Sin, scars

People often ask whether a believer who has sinned and fallen sick because of the sin committed can both be forgiven and healed. Well, this is quite a tricky one.
However, we can always search the scriptures to glean wisdom that will help us to dissolve doubts. The Bible is clear on the truth that saints will continue to sin after salvation. And, as saints we sin not because it is our nature so we cannot help it but because we make a choice to do so. But the unsaved people do sin not because of choice but because of the fact that it is their nature to sin. Regeneration or salvation is the process that renews the nature of a sinner to that of a saint. This means the only prayer of an unsaved person that arrests God’s attention is that of salvation.
Other prayers like begging, petitioning or supplication desiring something from God are beyond his or her right.
This is so because there is no relationship between God and them. Prayer for remission of sins will begin that relationship and the right to pray for anything else is given.
On the other hand a saint has the right to pray for anything within the provisions of scripture but that right ceases when he or she has committed a sin that he or she is yet to confess and forsake.
 Under that circumstance a saint is not entitled to pray any other kind of prayer except that of forgiveness of sin.
Sin separates God from man.
Prayer is communicating with God and you cannot relate with a holy God when you are in sin except if it is a prayer of forgiveness which will restore the relationship back. When the relationship is restored the right to pray for anything is also restored. There is a critical question here, “To what extent is the restoration of God to a saint who has sinned and incurred a scar that remains? In other words can a saint who has sinned consciously be completely forgiven after repentance? And does God heal a scar incurred in the process of committing a sin by a saint? According to the opening scripture above forgiveness is guaranteed every believer who sincerely confesses and forsakes a sin. But scars or effects of sin like sickness may not always be reversed. Please understand here that there is always a possibility of miraculous healing and everyone is encouraged to believe for miracles and healing.
However, the point is we are not designed to live by miracles but by obedience to God’s instructions given in His word. So if a saint continues to live in sin he or she may get hurt with scars remaining.
For instance, if a husband chooses to commit adultery with another woman and gets infected with HIV and then repents afterwards, he will be forgiven of the sin. But healing may not be granted. So should he not believe for healing given the fact that Jesus bore our sicknesses and took our infirmities? Exercising your faith is right but I will tell you that it is better to stay healthy than to be healed because a guilty conscience will greatly interfere with your faith. If you do not get healed you die earlier than was divinely intended but the good news is that you still go to heaven because you were forgiven.
Another example is that of a virgin girl who loses her virginity in the sin of fornication. If she sincerely repents and commits to right sexual behaviour she will be totally forgiven but she will never become a virgin again.
However, her being no longer a virgin does not automatically mean that she will never marry a man who is a virgin. That is the power of forgiveness. But she has a duty to disclose to her prospective mate her condition lest the sin of omission will trigger separation or divorce later on.
Scars of sin normally remain just like the scars of injuries sustained in an accident but who knows the extent of God’s forgiveness?
 It can bring out a good thing out of the bad because in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

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