Divine Healing Is Real

The majority of good, saintly people never experience the healing power of Jesus Christ. It is not the problem of promise or provision because the Bible is strikingly clear. Healing for the temple where the Holy Ghost dwells is an absolute truth. We often hear people ask, “Is it the Lord’s will to heal me?” The answer is an emphatic “Yes!” The promises and provisions of God are without merit or respect of person. Most saints never get healed because they either doubt it or wait for it, instead of moving into it. Healing is exactly the same as all of God’s great redemptive provisions. You move into them by faith. You take hold of them by the casting of yourself on them in full confidence that “… what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” (Romans 4:21)

There are wonderful times when God has an anointed servant to bring healing to others who cannot make that leap of faith. The church should have an entire army of Godly servants that live by the “gifts of miracles” or “gifts of healing,” but, sadly, it doesn’t. Almost the entire discussion of healing within the church family is controlled by doubtful questions. Does God heal today? Is it really His will to heal? Under what circumstances do people get healed? And many more. The debate is so controlled by doubt that very few of God’s genuine saints dare to launch out into the realm where healing occurs. It’s much easier under this cloud of doubt to make an appointment with the good doctor.

Is the Bible really clear on this subject? God’s promise to Israel as they traveled in mass through the wilderness was incredible. He said to them, “He sent His word, and healed them.” (Psalm 107:20a) Isaiah, the great statesman prophet, thundered, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) Apostle Peter quoted this prophetic thunder, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” (I Peter 2:24) To deny these multiple examples that the Son of God mirrored in His life is careless, if not blasphemous. Unbelief is a dark sin that offends the heart of God. His passion for us is our trust for Him.

An Old Testament saint that learned the great promises of God but then turned to the flesh in sickness is a great lesson of the failure of faith. The Scripture said, “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: 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.” (II Chronicles 16:12-13) This story has been repeated thousands of times in the history of the church. Physicians are not bad people just because of their vocation. They serve an important place in society, especially for the unbelieving world. They must be treated honorably if they conduct their profession rightly. But, God’s trusting saints must learn that there is a balm in Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22). There is a healer in God’s Biblical House of His Saints and we must cast ourselves upon Him.

You do not get healed in the foyer of promises, but out in the middle of faith You do not get healed waiting idly for it. Faith is never static; faith is action. Faith moves right into the promise and provision and refuses to waver. Faith moves into a miracle and claims it without a doubt because God is faithful to every promise. The Bible is full of miracles, but none of them came sitting down. To the man with a withered hand, the Lord said, “Stretch forth thy hand.” (Luke 6:10). To Blind Bartimaeus it was, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.” (John 9:7). At the Pool of Bethesda Christ said, “Take up thy bed, and walk.” (John 5:11). There is an endless list in Holy Scripture of faith getting up and walking when walking was impossible.

God’s revelation has perfectly described Biblical faith. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1). It’s thrilling to read that whole chapter and view the power of faith. By faith, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, and Moses each accomplished the impossible. (Hebrews 11:4,7,8,20,21,23). Of Sarah, God said, “Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.” (Hebrews 11:11). Faith is dynamic; you get up and move into it or you sit and never receive the promise. It’s up to you. God’s Son has done His part.