"My disability is God's will for my life; asking for healing shows lack of faith in His plan."
How it sounds in your head: Maybe this is your 'thorn in the flesh.' Maybe God has a purpose in your suffering and you're supposed to accept it, not fight it. Asking for healing might mean you don't trust His sovereignty. Good Christians submit to God's will—even if it means permanent disability.
"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers."
-- 3 John 1:2Religious misinterpretation of Paul's thorn and theology that makes God the author of sickness rather than Healer.
She's heard sermons on Paul's thorn. Christians have told her, 'Maybe God is using this to keep you humble' or 'to teach you dependence.' The idea that wanting healing means she's fighting God's will paralyzes her faith.
A woman was bent over for EIGHTEEN YEARS, unable to straighten up. Religious leaders said Jesus shouldn't heal on the Sabbath—implied her condition served a purpose. Jesus said, 'Satan has bound her—should she not be loosed?' He laid hands on her and IMMEDIATELY she was made straight. Her bondage was enemy's work, not God's will.
I REFUSE the lie that my disability is God's will or that asking for healing fights His plan! IT IS WRITTEN that God's will is for me to prosper in all things and be in health—healing ALIGNS with His heart, not against it. Jesus healed every person who came to Him; He never said sickness was His will for anyone. IT IS WRITTEN that by His stripes I am healed, and I receive that truth over my body NOW. My disability is not God's plan—it is enemy's attack, and Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The Abrahamic blessing includes health, strength, wholeness—and I declare that blessing over every cell, every system, every limitation in my body. I am not accepting bondage as 'God's will'; I am asking boldly for the healing that Jesus purchased on the cross, and I expect breakthrough because my God is HEALER.
Your Father is running toward you not to tell you to accept sickness but to bring healing, wholeness, restoration. He's not asking you to be content with bondage—He's loosing you, like the woman bent over for eighteen years, saying, 'Daughter, be FREE. This was never My will. Receive your healing NOW.'