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Originally Posted by jwharv
God has changed lives at his seminars, Peters said. He shared the account of a recent seminar series he led at a church in Alabama. After one session specific session, a woman came up to him told him about her 8-year-old son with muscular dystrophy.
As Justin told it, "With tears streaming down her face she said, 'Justin, I've been told by so many that if I had enough faith my son would be healed. I've been told that if I loved him enough he would be healed. All of these years, I have blamed myself for my son's illness. But for the first time I now realize it's not my fault.'
"Hearing stories like this makes it all worthwhile for me," Justin said. "Next to my salvation, my cerebral palsy is one of the greatest gifts God has ever given me. I have come to know and experience Him in ways I could never have done otherwise. God has used it to keep me dependent upon Him ... One of the tragedies of the prosperity gospel is that it robs believers of experiencing God's sufficient grace and strength made perfect in weakness."
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jwharv- Thanks for sharing.
I believe many Christians carry a greater heartache than non-Christians when it comes to illness and bad things happening; because they are at utter loss to understand why God isn't intervening on their behalf (the way they expect Him to).
They end up fighting two battles.... Whatever the issue is and the reason for God's silence. The reason for God's silence is many times the harder thing to deal with. Has the person offended God? Are they hated by God? Do they lack faith? Are they not "good" enough? Does God even exist?
But the reality is that nobody has been promised health and/or wealth and no one is immune from heartache in this life. It rains upon the just and the unjust. To believe otherwise will almost certainly result in feeling betrayed by God down the road.
I remember being surprised to be sitting in a church that was going through a building program and to hear them tell some of the negative things that had happened to people since giving money for the program. Serious stuff like losing their job or ending up in the hospital for a lengthy stay. The Church wanted to make sure the people understood that giving money to such a program was no guarantee of any kind. It certainly wasn't the kind of spin that one would see on TV about "seed" money.
And so it is with healing. Not guaranteed; but
grace sufficient to meet our needs EVERY TIME; and refueling as necesary.
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