Day 4: What If God Says ‘No’?

Sometimes, God’s healing doesn’t come in the way or time we expect. Perhaps you’ve prayed for yourself or a loved one, yet faced disappointment when healing didn’t seem to arrive. These moments can challenge our faith, but they also offer opportunities to trust God more deeply.

God’s Love Never Changes

If healing doesn’t come as we hope, it doesn’t mean God loves us any less. Ultimately, the best healing we can know is the new body promised to us in eternity. Regardless of how He heals, God’s love is unshakeable, and not one thing can separate you from it. Even when you suffer, Scripture says you are still the victor because of God’s love.

God is Always Good and Faithful

If God chooses a different kind of healing than we want, He is no less good or faithful. The Israelites sometimes complained about eating manna in the wilderness, but God revealed later that it was “to do good for them in the end.” Manna was an invitation to depend on Him daily and deepen their trust in Him. It’s when we trust Him, despite our circumstances, that we experience His peace.

Better Than Physical Healing

Is anything better than physical healing? We might not think so, but King David declared God’s love is better than life itself. God’s love for you will never cease or fade. Grasping it in new and unshakeable ways is a “good in the end” kind of gift. It’s worth “qavah-ing” for and is the best way to cope with what our bodies are going through.

What to Hold Onto

So, while you continue praying for healing, cling to the unchangeable truths of who God is. He is near the brokenhearted. He loves you with an overwhelming, everlasting love and only wants good for you. He invites you to know His goodness and trust His good purposes for your life.

Prayer

Lord, even when healing doesn’t come the way I expect, I choose to trust in Your love, goodness, and faithfulness. Help me find peace and take refuge in Your presence. Strengthen my faith and teach me to rest in You.

Encouragement

Though His answers may not always match our expectations, God’s plans are greater than we can imagine. He is with you every step of the way, loving you all the while. Keep waiting on Him, and you will find His strength and peace.

Romans 8:35–39 TLV

Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.” But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

Psalm 100:5

For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.

Deuteronomy 8:16 NASB1995

In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

Psalm 63:3

Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

Ephesians 3:17b–19

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.