The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. -Isa. 38: 19.

While we are not to attribute our recovery to divine healing today, this does not mean we are not to be grateful to God and to voice gratitude to him if we convalesce. Nor does this mean we may not take the matter to Him in prayer when we are sick, or our beloved fellow Christians are sick. Every circumstance and affair in our lives is a matter which we can take to him in prayer. Still, we may not ask for divine healing and expect it, even if we use as a basis Jesus' words at John 15: 7. We know what the sayings of Jesus are as regards his followers for this day, and they do not tell of miracles on the physical organism of his followers at this time. The proper thing we can ask is for our heavenly Father to help us to endure in Christian fortitude during illness or physical impairment. We can ask him to help us to act as faithful witnesses through it all, not to lose faith in him, to suffer no spiritual injury because of it. W 5/15