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1 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | iktoose | 145619 | ||
I have seen some folks taking this verse too literally (possibly because they have greater faith than me). For example, having headache or contracted with common cold, instead of taking asprin or cold medicine, this person would call his pastor for healing prayer. What is wrong with this picture? iktoose |
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2 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | EdB | 145632 | ||
Your Note iktoose I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned faith. I think there are three kinds. One that believes they have a headache and aspirin will help. Another that believes they have a headache and God through Doctors and researchers have given a cure it is aspirin. The third that believes God will heal their headache when asked. Is there anything wrong with this picture? No I think it is amounts to faith and in what you put your faith. In one their faith in aspirin, in the next it is in God first and aspirin as God's tool. The last is God exclusively. The only problem would be the person that says God has to heal me when I ask. That to me is presumption and is making man sovereign rather than God. There is also those that believe if they don’t confess a headache they don’t have a headache. Or of the confess they feel fine they will be fine. That is steeped in metaphysicalism and borders on lying to oneself and to others when asked how they feel. They are the ones that want to believe reality is not reality but rather an illusion that Satan generates. There simply isn’t any scriptural support for that position. EdB |
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3 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | iktoose | 145635 | ||
Practicing faith healing ministry.... Having conducted James 5:14, if a sick person is healed, then everything would be okay (PTL). The problem comes when the sick person is not healed or got worsen. Now who you going to blame, the sick person's faith or the elder's faith? iktoose |
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4 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | EdB | 145640 | ||
Iktoose Why do we have to find or place fault? Like you said if the person is healed everyone is happy. It is only when the person isn't healed that there is a problem. The problem could be any one of many possibilities. The person lacked faith. The people praying lacked faith. God didn't want to heal that person at that time for some particular reason. We see in 1Cor 11 some are sick because of how they view communion. Other times God needs us to walk through sickness as a testimony to His grace to others. Other times we need to be humbled. Other times we need to be slowed down. There are times we move past God and God uses sickness to bring up back. Perhaps God wants us to see how we react if you don't get what we ask for. Perhaps God has chosen to take us home and this is the way God decided to do it. When we pray in James 5:14 we should do it always in faith believing if it is God's will it will be done. But also with trust in God knowing once again He makes all things work to our good. You said if it the person is heal everything is okay but if their not we ask why. What we should do is is give God glory and let all be done according to His will. EdB |
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5 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | Helen loves Jesus | 208286 | ||
I agree with EdB, God does thing His way for a perfect reason, His ways are not our ways. He does not want to see a person suffer but because of the world and such people do. I am sick, physically disabled I am worse than ever. I thought I lacked faith but in the end I did not, I blamed God and it was not His fault. I was at a thriving church with many miracles. When I let that anger go things started to change. My disability no, my attitude yes. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 "8Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong" For a headache I would take a tablet as it is not a major deal, not like the illnesses cured in the Bible and people raised from the dead. Not that the Lord considers the same as we do, I just think a cold or headache is a small thing. I have faith, one day I will be healed. His will not ours. God bless, Helen |
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6 | Healing through prayer? | James 5:14 | azurelaw | 208288 | ||
Dear Helen, Welcome to the forum. EdB is no longer active on the from since 2005, I am afraid you will not get a reply from him. May God's blessings and grace be always with you and your walk with Him is closer and closer day by day albeit you are suffering from you ailment. May you also be a blessing to those around you, dear heart. May I recommend you the book "Queen of Dark Chamber" which speaks so much about God's grace on a Chinese christian who has extremely serious longterm illness and she is the vessel that brings multiple fruits for the glory of our Lord. A brief introduction can be found at : prayforchina.com/pro_cai_sujuan_e.htm Shalom Azure |
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