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It should be obvious to you by now that God will heal anyone, anywhere, anytime, of anything. He has healed sinners, saints, kings, peasants, men, women, children, prophets, pagans, and even those who were killing His people and persecuting the church. There is literally no one beyond God’s healing reach. The only prerequisite for healing has been and always will be faith. This is where some lose heart because they have been told that they must have faith. While this may be a common teaching today, it is not true. All that is required is that someone have faith. If the sick person does not have faith then it becomes the duty of the believer to believe (have faith) for them.
The hardest people to get healed is usually Christians because they feel that they have failed to live up to the Bible standard for the Christian, (which is true, because if we could live up to the standard on our own, Christ would not have had to die for us), so now they feel unworthy for God to heal them or they feel as though they must do something to make up for their wrongs and therefore become good enough to be healed. This is the trap Satan sets, first to tempt you to sin, then to condemn you for sinning so that you are unable to go to God and receive His forgiveness, if you do get that far, he will still continually keep you beat down by the weight and guilt of the fact that you sinned which keeps you ineffective in the Kingdom of God. Remember, the size of the gift from the Giver does not depend upon the goodness of the messenger or the worthiness of the receiver. Just believe that God is bigger than your sin and receive the free gift of healing just as you did salvation. The same goes for the one ministering healing. Just keep laying hands on people and praying the prayer of faith, regardless of what you are going through. If God could only use perfect people to work through He would never get anything done. He uses what has been made AVAILABLE to Him.
I. Take Heed to what you hear.Mark 4:24-29 – 24. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. 25. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. 26. And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27. And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (KIV)
II. He that heareth My Sayings and doeth them not is a fool. Luke 6:47-49 – 47. Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48. He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. (KJV)
III.To Whom Much is given, much is required.Luke 12:42-48 – 42. And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43. Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46. The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47. And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. (KJV)
IV. He that knows to do good and doeth it not it is sin.James 4:17 - Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
V. Jesus went about doing good and healing all, Acts 10:38 - 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. (KJV)
VI. Walk in the light you have. - Luke 12:48 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. (KJV)
VII. The Golden Rule.Matthew 7:12 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (KJV)
(This tells us that if we were sick and we knew of someone that had the power of God to heal the sick (aka: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit) and we would want them to come to us, then we are morally obligated to go to them and pray the prayer of faith and get them healed.)

Healing

Most people want to wait until they "feel" anointed before they try to minister to someone.
Some have even been taught that they MUST wait until they feel anointed to minister.
NO WHERE are Christians told to wait to minister to anyone.
As a matter of fact, we are told to preach the word in season and out. The original greek of that verse says, "when opportunity presents itself and when it doesn't".
That means that it is always the right time to minister the Word.
The Bible says that the Gospel IS the power of God unto salvation,
If the Good News is the power of God and we are to preach the Good News, then it must always be the right time to minister to anyone.
Many try to feel something, that they assume would be the anointing.
We are not told to wait for an anointing.
The early disciples were told to wait until they had received
power from on high or more specifically, they were told to wait
for the promise of the Father, which happens to be the same thing. They had to wait until the Day of Pentecost for the Holy Spirit to be released.
No where after that day are they told to wait. As a matter of fact they began to minister immediately after receiving the Holy Spirit.

DOES GOD EVER HEAL?
The New Testament records forty-one cases of healing by Jesus Himself. In nine of these instances not only were the individuals healed, but multitudes, and in three instances it especially says “great multitudes.”
With the growth of His life’s work the demand for extension was imperative, and in Luke 9, we read;
He called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power
And authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent
Them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
When they in turn were overwhelmed with work we read, in Luke 10, that Jesus appointed seventy others also, and sent them into the cities round about saying, “Heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”
If there was any foundation whatever for the foolish belief that only Jesus and the apostles healed, the appointment of these seventy should settle it. When the seventy returned from their first evangelistic tour, they rejoiced, saying, “Master, even the demons were subject to us in thy name.”
