Divine Healing V - If God wants to heal me, why then I'm not healed?

Many people believe that God wants to heal, but they stumble with the question: Why am I not healed if God wants to heal me? I think that the question gets difficult to them because of:
- Assuming that if God wants something, then it definitely has to happen.
- Assuming that if God wants something, then He has to do it.

If God wants something, is it going to happen in any case?
Unfortunately, the answer is No. How good it'd be that always the will of our Father be done!, but it's not so. I know that many times you heard things like: "Don't worry, stop fighting, because if God wants, it'll happen", but remember this always: Just because everybody say it, it doesn't mean that's true.

There are many things that happen even though our Father doesn't want them to happen.
- The Bible says that it's not the will of God that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9). Does that happen? No, it doesn't. Sadly, many people perish without knowing God.
- If the will of God always happen, why then Jesus taught us to ask our Father so that His will may be on earth? (Matthew 6:10) Is it not supposed that His will is already happening?
- ALL the bad things that happen in the world or that it happened to you didn't happen because our Father wanted (I'll be speaking about the reasons of why those bad things happened in other post 😀). I know that many times good things "came out" from bad things, but that is not a reason to conclude that God sent those bad things in order that those good things "came out" from them. Your Father doesn't send you something bad in order that something good may come out from it. That's not biblical. What we do find in the Bible is that you Heavenly Father can, if you allow Him, turn that bad thing into something good for you.

If God wants something, does He have to do it?
Regarding to the blessings we want to receive from Him, it's up to us to take them (read my post "Believe that you'll take it, and it'll come"). Our Heavenly Father has already done all that He had to do to bless us, now we have to take what He has already given us. Divine healing, as one of His blessings, it's not the exception.
- If we want salvation, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it (in this case is receiving Jesus).
- If we want prosperity, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
- If we want victory in some area, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
- If we want to be heal, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
Normally those steps are found in His Word as promises and principles, and also He speaks to us specific things for specific situations (for instance, God may speak to you to call to someone, to look for a second medical opinion, to keep on praying, etc.). But as much as His promises, principles as His guidance, it's up to us to put them in practice.

Your Heavenly Father wants to heal you! Don't doubt it! He has provided the way for you to get that healing, and that way isn't painful nor full of sacrifices, but we can get it by believing and using the tools that He has given us: prayer, the confession of His Word, keeping yourself in His Presence and obeying His guidance.

One proof that God is real

There are people that simply are determined not to believe in God even before you say something to them. Can I give you a piece of advice? Stop trying. Remember that Jesus taught us that the way that they may glorify our Father is by seeing your good works (Matthew 5:14-16, John 13:35), and not by "convincing their minds." Besides, be honest, trying to win when you're arguing many times it turns more into a personal pride issue than a really passion to see that person deciding to believe in God.

A few years ago, I had the chance to talk to a jail director, who was in charge of a penitentiary center wherein different forms to re-socialize the inmate were tried. This man had a sincere desire to help those men, and this drove him to try different ways to get results. The big problem he faced was that the best methods psychologists and psychiatrists had (he himself was a nationally rewarded psychologist) took too much time to show results, if there was any.

On one occasion, thinking about this in his office at the jail, he saw through the window a well-dressed, big-smile, smelling-good inmate walking by holding a Bible with his hand. The director was surprised because he knew this inmate. Less than two weeks ago he saw him completely different, he was one of those than nobody would give a penny for him, consumed by drugs, naked, he looked like a dead living man, abandoned in the trash because not even his fellow inmate wanted him. "How did he dramatically changed in just two weeks?", the surprised director wondered. So, no need to think it twice, the director decided to follow this man, and he was greatly surprised to see that that man was going to a church inside the penitentiary.

"This is it!", he exclaimed. "This exactly what was missing!" Without wasting time he call several Christian churches to a meeting so he could start practicing what he called "the God's factor." In that meeting, he said to us: "I now know the cure, but I don't know how to apply it. That's why I need you."

What, then, is the proof that God is real? Lives changed by Him. What it would take years for men, only in the case that there is any hope, God does in a short time. Restored marriages, changed lives, saved children, miracles, the sick being healed, the fact that we can say: "before I was like that, now I am different", joy and peace in the middle of problems, etc., all of that are things that we experienced and that are palpable to us.

Maybe one testimony is not enough for someone to believe, but what about if he hears ten, or one hundred, or one thousand testimonies? That's why, more than just words, your changed life is what others need to believe so that they may glorify our Father (Matthew 5:14-16)

"I will praise, O Lord, with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works" (Psalm 9:1). What your Heavenly Father did for you is the best marvelous work that need to be told!

Believe that you'll take it, and it'll come

Mark 11:24 says that all we ask in prayer, if we believe that we'll receive it, it will come to us. But the word that it's been translated "receive", in greek means "take". Then, Mark 11:24 should say: "Therefore, I tell you that everything you ask in prayer, believe that you will take it, and it will come."

What Jesus was teaching is when you pray, you must believe that you can take what you're asking for, and it will come to you, that's to say, you will have it.

1. "Everything you ask in prayer". In other words, you must pray! When you pray, when you are in the presence of your heavenly Father, your faith is lifted up. Your faith will not be lifted up if you just complain, worry, or think all the time about how impossible is to have that what you wish. Your faith will grow in the presence of your Father and feeding yourself with His Word!

2. "Believe." You decide to believe in God. Of course, it is easier if your faith just naturally grows because you are filling yourself with His Word and practicing His Presence all the time, but there will be times when you just have to BELIEVE NOW. In Mark 5, Jesus said to the principal of the synagogue when he received the bad news of his daughter's dead: "Fear not, just believe." His natural reaction was fearing, but Jesus told him, in other words: "Decide to believe".

3. "That you will take it." Does this imply a little of work from you? Yes, it does! But this work is not for you to be worthy of what you are asking for, but for taking what you already receive by faith when you prayed. Big difference!
The former is through the Law, the latter through faith.
The former would be thanks to your merits, the latter is thanks Jesus's merits.
With the former you'll be worried and stressed, with the latter you'll be in peace, because even though you will go to take what it's yours, you'll know that it is yours thanks to Jesus.
With the former you'll find yourself struggling for your victory, with the latter you'd fight from Jesus's victory.

Once I heard by the radio that a person won a car. The presenter called the winner, who lived outside Lima, to tell him to come the capital to receive his prize. The winner had to go to take what's his. He didn't come to fight for his prize, but just come to take it. His journey to Lima wasn't stressful and full of uncertainty, but full of expectation, excitement and peace. That's the way it should be when we take what we ask for believing we have already received it!

If you are asking for something in prayer to you heavenly Father who loves you, believe that He's already given it to you thanks to Jesus's sacrifice, and you'll see how that confidence of going and taking what's yours will increase inside of you, knowing, besides, that your Father is with you!