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Why People Are Not Healed - And How To Prevent It
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Why People Are Not Healed - And How To Prevent It by A K
Whitehead
Why are some people not healed when we pray with them?
This is one of the most recurrent questions in the Christian
healing ministry. Everyone who has prayed with others for their
healing has experience the apparent lack of response to their
prayer. Yet the gospels lead us to believe that Jesus wishes
everyone to be healed. Why, then, are some not healed?
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In the book I wrote with my wife, "The Keys To Praying For
Healing", we discuss this at some length. There is no simple
answer to that question. A range of possible answers lies both
with the pray-er and with the prayed-for. This article briefly
considers the latter.
Investigating these sets of causes will greatly increase your
effectiveness in praying with people for healing.
1. The Cause Can Lead To The Cure This can often be
closely related to the latter point. Find out all you can about
how the condition came about. For example, were other people
involved? Are they being blamed? Is God himself held to be
blamed? The latter is not uncommon. Frequently the key to
healing lies in the cause of the complaint.
Check-out as many possible factors like these as you can. Often
time is very limited, of course. But some occasions do permit
time for more thorough investigation. This is especially so if
you hold healing sessions at home or through church facilities.
There is no need to be crude about this. Just keep such
possibilities in mind as you question the person.
2. Lack Of Belief By The Suffer While this problem is
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unexpected ones. In the former case, one might expect "marginal"
Christians to have little expectation of healing.Yet sometimes
these people are remarkably open to the healing love of Jesus.
They may seem to us to be on the fringes of Christianity, but
there are sometimes quite, at least to them, valid reasons for
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Sometimes people whom we expect to be open are not. On occasions
there are hidden reasons for this. If so, we need to try and
discover them and, in difficult cases, tease them out.
Sensitivity and a lack of judgementalism are extremely important
in ministering. People will tend to close up in the face of
crudeness and an apparent lack of real concern for them.
3. Lack Of Faith In The Pray-er This is a problem almost
always specific to lay people. It is perhaps of more concern in
some denominations than in others. The problem is that some
people can believe that God will heal, but through you ...? A
minister, perhaps, but a lay person ...?
More often than not, this is a problem with people who have
limited experience of the healing ministry. Be patient with
them. As your reputation grows, the problem will go away. In the
meantime try giving some witness to the way God has used you in
the past to bring healing to people. Yes, there is a possibility
of you sounding "big-headed", but that is a risk you have to
take. Take it gentle, trying to bring such witnessing in almost
casually, perhaps to illustrate a point or principle.
4. Unforgiveness This is probably the best known cause
for nonhealing occuring. Probably because it is at least one of
the most frequently encountered! Surprisingly, it is also one of
the most easy causes to deal with. Why?
People usually have a great instinct for self interest. If the
person has some area of unforgiveness and are reluctant to
forgive those who offended them, quote some such scripture as
Matthew 6. 14, 15 to the effect that: if you will forgive other
people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will
forgive you. But if you will not forgive others when they sin
against you, your heavenly Father will not forgive your sins.
This usually works with considerable effect. That is partly
because many people are are simply not aware of the conditions
for receiving forgiveness. That kind of ignorance is one of the
reasons why healing and teaching are complementary spiritual
gifts.
About the author:
About The Author A K Whitehead Web Site:
www.christianword.co.uk Experience: Over twenty years in
Christian healing and teaching. Qualifications: B.A., M.Phil.,
Camb Univ Cert in Religious Studies Conditions of use: This
article may be reproduced on condition that it is unaltered and
that all this information is included.
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