Does God Heal Today?
By: Herbert W. Armstrong
Is
the day of miracles PAST? We read in the New Testament that when Jesus Christ
was on earth 1900 years ago, He HEALED THE SICK. It seems there are so MANY
MORE sick today than there were then. Well, is the day of miracles past? WHAT
ABOUT this thing we call divine healing?
I've encountered scores of folks who say,
"Well, I know God can heal today if it's His will, but HOW CAN WE KNOW
WHETHER IT'S HIS WILL?"
Others say, "Well, I think God helps
them that help themselves. I believe God works thru medical science. We should
always call the doctor, and take his drugs and medicines, or submit to his
knives, and then pray that God will cause this human means to heal."
For OUR day, or Only for Time of
Christ?
Some think Jesus Christ is like the
professor Emeritus at the university -- He USED to do great things, but now
He's grown old and feeble and doesn't perform many miracles any more.
But, we read in I Corinthians 15:3-4:
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that He was
buried and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
and again in Hebrews 13:8 -- "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today,
and forever," and in John 14:12 -- "Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
Some think healing was only to prove JESUS
was the CHRIST -- the promised MESSIAH -- but not for this day and age.
When Divine Healing Began
My friends, do you know when divine
healing -- healing direct by a miracle from ALMIGHTY GOD, as a result of
believing PRAYER, really began? And incidentally, let me say I'm not referring
to some modern MENTAL science, so called, or power or mind over matter, or
hypnotism. I'm speaking only of physical healing performed directly by the
Eternal Creator GOD, as a result of BELIEVING PRAYER. Do you know when this
first began? Well, most of you are going to be surprised. It didn't begin with
the ministry of Jesus of
It began WHEN the CHURCH began! Most
people think the CHURCH was first started after the resurrection of Christ --
on the Day of Pentecost. That was merely the NEW Testament Church. But the
Church started long before that -- it started way back in the days of MOSES. Of
course, that was the OLD Testament Church, but it was God's CHURCH just the
same.
Listen! Acts
Now physical healing by faith in God is
something the Eternal placed in that Old Testament church, way back in the days
of Moses!
Let me read to you the first account in
all history of direct divine healing. Exodus
And do you know, that the same conditions,
"If you will obey and keep my commandments," etc. -- apply today, and
that's one reason why a lot of people who have a little light on divine healing
and believe in it are not being healed!
Let me read that to you over in the NEW
Testament, my friends, I John 3:22 -- "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of
Him," WHY? "because we keep His commandments, and do those things
which are pleasing in His sight."
Well, with so many telling the people, and
so many people believing, that Jesus Christ did away with the commandments,
it's no wonder that many of us are not having prayers answered today!
"Whatsoever we ask we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments and
do those things that are pleasing in His sight."
Yes, God is the same yesterday, today and
forever. He has not changed and the same conditions apply today that did back
in the days of Moses. Obedience and faith. Jesus said, "According to your
faith be it unto you."
God the ONLY Real Physician
You will notice that God said, "I am
the Lord [or the Eternal] that heals you." He is a jealous God in a sense,
so far as the prerogatives of God are concerned. And so, turn over to the 20th
chapter of Exodus where God was giving the Ten Commandments to all the people.
Moses didn't give the people the Ten Commandments. God gave the people the Ten
Commandments, and He said, "I am the Eternal thy God . . . Thou shalt have
no other gods before Me."
He had said, "I am the God that heals
you," and now He says that you should have no other gods before Me.
You know, my friends, a doctor can't heal!
And any honest doctor will admit it. None of his drugs, or medicines, or knives
can heal. There is no healing in any of them. There is only one kind of
healing, and that is healing directly by the Almighty God! There is no other
healing!
