How to receive divine healing from sicknesses

How to receive divine healing from sicknesses

Posted on November 5, 2008 Updated on November 4, 2008

SO SICK, STILL FULL OF THANKSGIVING

“Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18, NIV).

My three-year-old daughter surprised me recently. She was so sick that she could not go to school. She even vomited all the food, drink and drugs that we gave her that day. However, when I asked her to pray as she was about to sleep that night, she thanked God for every activity of the day she could remember. Amazingly, she did not remember to pray that God should heal her.

I later prayed for divine healing for her, but that prayer of thanksgiving, even when she was so sick, touched me and made me to think about my prayer life. How many times do I remember to thank God for His goodness over me when I am in distress? Prophet Habakkuk was a good example here. He was complaining about why the wicked prospered while the righteous suffered. It seemed God did not act as he had expected.

Yet he concluded his prophecy with praises of God because he knew that there was a benevolent God behind the seemingly unpleasant circumstance. He would rather rejoice in the Lord even in his precarious situation. He concluded his prophecy thus: “Though the fig-tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Saviour. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights” (Habakkuk 3:17-19, NIV).

Job, in his anguish praised God. Why? He remembered in his pains that God’s purpose is always good. Hear him, “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him…” (Job 13:15, NIV); “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God…” (Job 19:25-26, NIV); and “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10, NIV).

What are you passing through? Are you so sick, so poor, so sad, so weak, or so what? Praise the Lord! He still cares for you. The psalmist boasted: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me” (Psalm 23:4, NIV). Be full of thanksgiving in all circumstances. That is God’s will for you!

In His service,

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).
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