“People will object to and resist the teaching on Divine Healing, but will go to doctors for medical healing.”
“If God uses sickness for His purpose and to ‘teach’ us, why do we go against His will and seek treatment?"
Biblical Facts on Healing
• God's will is for us to expect to receive divine healing every time.
• We are commanded to heal all of the sick; we do not need a special "leading or unction."
• Every believer is already an "heir" of all the authority he needs to minister healing.
• All believers can minister healing effectively; some have specialized gifts of healing.
• God's desire is to heal all of our diseases just as He forgives all of our sins.
• Jesus never asked Father God to heal anyone, He commanded healing and deliverance.
• Jesus healed thousands at a time without requiring them to repent or believe first.
• Great faith is not necessary or the key to receiving divine healing from disease.
• The disciples did not "intercede" for healing; they commanded spirits of infirmity to leave.
• Our traditions about healing have hindered us from demonstrating the power of God.
• Unconfessed sins may make people sick but they do not keep them from being healed.
• Jesus healed them all, regardless of their level of faith, if they wanted to be healed.
• Jesus never tried to find the root cause of the illness or the sin that "opened the door."
• Jesus was never prevented from healing due to the sin of their ancestors.
• Jesus taught the disciples to command spirits of infirmity to leave rather than to intercede.
• We are commanded to lay hands on the sick.
• The commandment to heal the sick is sufficient without a rhema word for each person.
• Healing sometimes takes time to manifest, while miracles are usually instant.
• Healing for every illness has already been provided in Christ beating at the whipping post.
• God is an equal opportunity healer and is never the cause of a delay of healing.
• God never causes illness to teach us a lesson; it is never His will for us to be sick.
• We are to command the power of God without picking and choosing who is worthy.
• We have authority to cast out even the devils that people think they want to keep.
• Signs and wonders follow our belief vs. we wait for a new command every time.
• The Holy Spirit, in me, is always instantly available to destroy the works of the devil though me.
• God will heal through any believer, because it is not about us, but about His goodness.
• Every believer is God's child, man's servant and the devil's master.
• We don't beg God for healing; we proclaim freedom for the captives or prisoners.
• There is no one who is so bad that God will not heal them.
• The main hindrance to receiving healing is - believing that there are hindrances to healing.
• Because Christ is in me, I already have all the power and anointing that I will need.
• God's anointing which abides within me, is always ready to heal and is always on.
• Sickness is the devil's work and Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.
• We must exercise our authority, refusing to receive spirits of infirmity back again.
• Returning to sin can enable spirits of infirmity to come back on us.
How, then, do you reconcile your statement with such scriptural passages as Job 33:19-22 or Psalm 119:67?
Your questions are good ones and representative of questions we receive often. I will address them in order. The subject of the “sufferings of Job” comes up in almost every seminar we do on healing. It is one of the largest and strongest “sacred cows” in the list of objections to divine healing. First of all we have to look at a few facts:
1) The Book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible, and was certainly written before the giving of the Law. Job was most probably a contemporary of Abraham, prior to Abraham’s covenant with God. Regardless, we can be certain of his historical existence from the references in Ezekiel 14:20 and James 5:11.
2) Because of these facts, we can be certain that Job did not have a covenant with God. He most certainly was not under the same covenant we have today.
3) It is not Job who is speaking in Job 33. This is the continuation of Elihu’s discourse begun in chapter 32. Nothing in these verses indicate that God was the cause of any form of illness or sickness. None of the Hebrew words in this passage have any reference to physical illness.
4) We find clearly stated in God’s response to Job’s ‘friend’s,” “After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
5) The truth about Job was that all of the affliction he endured was a direct result of the oppression of satan. God was not "using sickness to teach Job a lesson." This is a tradition of man (doctrine of demons), that has absolutely no scriptural basis. In fact, Psalm 103:10, says of God that, “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.” Only a few verses earlier we are told, “The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for ALL that are oppressed.” (Ps 103:6) In the end,
6) The ultimate truth about Job is found in Job 42:10, 13: “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.” And “So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters.” Those are the verses you never hear and yet they alone represent the truth concerning what God did to Job. Ultimately we are told that, “Job died, being old and full of days.”
