{"id":6982,"date":"2015-04-24T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:45:11","slug":"when-healing-doesnt-seem-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/doinglifetogether\/2015\/04\/when-healing-doesnt-seem-to-come.html","title":{"rendered":"When Healing Doesn’t Seem to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ID-10021187\"<\/a>I’m often asked on the radio if I believe that God heals. Yes, I do. I’ve seen God heal in my own life and the lives of my clients. Let’s keep in mind that God heals in many ways. Sometimes it is a supernatural touch, other times he uses doctors and therapists to facilitate healing in someone’s life. Sometimes, healing doesn’t appear to be happening at all despite our prayers. The danger is putting God in a box and insisting He only heals one way.<\/p>\n

God\u00a0can heal and transform in ways unknown to our limited understanding. While we use all the training and knowledge extracted from research and clinical practice, we recognize the supernatural realm as greater than our comprehension.\u00a0We don’t always know what God is up to and whose life is being impacted.<\/p>\n

There is hope for even the most desperate case because of Christ. Because of the abiding presence of God, the hope and future promised in Him, promised freedom from bondage and enslavement, and the radical message that, in Christ, past is not prologue to future, we can be transformed and set free.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have past away; behold all things have become new.\u201d 2 Cor. 5:17. 21 is a powerful verse about how Christ changes us when we become one of His.<\/p>\n

His transforming power lives in us and works on our behalf. The problem is, as Job discovered, we don’t always have the big picture and understand God’s ways. Scripture tells us His ways are higher than ours. So trust, then, becomes the issues.<\/p>\n

When healing doesn’t look the way we think it should, we need to trust. Trust that God has not forgotten us, that His plan for us is good, and that He has us in the palm of His hand and sees the bigger picture. Trust that He is working in the situation in ways we might not see and never understand. Our part\u00a0is to stay faithful through it all and allow God to do what only He can do.<\/p>\n

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