In addition to the seventy, we read that the disciples complained to Jesus, saying, “We saw one casting out devil in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.” And Jesus replied, “Forbid him not, for no man can do a miracle in My name and speak light of Me. He that is not against us is for us.”
This, then, makes a New Testament record of eighty-four persons who healed during the lifetime of Jesus. Jesus, the twelve apostles, seventy others, and the man who “followed not us.”
Paul and Barnabas were not apostles during the lifetime of Jesus, but we read in the Acts of their healing many. Paul himself was healed through the ministry of Ananias, an aged disciple who was sent to him through a vision from the Lord.
Philip was one of the evangelists who preached at Samaria, and under his ministry there were remarkable “signs and wonders.”
Under the ministry of the apostle Paul the sick were not only healed and the dead raised, but handkerchiefs were brought to the apostle that they might contact his person. When laid upon the sick, the disease disappeared and the “demons” departed from them.
The book of James gives final and positive instructions of what to do in case of sickness. Commanding that, if sick, one shall send for the elders of the Church. Concerning their prayer of faith the Word says,
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.
Forty years after Jesus, Clement, Paul’s contemporary, said, “Men received gifts of healing.” Irensaus, a hundred and ten years after Christ, says, “Men healed the sick by laying their hands upon them.”
Justin Martyr (110-163 AD) writes concerning the operation of God in the Church in his day, “For one receives the spirit of understanding, another of council, another of strength, another of healing, another of teaching, and another of the fear of God.” And again he says, “For many demoniacs throughout the whole world and your city, many of our Christian men exorcising them in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified by Pontius Pilot, have healed and do heal.”
Two hundred years after Christ, Origen says, “Men had marvelous power of curing by invoking the divine name. They expel evil spirits and perform many cures and foresee certain events, according to the will of the Logos.”
St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (340-397 AD) tells of one Severne, a butcher by business, who became blind and was healed of the Lord.
It is recorded of St. Macarius of Alexandria (375-390 AD), “A man withered in all his limbs and especially in his feet was anointed in the name of the Lord, and when commanded in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ… ‘arise, and stand on thy feet, and return to thy house,’ immediately arising and leaping he blessed God.” Again, “There was brought to him from Thessalonica a noble and wealthy virgin, who for many years had been suffering from paralysis. With his own hands he anointed her, pouring out prayer for her to the Lord…and so sent her back cured to her own city.”
St. Augustine (426 AD) declares, “But the miracle that persons ascribed unto their idols are in no way comparable to the wonders wrought by our martyrs.”
In 698 AD, a man named Bethwegan, paralyzed on one side, prayed a the tomb of Cuthbert: “In the midst of his prayer he fell, as it were, into a stupor…felt a large hand touch his head where the pain lay…He was delivered from the weakness, restored to health down to his feet. He rose up in perfect health, returning thanks to God for his recovery.” It is said that the very garments that St. Cuthbert had worn during life, remained so impregnated by the divine Spirit of God, that like the handkerchiefs taken from Paul’s body to the sick, the virtue from his garments cured many, as may be seen in the book of his life and miracles.
Mediaeval history records miracles of healing having taken place at the following shrines: That of St. Thomas at Canterbury, Our Lady at Walsingham, St. Edward the Confessor at Westminster, St. William at York, St. Cuthbert at Durham, St. Thomas at Hereford, St. Osmund at Salisbury, St. Erkenwald at London, St. Hugh at Lincoln, St. Wulfstan at Worcester, Little St. William at Norwich, St. Werburgh at Chester, St. Frideswide at Oxford.
In this connection, may we say that in the canonization of saints it was necessary to establish before a court the fact that in at least two instances there had been actual miracles performed. In this connection we quote, “The evidence was sifted to the utmost and every disqualifying feature was made the most of.” So the Benedict XIV had a right to say that, “The degree of proof required is the same as that required for a criminal case.”
