Your Morning Coffee 10/22/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father help us to more clearly understand Him and His ways and His answers to our prayers. Father, we are so quick to misunderstand and to doubt. And you acknowledge our struggle and show us grace and mercy instead of condemnation and mockery. Your mercies are new every morning! Great is your faithfulness! In the name of Jesus, by the Spirit, thank you Father, for so loving us. Amen.

Your Morning Song: "You Bled" by Rend Collective

Your Morning Scripture: Isaiah 55:8-9

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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I've struggled for a long time with this question. When I pray for God to heal someone that I love, why does He say no sometimes?

Ideally this would be something we could all sit down and talk through together. Over coffee of course. But because this devo is the format, I'll be very blunt, hoping to spark more conversations about this, not necessarily to try to catch it all in one brief go.

God never says no to healing.

You might be thinking what I was thinking the first time I heard that. What?! He definitely says no sometimes.

If you have kids, then this will hit home all the better. My children have this strange ability to ask me for things, and then completely twist/misunderstand my answers. Yes means yes. No means maybe. And maybe means yes. And then when things don't exactly the way they want, then we have... issues.

We need to be careful taking issue with God's answers to our prayers. Sometimes we hear Him say no, when He is instead saying yes. But not exactly how we would have Him say yes.

God will always heal.

Either by natural means, the body, doctors, nurses, etc.

Or by immediate miraculous means, His divine power to say to any injury or illness or even death, "be gone!"

And last, the resurrection. This is the final, eternal, forever healing. Anyone who does not experience either of the first two "Yes's" will certainly experience this one.

God never says no to healing. He always says yes. But not always how and when we want.

And so, in our grief and struggle and doubt, His yes can sound very much like a no. And that struggle is okay. It really is. He does not condemn us for misunderstanding Him. He does not mock us for getting it wrong.

But instead, He loves us and gently comforts us, as we grow out of our struggle and doubt and into His peace and rest.

Are we willing to trust Him? Are we willing to consider that how we feel, while allowed, might be wrong? Are we robbing ourselves of Hos comfort when we twist His yes into a caricature of a no?

Entrust yourself and your loved ones to the Great Healer. And rest in His perfect moral character and unmatched, divine power. Because all of His answers must be objectively and morally perfect. Or He isn't God anymore.

We can trust God. He is trustworthy. And when we cry out for healing, He always says yes.