God's Healing

 

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Confess your trespasses to one another,

and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much

James 5:16 (NKJV)

I received a telephone call from a dear friend this week. Sometime ago, she had asked me to pray for a then-13-year-old boy who had cancer. I had recently asked her about how he was doing. She told me that he was 'doing better'. He had asked for a pony. His family purchased one for him and he enjoyed riding it.

Earlier in the day that she called me, she had met with some former neighbors who stay in touch with each other. One of those former neighbors is related to this young boy. My friend asked how he was doing. The woman responded, “He's cancer-free!”

My friend told her that I had been praying for him and had inquired about him recently. The answer my friend received was: “Prayers helped heal him.”

This set me to thinking. We seek cures for illnesses; should we not seek God's healing for these many conditions that seem to plague us?

Hearing of this woman's response has given me a new way to pray for a person who is seriously ill.

There are many ways healing can come about. A person can be healed and remain with his or her family. Another way is that God sees that the individual can't be healed while here on earth and He chooses to take that person home to be healed by Him in heaven.

I had a Sunday school teacher tell her class that, “God's healing is the best healing.”