Things the New Testament DOES NOT SAY About Healing

You will not find any of the following in the New Testament.  I dare you to look for yourself and try to prove me wrong.

1.   A case where God gave a believer a sickness to teach him a spiritual lesson.

2.   A case where God gave a believer a sickness to build character, endurance or patience in him.

3.   A case where God refused to heal someone who came to Him for healing.  (See the section on Paul’s Thorn if you have been fed the lie that it was a sickness that God would not heal.)

4.   A case where God said WAIT instead of YES in response to a request for healing.

5.   A case where God told an elderly person that he had to get sick in order to die at the appropriate time from his “final illness.”

6.   A case where sickness is referred to as a “blessing in disguise,” a “friend,” or something good.

7.   A case where God wanted someone to stay sick because in His “sovereignty” He had a secret reason for it.

8.   The phrase, “You never know what God’s gonna do” or anything remotely similar.  (You can know through His Word exactly what He will do when it comes to healing!)

9.   A case where the Lord used sickness as the means to “take someone home” at the end of his race.

10.  A case where the Lord killed someone so that others could get saved at his funeral.

11.  A case where Jesus only partially healed someone because He knew that if He did it completely right away, the person would backslide.

12.  A case where Jesus didn’t heal someone so that the person would be empathetic when encountering others with the same condition in the future.

13.  A case where Jesus wanted someone to be sick so that he could witness to the person next to him at the Pool of Bethesda.

14.  A case where Jesus denied healing to someone because God’s path for that person’s healing was supposed to be through doctors.

15.   A case where Jesus told a sick person to seek God about the benefits He is working in his life by “allowing” the sickness.

Given that none of these things is in the New Testament, isn’t it strange that they are preached as gospel in so many churches today?