Scripture Labels Other Modes of Healing
IDOLATRY
Nothing else is healing in the strictest
sense. God says, "I am the Eternal that heals you," and He isn't
going to let anyone else heal you. He says, "Thou shalt have no other gods
before me," -- no other healers, in other words. One of the NAMES of God
is Jahveh-rapha (as used in Exodus
Do you know that for centuries,
Now at first God alone was their King too,
but soon they began to notice how the heathen nations around them were doing,
and they wanted a human man for their king, so God permitted it. He gave them
Saul, later David and his dynasty, and of course later they did begin to turn
to the heathen methods of doctoring and medicine.
Medicine Condemned as Idolatry
Notice King Asa of
But this King Asa of
Later Asa was diseased. Notice, II
Chronicles 16:12 -- "And then Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his
reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: and yet
in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept
with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign."
The Pagan Origin of Medicine
The Gentile nations had many gods. They
had their gods of medicine as well as their gods of war. They had medicine men
or doctors. Their method was to go to these human doctors who would use their
medicines and their drugs and then they would pray to the god of medicine, and,
they believed, the god of medicine would cause these medicines to heal.
Now there, my friends, is where medical
"Science" (falsely so called) came from. From the heathens. I want
you to notice what God's Word says about it. This is pretty plain talk. I hope
I'm not offending people, but I have to preach God's Truth. You know God says
to "Cry aloud and spare not and tell my people their sins," and
proclaim the Word of God faithfully and truthfully, and well, that's just what
I have to do.
I want you to notice another experience
recorded in II Kings 1st chapter: "Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in
his upper chamber that was in
Isn't it because you don't have any GOD to
heal you? Isn't that why you have to go to this medical god's doctors in Ekron?
God had said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me."
"Now, therefore thus saith the Lord,
Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed." Now if you will turn to the end of the
chapter to the 17th verse it says, "so he died according to the word of
the Eternal which Elijah had spoken."
How People Today Misunderstand
Now people today misunderstand this truth
entirely. So many seem to believe we should go to the doctors, then pray for
God to cause their medicines to heal. They assume God raised up medical science
and blesses it and works thru it. But this is merely the same old Pagan
practice of idolatry, though very few realize it today. Truly all nations have
been DECEIVED into practicing Pagan idolatry believing it is true Christianity!
For the real Christian who has faith in God there is a better way!
Now, there is one other example before I
leave this that I would like to give you, and that's the example of Hezekiah.
That's in II Kings the 20th chapter and the first seven verses. Will you notice
this: "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.
And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order; for thou shalt
die, and not live. And then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the
Eternal, saying, I beseech thee O Eternal, remember now how I have walked
before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good
in Thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore."
He put his heart in this prayer! He was in
earnest about this. Notice too that he obeyed God and he trusted Him. He didn't
trust anything or anybody else; he trusted God alone. And He was in earnest.
"And it came to pass afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that
the word of the Eternal came to him, saying, Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the
captain of my people, Thus saith the Eternal, the God of David thy father, I
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the
third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. And I will add unto thy
days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of
the king of
"IF It's God's Will"
Now, that reminds me of a time when I was
called to the sick bed of a woman, who had called for me to come and pray with
her.
When I arrived, she said, "Well, I
know that God could heal me if it's His will, but I'm not sure it's His
will."
I said to this woman, "Well, you know
it's too bad you can't have your sins forgiven, because, you know, God could
forgive your sins too, through the blood of Christ, IF IT WAS HIS WILL. But of
course since we can't know anything about His will, why, how are you ever going
to be saved?"
"Oh!" she said, "I know His
will, I know it's His will to forgive my sins."
Well I said, "You can have faith in
that?" "Yes," she said, "I certainly can."
I asked, "How do you know? How do you
know it's His will to forgive your sins?"
"Why, because the Bible tells me
so."
"Well you know," I said, "I
believe you're depending on this: Psalms 103:2-3 -- Bless the Eternal, O my
soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities!'" I said, "There it is, He forgives every one of your
iniquities. Is that right?" She exclaimed, "Why yes!"
Then I said, "Listen, why didn't you
read the rest of that sentence? -- Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who
healeth all thy diseases.'"
