I often struggle with prayer requests as people are heading to the ER or procedures, as to how to actually pray. Do I pray they trust their issue to our Heavenly Father and stay home in their prayer closet? Do I pray, someone just intervenes with a bottle of olive oil, and lays hands on them? Do I ask Abba to prove Himself to them, so they'll change their faith in medicine? I simply cannot ask YHUH to guide the doctors, except to bear witness of His miracle. That's apparently what Luke did in Scripture. There is absolutely no record of Y'hshuah Messiah sending anyone to see Luke. He did, however; send some folks to present themselves to the High Priest, per Torah instruction.
I walked away from dependence upon mainstream medicine nearly two decades ago. It was not an easy decision. I had absolutely no earthly encouragement in my decision, but I still knew it was the right thing to have done. How can I be ready to pray a prayer of faith for someone's health, if I'm not living it, myself? I do use herbs and oils, which of course are part of creation, but absolutely no pharmaceuticals. This is not to say, I am against doctors, but sadly, most of them now work for the pharmaceutical industry, and all of them answer to the licensing system of the government. I don't believe YHUH is using the present medical system in our nation.
Even though I walked away from mainstream medicine, I do still have some MS symptoms. I prayed years ago, asking Abba to heal me. I heard "My grace is sufficient." Of course I recognized that from II Corinthians 12:9. As I read through that chapter, I noticed that's where Paul speaks of asking that the thorn in his flesh be removed. He asked thrice . . . Since I'd already asked many more times than that, I stopped asking. I haven't asked since, and I can faithfully attest Adonai has used me in healing others, as well as providing health for accomplishments in my own life. Truly His grace is sufficient.
Over 17 years ago, was the last time I tried to mix faith and mainstream health care. That exacerbation was bad and it was recommended that I check into long term health care, file for disability, stop my denial and accept reality. When I stated I knew YHUH would raise me back up from that exacerbation, upon my repentance of seeking medical care, I was labeled to have some sort of "disorder of grandiosity." As it turns out, "they" were wrong on everything. I now think, also of the fourteen years, Paul references earlier in that same chapter. I was presented with the same choice King Asa was, but that last time in the hospital, I knew if I didn't get out of the system, I'd have the same outcome as King Asa.
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to YHWH, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. II Chronicles 16:12-13
I wasn't even able to walk at the time I "rolled away" from mainstream health care, and it was a few months before the wheelchair was parked. It would still be two more years, 2003, before I knew if I'd be given another chance or meet the same end as Asa.
Now, here I've already celebrated twelve years of homesteading and ready to share His goodness with whomsoever is willing to receive. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Messiah may rest upon me. II Corinthians 12:9
