48) Healing: A Doubting Heart or Biblical Faith
As I studied an internship course, I came to a discussion titled A Doubting Heart. It gave me some thoughts to ponder on.
A doubting heart is more than an uncertain heart. Because, an uncertain heart seeks direction. But, a doubting heart rejects the direction it has already received. God’s Word tells us that “By His stripes we are/were healed.” This work has already been done. Jesus finished it at the cross. It is part of Christ’s atonement for sin.
To doubt is to place into question what you have already received from God. On our spiritual journeys, the doubting heart demonstrates the reluctance to follow the path God has revealed.
FAITH believes God will do as He has spoken. Many of us operate from a more dangerous definition of faith and present this idea to others. That definition is the belief that God will do what we want or deem that we need Him to do. Guided by this definition of faith, a person lives in the expectation that they can have what they want if they believe hard enough.
This is a problem when it comes to divine healing. We need to believe God will do as He has spoken in His Word instead of the idea that if I believe hard enough I will be healed. We have already been healed. Believe what God has spoken. A doubting heart produces a real problem.
BIBLICAL FAITH knows God will fulfill His Word, even when the results are not yet evident and if they are different from what we want or feel we need.
Speak God’s Word out loud and within you. Speak His promises. Embrace the belief God will do as He has spoken. Give Him all praise, all glory and all thanksgiving for the finished work of Jesus.
Our desire to be healed, begins with hope, but it must become within us Biblical faith!
To doubt is to call into question the promise of God, “By His stripes I am healed.”
Dorothy von Lehe Post 48
2025