Note again that this promise in James says, "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick." That surely means then that if God gives the faith, He gives the healing; if God withholds the faith so that we do not have the confidence that God has assured us of the healing, then we must be content with what He wants to do. Always we ought want what is best, and God knows what is best. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 148]
I am saying that those who are sick ought to pray, and if God in loving kindness gives the faith, He gives the healing. Christians are invited on this matter, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
Christians, confess your sins and call on the Lord for healing, then rejoice when He gives the healing, and give him the glory. And if God has something better - a thorn in the flesh, along with grace to endure it and be happy - then takes God's blessing and be glad. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 150]
Doctors and medicines are not wrong; diets and exercise are not wrong. God usually means in taking care of our bodies; He uses human personalities in getting people saved. It is not wrong to have doctors and medicine, and it is not always God's will to heal; but, oh, we must not neglect this sweet invitation to pray to God when we are sick. May God help some to trust Him today for the remedy for your trouble. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 150]
Isaiah 40:30,31 says, "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Oh, the natural, physical strength and energy of youth is not what it takes to serve God. What it takes is an enduement of power from Heaven. And old men as well as young who wait upon the Lord may have that power and may "mount up with wings as eagles; . . .shall run, and not be weary; and. . .walk, and not faint." So pray when you are old. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 156]
I had the joy of winning to Christ a beautiful woman in the tour business on the Island of Cyprus. She was a Greek Catholic, a lovely woman. But when I talked to her about being a Christian, she said, "But Dr. Rice, when you try to do good you don't always do good." How well I know it! I told her, "That is why you must have Jesus to fix things for you." - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 168-169]
"There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked," and there never will be, for God has created and enlisted and has adjusted this whole universe so that sin must be punished and no one can be happy in his sins. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 188]
Rest, sweet rest, is found in Jesus alone. His work satisfies the Father as the basis for our salvation and it ought to satisfy us. If Jesus Himself could say on the cross, "It is finished," then sit down at the right hand of the Father when He ascended on High, you and I, too, may safely sit down, and so ceasing from our own works, with no dependence in the world upon them, enter into the rest of God. - John R. Rice [Success-prone Christians, pg. 201]
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