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1 | Should we pray outside of God's will? | 1 Pet 2:24 | MJH | 166094 | ||
The original state of man was one where sickness and death did not exist. God is a God of life, health, wholeness in every way. He is a God of truth, love, mercy, grace, justice, and holiness. When we pray for the health of any person, we are praying the will of God. We are praying that the "Kingdom of Heaven" (The place where everything is as it ought to be) will be a reality in the illness of our loved one. The fact that we die, get sick without being healed, does not mean that God willed that to be. It was never meant to be this way. And in the World to Come it will no longer be this way. I am certainly inadequate in this short reply to give an answer to the BIG question, "Why do bad things happen to good people." But one thing is for certain, it is not the will of God that bad things happen, so praying for good is always praying the will of God. …one reason for God seeming to allow this to happen, is because of the nature of God. We have sinned, first through Adam, and of course personally. The nature of such a state is what we are living in now. I do not subscribe to the idea that God wills bad things to happen, but just the opposite. Jesus the Messiah is the ultimate proof that God’s will is that all things be reconciled to Him as they were meant to be, and soon (hopefully very soon) they will be. MJH |
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2 | Should we pray outside of God's will? | 1 Pet 2:24 | mitchm0521 | 166133 | ||
I have to agree with you, I will not sit here and give a detailed reason why bad things happen to good people. I can't answer that for anyone. All I can do, is read scripture, and know what the will of the Lord is. And we can tell from his word, 1 Peter 2:24 being one of them, that we are forgiven of our sins if we confess Jesus Christ and we also have physical healing. As you said, sickness did not exist in the garden. Sickness began when Adam sinned , it was brought to this planet by Satan. Or rather, not soley by him, but by him being a tempter, yet Adam transgressed, and allowed the seperation from God to occur, thus the curse showed up. So the way I like to ask it is this way. If what Satan did in Adam in the garden, meaning if Satan bringing death and sickness to this planet in his scheme he hatched in the garden, and got Eve to fall for it. And then Adam transgressed, if all that was able to bring sickness into this earth. IF a Christian says that Christ dying on the cross did not return us to a place where we have divine healing in our lives right now, then they are inheritly saying that what Satan did in the garden, was more powerful than what God did in Jesus on the cross. Because if through the death of his Son God could not only remove our sin, but remove our sickness as well, then we'd have to say that Satan's plan was much more powerful, because it not only brought sin, but it brought sickness. And let me tell you, as you all should wonderfully know. What God did in Jesus on the Cross, is FAR greater than what satan did in Adam in the garden! God Belss! |
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3 | Should we pray outside of God's will? | 1 Pet 2:24 | MJH | 166143 | ||
You seem to be under the assumption that the work of the Messiah is complete. Certianly Jesus' death and resurrection are far greater than that of Satan, but we are still living in a world where the Kindgom of Death and the Kingdom of Life are a war. Satan has not yet been removed from the scene, and until Jesus' return and the strat of the World to Come, we will still experience the effect of a sinful world. To say we have physical healing in Messiah right now is failing to see reality. My argument is that such a state is not the "Will of God", but it does exist until the World to Come. MJH |
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