Pfizer recently announced it will cut U.S. drug prices by an average of 50% through a new federal website, TrumpRX, while investing $70 billion in domestic manufacturing. The move follows a White House mandate to tie U.S. drug costs to the lowest prices in developed nations. Americans currently pay nearly three times more for prescriptions than patients in peer countries.
The agreement exempts Pfizer from steep new tariffs, placing pressure on other pharmaceutical companies to follow suit. Critics warn such policies could slow global innovation, while supporters see it as a long-overdue correction to skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. bankruptcies are linked to medical bills—many cancer drugs cost six figures annually. Even with insurance, co-pays can devastate families—forcing patients to skip doses, delay care, or choose between medicine and essentials like food or housing.
Imagine needing a pill every day to survive, but every dose costs more than your car payment.
Big Pharma insists high prices fund research, while independent audits reveal companies spend far more on marketing and shareholder payouts. The COVID era magnified the problem, as Pfizer posted tens of billions in vaccine profits—funded by taxpayer-supported research and guaranteed purchase contracts. Greedy record profits over people’s survival is monstrous.
Common sense reminds us: healing was never meant to bankrupt people. The crushing weight of medical debt is not only an economic problem, but an ethical one. Families want to put food on the table, keep a roof overhead, and access medicine without losing everything.
When Healing Becomes Our Idol
If secular governments recognize the injustice of unaffordable healthcare and move to make treatment accessible, how much more should the Church remember the greater healing Christ offers—without cost, without limit, and available to every person who calls on His name?
Yet here’s the uncomfortable truth: most Christians have reversed the biblical order. We rush to the doctor’s office before we bow in the prayer closet. We exhaust our insurance benefits before we exhaust our faith. We seek second opinions from specialists before we seek first wisdom from the Almighty.
This is not the pattern Scripture gives us.
When You’re Sick, Where Do You Turn First?
King Asa’s tragic example exposes our modern failure: “In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians” (2 Chronicles 16:12).
Note carefully what condemned Asa. The text doesn’t say he sinned by seeing physicians—it says he sinned by not seeking the Lord first. He relegated God to irrelevance while elevating human wisdom to supremacy. Two years later, he died.
The sequence matters to God.
King Hezekiah, by contrast, demonstrated the proper order. When told by the prophet Isaiah that his illness was terminal, he didn’t immediately consult the royal physicians or seek experimental treatments. He turned his face to the wall and prayed (2 Kings 20:2-3). God heard, responded, and added fifteen years to his life—then confirmed it with a miraculous sign that moved the sundial backward, defying the very laws of nature.
Hezekiah sought God first. Not last. Not alongside. First.
Jesus Is the Great Physician
Consider how the crowds responded to Jesus. They didn’t schedule Him as a backup plan after exhausting medical options. They pressed in desperately, knowing no earthly doctor could do what He could. The woman with the issue of blood had already “suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse” (Mark 5:26). She came to Jesus not as another item on her treatment checklist, but as her only hope.
When she touched the hem of His garment, she was healed instantly—not after twelve more years of appointments, not after one more specialist, not after the right pharmaceutical cocktail. Instantly.
The paralytic’s friends didn’t wheel him to a medical symposium—they tore through a roof to get him to Jesus (Mark 2:1-12). And what did Jesus give him? Both forgiveness and physical healing demonstrate His authority over body and soul alike.
These people understood something we’ve forgotten: Jesus is not Plan B. He is the Plan.
When Health becomes a Modern Idol
Let’s speak plainly. The American Church has largely adopted a secular worldview on health. We pray polite prayers before procedures, we thank God when treatments work, we praise Him for “blessing the hands” of surgeons—but our functional trust rests in medicine, not in the Maker.
How often do Christians receive a diagnosis and immediately begin googling treatment options, calling specialists, and researching clinical trials—while prayer becomes the nice religious addendum we attach to our real strategy? How many believers would think it foolish, even irresponsible, to seek God in extended prayer and fasting before pursuing aggressive medical intervention?
Yet Scripture presents it the other way around.
This isn’t about rejecting medicine—Luke was a “beloved physician” (Colossians 4:14), and we nowhere see him condemned for his profession. This is about the order of seeking. When we place human solutions first and divine intervention as optional, we’ve made an idol of the medical system. We’ve said with our actions, if not our words, “I trust this more than I trust You, God.”
That’s a theological crisis, not medical wisdom.
What if Healing Waits on Our Faith?
When Jesus encountered people, He consistently looked for one thing: faith. “Your faith has made you well,” He told the woman healed of bleeding (Mark 5:34). “According to your faith let it be done to you,” He declared to two blind men (Matthew 9:29). When He couldn’t do many miracles in Nazareth, Scripture attributes it to their unbelief (Mark 6:5-6).
The paralytic lowered through the roof experienced healing when Jesus saw their faith—the faith of his four friends (Mark 2:5). This reveals something significant: your faith can activate God’s power on behalf of others. But it also reveals this: without faith, we tie God’s hands.
How much healing goes unreleased in our generation simply because we don’t believe God still works this way? Because we’ve been taught—sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly—that the age of miracles ended with the apostles? Because we’ve grown comfortable trusting protocols more than promises?
