No doubting

 

 

It is evident God does not answer prayers for physical. When have you experienced or observed God restoring a severed limb; an individual with stage 4 cancer that does not respond to chemotherapy? Of course he apparently does very well with the flu, sprained ankles, broken arms, cancers that are often cured. If God heals he is very selective. Luke tells the story of a woman who had been suffering for twelve years:

 

Luke 8:43-56

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.  She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. And Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" When all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!" But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me." And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace."

   

Unless James is referring only to praying for wisdom anyone who asks God for something is required to expect not hope, not sure that God can but expected.

 

James 1:5-8   

    If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

 

Could it be that God does not answer prayers due to out lack of expecting, our lack of faith? When was the last time you asked God and expected not hoped, not sure that God can but expected?