Clearing Away The Rubble

When I wanted to pray for a person’s healing in some of the churches I pastored in my younger days, I would be told, “No, Pastor, just pray that I’ll be strong in this time of sickness, and that I’ll know God’s grace is sufficient.” On other occasions I would be told, “Pastor, remember that even Paul wasn’t healed when he asked for it; he was told God’s grace would be sufficient.”

Clark, Randy. The Healing Breakthrough (p. 32). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Thorns Passages - It is not illness but a word used for persecution/people/attacks

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.

Numbers 33:55, emphasis added

Then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.

Joshua 23:13, emphasis added Now

therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be [thorns] in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.

Judges 2:3 NIV1984, emphasis added

Clark, Randy. The Healing Breakthrough (pp. 33-34). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Sovereignty Of God

Jesus unequivocally opposed evils such as disease, demonization, and even natural disaster (i.e. Jesus rebuked the storm) as originating in the wills of Satan, fallen angels, and sinful people, rather than of God.