Signs and Wonders

Mark 16:17-18 NLT 
These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won't hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed. 

When I was praying and walking my dog, Tuffy the other morning I was still talking to God about Dianne passing away earlier this month. The result was this message:

It has been said that signs and wonders are for the unbeliever. Jesus healed many and many became believers and followed Him. He gave the disciples power and authority to go out and heal the sick. After Jesus was crucified and risen He sent the Holy Spirit to live in them. When that baptism happened they had that same power and authority; the power to do all Jesus did and more. We have that same power and authority do the miraculous while we walk the earth every day. In Jesus name He will touch the multitudes through our hands. And others will come to know Jesus and have a relationship with Him.

Does He heal believers, too? Matthew 12:15 NLT say that He healed all the sick among them. I have to believe that many were unbelievers and others had already believed. So, yes, we are to lay hands on all the sick and see them recover. We are to call forth that which is not and command in Jesus name for body parts to be healed and for satan to be bound and his demons to be gone. And yet there is a time when we all will pass away to be with Him forever.

Some will pass on to eternity without sickness; others will pass fighting through sickness. Only God knows the time and place. Only God knows the circumstances. It is not for us to question why. So we praise God when He heals through our hands and we thank Him even when the healing does not occur.