Does God Heal Everytime?

[wyguy]

If God healed every time, nobody would ever die.

[georgedrw81]

The answer is yes. The question is not one of healing, but one of timing. Some receive healing in this life. Others will wait until the next

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[e lansing]

Whenever I hear a pastor preach about God and healing and they always use the last part of the verse in 53:5 (And byhis stipes we are healed) I always wonder is it Gods will that every sickness be healed? I understand that Chapter to be about spiritual healing not physical healing. And why is it that if a person is prayed for and they don't heal then the pastor or the person who prayed for the sick one says well you just don't have "enough" faith. That sounds like a cop out. So now the sick person has 2 problems the sickness and the guilt for not having "enough" faith. But didn't Jesus say if you have faith like a mustard seed? Yet Jesus chose not to heal Paul (and he asked three times) and I'm pretty sure Paul's faith was bigger than a mustard seed. But he was told that his sickness would be for his good to keep him humble.

Does God do what we want Him to do when we want Him to do it? Do we? From what i see in scripture, healings are acts of God. These do not happen because we tell them to, however God does respond to faith. Do you know God can heal? Faith is knowing! We get it by hearing and hearing of the word, why? Its where we need to have our faith in. My own son has face death who is 7yrs old, his healing did not come right then, and yes my own faith was shaken, but i knew God would and could heal him. Before He did i had to come to terms with would i still serve God if He did not heal my son, its a very hard place to be but i chose yes i would, He must have seen my heart, cause my son is not dead but alive and healthy and enjoying life just like any 7yr old should and with the help of doctors! Why don't He heal all sickness? I don't know, but i know He is God and i am not.

hope this helps, faithfulness pays off!

[e lansing]

Whenever I hear a pastor preach about God and healing and they always use the last part of the verse in 53:5 (And byhis stipes we are healed) I always wonder is it Gods will that every sickness be healed? I understand that Chapter to be about spiritual healing not physical healing. And why is it that if a person is prayed for and they don't heal then the pastor or the person who prayed for the sick one says well you just don't have "enough" faith. That sounds like a cop out. So now the sick person has 2 problems the sickness and the guilt for not having "enough" faith. But didn't Jesus say if you have faith like a mustard seed? Yet Jesus chose not to heal Paul (and he asked three times) and I'm pretty sure Paul's faith was bigger than a mustard seed. But he was told that his sickness would be for his good to keep him humble.

Does God do what we want Him to do when we want Him to do it? Do we? From what i see in scripture, healings are acts of God. These do not happen because we tell them to, however God does respond to faith. Do you know God can heal? Faith is knowing! We get it by hearing and hearing of the word, why? Its where we need to have our faith in. My own son has face death who is 7yrs old, his healing did not come right then, and yes my own faith was shaken, but i knew God would and could heal him. Before He did i had to come to terms with would i still serve God if He did not heal my son, its a very hard place to be but i chose yes i would, He must have seen my heart, cause my son is not dead but alive and healthy and enjoying life just like any 7yr old should and with the help of doctors! Why don't He heal all sickness? I don't know, but i know He is God and i am not.

hope this helps, faithfulness pays off!

[KnowWhatJesusDid]

GOD'S GRACE

Some of us have been tought that pain and suffering comes from the Devil and since God wants his servants to be well and free of pain, Pain and Suffering must be of the Devil and HEALING and Happiness are of the Lord. This Sounds great. The problem is, it

[MelodyCat]

If God healed every time, nobody would ever die.

You don't need to be plagued with sickness and disease to Die. You can drown, get shot, run over by a bus etc..

Moses was a man of good health but God took him.

Now to answer the question of the OP "does God want to heal every time?"

We know that God desires none to perish yet many will not see salvation.

Did Jesus ever turn anyone away who came to Him for healing? No.

We know God desires for us to be healed but like salvation not every one will be healed. There are various reasons for that but I won't go into any of them now.

