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Praying for Healing
By daniel | June 14, 2005
Many many thanks to my good friend Karen for writing me a letter about how to pray for healing. She has struggled with God through both losing someone close due to cancer, and another one close to her being healed from cancer.
How could this be right? Wouldn't it have brought Him more glory if He would have healed her?
One day she made a comment about praying for sick people, and I thought, I really would like to know what she thinks about this matter of praying for the sick.
This didn't make sense at all. This God that seemed bad when my sister passed away all of the sudden was good now that my father was healed of his cancer. I had no clue of how to perceive this God that I thought I knew. He was “bad” and “good” all at the same time
This issue seems difficult sometimes for me to wrap my brain around, knowing two things: God asks us to pray for the healing of the sick, and God sometimes chooses not to step down and heal.
God, through this (though many months later) taught me something about the way to pray. If I am praying merely based on circumstance, I am sure to be discouraged and am sure to distrust God. Circumstances change. God does not!! He is Good, Faithful, Loving, Just, True…when the person that I love so dearly dies. He is exactly the same when they do not.
Sometimes it just takes time and remembering who we are, who God actually is, what is more important than our lives, and maybe also keeping in mind that we're still in this with God, trying to reclaim the world from the wreck it has become…
I have learned and am learning to look at God first and then to look at the circumstance.
When I see Him as a loving Father, then I can trust that He is doing what is best for me ? no matter how bad it hurts right now.
This is a pretty heavy topic, any thoughts towards it are appreciated, of course. Thanks to Karen for the words of experience and love for God.
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