THE BIBLE GIVES us a number of ways we can receive healing. Because everybody’s faith isn’t on the same level, God has provided various methods by which physical healing can be obtained through His Word. He does not leave us stranded. If we cannot rise to meet Him on His level, He will come down to meet us on ours.
Wherever two people are, agreeing in prayer, Jesus is there to see that what they agree on happens.
Use the Name of Jesus
Throughout the Book of Acts, the apostles didn’t pray for the sick; they demanded that they get up and walk. When Peter and John ministered to the lame man at the Gate Beautiful (Acts chapter 3), they “demanded” in the Name of Jesus (it says in the Greek) that he rise and walk.
You have a right to “demand” in Jesus’ Name that people be healed. You are not demanding it of God; He didn’t make them sick in the first place. You are demanding in the Name of Jesus that the devil turn them loose.
Jesus said, “In my name . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:17–18). There is power in the Name.
Jesus’ Name belongs to us, but it will not work unless we use it. The Name of Jesus is the key that unlocks the door to the impossible and the supernatural.
Do you remember what Peter said to the crowd that gathered after the lame man was healed at the Gate Beautiful? He said, “Why marvel ye at this . . . , as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? . . . [Jesus’] name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all” (Acts 3:12, 16).
Pray for Healing in the Name of Jesus
Praying to the Father in Jesus’ Name belongs to us now—in this day.
JOHN 16:23–24
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Notice that Jesus said, “Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Of course, this includes all prayer, but it includes prayer for healing as well. How could your joy be full if your loved ones were home sick? That would be impossible, wouldn’t it?
If we were getting more answers to prayer, we would have more joy. And if more of our joy were showing, we would get more people saved.
We have a right to ask for healing in the Name of Jesus. God does hear and answer prayer.
Agree With Another Believer in Prayer
Jesus said, “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven” (Matt. 18:19).
Jesus did not say it might be done. He did not say it is a possibility. He said, “It shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” And “any thing” could include healing, couldn’t it?
WHEREVER TWO PEOPLE ARE, AGREEING IN PRAYER, JESUS IS THERE TO SEE THAT WHAT THEY AGREE ON HAPPENS. Where two people are united and are demanding in Jesus’ Name the healing of loved ones, their prayers are bound to be answered because God watches over His Word to make it good.
Anoint With Oil
The Book of James provides another method through which healing can be obtained.
JAMES 5:14–15
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
There really should not be any sick among us—but James asked, “Is any sick among you?” James is clearly talking to the church here, because he said, “Let him call for the elders of the church.” Thank God, even if people have missed it and sinned, there is help for them. They can get forgiveness for their sins and be healed.
Laying On of Hands
When Jesus gave the Great Commission, He said, “They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18).
All believers can lay hands on people. Jesus didn’t say we were to heal the sick. We are to lay hands on them and believe God. Every Christian can practice this.
Parents should lay hands on their children if they are sick. A mother has a right to lay hands on her children if she is a believer. She shouldn’t have to send for someone else.
Some people are not yet at a level where they can receive healing on their own. If you find yourself in this category, don’t give up. Just come on a lower level of faith. Be one on whom hands are laid, and receive your healing this way. God wants to help you.
Know That Healing Belongs to You
The best method by which you can be healed is to know for yourself from the scriptures (Isa. 53:4–5; Matt. 8:17;
1 Peter 2:24) that healing is in God’s redemptive plan; it belongs to you; and by His stripes we are healed.
We refuse to allow disease or sickness in our bodies, because we are healed. We know that the pain, sickness, or disease that seems to be in our bodies was laid on Jesus. He bore it. Therefore, we don’t need to bear it. All we need to do is agree with God and His Word and accept the fact that “himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matt. 8:17) and “with his stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5).
We simply know it, so we thank God. We don’t have to have anybody lay hands on us. We simply thank the Father for our perfect deliverance.
All believers should thoroughly understand that their healing was consummated in Christ. When they come to know that in their hearts—just as they know it in their heads—that will be the end of sickness and disease in their bodies.
Author
Kenneth E. Hagin
Share this Post