Everybody is an individual and everybody must make up their own mind about whether or not to take medicines.
I'd never faced this decision before... I didn't know what to do. When I was first diagnosed with the HIV virus, I read innumerable articles on it and later suffered from an information overload and depressing confusion. One article would speak in favor of taking the highly toxic HIV/AIDS medicines, and then I'd read another one that spoke against it with just as convincing of an argument.…
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126 - Pierre
Brother,
I appreciate your sincere appeal to the Scriptures.
Jesus did teach us many times that we are to pray and not lose heart. He emphasized persistence in prayer on more than one occasion. For us to think those teachings only apply to prayers "other than" healing prayers would be an assumption that is no place found in Scripture.
For the most part, Jesus did pray and the people were immediately healed. Yet even on one occasion, when he prayed for a blind man, the man said, "I see men like trees walking". Jesus had to pray for him a second time for him to be healed. (Mark 8:22-26)
When Jesus prayed, there were instant results. This however was not always the case with his disciples. They often failed, even in prayer, and Jesus had to give them further instruction. To assume that ever time we pray we have the same authority, power, faith and ever other godly virtue of Jesus is also a grand assumption. We do not. That's why we need to pray persistently.
With Love in Christ,
Pierre
127 - David Ben-Ariel
Brother Pierre,
That's a good example about the person whom Yeshua had to tweak so he could see more perfectly, but again, it's a rare exception to the rule.
Regardless, I wholeheartedly agree we must persist in prayer, and trust Father knows best, and that His tender mercies are greater than our lack of faith or frustrations.
I try to practice what I preach: Don't Give Up!
This much I know, the last two times I had my blood drawn my HIV levels were drastically down from what they had been, but my CD4 count remains about the same - and all this without the highly toxic AIDS drugs (that the drug companies make a killing off of, all things considered).
Another day closer to the Kingdom Come,
David
128 - Pierre
David,
Thanks for the article! It was a great encouragment and a timely word for me.
I just started a website to post some of my writings as well. I have written an article on suffering that you may find edifying. It's quite long, but I hope worth your time.
Blessings in Christ. Keep the faith.
Pierre
129 - David Ben-Ariel
Thank you Pierre, I'll check out your article on suffering. I'll keep the Faith and it keeps me.
L'Chaim,
David Ben-Ariel