This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, on February 22, 2026. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God. 

Isaiah 29:14-16

Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.” Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?” You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?

God is the potter and we are the clay. If you’ve ever created anything, whether you were a potter and working with clay or making a painting, this can help you to understand who God is to us. He is the Creator; we are the creation. There’s a huge gap in our spiritual intelligence, spiritual knowledge, and spiritual comprehension compared to God. God created the whole universe. God has always been. We can’t even comprehend that. And one day He decided to create the universe, and humankind, and you and me. 

God is so massive. His mind is so much more massive than ours. He helps us understand and have revelation, but at the end of the day, God is God—and we are not God. Our minds can never measure up to the mind of God. That means there will be mysteries, simply because we are the clay, not the potter. “Why did this happen? Why did this happen to me? Why did this happen to this person? Why did God allow this? Why is God’s timing like this? Why hasn’t this happened yet? I just don't understand." That will be the case for all of us. There will be times where we won't understand, where there will be mysteries. And that's actually a good thing because it keeps us humble. It reminds us, “I'm not on God's level at all.” It reminds us that we need to depend on God; we need to trust Him. We need to let Him be in control because there are some things we don’t get, we don’t understand. But we don't have to because we are not in control, and God never wants us to be in control. God wants to be the One who is in control of our lives.

So it’s a good thing sometimes when God allows us to not understand things. Because this is a humbling experience. It’s a reminder, “Ah, I have to let God be in control and at times, that means trusting Him when I don’t understand.” That’s what surrender is: trusting God when you don’t understand. That's what faith is: believing without seeing everything or having everything figured out, and not knowing how things are going to work out—not knowing how something's going to happen but believing that the promises will come to pass. Believing that God is going to be good tomorrow, just as He was good yesterday and today. Believing that God is faithful no matter what. That’s faith. That’s the life we are called to. A life of childlike faith, not sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). 

There are times when we don’t understand things. It’s a time where God will be saying to you, “Let me be God.” God will say that. Let God be God. Stop trying to figure it out. Don’t blame God. Don't question God. Let God be God. This is the moment you say, “I trust you, God. I don’t understand, but I trust you fully.” The Bible says that God's ways are not our ways. And it says that God’s ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8). There will be moments when we have the reckoning, where we come face-to-face with that verse. We have to go to that verse to know what’s going on: “This is a situation where God’s ways are different than mine. But they're better!” So there are times in life when God is calling you to believe and confess, “God’s ways are not mine but they’re better. My way is something I want and something I think is best and I don’t understand how any other way makes sense. But I humble myself and I come with childlike faith and I believe and confess, God’s ways are better than mine! And I submit to your ways instead of my ways. I trust you.”

One of the ways that we have to let God be God is in regards to receiving healing, for yourself, for friends, for family members. It is God who heals, not a person, not me. It’s not any servant of God. It’s God who heals. 

It's God's power doing it. He chooses to move through us, to use us. He chooses to move upon us as we take dominion and authority. So when I say, “Demon, go,” then God chooses to move through that, but it’s God doing the miracle. That’s His way of doing the miracle: to use us and move upon our walking in authority according to His will. So God is the one who heals and delivers. We as humans want everyone to be healed and delivered right this second. And those of us who pray for people, we want every single person to be healed and delivered, right this second, immediately. But God’s ways are different. Many healings aren’t immediate. And many times, God requires there to be faith.

Jesus said that He could hardly do any miracles in His hometown because of lack of faith (Mark 6:5). This means that God had made having faith be a requirement to receive healing. It’s not always that way. Sometimes God reveals His love through a healing miracle, and so a person may not really have any faith except for a little bit of openness to check out Jesus. They don’t really have faith for healing, but this is the way God reveals His love to them.Nothing with God is legalistic. It’s not a requirement for every single person to have faith in order to be healed. No, that’s legalism, and God is God. God moves in these mysterious, different ways where one person didn’t have faith, but they're healed. For another person, He required them to have faith, and they’re healed. For another person, He requires them to have bigger faith, and then the healing happens. God is God. And He has different purposes as to why. Sometimes He knows that when He heals this person, it is going to reveal His love to them, and this is the way they will be saved. Other people want healing and they believe in Jesus, they confess that Jesus is Lord, they’re a Christian, but they’re lukewarm, and they’re just showing up to the church service to receive their miracle and go. Maybe that person really has faith for healing, but then God doesn’t heal them because He knows their heart. He knows they will treat Him and His work as cheap, and they won’t keep it if He were to heal them like that. And then maybe others are coming to church every week but they’re not being serious disciples. They're not being serious about following the principles. They have such big faith, and they’re following some of the principles to be healed, to be delivered, but they’re lazy about guarding their mouth. And so they’re speaking negatively all the time. And so God is requiring this person to have a bigger faith, because faith without works is dead (James 2:17). 

