"God gave me this sickness to teach me something I needed to learn."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe God is trying to get my attention through this illness. Maybe if I was a better Christian, I'd understand what He's trying to teach me. I guess I have to stay sick until I figure out the lesson.
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him."
-- Acts 10:38Religion taught that God uses disease as a classroom, making the Father into a cruel teacher who inflicts pain to educate.
Adults keep saying 'everything happens for a reason' and 'God is trying to teach you something,' so it must be true. When prayers don't seem to work immediately, it feels like God is withholding healing until the lesson is learned.
She had a high fever and Jesus rebuked it like He rebuked demons - it LEFT her immediately. Jesus treated sickness as an ENEMY to destroy, not a teacher to tolerate, and she got up INSTANTLY and served them.
I REFUSE the lie that God authors sickness to teach me! IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus healed ALL oppressed by the devil - sickness is oppression, NOT education! My Father runs toward me with healing, not away from me with lessons through pain. IT IS WRITTEN in Acts 10:38 that God anointed Jesus to HEAL, not to afflict! I am Abraham's seed, heir according to the promise, and the BARAK blessing is health and life! The same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in me RIGHT NOW!
Your Father isn't hiding lessons in your pain - He's revealing His NATURE through healing power available RIGHT NOW. He's running toward you with the ring of authority to command sickness to LEAVE, just like Jesus did!