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| Posted 12/19/2001 8:51 PM (GMT -6) |   | I am really sad and upset right now. I just got word that a friend of mine died last night about 7:30pm.
In my grief I have some of the usual, 'why God' questions, but I also am pondering the warfare prayer thing, and where I could fit in prayer for the life of another.
My friend had cancer, but he died from complications due to pnuemonia and a spreading infection. His body was so weak from cancer and chemo treatments, that it couldn't fight off pnuemonia which eventually caused major organ failure.
He is survived by his young and wonderful wife, his daughter and his 5 year old son. 
This really sucks. Plain an simple and I gotta admit I'm a bit peeved at God.
From what I gather from listening to sermons by Doc, the whole warfare theology thing basically says that evil exists and that God did not cause/allow cancer and death to happen to my friend. Evil in the world did.
So because evil exists, the Christian needs to pray fervently, there's a war going on you know.
Well, I guess I can't hang the cancer and pnuemonia on God's allowances, but why didn't God Heal my friend? I mean, there's a 5 year old boy who will wake up from sleep tommorrow to discover that he will never see his daddy again. This breaks my heart!
Was God powerless because not enought people prayed? I'm sure I know the answer to that, but shoot, can someone tell me what it would take to move the healing hand of God? How can the death of my friend be better for the world?
Also, in hind sight, I'm thinking about my whole day yesterday and how I think the Holy Spirit was prompting me to pray for my friend.
Something inside me thought that "today would be the day" for my friend to die. So I did pray a couple times. Short, 20 second prayers that were not full of intesity or emotion, just me begging God to heal my friend. But He didn't.
So with hindsight, I'm honestly wondering if I failed to heed the prompting of the Holy Spirit to pray? Yes I prayed, but maybe not the way God wanted me to? Not a warfare prayer?
So on a bit more intellectual note, I'm wondering if in warfare prayer theology, there's a method of proper prayer, or would God use a 20 second, non-intense prayer anytime? Could I sin by not fully obeying the prompting of the HS, only partially? Was my 20 second prayer really a partial obediance to the prompting to pray, or a full obediance?
Why was my prayer so short when prompted? I guess deep down I knew he was going to die that day and I emotionally distanced myself to cope.
Now I'm wondering if God wanted to use me, but I was not obedient enough?
Thank you for your thoughts, please join me in lifting praise to our Lord that he trully is a "father to the fatherless". My friend's son needs the best dad he can get. I'm so sad about this....
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