These medieval miracles, therefore, deserve respectful treatment and the cumulative evidence of so much concurrent testimony by distinguished and upright men makes it impossible to think that they were all deluded and mistaken.
Among those canonized, and others in whose lives here was positive evidence of the healing power of Christ in well-established cases, are (according to Bede): St. John of Beverly (721 AD), St. Bernard (1091-1153 AD), St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226 AD), St. Thomas of Hereford (1282-1303 AD), St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380 AD), Martin Luther (1483-1546 AD), St. Francis of Xavier (1506-1552 AD), St. Phillip Veri (1515-1595 AD), Pascal’s niece (1646 AD), George Fox (1624-1691 AD), John Wesley (1703-1791 AD), Prince Hohenlohe (1794-1847 AD), Father Matthew (1790-1856 AD), Dorothea Trudel (1813-1862 AD), Pastor Blumhart (1805-1880 AD), Father John of Cronstadt (1829-1908 AD).
Concerning the reliability of the present existence of the miracle-working power of God, permit me to quote Richard Holt Hutton, justly estimated as one of the broad-minded writers and who was regarded as a profound materialist. “But whatever miracles be, history shows a great amount of evidence…that such events have happened in all ages. …Enthusiasm and fraud cannot be asked to account for as much evidence on this subject as exists.”
It is a matter of common knowledge that ten thousand persons were healed under the ministry of Dorothea Trudel of Mannendorf.
The records of the Russian courts show that such a multitude of persons where healed under the ministry of Father John of Father John of Cranstadt, who died in 1908, that the Church of Russia, fearing his growing and powerful influence decided to have him imprisoned. Because of the great numbers who were healed under his ministry and who became his faithful adherents, and because of his extreme age, they decided that it was wiser to let him live out his natural life than to undertake his control by the Church.
During the life of John Alexander Dowie, before his mentality was affected through overwork, he established a city in the state of Illinois, forty miles north of Chicago, on the lake-shore, known as Zion City. This city was established in 1901. In twelve months it had a population of four thousand. The city council passed by-laws banishing forever doctors, drugs, medicines, and use of swine’s flesh. None of these are used by his followers if they wish to remain in good standing.
Their vital statistics reveal that their death rate is lower than that of other cities of the same population. Insurance companies were afraid to insure the Zion people because of the well-known fact that they would not employ physicians or take medicines. But at present, insurance companies are seeking their business. They are now recognized to be among the healthiest people in the United States.
On an occasion at the Chicago Auditorium, persons from all parts of the world who had been healed through their ministry, were invited to send testimonies on a card two-and-a-half by four-and-a-half inches. It required five bushel baskets to hold these cards. They numbered sixty thousand. Ten thousand persons in the audience rose to their feet testifying to their own personal healing by the power of God, making a grand total of seventy thousand testimonies.
In South Africa, divine healing now holds such sway among both black and white, that army officers estimated that in the recent war, twenty out of every hundred refused medical aid and trusted God only. This necessitated in the army the establishment of the Divine Healing Corps, who ministered healing by the Spirit of God.
By the most careful estimates The Church at Spokane reports one-hundred thousand healings in the past five years. Spokane has become celebrated as the greatest divine healing center in the world.
The hotels of the city testify to the continuous supply of patients coming from all parts of the world to receive ministry, and among the healed are a goodly number of physicians who, like others, have found the Lord Jesus Christ the true and Great Physician.
Among prominent physicians who have not only been healed of God, but who have adopted the ministry of healing through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are: Phineas D. Yoakum of Los Angeles, head of the pisga Institution, whose blessed ministry of healing is recognized by Christians everywhere. Dr. William T. Gentry of Chicago, who was not only prominent in his profession as a physician, but as the author of Materia Medica in twenty volumes, to be found in every first-class medical library. His publisher sold over one hundred thousand copies of this work. Dr. A. B. Simpson, the founder and head of the Missionary and Christian Alliance, which is said to maintain a thousand foreign missionaries in different parts of the world, is another former doctor under whose ministry miracles of healing have continuously occurred.
