Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching…, proclaiming…,
and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Matthew 4:23.

How does healing occur? First, we must affirm that all
healing comes from God! He may heal through doctors, through
drugs, through the removal of stress factors, through prayer
- either miraculously and instantaneously or more slowly,
through death (the perfect healing) or through resurrection.

Doctors don’t cure patients – God does. They simply help
remove the cause of the illness, and allow the Creator’s
healing processes to do their work. As an eminent doctor put
it, ‘I dressed his wound, but God healed him’.

It is a mistake, therefore, for a Christian to choose only
one method of healing. Here we use both faith and works – we
pray, and go to the doctor, in most instances. And doctors
should pray, too!

A footnote: I haven’t heard of any instance where God chose
to replace a missing limb (lost in an accident for example).
Nor do I know of any ‘instant’ healing of deep emotional
trauma. God heals, sometimes, more slowly and surely.

Today, Lord, I pray for doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and
other counselors, paramedics… particularly those known to
me. Amen.

Date sent:              Mon, 14 Dec 1998 20:11:29 -0500
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Subject:                Re: CLM 744 Healing is God's Work

My thought on this….

>A footnote: I haven’t heard of any instance where God chose
>to replace a missing limb (lost in an accident for example).
>Nor do I know of any ‘instant’ healing of deep emotional
>trauma. God heals, sometimes, more slowly and surely.

I think your footnote was meant to caution some people from praying for
a healing that can’t be had….but it is a cure that they are asking for
that can’t always be had….the healing is always available.

It is my thought that healing, like prayer, happens instantly. However
it often takes us a very long time to become conscious of it. Until our
consciousness is changed, we live according to our previously conscious
state.

Healing comes, in my estimate, when we align our will with God’s.

And then there is this difference between healing and curing. A person
can be healed and still die…the healing has nothing to do with being
cured. Since we all will bodily die, there are limits to how much we can
be cured from our illnesses, but a healing is someting else….it
transcends health and life….Curing is something scientific and has
application upon the body only…not the spirit or the will to live or
the soul or the ability to receive healing. Some doctors are aware of
this and some are not.

Even Lazarus eventually died…but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t
healed…and rather quickly too.

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