{"id":27221,"date":"2017-10-08T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/?p=27221"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:38:42","slug":"top-ten-healing-dos-donts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/10\/top-ten-healing-dos-donts\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Healing Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I offer these ten tips, each with a do and a don\u2019t, for the Christian who is sick and seeking healing. This comes from personal experience, and from being around charismatic churches who believe in spiritual healing my whole life. \u00a0I hope the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts\u00a0are full of faith and hope, but also a healthy dose of common sense and reality (which are\u00a0sometimes sorely lacking in Christian circles). I hope these may be of some help to you, and if you have more suggestions do\u00a0share with us all, \u00a0as we are all learning together.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27225\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27225\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2017\/10\/wheelchairnature.jpg\" alt=\"Pixabay\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"border: 2px solid #4a6d8c; border-radius: 12px; padding: 24px; margin: 40px 0; background-color: #f8fbff; text-align: center; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.7; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 14px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.35em; color: #2c3e50;\">Help When Life Hurts<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; color: #34495e;\">This article is part of a growing collection, drawing from Adrian Warnock\u2019s medical and psychological expertise, lived experience, and Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; color: #34495e; font-weight: 600;\">Click the type of pain you or a loved one are experiencing right now<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 14px 0; font-size: 1.05em;\"><a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#general-suffering\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">General suffering &amp; disappointment<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#financial-ruin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Financial difficulties<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#feeling-disqualified\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Feeling disqualified<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#chronic-illness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Chronic illness &amp; disability<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#divorce\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Divorce &amp; family pain<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#mental-health\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Depression &amp; mental health<\/a><br>\n<a style=\"color: #4a6d8c;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/#bereavement\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Bereavement &amp; end-of-life<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 24px 0 0;\"><a style=\"background: #4a6d8c; color: white; padding: 12px 28px; border-radius: 8px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.15em; display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2025\/11\/help-when-life-hurts\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> See the full list of over 40 articles<br>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>When you are sick, do give yourself the grace you need and be gentle on yourself. Let yourself be sick, take the time you need to get better<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t allow your sickness to dominate your personality, and define your existence. If you are in a chronic illness or prolonged recovery, learn how hard to push yourself so that you don\u2019t get into a downwards spiral of doing less and less, and hence getting worse, but equally don\u2019t push yourself too hard. Nobody can tell you how hard that is: only trial and error will tell you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do trust in the sovereignty of God, and that he is at work in your circumstances for your good, and that you might learn to be more like him\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t let that trust turn into a stoic acceptance of sickness, which is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> God\u2019s ulitmate best for you. We live in a fallen world and sickness is an alien invader we are to resist not passively welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do allow your sickness to prompt you to\u00a0think about your own vulnerability, frailty, and mortality.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t let yourself become morbid and pre-occupied with fear of death. Remember there is always someone worse off than you, and always something to be grateful for. \u00a0Find things to thank God for and do so!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do take the opportunity to approach sickness with hope, joy, and to be a good witness of the work of God in you to others<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But\u00a0don\u2019t think you must always keep your \u2018game face\u2019 on. Its OK to be weak, vulnerable, and to accept the support of others. Jesus is not glorified when you fake it. Your light will shine through your weakness, not by trying to hide it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>When people ask you how you are do try and be as positive as it is real to be: not\u00a0everyone wants a blow by blow account of your symptoms<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t lie and pretend things are better than they are. Find some people you can be totally open with. You will know who your real friends are at a time like this: they are the people that turn up at your hospital bed, or you wish would be there, but for whatever reason can\u2019t be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do turn to God in prayer when you are sick<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t let that stop you visiting doctors, and taking medicine: take God\u2019s healing whichever way he wants to give it to you! \u00a0Medicine is as much a gift of God as a miraculous healing. \u00a0After all God gave doctor\u2019s their skills so they can do his work of healing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do\u00a0keep on asking for prayer: persistence in prayer is commended in Scripture<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t feel obligated to receive prayer at every opportunity, sometimes well meaning Christians may\u00a0urge you to be prayed for and it just wont feel right. \u00a0You are not your illness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do seek to grow your faith through this experience of suffering<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t let yourself believe the lie that if you are not healed it is because you do not have enough faith!