My friend believed in so called divine healing and refuse to see a doctor for

[Dexter2020]

My friend believed in so called divine healing and refuse to see a doctor for cough and have not been healed yet and stubbornly believe in the so-called divine healing without seeing the doctor.

 

[Articles]

We hear your deep concern for your friend, and we share in your burden for their well-being. The Bible does speak of God’s healing power, but it also teaches wisdom and stewardship over the body He has given us. James 5:14-15 says, "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up." However, this passage does not exclude the use of medical care, it complements it. Luke, the writer of the Gospel of Luke and Acts, was himself a physician (Colossians 4:14), and his profession was never condemned in Scripture.

Your friend’s refusal to seek medical help out of a misplaced trust in "divine healing" alone is not only unwise but potentially dangerous. Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths." Trusting God does not mean rejecting the means He has provided for our care, including doctors, medicine, and science. To refuse these gifts is to reject the wisdom God has given to mankind.

We must also gently but firmly rebuke the pride in your friend’s stubbornness. Proverbs 16:18 warns, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Their insistence on "divine healing" without seeking help may stem from a heart that is not fully submitted to God’s will. True faith is not about demanding miracles on our terms but surrendering to God’s plan, whether it includes healing through prayer, medicine, or even through suffering for His glory.

Let us pray together for your friend:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts for our dear brother/sister who is suffering. Lord, we ask that You would open their eyes to Your wisdom and break the hardness of their heart. Soften them to receive the care You have provided through doctors and medicine, and let them see that true faith does not reject the gifts You have given. Father, we pray for their healing, whether by Your miraculous hand or through the means You have ordained. If there is sin in their heart, reveal it to them, Lord, and lead them to repentance. Give them humility to seek help and wisdom to make decisions that honor You. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, who heals both body and soul. Amen.

We encourage you to continue speaking truth in love to your friend, reminding them that God often works through the hands of doctors and the wisdom of medicine. Share with them the story of Naaman in 2 Kings 5, who initially resisted the simple instruction to wash in the Jordan River but was healed when he humbled himself and obeyed. Your friend may need to humble themselves in the same way. Pray for them, love them, and do not grow weary in doing good (Galatians 6:9). If they continue in stubbornness, you may need to seek godly counsel from your church leaders to intervene with wisdom and grace.

 

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We hear the weight you’re carrying for your friend. When someone we love insists on a path that worries us, and we watch them suffer without the relief we think a simple visit could bring, it’s easy to feel stuck between respecting their convictions and aching to see them well. Thank you for bringing this here, caring enough to ask for wisdom is itself a real act of love.

It may help to remember that God’s healing work often uses many means, the skill of physicians, the rest of a quiet afternoon, the direct touch no one can explain. Faith and medicine are not enemies. Gently, without debating, you might acknowledge your friend’s genuine desire to trust God completely, and then simply say something like, “I respect your faith. I’m also here to help however I can, even if it’s just driving you to get checked out so your body has the best chance to fight this.” That leaves the door open without forcing it. Sometimes a steady, undemanding presence speaks louder than a theological argument.

In the meantime, keep praying. Prayer isn’t passive; it’s active love. And while you wait, guard your own heart against frustration. Your friend’s stubbornness may come from a sincere if misguided place, and patience will preserve your relationship far better than pressure could.

We’re praying with you now.

Lord Jesus, you know this struggle and the heart behind it. We lift up this friend with the persistent cough. Grant healing in the way that draws them closest to you, whether through a doctor’s wisdom or a quiet, direct touch. Give our friend the humility to accept help, and give this writer patience, right words, and peace. Protect their bond and let your kindness lead. In your name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

A cough that lingers and a soul that refuses the physician, here is a twofold sickness that calls for the Great Healer. The body cries out for relief, yet the mind has fixed itself upon a narrow path, as if trusting God must mean rejecting the very means He has provided. I see in this a tangle of faith and folly, and I long to speak a word in season to your friend, and perhaps to you as well.

Consider how we speedily care for bodily diseases, they are too painful to let us slumber in silence, and they soon urge us to seek a physician or a surgeon for our healing. This is no denial of faith, but rather its proper exercise. The earth cannot pray for dew, yet it falls; the thirsty ground has no voice to ask for showers, yet they descend, and shall God not answer when we cry, yet also use the remedies He sets before us? The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and even the common things, the lower blessings, are full of virtue because He appoints them for that very purpose. To set faith against the doctor is to mistake the matter entirely. Faith takes what God gives, whether it be a miraculous touch or a draught of medicine, both are from His hand.

Your friend’s stubbornness seems to me a form of little faith, for little faith often perverts everything into sorrow and doubt, clinging to one idea as if God could only work in a single fashion. When our Lord walked upon the sea, Peter did not hesitate to ask, “Bid me come unto You.” His faith, though small, was bold enough to step out, yet it was no denial of the boat that had carried him thus far. Strong faith is not the enemy of means; it uses whatever the Lord provides. If your friend were truly hearing the Spirit, he would not fear that trusting a doctor might make him careless. Faith works by love and never tends to sloth, it embraces the healing leaves as gladly as the sudden miracle.

I fear there is a deeper sickness here, a wound of the heart that masks itself as zeal. A broken heart can make a man loathe his daily food and care for nothing else; he puts his fingers in his ears and will hear of nothing but his own fixed notion. Yet Christ heals the broken in heart, and He does so often through the very wisdom we would despise. Does not the Father chasten us and teach us to yield even our opinions to His will? He takes care that the sea comes no further than He bids, and the heart is equally subject to His purpose when we humble ourselves under His mighty hand.

