Objection: Faith Is Believing God Can Do Anything, but Trusting Him Even If He Doesn’t
This misguided definition of faith is directly contradicted by Scripture.
Hebrews 11:1:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is being sure of something you can’t see with your natural eyes. If you are “leaving it up to God,” you are not in faith because you aren’t sure there is anything to receive from God. There is no “evidence” if you think God has to decide whether to even produce what you seek. You have bought into the common “God’s sovereignty” lie that God makes decisions on an individual basis based on His sovereign and mysterious will.
It sounds humble to trust God even if He doesn’t answer your prayer, but it is actually a slap in His face to assert that He might choose to break His Word. (If your prayer is inconsistent with His Word, you had no business praying it in the first place.)
If you have a terminal illness and your prayer is, “God, I ask You to heal me, but I trust You even if You don’t,” you might as well make your funeral arrangements right now because God will not answer your unbelieving prayer. You are not actually trusting God at all because you are not trusting His Word. He says that He heals all your diseases, which includes terminal ones (Psalm 103:3). He says that Christ has already redeemed you from all illnesses, which are part of the Law’s curse (Galatians 3:13, Deuteronomy 28:61). You are praying, “God, I trust You even if You are untrustworthy and You don’t keep Your Word.” That is a self-contradictory prayer!
If you are in that position, please read what God has already done for you concerning your healing and then act and speak accordingly. You will be the next of many people spared a premature death by REALLY trusting God.
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