CAN HEALING BE DONE THROUGH ME?

Would you like to see blind people receive their sight or lame people walk when you pray for them?

Here’s the good news—whether you’re praying for another’s healing or receiving for yourself, it’s available to every faithful follower of Christ! Jesus gave every disciple who believed in the power and authority to do the same works He did. What a statement! But it is true. John 14 verses 12 says, 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. All believers will do the same works that Jesus did; it’s not limited to Pastors. There’s just a shortage of believing believers.

How do you get to where you can see the miraculous happen in and through you? It starts with the renewing of your mind. Faith is based on knowledge, and everything we need to know to be a victorious Christian is explained in God’s Word. That’s what the Apostle Peter said in 2 Peter 1, verses 3 and 4:

“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Knowledge of a few fundamental truths will make a huge difference in releasing His power and receiving your healing when properly understood and applied. God has already placed His healing power within us and is now under our authority. It is not up to God to determine who receives healing; it is up to us.

Our failure to understand and use our authority keeps God’s healing power from flowing as it should. We must discover what we have and learn how to release it. I have a lot of healing messages on our YouTube channel that will be helpful if you understand. The messages will affect how you receive and minister healing and change how you relate to God. They are good, resourceful teachings that you would not want to miss.

Here’s another essential truth you must know and understand about healing: It is never God’s will for us to be sick; He wants every person healed every time. That’s nearly too good to be correct, but that’s the Gospel. Most Christians don’t know or believe that. They think the Lord makes them sick, or at the very least, He allows Satan to make them sick to either punish or correct them. That kind of thinking will get you killed; it’s not what the Bible teaches.

One of the most elementary principles in God’s Word is in James 4 verse 7. It says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

This verse teaches that some things are of God, and some are of the devil. Notice it doesn’t present a third category: from God through the devil. No! Sickness has nothing to do with God! Submit to the things of God, and resist the things of the devil. It’s that simple. To believe that God allows or approves of Satan’s actions defies the logic of James 4 verse 7. It eliminates our responsibility to resist and places ultimate responsibility for everything back on God.

The widely-accepted doctrine that God controls everything is a deception. If Satan can confuse and deceive you on that issue, he’s got you! Why? Because you’ll stop resisting. No one wants to resist God’s will, and if you think that God is behind your sickness, you’ll submit to it. That violates the instruction of James 4 verse 7; it won’t get you healed, and it lets Satan have his way in your life.

You must believe God always wants you healed. It’s so simple, and it takes help to misunderstand. But sadly, most Christians receive plenty of help from religion in misunderstanding this. Look at it this way: If God wanted you sick for whatever reason, then why visit the doctor or take medication? It would seem more logical to allow the sickness to run its course so God’s purpose could be accomplished. Of course, I think that isn’t very smart, and hopefully, you are too.

What’s the bottom line of God’s will for our healing? His Word reveals that to us in 3 John 2, which says, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

John was writing a letter to believers under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He revealed that the Lord wants us healthy just as much as He wants us to prosper emotionally and mentally. When Peter preached the Gospel to Cornelius in Acts 10, verse 38, he summarized the ministry of Jesus by saying,

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

Some people say healing is of the devil today, but that’s not Peter’s message. Notice what Peter said under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Not only was Jesus doing good when He healed people, but He also healed all oppressed of the devil, not God. That Scripture proves that sickness is not from God.

Isaiah 53 should end all debate. It was written prophetically about Jesus, the Messiah. Isaiah 53 verses 4 and 5 says, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 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.”

These verses reveal that physical healing is a part of the atonement of Christ. The Lord redeemed us from sickness just as much as He redeemed us from sin. He would no more want us to be sick than He would want us to sin. Those are radical statements to many Christians because we’ve been taught that forgiveness of sins is what salvation is all about. Well, that’s certainly a vital part of salvation, but that’s not all that Jesus accomplished. His stripes also healed us. Sickness is not of God, just as sin is not of God. Thank You, Jesus!

If anyone thinks the healing in Isaiah 53 verses 4 and 5 is not physical but only emotional, the Bible comments on Isaiah’s prophecy. In Matthew 8, verse 16, Jesus healed all the sick people brought to Him, and verse 17 says this was done, “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”

Therefore, Scripture comments on itself and makes it very clear that the healing spoken of by Isaiah is referring to physical infirmities and sicknesses. If Jesus bore our sicknesses, then we don’t have to.

You may ask yourself, “What about Paul’s thorn in the flesh?” I wish I had space to answer that in this article because those scriptures do not discuss a sickness of Paul’s that the Lord would not heal. Read the scriptures below, and if you have any further questions, then reach out to me at felixharcourt@fhmi.net

Thorns in the flesh

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Numbers 33 verse 55 KJV

know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Joshua 23 verse 13 KJV

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

Judges 2 verse 3 KJV

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12 verses 1 through ‬9 KJV.‬‬

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