Renouncing

A big part of accessing healing and deliverance is really believing in God’s instructions of how you receive healing and freedom and applying them. One of the, one principles to receiving healing and deliverance is renouncing everything of the devil’s portion in your life—rejecting it and confessing the truth of what God wants for you: “By His stripes I am healed (Isaiah 53:5). I am healed. I receive healing. Thank you, Jesus, for healing me.” A big principle of receiving healing and freedom is to really be diligent over your mouth. Be diligent to renounce, but also be diligent to only speak life. Some people have big faith generally, but in this one principle, they have faith without works. They’re being lazy and undisciplined in that area. They’re not taking it seriously, so God is requiring them to have GREATER faith than others, perhaps, because He’s calling them higher. So there are all these different reasons why someone might not see immediate healing, and it has to do with God’s perfect ways.

Lack of Anointing

The main reason that people aren’t healed, or healed immediately, is first because of lack of anointing. In the Bible, whenever we see people being healed and delivered, we see them positioning themselves under the ministry of an anointed vessel of God who truly carries God’s power. For example, it says that all who were oppressed and sick came under Peter’s shadow, and when his shadow—meaning the anointing flowing through him, being released—touched the people, all were healed (Acts 5:15-16). It also says that God was doing such extraordinary miracles through the hands of Apostle Paul that people would bring handkerchiefs and aprons to his body, which was emanating with anointing, and then they would bring them to the oppressed and sick people, and the demons and the sickness would go (Acts 19:11-12). There are several of these examples in the Old Testament as well, where miracles, signs, and wonders were happening through the prophets as they prayed for people. Even Elisha’s bones, after he was dead, was still  carrying anointing, and dead people came alive when they hit the bones (2 Kings 13:21). 

All throughout the Bible, we see that this is God’s principle of how He releases miracles, as He puts His power, His anointing in chosen vessels. He wants to anoint everybody because it says, “All who believe, these signs shall follow them. They shall lay hands on the sick, be healed, and they shall cast out demons” (Mark 16:17-18). But it’s up to the person to be surrendered. And a lot of people don’t want to walk the narrow road. But on top of that, God has a kingdom government structure of His church. In the Book of Acts, the apostles and the five-fold ministers were doing the most amount of miracles. They carried a greater anointing. It’s like how teachers need to carry more knowledge than their students because they’re called to equip their students. It’s the same principle in the five-fold ministry. They need to carry more anointing so they have something to give and release to the believers, the disciples: both anointing and spiritual revelation. They need to have more, so God has to give them more—a higher grace—because they’re the ones to pour into the believers. 

When we see miracles happening, people being healed and delivered, it’s as they position themselves where the power of God is being released, which is at a ministry through an anointed servant of God. 

One big reason why many people are not seeing healing taking place is that they’re not following this important principle of God of how to receive His miracles. They’re not positioning themselves where God's power is moving. They’re not going to a church or ministry that carries anointing, so people are praying for them, pastors without anointing are praying for the sick and the oppressed, but it’s only the anointing that destroys the yoke. So the yokes are remaining in people, demons are hiding in people—simply because there’s no anointing to destroy those yokes. 

Lack of Faith

The second reason that people aren’t experiencing healing happening is lack of faith. As I shared, we know that in His hometown, Jesus could hardly do any miracles because of lack of faith. Also, we often see Jesus saying, “Believe and your child will be healed” (Luke 8:50) or, “You have just received healing because of your faith” (Mark 5:34) or, “I’ve never seen such great faith as this” (Luke 7:9). “Your servant who’s not even here in person, He will be healed because of your faith. Because you believed that if I just said the word, he would be healed! It is done!” And the servant was healed. So we see this principle of faith, how for most people, to receive miracles, healing, and freedom, faith is needed. 

