God's Authority

Satan has the power to prevent God from healing us? Satan is real and full of hate, but he is not sovereign in sickness and God's healing. God will not give in to Satan. As God says to Moses at the burning bush, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?” (Exodus 4:11; see also 2 Corinthians 12:7-9). No one lives and dies but by God’s sovereign authority. “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand” (Deuteronomy 32:39). There is no god, no demon, no Satan that can snatch to death any person that God wills to live (see 1 Samuel 2:6).

Ecclesiastes 3:3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build.