We Pray But We Belittle God
We have "faith" in the God we don't trust and whom we belittle, without realizing it. We "believe" and pray but we doubt he'd really do it---or at least we wonder and hope (or wish?) he woud. We provide back up with our standby plans B and C in case his provisions are delayed or "misses" our urgency or expectations for some reason. Or in case he says no. And this is how our faith actually has zero trust and belittles him. It's ingrained in our mindsets that his work needs a little help from us. What many Christians call, "Nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa."
Yes, back in the recesses of our minds is that idea roaming around---that God sometimes "misses" the urgency, the immediacy, the moment of need. His answers are nowhere during the pressing need, at the exact time we think his provisions must come. We know he is perfect and all powerful, but somehow emergencies and misfortunes slip from his supervision, or something like that.
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We won't admit it but thoughts like that roam in our subconscious. We try to cover them up with passages like, "all things work together for good," and they really do. The problem is, we use this passage to explain away God's seeming inaction. Or, we craft a spiritual sounding saying like, "God will not give us what we don't need or something that is bad for us."
And the problem all lies with our prayer, not God. First, our prayers are mostly religious recitations made to sound spiritual with well selected, poetic words, plus a holy expression and a modulated voice. We make sure people around us will be blessed by the prayer, making it more powerless. Second, we don't really believe God will do what we ask of him, especially if it's about the impossible. If we ask for healing for a dying patient, we expect the patient to get worse or die than to actually get supernatural, quick, and dramatic healing the way we see it in the bible.
I've heard pastors say we need to be "realistic" about healing. Yes, we believe God heals, but it's too much to expect God to actually put life in a frail, dying body. Even God is realistic. We shouldn't put God to the test. It sounds like sound doctrine. The problem is, Jesus never did or taught anything like that.
So what do we do? Because of our unbelief, we put a safety net in our prayer, our Plan B. We say, "If it is your will and pleasure, O loving and merciful God, heal this person." It's our strategy of preventing God and ourselves suffer shame in case the patient dies despite our bold prayer for healing. So we never make bold prayers or declarations of healing. We play it safe.
But here's another problem. If it's God's will? Jesus demonstrated countless times in the Gospel that supernatural and instant healing is God's will. It's useless to say "if it's God's will," when everywhere in Scripture God already made it so plain. Constant asking is already unbelief.
Matthew 8.2-3: "Lord," the man said, "if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean." Jesus reached out and touched him. "I am willing," he said. "Be healed!" And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
That Word is for all time, for the Word of God is eternal [Psalm 119.89]. God is always willing. He will heal supernaturally and instantly anyone, except when the appointed time of your death comes. And that death will either be due to old age or persecution, not illness or accident. Believers die of illnesses or accidents because of prayers that do not radically believe God will do it, prayers that are more religious flowery speeches than person-to-person, relational conversations with God or a genuine declaration of faith. Jesus said, according to your faith it will be done to you [Matthew 9.29]. "For everyone who asks receives," [Matthew 7.8]. Sadly, most "faiths" cannot believe genuine miracles happening right now issued from the prayer of your mouth and your bold declaration.
John 14.13-14: "And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
Genuine healing prayer decides what happens in a situation, talks about it to God, and declares with the mouth God's Word on it. Jesus repeatedly said, "Your faith has healed you," because God allows us the privilege to decide what we want to happen to our health or other people's health condition. And he will do it the way we want it and the way we declare it.
Mark 10.51: “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.” 52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
If we pray any other way other than how Jesus tells us to pray, our prayers are really expressions of doubt and insults God because we belittle what His awesone power can do.
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