Many people think that faith is a matter of feelings, but that’s not true. Faith without works is dead (James 2:26), not “faith without feelings is dead.” Feelings are fickle, and they’re often influenced by the devil. So many times people are down on themselves thinking, “Oh, I’m just full of doubt. I have no faith.” No, it’s the devil sending lies of doubt. We’re in a spiritual war. Nobody is immune to the devil sending lies and feelings in us. Nobody is immune—that’s the spiritual war we live in. That’s why it says, “Take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) and, “Submit to God. Resist the devil and he must flee” (James 4:7). So many believers think that they don’t have faith, but they’re letting the devil dictate what their truth is. 

To have faith is to simply choose to believe the word of God, choosing to believe God’s principles and then being obedient to apply God’s principles. An example of submitting to God is submitting to His Word and saying, “By His stripes, I am healed!” In His Word, we see Jesus healing and delivering all who come to Him. And He says, “You will do the things I do and greater” (John 14:12). We see the apostles and the five-fold ministers in the Books of Acts healing and delivering all who came to them. 

So we read the Bible and we see that healing and deliverance is a gift from God for us today. We also see in the Bible that we have an inheritance as children of God—that inheritance includes healing, freedom, abundant life, peace, and joy. And so submitting to God means going to the Word and renewing your mind with the Word. 

A big part of renewing your mind to the Word also includes positioning yourself to hear the rhema word, the spoken revelation of the Word. It says in the book of Acts, “The believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teachings” (Acts 2:42). They were doing that because this is how they were getting revelation of the word of God that they needed to open their spiritual eyes and help them to believe, to help them to have faith, and to help them to know how to have faith in action. So you renew your mind: “This is what the Bible says, but I’m feeling the opposite. I’m feeling doubt, I’m feeling symptoms, I’m feeling pain, I’m feeling sickness, and I have a diagnosis. But God has given me dominion on this earth, the Bible says. The devil is defeated, the Bible says. We are in a spiritual war and we have to be vigilant and we have to be aware of the devil prowling around like a lion seeking whom he can devour. So I’m going to be vigilant right now. I’m going to be aware of the devil’s schemes, I know he’s a liar. The Bible says he’s a liar and I’m going to do what the Bible says, to walk in my dominion, to reject the devil, and to claim my inheritance as a child of God.” That’s faith! That’s faith with works. It has nothing to do with feelings. So you could have intense feelings of doubt and zero feeling of faith, but God could consider you having huge faith. 

The centurion soldier said to Jesus, “Lord you do not even need to come to my house, I’m not worthy. Just say the word and I know the authority you have—I understand authority. I know if you say the word, my servant will be healed” (Matthew 8:8-9). Do you know that it’s a choice to speak? It’s a choice to speak the truth. That centurion soldier may not have felt like those words at all. Maybe he felt like, “I’ve never seen this happen ever. I’ve only heard testimonies of Jesus praying one-on-one for people and touching them. I’ve never seen authority like this, but I’m going to speak what Holy Spirit is leading me to speak.”

So you can be like the Centurion soldier—it doesn’t matter your feelings. You can apply the Word of God and be obedient to the Word of God, and be obedient to apply the principles, like walking in authority, rejecting the devil, confessing the truth. You can do that, no matter how much doubt you’re feeling, and God will say, “I have never seen faith like this” to you! That’s what faith is! So it’s so important that you know this because sometimes people can hear, “Oh, I have to have faith? Great, I don’t feel like I have faith, so I’m just stuck.”

Every person can have faith right now; it’s a matter of a choice. When people aren’t being healed because of faith, it’s a matter of choice. It’s a “faith without works is dead” situation.

A Thorn in the Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:6

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 

Here we see that Paul had a thorn in the flesh, and the purpose of this was to keep him from being conceited, to humble him. This, too, can be a reason why someone is not experiencing healing. But I will say: God is calling us all to be childlike in faith, and not to try to figure everything out. Sometimes God heals over time. There have been many testimonies here of people being healed over months or over years. In the Bible, the people who had leprosy came to Jesus, and Jesus said, “Show yourselves to the priests.” It says, “On their way they were healed” (Luke 17:14). When they were in the presence of Jesus, they did not experience the leprosy immediately going away. That was Jesus Himself! And today we are vessels of God carrying Jesus. So that shows us that one of the ways that God chooses to heal is over time. He may use that as a way to stretch one's faith, as a refining fire where someone has to choose to believe without seeing—to keep on believing and keep on confessing and fighting the good fight of faith. Other times it might be for a different purpose, and we might not know the purpose, but God is God, and He sometimes chooses to heal people over time, not immediately. 