My friends, can we believe the first half
of a sentence and then think God lied in the last half? Why, the two go hand in
hand. Do you know that when Jesus was here, He not only forgave sins, He healed
the sick, and the healing of the sick is nothing but forgiveness of sin; the
forgiveness of physical sin.
Healing Is Forgiveness of Sin!
Sin is the transgression of the law.
Spiritual sin is the transgression of God's spiritual law, the law of LOVE
summed up in the Ten Commandments. Those are spiritual principles. The penalty
of that kind of sin is death; but it is the second death. It's appointed to all
men once to die, whether you are a Christian, whether converted, or not. And
after that the judgment. But the penalty is eternal death. It is the second
death in the lake of fire. That is the penalty of sin.
But there are physical laws, too, that
regulate your physical health. And if you break those laws, or if they are
broken it is transgression of law, and it exacts a PENALTY. It might be an
accident, or something you didn't do yourself at all -- you might not have been
guilty of any wrong and yet nature's laws have been violated, or you wouldn't
be sick. It isn't natural to be sick. It's unnatural, and wrong.
So sickness is only the penalty of physical
transgression, and whenever one is sick, he is paying that penalty! The penalty
of transgressing these physical laws that regulate the human body is PAIN,
suffering, sometimes the first or physical death. It's a physical
transgression, or sin -- and there's a physical PENALTY for that sin.
Consequently, healing is nothing more or
less than the FORGIVENESS OF SIN -- the consequent removal from us of the
PENALTY we have incurred -- and no human doctor, no medicine, no drug, has ever
been given power to forgive sin -- whether spiritual or physical!
HOW Healing Works
NONE BUT GOD CAN FORGIVE SIN!
Therefore none but GOD can heal!
Once Jesus was preaching inside a house.
As soon as word spread that He was in the house, so many people flocked to the
place that no more could crowd in, and a large crowd was pushing around the
door. Then came four men carrying a bed, upon which was lying a man very ill
with the palsy. Finding themselves unable to get this man thru the crowd at the
door, they went upon the roof, tore away the tiling, and let the bed down thru
a hole in the roof in front of Jesus.
When He saw the faith they had manifested
by this drastic act, Jesus said to the sick man on the bed, "Man, thy sins
are forgiven thee." (Read Luke
Now notice HOW Jesus healed!
He did not give the man drugs or
medicines. He FORGAVE THE PHYSICAL SINS which had caused the palsy!
The scribes and Pharisees began to reason,
saying, "Who is this which speaketh blasphemies?" (Yes, and the modern
doctors think believing Christians are equally blasphemous today when we trust
the SAME Jesus for healing.) "Who can forgive sins," reasoned the
Pharisees, "but GOD ALONE?" Yes, who? Certainly doctors can't. Drugs
can't. Surgery can't. None but GOD ALONE can forgive sin. And healing is
forgiveness of sin!
"But when Jesus perceived their
thoughts, He answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? Whether
is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee;' or to say Rise up and walk?' But
that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins,'
(he said unto the sick with palsy), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy
couch, and go into thine house.' And immediately he rose up before them, and
took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying
God."
Now notice, please! The Pharisees knew
NONE could forgive sins, but GOD ALONE. And, in order to prove to them that
healing is the forgiveness of sins -- and that He, Jesus, was actually using
the very POWER OF GOD in healing, Jesus HEALED this man in front of their eyes!
He said, "Arise, and take up thy bed,
and WALK!" (Mark 2:9). WHY? "That ye may KNOW that the Son of man
[Christ] hath power on earth to forgive sins!" That's why. Turn to it.
Read it in your own Bible! Healing is FORGIVENESS OF SINS. Therefore, since GOD
ALONE can forgive sins, GOD ALONE CAN HEAL THE SICK!
Christ Paid The Penalty!
Now God "forgiveth ALL thine
iniquities," and "healeth ALL thy diseases."
Well, how does God forgive our spiritual
sins? Sin is the transgression of LAW (I John 3:4). That's the Bible definition
of SIN. God's law of "LOVE" is a spiritual law (Romans
Then HOW does God forgive physical sins?