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/10\/audacious-promises-that-god-will-heal-you\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the Scriptural promises that audaciously say God will heal you<\/a>, and dare to believe them<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t\u00a0be disappointed or disillusioned if your healing is delayed by weeks, months, years or even decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do dare to believe that God wants to, can, and WILL heal you<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>But don\u2019t forget that for the Christian, our real hope of healing goes beyond the grave to the great and glorious day when there will be no more sickness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>More Posts from Adrian on how to suffer as a Christian<\/h3>\n<section class=\"decorated clearfix\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/10\/audacious-promises-that-god-will-heal-you\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Audacious Promises that God will Heal You<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/10\/already-and-not-yet-expecting-gods-blessing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Already AND Not Yet: Expecting God\u2019s Blessing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/09\/god-restores-broken\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">God Restores the Broken<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/09\/christian-not-suffering-alone\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Christian, You Are Not Suffering Alone<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2017\/09\/trusting-in-storm\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Trusting God in the Middle of the Storm<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2016\/10\/45-practical-ways-to-improve-your-health-and-wellbeing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">45 practical ways to improve your health and wellbeing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2015\/03\/how-a-misinterpreted-verse-can-make-us-feel-guilty-when-we-grieve\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">How a misinterpreted verse can make us feel guilty when we grieve<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2014\/09\/suicide-prevention-what-the-church-can-do\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Suicide Prevention: What the Church can do<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2014\/07\/the-problem-of-good\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The problem of good<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2013\/11\/strange-fire-every-biblical-argument-refuted-healing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Healing Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2013\/10\/to-live-is-christ-to-die-is-gain\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">To live is Christ, to die is gain<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2013\/08\/gods-incredible-care-for-us-all-and-especially-those-who-are-mentally-ill\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">God\u2019s incredible care for us all, and especially those who are mentally ill<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"archive-post-date by-line\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2013\/08\/there-will-be-an-end-to-these-troubles\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">There will be an end to these troubles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"decorated clearfix\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offer these ten tips, each with a do and a don&#8217;t, for the Christian who is sick and seeking healing. 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Just not all at once. Healing takes time. Compassion and patience carry us over a lifetime of change. These are the themes I explore in my books and in the articles I have written for Patheos since 2003. My writing draws on my scientific training as a doctor and psychiatrist, my work in the UK's National Health Service and the pharmaceutical industry, alongside more than twenty-five years as a member of a growing church where I served on the leadership team offering pastoral care. My perspective has also been shaped by chronic illness since 2017, when I developed life-threatening pneumonia that caused lasting damage to my body, triggered several further conditions, and uncovered a diagnosis of blood cancer. This was successfully treated, although doctors expect it to return in the future. Out of these experiences I founded Blood Cancer Uncensored, an online patient-led support community. I am the author of the Transformed by Jesus: Spiritual Renewal series of books, which ask: \u2192 Is the Easter story true, and what does it mean? Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything \u2192 Why is change so difficult? What causes the resistance? The Traitor Within: Understanding and Healing Our Deceitful Hearts \u2192 How does transformation happen over time? Amazing Grace: How Faith Grows in the Human Heart \u2192 What are the first steps on a journey of faith? Hope Reborn: How to Become a Christian and Live for Jesus These books bring together medical, psychological, social, and faith-based insights, advocating for a biopsychosocial\u2013spiritual model of wellbeing. My qualifications and training reflect this integrated background: \u2192 British MB BS medical degree (equivalent to an MD in the USA) \u2192 Postgraduate qualifications in Psychiatry (MRCPsych) and Pharmaceutical Medicine (MFFM, DipPharmMed) \u2192 Theological training courses run by Newfrontiers","sameAs":["http:\/\/patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrianwarnockpage\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/adrianwarnock"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/author\/awarnock\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}