Why are so few healed?

[Deus_tecum]

I have had some personal healings but most are of muscular or tendon pain, and difficult to show that improvement was directly attributable to prayer. I believe it because even if it was some new stretch I learned, everything is from God. Anyway on to some notable stuff.

I have had over a month of tendonitus in a joint, and hadn’t actually prayed much about it, because I know it was from my own overuse. However I had a 9 yr old nephew staying over and I teach him about prayer, so I said sometimes we lay hands on people and pray for their healing, and asked he he would like to try. He said he would so I had him lay hands on the joint, and I had to give him words to repeat, and in this way we prayed. There was marked improvement in that joint from that point on.

Another time I was in a non denom church, one of those mega churches. I was sort of people watching during the sermon, and thinking various thoughts about various people I noticed. Now at this time I had a problem in one of my eyes where I saw a dark spot in the corner whenever I moved my eyes left and right. I had this problem for months, maybe over a year and the doctor told me it was a pulling on the retina and could become more severe(detached retina) or it could go away someday. Anyway I am people watching and listening to the sermon and I got a sudden thought “Stop judging people.” It was not a voice but it was outside of the thought pattern I was in at the time. At that moment the black spot went away and has never returned. The “beam” in my eye was removed! I am still in the process of stopping judging people, but He healed me anyways.

 

[LoveMercyGrace]

Healing was such a prominent ministry in the scriptures. There is not a single case where someone asked Jesus for healing and He refused. He imparted the gift of healing onto his disciples and whoever they laid hands on was healed, so what ever happened to the healing ministry? In scripture, all the sick were healed instantly, not over time, not by medicine, but by miracles. What has happened to this healing ministry? Is it because there is no faith?

Jesus says to imitate Him. He says “You will do greater things than these.” Jesus led the way and performed miracles, His apostles performed miracles, so where are the miracle?

Luke 17:4-6
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ [a]forgive him.”

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 And the Lord said, “If you **had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would [c]obey you.

Maybe it is our unforgiveness of offenses- that do come often- that contribute in prevent us from receiving the Holy Spirit to the level we could have.

I think of healing miracles to include physical, mind, and spirit. Does OP mean within the church congregations?
there is Life in the Spirit seminars. I randomly selected this site
from a google search sfspirit.com/ a life-in-the-spirit-seminar. but looks like they are in many places.**

 

[ezyM]

Well, let’s see. When Jesus healed, everyone saw Him and everyone that was healed, was healed because of their faith. I don’t think that those healed only believed in Jesus having the power to heal, but they also believed in who He was and who He is.

Jesus’ mission was a mission of healing where the most important healing occurred on the cross, healing of our relationship with God, as evident in the tearing of the veil in the temple after His death.

You can argue the fact, and every Catholic should, that Jesus still “walks” amongst us in the Eucharist just as He did back then, but I believe that the difference is our faith. Many don’t believe that it is Jesus Christ fully present in the Eucharist. So how do we expect to see His glory if we do not believe?

In Hebrews we are told that without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11,6)

And if we cannot please God, how do we expect to receive His blessings? How can we expect to see His Glory?

This goes hand in hand with the way we pray because James tells us that a person that prays without faith and doubts (or maybe even has enough faith initially, but is then discouraged because the healing did not happen in a timely manner and begins to doubt) then he/she should not expect anything from God. (James 1, 6-7)

A charismatic priest once broke it down like this, he said that there were two types of healing. Healing through science (medicine) and Miracles and as a poster mentioned before, medicine is a grace of God.

In our society, it is easy to feel ill and go to the doctor’s right away because it is accessible. Many lose their dependence on God because of this and therefore they limit their faith. They don’t work their faith because they don’t have a need. In other words, they don’t allow God to be God in their lives.

But this is a totally different story in poorer countries. If they have a headache and since they cannot afford an aspirin, who do they turn to? God. Just like Adam and Eve, they only depended on God and God provided for their needs without Adam and Eve even asking. Adam never asked for Eve, instead God decided that it would be good for Adam to have a partner.

An international preacher by the name of Neil Velez taught me this at a “Faith Experience” retreat and it just made so much sense.

There are many miracles happening today, I am a witness of God glorifying himself through the healing of cancer patients, not to mention my wife.

Her grandmother passed away with breast cancer in her 30s and being that this can be hereditary, my wife developed sever lumps on both her breasts. Her doctor examined her and ordered her to take some tests. We prayed and confided in God. The day of her mammogram and ultrasound, a beautiful miracle happened, all lumps disappeared.

Glory to God! Our prayers were heard!

 

[fred_conty]

I am aware of Lourdes and thank you for sharing about the priest and brother. I am forever grateful for their presence but why are there so few healers. I know it is not because God’s desire to heal is lacking.

In response to why not more healings, I believe they are going on everyday but that we just don’t hear about them. Prayers are answered but people are timid about saying anything about them for fear of being rejected or being called a religious fanatic.

And also we don’t have the technical means of proving they are miracles even tho they are or very strongly imply it. I had a couple who couldn’t have children put a green scapular under their pillow. Within a few short weeks the wife became pregnant after years of futile attempts. Can we prove that that was a miracle or a divine intervention? Not scientifically, but it sure does seem that way because 2 + 2 still = 4.

