A blind man opened my eyes - Healing & God's Mysterious Will

I've been praying for the sick for many years and I have seen incredible miracles, some of which, if I told you, some of you may not even believe what I would have to share. But it is all to not boast in me, but in the glory of God. The fact that he has used me in any way is a miracle in itself because I am so undeserving, unworthy and weak in this journey. There's been times of incredible awe. Incredible like my mind has been blown by the father so much. And I know that that is what he continues to do. But there's also been times when I just don't understand that. I just feel despair myself when I pray for someone who I desperately want to see. Wow. Who I desperately, and am even putting my faith out there, believing with all my being that God is going to do this, that God is going to heal this child or this person coming in their faith, in their hope, and then it doesn't happen the way they expected. This moment when that happens is exactly what turns believers away from praying for the sick at all. They start out excited about the idea. They pray for a few people, and then when they hit a wall and someone doesn't get healed, they don't like that. And they turn around away from that. Because dealing with the reality of what is in our world, it is so difficult at times. What do you even say to someone like that? What do you do? Is that even gonna, like, help the gospel when you pray and someone doesn't get healed? And is this even normal that we pray and people don't get healed? Are we supposed to just see everyone get healed? Well, first off, I would like to remind you that when Christ told us to pray for the sick, he is not telling us to do something that's gonna hurt the kingdom of goddess. When we go and we put our faith and love out there for people, what we are doing is we are drawing them near to the father by coming and demonstrating to them the goodness and the mercy and grace of the father on their life, his kindness that he sees them, and their infirmity, regardless of what comes about. Also, I would like to tell you as to whether this is normal for us to not see everyone get healed. I want to read to you two. Timothy 420, where Paul writes, erastus remained at Corinth, and I laughed. Trophimus, who was ill at Miletus. Paul is someone who certainly has the gift of healing as he has prayed for. Many even raised people from the dead. And yet we see him with someone who is ill and he's leaving them behind. Why didn't Paul just heal the guy? Or what about one Timothy 523, where he says, no longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments? Couldn't Paul just pray the frequent ailments away? Why is he prescribing a little wine instead? Some who believe that the spiritual gifts, like the gift of healing, have ceased would like to say that a true gift of healing means that everyone should always get healed whenever someone of the gift of healing prays. But the reality is, is that Paul, in his prayers, not everyone, God healed whom he prayed for. Ultimately, brothers and sisters, it's important for us to recognize that the gift of healing is not a gift of immortality. Some guarantee that as long as we pray, someone who's got the gift of healing, if they pray and pray and pray, you're just going to get healed over and over and over, and you're just going basically be able to live forever in this world. I know that sounds crazy, but somehow that's what we tend to think when we think about a legitimate gift of healing. No, it is all to the will of God. It's all to what he desires to do in and through us. It is his mercy and his grace that heals and sets people free. And yes, he can give us a gift of faith. He can give us an assurance of his will in a moment to move forward and walking in the spirit and seeing great things happen. But there's also a measure of simple faith that we need to walk out where we walk in faith in the hope of things not yet seen, that someone who may be blind may see, or someone who may be deafendez may hear. I would like to share with you this story to answer, to hope, to try to answer a part, at least of the why God doesn't heal. In fact, me sitting here sharing all of this and my entire life's testimony hangs off of this reality. As a young, distracted little boy sitting in church right now, I can't remember one thing that I remember the pastor preach, or one thing that I learned from Sunday school. Not that I didn't learn anything or that they didn't preach good. But there was something that really impacted me that I will never forget. See, there was a blind member of the church who was an elder, who wore our member as a child, these big black glasses. And whenever he went up there, I remember once he spoke regarding his blindness, and he said, cover your eyes. Close your eyes. He was explaining what it's like to be blind and, you know, thinking about his blindness, you have to ask, he loves God so much, but yet why is he so passionate? Like, when I'm looking at everyone else in the church, I don't see anyone more passionate about who God is and more faithful to God as I can at least perceive. Could it be that that man's blindness opened the eyes of others? See, while he was the blind man in church full of people who could see. You know, you could argue that this blind man needed his eyes opened, but the reality is he could see, and he was opening the eyes of the blind, because I was one of the blind seated in the church who saw Christ. When he spoke of the testimony of Christ. Me sitting here now, I am someone who, my faith was built up in a massive way by someone who perhaps at one stage in their life, shook their head and wondered, God, why did you have me be blind? And yet here I am sitting here, and I have my eyes open. I was healed of my spiritual blindness. And so it is for everyone else who was touched by this man. See, sometimes we think close mindedly with a very short perspective about the suffering in this world, and we do not realize that. I mean, what if, just what if that man's blindness would cause thousands of others to see? And that man, one day he comes before the father, and now he can't see because all will be well. All will be healed. God wants you healed, and you will be healed. The question is when. And so when he is healed, standing before the father, for certain, he's not going to be wondering. He's not going to be questioning God. Why God? Why God? Why? He's going to be thanking the Lord with tears, just as I, with tears, can thank the Lord for that man's life. I can, in a strange way, and I hope to not sound selfish. In a strange way, I can thank the Lord that he was blind because. Because of his blindness, I can see. And that's what we see. Yeshua speaking in John nine two, and his disciples asked him, rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? And Jesus answered, it was not that this man sinned, not his parents, but that the works of God may be displayed in him. See suddenly that which we think and what the world thinks of as some disability, as some problem. Roger Yeshua says this right now, is something that is for the glory of God, for the works of God to be established, for people to be safe through it. Here we are, 2000 years later, reading about that man born blind, who Yeshua said was in the father's plans. And so I don't know what your ailment is. I don't know what your disability is. I don't know what you feel like you are weak in, even if it's not a disability. But consider the fact that God has a plan if he had not healed you as you requested, yet. And perhaps it's time to shift our perspectives about some of our weaknesses and some of our issues. Maybe it's not a weakness or an issue, but it's just that we haven't submitted it to God for it to become what it was intended to be from the beginning. Something that brings life and freedom to others, something that allows the works of God to be manifested and displayed in you. And so that is my request to you that keep in mind whether you are someone on the end of there's something wrong with me, and I want to be healed and God hasn't healed me yet, or whether you're someone who is praying for people and you will see some people not get healed yet. Remember that God's plan is greater, and we do not have his perspective, and it is beautiful and it is perfect. And we will praise him with tears in the coming kingdom for everything. We will praise him for what we thought was a curse. We will praise him for what we know is a blessing. We will know that these things are gifts from God. Even if right now, it's like, God, how could that be? Even if it hurts. I mean, that man, I'm sure that his life was full of trial, being blind. I can't. I cannot imagine that. I cannot imagine the difficulty. The trial, the tribulation. I cannot. I cannot pretend to, but I cannot. That there is nothing more valuable and precious than salvation. Nothing in this world compares to the precious saving power of the cross that can be empowered and made manifest and displayed in our weakness. So let him do that in and through you. Whether you are praying for someone who doesn't get healed, let his glory be displayed. Whether you are that person who doesn't get healed, let his glory be displayed.