snr5557 said:
If by healing you mean many children dead, then I guess...
This was a terrible comment to make snr5557
Try reading what Tropical says about personal experience,
You have cynical opinions and show a lack of faith in prayer and the word, but if you are a new Christian this is forgiven because you will grow in wisdom over time.
No matter the excuse you made about thinking he was talking about Kids dying because of stupid parents, if you had read and thought properly about what he was saying you would not have made that assumption.
Listen and heed what James is saying in this scripture below, try and do it without anger towards me and ignorance in your heart.
James 1:5-8
New International Version (NIV)
[SIZE=.75em]5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,[/SIZE][SIZE=.65em](A)[/SIZE] who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.[SIZE=.65em](B)[/SIZE] [SIZE=.75em]6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt,[/SIZE][SIZE=.65em](C)[/SIZE] because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. [SIZE=.75em]7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 [/SIZE]Such a person is double-minded[SIZE=.65em](D)[/SIZE] and unstable[SIZE=.65em](E)[/SIZE] in all they do.
I have a lot of personal experience with both the power of prayer and healing faith.
Its not always in Gods plan that a person lives out their years no matter their age, the healing prayer is not just for the healing of that person but for the increase of faith amongst those who reach out and pray in line with Gods will as the body of Christ.
We go to Christ in the Spirit as one people in prayer and we including the one we pray for is strengthened with or without the actual pysical healing taking place.
I had the blessing of being involved in the healing prayer of my best friend just recently, and we all felt the Holy Spirit fill his lounge room that day and we continued to prayer fervently as a family everyday leading up to his passing.
Not one of us including him lost anything by doing so. His bowel cancer was too far gone for the doctors and prayer was all we had, not one of us had any doubt that he would be healed, but in the process it was all of us being healed and our faiths strengthened through the coming together in Christs name.
My best friend died having been the one to bring us all closer to God over those long weeks and he truly blessed in the end with the ultimate reward of heaven and an end to his suffering.
Our prayers were answered and our faith strengthened.
we cannot assume we understand what those parents had to actually go through, we only hear the negative anti Christian propaganda.
If those parents are at fault then they will be dealt with by God in Gods way, its not for us to judge but God alone.
peace and Grace to you.