As many times as I've read these scriptures, I just noticed something about them, I never saw before.
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James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him
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Is any among you afflicted? let him pray”
I would think, this is a chronic illness, and it does not say that God will heal that. I don't believe that God healed Paul.
Of course the “Positive Confessors” will deny that Paul had an illness. But look at the word, affliction.
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English Words used in KJV:
endure hardness 1
suffer trouble 1
endure affliction 1
be afflicted 1
[Total Count: 4]
from the same as <G2552> (kakopatheia); to undergo hardship :- be afflicted, endure afflictions (hardness), suffer trouble
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2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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infirmitties----English Words used in KJV:
infirmity 17
weakness 5
disease 1
sickness 1
[Total Count: 24]
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from <G772> (asthenes); feebleness (of body or mind); by implication malady; moral frailty :- disease, infirmity, sickness, weakness
Paul's “thorn in the flesh” was his “infirmity.”
So what are we supposed to do? This is kinda bad news for me. I've been pretty weak, this winter, but still felt like that God would heal me. But since my problem is chronic, God has not promised to heal. I know, 'by His stripes we are healed” but everyone is not healed.
Is there more insight that I have overlooked?
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