Is this correct in Faith and Healing?

[ima]

Healing is a hot burner topic in the Christian faith. It has so many facets. However, I want to focus on one. This is my question - Is it right for people to say that one didn't have enough faith and as a result did not receive healing?

Healing is indeed a hot burner topic and rightly so. We all have different beliefs and approaches. But I think miracle 'hawkers' promising wonders and miracles at every turn have led many to believe in this manner.
Faith is very important. Remember Jesus asked 'Do you want to be made whole?' and at another time said 'Your faith has made you whole'
Healing is an outflow of Jesus love and compassion for human suffering. I believe there were many who he healed who didn't follow him but came for the miracles and loaves and the fish.
Again, some miracles and healing took time. 12 years, 38 years etc. Is it because they had no faith? Not necessarily. Some things are God's will and prerogative and done in HIS time. Even Lazarus's sisters told Jesus that their brother wouldn't have died had He been there. But the miracle of Lazarus being raised from the dead wasn't delayed . It just happened at God's timing

 

[@Akinwumigentle]

Healing is a hot burner topic in the Christian faith. It has so many facets. However, I want to focus on one. This is my question - Is it right for people to say that one didn't have enough faith and as a result did not receive healing?

It depends. While we should show compassion and love towards anyone who may not be healed perhaps after prayer, it's certain that it takes faith to receive divine healing! Jesus told people that if they can believe, all things are possible.
The problem is our understanding of faith is somewhat limited at times. For example the scripture teaches that faith works by love. There have been instances where people simply manifested love by forgiving another person who has offended them and they received healing almost immediately without prayer!
At other times, a person sincerely repent of their sins and they were healed without prayers! Healing is a vast subject and it's requires discernment to know exactly the corresponding actions of faith that we bring healing on the scene.

 

[Godwin_]

PS: this is a long read.
I see truly amazing answers to this questions above, I just want to add this. The idea of “Enough” and “Not Enough” faith many times is not a teaching that the Bible supports. When the disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith() his response was that if they had faith as small as the mustard seed they’d say to the mountain me removed and cast into the sea! I think this points to the fact that Jesus was trying to get them to understand that faith is faith small or great.

Many times in the scriptures where they could perform a certain miracle and Jesus said they had little faith, he was pointing to the doubt in their hearts and we know that faith and doubt cannot co-exist, faith comes out of love doubt comes out of fear, Jesus was explaining that their faith had not overcome their doubt, that very circumstance is called “little faith”.

That said we should understand that no believer has a faith problem, no Christian finds it hard to believe that God could do spectacular things why? The answer in in their name— we are called believers, that’s what we do for a living, we believe! That’s how we live— Hab 2–the just shall live by faith! That said, we must know that healing (health) is one of those things that christ provided for us by reason of his death, burial and resurrection. 1pet 2:24 says by his stripes we were healed! He used the past tense, we have been healed in christ already! Our faith in christ has brought us into the position where we have a right to experiencing this supernatural health. How then do we access it? The answer is this — you have to ask for your right now! You have to collect it! The problem many times is that people assume that God is the one vetting who has enough or who doesn’t before he does them a miracle, but God’s will is that you are healed 3John 1:2 he was so zealous he is not healing you now nor will he heal you tomorrow, but he has healed you already by the cross. Now you must ask so you could receive, you must seek so you could find and knock so you’ll receive open doors. Jesus’ idea of prayer —
5 And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,
6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';
7 and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'?
8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Luke 11:5, ESV) Jesus was saying that importunity would bring what your faith has bought you, your insistence on having what you rightfully own would materialize it.

Hope this helps.

 

[@Akinwumigentle]

PS: this is a long read.
I see truly amazing answers to this questions above, I just want to add this. The idea of “Enough” and “Not Enough” faith many times is not a teaching that the Bible supports. When the disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith() his response was that if they had faith as small as the mustard seed they’d say to the mountain me removed and cast into the sea! I think this points to the fact that Jesus was trying to get them to understand that faith is faith small or great.

Many times in the scriptures where they could perform a certain miracle and Jesus said they had little faith, he was pointing to the doubt in their hearts and we know that faith and doubt cannot co-exist, faith comes out of love doubt comes out of fear, Jesus was explaining that their faith had not overcome their doubt, that very circumstance is called “little faith”.

That said we should understand that no believer has a faith problem, no Christian finds it hard to believe that God could do spectacular things why? The answer in in their name— we are called believers, that’s what we do for a living, we believe! That’s how we live— Hab 2–the just shall live by faith! That said, we must know that healing (health) is one of those things that christ provided for us by reason of his death, burial and resurrection. 1pet 2:24 says by his stripes we were healed! He used the past tense, we have been healed in christ already! Our faith in christ has brought us into the position where we have a right to experiencing this supernatural health. How then do we access it? The answer is this — you have to ask for your right now! You have to collect it! The problem many times is that people assume that God is the one vetting who has enough or who doesn’t before he does them a miracle, but God’s will is that you are healed 3John 1:2 he was so zealous he is not healing you now nor will he heal you tomorrow, but he has healed you already by the cross. Now you must ask so you could receive, you must seek so you could find and knock so you’ll receive open doors. Jesus’ idea of prayer —
5 And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves,
6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';
7 and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'?
8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Luke 11:5, ESV) Jesus was saying that importunity would bring what your faith has bought you, your insistence on having what you rightfully own would materialize it.

Hope this helps.

It's a good thing to uplift the faith of others but the Bible is very clear that people who have faith in God can sometimes exhibit unbelief. Thomas is a prime example. See John 20:21. I can cite other examples but that should suffice.
Further, the Bible is also clear about different levels of faith- little, great, growing faith, the gift of Faith etc.