To this I add my personal testimony, after twenty-five years in the ministry of healing, that hundreds of thousands of sick have been healed of the Lord during this period, through churches and missionary societies founded on the pattern of the primitive Church, finding God’s divine equipment of power from on high.
With this weight of testimony before us it seems childish to continue debating the ability or willingness of God to heal the sick. Let us rather with open minds and heart, receive the Lord Christ as Savior and healer, trusting Him with our bodies as we trust Him with our souls and so permit His hundredfold salvation for every need of the spirit, soul, and body to be exemplified and our consecration as the children of God stand unchallenged.

DOES GOD ALWAYS HEAL?
In considering the subject of divine healing and its applicability to present-day needs, the question, “Does God always heal?” is uppermost. The Church at large has taught that healing is dependent on the exercise of the will of God and that the proper attitude for the Christian to assume is, “If it be thy will.” Continuously, we hear men say, “No doubt God can heal; He has power, and He can heal if He will.”
We believe that this attitude of mind and this character of reasoning is due to ignorance of the plain Word and will of God, as revealed through Jesus the Christ. We contend that God is always the healer. We contend further that it is not necessary for God to will and that He does not will the healing or non-healing of any individual. In His desire to bless mankind, He willed once and for all an forever that man should be blessed and healed. He gave Jesus Christ as a gift to the world, that this blessing might be demonstrated and His willingness and desire to heal forever made clear.
Christians readily admit that Jesus is the entire expression of the law, the life, and the will of God. As such, He demonstrated forever by His words and acts, what the mind of God toward the world is. He healed all who came to Him, never refusing a single individual, but ever bestowed the desired blessing. In healing all and never refusing one, He demonstrated forever the willingness of God to heal all, both saint and sinner.
It is absurd to think that only the good were healed by Jesus. He “healed all that came.” Their coming was sufficient to secure the blessing. He healed because it was the nature of God to heal, not because it was a caprice of the mind of God or not because the mind of God was changed toward the individual through some especial supplication. Whosoever was ready and willing to receive healing received it from the Lord. His grief, in one instance, is expressed in the Gospel narrative in that, “He could there (at Nazareth) do no mighty works because of their unbelief, save that he healed a few sick folk.”
Men have assumed that it is necessary to persuade God to heal them. This we deny with all emphasis. God has manifested through Christ, His desire to bless mankind.
He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
His method of saving the world and what constituted His salvation, is shown in Matthew 4:23: Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues (revealing the will of God), and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
The facts of God’s will, of His purpose to establish the kingdom of Christ, and of His deliverance from sickness -- a kindred blessing for spirit and soul and body are here provided, the common salvation.
The redemption of Jesus does not rest on His crucifixion alone. It rests equally in a combined victory of crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Each step was an elevation in divine consciousness to one end, the bestowal of the Holy Spirit upon the world. Through His crucifixion, He fulfilled the type and fact of the Jewish sacrifice. Through His resurrection, He manifested and demonstrated His power over death and that death itself was made a captive. Through His ascension to the throne of God and through receiving from the Father, the gift of the Holy Ghost, He was now equipped to bestow universal salvation upon whosoever would receive.
The method by which men receive the healing power is parallel
to the method by which we light our homes through the use of electricity.
A dynamo is set up. Through its motion it attracts to itself from the atmosphere, the quality know as electricity. Having attracted electricity,it is then distributed through the wires wherever man will, and our homes are lighted thereby. The dynamo did not make the electricity. It has been in the atmosphere from time immemorial. It was the discovery of the ability to control the electricity that made the lighting of our homes a possibility. Without it, we would still be living by the light of a tallow candle or a kerosene lamp.
In the Spiritual world, the spirit of man is the dynamo. It is set in motion by prayer, the desire of the heart. Prayer is a veritable Holy Spirit-controlling dynamo, attracting to itself the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God being received into the spirit of man through prayer, is distributed by the action of the will wherever desired.
