With all due respect, I disagree with you.
You are disagreeing with God and His word, not me.
The Lord is our Great Physician and still performs healing miracles however experience has shown that not everyone who prays, even Christians, will receive healing. Will you now conclude that they lack faith or are not under the covenant of God? If everyone with faith will be healed then no Christian with faith would ever die.
Now you multiply your sin by changing God's clear word based on carnal experience.
No, they just do not understand God's covenant of healing with His saints. Please click on the link and read why Christians fail to receive healing:
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/53578-why-many-fail-receive-healing.html
Some will not die and 2 already did not. However most will but they do not have to die sick. Moses and Aaron did not. A gentle transition to be with Jesus is quite possible. Be it to you according to your faith.
I bet you'll call God a tyrant whenever you don't receive healing. As for me, I will praise Him regardless, I will recognize the work He is doing in my life, I will thank Him for His sustaining grace, my salvation, the air I breathe, the food, clothing, shelter, friends and family, and everything else He provides.
The prayer of faith ALWAYS receives healing, Mark 11:24. We have for 35 years raising 7 children to adulthood.
He provides healing as well. He did a work in us by training us to trust Him alone for healing. He started with me healing severe burns instantly and healing our children. Then we learned to trust Him even when nothing looked better and even got worse while time went by, sometimes quite a bit of time. Read Hebrews 11:1 and then read Mark 11:24 noting the tenses. He will do the same for anyone who will submit to the training. It seems most will not. How about you?
I am not surprised that you made such conclusion that Paul’s thorn was not a physical illness because according to your premise any Christian that does not receive healing is faithless or perhaps unsaved and course you wouldn’t want to put Paul in that category. Did Job lack faith? Why did God not heal him right away? If God failed to answer King Hezekiah’s prayer would He have become a tyrant? Why was Epaphroditus at the point of death before God showed mercy? What stopped God from healing him the very moment he became sick?
Job was involved in the highest form of spiritual warfare which is explained in chapters 1 and 2. Most Christians would NEVER trust God alone in a trial one tenth as severe even though they have 66 books, the Acts 2:4 experience, the word, name and blood of Jesus, the armor of God and more. Job trusted God alone right to death's door
, Satan was proven wrong, Job's friends received a lesson, and Job was healed and restored.
I have no doubt that Paul had physical trials but nowhere does it say he was not healed. The thorn was not sickness but a demon personality sent to buffet him i.e. persecution.
Here is the purpose of trials that some time may passes before what is received by faith is manifested to our sight. This includes fiances like a new vehicle WITHOUT going into debt, physical trails, persecution. Faith receives the answer and waits in faith until it comes. It does.
James 1:2-4
New King James Version (NKJV)
Profiting from Trials
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have
its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
1 Peter 1:6-7
New King James Version (NKJV)
6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith,
being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
So God can never permit infirmity to display His glory, eh? What about this:
John 9:1-3
1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 11:4- When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
God displayed His glory in each instance by the healing/dead raising not the illness/death. If someone dies today there is not one Christian in 10,000 that would pray for him to be raised. 0 people prayed for equals 0 people raised. We have seen it 3 times, but also failures. How about you?
Some people are not healed because they are under chastening for disobedience or under a test.
Some may be reaping what they sowed. If you sow bad eating habits, bad hygiene, etc, you will reap bad health.
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/53578-why-many-fail-receive-healing.html Please read this.
God does not play mind games and will clearly show what the issues are and give GRACE to change them and endure in FAITH trusting Him alone until the answer is manifested. Most just assume He does not care, not is His will, or does not hear them, so why bother seeking Him for the reasons.
Wrong thinking!
We shouldn't just sit there in despair but pray to God for healing however we should also be
aware that not everyone with faith will be healed
or healing will be delayed. Also, some people's healing is God calling them home. God is sovereign over every creature and knows what's best.