mrpop, I guess that I would like to comment more in detail but my eyes are giving in and I need to get up early tomorrow...just a few comments on your last statement though....
Yes.. through His stripes we are healed.... but ask any one who have stood on their knees for years and trusted God for healing of someone in their family that it is not that simple ....
Joh 11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby
[ASV]
as Stormy said
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I hope your cousin is the miracle. I hope he wakes up, walks away, and people stand in awe at the work of God in his life. At the same time, I hope you're the miracle, and people see your pain for him, and the strength that comes from your faith in Christ, and they stand in awe at the work of God in your life.
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First of all. God's will is supreme and if He has a purpose with a life on earth then that is His decision .... Our son has a immunity disorder and some added issues that we have prayed over and God has blessed us with some healing but we have had words that He has a purpose with our son ... We didn't stop believing or praying but realise that it lies in Fathers hands... I know of too many people that have lost their faith totally because people went to them and told them : "well, you are not healed because you do not believe" ... But , it is a highly personal subject I think.....because if what you say is strictly true, then why do we pray "Father heal this man .." Shouldn't we then pray, "Father, may this man receive healing and believe it...." ....
(Isa 53:5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
[kjv]
The word in the greak used for healed is Rapha .... and although I am not a Greek scholar (Kidan??) a mate of mine who did study this said recently that the context of the original text makes a lot of difference to the meaning of words....
rapha
raw-faw'
A primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literally or figuratively): - abate, cease, consume, draw [toward evening], fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak (-en).
rapha
raw-faw', raw-faw'
A primitive root; properly to mend (by stitching), that is, (figuratively) to cure: - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
So let me leave it like this saying that God heals ... we can all attest to that ... but sometimes God says Yes, and sometimes No ...and sometimes Wait.... and that takes nothing away from His sovereignity (sp?) ....
Yes.. through His stripes we are healed.... but ask any one who have stood on their knees for years and trusted God for healing of someone in their family that it is not that simple ....
Joh 11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby
[ASV]
as Stormy said
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I hope your cousin is the miracle. I hope he wakes up, walks away, and people stand in awe at the work of God in his life. At the same time, I hope you're the miracle, and people see your pain for him, and the strength that comes from your faith in Christ, and they stand in awe at the work of God in your life.
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First of all. God's will is supreme and if He has a purpose with a life on earth then that is His decision .... Our son has a immunity disorder and some added issues that we have prayed over and God has blessed us with some healing but we have had words that He has a purpose with our son ... We didn't stop believing or praying but realise that it lies in Fathers hands... I know of too many people that have lost their faith totally because people went to them and told them : "well, you are not healed because you do not believe" ... But , it is a highly personal subject I think.....because if what you say is strictly true, then why do we pray "Father heal this man .." Shouldn't we then pray, "Father, may this man receive healing and believe it...." ....
(Isa 53:5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
[kjv]
The word in the greak used for healed is Rapha .... and although I am not a Greek scholar (Kidan??) a mate of mine who did study this said recently that the context of the original text makes a lot of difference to the meaning of words....
rapha
raw-faw'
A primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literally or figuratively): - abate, cease, consume, draw [toward evening], fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak (-en).
rapha
raw-faw', raw-faw'
A primitive root; properly to mend (by stitching), that is, (figuratively) to cure: - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
So let me leave it like this saying that God heals ... we can all attest to that ... but sometimes God says Yes, and sometimes No ...and sometimes Wait.... and that takes nothing away from His sovereignity (sp?) ....