Comments on: Faith healer post http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Laelia Sky » Blog Archive » Abortion http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Laelia Sky » Blog Archive » Abortion Tue, 26 May 2009 23:02:08 +0000 http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/#comment-2872 [...] I didn’t know I would need rules for this like I did with faith healers, but maybe I do. (Click on the word “rules” [...] [...] I didn’t know I would need rules for this like I did with faith healers, but maybe I do. (Click on the word “rules” [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1939 admin Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:08:42 +0000 http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/#comment-1939 Thanks for all the great comments and emails guys! I just wanted to comment on the comments and add that I loved Bethany's personal story of God healing Natalie through surgery (which also requires a bucket of faith and prayer for parents to go through). I also love that Baggins is willing to contribute to beating up random strangers with my husband (*sigh* boys :)), and even though I have my doubts, if you find someone with that gift of healing, I would trust you, Baggins, to pass on our information so they can pray for Lali! But sadly, since we've been hurt by people (we had another experience not mentioned above that happened when we were visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls in San Diego and Lali was in four casts at that time... egh), it would have to be prayer from a distance. :( But I especially loved Melissa's reminder that it "makes us more aware of our God." I guess that's the point. And that's one thing this whole situation did do--it reminded me of God and his amazing works, and forced me to seek him and his will and to acknowledge his workings in my daughter's life. Thanks for all the great comments and emails guys! I just wanted to comment on the comments and add that I loved Bethany’s personal story of God healing Natalie through surgery (which also requires a bucket of faith and prayer for parents to go through). I also love that Baggins is willing to contribute to beating up random strangers with my husband (*sigh* boys :) ), and even though I have my doubts, if you find someone with that gift of healing, I would trust you, Baggins, to pass on our information so they can pray for Lali! But sadly, since we’ve been hurt by people (we had another experience not mentioned above that happened when we were visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls in San Diego and Lali was in four casts at that time… egh), it would have to be prayer from a distance. :(

But I especially loved Melissa’s reminder that it “makes us more aware of our God.” I guess that’s the point. And that’s one thing this whole situation did do–it reminded me of God and his amazing works, and forced me to seek him and his will and to acknowledge his workings in my daughter’s life.

]]> By: Melissa Rowe http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1937 Melissa Rowe Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:01:48 +0000 http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/#comment-1937 "It’s because it turns God into a vending machine. You put in your quarters (prayer) and take out your soda (miracle). Yes the Bible says that if we ask anything ACCORDING TO HIS WILL he hears us. But the catch is that it has to be God’s will." I love that quote... turning God into a vending machine. It's a good illustration and is exactly what we try to do. I remember I had a friend recently who used the whole "desires of my heart" to justify the fact that she should be getting a laptop, an ipod, and a car or something of the sort very soon. ;) This was the guy at the same party I was at, right? I believe I remember walking up just as he was leaving. I don't know what I would have done in the actual situation either, but I think your rules are a good idea and very fair. We can't speak for God, we can only have faith that He knows what He is doing with us. I guess these situations can only better prepare us for how to respond in the future and also make us more aware of our God. “It’s because it turns God into a vending machine. You put in your quarters (prayer) and take out your soda (miracle). Yes the Bible says that if we ask anything ACCORDING TO HIS WILL he hears us. But the catch is that it has to be God’s will.”

I love that quote… turning God into a vending machine. It’s a good illustration and is exactly what we try to do. I remember I had a friend recently who used the whole “desires of my heart” to justify the fact that she should be getting a laptop, an ipod, and a car or something of the sort very soon. ;)

This was the guy at the same party I was at, right? I believe I remember walking up just as he was leaving. I don’t know what I would have done in the actual situation either, but I think your rules are a good idea and very fair. We can’t speak for God, we can only have faith that He knows what He is doing with us. I guess these situations can only better prepare us for how to respond in the future and also make us more aware of our God.

]]> By: Baggins http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1930 Baggins Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:44:20 +0000 http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/#comment-1930 Wow. That guy makes me so mad. You may disagree and (I won't love you any less ^_^), but I truly believe that the miracles described in Acts were not just confined to that period of history- that there really are godly people still around today who *are* so mature in their faith and in tune with God's will that they *do* know when he has chosen to heal somebody and he is able to work through them to do so spontaneously. People like that guy do nothing but undermine the ministry of those with the true gift of healing. What you described sounded more like a seance than an act of faith. Shroud- If there is a next time, I'd gladly come hold him down for you. ;) Wow. That guy makes me so mad.

You may disagree and (I won’t love you any less ^_^), but I truly believe that the miracles described in Acts were not just confined to that period of history- that there really are godly people still around today who *are* so mature in their faith and in tune with God’s will that they *do* know when he has chosen to heal somebody and he is able to work through them to do so spontaneously.

People like that guy do nothing but undermine the ministry of those with the true gift of healing. What you described sounded more like a seance than an act of faith.

Shroud- If there is a next time, I’d gladly come hold him down for you. ;)

]]> By: Bethany http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1925 Bethany Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.laeliasky.com/2008/09/17/faith-healer-post/#comment-1925 Good for you. Good, good, good, GOOD for you. I may have already mentioned this in one of the comments back forever ago, but we had the same thing happen with Natalie just a few days before she was born. Someone called on the phone saying that they had prayed and that our baby was healed, that we just had to have faith (and then they made me put the phone up to my stomach so they could talk "to" Natalie... talk about awkward!!). Of course nothing changed. Like you said, we had total faith that God *could* heal our baby, but we had a feeling that would happen through surgery--not another person's "more believing" prayer. And our love or hopes for our daughter were in no way affected by her condition. I'm proud of you guys for setting up boundaries to protect your precious little girl... even from people who control God's will. ;) Good for you. Good, good, good, GOOD for you. I may have already mentioned this in one of the comments back forever ago, but we had the same thing happen with Natalie just a few days before she was born. Someone called on the phone saying that they had prayed and that our baby was healed, that we just had to have faith (and then they made me put the phone up to my stomach so they could talk “to” Natalie… talk about awkward!!). Of course nothing changed. Like you said, we had total faith that God *could* heal our baby, but we had a feeling that would happen through surgery–not another person’s “more believing” prayer. And our love or hopes for our daughter were in no way affected by her condition. I’m proud of you guys for setting up boundaries to protect your precious little girl… even from people who control God’s will. ;)

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