Category: School of Healing

He healed because he’s God, of course. That was my mindset for years, and it stopped me from healing.

Before you throw your coffee, yes, he IS God—yesterday, today and forever!

However, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12). This made no sense to me. If Jesus healed because he’s God, how can I do what he did?

Then I noticed John 5:19. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself.” He repeated (v30): “By myself I can do nothing.”

Philippians chapter 2 explains. Jesus took the form of a servant [Greek, doulou, a slave (Strongs)], and shared in our humanity in every way (Hebrews 2:17). A slave has no power or authority. Jesus left them with his Father.

He waited for the Spirit

Jesus did no ministry until he was baptized with the Holy Spirit. After his temptations, he returned from the desert in the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14), and preached his first sermon:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to… heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…” (Luke 4:18-19 KJV). That’s why he healed. Because the Spirit was on him.

…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and … he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him (Acts 10:38).

We have the same Spirit (check out Romans 8:11!) If Jesus healed by the Spirit, we can too. Suddenly John 14:12 makes sense. All we need is the Spirit, and we CAN do what he did.

If you’re not already filled with the Spirit, why not ask the Father right now?

In Luke chapter 10, Jesus sends out the 70 disciples (72 in some translations) into the villages. These weren’t the apostles he sent out in chapter 9. They weren’t the big men of God—they were just ordinary disciples like you and me, hanging around Jesus.

He told them, “Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you’” (Luke 10:9). “Heal the sick” is a command, not a suggestion.

Who do we heal?

He also said to heal “those who were there,” which includes a) every type of person, and b) every type of sickness. Good people and bad people, headaches and viruses.

In John chapter 5, Jesus heals a man who’d been an invalid for 38 years. Later he tells him (John 5:14), “Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” Jesus knew he was a sinner, but healed him anyway.

Healing is a partnership

Jesus didn’t say, “Pray for the sick.” He said to heal them! Problem. I can’t, and neither can you. So why did he tell us to do something he knows we cannot do? Because of Luke 1:37:  “For nothing is impossible with God.”

It says, “WITH God.” We are not alone! Jesus promised he is with us “always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). We cannot heal anyone, but he can and does. He wants us involved. We’ll see why when we check out the authority he’s given us.

Something must happen

Look again at Luke 1:37. If “nothing” is impossible, then when we minister healing, in faith, in the name of Jesus, something must happen. We may not see it, or feel it, for we live by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).

Are you with Jesus? Then trust him—when you step out, “NOTHING” is completely impossible!

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Jesus did it: Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them (Luke 4:38-39).

We praise God for the wonderful medical profession, but they shouldn’t have to carry the burden alone. We, the church, should be healing the sick including those with the virus. We can even do it isolated!

In Nepal recently, two of our team ministered with this lady at church. Her daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant but was at home with chronic pneumonia.

They commanded the mountains of sickness to move, and she was healed that same day. Praise Jesus!

Thousands healed

We’ve been teaching divine healing for twenty years, and have seen countless thousands healed of almost every kind of sickness, by following the example of Jesus and applying a mustard seed of faith.

It’s not hard. As you will learn, it’s not intended to be the preserve of platform evangelists or ordained clergy. Every Christian believer is commanded to heal the sick. We’ve seen mothers healed by their own children and grandmothers healed by newly-believing grandchildren.

Hundreds have been healed in a single meeting simply by people laying on hands. Children with no experience have seen almost every sick person in a meeting healed.

We simply have to step out in faith. If we do what he told us to do, he will do what he promised to do. Follow the School of Healing category.