Never will I leave you.
—Hebrews 13:5
Affliction comes in sundry forms: physical, financial, relational, emotional.
God’s healing of affliction comes in one of three ways: immediately, gradually, or ultimately.
Sometimes God heals immediately; sometimes gradually, over months or years. When he doesn’t heal immediately or gradually, you have the promise of 1 John 3:2 that he will heal ultimately.
In Romans 8:37 Paul wrote, “We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” He itemized circumstances that are powerless to separate us from God’s healing power of love: death, life, angels, demons, the present, the future . . . “nor anything else in all creation.” That covers it all.
You will win over affliction of any stripe because you have this promise: “God will meet all your needs” (Phil 4:19)—immediately, gradually, or ultimately.
You have limits. God doesn’t.
And he promises to meet all your needs.