How to REALLY have faith...?

Question

My mom said a prayer for my father in law at church. The pastor (after praying for him) told my mom that god had spoke to him. He told my mom that my father in law will be responding in 3 days and that one day he will rise and walk and preach how God saved him. To have faith in God because God has spoken.

My father in law is in a nursing home because of a fall he had a few months ago. He had brain surgery done and was in the hospital prior to the nursing home. He has delicate bed sores that cant be treated due to other conditions. Doctors have given him 6months to a year.

I dont know how to feel. I want to believe my father in law will get through this. When my mom called and told us what the pastor had said I did feel it, that faith feeling. That was last night. Since then my father in law has had 103 fever and he's bed sores are worse he still hasnt responded or in any way showing any signs of improvement.

Can god really speak through someone?

Answer 1

Sorry to hear about your father in law. There are 2 sides to this story. The first is that any Pastor/preacher can speak words over someone's life and be lying through their teeth. The second is that in God, all things are possible. The most powerful voice your f i l has over his life is his own voice. The doctors told me I would die by January this year. I was diagnosed with a terminal cancer in October last year. I decided to never doubt God and have faith in what His Word says.
Mar 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Your f i l needs to stand up and fight for his own life. If he has already given up hope, you must pray over him. Speaking healing words deep into his mind so you drown out all of the lies that doctors and the like have spoken over his life. The truth is in the Bible. It is not necessarily what the doctor says. Encourage him to fight. Encourage him. Bind up and rebuke all lies that have been spoken over him in Jesus name and come against the spirit of death and the spirit of disease over his life. Be encouraged and fight the good fight.

Answer 2

Yes, God spoke through all the writers of the Bible. He can speak through people still today. But that doesn't necessarily mean that He was speaking through that Pastor. You have to have faith in God, not a preacher who may or may not be speaking for himself.
Also, you have to understand, that no matter how much you want something or how right you feel it is that something you want to happen should happen, sometimes God's answer is No.
I was talking to the Pastor of my church who used to be a missionary in the Philippines. He was in a healing service and a woman with a paralyzed arm came forward. He prayed over her and she was healed. Later, he was in New York at the same kind of healing service and, again, a person came forward with a paralyzed arm. The pastor prayed over him and...nothing. His arm was still paralyzed. God has His own reasons for healing this person and not healing that one. We may never know that reason but God is not capricious. He cares about your father-in-law and He will do what's best for him.
He cares about you too. Do not become too downcast because things are not going well for your father-in-law. God will care for him, whether in this life or the next.

Answer 3

Abdul-Baha, the authoritative Interpretor of the Baha'i Faith, wrote:

"Thou hast written of a verse in the Gospels, asking if at the time of Christ all souls did hear His call. Know that faith is of two kinds. The first is objective faith that is expressed by the outer man, obedience of the limbs and senses. The other faith is subjective, and unconscious obedience to the will of God. There is no doubt that, in the day of a Manifestation such as Christ, all contingent beings possessed subjective faith and had unconscious obedience to His Holiness Christ.

For all parts of the creational world are of one whole. Christ the Manifestor reflecting the divine Sun represented the whole. All the parts are subordinate and obedient to the whole. The contingent beings are the branches of the tree of life while the Messenger of God is the root of that tree. The branches, leaves and fruit are dependent for their existence upon the root of the tree of life. This condition of unconscious obedience constitutes subjective faith. But the discerning faith that consists of true knowledge of God and the comprehension of divine words, of such faith there is very little in any age. That is why His Holiness Christ said to His followers, "Many are called but few are chosen."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 364)

Please read the Holy Books and make judgement for yourself.

Answer 4

look at the mechanism
of yourself
You are an amazing child of God
Prayer changes things Honey
pray often over those you love
in Jesus name
Come to learn how to minister to
others in time of need
You are full of compassion
there is no reason why love cannot be loved
Because Love is not loved
So come to know how to Love love
so it can be loved for love suffers greatly
In Jesus name come to believe in the miracles
Which God has given.
Thank Him always for yourself
For you are a miracle
look at your hand and all it can do
You have the ability to love deep
Call on Jesus , conversate with Him
He is waiting for you
So you can express how you feel

Answer 5

yes God can speak to you in many ways if you have faith in Him, trust and belief, and prayer. The closer you are to the Lord, you'll start feeling it, He basically pat me on the back once, I felt His presents and felt Him in me, and I knew who it was, I felt what He said to me in my head, as He intervene in the moment of truth and compassion that I felt for my boss on a job site during a meeting, that day the Lord said to me that He was Happy with me.

Answer 6

Yes, but not like that! Your Pastor is trying to be god himself? Remember the bible says satan is the father of all lies! Your Pastor should not have told you that! its almost like hes mocking god!

Answer 7

That priest guy is lying. God doesnt have to speak to someone to make them believe in Him. He shows signs, doesnt talk.

Answer 8

meditation is the only solution at this moment and child like u can easily contact the supreme which is within everybody and responds though,but only process is meditation.

Answer 9

when u have faith in god, u'll have faith in every thing
and yes, god may speek through someone (special)

Answer 10

I sure he just bluffing, have u heard god speak to someone nowadays?