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Q: What type of God do you
worship that picks and chooses who he heals and who he doesn't heal?
What type of Father would that be to select his favorites and ignore the
request of His other children?
A: I am sorry, but some of us happen to believe the
Bible. I am not sure what your authority for truth is, but
it certainly is not God's word.
1. Paul sought for his own healing but God refused to heal
him (2Corinthians 12:7-10). Paul came to see God's refusal
to heal him as the greater blessing.
2. Paul, the same apostle who had earlier performed special
miracles (Acts 19:11-12), left Trophimus in Miletum sick
late in his ministry (2Timothy 4:20). The age of signs and
miracles was definitely on the decline.
3. Paul rejoiced in the mercy of the Lord on Epaphroditus in
healing him (Philippians 2:25-27). Paul was full of
heaviness because he heard that he had been sick and feared
that he might have sorrow on sorrow. He clearly did not
expect healing in every case, or he would not have sorrowed
in such a way.
4. In fact, Paul took a doctor along with him (Colossians
4:14) and gave a prescription to Timothy for his infirmities
(1Timothy 5:23). Why did he not heal Timothy, if healing is
for all God's children? You have no idea how far from
scripture you have gone.
5. Contrast this with the early healing by the apostles when
they "healed every one" (Acts 5:16).
Fanny Crosby was blind from a child. She gloried so much in
her infirmity that she said she would want to be born blind
if she had it to do all
over. Others, like you, accused her of lack of faith and sin
because of her blindness. But look at the wonderful poetry
and hymns that came from
her hand. These hymns would probably not have come if she
had normal sight. Your approach is shallow and false and it
opens you to the wiles
of the devil who comes as an angel of light (2Corinthians
11:14) and will deceive the whole earth by the miracles
which he will perform (Revelation 13:14).
Finally, you question the validity of a God who chooses who
He heals and is not at the beck and command of His
disciples. It is a dangerous thing to force God into our own
preconceptions. You need to rethink what you are saying. God
does not design His profile to please us. Rather, it is our
entire purpose to please Him (Revelation 4:11). It is
certainly possible that you have turned to another god and
that your rock is not my
Rock, but I pray that you are truly born again or will
become so and that the Lord will reveal His truth to you
before you are further deceived by the devil.
Till He comes,
Pastor David Reagan