You can Trust God if you pray for healing. He is faithful and loving and desiring to show you His goodness.

Your days on this Earth are numbered. You can be healed but still end up being taken. God will call you home when it is your time.

Healing like everything God gives you requires Faith, your trust in 'who God is' or 'what God is like'. When you have a good understanding of God's character you can be confident that He is hearing your prayers and will answer them for your ultimate good.

I have a number of chronic illnesses and by rights I should be crippled from the type of arthritis I have and I have other complications with my health that should make much sicker than I am. However much to the surprise of my specialists I am defying the way my sickness should have progressed over the years and in one area I have even had unexplained restoration which has baffled them as they have my x-rays and other evidence of the damage having been there and now it is gone.

While medically I still have these illnesses and from time to time they do flare up and give me some symptoms. I really baffle the doctors because of how healthy I am. I put that down to God's goodness and His answers to my prayers for healing. I constantly pray for full healing but for some reason I am not completely healed but live so well with what I have you would not even know I was sick. So God's answer to me is I will keep your symptoms to a minimum. I am very grateful as I know a number of ladies who have my type of arthritis as long as I have and their bodies have been severly ravaged by the disease, the damage to joints and their immune system has been terrible. They are in constant pain and their ability to walk and move and to grasp things is very limited now days and the various medications cannot give them the relief they so desperately want. I'm sure I am protected by the Lord. Not quite full miraculous healing but to those who suffer with what I have they would certainly desire the way I am any day to what they are suffering.

Don't let people put you off praying for your healing. OK so you may not get it but you certainly don't want to miss out on it by not asking God to heal you.

It is presumptious for some people to say you have to suffer with your illness becasue it was given to you by God to make you more Mature in your Faith. That is just as unBiblical as those who say all sickness and disease is from the Devil.

Since we don't know from where our sickness comes from there isn't any reason why you can't pray for healing and be expecting that the Lord would heal you. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be free of all sickness and disease. While you are waiting ask God to sustain you physically and spiritually.

I still haven't stopped for my full healing and complete recovery.

Edited January 20, 2010 by MelodyCat

[jsca777]

I believe it's God will for people to be healed. Why would God want you sick and diseased when He took those stripes for your healing? Healing comes in 3 ways. Physically, emotionally and spiritually. They are all part of the atonement. Jesus says in John15:7 that if you abide in Him, and His words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Of course, if His words abide in you, you don't ask outside of His will and don't ask to please the carnal nature for lustful pleasures, you ask right righteous reasons.

There are various reasons that hinder people from getting healed. Lack of faith, when people's hearts are not right with God, living in willful sin are reasons. Other reasons could be what we are eating. Unhealthy foods leads to sickness and disease, anger and stress cause heart problems, cancer, arthritis, etc. Some sicknesses are the result of a demon. Many people that Jesus healed, or the apostles, were the result of demon spirits. If you don't cast the demon out and take authority over the demon, that spirit will stay there. When Jesus healed the woman with a spirit of infirmity(Luke13:11-13), He first casted the demon out, the He healed her. Deliverance from demonic oppression is a major reason why people aren't getting healed.

Edited January 20, 2010 by jsca777

[sheya joie]

Consider:

John 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Verses 2 and 3 tell us that there were five porches at this place, filled with a great multitude of sick people. How many did Jesus heal?

Consider again:

Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.

5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

This took place at the temple in Jerusalem shortly after the LORD was crucified and raised again from the dead. Verse 2 tells us the man was brought there daily so he could beg for alms as people entered the temple. Do you suppose Jesus had passed by this man when He was going to the temple? And yet He did not heal him. Why? The time hadn't yet come.

Consider again:

Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

Notice the final verse there: many lepers, but only one cleansed. The LORD does heal, but according to His own will and timetable.

Finally, this:

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Ask the LORD for His wisdom on what to pray for, so you can pray in His will.

Hope that helps.