| So we know that all healing, even natural healing comes from God. And we also know that it is appointed unto man once to die.I am trying to fully grasp what we mean in article 11, and do we in fact still believe it. I still believe it. I believe the healing power of God is still real and available today, that signs, wonders, and miracles still happen. Article 11 is based (I believe) on Isaiah 53. The gifts of the Spirit are still in operation where He is welcome. There are some churches that don't want the flow of the Spirit, and I'm of the opinion He probably doesn't bother them much. But when the Holy Spirit is welcome to flow and move and touch His people, He does.I think this article shares a foundational truth that divine healing is a part of the work that was done on Calvary by the atoning blood of Jesus. But it doesn't guarantee healing every time. I don't know if it is always God's will to heal, and often He doesn't do it like we thought He would. When my husband was diagnosed with kidney failure, God gave me a word that this was not a sickness unto death, but unto the glory of God. I believed his kidneys would be healed, that he would receive a supernatural miracle. But that's not how God chose to heal him. God sent a kidney transplant many years down the road, and it had the same result. When he had to go on dialysis before the transplant, I was confused...but I decided He was God and could do this however He wanted to!When Kathy Isaacs died, I was puzzled. She and her family (all of whom are in ministry) believed for her healing, fasted and prayed for it. Anybody who was anybody in the COG laid hands on her and prayed for her healing. They believed for her physical healing until the time she went home to be with the Lord. It was not a lack of faith that she wasn't healed this side of heaven. So why didn't God heal her body and raise her up? The only answer I could come up with is that she had finished her assignment here on the earth. She grew up in a pastor's home and lived for the Lord since the time she was a small child. She married an evangelist, who went on to pastor and lead administratively. The Lord was using her in an awesome way. What a great opportunity for God to get the glory! But...that wasn't His plan somehow. And her family still praised God through her passing and the legacy of faith she left behind. God still got the glory.My personal opinion is sometimes we just don't understand. It's not a lack of faith, it's not anything we did wrong or anything we should have done differently. Perhaps someday when we see it from God's perspective, it will make sense. But until then, I choose to trust Him. Sometimes He chooses not to heal...and I don't understand. But I don't have to. I just have to keep trusting Him no matter what. He has proven His faithfulness to me over and over and over. I do believe that some people have a special unction from the Holy Spirit to pray for the sick and they are miraculously healed. There is a gift of healing and a gift of working of miracles. Perhaps we need to pray for those gifts to operate more. And with things like the corona virus, where we don't understand everything about it or how it works or how people get well or why some die...we may very well have to pray and proclaim healing and depend on God like folks did in the old days.God does heal today, and the provision for divine healing was made through Jesus' blood. Most folks today don't depend on that...we depend on doctors and medicine probably more that divine healing. And there are more reports of healing in other countries where medicine is not as readily available...because people HAVE to depend on God. I don't know if this helps, but I hope it does. Trust God's plan for your life and know He is still in control and still working, even when we don't understand More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name |