God's Healing Ways - The Christian Online Magazine

Ever wonder why bad things happen to good people? Or, why good things happen to bad?

Matthew 5:45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Or, are there are times the heavens seem so silent you wonder if God heard you at all? I certainly have.

In most cases, if we seek answers through prayer and the word, we always hear from the Father. It may not be immediate, but if we patiently seek, then wait on the Lord, the answer comes in his timing. But what about the times no answer seems to come? Silence is not always no., But if God does say no, his “no” is far better than the yes that we may have been expecting. However, it may be, “Let’s wait a while, or in my timing.”

Several years ago a Sister in Christ became ill. The Church anointed her with oil and prayed. We had special prayer services for her, yet her health continued to decline. The doctors were at a loss to find the answers to her declining health. They ran every test, tried every medication, and the Church continued to intercede for her. She continued to stand in faith for her own healing until she became weary. We sought God fervently yet she continued to lose weight and initially, the battle. After several weeks, she stepped over into eternity.

I must be honest. I was devastated. I began to question my faith. Was there an area in my own life that may have hindered our prayers? It was a time of questions and seemingly few answers for a time. I struggled with many questions, but began to seek the Lord more earnestly to find answers. Eventually, some of my questions were answered. Things were revealed through the word and ministering of the Holy Spirit. I now realize that although the answers weren’t quite what we expected, she still received eternal healing…no more pain and a perfect heavenly body.

Along with the Church, I mourned our friend but even in this time of loss, God ministered to our aching hearts and began to move in our lives as we moved forward with him in faith. We will probably not find the answers to every question until we meet him face to face. There are many things we receive only through revelation from God.

1 Corinthians 12:13 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

I have come to realize that I don’t have to know they whys of every part of life. I need only trust and obey. I have learned to let God be God, and I am to follow after him.