Faith Healing
The incarnated Jesus spent much of His time healing the sick. “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to
them.” (Matt.11:5) After Jesus was crucified, raised and ascended, the Holy Spirit is given to the church. Jesus
promised, in John 14:16, to give another advocate when He ascends. This is the Holy Spirit or the same Spirit that
was active in Jesus, the same Spirit that healed.
Some will say that God doesn’t perform miracles anymore; that He only did that in the Bible. “Love never ends.
But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to
an end.” (1Cor.13:8) What is being spoken about here is the time in which Jesus returns. The gifts of the spirit
continue even though the Bible is a closed canon. The Holy Spirit is still active with us.
Many of us in the Christian faith have operated as though all we have to rely on is the natural world with its
medical advancements. However, the Holy Spirit is with us and wants to heal us from injury, disease, and affliction.
I have been at conferences where people have been healed from many different things. I have experienced
supernatural healing myself.
There still remains some level of mystery though. That is to say, sometimes it doesn’t happen. Even when it does
happen sometimes it is not one hundred percent. God is other and we don’t understand everything now. “For
now, I see in a mirror dimly, but then I will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even
as I have been fully known.” On our end, we simply need to trust, believe, and ask.
Pastor Gary
