Now that I am older and have plenty of experience under my belt, I can say that it isnt this simple. Belief and faith in healing through prayer to God in the name of Jesus nearly cost me my life. He has never healed any of those that I prayed for including myself. I am left with the belief that I am not important to Him in any way. It almost feels that my prayers our treated as a curse to those I pray for.
I am always told "it just wasn't God's will" or "you didnt have enough faith" To the latter, this is incorrect. It wasnt a faith problem. Sometimes I feel like Job. It is like He purposefully ignores my pleas and my prayers.
My experiences with deep and dark depression stemmed from the absence of God in my life. The harder I go all in to find Him, the harder I would fall when He didn't answer. I am mad at God. Not because I don't have faith in Him, but because the promises written in the Word seem withheld from me.
I am alive today because I had to accept the fact that God would not answer my prayers for help. I decided to stay alive for my family and I got the "legal" drugs and counseling to help put my brain back together. If I would have continued listening to the Pastors and Godly in my life at the
at time, I would not be on the Earth any longer. God was NOT going to help me.
I will continue to acknowledge who He is, give Him thanks for His creations, but when it comes to relying on Him to intervene in life in ANY way, I have learned that that is NOT how He operates.
I dont mean to be a Negative Nancy, but sometimes the answer is not divine.
Hi, I'll admit I'm probably not as old as you. But I have experienced Jesus's healing and miraculous power multiple times. I hope you don't mind me sharing my experience. God shows no partiality to persons. What He has done for me, I pray He can do for you too. But first and foremost, Father will not do something through us that He hasn't done through Christ. Jesus said, "I can of Myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is righteous; because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." This is the fundamental lesson The Holy Spirit taught me when it comes to prayer and faith. "Faith comes by hearing." Faith is not something we can produce by our own power. Faith is created in us as a result of hearing the voice of God. I used to think faith was just believing one-sidedly what I choose to believe from my own end and God will do the rest, but that's not how Jesus prayed so how could we do differently? Yes, The Lord invites us to cast our burdens on Him, but I had to learn I had to do less speaking my own expectations first and more listening first. Faith first and foremost comes by hearing and then obedience. It is impossible to have faith without first hearing Him speak. If you try to have "faith" without hearing His voice, it can go very wrong. When Jesus healed sicknesses and diseases, He wasn't using His intellect to have faith. He was constantly perceiving what Father was showing and telling Him and then Jesus did exactly that. Let me share you something that happened very recently that I had faith for without ever knowing was possible before. I've experienced The Lord healing people including myself several times, but I never knew He would heal animals too. So when my elderly dog was on the verge of death, I only prayed for it without praying for healing. But then while quieting my own thoughts to hear His voice, I heard The Holy Spirit saying to lay my hands on it. Hearing His voice stirred up faith and I obeyed even though I wasn't sure what the result would be. Right after that my sister lifted up our dog, and it was completely fine. Shortly after, its legs were totally healed and could walk like it did when it was younger. And the past few days its cataract has cleared enough for it to see again, although I believe The Lord is still in the process of clearing it. This is totally a miracle. But this all happened by obeying His voice without skepticism. Without hearing His voice, it is impossible to have true faith. Secondly, The Lord also taught me that when He tells me something, everything that comes from my mouth must be in agreement with what I hear from Him. Just like electricity does not pass through wood, God does not work through doublemindedness. I either agree with Him fully or there is a part of my heart that's doubting. "Life and death are in the power of the tongue." 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." Notice how Jesus used the word "says" three times in this verse. My speech and my heart must both agree with what I heard from The Lord. If I say [that the people I pray for will never be healed, that my prayers are like a curse, God ignored my pleas and prayers, God does not love me, and God is not going to help me], then that is what God will give me. Sometimes I have to keep declaring for years before I see the manifestation of the healing and other times it can be in minutes. It all depends on what The Lord tells me to do. My expectation is Him alone. All I do is keep listening to His voice and obeying without skepticism and He has never failed me yet. The Lord says The Righteous are bold as a lion. So to me the key to correctly having faith is to hear His voice. This is how you will actually know Him and His love for you. "Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
I had exactly the same epiphany an hour ago. This might mean we both caught a Divine Broadcast of the Good Lord simultaneously.🙏🏻
God says to ask in the name above all names, Christ Jesus.
