"God uses sickness to teach you lessons—healing would interfere with His plan."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe this chronic pain is God's way of keeping you humble or teaching you patience. If He healed you, you might become prideful or forget to depend on Him. Suffering is producing character, and healing might short-circuit spiritual growth.
"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 10:38Source: Religious teaching that makes God the author of sickness, contradicting His nature revealed in Jesus who healed ALL who came.
You've heard Romans 5:3 about suffering producing perseverance, and sermons about Paul's thorn keeping him humble. Your condition has forced you to pray more, so maybe God is using it for good.
Invalid for thirty-eight years, waiting by a pool with no one to help him in—no faith statement, no repentance, didn't even ask Jesus for healing. Jesus IMMEDIATELY healed him with one command: 'Rise, take up your bed and walk,' proving God's nature is to heal without requiring spiritual lessons first.
I REFUSE the lie that God authors sickness to teach me lessons. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus went about healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil—sickness is oppression, not instruction from my Father. God is not glorified by my disease; He's glorified by my healing and testimony. IT IS WRITTEN in 3 John 1:2 that He wishes above all things that I prosper and be in health—HEALTH, not sickness, is His will. I am under the BARAK blessing of Abraham, redeemed from the CURSE of sickness listed in Deuteronomy 28. The cross wasn't just for sin; by His stripes I WAS healed—past tense, finished work. I am a branch connected to the Vine, and health flows through that connection as naturally as sap, not because I learned enough but because HE IS my healer.
The Father isn't withholding healing to develop your character—He's running toward you with healing in His hands, the same way He ran to the prodigal while he still smelled like pigs. Healing doesn't interrupt His plan; it REVEALS His heart, which is always good toward you.