Healing Prayer

God always responds to prayer for healing and that prayer always makes a difference. The difference may not be dramatic or obvious because prayer does not cancel or suspend the particular network of constraints bringing some outcome into being.  Prayer is the means by which a specific action of God works in and through that network to bring some succession of events to a different outcome than would otherwise have been.
 All humanity is the creation of a loving God Who wills everyone to have wholeness and health.  When you petition God for healing, don’t say, “Heal only if it be Your will.”  Instead say, “Please heal because I know it is Your will to repair and restore Your corrupted creation.”  Sickness and brokenness are contrary to the will of God.  At no time is sickness a part of His purpose or plan for any part of His creation.  The primary purpose of prayer for healing is to see God’s will fulfilled in the restoration of wholeness.  But remember, healing is not a “one-time” thing.  Healing is, in reality, a continual meeting of a continual need.  One healing usually leads to the recognition of a need for further healing, either a physical healing or a healing of the heart.  God calls each of us to see healing as a continuing pilgrimage toward wholeness.Whenever we see hate, ill-will, division, separation, alienation, disease, decay, misery, tragedy, corruption, fear, suffering, iniquity, immorality, wickedness, depravity or unmitigated evil, we know it is the fruit of Satan and those who have joined him.  Whenever we see love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, reconciliation, restoration, joy, health, healing and well being, we know it is the fruit of God and His children.  Satan comes to destroy and kill; God comes to give life.  When a tragedy occurs, many well meaning Christians will say, “I don’t know why God did this; we don’t understand now but someday we will.”  They are really saying, “I don’t know why God was so unfair, so cruel and so unloving but someday we will understand.”  Similarly, many Christians having lifelong afflictions such as blindness or paralysis will not accept prayer for healing; they believe God wants them to be afflicted so he can use them in a more powerful way.  But remember, all humanity is the creation of a loving God Who wills everyone to have wholeness and health.  To think otherwise is to insult God.