The #FiveMinuteFriday word prompt is HEAL. Be encouraged and share your own stories whether you have been healed or not, others will be blessed!
I cough. Continually. Annoyingly and embarrassingly. For the last 4 1/2 years, ever since I landed back on U.S. soil from living in the Baltics, I have coughed. The first couple of years it was here a few months then it would go away a while. This past year and a half or so it has been non-stop and, unfortunately, confounds my rheumatologist, pulmonologist, and gastroenterologist. One just sends me back to the other for endless tests and more experimental medicine.
It is maddening.
Of course I have been prayed for, endlessly and yet, still with faith. Do I believe God can heal? Of course I do! You can read my other posts about times He has healed and times He has not here and here. We all know Paul talked about something in his life that God had decided he didn’t need healed of at that time, or maybe never. I have prayed, I have studied and I have heard a lifetime of sermons on healing. I don’t believe we have to jump through hoops. Naturally, I think we need to believe but the healing isn’t in our hands, it is in His.
When Jesus walked this earth and performed countless miracles, it was for the people to see so that they might believe. I think it is the same today! When HE chooses it will benefit the Kingdom, bring glory to His name and increase the faith of others to believe that Jesus is God, He will do so, all in His good time.
Maybe many reading this today are struggling with something much more serious than a relentless cough. God knows right where you are, He has not forgotten you nor forsaken you. Maybe your healing is for “such a time as this” to bring glory to Him and many souls to salvation. And then again, maybe your testimony is bringing glory to Him every single day that you continue to walk with Him in spite of your illness or prognosis.
He is still God! We trust Him, as the song says,
When You don’t move the mountains, I’m needing You to move
When You don’t part the waters, I wish I could walk through
When You don’t give the answers, when I cry out to You
I will trust, I will trust, I will trust in You!
No matter what we face, no matter what the outcome might be, He is in control and if He decides our testimony is bigger than our healing? He will give us the strength and the grace for every single day and walk through the trial right beside us.
Hi mrs.Candace jo. It has been years since we spoke. I don’t know if you remember me, but I just wanted to thank you for being there for me through email in my time of need. I was going through a major trial and the Lord kept me through it all..thank you♡..impressing towards the mark:)
Only God knows why we are given a “thorn in the flesh” and I wish you peace as you walk with him in faith. Beautiful post. FMF #69
Patricia
And, I’m sure you are diffusing oils all the time. Right? I see your YL badge on the right.
Love the song – thank you for sharing it.
I rather suspect that there are times when God’s giving of the answer would negate His purpose. We have free will to be able to choose Him, and free will implies a lot of things that occur in the world which seem – and may be – random. But if He moved every piece, and protected some and not others…and let them know it…faith would be irrelevant.
It would be like copying the answer on a calculus test; you may ‘see’ the value of definite integral and get the answer right, but if you can’t perform the operation, you’re only fooling yourself.
Which is maybe a terrible metaphor!
#1 at FMF this week.
http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-dying-spouse-204-soft-side-of-hard.html
God is definitely still in control. He is still on the throne!
Thank you for sharing Nannette.
I’m so sorry you’re suffering from a mystery illness! I hate that (and I’ve experienced/am experiencing it, too). God has his purpose and his plan, and maybe the purpose and the plan is to simply test us about whether or not we’re willing to faithfully trust in him–no matter what.