[Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing

Tue Aug 13 02:47:56 UTC 2024

So we went to the new campus for us this weekend our churches main campus.
I was talking with the gentleman to my left and Tony was to my right and
the gentleman introduced himself to us and asked us if he could pray for
us. My first thought was oh here we go again. But it wasn't for praying for
healing from blindness, it was just praying for everything to go well for
us. So I thought that was nice and it was a relief to not have it be
related to our blindness as my feeling is God has a purpose for our lives
as they are. And people need to learn to accept us as we are and that we
are real whole people not not broken people leading terrible lives or that
kind of thing. When I guess I'm trying to say is it's not terrible to be
blind like everyone thinks it is. But it was nice that he did not pray that
prayer and just prayed for good things for us so that was nice because like
some of you I've had plenty of people in my life pray that my blindness is
gone in fact when I was little and live with my grandma, she took me to see
someone who supposedly could heal people from from blindness and other
things and he pressed on one of my eyes and I don't remember what he said
but we were leaving and I asked her what was to my left and she asked if I
could see it. I couldn't but I could hear it and she told me what it was.
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 5:49 PM Deborah via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I have not had anyone try to pray for me to be healed of blindness for a
> long time, thank God. One of the worst incidents I had was several years
> ago at my congregation. A man came up and told me he was a really good
> friend of Rabbi Joe and Carole (it turned out that he was not). I attend a
> Messianic Jewish congregation. I was waiting for my ride home and the man
> wanted to pray for me; I told him I didn't want to pray for healing of
> blindness, but that he could pray for my husband's salvation and that of
> other people in my family. He didn't do that, but told me I was not whole
> or something like that. I told him everyone has something about them that's
> not perfect. I also told him that my identity was NOT in seeing but in the
> Lord, that I had never seen and was not missing anything—that I kind of
> like not depending on light and being able to read all the time without
> light. He got mad and said, "Okay, you can be blind all you want to."
> Needless to say, I was GLAD when my ride showed up. I told Rabbi Joe about
> this and he said that guy was not a good friend of his and that what he
> said was wrong. We never saw him again.
>
> I know God can do ANYTHING, but I feel that if He wanted me to see, He
> would give me that desire, which I don't have. I would rather have prayer
> for things that are so much more important and relevnt to me than seeing,
> especially for salvation for all the people I know that don't yet know
> Yeshua (Jesus)!!
>
> Deborah
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlene Ota via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 01:11 PM
> To: "'Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion'" <
> faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> CC: caota4 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing
>
> I had someone in the church tell me I wasn't healed because I had hidden
> sin.  I only share this because the person eventually came back to me and
> apologized after reading his Bible more carefully.  It's also frustrating
> when you go up for prayer for something and people just assume you want
> prayer to get your sight and won't pay any attention.  Fortunately, I
> haven't had much of that kind of thing for quite a while.
> Charlene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-Talk <faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Mark H via
> Faith-Talk
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 6:13 PM
> To: Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion <
> faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Mark H <mark.h1956 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing
> Great story Linda. I also have a so-called friend telling me the reason I
> wasn't healed was because I didn't have enough faith.
> Sent from my iPhone
> > On Aug 12, 2024, at 4:59 PM, andrew edgcumbe via Faith-Talk <
> faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi  one of my experiences with healing is i was at my mom and dad's
> > camp they owned and opporated a bible camp used to that is.
> > Anyway back to the topic at hand I was approached at least once
> > inparticular that is but 4 guys got around me praying my blindness out
> > of me. They were very persistant about it.
> > Also they just got whatever about it one guy stayed with me after that
> > and went right in my face he told me this much seek your healing and
> > there was a time I actually did call up a few healing ministries one
> > sent me a healing cloth i put it near my eyes once and then thought
> > better it and i said to myself i am tossing that peace of garbage out.
> >
> > The other part about praying for healing is that There was one guy i
> > used to talk to for most of the time for some years maybe year or
> > couple years and this was during that time that i was investagating it
> > more fully.
> > He praid at the end of each o phone call with me and guess what he
> > would pray for my healing and then he said can you see yet do you
> > notice anythig anything different.
> >
> > So that is my experience.
> > The bible never tells us we will be fully be heald on earth
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM Linda Mentink via Faith-Talk <
> >> faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi again Humberto and All,
> >>
> >> I have a story to share from a long ago. I went to a Full Gospel
> >> Businessmen's meeting, or something like that. A gentleman came up to
> >> talk to me. He told me that God doesn't want me to be blind. I said,
> >> "If God didn't want me to be blind, I wouldn't be. He has given me a
> >> ministry in music which I might not have if it weren't for my
> >> blindness. Besides, don't try to take away my excitement about the
> >> first face I see in heaven being that of Jesus Christ." He said, "But
> >> just think how much your ministrn would be enhanced if you got your
> >> sight back!" I don't remember what I said, but what I thought was,
> >> "No, what you're really saying is that your ministry would be
> >> enhanced if you healed me!" I'm sure it's a good thing I didn't say
> that!
> >>
> >> The Holy Bible does not say that all will be healed. We will have
> >> suffering and disease here on earth because of sin in the world, but
> >> we will all be made whole when Christ takes us to Himself in heaven
> >> and places us in the mansions He is now preparing for His own.
> >>
> >> I have a blind friend who was prayed for, and was told that he wasn't
> >> healed because he didn't have enough faith. It messed him up so badly
> >> that he wanted nothing to do with God. He now is one of His faithful
> servants!
> >>
> >> OK, enough out of me for now. I need to get back to proofreading so
> >> that I can get it done before I leave for Wisconsin. I'm proofing
> >> sermons ahead because I will have limited access to the internet.
> >>
> >> Blessings to you all, and thanks for reading, if you did!
> >>
> >> Linda
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