Is it wrong for you to want to check out?If you are a Christian why are you not down on your knees and asking the Lord to help you through this instead of wanting to "check out"?Jesus suffered terribly on the cross why shouldn't we?As for nonbelievers they pretty much do as they want.
Well, despite how anyone is and if dying, I am the one at the bed side telling them they can make it. We have to be careful not to judge though, and each person is responsible before the Lord for their own Salvation (Greek Word for Healing and protection)
Just heard a story tonight about someones Uncle who was suppose to be dead in a week, both lungs full of cancer that spread to all the organs. My Now Pastor found out about Healing, sent that Uncle some tapes from Kenneth Hagin and Brother Copeland and that Uncle listened day and night the few days he had left. It was about 3 days of being shut up in that room with the Word that He came out and made an announcement. He said I am going to live, I refuse to die and let the devil steal from me. Weak and in great pain, He got the revelation.
He started to gain weight back, started to feel a bit better day by day, and just kept that Word playing over and over. Soon He went back to work and lived the rest of his life, not a thing wrong.
Same situation but a different Uncle, my Pastor had. He knew this Uncle more and was able to share the same things to him for his cancer. Gave him the updated tapes and this uncle seemed to agree with him a whole lot more than the last uncle that got healed. His cancer was yet declared terminal but progressing. This Uncle seemed a whole lot more agreeable to what the Word said.
It was just a few months later though He died of cancer. This stumped my Pastor, as it seemed this uncle was going to come out of it with amazing results. The Lord is good through and shows us things that we would not otherwise know.
This uncle unlike the last one seemed more receptive to the Word, but decided that it best to plan his funeral anyway, just in case. The other uncle decided that there was no way possible He was going to let the devil rob him and dying was no longer an option. If God said it, then it was so.
On the outside we don't know everything, and we don't know what a person is going though.
At a church I went to, an amazing praise leader who also came and spent time with me and my son when my son had cancer had gotten brain cancer. I loved this guy. This brain cancer should have killed him months ago at its final stages, but suddenly went into remission. Doctors were stumped, and the Church was rejoicing over the goodness of the Lord.
This praise and worship leader stood up in church and said God has healed me, I am going to be fine. Sounds like faith to me, but we don't know everything.
Well........................................
My wife met him at a card shop and just asked how everything was going, He said He was not sure He was healed yet, despite having no cancer. The doctors convinced him it was just in remission.
I have a word for the Doctors, a More sure Word of Prophecy.
What do ye imagine against the LORD?
he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
(Nah 1:9)
Fact I quoted that when the doctors told me my son was just in remission... ya, right, you won't see this cancer again, I assured them. God certainly is not a liar, for that we all can say amen.
This praise leader told me wife, "I am not sure I am healed yet."
My wife told me that when she got home and I knew. I knew He would be dead soon. You can't take two sides with the Lord, either you is or you isn't.
So I was going to get up and let this praise leader know a few things and fix our Pastor who should be teaching better. Thank God the Lord stopped me before I made a jerk out of myself. It was not my place.
The Lord said this to me, "He is coming home to me, my people do not understand what it means to accept what I say was a child and believe me, teach them faith."
Nothing I could do, and the Lord was not going to just over ride this mans faith.
He was dead in a few months, and all the church heard was that the Lord was going to heal him. Looked like faith to everyone else, but I knew. So then it went around that the Lord called him home and it was the will of the Lord. Sad God gets the blame for death and pain, but my hope is we can learn better than that to where God gets constant glory.
I ministered to a mother who's child should have lived but died, a women with cancer who just would not listen, but then I have seen people grab a hold and miracles when things should have ended badly.
To the person that is in so much pain and anguish that they want to end their life, I have a word. There is hope, His name is Jesus, and our great High priest has never failed anyone, not one time.
Blessings.
