the agony of defeat AND the thrill of victory
One thing about praying for the sick, is that we don’t always get the results we are intending. There is a mystery here and more often than not (actually almost all the time) we don’t know WHY something doesn’t happen. Irresponsible theologians and pastors will often give their “opinions” (I.e “It wasn’t God’s will”, “there was sin or unbelief”, etc. etc.), but the fact is, they do not know and simply cannot know unless God reveals it. I had a situation the other day where I prayed for both a muslim man and a Christian woman and neither of them were healed. I had prayed for people in their shop before and I was asked to pray by both of them based on healings that had happened before. I was actually really encouraged that the power of former testimonies was fueling the requests for further prayer. I hadn’t seen them in a year. Anyway, after multiple attempts (I prayed 4 or 5 times for the muslim and and close to that many times for the Christian) nothing happened. Eve