The back and forth here has gone on long enough.
My faithful Christian friend (after following the scriptures, having many people pray for her, and spending many days in prayer and fasting) lost his wife of 40 years (she was 59) to a brain tumor. She fully expected to be healed. She left us with a beautiful smile on her face knowing that finally God had healed her. Last month, during a routine surgery, we discovered that my friend's new wife had aggressive stage four cancer on her liver and stomach. We will go through the prayers, fasting and treatment again, knowing that God will heal her in his time, and according to his will.
Another faithful Christian friend lost her 8 year old daughter this week. The daughter never walked, never talked, never sat up, never fed herself, and by any medical rules should never have reached her first birthday. This child blessed everyone that she came in contact with. Everyone around her prayed that God would free this child from the body that she was trapped in and give her a "normal" life. God let her bless our lives for a while, and took her home to a glorious new body. She joined her 16 year old sister who left us last year. What a glorious reunion that had to be.
You see, God heals us according to his plan, not ours. He hears our petitions, and he answers them. The problem we have is that we refuse to listen for that answer. We are too busy telling God what we want, rather than letting him show us what we need. We need to stop looking for the "Gospel of God's grace" and start looking to the Grace of God's Gospel. Remember what Paul said.
2Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Here's an exercise for those of you who are telling us that we are not healed because we do not believe. Walk through the cemetery of a church that espouses that belief and compute the average age of those in it. Do the same for a church
that espouses the grace of the Gospel of Christ. I suspect that you will find that the age is the same.
