Denny answers:
If God wants to make a sick person better, He may answer a prayer by healing someone. If it is not His will, though, He won’t.
God’s plan is His will—what He wants to happen. God’s will always happens because He is all-powerful (1 John 5:14-15). God’s will is always best because God is all-wise and all-good. Sometimes it is God’s will to use sickness in a person’s life for a good reason. We don’t always know what God’s will for someone is.
So when we pray for a sick person, we can say, “Please make this sick person better, God, if that is Your best plan.” Whatever happens, we can thank God. Even if a Christian dies, we can thank God, because that person has gone to heaven. For those of us who trust Jesus to save us from sin, we can look forward to heaven where no one ever gets sick.
Bible Truth
- “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).
- “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).
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