Healing and Personal Faith

“A week went by,” she later wrote, “then another, then another. My body still hadn’t gotten the message that I was healed. Fingers and toes still didn’t respond to the mental command. . . . ‘’You can image the questions that began popping into my mind.

Is there some sin in my life? . . . Had we done things right? . . . Did I have enough faith? Joni spent the next six years searching in the Bible for answers about divine healing, finally coming to this conclusion: “God certainly can, and sometimes does, heal people in a miraculous way today.

But the Bible does not teach that He will always heal those who come to Him in faith. He sovereignly reserves the right to heal or not to heal as He sees fit.” Joni continues, “From time to time God, in His mercy, may grant us healing from disease as a gracious glimpse, a ‘sneak preview’ of what is to come. It is my opinion that He sometimes does.

But, in view of the fact that the kingdom has not yet come in its fullness, we are not to automatically expect it.”