It used to be one of the hardest questions I’ve ever faced.

And… it’s one I didn’t ask casually. In my youth, I asked it through tears. Through fear. Through long nights when everything felt uncertain.

Does God heal some people… and not others?

If you’ve ever wondered that, you’re not alone.

When I was walking through barely surviving an airplane crash, I saw something that deeply troubled me. There were people who loved God just as much as I did—some maybe even more, it seemed. People full of hope. People who prayed. People who trusted.

And yet… not many of them were healed.

So what do we do with that?

For a while, I wrestled quietly with it. I didn’t want easy answers. I didn’t want clichés. I wanted truth. At all cost I wanted the truth about God. Truth that is unchanging. Truth that that holds steady when life doesn’t.

Here’s where I landed.

God does not play favorites.

Scripture tells us that God is the same, today, yesterday and forever.

Scripture also tells us that God is good. That He is loving. That He does not change. And that is important—because if His nature is consistent, then His heart toward us is consistent too.

So if healing doesn’t look the same in every situation, the difference isn’t because God is withholding love from some and giving it to others.

There are things happening—seen and unseen—that we don’t fully understand.

The key ingredient is faith.

We live in a world that is corrupt. The Church world is broken. In this world our bodies, though wonderfully designed by God, are still subject to decay. A world where timing, choices, knowledge, and even spiritual understanding can all play a role.

And I say this gently, with humility: sometimes we simply don’t know everything we need to know yet. We learn, we grow and develop and we mature. That is a process.

That was true for me.

During my journey of years of recovery, God began to show me things—not all at once, but step by step. About how He designed the body to heal itself. About the importance of renewing the mind. About aligning my thoughts, my words, and my actions with His promises. Especially my words. About speaking out loud God’s will and His Word.

It wasn’t about striving harder. It was about learning to trust Him more deeply—and to cooperate with the way He created me to function.

Healing, I discovered, is not random.

It’s not something God dangles in front of us and then pulls away.

It’s part of His nature. His desire. His design.

He wants us to develop faith. The kind that changes circumstances.

Faith, I believe is the currency of Heaven.

But walking it out… can be a journey.

And every journey looks a little different.

If you’re reading this and you’re discouraged—maybe because you’ve prayed and haven’t seen the breakthrough you hoped for—I want to say this as gently and clearly as I can:

Please don’t conclude that God has passed you by.

He has not.

He sees you. He loves you. And He is still at work—even if it doesn’t look the way you expected.

I need to tell you this about my own journey. Most of the time,…I thought I was waiting on God…in actuality He was waiting on me.

There was something I was overlooking.

I learned to stop asking, “Why didn’t this happen?”
And instead began asking, “Lord, what are You showing me right now? What have I missed?”

That shift changed everything.

Because it kept my heart open. It kept my mind alert, and kept me moving forward. And it kept me connected to His Holy Spirit—right in the middle of the unknown.

If there’s one thing I know today, it’s this:

God is not against you.

He is for you. Fully. Completely. Without hesitation.

And no matter where you are in your journey… He cares for you deeply. Do you think, like so often in my life,  that God is waiting on you to make some adjustment?

If so, don’t delay. Make any adjustments needed.

Remember, if it is sin, that’s holding you back. Go to God and ask Him to forgive you. When you go to God with it, He’ll take it from you, and it will be forgiven AND FORGOTTEN.

If this encouraged you, I’d love for you to share it with someone who may need hope today.

God does heal today just as always. He doesn’t heal some and not others. He answers the prayers this way…

“Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” Mark 11:23-24

Remember with God nothing is impossible.

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