There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

prayer, healing, and miracles who will pass away suddenly through an accident or a disease. The church will pray and believe, and yet the individual being prayed for will see no change and will move to his or her eternal destination. In some cases, this situation of praying yet not receiving puts a huge crack in the shield of faith for some people. Instead of thanking God for the person and knowing they will see him or her again in heaven, they begin to question God’s ability and willingness to heal or to answer a healing prayer in the future. This is a serious issue with some. I suggest that you should never change your biblical theology to accommodate a tragedy. My father once said, “When I pass, tell people I still believe in a God who heals the sick!” Dad never changed his theology of healing, even though his own body never experienced a full recovery. To him, he lived a full life, ministered for more than sixty-one years, passing at age seventy-eight, and was ready to go home and enter into his eternal rest! Even Scripture teaches that a man can be given seventy years and, by reason of strength, eighty (Ps. 90:10). We must be thankful for the many good years and not disqualify our faith for the closing years of a physical crisis when crossing the finish line. What happens, however, when the death is not an older person who we know is going to pass anyway but is an infant who passes in a crib at home, or a child in a deadly accident, or a mom who passes with cancer, leaving three small children and a father who dies while working on the job? These early departures from life often cause survivors to question God’s goodness , His love, and even His existence . Without some