Do I pray for God to heal me and wait?

For a gold tooth?

Go to the dentists?

Pray and go to the dentist?

God of course has the power to heal me and give me a replacement gold tooth without a dentist, but He generally meets the need not the greed.

Ordinarily, common sense tells the Christian to pray and go to the dentist who is a teeth expert.

The Dentist tells me I could have died if the abscess was not treated. He gives me chemicals (antibiotics) and tells me if they do not work then he might have to remove the tooth.

I go home and pray for God to give me a gold tooth?

I do pray that God would be pleased to bless those chemicals and God does heal me without losing that tooth.

God extraordinarily could have healed me without chemicals, but the very antibiotics were God's intended means via the instrument of the dentist. Yet the dentist had no power to heal and the chemicals of themselves were useless without His blessing.

Sadly the world considers 'cosmic bad luck'-the story yesterday about 2 twins having cancer. One in the clear after 6 months chemo [URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-24506445]]]BBC[/URL]

The Lord is STILL in control!

penny wrote:
I don't believe this article has anything to do with JW's nor blood transfusions.
chemo chemicals are not the same thing as blood.

I am unsure of your expertise but is Lisa mistaken below:Childhood leukaemia is actually very traceable with chemo etc ( just seen a statistic of 79 % survival rate with chemo etc).

Was it not a Christian James Young Simpson who gave us the chemical for anaesthetic and another Alexander Fleming-penicillin.

How many lives saved through such and I trust you have nothing against chemicals used to save lives or to put you out when you undergo any operation.

There are many testimonies that chemo has helped those with cancer to a full recovery. Did the Lord therefore use chemicals in their recovery?

Yet could 'the need to control others, against their own nature and faith' sometimes be necessary. False faith in a false system isn't any freedom BUT prayerful trust in a Sovereign God who controls all things and can and does move the hand of a physician- even when necessitating Chemo or blood transfusions for healing.

Should JW's choose to die or should the freedom of those released from satanic bonds step in to save their little ones, is a good question.[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBW_nKOdfgY]]]Jehovah's Witnesses & Blood Transfusions[/URL]

The false charismatic system is not dissimilar with a false faith in healing miracles at the expense of Christian wisdom and sanity and at what cost to their own adherents?