Subject: If we ask for healing does God answer no |
Bible Note: Mitch, to interject for a moment: Php 2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. Just by the sound of Paul's words, he saw the healing of his fellow as a sovereign work of God - he did not, for instance, say "he was sick, so we claimed his healing and he was well". Jesus allowed Lazarus to die, not healing him, so that He could perform the greater miracle. Paul speaks in Galations of the infirmity of his flesh beings a testing. And the man healed by Peter at the Beautiful gate at the temple had been lame from birth, laid there daily to beg. How many times did Jesus walk right by him? Dozens? Hundreds? "Well, he didn't ASK for healing!" But he didn't ask Peter either. When it was God's time - His time - He healed him. Not according to my time, or my method, but He is sovereign, and I am subservient. And all things, all sickness, all injury, all things work for the good to us who love Him. Love in Christ, Mark |