Why, exactly the same way! Jesus paid the penalty of them, too, in our stead!
Is that in the Scripture? Most certainly it is!
Here it is: "(Jesus) healed ALL that
were sick, That it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
sickness.'" (Matthew 8:16-17).
There it is! Turn to it in your own Bible,
and read it! Jesus healed ALL that were sick, because He, Himself took our
physical infirmities, and bare our sicknesses!
And HOW?
Let Peter answer: By His STRIPES, ye are
healed -- I Peter
Just before Jesus was taken out to be
crucified, He submitted voluntarily to being BEATEN WITH STRIPES. "Then
released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered
Him to be crucified" (Matthew 27:26). "Then Pilate . . . took Jesus,
and scourged Him." (John 19:1). Jesus suffered this PHYSICAL PAIN, actually
breaking open His body in great welts, in order to pay for you, in your stead,
the pain, suffering, sickness, or other penalty of your physical
transgressions!
WHY Do We "Break Bread?"
WHY, at Lord's Supper, or Communion, or
Passover (by whichever name you might call it), do people take the unleavened
BREAD, as well as the wine?
We know the wine represents the blood of
Christ, shed for the remission of our spiritual sins. But what does the bread
represent? Why do we take that?
Notice the instruction of Paul in I
Corinthians 11:23-30.
"The Lord Jesus the same night in
which He was betrayed took bread: and when He had given thanks, He brake it,
and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me'." His body was BROKEN, beaten with lashes, and by HIS
STRIPES we are HEALED! Thru this He, Himself TOOK our infirmities, and bare our
sickness!
Now complete Paul's instruction in this
passage. Let him make this meaning absolutely plain and clear! "Whosoever
shall eat this bread . . . unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of
the Lord . . . For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." That is, not
UNDERSTANDING that Jesus' body was broken FOR OUR HEALING. Now continue:
"For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep"
-- that is, are DEAD! (Verses 29-30). Because they do not understand Jesus'
body was broken for our HEALING -- because they take this bread unworthy, (that
is, not trusting in Jesus' stripes for healing), many are suffering sickness,
may have died -- which is the penalty of physical transgression!
We take the broken bread UNWORTHILY if,
and when, we take it at communion service and then PUT OUR TRUST IN DOCTORS AND
MEDICINES, instead of in Christ -- thus putting ANOTHER god before HIM! So,
many are sick. Many die!
Do you see? Do you UNDERSTAND? God said,
"I am the God that heals you -- you shall have no other gods before
me!" His name is "Yahveh-Rapha" -- God our HEALER!
Is There No Need for Doctors?
If God is the Healer -- the only real
Healer; -- and if medical science came out of the ancient heathen practice of
medicine-men supposed to be in the good graces of imaginary gods of medicine,
is there, then, no need for doctors?
Yes, I'm quite sure there is. If all
people UNDERSTOOD and practiced God's TRUTH, the function of the doctor would
be a lot different than it is today. Actually, there isn't a cure in a car-load
-- or a train-load -- of medicine! Most sickness and disease today is the
result of faulty diet and wrong eating. The true function of the doctor should
not be to usurp GOD'S prerogative as a HEALER, but to help you to observe
nature's laws by prescribing correct diet, teaching you how better to live
according to nature's laws. In other words, to PREVENT sickness, not heal after
you are sick! Unfortunately, most doctors today are woefully unprepared
properly to advise patients about diet. They studied MEDICINE, not FOODS!
There are a few schools of
"healing" coming along today somewhat along this line, who work more
with nature's laws, and not with drugs and medicines -- the naturopaths,
osteopaths and chiropractors, etc. These may and may not be good, largely
according to the school from which they came and the ability of the man
himself.
There are other needed functions for
certain types of doctors. Child-bearing, for instance, is not a sickness from
which women need healing, but a natural thing ordained of God. It would seem
but right that we should have obstetrical specialists, then, for specialized
aid and care on such occasions.
