The question about why some people are healed and others are not when people pray is one John Piper struggles with.
In response to a question from a Desiring God podcast listener about the sovereignty of God and how much confidence believers in Jesus should vocalize when praying for someone to be healed, the renown theologian pointed to Jesus, who was the “perfect pray-er.”
Even in the hour of Christ’s most anguished desperation, in the garden of Gethsemane before he was crucified, Christ prayed “Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
“Clearly, it was not sin for Jesus to add that qualifier. He didn’t sin,” Piper explained.
But the interplay between divine wisdom and the confidence He says those who believe ought to display in prayer is somewhat of a mysterious puzzle.
“We have strong promises from Jesus, in John 15 and John 16 and Mark 11 and elsewhere, that whenever we ask and believe that we have what we asked for, we will receive it. The other piece is Jesus’s words ‘nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.'”
For example, he went on to say, in Matthew 7 Jesus asks his followers if they “who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who…
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