I'd like to hear about some actual prayer requests that have been answered the way it made sense to answer them.

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No snake oil, TV or Hollywood false prophets. Just caring people trying to help one another is my point. Finding solace and compassion with/from your fellow man beats hate and discontent, every time.
 

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Just like I thought. No explanation. No pastor I’ve sat down with (dozens) can explain it without saying the word “faith”. Blind as it may be. I lean more to verifiable things.
 

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I am sorry if you suffered a loss and feel like God or someone else let you down.
God let’s me down by not healing/allowing people to heal (“greater works than these shall you do”) he was healing blind, lame and Dead people for Pete’s sake. (John 14:12)
 

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God let’s me down by not healing/allowing people to heal (“greater works than these shall you do”) he was healing blind, lame and Dead people for Pete’s sake. (John 14:12)
I'll give you my "healing miracle"

Thanksgiving 2021 Gulf Shores, Alabama. Had a groupon for a condo so we piled in with the daughter and her in laws to just be out of the house and be thankful with family. Condo had a basketball court so I went to shoot some hoops. An hour or so later I went to the indoor pool to watch everyone swim. Apple watch starts going crazy, claiming my heart rate was 170 and hadn't decreased in ten minutes, then twenty minutes. My wife doesn't play around, so off to the emergency room we went. Nothing wrong, schedule an appointment with your primary care. Oh wow, I happen to have one of those next week... Get to the primary care, schedule a stress test for December 16th, they don't like the results, schedule the heart catheter for early January. Three blockages, 60, 70, and 90%, one of which was the Widowmaker. Dead man walking for sure. Didn't really feel anything wrong. Triple bypass Thursday, January 20th. All because of a little watch and a wife who is very cautious.

Miracles are all around you, as is healing. Faith allows you to see beyond the coincidence.
 

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Labrador —

I’m truly sorry that you prayed for loved ones’ healing, it didn’t come, and you now feel that God has let you down.

You asked for logical, tangible reasons why that’s happened in the face of God’s offered healing.

Here’s the thing: You’ve asked for a religiously logical answer to a question that has no logical answer. Those concepts (religion and logic) have a lot in common, but also material divergences.

I’d actually posit that religion allows us to keep hope when, logically, there should be none.

You can believe that your loved ones are now in God’s presence, fully healed, joyously and eagerly awaiting the time you can join them for all eternity. Or you can be bitter that God denied you the pleasure of their company here on Earth when He didn’t deliver the healing you feel they deserved.

I’m no sunshine pumper. I’ve experienced painful losses, and to this day I struggle with asking, “Why?”

Still, I hope you can find it within yourself to choose hope. Even though “hope” means you have to believe that death of the body isn’t really death of the person.

Bitterness is such a long, dark, painful, hopeless rabbit hole. And it’s a tragic waste of the time you have left on the rock.
 
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Labrador —

I’m truly sorry that you prayed for loved ones’ healing, it didn’t come, and you now feel that God has let you down.

You asked for logical, tangible reasons why that’s happened in the face of God’s offered healing.

Here’s the thing: You’ve asked for a religiously logical answer to a question that has no logical answer. Those concepts (religion and logic) have a lot in common, but also material divergences.

I’d actually posit that religion allows us to keep hope when, logically, there should be none.

You can believe that your loved ones are now in God’s presence, fully healed, joyously and eagerly awaiting the time you can join them for all eternity. Or you can be bitter that God denied you the pleasure of their company here on Earth when He didn’t deliver the healing you feel they deserved.

I’m no sunshine pumper. I’ve experienced painful losses, and to this day I struggle with asking, “Why?”

Still, I hope you can find it within yourself to go with hope. Even though “hope” means that you have to believe that death of the body isn’t really death of the person.

Bitterness is such a long, dark, painful, hopeless rabbit hole. And it’s a tragic waste of the time you have left on the rock.
Thanks 4QBC a well thought out reply is hard to come by. I don’t feel bitter, mad or upset at any God. I just know that Jesus, God whomever has NEVER done what he said he would do. So any Hope that there’s a street of gold beyond a gate of pearls floating in the sky somewhere is beyond my ability to “believe “
 

Labrador

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Thanks 4QBC a well thought out reply is hard to come by. I don’t feel bitter, mad or upset at any God. I just know that Jesus, God whomever has NEVER done what he said he would do. So any Hope that there’s a street of gold beyond a gate of pearls floating in the sky somewhere is beyond my ability to “believe “
And I’m good with that. No big deal. So we live and die and that’s it. I can handle that.
 

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