"I have to accept this as my thorn in the flesh that won't be removed."
How it sounds in your head: Paul prayed three times and God said no. Maybe this is your thorn—something God allows to keep you dependent on Him. Maybe healing isn't for everyone. Maybe your disability is permanent by divine design.
"Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed."
-- 1 Peter 2:24Religious misinterpretation of 2 Corinthians 12—twisting Paul's unspecified thorn into permission for permanent affliction and unanswered prayer.
You've prayed repeatedly, maybe for years, and nothing changed. The 'thorn in the flesh' theology gives spiritual justification for unanswered prayer and makes resignation seem like faith.
Disabled eighteen years, could not straighten herself at all. Religious leaders said she should wait until after the Sabbath for healing. Jesus called her forward IMMEDIATELY, laid hands on her, and she was made straight INSTANTLY—on the Sabbath, to the fury of religion.
I REFUSE the lie that my disability is a permanent thorn I must accept. IT IS WRITTEN that by His stripes I WAS healed—past tense, finished work at the cross. Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. What He bore, I don't carry. Paul's thorn was opposition, not sickness—Jesus healed EVERYONE who came to Him. IT IS WRITTEN that the prayer of faith will save the sick. I am redeemed from the curse of the law, which includes sickness. The BARAK blessing is health and wholeness, blessed in my body.
The Father isn't saying 'no' to your healing—He already said 'YES' at the cross where Jesus bore your infirmities. Like the woman bent over for eighteen years, religion says 'wait,' but Jesus says 'come NOW and be made whole.'