As for Psalm 119:67? It says: “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.” There is much that can be said here. It is a mistake to use this verse in reference to healing or physical illness. This is a common error that is simply not supported by the text. The Hebrew word rendered “afflicted” in the KJV is found in Strongs’ #H6031, ‘aw-naw.” It means “oppressed” or “self-afflicted,” and has no reference at all to sickness.
As we have already seen in Psalm 103: the Lord executes righteousness and judgement for ALL that are oppressed. He is hardly the oppressor! In fact, we are told in the very same chapter, the truth of God’s will concerning healing. Psalm 103:1-4—“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;who healeth all thy diseases;4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;”
Why are we so willing to accept the one and not the other? They are almost always found together.
I am reminded of another passage. This one in the New Covenant, the “better” one, “based upon better promises.” Acts 10:38 (KJV)—“ 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.”
Sounds like to me that even under the New Covenant, during this Church Age of grace, satan is still the oppressor and God stili executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Thanks for your questions. I hope this helps somewhat. I realize that our approach is quite a departure from the traditional model of intercession or prayer for the sick. The people who are using this approach and understanding of Biblical Divine Healing are experiencing dramatic results, all over the world.
Nowhere in scripture are believers’ told to pray for the sick. What they are told, is that “they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” (MK 16:18). It’s simply a matter of taking God at His Word and acting as if it were true and meant what it says.
The only hindrance to divine healing is that you believe there are hindrances to healing.
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“they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” [/B](MK 16:18). It’s simply a matter of taking God at His Word and acting as if it were true and meant what it says.
The only hindrance to divine healing is that you believe there are hindrances to healing.
Bro Yates,
I see in scripture that Elishah died of a sickness, that the three Hebrew boys NEVER prayed for deliverance, nor did Daniel. Sometimes life happens that God completely allows - no, I'll go further than that - is the will of God. This includes sickness, persecution, etc.
I have seen wreckage aplenty from this "brand" of word of faith.
Your teaching lays the blame of non-healing (and other negative events) on the "lack of faith", what you call hindrances to healing, when you are really PRESUMING that it is God's will to heal each and every instance.
I'll be polite: what are you smoking?
The OVERWHELMING majority of humanity diagnosed with cancer are NOT - I repeat NOT - miraculously healed
Your doctrine teaches that there is what I'll call a faith "power level" that believers can and should have. We can even move a literal mountain if we had it! .
I have to say that if your teaching was biblical then every believer would be healed NOW.
EVERY believer in Jesus Christ has given their lives and souls to him by FAITH. There is no greater demonstration of faith!
Your doctrine provides more guilt than grace in the hearts of those that may not be healed.
I am curious to know what causes you to believe that YOUR prayers for someone's healing according to YOUR desires constitute God's will?
I see in scripture that Elishah died of a sickness, that the three Hebrew boys NEVER prayed for deliverance, nor did Daniel. Sometimes life happens that God completely allows - no, I'll go further than that - is the will of God. This includes sickness, persecution, etc.
I have seen wreckage aplenty from this "brand" of word of faith.
Your teaching lays the blame of non-healing (and other negative events) on the "lack of faith", what you call hindrances to healing, when you are really PRESUMING that it is God's will to heal each and every instance.
I'll be polite: what are you smoking?
The OVERWHELMING majority of humanity diagnosed with cancer are NOT - I repeat NOT - miraculously healed
Your doctrine teaches that there is what I'll call a faith "power level" that believers can and should have. We can even move a literal mountain if we had it! .
I have to say that if your teaching was biblical then every believer would be healed NOW.
EVERY believer in Jesus Christ has given their lives and souls to him by FAITH. There is no greater demonstration of faith!
Your doctrine provides more guilt than grace in the hearts of those that may not be healed.
I am curious to know what causes you to believe that YOUR prayers for someone's healing according to YOUR desires constitute God's will?
Wow! That is sure a strong response! I am familiar with it by now and yet the people continue to get healed. First of all let me say a couple of things at the outset. This is NOT my doctrine. Neither am I "word of faith," although I did read somewhere that it is "the word of faith, which we preach." Nor do I go about blaming people who are not healed for not having enough faith. Jesus never did that. His disciples never did that.
While it is true that all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (2 Ti 3:12), it is merely the result of our stand for Christ in an increasingly evil world, not because God desires it. The late Leonard Ravehill, the great man of God, who wrote the classic, "Why Revival Tarries," once said: "All you have to do is decide to walk a little closer to God and you'll be criticized more in the church than in the tavern down the street." Unfortunately the greatest resistance to this message comes, not from lost, worldly people. It come from the Church. It comes from people, that as the Apostle Paul said, "have a form of godliness, but deny the POWER thereof."
