Romans 8:28-29............
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
That passage teaches and some important truths.
It teaches “that all things, both good and bad, tranquility and tribulation, ease and distress, peace and persecution, safety and peril, prosperity and poverty, happiness and suffering, life and death work together for good to them that love God .....Correct???
It teaches us that those WHO LOVE GOD and are CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE,
That He can and will work Good into all things. How ever it will depend on the person or believer. If they are walking by faith and doing or acting in which the word requires us to act then yes He will work good in all things BUT if we are not abiding by His word then He can not do this. Not that He does not have the power but He is bound by His word. God just does not go around doing what ever He pleases as if , you never know what God is going to do.
It then refutes the teaching that it is not God’s will for His people to have problems and suffer since ALL THINGS, good and bad work together.
It does no such thing.
3 John1:2 KJV
Beloved I wish above ALL THINGS that thou mayest prosper and be in Good Health, EVEN AS thy soul prospereth.
John 16:33 KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in ME ye might have peace . In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have over come the world.
If we walk according to His written word we to have the authority to over come the sufferings and such in this life. Those who are not walking according to HIS word and living by faith will not. This alone would say it is not Gods will for us to suffer.
With that in mind, and we both know many, many faith filled believers who have suffered. And although there are scriptural indicators that God wants us to be in good health, all sickness and disease are allowed by Him for His purposes, whether we understand them or not.
God does NOT allow sickness or anything bad for His purpose or working of anything.
Also you said faith filled believers....Brother all believers have faith placed in them when they became born of the spirit..........HOWEVER we have to build on this faith so it is faith that walks, talks and has the last say other wise you are moved by fear and doubt and accepting things as from God that are in no way what so ever FROM GOD.
People put things off on God that they do not understand or have no real revelation knowledge of and it never was God and never will Be God.
Have a wonderful Blessed week
Jim