FollowHisSteps, Gods love came to deliver us from sin and death not illness and suffering.
The whole point of love is it lives despite the cost and problems along the way.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Is sicknesses and diseases of God or of the devil?
Mat 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
God sent Jesus to deliver us from both sin and the curse of the law of sin and death. One of which is sicknesses and diseases.
There is a whole industry dedicated to making people believe they should trust God to heal
them and not take medicine which will cure or keep them healthy. These people die, literally
as a result.
I agree with you concerning the sick taking their medicines, if that is what is keeping them alive.
People think and are taught that if they just act on the word, they God will heal them.
That is not how it works.
Without faith for that healing, you can act all you want, IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
Just because the teachers give the doctrine a bad name, doesn't mean it's a doctrine of devils, nor does it make if a lie.
And this is the point. We need to be wise to what solves problems and issues and bring all
to the Lord for His blessing.
This sounds like a cop-out and a preparation for failure.
I'd like to know how anyone could even begin to have faith when you're already prepping them to die.
Since you don't believe God's going to do anything to begin with, the only thing you are doing is handing the person a binky to mollify them into accepting the inevitable.
My church has prayed for many who are sick, who have died within a short period.
Your answer is they did not have enough faith. The problem is across the whole church a similar
pattern emerges. Most simply die. So either these are not faithful believers or the idea that God
desires to heal all is false.
Just to set the record straight, Jesus did not have a 100% success rate in healing people. Many failed to receive, because THEY failed to believe.
The word of God says, that one reason why Jesus suffered, was for their healing. If it wasn't God's will, He wouldn't have covered that as part of Jesus' work on the cross.
If your church teaches what you do, then it is no wonder why many, if not most, fail to receive their healing, as faith comes by hearing the word of God, that God WILL heal them, NOT the reverse or that He won't, or you never know what God's going to do, or the will of God be done.
No faith, none.
Yes, part of the problem is indeed a lack of faith, and that is because many people, like yourself, have no clue as to what it is or how it works.
Another major big time problem is knowing WHY the person fell ill, and HOW to get rid of it. That being, the SIN of the person or their parents.
Because so many teaching, 'your sins are automatically forgiven, past, present, and future', people think they don't have to repent of anything, when the truth is in MOST cases, the illness came on them as a DIRECT RESULT OF A SIN THEY COMMITTED AND HAVE NOT BEEN FORGIVEN OF.
Repent and confess your sins FIRST, then command the spirit that cause the illness to go, in the name of Jesus. After that, do what the word of God says, then ask God to heal so and so, according to His word, and if nothing happens at that moment, continue to praise Him, KNOWING IT IS DONE. And sooner or later, it will take place.
In the mean time, the person should continue taking the meds.
The biggest failure people have is in seeing we now live in a world where most will live till they
reach 70 years old. Never before in history has this happened.
Yet with such a blessing, this is not good enough. And this is the problem. We want eternity and
no problems or suffering here now on earth, and to not believe this is to be an unbeliever and evil.
Wow, the big sin. To live a happy, HEALTHY, prosperous, victorious, and long life.
I thought we were talking about the God of heaven, not the god of earth and hell.
Again, you try to make what is godly and good, to be evil and bad.
My guess is, this is what is taught in your church, and you wonder why God doesn't heal many, if any, in the congregation.
Spoilt children always want more of the things they already have too much of.
Seriously?!
Too much health?
Living too long?
Who are you advocating and propagating for, God or the devil?
What happened to the good new or the gospel of Jesus Christ?
You teach that it's better to no even bother trying to believe in healing, because they might be disappointed and not get what they want or ask for, than to at the very least, give the person a fighting chance with just a little hope in God, to do what He promised.
You argue for the cause of failure, because your faith is in the natural, and not in God to be faith who promised to fulfill His word.