I like to keep it simple sometimes.

As I ready myself for the trip to Brazil I am pondering many things regarding the miracle of healing. The belief I hold is that God always is in a posture to heal the sick. His power is available to us who believe. Healing is an absolute provision in the atonement. Our God is always in a good mood and He loves to bless.
Many of the great healing evangelist of years past, John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, and others, believed that all sickness was of the devil. They approached prayer for healing from this mindset.
Wigglesworth was no theologian, he did not pretend to be, his faith was simple and to the point and he had fantastic manifestations of the miraculous in his ministry.
I have no desire to debate theology in this particular blog. Nor go into detail about the healing revivalist and their successes and limitations. I just want to make an observation;
Jesus came to 'destroy the works of the devil' (1Jn.3:8), He 'went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil' (Acts10:38). I like Jesus.
We are also told that we can do these works and greater works. (Jn.14:12).
Sometimes I like to keep things simple for my own benefit...it works for me.
God does not cause or allow sickness to come into our lives for the purpose of teaching or building 'character'.... Does sickness sometimes draw us closer to God? Yes, of course.... Is God able to bring good from anything that the curse brings our way? You better believe it! But, as I have often said; ' in the Kingdom of God, the end does not justify the means.' (in other words, just because good came out of it that doesn't mean God was in it).
God is not in the sickness and He has taken the curse and became cursed for us so that we could be delivered from it. (Gal.3:13)
Jan (my Jan) observes that satan came to kill, steal and 'destroy' and Jesus came to 'destroy' too. Jesus came to 'destroy' 'destruction'.
In his book 'Taking The Limits Off God', Jim Richards writes; "The most cunning thing the devil does is not to steal, kill and destroy....The most cunning thing the devil does is to steal, kill and destroy, and then convince us that God did it." I hate satan.
All theological implications and debate as to how satan uses the curse 'etc. and so forth' aside. I like to keep it simple sometimes, it works for me; all sickness of the devil and all healing is from God. I like God.