It must not try to be like them. Miraculous healing is not there to replace medicine or the body's healing processes. But Western civilization has gotten even many Christians to look to medical science as their only source of healing. When the Bible speaks of healing, it is speaking of God's stepping in to bring about healing by divine power rather than mere medicine. The natural processes obey God's command rather than operate as they normally do.
Miracles show who's really in charge.
Thus we are ordinarily to pray not just that the ill be comforted, but that they be healed. When healing occurs, we are not to ask what we did right, but to ask what God is up to. Back to Index. God-Talk About Healing Healing is a divine mystery. God does not provide the same things to everyone, nor the same thing all the time to any one person.