Objection: God Sometimes Heals Crybaby Christians Who Bug Him Enough Just As He Gave Israel a King When They Kept Bugging Him – Even Though It Wasn’t His Perfect Will

The person who came up with this one should at least get an award for creativity.  (He certainly doesn’t get one for biblical correctness.)  The premise is that sometimes it isn't God’s will to heal you because He is working something in you, teaching you something, or some other such nonsense.  God did certain things in Scripture that weren’t best for the people just because they bugged Him enough, including giving Israel a king and giving the people quail in the wilderness (which was also cited by the objector).  Therefore, the conclusion is that some “faith Christians” are such crybabies about their healing that God just gives it to them anyway, even though their Father’s perfect will was for them to be molded and shaped through their sickness experience.

I suppose if you wanted to take it one step further, you could claim that this was exactly how the Syrophoenician woman got healing for her daughter or the blind man who kept crying out got his.  (We’ll deal with them below.)

Of course, the necessary basis for this objection is that it was God’s perfect will for you to be sick, and there are other objection replies that adequately cover that false notion.  To say that you are a crybaby because you want your body healed is nothing more than reeking spiritual pride on the part of whoever says it.  The person is saying, “I’m such a mature Christian that I accept sickness and let it ransack my body without a fight.  You are a selfish immature crybaby because you want healing so much.”

If this objection is true, let’s find somewhere in the New Testament where someone got healed because of constantly pestering God.  The Syrophoenician woman did not get healing for her daughter because of her persistence alone.  Jesus told her that she had great faith just before he said, “Be it unto thee even as thou wilt.”  The key to this woman’s answered request was her faith, not her persistence.  The persistence was the result of her faith in action, not a replacement for faith.  Therefore, you cannot say that this woman received anything by persistence alone.  Also, notice that Jesus didn’t even mention God’s will – she received what she willed through faith!  (See Matthew 15:22-28.)

Where else did someone keep bugging Jesus for healing?  The blind man who cried out only needed to get Jesus’ attention for a short moment and got his healing.  He kept crying out so that Jesus would hear him as he passed by, not because he kept bugging Him.  So he isn’t any proof of this objection.

Apart from these two cases, which really don’t apply, you can’t find anyone who “bugged” Jesus for a healing and then received it.

If you look at the teaching of Jesus, you’ll find that He said not to use vain repetitions when you pray.  (He taught using faith, not bugging God.)  He warns against “bugging” God with the same thing over and over.  Why should you do it?  God is perfectly willing for you to receive the healing that His own Son paid for.  Although I heard a story once about someone who claimed she got saved because she bugged God about it enough, that is nonsense.  You don’t get saved by bugging God.  You get saved through faith.  Healing and God’s other blessings work the same way.  You believe that Christ has already made what you need available to you, and you receive it by faith when you pray.  There is no need to “bug” God.

I suppose there are people who “bug” God for healing today (because they don’t know any better) and God does heal them just because He’s merciful.  Or the other thing that can happen is that the person finally shuts up (like Job) because he’s so tired of praying and praying and praying for healing, and God finally has a chance to get through to him and minister healing.

Now consider something else.  Most people don’t want to die a miserable, painful death from cancer, or be drugged into la-la-land and be unrecognizable and unable to function while dying from cancer.  So if this objection were really true, don’t you think that people everywhere would bug God constantly until He finally relented and healed them to shut them up?  If this method of getting healed actually worked, people would do it all the time.  (It doesn’t work, by the way, as many people can attest.)  If cancer were causing YOU excruciating pain, and you knew that if you bugged God enough, He would heal you even if it wasn’t His perfect will, wouldn’t you settle for “less than God’s perfect will” if that meant an end to the suffering and a lengthening of your life?  I daresay that most people would assign a higher priority to ending their suffering than “being in God’s perfect will dying of cancer.”  The very fact that sufferers pray and ask others to pray is that they want the suffering to end.  Fortunately, God wants it to end even more than they want it to end.  But they are not in a position to receive healing by faith if they are in “Bug God Mode.”  God “sent His Word and healed them” (Psalm 107:20), so trying to get healed irrespective of God’s Word is a setup for failure.

This objection is a last-ditch effort by people who oppose healing but aren’t living in a cave and avoiding hearing any of the wonderful testimonies of miraculous healing through the name of Jesus Christ in the earth today.  They cannot deny the authenticity of the miracles, so they must “explain away” why those people got healed and yet still make it seem like God does not want to heal everyone.