The Bible exhorts us to test all things, and it warns us against blindly accepting that all healings are necessarily a work of God. At the same time, the Bible definitely encourages us to pray for the sick and expect God to intervene on their behalf.
However, movements like the Faith movement have taken this Scriptural truth to extremes. They have proclaimed healing and deliverance from all suffering in this life. Unfortunately, this has been done at the expense of the truth about our secure home in heaven, and the truth that we need to live our lives in the light of eternity.
The old songs that speak about our having sorrows and troubles in this world but a sure hope of something better in heaven, have been discarded and even ridiculed by this type of movement. The teaching that we must have everything here in this life, and that anything less than that is unbelief, is a doctrine that has brought much suffering and insecurity among Christians. At bit of the old classical Christian teaching that God may have a purpose in sickness and suffering might provide a healthy balance to all the one-sided emphasis on the benefits we may obtain in the here and now.
Real Christian security is found in the fact that, regardless of whatever happens to me in this life, nothing can separate me from God. But, if your spiritual and personal security is found in healings and answers to prayer, then you put your trust in the wrong place. Though I cannot be a hundred percent certain that I will be healed in this life, according to the Bible I can, nevertheless, trust fully and absolutely in the fact that I, as a believer, will be with God in the life to come. This is where you find real comfort and security, quite regardless of whether you are healed or not. If you take away this fact, you remove one of the fundamental pillars of the Christian faith. (II Corinthians 4:16-18; Colossians 1:5; Hebrews 6:18-20; and 11:13-16). Therefore, it is the most vital thing to get to know Jesus and receive the forgiveness of sin by faith in Him.