There’s a story in the Bible of Naaman, a commander in the army of the King of Aram, who had leprosy. The prophet Elisha sent him a message: 

2 Kings 5:10

“Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” 

Elisha was a prophet, and he was giving him a prophetic word of how he would receive his healing. God chooses to heal in different ways! It’s not always a matter of saying, “Be healed.” Sometimes there’s a prophetic direction that, when you follow it, you receive the healing. And so in this moment Elisha didn’t just say, “I declare you are healed.” No, he gave him a direction: “Go wash yourself seven times.” Why seven times? How come not one or two, but seven times? 

2 Kings 5:10-14

“Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Paharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage. Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more , then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed!’” So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times as the man of God had told him and his flesh was restored and became clean like a young boy.

Prophet Elisha’s spiritual father was Prophet Elijah. One time, there was drought for three years, and Prophet Elijah sent his servant to look for a cloud, meaning that rain was going to come. So the servant went, ready and expectant to see a cloud, but there was no cloud. So he came back and, but Elijah said, “Go back and look again.” He went back, he looked for the second time, and there was no cloud in sight! He went back to Elijah, and Elijah said, “Go, look again.” He went a third time. This happened a fourth time, a fifth time, and a sixth time—no cloud! But Elijah kept saying, “Go back and look.” The seventh time, the servant saw a tiny tiny cloud the size of the palm of the hand, and that cloud led to a great rain. That’s our God! Elijah hadn’t heard God wrong. God hadn’t said to Elijah, “There’s going to be rain in a few hours, so send your servant in a few hours.” This was God; this was the leading of God. This was the leading of God to direct His prophet to send the servant to go look for the cloud. 

God knew he wouldn’t see anything until the seventh time. It’s a similar principle, also the number seven, as Naaman dipping in the water. For the servant of Elijah, this was a testing of faith, of obedience, of humility—that he wouldn’t question the prophet, that he wouldn’t be prideful before the prophet and before God, and that he would keep believing and keep obeying even when it didn’t make sense, even when it was annoying and uncomfortable. It looked like a waste of time, right? But God has a purpose in that. 

That example shows us that this is how it could be for healing too. Sometimes a servant of God may say, “You are healed,” and the person is healed in the spiritual realm, but it doesn’t manifest immediately; it will manifest later. Maybe you’re in the congregation and I declare over all of you, “Be healed. Be free.” And maybe on the seventh time that you hear me speak this and you receive the word, and you confess that the word of God will not return void—and maybe that seventh time is when you see it manifest. Or maybe it's the seventy-seventh time. These are God’s ways, not our ways. 

Sometimes there can be the thorn in the flesh—but you really have to be careful, especially in the times we are living in—of claiming that you have a thorn in the flesh, because there are a lot of people who claim that they have a thorn in the flesh when God actually wanted to heal them, but now they don’t have faith, so God can’t heal them. In the times we are living in, when healing and freedom are so rare in the body of Christ, the the devil knows that it’s not easy for a lot of people to believe, so he can say, “You have a thorn in your flesh, that’s why you haven’t seen the healing yet.” 

You have to have that wisdom when you read the Bible. The devil knows the Bible, too, and he used the Bible to try to tempt Jesus, by twisting it. So it’s important to be childlike in your faith. God wants us to always have hope, to always believe for the best, and to let Him be God. He wants us to be childlike, to think, “Healing, freedom, abundant life, peace, joy—this is my portion, and I believe I will see it.”

Have Faith and Hope

If for some reason, God being God, He decides not to heal somebody for whatever reason—maybe they passed away through that sickness—let God be God. But God wants you to keep believing and not try to figure everything out and play God. Because you can never go wrong with having hope and having faith. The more faith we have, the more God can do. The less faith we have, the more we limit God. You can never go wrong with believing in God, with hoping for the best. When you have in your heart: “God is God. God’s ways are higher than mine.” Because even if you face disappointment when you don’t see something happen for a really long time, you know that you know that God is faithful—that God is good and His ways are best.” “His ways are higher than mine, and He’s allowing this promise not to be fulfilled yet; if it hasn’t come to pass yet, it’s for a reason and it’s for my good.” 

Whatever God does in your life, whatever He allows, is always for your good. Maybe He is choosing to stretch your faith so massively. It looks different for everybody—what your trial is, what your battle is, what your weakness is. Because when there’s a weakness, it’s like something that returns again and you have to keep facing it and choose to keep believing in God. We all have different weaknesses, something different that we constantly have to face and choose faith instead of doubt, humility instead of pride, and obedience above all. 

