God designed your body to repel sickness. Sickness is an unnatural condition. When sickness enters your body, your body activates all kinds of defense mechanisms to get rid of it. Your body does not want to be sick! In fact, even as you go around saying it's the will of God for you to be sick, your body will fight your words and keep trying to heal itself anyway!

Any doctor can tell you that medicine can relieve suffering and help your body heal itself, but that the medical profession can do little about actually healing you. The doctor can't even heal a scrape on your hand. He can simply do what he can to help your body heal itself, which God designed your body to do.

Look at all the money sinners and saints alike spend trying to get well. Think of the desperate lengths to which people go to find a cure for their illnesses. People have exhausted their life's savings, as the woman with the issue of blood did, just trying to be well again. You can't tell me it's natural to want to just accept illness as the will of God and live with it. Why don't people in the world just accept sickness as the will of God, as some Christian teachers today would have us do? Because they haven't had their minds polluted with stupid and unscriptural doctrines about sickness being the will of God to teach us things. Only silly church people embrace sickness.


Ask any sinner if he had a choice of being sick or being well (which he does, as you can tell him), would he choose sickness? Maybe a few would because they like the attention and sympathy, but by and large, not many people would choose to be sick instead of well. It's unnatural to even want to be sick. People in general don't want to be sick. Think about this: If people really wanted to stay sick, why would whole cities show up bringing the sick on stretchers and beds to be healed by Jesus Christ, or Peter, or Paul, or healing evangelists today? The very fact that healing is such a powerful evangelistic tool demonstrates that people want to be healed. Given a choice, they want healing. They show up to be healed when someone preaches to them that they do have a choice.


Saying that God wants you sick won't win many doctors to Christ. They already know better. They know your body was designed to heal itself. And thank God, your family physician is not going to pray a foolish prayer to see if healing is the will of God for you in particular before he treats you. He's going to do all he can to get you well. No one blames your doctor for trying to get you well without checking the will of God first. And if you go to the doctor for relief when you think your illness is God's will, you are a hypocrite. I think it is fair to say that most unsaved doctors have a better attitude than many Christian teachers about wanting to see you get healed. They even wear a snake on a pole, which is both a symbol of healing and of Jesus Christ, whether they personally know the story or not.