Can God Really Help You?

Eighteen months ago I went for an eye test, not because I thought I needed one but because everyone kept telling me that you are supposed to go every 2 years and it was about 14 years since I had last been. I was told that I had a slight reading prescription(it comes with age apparently), but to carry on as I was because once I had glasses the muscles would relax and the deterioration would be quicker. I was told to come back when I began to find it more difficult to read.

Over the last 3 or 4 months it began to occur to me that maybe I was finding it a little harder to read and it was time to go back to Specsavers. But then I started thinking......didn’t Jesus die on the cross for my healing? Why couldn’t I have my eyesight restored?

At first I was in two minds, I believe in healing, but did ‘not being able to read very well’ count as needing healing? Obviously if it was something much more serious I would turn to God and ask people to pray for me. I wasn’t sure people would genuinely pray for my eyes because I knew they would be secretly thinking ‘don’t be so stupid, get yourself off to Specsavers’. Most people need glasses for reading as they get older and the problem is easily solved by modern science through glasses. I was even more doubtful after attending the ladies Cherish conference. One of the speakers, Maree de Jong, needed glasses to read and another speaker, Lisa Bevere, also admitted to difficulty reading now that she was a G-Ma (grandmother as she put it). I also noticed that Gloria Copeland (my healing heroine) needed reading glasses. If these three trailblazing mighty women of God needed glasses, then maybe I just had to accept it. Or did I?

Didn’t Jesus heal blind eyes and restore sight? Surely you don't only qualify if you are completely blind. If Jesus can restore sight to the blind, then he must be able to do the easier job of simply restoring my ability to read small print. Why wouldn’t he restore my sight? Not only that, it is expensive to buy glasses, why would he want me to spend that money? We are told that ‘by his stripes we are healed’ and there weren’t any exclusion clauses. The decision was made.....I decided to pray and believe for my eyes to be healed.

So, having made the decision, I decided that I needed to begin speaking it. I tested it out on a friend. Her response.......”I wear contact lenses, it’s part of getting older, I think you need to get glasses. It’s not that I think God can’t heal you but.....” The rest was left unsaid. She believed that God could heal me, if it was his will, but she didn’t think he would. Why not? Well, he doesn’t does he? You don’t hear of people getting their eyesight restored, they just get glasses.

Here’s the thing! I’ve decided that I am getting out the boat on this one and I am not doing it thinking “It’s O.K, I can swim, and the worst that will happen is that my hair will get wet and my mascara run”. No, I am getting out the boat and I am going to walk on water towards Jesus. Why? Because I know that Jesus heals, that he died for my healing, my entire healing, not just the serious stuff that the doctors can’t treat. I have decided that I am not going to Specsavers!!!

P.S No disrespect to Specsavers intended.