We need to let God be God when it comes to healing. We also need to let God be God when it comes to death.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Hebrews 13:14

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

We are citizens of heaven; we are not citizens of earth. We are visiting here. We have traveled here, but this isn’t our home. Heaven is our home.

James 4:14

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time but then it goes away.

We are going to be in heaven with Jesus for eternity. If you will give your life to Jesus and live in surrender to Him—surrender your life to Him—you will live eternally. What is eternity? It’s a lot longer than twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years, sixty years, seventy years, eighty years, ninety years, or one hundred years. Eternity is a lot longer than one hundred years. And a lot of us haven’t even made it halfway to a hundred yet. It’s a lot longer than a thousand years, than ten thousand years, than fifty thousand years, than one hundred thousand years, than a million years. Have you ever stopped to think about this? Eternity is a lot longer than a billion years. Eternity is a lot longer than a trillion years. It keeps going. And our life here is fifty years, sixty years, seventy years, eighty, ninety, one hundred years. It’s really a mist. It’s really like a vapor, a grain of sand. That’s our life here. It’s a little weekend trip, not even a weekend trip. And what are we doing here? God has sent us here as missionaries. 

God has sent us here on a mission trip. We have left home for an assignment—a very quick assignment, shorter than a weekend, in terms of eternity. People who are not believers are here on assignment. They’re not walking out their assignment, but they were sent here for an assignment, to be missionaries on a mission trip. Every single person on this earth is here for this reason. For some people’s mission trip, God decides for them to be on assignment half a day instead of a whole weekend, or a whole day instead of a weekend, or a day and a half instead of a whole weekend. Some are here for a whole weekend, in terms of eternity. 

We don't usually think that way. We forget why we’re here, and we think we’re entitled to live to our late nineties and to have a good life and enjoy life. But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here on assignment. And God knows the assignment that we’re here for. For some, the assignment takes longer than others. That’s not something that we can necessarily comprehend—and we don’t have to. It’s just how it is. It’s one of the ways we let God be God. I’m explaining why some people die at a younger age than we think they should. It’s because God is God, and He knows. Ultimately it’s having to do with their assignment on this earth. For some, He’s decided that they’ve completed their assignment and He wants to bring them home now.

Nowhere in the bible does it say that when we give our lives to Jesus, we will all live to the age of one hundred and that we will be like Elijah and be easily taken to heaven. 

2 Kings 2:11-12

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of the garment and tore it in two.

We see this one example of Elijah, where it’s such a wonderful way to transition to heaven. But that’s just one example. Then we see Elisha, his spiritual son, who did even twice the amount of miracles than he did and had a double portion of the anointing. His death was very different.

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died.

The prophet was suffering from an illness and the illness led to his death. He was an anointed servant of God! God chooses to use sickness sometimes—as He did with Elisha—as the way He brings us to heaven. God is God and that’s what He chooses. It’s so important for us to have this understanding of God’s ways instead of blaming God. 

Many people have this idea, “I don’t understand why a relative or a family member wasn’t healed of this sickness and they passed away.” That’s what God chose. God is God, and we have to let God be God. We have to trust Him. We have to still praise Him, because He is nothing but good and faithful.

When it comes to healing, abundant life, and living a long life, God wants us all to have childlike faith for these things and believe, “This is my portion.” And this will be the case for most people. But there will be some exceptions to this main principle of life for children of God on this earth. And that's according to God’s mysteries and God being God, and God wanting to bring someone home when He does.

God wants us to be like a child. You know, a young child living in their house doesn’t know about any of the worries of the world. They always have this expectation that their parents will be with them every night, that they will have food every night, that they will be protected every night, that the sunshine will be out every single day. But things happen sometimes. Maybe something happened, like a parent got into a car accident and they spend the night in the hospital, but then they come back. Or a child might come down with the flu and the parents have this awareness that this is life, and things can happen sometimes, but the child just has this childlike faith always. They’re not thinking, “Oh, it’s flu season, I might get the flu. I tend to have gotten a cold once a year in the past, so I’ll probably get a cold now in this winter season.” Or, “Oh no, it’s icy outside so there’s a possibility that my parents who are driving right now could have a hard time getting home or they could get in a car accident.” 

