1. It is God’s will that you receive His healing as your share of “the children’s bread” (Matthew 15:26).
2. Jesus said those who believe would heal the sick; so, you do not need to be “led” by the Spirit of God to pray for your healing or anyone else’s — it is God’s will (Matthew 8:2).
3. Sickness is the devil’s work. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and also that we would do the works that he did (1 John 3:8; John 14:12).
4. All believers can pray for the sick, not only those who have God-given gifts of healing (although the latter will see more healings). (Mark: 16:18)
5. It is God’s will that we be healed as well as forgiven, and to that end included Healing in the Atonement. Physical as well as spiritual healing.
6. Jesus never asked His Father to heal anyone. He spoke with Divine authority to some and laid his hands on others. All of them were healed!
7. Jesus healed hundreds at a time without first requiring that they repent or believe. They did so in response to his visible compassion for them
(Matthew 9:35, 36).
8. Great faith is not necessary for you to receive Divine Healing, just the measure of faith that God has given you. Being healed will grow your faith.
9. You need to exercise your authority by refusing to ‘sign’ a delivery receipt for sicknesses from which Jesus healed you by suffering for you.
10. Healing was a promise that became a fact when Jesus died (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24). Isaiah, looking into the future, prophesied it, and Peter, looking back saw it as having been fulfilled.
11. There are hindrances to healing, a big one being that not everyone who is prayed for is healed. The biggest hindrance though, is resident unbelief.
12. Jesus healed everyone who came to him. He even healed a few in Nazareth, where the general attitude of “Charity Begins at Home” proved another unpleasant truth, which is “Familiarity Breeds Contempt”.
13. Illness has a ‘root cause’ – the sin that “opened the door” to sickness in the first place. Adam’s sin was the ‘root’ of all problems. Sickness is a branch on the deep-rooted and inherently sinful tree of humanity.
14. Ancestral sins of did not prevent Jesus from healing anyone: neither he nor his apostles mentioned such a sin. Sin is a personal thing. However, its mental and physical effects can be passed on genetically and behaviourally.
15. Jesus gave His disciples authority to cast out evil spirits, and said that believers would do the same in his Name. Although away in heaven, he is working with us on earth as we preach the Word to others.
16. Jesus dwells in our hearts by faith, and the Holy Spirit in us provides all the power needed for us to do the same works that Jesus did.
17. We are not to judge whether or not sick people have confessed their sins; or whether or not they have enough faith to be healed; or whether or not God is willing to heal them. Our job is to heal them, not judge them.
18. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit was given us so that we could minister Divine healing to others through the power of God the same as Jesus did.
19. Jesus said that, as believers we would lay hands on the sick and they would recover. Recovery takes time, but miracles of healing are instant.
20. The commandment that we heal the sick is sufficient. No special word for the sick is required. We simply do as we are told – orders are orders!
21. Miracles are not ‘better’ than healings – just quicker and more dramatic.
22. God provided for the healing of our illnesses, whatever they may be, through the floggings Jesus endured at Pilate’s direction and the wounds in his hands, feet, and side.
23. The only requirement for us to be healed is that we ask Jesus to heal us.
24. God is an “equal opportunity” Healer, in that He is willing to heal “whoever” — anyone and everyone; and He is never the cause of any delay.
25. God will not withhold any good thing from us. He will heal us when we ask Him in faith to heal us, or when we ask another believer to heal us in the name of Jesus.
26. We are to minister the power of God without judging who is worthy and who isn’t. No one is. The ground for our healing is the faith that we have in common and share with one another.
27. God’s power is as much a part of us as electricity is to our homes. He never turns off His ever reliable and unlimited power supply. More to the point is the question as to whether our faith switch is turned OFF or ON.
28. Christ dwells in your heart by faith, and by the Spirit of God does through us the same things that did during his ministry on earth.
29. We should never pray for faith, because God has given every one of us a “measure of faith” to get us started. This will increase as we use the faith we have to do the things that Jesus did. Faith can grow slowly or it can grow exceedingly! (2 Thessalonians 1:3)
30. Spiritual gifts of healing usually are imparted by the laying on of hands of church elders — mature believers in church leadership. Or through an anointed minister. Or the Lord Jesus might give you the gift personally and privately.
31. The Apostles initiated some miracles of healing as needs arose, not just when God moved them sovereignly. The Lord “worked with them” and confirmed the word with “signs following” — miracle pointing to the fact that Jesus was the Jews’ long-awaited Messiah.
32. Signs and wonders follow us when we believe; we need not look for them. The signs will follow the messages we preach. Astronomers follow the Creator’s signs in the skies. Astrologers make them up. We do them.
33. As believers, the only way we can increase the flow of God’s healing power through us is by opening ourselves to it more than we do now.
34. We already have as much of the Holy Spirit needed to either heal or to be healed.
35. Christ in us is instantly available to destroy the works of the devil through us. Sickness is one of his most damaging works.
36. God will heal through us as He pleases. Healing is not about us but about His goodness, not only through us in healing power but also to heal those who are sick or injured.
37. We might not think much of ourselves as Christians, but God knows who we are in His sight, and what we can do in Jesus, and that’s what counts.
38. We don’t need to beg God to heal us: all we need do is affirm that Jesus did so, a little over 2,000 years ago. The Prophet Isaiah saw salvation and healing as a future event, and the Apostle Peter saw it as a past event.
39. When a Prophecy is fulfilled, it is no longer a Promise but a Fact! Jesus said just before dying, “It is finished.” He had secured our salvation, from Justification through to Resurrection. Jesus saved us and healed us then and there, and that was that! Isaiah 53:5 is a Prophetic Promise; 1 Peter 2:24 refers to its fulfillment as an Accomplished Fact!
40. If we pray but don’t say, we may be close to God but far from those in need of His saving and healing power. And if we say but don’t pray, we’ll end up muttering biblical mantras, their meanings lost in repetition The best way to start is to pray from the heart, thinking of every prayer as an Original, not just a Copy.