God/Father of Those Who Fear Him.
Lesson Eighteen: by turtle

If you have not read lesson seventeen, please do so before reading eighteen. There is a major
reason. When discussing God's divine will and healing one must look at God's will also with
emphasizes on God will as a provider. Everyone seems to have the need to understand God's
will for their life, but when life hands you sickness or disability it makes it hard to understand
why God does not heal instantly all the time. Faith healers on TV are shown as being all
powerful. Lights are flashed around as a show. I do not doubt someone can get healed at these
types of services, but a lot of times it is just an act. Whether the minister of these shows realize
it is a show, I have no clue.

Watching a crippled boy walk down the isle of the church with hope that today is his day,
breaks the hearts of many born again believers. With faith we know it is possible for healing to
take place, for God created everything, but those that understand God will at the present
maybe for a person to go through this suffering is another thing. I suffered eight long years
before I got my miracle from God, but actually my pain started over 14 years prior. Imagine
my happiness of being pain free and wanting others to have what I had, and yet not
understanding why all did not receive healing that were prayed for.

Oh how easy our minds forget it was fourteen years before i got my miracle. God moved in my
life and I was healed. We know people that suffer longer then fourteen years and we wonder
why? And not one minister seems to have the answer most need. Some will claim a lack of
faith, while others say it is because of sin. I never heard a minister talk about testing of our
faith, or God will being not right now. I was told by church people I had no faith. And in my
life I probably believed more in God then people realize. One because of the miracle of life
when I should of been dead. What I am talking about I was hit by a train. T-boned in the driver
side door. I was in the hospital a week. With miraculously with no physical trauma, except for a
few cracked ribs and bruises. I remember crying out to God. I said Lord you can stop this
train. Family often feels God literally must of wrapped his arms around me. I have no doubt
this is true, for the sweet peace of God's presents in the mist of the wreck.

I never question why me why did I get hit. I never quite got to a place of asking God to take my
pain away at that time. I think in my heart I always thought I get better and I did not in fact
things seemed to get worse for me physically.

Looking back I think I understood more then I did a few years ago about God's will. How God
wants to refresh his will in our life. He desires to know us individually. How he wants to take us
through our situation, not always halt our situation. The hope a believer has when they are not
healed instantly is the hope that one day healing will take place. Whether miraculously on earth
or when we see Jesus in heaven. In order to get through the rough times, we must come to a
stance like Paul did in his life. Know one knows what Paul's problem was. There seems to be a
lot of theories. What Paul found was God's grace despite the problem. How wonderful to
understand God's grace in life situations.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 KJV
(7)  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there
was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be
exalted above measure.
(8)  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
(9)  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
may rest upon me.
(10)  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Our ability to endure and survive through are hurts has to be founded in the grace of God.
Without struggles and difficulties we often come to a place of I can do it on my own. When life
gives lemons we often blame God, instead of looking to his comfort and love for us.  This
maybe why some feel that sin is to blame for some that do not receive their miracle. Pride and
blame being sin. But in truth it might be that but it might not be God's timing.

When miracles happen it is always for God's glory.

John 9:1-3 KJV
(1)  And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
(2)  And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he
was born blind?
(3)  Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God
should be made manifest in him.

Have you ever looked at the stories in the gospels of healing. No matter the problem or
situation God was glorified. We see the same thing happen in the old testament as well.
Naaman had leprosy. He was healed after dunking in the Jordan seven times, but with his
healing came faith in God.

We often fail to realize that faith is a big part of healing, but it is not a lack of faith necessarily,
or even an abundance of faith. It only takes a mustard seed of faith to move a mountain, but
some fail to exercise their faith. What I mean do what the Lord says to do. Naaman if he had
failed to do what the prophet told him to do, his healing would not been received. We often
want a miracle our way not God's way.

2 Kings 5:11-13 KJV
(11)  But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come
out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the
place, and recover the leper.
(12)  Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may
I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
(13)  And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had
bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he
saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

God desires us to follow his will and leading in our life not our own.

Learning to rest in God's grace, waiting on God to move and doing what God says is all apart
of walking in God's will. We must follow Jesus according to his plan for our life.