Jesus qualified His
prayer: "If it is Your
will…." Jesus did not "name it
and claim it."…...I am astonished that, in light of the clear biblical
record, anyone would have the audacity to suggest that it is wrong for the
afflicted in body or soul to couch their prayers for deliverance in terms of
"If it be Thy will…." We are
told that when affliction comes, God always wills healing, that He has nothing
to do with suffering, and that all that we must do is claim the answer we seek
by faith. We are exhorted to claim God's
yes before He speaks it.
Away with such
distortions of biblical faith! They are
conceived in the mind of the Tempter, who would seduce us into exchanging faith
for magic. No amount of pious verbiage
can transform such falsehood into sound doctrine. We must accept the fact that God sometimes
says no. Sometimes He calls us to suffer
and die even if we want to claim the contrary..
R. C. Sproul
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