You see very clearly that a friend or colleague is very ill and they’re confessing they’re well because they’re exercising their faith and ‘calling the things that are not there as if they were’.

There are some Christians who believe that seeking medical attention is demonstrating a lack of faith in God. How can a full grown woman be suffering from severe abdominal pains and still insist she is well only to be diagnosed of having a fibroid. Why didn’t she seek medical help? Because ‘her pastor says she should not buy the idea of being sick and denounce it in Jesus name’ – whilst the hospital is just down the road.  What is so wrong with admitting the fact that we’re ill and need attention as Christians?

There is a proverb that literally translates that ‘you get help when you sell your sickness’ Even in the bible, Jesus healed the sick because they admitted their disease to him. If the blind man or the lame man had not admitted they had a disease, they wouldn’t have been healed because there is/was nothing to heal.

Some even rely on some of these Christian channels, phone in and request for prayer for very life threatening issues. Nothing wrong with that, but won’t it make a lot of sense if after the prayer you check yourself into the hospital to confirm your ‘miracle’ or your instant healing? Miracles happen yes, but it’s really better to be safe than sorry.

That is how some of us Christians fool ourselves today.  Since we are sick, confessing that we are well /healed is not going to heal us.  God says in Jeremiah: “You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there!” (Jeremiah 6:14).  We ‘chew and pour’ the verse of “….by his stripes we have been healed” forgetting that the verse is not talking about our physical well-being.

Imagine you walked into a hospital, only to find all the patients singing at the top of their lungs: “God’s report says we are healed.”  After that, some took their last gasps and died.  Others remained in hospital as sick as ever. Whilst the doctors just stand and watch on – would you not have concluded you were in a psychiatric ward? Pastors should take care of the spiritual not the physical.

If your car is damaged, do you take it to a mechanic or wait for God to perform a miracle and ‘heal’ your car?

If your house needs some plumbing done, do you wait for God to plug the leak, or do you call a plumber? God is just as capable of repairing a car or doing the plumb work as He is of healing our bodies.

The fact that God can and does perform miracles of healing does not mean we should always expect a miracle (even though we’ve not acknowledged we’re sick) instead of seeking the help of individuals who possess the knowledge and skill to assist us.

God works through man and that is why an old lady in the village can prepare herbs to heal.

Why should churches build hospitals if it is ‘unchristian’ for a sick person to rely on the physical to get healed? Doctors can be viewed as God’s gift to us, a means through which God brings healing and recovery. You should not live in denial that you’re fine and be calling pastors for prayers! Seek help and then exercise your faith!