What stops God from doing His will ? Are our lacks stronger ,bigger then His will?From personal experience, I would have to say no. I don't believe it's His will to heal every physical disease.
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What stops God from doing His will ? Are our lacks stronger ,bigger then His will?From personal experience, I would have to say no. I don't believe it's His will to heal every physical disease.
What stops God from doing His will ? Are our lacks stronger ,bigger then His will?
I'm not saying anything stops Him from doing His will. I'm saying I don't believe it's His will to physically heal everyone. If it was His will to heal all physical diseases, there would be no children dying of cancer.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
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Mike,
You have so nailed it. I did not expect to see anybody arrive at the correct answer so quickly. From the personal perspective I never pray for healing of my physical self, just growth and for God's use of my Spiritual Self. God is supplying all I, my wife and my daughter need and He will as long as we do not run off on some miserable tear and either fully or partially desert Him.
The thing none wishes to deal with is the absolute truth with God. God is not a small monkey that entertains us when we are down inn the dumps and God is not a Genni in a lamp waiting for a request. God gave over the matters of this world to the control of Adam and Adam gave that control, through the ingestion of the Forbidden Fruit, over to Satan. Except God feels it is required for His will to be accomplished.
In a case like mine, I have already finished the promised three score and ten and yet God is not finished, not just yet, any way. And can be called home any moment now, or I can be here for the next century, it's up to our LORD.
Exactly,
Kinda like the issue of ,why bad things happen to good people?
Death comes to us all regardless.
Some die at birth, never sinned, innocent.
God has a purpose, we might not know now, but we will later.
I'm not saying anything stops Him from doing His will. I'm saying I don't believe it's His will to physically heal everyone. If it was His will to heal all physical diseases, there would be no children dying of cancer.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
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Yes Gary i agree with ya.. .I'm not saying anything stops Him from doing His will. I'm saying I don't believe it's His will to physically heal everyone. If it was His will to heal all physical diseases, there would be no children dying of cancer.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
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IN his time."All the time?
I see Gary has not been healed of that Parkinson's shake yet.
It's written, the Child is santified by the believig parent. There is a reason children die of cancer. It's not God. We need to learn to take responsibility as believers.
God said choose life, choose blessing that your seed may live.
What if you don't choose blessing? What if you choose that the cancer just might kill your child? Is that God's fault?
As far as my experience, this is the only time I've seen my prayers for healing be answered in a big way.What about praying for someone elses healing? ....
IN his time.
Would you mind stating that reason?
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God's plan and will is different for each individual.Just because he heals Jimmy does not mean that Jill will be healed.God does not have favorites.To say that God heals some and not others, means that He values some over others. The Bible says that God treats everyone the same (God is not a respector of persons) there is no jew nor greek, etc....
My brother died at 40 years old.A wonderful Christian man who had two boys in high school.His death was instant.He had Hodgkins for 7 years.When they did an autopsy there was no cancer in his body at all.Why?God has a time for everyone to die.God's understanding is beyond our own understanding.We have to have faith and trust.I do not think He heals others because He has more mercy for them or that they have done something right.It is just the way God works.Some people can pray continuously and not be healed because that is God's Will.I'm not saying anything stops Him from doing His will. I'm saying I don't believe it's His will to physically heal everyone. If it was His will to heal all physical diseases, there would be no children dying of cancer.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
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God's plan and will is different for each individual.Just because he heals Jimmy does not mean that Jill will be healed.God does not have favorites.
I think He wills to heal some and not others. I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy...
...and there's other issues at work, too. Like, I've been healed of a lot of things caused both by my own past sins and the sins of others. 2 years into being Born Again, I'm physically healthy and remarkably normal. Even my hair grew back, even though I'd scarred my follicles (that form of hair loss is always permanent). My friends' husband, Ronnie, he died of cancer while a lot of God's work in my life was underway. I felt terrible. But my friend, his widow, reminded me that we have a certain number of years on this earth, and then its over. Life is a vapor. Plus, it seems that Ronnie had issues that were popping up besides the initial cancer. Even the if the cancer hadn't taken his life, the developing issues would probably have seriously reduced his quality of life over the rest of his life.
Also, I've read--not in Scripture, mind you...I think CS Lewish (as usual, lol)--that the stuff I've experienced happens a good bit to those who are recently Born Again. We get cleaned up, inside and out, more often than one might expect. And...sometimes, death isn't the worst thing. Scratch that. It generally isn't the worst thing, at least for the believer. Death=full healing on the other side. Cold comfot to a lot of people, but its true.
There's also the ever mysterious issue of God's Will. Does He always will to heal? Paul had some sort of thorn in the flesh that afflicted him until he died. Then again...Tabitha was brought back from the dead. The disabled were made to walk. The blind were made to see. But not all of them.
I dunno...just thinking/writing out loud, because I've been pondering this one, too. I do think healing is for today, for obvious reasons, but it doesn't always happen, and I don't think it indicates a lack of faith or uncofessed sin or anything like that. And healing itself is complicated, as it plays out in real life. For instance, I'm physically healthy and normal and surprisingly smart enough to pursue my goals (I used to be sickly and obviously brain damaged). I also have severe Bipolar I w/psychotic features, which more than likely means long term, possibly indefinite, psychiatric treatment. What's God doing there? I dunno. I'm more mentally ill now than I was before...I'm also smarter and healthier.
I think God does want us to call on Him for all our needs, including healing, but...why are some healed and not others? I dunno. God can look into the future; we can't. God sees to the very core of people and our situations. We tend to see only the surface. Also, sometimes I think God wants to heal through us, and not just through docs. Even if somebody dies, other Christians can help them and their loved ones, through hospice and just getting involved. That can be healing for both the deceased and those around them.
Again, just thinking+writing out loud.
Or perhaps TourettesI see Gary has not been healed of that Parkinson's shake yet.
The Childs protection comes from the obedient and beliving parent. What the Parent believes is going to be the outcome for that child.
I do not believe that either.God does not work that way.I don't believe that.