Let me ask you to consider something. Do you believe that it is the will of God for people to be saved? Almost every Christian accept that it is not the will of God that ANY should perish but that ALL come to repentance. Do you believe that? I am certain that you do because you can read it in your Bible in 2 Peter 3:9. And yet even though it is clearly the will of God Himself that all come to repentance, many will not and as a result will spend eternity separated from Him.
The very same Bible that promises us Salvation from our sins, in the very same verses ensure us of the absolute will of God concerning healing. i will mention but a few:
Psalm 103:1-3--Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not ALL his benefits:
Who forgiveth ALL thine iniquities; who healeth ALL thy diseases;
As I said above, why is the Church so willing to fight and even die for the belief in one and yet so equally prepared to fight against the other? And yet both are clearly proclaimed by the same passage. Let's look at a few more:
Isaiah 53:4,5--4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5 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.
Once more, in the same passage we find God dealing both with our sins and our healing. The Hebrew word for "Peace" carries the meaning of health and healing. You can prove that easily. This verse is familiar to most Christians as is it's companion verse in 1Pe 2:24--"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."
The Prophet Isaiah looking forward to the cross proclaims our freedom from sin and sickness. Peter, looking BACK at the cross also proclaims our sins and sicknesses equally dealt with. Again why are we so willing to accept the truth of the one and yet so quick to reject the other?
And just to make sure we don't miss the absolute truth and full impact of these parallel passages, Matthew records the following in his Gospel: "And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."
I could continue on in this fashion for pages, but these verses speak for themselves. This is not, as you wrote, "MY doctrine," it is the clear and indisputable teaching of Scripture. I "presume" to believe in God's will for healing for the same reason you "presume" to know His will for Salvation; because it is what you have learned from your study of Scripture.
I never said there were hindrances to healing. What I said was that the only hindrance to healing is the fact that you believe there are hindrances to healing.
I would like to share more with you on this subject but time does not permit, I must get ready for Church. Please allow me to continue at a later time. Just let these Scriptures sink in they pretty much speak for themselves. i bless you in the Lord and look forward to continuing our discussion.
So, Dr. Yates, what is your track record for healing? Is it 100%?
Nope! Not even close. Still too much of me in the way I would guess. But, since adopting our current approach over the more traditional approach, it has gone from less than 10% to around 60 or 70! The ministries bringing this message of Biblical healing are seeing multiplied thousands of healings and miracles worldwide.
What I find most remarkable though? If you read through the four Gospels and the Book of Acts, every bit of resistance directed at Jesus and His disciples came from the established religious tradition of His day. Not only that, but it was this very issue that brought the greatest attack. Seems not much has changed in the last 2000 years. It's not the unsaved people of the world that fight to stay sick, it's the Church that attacks this message.
It's also interesting to note that the greatest effectiveness of this message happens overseas. The western religious mindset is so entrenched in unbelief that it would rather argue about the Word of God than to walk in it. You preach this overseas and they come by the thousands and leave healed. The Gospel still works where it is presented in it's true form and received with gladness.
The Apostle Paul reminded the Church at Corinth: "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." (1Co 2:4, 5) he told the Church at Rome, before his death that, "Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." (Rom 15:19)
Jesus sent His disciples out to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom and to heal the sick. Before He ascended, He promised that believers would lay hands on the sick and they would recover. (MK 16:18).
Under the Old Covenant, we read: "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." (Ps 107:20) His very name Jehavah-rapha means the Lord our healer. Healing is part of the very nature and character of God and exemplified by the ministry of Jesus and His followers. Today we have a New Covenant. It is a "better covenant" based upon "better promises."
Unfortunately, today we pick and choose our way through the Bible. We believe certain scriptures and reject others. apparently, the message of healing is one we reject the most, even though it was provided for us on the same basis as salvation. If we treated the subject of salvation in the same way we treat healing, very few would ever be saved. The inescapable truth is that the Gospel preached in the absence of the manifestation of signs and wonders, in particular healing, simply isn't the Gospel of the Kingdom. What we have today is "another Jesus" and a "different Gospel."
By the way, what is your record regarding healing the sick?
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