The Spirit of God flowed through the hands of Jesus to the one who were sick and healed them. It flowed from His soul, wirelessly, to the suffering ones and healed them also.
The Holy Spirit is thus shown to be the universal presence of God --God Omnipresent. The Spirit of God is given to man for his blessing and is to be utilized by him to fulfill the will of God.
The will of God to save a man is undisputed by intelligent Christians.
The will of God to heal every man is equally God’s purpose. God has not only made provision that through the Spirit of God received into our lives, our souls may be blessed and our bodies healed, but further, we in turn are expected and commanded by Jesus to distribute the Spirit’s power to others, that they likewise may be blessed and healed. “In my name,” said Jesus, “they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” This refers not to a special priest or a particular individual endowed with peculiar power, but to the believer, the everyday man who accepts the Gospel of Jesus Christ and who becomes a declared disciple of the Son of God. (Read Mark 16:14-20.)
The Spirit of God is ours to embrace. It is ours to apply to the need of either soul or body. It is the redeeming quality of the nature of God that Jesus Christ regarded as essential to the world’s blessing. His life on earth, His death on the cross, His resurrection form the dead, and His ascension to glory were all necessary to secure its benefits and bestow them upon the world. It was Christ’s mean of supplying a universal salvation for whosoever will.
On the Day of Pentecost, when the flood tide of the Holy Spirit broke over the church at Jerusalem and its glory-power radiated through their souls and rested upon them as tongues of fire and they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, the people demanded an explanation of the phenomena.
Peter replied,This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses
(resurrection). Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted (ascension), and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost (fulfillment of the promise of the Father), he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. --Acts 2:32-33
Through His crucifixion and through His victory over the grave, Jesus secured from the Father the privilege of shedding the Holy Spirit abroad over the world. This was the crowning climax of the redemptive power of God ministered through Jesus Christ to the world. And from that day to this, every soul is entitled to embrace to himself this blessed Spirit of God which Jesus regarded so valuable to mankind, so necessary for their healing and salvation, that He gave His life to obtain it.
Consequently, it is not a question, “Does God always heal?” That is childish. It is rather a question, “Are we willing to embrace His healing?” If so, it is for us to receive. More than this, it is for all the world to receive, for every man to receive who will put his nature in contact with God through opening his heart to the Lord.
Jesus, knowing the world’s need of healing, provided definitely for physicians (disciples, ministers, priests, healers) who would minister, not pills and potions, but the power of God. The gift of healing is one of the nine gifts of the Spirit provided for the perpetuated forever in the Church. (See 1 Corinthians 12:8-11.)
It is an evidence of ignorance of God’s Word to continue to discuss the question, “Does God always heal?” as though God healed sometimes, and sometimes He did not. Enlightenment by the Spirit of God, through the Word, reveals that God always was the healer, is the healer today, will be the healer forever. The Word says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Consequently there is healing from every disease for every man who will in faith, embrace the Spirit of God promised by the Father and ministered through Jesus Christ to the souls ad bodies of all who desire the blessing.
Peter, in his exposition of this fact says, “By whose stripes ye were healed.” The use of “were” in this text indicates that the healing was accomplished in the mind of God when Jesus Christ gave Himself as the eternal sacrifice and has never had to be done over again for the healing of any individual. He willed it once, it is done forever. He made the provision and invites the world to embrace it. It is yours to have, yours to enjoy, and your to impart to others.
DOES GOD USE MEANS IN HEALING?
By the term “means,” is understood the varied remedies, medicines, and potions commonly used by the world at large and prescribed for the sick -- in short, Materia Medica.
This should be an extremely easy question for anyone to decide. The world has always had her system of healing. They were the thousand and one systems of healing evolved in all the centuries. They were mankind’s endeavor to alleviate suffering. They existed in the days of Jesus, just as they exist today.