There's a lot out that need healing bc of what has done to us. Healings will increase in the days ahead for God's Glory.
Now that I am older and have plenty of experience under my belt, I can say that it isnt this simple. Belief and faith in healing through prayer to God in the name of Jesus nearly cost me my life. He has never healed any of those that I prayed for including myself. I am left with the belief that I am not important to Him in any way. It almost feels that my prayers our treated as a curse to those I pray for.
I am always told "it just wasn't God's will" or "you didnt have enough faith" To the latter, this is incorrect. It wasnt a faith problem. Sometimes I feel like Job. It is like He purposefully ignores my pleas and my prayers.
My experiences with deep and dark depression stemmed from the absence of God in my life. The harder I go all in to find Him, the harder I would fall when He didn't answer. I am mad at God. Not because I don't have faith in Him, but because the promises written in the Word seem withheld from me.
I am alive today because I had to accept the fact that God would not answer my prayers for help. I decided to stay alive for my family and I got the "legal" drugs and counseling to help put my brain back together. If I would have continued listening to the Pastors and Godly in my life at the at time, I would not be on the Earth any longer. God was NOT going to help me.
I will continue to acknowledge who He is, give Him thanks for His creations, but when it comes to relying on Him to intervene in life in ANY way, I have learned that that is NOT how He operates.
I dont mean to be a Negative Nancy, but sometimes the answer is not divine.
Isaiah 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Job 13:15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.
Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Brethren, some of us have a different relationship with health...
Pauls thorn.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%2012%3A7-10&version=ESV
God bless. ♥️👌
Hi, I'll admit I'm probably not as old as you. But I have experienced Jesus's healing and miraculous power multiple times. I hope you don't mind me sharing my experience. God shows no partiality to persons. What He has done for me, I pray He can do for you too. But first and foremost, Father will not do something through us that He hasn't done through Christ. Jesus said, "I can of Myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is righteous; because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." This is the fundamental lesson The Holy Spirit taught me when it comes to prayer and faith. "Faith comes by hearing." Faith is not something we can produce by our own power. Faith is created in us as a result of hearing the voice of God. I used to think faith was just believing one-sidedly what I choose to believe from my own end and God will do the rest, but that's not how Jesus prayed so how could we do differently? Yes, The Lord invites us to cast our burdens on Him, but I had to learn I had to do less speaking my own expectations first and more listening first. Faith first and foremost comes by hearing and then obedience. It is impossible to have faith without first hearing Him speak. If you try to have "faith" without hearing His voice, it can go very wrong. When Jesus healed sicknesses and diseases, He wasn't using His intellect to have faith. He was constantly perceiving what Father was showing and telling Him and then Jesus did exactly that. Let me share you something that happened very recently that I had faith for without ever knowing was possible before. I've experienced The Lord healing people including myself several times, but I never knew He would heal animals too. So when my elderly dog was on the verge of death, I only prayed for it without praying for healing. But then while quieting my own thoughts to hear His voice, I heard The Holy Spirit saying to lay my hands on it. Hearing His voice stirred up faith and I obeyed even though I wasn't sure what the result would be. Right after that my sister lifted up our dog, and it was completely fine. Shortly after, its legs were totally healed and could walk like it did when it was younger. And the past few days its cataract has cleared enough for it to see again, although I believe The Lord is still in the process of clearing it. This is totally a miracle. But this all happened by obeying His voice without skepticism. Without hearing His voice, it is impossible to have true faith. Secondly, The Lord also taught me that when He tells me something, everything that comes from my mouth must be in agreement with what I hear from Him. Just like electricity does not pass through wood, God does not work through doublemindedness. I either agree with Him fully or there is a part of my heart that's doubting. "Life and death are in the power of the tongue." 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." Notice how Jesus used the word "says" three times in this verse. My speech and my heart must both agree with what I heard from The Lord. If I say [that the people I pray for will never be healed, that my prayers are like a curse, God ignored my pleas and prayers, God does not love me, and God is not going to help me], then that is what God will give me. Sometimes I have to keep declaring for years before I see the manifestation of the healing and other times it can be in minutes. It all depends on what The Lord tells me to do. My expectation is Him alone. All I do is keep listening to His voice and obeying without skepticism and He has never failed me yet. The Lord says The Righteous are bold as a lion. So to me the key to correctly having faith is to hear His voice. This is how you will actually know Him and His love for you. "Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."