CEO of Bethel Music and Bethel Media Joel Taylor has asked for
prayers for healing after his two young children fell seriously ill.
Because if God can respond to a prayer about high school football team and at the same time go silent to
prayers for the healing of a little girl, what kind of God is He?
Johnson's own father, and former pastor of Bethel, died in 2004 following Church -
wide prayer for his healing, and key elders have died too.
Some people are offended by the blunt realism of this — or any
other prayer for healing — thinking it selfish or presumptuous or unrealistic.
Prayer requests: We received some family news this week that is tough — I don't want to go into too much detail — but I just ask
for prayer for healing for a member of my family.
I couldn't, and still can't, understand why a loving God's answers would be «no» to
my prayers for healing and / or to decrease their suffering.
As Robert Bellarmine indicates,
prayers for healing are not simply that the body may be raised up, but also for the removal of the «remains of sin» by which he means «a sort of horror and torpor» that comes over the sick and the dying.
I was too embarrassed to say anything so while she was praying I was also praying, not with joining in with
her prayer for my healing but against temptation for myself.
• Scientific Evidence for Answered Prayer •
Prayer for Healing: What Does Science Say?
As a particularly difficult test for northern - world Christians, try reading two almost adjacent passages in chapter five of James - one condemning the rich, the other prescribing anointing and
prayer for healing.
Similarly, if
our prayer for healing does not work, we must re-examine and reset our procedure yet another time, and try again.
In this interim age, when the Kingdom has been inaugurated in Jesus Christ but not yet fulfilled in the resurrected body for us all,
our prayers for healing will not always work.
Similarly,
our prayers for healed bodies are inhibited by the presence of nuclear warheads and warmaking everywhere, and by all forms of social injustice.
And ministers can be there to hold a hand or to say
a prayer for healing.
That means that
any prayer for healing is essentially a prayer for more time.
Most fundamentally, however,
those prayers for healing took place in the midst of a work of healing that was already well under way.
Sorry to hear about your mum and
prayers for her healing and feeling better.
Sorry to hear about your mum and
prayers for her healing and feeling better.
Said
a prayer for your healing.