer to prayer for that matter. People might sit up and pay attention if they saw that. Just like they did in Jesus day. No he wants any healing that does happen to be a false healing. And he wants Christians to be convinced that God does not want to answer prayer.

Im not saying prayer is easy. You pretty much have to go through the long painful process of learning everything you need to know to know how to pray all on your own since nobody is teaching it. And once you start praying you get a hailstorm of spiritual warfare against you. The devil fighting you, other Christians fighting you. No it inst easy at all. But I believe it is possible. Jesus said "all things are possible for one who believes".

As far as laying on of hands and declaration of healing that you often see in charismatic circles. I dont know that Im able to say much about it. But I know this. There was a time that the disciples couldn't cast a demon out and Jesus said (at least in one of the accounts) "this kind comes out by nothing but prayer and fasting".

Hope that helps explain..

Mike

Are you saying God heals for only 24hrs? that's wrong. God's healing usually lasts a life time. Several people were healed by Jesus during His earthly sojourn, there were no indications that these healings were shortlived. Most times when Christ healed, He told people to go and sin no more. He did this because if the individual went back to sin, of course he'll have to deal with a worse version of his illness for surely the demon who plagued him will return to check if he can still inhabit his body and if he meets the person in sin then he'll invite more demons to infest the sufferer. People like Mary Magdelene was cured of seven demons, she gave up everything and followed Christ afterwards. When God heals you, it's up to you to cleave to Him to ensure you're not going back to your sinful lifestyle and this helps maintain your healing. God bless you