Sorry! You obviously totally misunderstood me. My friend did not pray for people to be healed. He went up and told them they needed Jesus - often being silly and/or pretentious. And as far as praying for healing, he continually told me I was sinning/not confessing my sin/confessing I was sick/confessing the wrong thing, in the wrong way, etc etc. Apparently my words have power to heal, but when I wasn't healed (believe me, I prayed long and hard the first many years I got this disease - I still do!) he told me that I was not confessing healing. Ok, if he believed that. But the minute he got sick with a serious condition he was in the ER and on to the operating table. Another thing I didn't begrudge him, although it certainly wasn't consistent with how he was putting me down. Fortunately, I am not one to tell someone they should live by their own words. And if God didn't heal his enlared prostate, then he just needed to pray harder, and confess he was healed. Of course, I would not say it, because that is no where to be found in the Bible. At least not in that "commanding God to heal you" type of way. As opposed to supplicating God for healing and restoration.
But the main thrust of my last post, was that he did not know how to correctly divide the Word of God. So whatever he was hearing on radio sermons and/or in church, that is what he believed that day - even if it contradicted totally whatever he believed the last week. I did have some long talks with him, but he never understood what I was saying. You don't change your theology every time you hear the Bible preached differently. Ok, maybe now and again, but not every few weeks/months.
And the good thing is that he did finally get into a more compassionate and theologically sound church. I couldn't bear to have him go at me. Its hard enough to be suffering in agony, and then to have someone preaching what was twisting the Bible over and over. So I never disliked him, but I did stop talking to him and seeing him - and I still prayed for him to put down some theological roots.
It's funny the way people misread things according to their favourite pet "cause de jour." I think it is great to pray with non-
Christians. It is another way to lead them to the truth!
