Objection: God Works in Mysterious Ways, His Wonders to Perform.  We’ll Never Know Why God Lets Some People Stay Sick.

Proverbs 32:1-6:
For God worketh in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform, and surely cleanliness is next to godliness.
God sometimes saith Yea, sometimes Nay, and sometimes, Wait.  Verily, thou never knowest what God will do.
For into every life a little rain must fall, but this too shall pass.
Truly the dark is darkest before the dawn.
Our God is never late, but He is seldom early.
But verily, God helpeth those who help themselves.

A quick look at your Bible will confirm that these verses are all fabricated.  There is no Proverbs 32 and these verses are not in the Bible anywhere.  Yet people quote these phrases as if they were Bible verses because they haven’t actually bothered to read the Bible and see what it really says.

God’s ways are not mysterious.  If He wanted them to be mysterious, He wouldn’t have given you 66 books in the Bible to explain them to you!  His ways are higher than our ways, but He tells us what they are!

If you have been exposed to this religious “mysterious ways” junk, you will have to renew your mind with God’s thoughts on the matter.  Otherwise, you will not be able to pray in faith for your healing, because you’ll still be thinking how Aunt Sally told you that God works in mysterious ways, and that you can never figure Him out.

God is not mysterious and His ways are not secret.  Anyone can find out what they are through the Word and cooperate with them.  God’s way of healing is to give you His Word on the matter and for you to believe it.  The fact that God wants His people healthy is one of the most clearly documented facts in the Bible for those who take the time to study it.

In Psalm 103:1-5, one of God’s benefits is that he heals all your diseases.  How hard is that to understand?  In Exodus 15:26, he says that he is the Lord who heals you (or The Lord Your Physician).  How mysterious is that?  James made it clear that “any sick” among us is supposed to be healed (James 5:14-16).  You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to understand that, do you?  Jesus said that we could lay hands on the sick and that they would recover (Mark 16:18).  You would have to try hard to misinterpret that statement.

It is not God, but religious men, who make the will of God difficult to understand.  Some men have taken the simple gospel and made it seem like you need as many degrees as they have to completely understand it.  How did the common people in the New Testament get healed without any such education?  Nothing is wrong with education – get all you want!  Just don’t “educate” yourself with doctrines of men that contradict the Bible.

God explains for you why some people stay sick.  Some are under judgment because they do not judge themselves (1 Corinthians 11:27-32).  (There is a whole discussion of judgment in this book.)  Some are in unbelief.  The people at Nazareth did not receive miracles because of their unbelief.  The disciples failed to deliver a demon-possessed boy because of their unbelief.  Other hindrances, such as unforgiveness, are discussed both in the Bible and in this book.  Most people don’t know that healing is their covenant right, so they can’t act on God’s Word in faith.

You should not be quick to try to judge why someone else stays sick.  Only God really knows the person’s heart.  You can deal with the hindrances in your own life.  The reasons that people stay sick are not mysteries, but the reason that a certain person stays sick can be a mystery to you.  You can’t be sure which reason applies.  Therefore, it is true that we’ll never know why some people stay sick.  However, it is definitely not because God is “letting” them stay sick for no reason, and it is definitely not because God is just being mysterious.

Saying that God “lets” people stay sick is no more intelligent than saying that God “lets” people stay unsaved in His mysterious ways.  God “lets” you stay certain ways because He will not violate your free will.  The fact that God allows you to be sick (or unsaved for that matter) does not make it part of His mysterious will for your life.  God “lets” a lot of things happen in this world that are contrary to His will (wars, abortions, terrorist attacks, anti-healing books, etc.).  You cannot assume that just because something happens, it is the will of God.

People do not stay sick because God “lets” them stay sick.  People stay sick because they do not receive the healing that God has already provided for them in Christ.

Jesus never told anyone to stay sick because it was part of God’s mysterious will for his life.  If He never told anyone that he had to stay sick then, He will never tell anyone that he has to stay sick now.  Jesus did not “let” anyone stay sick who came to Him in faith.

Read through the list of Scriptures in both Testaments in this book.  You will discover that God’s will for your healing is no mystery at all.  He wants you to be in health!