[Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing

Tue Aug 13 08:57:41 UTC 2024

Tina,

I’m glad you had a good experience at church. I haven’t had anyone try to pray for my blindness to be gone in a long time either. I think that God has a purpose for our life just the way it is. As I am in my job process, I know that I will find a job soon someday that will allow me to help the blind.
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> On Aug 13, 2024, at 1:07 AM, Judy Jones via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm glad your experience was good.
> 
> Judy
> 
> “Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings.”
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-Talk <faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tina Sohl via Faith-Talk
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 7:48 PM
> To: Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Tina Sohl <tinabir80 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing
> 
> 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
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>> 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.
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>>> 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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