Christians what do you do when your sick?

Question

you belive that god/jesus will heal, does that mean you dont take medication...and if you do, is that not having faith in god? what happens when you get cancer, why do you except treatment when god will cure you....

im not attacking, im genuinely curious....

thanks everyone... well except "Kerilyn Knows " i was curious, just because i knew someone who wasnt going to except treatment because he believes god was going to heal him, so i was just seeing if other people were the same... so see "Kerilyn Knows " i wasnt attacking..... looks like your the one with STUPIDITY

Answer 1

I will admit that more often than not I reach for the pill cabinet first when I have a major migraine or something.

I don't think it's a lack of faith to get medical treatment when we are sick. It's kind of like this joke I heard once: This guy gets stranded on a rooftop in a flood. A rescuer comes by with a boat and says "Get in." The guy says, "God will save me." Then a helicopter flies by and throws him a rope ladder. He doesn't take it. "God will save me," he yells up at them.

The guy drowns. When he gets to heaven he says to God "I had faith in you. Why didn't you save me?"

God says, "I TRIED. I sent you a boat and a helicopter..."

I've known Christian doctors who believed it was God's purpose for them to heal others. I think God gave humanity the intellect and the resources to discover new medical treatments. I don't think that the medicinal properties of plants and such appeared by accident.

And when all of those things have failed, I still believe God can heal. I have seen it happen.

Answer 2

I take medication and deal with it. Yes, God heals, but he doesn't intervene on every matter. It's not so much a matter of faith as it is knowing that we don't know His will. I find it to be pretty demeaning to God to assume that we know what He will do in all circumstances.
If I got cancer, I'd pray, and I'd still accept treatment. After all, who says that God isn't actually using those treatments to help me? Faith and medicine are not mutually exclusive.


Hope this helps!

Oh, and Hoff Mom--I was actually thinking of the exact same story, but I didn't know if I had room to fit it onto one post :D

Answer 3

There are all kinds of christians, I'm a catholic therefore I go to Dr's, take medication,aspirin,and if I'm seriously ill I will pray and ask others to pray for me. You also have the more I would call chronic Christians believe god can heal thru someone laying hands on you in the church or talking in tongues.

Answer 4

1. God gave your body its own healing powers.
2. depending on the sickness, I will pray.
3. As far as cancer, God is in control. Eventually I will die anyway, it may nice for God to take me earlier to enjoy eternity with Him. Either way, I win.
4. God releases the healing, it is up to Him when and who.
5. Heaven holds no disease or affliction. The way I see it, entering into heaven "cures" me for eternity.

Answer 5

God heals through man. Medicine and health treatments are God given and that is why. On the flip side God will heal me if that is what He desires. He doesn't care if I want to be healed only if He wants me to be. I could receive the best medical care in the world and if God doesn't bless me I will not survive.

Answer 6

I go to someone who has been given the gift of healing, a doctor. Get medicen and take it. Im not saying that prayer doesnt work, but God also likes us to see us help ourselves and use the gifts he has given us. And mabye, just mabye God cures us through the treatment.

Answer 7

I go to a Word of Faith Church and there I have learned that God/Jesus have done everything They are going to do for us. It is up to us what we receive. Faith palys a big role. Knowing who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ, what you can do in Christ and you can find the answers in the Bible.
The Bible is not a book about God is God talking to us.

I Peter 2:24 "He [Jesus] personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed."

When we take the previous scripture and we believe is God telling us that..... One can only say "I have been Healed!"

In regards to Cancer, the Pastor of our church was diagnosed with it and he believed in his healing, but it did not stop there, he had to go through the treatments he changed his way of eating, he had to adjust a lot of things in his life and he is healed. The doctors confirmed it with test.

In a few words you have to believe in your heart and confess with your mouth your healing and keep on confessing it till you have it and you do what you have to do in the natural to get well, until the spiritual manifests in the natural, the more you do these the easy it gets!!!

My personal experience is with headaches, I am pregnant and I can’t take a lot of medicines because of the baby and I used to get lots of migraines and tension headaches, now when I get the sensation of either of them I just breathe deeply, relax my self and repeat in my head “By His wounds I have been healed.” And the pain goes away.

Answer 8

I generally pray that the doctors don't kill people with their incomplete knowledge of science. Since I believe that any of the science and medicine we have comes from God through mankind, I don't think we should totally discredit it either.
Christians pray for a cure through Him directly or through the use of medicine...but believe that it may not always be His will...

Answer 9

God doen't not say He will heal everyone. God also gave us common sense. I use it. Sometimes I go to the doctor other times I don't. I beleive in faith for God's will in my life.

Answer 10

We petition God and we also seek medical attention....either or both are acceptable to God. Luke,of the Gospels was a Doctor.

also Luke 5:31....the words of Jesus....31 And Jesus answered them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick;