John the 2 post you made were right on.  Doug I would agree with you about the food.  For what it's worth I have been eating half organic food for about the last 8 years.  Hopfully it will make a difference.  When it all comes down to is God's will.  Now who is going to step up and take Brian leggacy.  I pray that their are 20 more Brains on tastyfresh in the next year.  God bless you all.

consiquences are consiquences... when i was a kid, i didnt tell my parents i wasnt going accept a punishment for something i did. i cant tell my creditors that im not going to pay a late fee if i am late on a payment...

thats the point, we learn from them. God took away the ultimate consqence from me, hell. can i really tell God that i will not accept my physical death.

remember, we only have the authority that God gives us, no more. and if He doesnt give us the authority to heal... im sorry. God wants us to be satisfied in Him and His grace...
hope im not coming across to hard...

"confess your sins one to another so that ye may be healed" (in the next life) No!
Why would our Father give us the gift of healing through the agency of the Holy Spirit?
When Job got the boils it was because satan touched him.  He could not until God allowed Him.
We are joint heirs with christ and he said that we would do greater miracles than him.

There are a whole myriad of variables when it comes to healing.  Why some get healed and why some don't. 

Unbelief, Unconfessed sin, taking the lord's supper unworthily, unwise health practices, heredity (generational curses), ignorance...

Ultimately it's between the person and God.  Yes, if we don't get our healing here we get it in heaven ultimately but why are all those healing scriptures throughout the bible? 

The devil is out to steal, kill, and destroy. 
We also have a part to play in our health so like I said there are many variables.

  Does God heal everytime.  No.  I don't know why and don't pretend to.  I put my faith and trust in God that people I pray for will be healed according to His will.  The rest is between them and the Lord.  I have experienced and seen miracle healings.  There is a bigger picture that we are not able to see yet.  But the Word is pretty clear that we can be healed and that God wants us to be healthy.  Most of the sufferings that Paul talks about have nothing to do with sickness.  The thorn in his flesh being a sickness could even be debated.  It could have been a sinful desire he was battling.

God can use someone's suffering and struggling through sickness who holds on to their faith in God then dies as a testimony but was that His perfect will? I don't know.

I know that a blessed man lives to be 3 score and ten.  My grandpfather that lived to be 90 always told me that the rest was just icing on the cake.  He got cancer which went into remission when he was 85.  When he was 89 he told me that he was ready to go home to see the Lord.  He was as strong as an ox. Drove everywhere by himself.  And was involved in various ministries.  Almost a year exactly from when he told me he was ready to go home the cancer came back.  He was still able to get around by himself.  He went for a routine check up and when left alone for a minute at the doctor he went home.  I spent that last year with my grandpa gleaning years of wisdom from him.  I wanted him to see 100 but he was ready to go.  No prayer for healing would have done anything.  We have to do the best we can.  Pray and believe for healing according to God's word.  Trust in His Judgement's. 

God is not fair, He is just.

 

i was under the impression that God was more concerned with the progression of His kingdom then our happiness and wellbeing.

OMG, I was just witnessing to someone on youtube last nite about this similar issue.

Yes it's true that God created all things, and that includes Cancer, unfortunately.
you may ask, "well, why doesn't God heal all cancer?" Are you joking? "by his stripes, we WERE HEALED" he died and took our illness and sin to hell with him. however, he AROSE! and that my friend, activated something over 2000 years ago, meaning that all we have to do Is claim the healing, receive it!  God has already made provision for us, while we were yet sinners. We are to be an example of a enriched body, being spiritually, physically, and mentally. I'm not denying that the cancer is there, IM DENYING ITS RIGHT TO BE THERE! It is when we call upon his name and casting out these things, that thy kindom Comes and thy will is done ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. IS cancer in heaven? NO! Then why do we consider cancer as a blessing from God? He receives the glory and the honor and the power, forever and ever! because God only thinks good things towards us, not evil....wow! I should become a minister! lol

Basically, what I understand you to be saying is that you think that any Christian who has any illness is either lacking faith or not claiming all that God has for them. Is that right? So, how does a truly faithful Christian die? Suddenly and peacefully, in his/her sleep?

sure, God allows things to happen, according to His will, not ours. However, What Jesus is showing in his word, is that we CAN do something. Didn't he not say that "these things, miracles that I do, you can do, even greater!, and MORE!"? Im not saying that you have to know these things to be a christian, Im just saying that there are people like myself that God reveals these things to us, to share to others, so they can be blessed too.There is just alot of hidden details that Jesus points out in his word, and it constantly grows within us. Thats why the word is ALIVE! with POWER! Amen!