Introduction - Why I'm Writing this Series
The question of divine healing is something that every believer wrestles with at some point. We pray for the sick, we rejoice when God heals, and we question Him when He doesn’t. In recent years, many teachers have claimed that it is always God’s will to heal, that Christ’s atonement guarantees complete physical healing this side of heaven for every Christian who has enough faith. Teacher Andrew Wommack is one of the more prominent. His 2010 book God Wants You Well has become one of his most popular and widely read. There are members of my immediate family who are not well and yet insist that God desperately wants to heal them, but for some reason cannot. They have been taught (by Wommack and others) that because Jesus healed people, then that must mean that God always wants everyone healed. But at the same time, because they are not healed, it cannot be God's fault. The inevitable conclusion is that it’s our fault. We don’t have enough faith, there is unforgiven sin in our lives, ...