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Re: Why isn't someone healed?
There are some situations there are no good answers for here on earth. We do not understand the mind of God.
If God healed every time someone was ill and prayed for with faith Christians would pretty much live forever and no one would be living by faith, but by signs.
I view healing as a Godly intervention that sometimes happens and sometimes does not depending on God's will and that will is something we many times don't understand.
We have a family in our church that has been through hell this year. Here is it in a nutshell;
-Wife had autistic 11 year old son from first marriage. Great kid with constant smile on his face.
-God blessed wife with great second husband who loved autistic boy as his own
-Second husband and wife tried multiple times to conceive their own child and each time had a miscarriage. Once time carried to almost full term and baby died.
-Past year wife gets pregnant again and this time appears to be carrying baby to term. While pregnant 11 year old son is diagnosed with Leukemia and body rejects chemo treatment. When 8 months pregnant with baby uterous bursts and mother is in one ICU, baby is in another hospital ICU, and 11 year old son with Leukemia is in a third hospital's ICU.
-Mother and baby recover but 11 year old dies of Leukemia a few weeks or months later.
This family has earned the right to legally change their name to Job. I have absolutely no idea why they have had to endure this nightmare but I do know that God is able to bring them through it and help them.
Sometimes preachers and saints need to just say that we don't have all the answers and can't give a reason why some things happen. What we do know though is that God is able to keep us through bad times.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Last edited by CC1; 07-06-2014 at 12:22 PM.
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