If something breaks on my automobile --
something that can be fixed back either by myself or a specialist in a garage,
I do not just PRAY and DO NOTHING, and expect God to do for me what I can do
for myself. If you break an arm, or other bone, it certainly is right to take
it to a specialist and have him SET IT. He can't HEAL it, however -- you should
TRUST GOD to do that. So, you see, there are a number of functions which human
doctors or physicians can rightly perform. But remember that healing is, after all, OUT OF THEIR LINE -- only God can heal! Only
God can forgive sin!
Physicians Took All Her Money
Notice one more illustration, in the New
Testament, about going to doctors. A certain woman, diseased with an issue of
blood twelve years (Matthew
Notice, none of these physicians was able
to heal. Rather, this woman grew constantly worse. She actually SUFFERED many
things of these many physicians! Yet they CHARGED HER A PRICE -- they took all
she had -- all her living! In how many homes is that experience being repeated
TODAY?
Listen! Only GOD can heal -- and it is
something He GIVES you -- without money and without price -- NO CHARGE
WHATSOEVER! It's as FREE as salvation!
WHY, then, do people place their faith and
their trust in human men who have no power to help them -- sometimes spend all
their money sometimes on these men of a "science, falsely so called,"
-- and be utterly unable to place any FAITH in GOD to heal them? God can, and
WILL heal you if you're sick! He PROMISES to do it! He's ABLE! He WILL -- He says, so! It costs you nothing!
Then WHY, O WHY, are people unable to
place FAITH in HIM, and in His sure word, and instead trust the human doctors
who are unable to heal?
IS IT HIS WILL?
Now let's settle this question -- "Is
it God's WILL to heal me?" once and for all.
"Be ye not unwise, but UNDERSTANDING
what the will of the Lord is." (Ephesians 5:17). How do you KNOW God's
will? Is it His will to forgive your sins -- to give you eternal life? Well,
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
The BIBLE is the revelation of God's will.
It is His very word! Now if He tells you in plain language it is His will to
SAVE you, you believe Him! When He tells you in the same kind of plain language
it is His will to HEAL you, YOU MUST BELIEVE HIM! Otherwise you make God out a
liar.
If you can't believe God when He says HE
is the One who HEALS YOU -- when He says He is the One
who "HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES" -- yes, ALL of them -- then how can
you believe Him when He says He "Forgiveth all thine iniquities?" If
one of those promises -- WRITTEN PROMISES -- of Scripture can be broken, so can
the other.
Jesus healed. It was always His will. One
came to Him and said, "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." He
had the dread disease of leprosy. Jesus promptly answered, "I WILL. Be
thou clean." Immediately the leprosy departed from him. (Luke 5:12-13).
The Word of God says Jesus Christ is THE
SAME, yesterday, today, and forever. Then it is still HIS WILL today!
Part of Gospel Commission
Jesus not only PREACHED, -- He HEALED!
"Jesus went about all their cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing EVERY sickness
and EVERY disease among the people." (Matthew 9:35).
He commissioned His twelve disciples to HEAL,
as well as preach. "Then He called His twelve disciples together, and gave
them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And He sent them
to preach the
GOD ALONE has power to HEAL. However,
Christ Jesus delegated this power to HIS MINISTERS whom He was sending out to
preach! Show me where the Eternal GOD, who alone has the power to heal, ever
delegated that power to the doctors, physicians, of medical science! HE NEVER
DID! They do not HAVE the power to heal, but every true minister of Jesus
Christ -- if he is one whom God has called to the ministry -- DOES HAVE THAT
POWER! Well, what a shame that most ministers today do not KNOW that they have
been given that power, and most people who are sick do not know it either!
Later Jesus called 70 other disciples on a
special mission. And He commanded them to "HEAL THE SICK" where ever
they went. (Luke 10: 1, 9).
His final parting COMMISSION for all
ministers of the gospel, after His resurrection, just before ascending to
heaven, was this: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to
every creature . . . And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name
. . . they shall lay hands on the sick, AND THEY SHALL RECOVER," Mark
16:15-18. Now that's a PROMISE! Jesus said they "SHALL recover."
