A man who is anonymous, but who listens to the podcast, and who does not give us his age

writes in to ask this, hello Pastor John, blessings to you.

I have a faith question for you today.

My dad recently died of a brain tumor, and man, we're sorry to hear about this.

I prayed with all the faith I could muster to ask God that he not die, but he did.

I wonder if I had more faith with my dad be alive today.

In the Bible, I always see Jesus healing people who had faith, even healing them because of

their faith in Matthew 9.22, Matthew 15.28.

Jesus refused to heal people in his own hometown because of their unbelief in Matthew 13.58,

and he even connects the probability of seeing miracles to the size of one's own personal

faith in Matthew 17.20.

So could my lack of faith be a factor in my dad's death?

Or was it simply the will of God for him to die?

I'm sure this is a question for many people who, like me, get attacked often by guilt.

I'm going to take my cue from that last sentence.

I'm sure this is a question for many people who, like me, get attacked often by guilt.

So our friend is saying he is often attacked by guilt.

In this case, it's guilt for the death of his father because of the possibility, he

raises, that if he had had more faith, his father may not have died.

And so he is attacked by guilt that he may not have had enough faith.

So where I want to start is this, suppose I said yes.

Your father would be alive today if you had had more faith.

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