Thursday, 8 September 2016

Mindblown

When we pray for healing, what do we really mean when we also pray "But Your will be done"? It is good to pray that God's will be done, we must always pray His will be done, Jesus taught us to do so, but I think many times when I pray these words, I really mean to say: "Lord, if it is your will for this suffering or sickness to continue, if it is your will for death—"
Now just STOP there for a moment and think about it.
When is it ever God's will for us to be sick? Does God will sickness and death? We see in Genesis and Romans that death and suffering entered the world as a result of human sin (Gen 3, Rom 5:12, 6:23). And there is no death and suffering in the wonderful and blessed new creation. (Revelation 21:4)
It will always be God's will to refine us, grow us in the knowledge of Christ, change us by the power of the Holy Spirit to be more and more like Christ — and He most certainly works through our trials and sickness and suffering. 
But it is never God's will for us to suffer. It is always His will for us to be made whole — first and foremost to be spiritually made whole through faith in Christ Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit — and then flowing out into every other facet of our lives, physical, emotional, mental, relational, redeeming us completely from the kingdom of Satan, and bringing us into the kingdom of His precious Son. 

Jesus said: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10

Jesus said: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel." Mark 1:14-16

Jesus said: "And if you ask anything in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." John 14:14

Jesus said: "Whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." Mark 11:23-25

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