For The Christian TODAY!
After the New Testament Church was
started, the apostles and evangelists continued to HEAL THE SICK as well as
preach the gospel!
Almost immediately after the Day of Pentecost
when the Holy Spirit came, Peter and John, in the name of Jesus Christ, healed
the cripple, lame from birth. (Acts 3:1-11). As a result, they were thrown into
prison, but after they were released they met with the other disciples and
prayed earnestly to God, saying: "And now, Lord, behold their
threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may
speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to HEAL." "And when
they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the Word of God with
boldness," Acts 4:29-31.
Afterward so many were healed, that even
Peter's shadow passing over the sick resulted in their healing, THRU GOD'S
POWER. (Acts
Philip went down to
Now God is the SAME today -- and hundreds
today are being healed by that very method, given to us in the word of God! In
my office we hold a daily prayer service. All letters requesting special prayer
are brought in, and members of my staff join me in interceding with God for
each one. All who ask prayer for HEALING are given special consideration and
prayer. And, since it is impossible for me to visit each of these in their own
homes, I anoint a handkerchief in each case, following the Apostle Paul's
example, and this is mailed to the one who is sick.
God's Instruction to Those Sick TODAY
Here's God's instruction to YOU, today, if
you are ill. If we are to live by every Word of God, we should obey this
scripture. God does not say call your family physician. Instead, notice:
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them PRAY
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of
FAITH shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." (James 5:14-15).
He does not say, call the doctors and let
them give medicines and drugs, and God will cause the medicines and drugs and
dope to cure you. Yet that seems to be the way many professing Christians
believe, because it's what they practice.
Instead, God says call GOD'S MINISTERS.
Let them PRAY, anointing with oil (the type and symbol of the Holy Spirit).
Then GOD PROMISES He will HEAL YOU. I can't heal you. No minister can heal you,
-- that is, directly. But God PROMISES that when you call for His called
ministers, and they PRAY the prayer of faith (not doubt), and anoint with oil,
that GOD will HEAL! He has given His ministers authority to use the POWER contained
in the name of Jesus Christ, and in and through that name, to heal -- though
remember it is always GOD who actually does the healing, not the minister.
Now if the president of some large company
sends you a check for $100, you take that check to the bank and you have
PERFECT CONFIDENCE that you'll get the $100. That check is simply his written
PROMISE to pay you $100. He is a man, and you TRUST HIM. You don't shake at the
knees, or try to work up FAITH enough to get that check cashed. Of course not. That
would seem silly.
Well, the Bible is the written WORD OF
GOD. I have shown you God's written promise to PAY you a certain thing, upon
demand -- HEALING! Then how much more silly is it when you try to work up
faith, and strive to have faith, to just TRUST GOD to do what He promised? Is
His Word good? Do you BELIEVE it? Do you? If you do, then cash His
"checks" on the "Bank of Heaven," and EXPECT to receive
what God promises! Just like you expect to receive the money from the check at
the bank. That is real faith!
Leave the Way and Time to God
One word of caution! You can't dictate to
God. He usually doesn't do things OUR way or always in OUR time. Leave that to
Him! He PROMISES to heal you. Accept His promise. STAND ON THE PROMISES! Expect
the answer! You KNOW you'll get it. Leave the "how" and the
"when" to God. Let Him do it His way and in His time. Faith is the
evidence of things NOT SEEN -- not felt. Don't pay any attention to how you
feel, or what you see, after you have called upon God for healing. Just KNOW
you are to have it, and that's that!
In our many, many experiences, we have had
healings in our own family and many other cases that were instantaneous. Then
I'm thinking now of a woman who came to me and another minister for prayer for
healing. After we noticed no change and she felt none. It was four days later
that she was suddenly, instantly healed. I've known some to heal gradually. It
was even so in Jesus' own ministry, one began to mend from that hour.
Leave the "how" and
"when" to God. KNOW His promise is SURE!
The Scripture CANNOT BE BROKEN!
"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth ALL thy diseases!"