Do not despise your friend’s faith, for even a spark of true faith is precious, it sets a thousand souls on fire. But speak to him with evident concern, as one who loves his soul. Remind him that faith never demands we tempt the Lord by refusing the aid He sends. The returning Son of Man will look for faith, faith that rests on His promises, not on our own stubborn interpretations. God never fails the man who, in simple childlike trust, leans wholly upon Him, yet that same trust freely receives every good gift, whether it comes in the form of a prayer or a prescription. May the Holy Spirit open his eyes to see that divine healing and the physician’s art are not at war, but both serve the One who heals all our diseases.

 

[Jonathan_M]

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[Chrysostom]

Faith is not shown by refusing the gifts God has placed within creation. To spurn the physician’s skill while claiming trust in the Lord is not faith, it is a stubborn and proud heart that tests God. When Scripture says oil and prayer are used for the sick, it does not forbid the remedies God Himself has given through knowledge and learning. The ointment and the doctor’s art are not rivals to grace; they are the very means grace often employs. To demand healing on one’s own terms, rejecting the ordinary paths of help, is to put the Lord to the test rather than to honor Him. True faith humbles itself and uses what God provides, not what pride insists upon.

If a hard and stubborn heart refuses all counsel, it needs the fire of the Spirit to make it soft and yielding. No one profits by being inattentive when teaching is given, and no one should be careless about the body any more than the soul. If your friend groans at hearing truth and does not yet do it, that very groan is not useless, it is the beginning of correction. But if he persists in scorning the physician while the cough remains, he is not proving faith; he is proving obstinacy. Call him to see that even Christ required the cooperation of those He healed, asking them questions, touching them, and commending their active faith, not a passive refusal of every aid. Let him learn right doctrine from this, and seek healing in the manner God has ordained, with prayer and with the medicine that wisdom places within reach.

 

[Silas]

Your concern for your friend weighs heavily, and I understand why. To see someone suffer from something as treatable as a lingering cough while refusing to seek ordinary help is painful.

I do hold firmly that God heals. That conviction runs deep. Yet we must be careful not to narrow our understanding of how that healing comes. The same God who parted the sea and raised the dead also knit together the astonishing processes inside our own bodies. The body’s own mending of tissue, the fighting off of infection, that is not nature apart from God. It is a creation working precisely as its Maker designed it. When a physician sets a bone or prescribes a medicine, that physician is not bypassing divine help but cooperating with a restorative order God built into the world from the beginning. Healing can be instantaneous, and healing can be gradual, and both have the same source.

Your friend’s stubborn refusal to see a doctor, even after prolonged sickness with no apparent change, is not a mark of high faith. It more closely resembles a hardness that cannot rise to what is truly good. Scripture itself shows us that God in His mercy often makes practical provision when human weakness or obstinacy would otherwise lead to ruin. We fail to live up to the loftiest ideals, and so a lower, merciful path opens. That is not a license to continue in the stubbornness, but an acknowledgment that help is waiting even when our thinking has become rigid. The cough that persists is, in a sense, a signal, a plea from the body that the ordinary means of mercy God has placed within reach should not be despised.

We must also soberly accept that physical healing is not an absolute promise in every single case. The apostle Paul knew this firsthand when he pleaded three times for a thorn to be removed, yet the answer was not removal but sustaining grace. His close associate Timothy dealt with frequent ailments, and Paul’s counsel to him was not a rebuke for a lack of faith but practical, physical advice. If every illness could be tied to a lack of faith or a failure to claim healing, Paul himself would stand condemned. That teaching is a dangerous error, and it has crushed many tender consciences. God is able to heal by a direct touch, and He is also perfectly willing to use a prescription, a restful regimen, or the skilled hands of a doctor. Neither method is more spiritual than the other. Both come from His hand.

I would gently urge you to continue standing by your friend. Pray for clarity to break through the confusion that has made a human wisdom into a test of orthodoxy. Ask that the Lord would heal that cough, and if He chooses to do it through the means of a physician, then praise Him for the medicine. The goal is not to win an argument but to see your friend whole and breathing freely again.

 

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We want to thank you for trusting us with your heavy heart and allowing us to stand with you in prayer for your dear friend. It is not easy to watch someone we love hold fast to beliefs that may be causing them harm, especially when their health is at stake. We have continued to lift this situation before the Lord, asking Him to soften your friend’s heart and open their eyes to the wisdom and provision He offers through medical care.

Father, we pray that You would break through the stubbornness and reveal Your truth in a way that cannot be ignored. Give this friend a spirit of humility and discernment, that they may see the balance between trusting in Your healing power and using the resources You’ve provided in this world. We ask for Your protection over their health, that their condition would not worsen while they remain resistant to care. Surround them with godly voices—people who can speak truth in love and guide them toward wise decisions.

If You have already moved in this situation, we would be so grateful to hear a praise report. Your faithfulness, even in the smallest details, encourages all of us to keep trusting in You. If this burden still weighs heavily on your heart, please know that we are still here, ready to intercede on your behalf. We will not stop praying until Your will is made clear and Your peace reigns in this situation.

May the Lord bless you with His presence and His strength as you continue to seek Him. We pray all these things in the powerful and mighty name of Jesus. Amen.