A child is not thinking about these things. And this is how God wants us to be—to have this understanding and awareness that we live in this world. Jesus says, “You will have trouble in this world, but take heart, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). We have this awareness, “There is trouble in this world. We have to go through trials, and sometimes they’re painful and sometimes they’re more painful than others. Sometimes they come in a way we really don’t want, and we’d prefer a different kind of trial.” We have this awareness, so we have that spiritual maturity, but we’re called to not be thinking of that constantly, but rather to be constantly having the childlike faith that God is good, God is faithful, and all His promises are yes and amen. “By His stripes I am healed; I have an inheritance from God and it’s abundant life, that is my portion.” We’re called to constantly have this childlike faith, because anything less than that is worrying. And often you’ll be worrying for no reason.

I’m sharing this with you to give you an understanding, so you’re not confused, so you’re not blaming God, so you’re not bitter towards God. Even in your past, some of you had close family members who passed away, and even in the future, if things happen in life, it’s so important for you to see God rightly, to not be confused about His character, about why He would allow something to happen, but to have total trust in Him and every single day: let God be God. Let Him be in control.

When it comes to our job as children of God, as servants of God, it is our job to pray for people. God instructs us to pray for people, to pray for healing, to command demons to go. God instructs us to do that, but He doesn’t instruct us to be God. He instructs us to walk in our authority and to pray for people and love all people and want healing for all people and want freedom for people. We are not called to be the judge, “You’re not being healed.” No! He calls us to pray for them. And God may choose, “It’s time, I want to bring this person to heaven right now rather than heal them,” but that’s God’s job. It’s not our job to decide. Our job is very simple: to simply pray for people, and then let God do what He wants. We are not God. We are not the ones in control. We pray for people to be healed, and then God decides what He wants to do: heal them immediately, heal them over time, or in some more rare circumstances, bring them to heaven. God is God, and He decides when it’s someone’s time to go to heaven. 

Doctors have a very important role, and sometimes they’ll save people’s lives. When I was twelve, it was my birthday party, and I was so excited for it. My birthday is on January 1, and that week there was a huge snowstorm. My dad put a ladder on ice and he was shoveling snow off the roof, and the ladder came out from him and he shattered his arm like glass. The emergency personnel came, who were members of my church. My dad had surgery, and I’m thankful for that doctor because he put his arm back together, and now my dad can use it. At first, the doctor didn’t think he would be able to use it or extend it all the way, but now he can extend it almost all the way. Praise God. This is one example of how doctors are very needed. They have an important role to play, even to help people from passing before their time, by stopping someone’s bleeding or doing a surgery that’s needed, for example. Luke, Jesus’ disciple, was a doctor. 

When a doctor saves someone from dying, it’s because God allowed them and even used them. It’s because it wasn’t that person’s time yet. But there are times when doctors try everything, but they can’t save the person, and the person passes away. That’s because it was God’s time. God is God—He’s the one in control of everybody. It’s not us, as ministers, who are in control. It’s not a doctor that’s in control. God is in control of people’s lives. 

We don’t blame doctors if they can’t save somebody and the person passes away. Because we know, God is God. They don’t have that control. In the same way, servants of God in the church don’t have that control. So servants of God shouldn't be blamed if they prayed for someone to be healed and the person isn’t healed and they end up passing away. Each one of us will pass away some day. We will go home, to heaven! This is a normal part of life.

I share this because God wants your eyes to open up to have this understanding, so you can be healed of hurt where you didn’t have understanding of God and His ways. Some of you partly don’t trust God fully because of some family member, someone close to you, who passed away. Part of you can’t understand why God allowed something to happen, and it led to you not having total trust in His goodness. So it’s time to be healed of that today, as God opens up your eyes, because God wants you to understand with all of your heart how good He is, how faithful He is, and how perfect He is in all of His ways. 

These are just a couple of the ways where we need to let God be God: in healing and in death, but also we need to let God be God in every aspect of our life. There are going to be so many different ways where we think something should be done or should happen, but it’s different from God’s way. His timing is different. His plans for our lives are different. But they are the best, and you can trust Him fully. 

Are you ready to let God be God like never before? It’s the most peaceful life. It’s a big key to not having fear and worry, knowing He is in control, and His control is perfect. He doesn’t get anything wrong. He never misses a thing. He is perfection, and He’s put perfection over your life when you give Him total control. Every day, when you seek Him, you can know that everything is happening how it’s supposed to—for your good and for your purpose, to fulfill your purpose on this earth, to lead people to Jesus, and for the most amount of people to be saved through your life. What is happening in your life is perfect today, and it’s perfect tomorrow. It’s time to go into deep rest in the hands of God, as you give God total control of every part of your life. Amen.