Trust me, I've tried everything to be healed. If it were possible to be healed, I would be healed. It isn't because of a lack of faith.
I believe it's not due to lack of faith.Although i sometimes lack faith, i believe what you say, and i believe that we can have great faith, and God can be willing, and yet we're still not "seeing' the healing take place. I believe there's more to it.
We just plain cannot be healed.
With God all things are possible.
It's not that God cannot heal us, he can do anything
Amen!
it's because It's not part of God's plan.
Scripture says it is part of His plan.
Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven." ~ James 5:14-15
"But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD" ~ Jeremiah 30:17
...and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God." ~ Luke 13:11-13
When something is not part of God's plan, it doesn't come to pass.
Unfortunately that's not really a fact.
Me sinning yesterday wasn't part of His plan. It's not His will that I sin.
But we do know that healing is a part of His plan.
Scripture says so, as shown above.
Don't forget, we don't get EVERYTHING that we pray for. We can pray for a million dollars but if it isn't part of God's plan, it won't happen.
Of course, we don't get everything we pray for.
But if it's according to HIS WILL,
He says we will have that which we've asked for.
And healing IS His will.
Remember, God created us in paradise and His
desire is for us to be fruitful and take dominion over the earth.
It's not GOD who puts trouble on us.
If God's not the author, who is?
Well sometimes, it's the enemy.
If an enemy, and if we have armor, we need to FIGHT against him.
So if an enemy brings me pain, i might BELIEVE that I have a right
to be free of it (according to God's word) and I may even know that my
God WANTS me free of it, but that doesn't mean it just "poof" happens.
This IS a fight.. We literally have to fight and keep standing up for the
things God has freely given us, because we have an enemy who hates
God and His people and tries to steal from us, kill us, and destroy us.
I could just roll over and say, ahh, I can live with this limp... in fact, I
could even embrace the limp and wear it as a badge of what a "strong"
Christian i am, to suffer day in and day out. (false humility, iow, pride)
But the problem with me "Settling" is that it's not God's best.. it's "missing
the mark of the high calling" of God.. In that sense, it's maybe..... sinful
So.. by the grace of God, i fight.
by the grace and in the strength of God, I stand
With God I am an "overcomer"
(He calls us over-comers for a reason lol)
Same goes for mental illnesses.
I believe mental/physical is all the same too.
He heals some people with mental illnesses. But, a majority of us feel forsaken by God. But, God loves us and would never forsake us that much is clear.
Amen, He sure won't.
He sure is wonderful!