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Originally Posted by Aquila
And if you're suffering from some infirmity, sickness, disease, or condition and God hasn't delivered yet... just give it to Him and move forward in your faith and serve Him. He will demonstrate how His strength is made perfect in your weakness. Through you, God can demonstrate how He can make people whole... through a broken vessel.
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I'm trying to stay away from this thread as I see it's heated enough as it is, but I just wanted to comment, as I have a problem this above statement. But the problem that I have with this above statement is that it seems like you're saying, (without trying to say it), if you're praying for a certain length of time for healing and if it doesn't come about in that time, then you're to give it to God (give up, be disheartened, stop believing that God will heal and deliver you) and go about your way.
In my experience I know that God doesn't heal you from everything, and He has his reasons for not doing so. When God heals and delivers, it's done unto the glory of Him, to show forth His mighty acts, to show forth his works, and He wants you to have faith, to believe in Him, so he can work through you. From myself, and dealing with others, there are times when you're healed right away, others it takes a little longer, and some times it takes years. There are people who have been suffering with an infirmity for 20+ years before God delivered.
What I feel that that scripture means, regarding Paul's thorn, I don't see that he just gave up. He prayed until God let him know that He wasn't going to deliver him, before he was able to move on. I know that a lot of people just pray, and pray fervently for a while, then one month pass, then 6 months, then a year, then farther yet, then they see it as God doesn't will to deliver them, then they just settle into whatever infirmities that they are contending with, oftentimes seeking help from other alternatives then God.
In my experience also, God usually has a set, appointed time, whether it'll be a quick deliverance or a longer one, and He's oftentimes testing us, waiting and seeing if we'll be faithful, and continue to believe and hold onto Him through this.
I hope that this doesn't sound like I'm berating anyone for not having faith in God, because I'm not trying to do that at all, and I hate it when people do that, as I know that everyone are at different places in God, and that He deals with everyone differently. I just didn't like that which sounded like "give up, God's not going to deliver through this, and you deal with it another way"
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