Faith Healing Today

What exactly happened to faith healing?  Did God give this remarkable gift, only to snatch it back away from those of us who believe?  Did it fizzle out at the end of the New Testament days?   No.  It happens every day for those who believe. You can choose to believe and be healed through God's word and through prayer.

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What Happened to Faith Healing?

This is a question that many ministers are faced with every day.  Many of them do not believe in healing and that, in and of itself, is the reason why so many of God's own children are not being healed.  Obviously, faith healing requires faith.

Legalism is another reason why so many aren't being healed.  I get sick to my stomach every time I hear a preacher on TV telling his viewers to send $70 for 7 months in order to receive their faith healing.  That is a mockery and a joke and it needs to stop.  Read these scriptures and you will begin to understand how God feels about our physical well being.

Jesus never charged a red cent for healing the multitudes that came to him.  He never once pointed his finger at anyone and said "You don't go to the Church of Christ, so you can't be healed."  He simply healed them all, regardless of who they were and what they had done in their lives.

How did He do this?  He relieved them from their guilt.

Mark 2:9  Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, take your mat and walk'? (NIV)

He took His God given authority and used it appropriately, not for personal gain.  No one had to pay Him.  No one had to earn their healing through legalistic activities. 

Matthew 9:6  But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go home."  (NIV)

Meditate on the above scripture.  Why did Jesus call himself the son of man?  Are we not sons of man?  Born-again Christians are also sons of God.  Jesus walked the earth to show us how to have a direct relationship with God.  A direct relationship with God, gives us the authority that Jesus had.

So, what does that have to do with faith healing?  (You cannot discern to whole truth by reading this outline.  Get the Bible and look up each passage.  Don't take verses out of context.  Ask God for the truth.  With His guidance, make your own decision.)

1. Accept the fact that you are forgiven.
   • 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. KJV
2. Forget the Past: (This one is difficult, but required for Christian Spiritual Healing)
   • Phil 3:13-14 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. NIV
3. Receive God's Favor (Grace)
   • Eph 1:6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. NIV
4. Pray along these lines:
   • Ps 51:10-12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
     11 Do not cast me from your presence
     or take your Holy Spirit from me.
     12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
     and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. NIV
5. Renew your mind Daily by reading and meditating on God's words.
   • Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. NIV
6. Submit to God fully.
   • James 4:7  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
7. Exercise your Authority.
   • Ephesians 2:6  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,  NIV

Have I done this?  Yes, I have.  Not only was I healed from many afflictions including depression and it's physical side-effects, God has actually used me as a vessel to heal other people on more than one occasion.  It is a most humbling experience and it is the life we, as believers, should be living. 

There are those times, when it doesn't work.  It's devastating to promise someone healing and they don't receive it right away.  Trust me, it is you and me, the receivers that are falling short, not God, the giver.

Learn more about what happened to real faith healing in Faith Healing in the Early Acts Days.