Faith isn’t presumption. It’s not refusing all medical help and claiming God will heal while we do nothing. But neither is it the passive, half-hearted “Lord, if You want to...” prayer we tack onto the end of our carefully constructed treatment plans. Faith is active, expectant, and often costly. It waits on God. It seeks His face. Faith is believing He is who He says He is and does what He says He’ll do.
Yes, God Still Heals
This isn’t ancient history or theological theory. God still heals today—sometimes in ways that leave medical professionals baffled.
Dr. Jordan Rubin, co-author of several books and, recently, The Biblio Diet, faced near-death battles with Crohn’s disease and cancer. Through Scripture, prayer, faith, and lifestyle changes rooted in biblical principles, he recovered when conventional medicine offered no hope. He has since dedicated his life to teaching others about God’s design for health and wholeness.
Bound to a wheelchair and preparing for a nursing home, Bob Henkelman, a young husband and father (at one time part of our church family), was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a death sentence. Until one Sunday night during a prayer service, he sensed God urging him to run up the church stairs to the balcony. Legs unable, wasted by disease, he made a choice: obey in faith. He stood. He walked. He ran up those stairs. That night, he was completely healed. Years later, he remains free from MS—the Great Physician still works.
These accounts, and countless others, should not be dismissed as anomalies or luck. They are evidence of a God who has not changed, who still responds to faith, who still heals those who seek Him first.
The Bible Isn’t Just History. It’s Proof
Scripture overflows with accounts of divine healing. Naaman’s leprosy was cleansed in the Jordan River (2 Kings 5). The bronze serpent lifted in the wilderness, bringing healing to those who looked in faith (Numbers 21). Jesus healed the blind, the lame, the lepers, the demon-possessed, and raised the dead. The apostles continue this ministry in Acts—Peter and John healing the crippled beggar at the temple gate, Paul raising Eutychus from death, and Peter raising Dorcas to life.
The Gospel of John concludes with this stunning statement: “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written” (John 21:25). The scope of Jesus’ healing ministry is beyond measure.
And here’s the theological reality: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). If He healed then, He heals now. If He had compassion on the sick, then He has compassion on the sick now. The question is not whether He can heal—the question is whether we will seek Him first with the kind of faith that moves His hand.
What to Do When Sickness Strikes
So what does this look like practically? When you receive a troubling diagnosis, when symptoms arise, when disease threatens—what should you do?
Seek God first.
Before the specialist appointment. Before researching treatment options. Before calling in favors to get into the best hospital. Get alone with God. Fast. Pray. Search the Scriptures for His promises. Cry out to Him as your first resort, not your last.
This doesn’t mean you’ll never see a doctor. It means you give God the first opportunity to speak, to move, to heal. It means you refuse to let fear dictate your path. It means you anchor your hope in His power, not human skill.
Expect God to answer.
Don’t pray faithless, hedging prayers. Pray with the expectation that He hears, He cares, and He is able. Ask boldly. Believe expectantly. Wait actively.
Be willing to obey whatever He directs.
Sometimes God heals instantly. Sometimes, he directs you to a specific treatment or physician. Sometimes He calls you to change your lifestyle, repent of sin, or make restitution. Sometimes, he asks you to wait longer than you feel comfortable. But when you seek Him first, you position yourself to hear His voice and follow His leading—not just stumble through the medical system hoping for the best.
Let your testimony glorify Him.
When healing comes—whether miraculous or through medicine—let everyone know the source. Too often, we credit the system and thank God politely in passing. Reverse that. Glorify the Healer, even when He uses human instruments.
Healing That Lasts
Lower drug prices may relieve financial burdens. Better healthcare access may extend lives. These are good things, and Christians should advocate for justice and compassion in medicine. But let us not confuse temporal relief with eternal healing.
Christ offers something infinitely greater. Psalm 103:3 declares He is the one “who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.” Notice the order: forgiveness first, then healing. He addresses the root issue—sin and separation from God—before the symptoms. His healing reaches body, soul, and spirit. And it’s offered freely to all who call upon His name.
While governments negotiate prices and pharmaceutical companies protect profits, Jesus extends an invitation: “The prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up” (James 5:15). No co-pay. No prior authorization. No denial of coverage. Just come.
Hope for Healing
Here’s what should make this message stand out: Christians should be the healthiest people on earth—not because we have the best insurance, but because we have direct access to the Great Physician.
Yet we’re not. We suffer the same diseases, take the same medications, and die from the same conditions as our unbelieving neighbors. Why? Because we’ve adopted the same functional trust in medicine while relegating God to the margins of our healthcare decisions.
What if the Church recaptured the early Christians’ radical faith in God’s healing power? What if we became known not for our hospital fundraisers, but for our prayer meetings where the sick are healed? What if desperate people came to believers first because we have access to the One who created the human body and knows exactly how to restore it?
This is not anti-medicine. This is pro-God. This is believing that the same Jesus who healed throngs in Galilee still heals today—if we’ll seek Him with the same desperation and faith, and the same willingness to let Him be first.
The world is watching the Church’s response to sickness. Let’s show them something they can’t find at the pharmacy: the power of the living God to heal, restore, and make whole—body and soul—everyone who seeks Him first.
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