I have to say that this does perplex me.
Every time I think of the above verses I ask "Why are we not seeing these miracles now?
I am not a cessationalist.
I have prayed many times for people and healing.
I have even prayed for two people to be raised from the dead.
I have held the hand of the corpse and prayed for them to wake up.
My dear friend Ray who died at the age of 40 from a rare brain tumor.
I got a call 15 minutes after he died. I went to see him in his hospital bed that he was on in his house.
I held his hand and prayed earnestly under my breath as others were around.
After about half an hour someone pulled me aside (fellow Christian) and told me I was being disrespectful to his wife.
His wife was upstairs trying to compose herself as there were a lot of people in the house.
So I was urged to stop before she came back down.
So I left.
2 hours later she called me and it was apparent to her that I left because I was disrespectful to her.
She asked if I would come back I pray again.
I couldn't because I was devestaed, not only by his death but also because of what I was being accused of.
I did go again in the funeral parlor, anoint with oil and prayed for him to be bought back.
I even said what Jesus said to Lazarus.
I had genuine faith for it. Let's be honest why would you do that if you didn't?
So yes I want to see the miracles today that Jesus did and said we would do.
It pains me why we do not see it.
Aw man so sorry. I’ve been desperate many times, I’ve wondered too.
I believe in miracles and healings but I now think they happen for a reason
and also that they don’t happen for a reason and that reason isn’t our lack of faith.
Honestly I believe God has His reasons in both.
I have recently lost a dear friend who battled overian cancer for 5 years. She is 59.
Both her and her husband were born again Christians. Both were faithful servants and
have spent their lives doing great things for Him.
She He was the secretary of a Christian charity dedicated to bringing the gospel to others.
Her husband has been involved in prison ministry for a large part of his life. He now needs
carers due to being wheel chair bound and is still witnessing to the carers.
Of all the people to both be struck by cancer and for her to now die, you would ask why Lord,
why them. They have done nothing wrong served faithfully.
I spoke to the husband yesterday about the funeral attangements, it’s going to be big
with 200-300 people minimum. Everyone one has been writing saying how much the
wife touched their lives. It’s going to be a funeral which testifies to the goodness of
God. Her unsaved family are flying in from Italy and people are praying they will come to
know the Lord through the testimony of her life, also that unsaved friends will come to
know God.
Its going to be a funeral which speaks about the salvation of the Lord.
The husband said he feels like this current life is the real death, that his wife has been born
into new life the real life eternal with God, they are separated for a time but one day they
will see each other again. For the moment he said he feels the pain of separation but he knows
she is free from tears pain etc rejoicing in true life.
He is so right, we think as death as the end, as that’s it. But it’s just the beginning of real
life.
We are to be of this world but not of it, we are destined for better things. My friend
has been completely healed no more pain, death, sorrow, tears, the former things have passed
new life has begun.
There are many ways to be healed, death for the born again Christian is one of them.
The pain of seperation and bereavement is real, we fear it and we have to carry on without
the loved one. But for us there is also hope and another future spent in eternity with the Lord.