People don’t talk about their private miracles but they go on.

Just a thought.​

“God is my shepherd, so nothing shall I want…” (hymn)

 

[Aussieman88]

We are the original church, so the devil and his party would be spending the majority of their resources on fooling us. Each and every one of us. Perhaps that’s why we are a relatively powerless church with not many being used for miracles like the old testament days.

 

[ready]

Healing was such a prominent ministry in the scriptures. There is not a single case where someone asked Jesus for healing and He refused. He imparted the gift of healing onto his disciples and whoever they laid hands on was healed, so what ever happened to the healing ministry? In scripture, all the sick were healed instantly, not over time, not by medicine, but by miracles. What has happened to this healing ministry? Is it because there is no faith?

Jesus says to imitate Him. He says “You will do greater things than these.” Jesus led the way and performed miracles, His apostles performed miracles, so where are the miracle?

I believe that the problem lies in the lack of faith of men. God bless you.

 

[Lady_Love]

After I posted this thread, I went to read scripture. I just opened it up and came upon a scripture where God is addressing one of His prophets (I can’t remember who, I think it was Jeremiah) and He said, "I want you to be my prophet. But the man said, "Who am I? I am so young. Then God said, “Do not say, “I am so young.” I will give you what to say.” (Paraphrased). The next morning, I went to Mass and while I was receiving Jesus in Eucharist I prayed, “Jesus, today, let me heal who you want to heal, listen to who you want me to listen to, speak what you want to say, let me be Your Presence in the world today.”

So that night I went to a prayer group and a man opened up and shared his inner pain and how he longed to know the Holy Spirit intimately. I jumped up and asked him if I could pray over him. He said, “Yes.” So I laid my hands on his right shoulder, closed my eyes, asked the Holy Spirit to enter into his heart, deep into every fiber of his being and to heal him and whatever else I was inspired to say. He exclaimed, while I had my hands on his shoulder, that it felt like fire was issuing forth from them. When I completed the prayer, the whole room was saying how filled the room was with the Holy Spirit, some were in tears. I myself did not feel the fire that he felt, but he proclaimed after I finished the prayer, that he felt so “light” and kept repeating how good he felt.

Praise God! He heals! I love Him so much!

 

[soroman]

Healing was such a prominent ministry in the scriptures. There is not a single case where someone asked Jesus for healing and He refused. He imparted the gift of healing onto his disciples and whoever they laid hands on was healed, so what ever happened to the healing ministry? In scripture, all the sick were healed instantly, not over time, not by medicine, but by miracles. What has happened to this healing ministry? Is it because there is no faith?

Jesus says to imitate Him. He says “You will do greater things than these.” Jesus led the way and performed miracles, His apostles performed miracles, so where are the miracle?

**The absence of healing is absence of faith and justice. I mean you have Catholics, way over 50%: ** divorced, engaged is some premarital sexual activities, using contraceptives, supporting Marxist culture, materialism, sins against faith, hope and charity, immodesty, believe abortion is acceptable, dissent on the Real Pressence of Christ in the Eucharist …etc. These were all mortal sins 50 yrs. ago, today no.
So do you think God is obliged to show these rebels love and obedience to their prayers while they don’t love and obey God?
And I am not even talking about pagans.

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[Pitcharan]

Healing was such a prominent ministry in the scriptures. There is not a single case where someone asked Jesus for healing and He refused. He imparted the gift of healing onto his disciples and whoever they laid hands on was healed, so what ever happened to the healing ministry? In scripture, all the sick were healed instantly, not over time, not by medicine, but by miracles. What has happened to this healing ministry? Is it because there is no faith?

Jesus says to imitate Him. He says “You will do greater things than these.” Jesus led the way and performed miracles, His apostles performed miracles, so where are the miracle?

The much hyped, crowd-pulling gatherings for healing may be viewed with skepticism by most of us. Yet, there is also a lot of true healing happening all over the world. To cite some examples:

1. When I was in Jamshedpur sometime in 1996, Mother Teresa was in town as the Chief Guest of a corporate function. She used the opportunity to visit one of her homes and as she went around, her nuns told her about an elderly colleague who was very sick. Mother Teresa merely stood and looked towards the room where her sick nun was lying but did not go and see her or talk to her. The same evening the ailing nun recovered miraculously and amazed the entire catholic community.
2. In May, last year my Parish Priest called me over phone and told me to assist the nuns of a nearby convent (FSM) who were struggling to help a hapless lady and her children who were victims of brutality of their violent alcoholic husband / father. I went after some hesitation along with another Parishner for support. The man and his wife were already there and all our efforts to put sense into the couple was of no avail and the both simply traded charges against each other. Though the woman with her visible injuries appeared the more wronged, we took no sides. Finally one of the elderly nuns asked me to say a prayer. I recited the Memorare and then we came out, leaving the couple alone in the hall. After about 5 minutes, the two came out hand in hand and promised to lead a life of love and peace. A week later the man volunteered and went through a program for de-addiction / rehabilitation. Now they are leading a normal life after over a decade of strife torn, violent life.