Objection: We Should Pray, “If It Be Thy Will” Concerning Our Healing
Believers are nowhere instructed to pray this faithless phrase regarding their healing. The only time Jesus prayed this way was when he was facing His imminent crucifixion. He was not using this phrase to pray for healing. He was consecrating himself to the will of God even though it was not what His body wanted to go through.
There is a time and a place for believers to pray, “If it be Thy will,” and it is when they are consecrating themselves to God’s service as Jesus was.
However, Jesus gave explicit instructions about how to receive things from God by faith, and praying this phrase is definitely not part of the program!
This phrase has a nice religious ring of humility to it, yet it is actually an unwitting slap in God’s face. To pray, “If it be Thy will” concerning healing is to express either ignorance or unbelief of God’s clear statements on the subject. There is nothing humble about that.
Study God’s Word concerning healing (which this book will help you do), and you will conclude that it IS God’s will to heal you IN EVERY INSTANCE. Then you won’t use the phrase, “If it be Thy will” because you’ll KNOW that God's will is for you to be healed!
Jesus and the Bible writers NEVER taught that you should ask for something IF it be God’s will, and what they actually DID tell you to do might shock you – they told you to pray according to YOUR will after you’ve acquainted yourself with the Word so that you aren’t asking amiss or selfishly!
Jesus said that if you abide in Him and His words abide in you (those are prerequisites to this) that you would ask what YOU will and it would be done for you (John 15:7).
Jesus told the Syrophoenician woman with the demonized daughter in Matthew 15:22-28, “Be it to you even as YOU will.”
God even challenged Old Testament people, “Concerning the works of My hands YOU command ME” (Isaiah 45:11)! While this clearly did not establish a new pecking order where someone else was the new Supreme Being in the universe and God reported to him, it does show the freedom that He gave to be bold with Him in prayer. Under the New Covenant where all your needs are met, you do not have to command God to do anything to meet your needs; you just need to believe Him and receive what you need by faith out of what He has already provided.
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