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PNEUMA
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Who decided that she should get healed ? the women herself or God ?
Do you now understand how it works ?
If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed (Mark 5:28)
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Do you now understand how it works ?
If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed (Mark 5:28)
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ezeekl
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Better than you think! She would have received no healing if God did not will it. In other words, her faith was not a trip wire for God to heal her. God is not on automatic pilot so that if you have enough faith God is forced to act. Myriads of people have endured physical suffering unto death with unwavering faith. The difference between them and you is that they received their reward in the hereafter while you want it here and now. Even Jesus said, “Not my will but Thy will be done.”
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glendab
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Hello Pneuma.
No, you aren’t Catholic and your subtle ways are obvious. That is fine. That works for you. But be more careful. Some of us are sensitive to the intimation that we lack “true faith” because we aren’t healed or witness to “miracles” of healing. My faith in Jesus Christ is fine and I’m still disabled.
I believe all that the Holy Catholic Church believes and teaches because God has revealed it Who can neither deceive nor be deceived. And God doesn’t ask more than that from me. Even if I were to hear of a miraculous healing say, another in the list of hundreds of healings from Lourdes, it isn’t required of me by God. I am not required by God to believe with unerring faith all the accounts of the miraculous today that occur. There **ARE **miracles of healing today. I am tracking those of Saint John Paul II personally. But my faith as is expected of me by God and upon which I will be judged by Him doesn’t include belief in all things deemed miracles by the Church. Knowing this frees me from the wedge that some folks try to place between my Catholic practice and their need for “miracles” every day done by their preachers or pastors before they will follow them as is common in the Bible Belt by asking us to prove our Church by demonstrations of things “miraculous”. I lived down south for long enough to have heard and experienced those types of worship services although I never went to any. There was talk of the latest “healing” among the employees at my husband’s plant. I politely declined their invitations to their services. There were even folks who regularly brought a bag of snakes into the church so others could witness the “elders” handle them “proving” they had the “true religion.”
Ummmmmm…NOT exactly what I need from my God these days.
Glenda
Honestly, you’re beginning to sound like an advertisement for a “faith healer.” I’m a little more alert to such intimations because I’m disabled. I “tune-in” what others tune out because of my sensitivity to things of “healing” nature that some folks with their good intentions attempt to get me to try.
No, you aren’t Catholic and your subtle ways are obvious. That is fine. That works for you. But be more careful. Some of us are sensitive to the intimation that we lack “true faith” because we aren’t healed or witness to “miracles” of healing. My faith in Jesus Christ is fine and I’m still disabled.
I believe all that the Holy Catholic Church believes and teaches because God has revealed it Who can neither deceive nor be deceived. And God doesn’t ask more than that from me. Even if I were to hear of a miraculous healing say, another in the list of hundreds of healings from Lourdes, it isn’t required of me by God. I am not required by God to believe with unerring faith all the accounts of the miraculous today that occur. There **ARE **miracles of healing today. I am tracking those of Saint John Paul II personally. But my faith as is expected of me by God and upon which I will be judged by Him doesn’t include belief in all things deemed miracles by the Church. Knowing this frees me from the wedge that some folks try to place between my Catholic practice and their need for “miracles” every day done by their preachers or pastors before they will follow them as is common in the Bible Belt by asking us to prove our Church by demonstrations of things “miraculous”. I lived down south for long enough to have heard and experienced those types of worship services although I never went to any. There was talk of the latest “healing” among the employees at my husband’s plant. I politely declined their invitations to their services. There were even folks who regularly brought a bag of snakes into the church so others could witness the “elders” handle them “proving” they had the “true religion.”
Ummmmmm…NOT exactly what I need from my God these days.Glenda
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