When faced with a medical situation as a believer, should you go to the doctor or just pray? If you see a doctor, does it mean that you lack faith?
Luke [Jesus’ disciple] was a physician (Colossians 4:14). Isaiah the prophet placed a lump of figs on Hezekiah’s boil and he got healed (2 Kings 20:7). God can use any method and anybody to heal you.
God uses doctors too. There are many pastors who are practicing physicians. They have faith and believe in the healing power of Jesus Christ. There are psychiatrists who are preachers and teachers of the infallible Word of God. They believe that one touch from God can turn things around. They believe that with God, all things are possible and that all power belongs to Him.
Joseph believed in God but also had physicians who served him. He “directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him” (Genesis 50:2)
Should you seek the doctor for treatment or just pray, believe and wait?
God is the ultimate healer. He is Jehovah Rapha. However, he gives strategies to doctors to apply to the cases of His children.
Prayer is extremely important but don’t close off avenues that God has orchestrated for the protection and preservation of your destiny.
I am a testimony of the healing power of medical intervention. The praise report is for another day (and if you attend one of our conferences, most likely you will hear it). To cut the story short, God used a doctor to discover something that was not visible to ordinary eyes and protected my destiny.
I know what it is like to believe for healing and still persist in one’s faith. When I talk about the power of persistent faith, it is not theory but practical experience. I am here to consistently remind you that there is a God in heaven and He will heal you through any method or means He chooses.
If you have a court case, won’t you find a lawyer and pray that he or she knows what he or she is doing and has the right expertise to help you win?
Beloved, let’s stop complicating life matters. I pray that in your decision-making that you have peace and all of us apply sanctified common sense.
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Hmmm… Interesting topic here…
If your car is damaged, do you take it to the mechanic or simply wait on God to perform a miracle?
Should we sit and expect a miracle to happen instead of seeking the help of individuals who God himself has chosen and equipped with knowledge and skills to assist is?
God created us as intelligent beings and gave us the ability to create medicines and learn how to repair our bodies. There is nothing wrong with applying this knowledge and ability towards physical healing. Doctors can be viewed as God’s gift to us, a means through which God brings healing and recovery. At the same time, our ultimate faith and trust is to be in God, not in doctors or medicine. As with all difficult decisions, we should seek God who promises to give us wisdom when we ask for it (James 1:5).
That’s true. Thank you. God bless you Betty.
Doctors treat but God heals. As you visit the Doctors, let your faith be in God.
Amen. I like that: “Doctors treat but God heals” and it is the truth. God bless you.
It will amount to ignorance of God’s gifts and their purpose if one thinks he or she can pray disease away by refusing the medical assistance of physicians and caregivers whom God may use to bring about his plan. When Naaman contracted leprosy Elijah asked him to go and take a dip seven times in the Jordan river, he considered that a child’s play and when he eventually did, he could scarcely believe what he experienced (2Kings 5:11-14). God can use anyone and any element to bring about healing in mind, soul or body. We must pray, do the needful and let God bless our efforts and desire to be healed. Prayer compliments human effort and makes it efficacious.
Thank you so much Fr. Peter. Absolutely, “God can use anyone and any element to bring about healing in mind, soul or body.”
Both! That was my instinctive reaction and I am glad your piece does not conflict with that! I remember said testimony also from the 2017 London conference!
Excellent piece that should be read not just by those facing such dilemma currently.
This is sound from Scripture.
Thank you for continuing to be a blessing Pastor Belinda!
Thank you Hannah! I appreciate your insight. God bless you my sis.