[Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing

[Doug Lee]

I've been quiet amid all the writing this weekend and start of week mostly because I'm spending a lot of
time helping a friend with ALS communicate, but I'll sneak in my favorite story on this subject and then I
have a question about your signature block - question, that is, and perhaps a little fascination. :)

So I did a lot of traveling for work for several years recently, and on one occasion when I had a snappy
plane transfer and was running late getting in, I chanced to encounter a guy on the way out of my arrival
gate who wanted to stop and pray over me. I made a deal: We can pray together but while zipping down moving
sidewalks and such so I would still be on time. He agreed, and of course proceeded to pray for the healing
of my blindness. I then took my turn and prayed that God might help us see clearly what we are to do,
regardless of circumstance. I don't remember either of our words well enough to type a quote, but I do
recall that my final "Amen" coincided neatly with our sailing off the end of the last walkway and into my
next gate, and that the plane was boarding at that instant, and that I went right on sailing aboard without
a stop.

Now the question: "Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem" translates via Google to "Goodness is not the
best of the worst." To avoid the indiscretion of sending a private message before you know me... Do you have
a better rendition of that one? Latin always fascinated me a bit but I never properly learned it.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 07:55:42AM -0400, Misty Kienzynski via Faith-Talk wrote:
I was once standing right outside a store and some rando came up to my mom and me and started praying for my healing right there.

It made my mom cry (because she still blamed herself irrationally for her genetics) and made me feel just plain nervously awkward.

Real spiritual and other violation of my/our time/space right there, IMO.

I mean, I’m perfectly fine with others praying for my healing. It’s just that…there’s a time and place…and there’s also consent..and there’s also seeing the whole person and not just the blindness all the time..so…
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Misty, who believes that bad theology can irreparably harm



Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem. — L. Annaeus Seneca


> On Aug 12, 2024, at 5:58 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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