God’s motive for healing hasn’t changed! The primary reason God healed through Jesus prior to Pentecost was because he is a merciful, compassionate God. And the primary reason God continues to heal after Pentecost is because he is a merciful, compassionate God. God is no less merciful, no less compassionate, no less caring when it comes to the physical condition of his people after Pentecost than he was before Pentecost.
Then, apart from the most common explanation, which is that that person has un-admitted or unconfessed sin, why is it that so few people are actually healed if God’s heart for healing hasn’t changed? I sincerely doubt that so many faith-filled believers lack the faith to be healed. God’s will or desire to heal or not heal seems to be the one common denominator in whether a person is healed. If a person has no faith then of course no healing should be expected. If a person believes but also at times struggles to believe maybe perhaps they shouldn’t expect to receive. But a person who doesn’t waiver in the faith to be healed and yet isn’t… (which seems to be the experience of far too many)? “Expect” might convey the idea of certainty and wherever healing or prayer is concerned I don’t know if we can ever EXPECT any particular healing in a certain circumstance or with a certain outlook— only God determines when and how a healing happens. So how can anyone pray with any real strong faith, if the number of times or the requests that are answered are few or rarely granted? How can anyone build faith in such strong and multitudinous examples of when God DOESN’T choose to heal? This is especially problematic since JESUS (one person of the TRINITY) seems ambitious to heal, while the other two persons seem disinterested or unconcerned with it.