Systems of so-called healing are without number. The ancient Egyptians used them and were apparently as proficient in the practice of the same as our modern physicians. Indeed, their knowledge of chemistry seems to have superseded ours, as they were able to produce an embalming substance that preserved the human body and kept it from dissolution, for almost every museum of note has its samples of Egyptian mummies.
It is the unintelligent who suppose that the ancient physicians were any less skillful in the healing of the sick through their means, remedies, and systems that the modern physician.
Of the supposed curative value of our modern medical practice, there is an abundance of testimony from the varied heads of the medical profession that should be sufficient to convince any candid thinker of their valuelessness.
The public commonly believe that medicine is a great science and that its practice is entirely scientific. Whereas, so great a man as Professor Douglas McGlaggen, who occupied the chair of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, declared, “There is no such thing as the science of medicine. From the days of Hippocrates and Galen until now we have been stumbling in the dark, from diagnosis to diagnosis, from treatment to treatment, and have not found the first stone on which to found medicine as a science.”
Mr. James Mason Good of London, England, who was so eminent in his profession that for twenty-five years he had in his car the royal house of Britain, declared his convictions before the British Medical Association in these words, “The science of medicines is founded upon conjecture and improved by murder. Our medicines have destroyed more lives that all the wars, pestilences, and famines combined.”
The famous Professor Chauss of Germany, states with emphasis, “The common use of medicines for the curing of disease is unquestionably highly detrimental and destructive and in my judgment, is an agent for the creation of disease rather than its cure, in that through its use there is continuously set up in the human system, abnormal conditions more detrimental to human life than the disease from which the patient is suffering.”
Our own Dr. Holmes of Boston, formerly president of the Massachusetts Medical Association, said in an address before the Massachusetts Medical Association, “It is my conviction, after practicing medicine for thirty-five years, that if the whole Materia Medica were cast into the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.”
From these quotations from the heads of the medical profession in various countries, we perceive the power of the Word of God, which declares, “In vain shall they use many medicines. There is no healing for thee there.”
Dr. John B. Murphy, the greatest surgeon our country has ever produced, has spoken his mind concerning surgery as follows, “Surgery is a confession of helplessness. Being unable to assist the diseased organ, we remove it. If I had my life to live over again, I would endeavor to discover preventative medicine, in the hope of saving the organ instead of destroying it.”
Just prior to his death he wrote an article entitled, “The Slaughter of the Innocents,” condemning cutting out of tonsils and adenoinds, demonstrating that the presence of inflammation and pus and the consequent enlargement was due to a secretion in the system that found lodgment in the tonsils and that the removal of the tonsils in no way remedied the difficulty, the poison being generated in the system.
He purposed to give his knowledge to the public for their protection from useless operations that he regarded as criminal.
GOD’S WAY IN CONTRAST TO MAN’S WAY
What then, did Jesus have in mind as better than the world’s systems of healing, which He never used or countenanced? God’s remedy is a person, not a thing. The remedy that Jesus ministered to the sick was a spiritual one. It was the Holy Spirit of God. The tangible, living quality and nature of the living God, ministered through the soul and hands of Jesus Christ to the sick one.
So conscious was the woman who was healed of the issue of blood that she had received the remedy, and of its effect and power in her upon only touching the hem of His garment, that she “felt in her body that she was made whole of that plague.” Jesus likewise was aware of the transmission of the healing power, for He said, “Someone hath touched me, for I perceive that virtue has gone out of me.”
This same virtue was ministered through the hands of the apostles and of the seventy. It was also ministered by the early Christians when they received from God, through the Holy Ghost, the ability to minister the Spirit of God to others. Of the twelve apostles it is said, He…gave them power an authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
-- Luke 9:1-2
Of the seventy it is written: He sent them two by two into every city and place whither
He himself would come, and said unto them, heal the sick that are therein, and say to them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
So vital was this living Spirit of God and its healing virtue in the lives of the early Christians, that it is recorded of Paul that they brought handkerchiefs and aprons to him, that they might touch his body, and when these were laid upon the sick they were healed and the demons went out of them. (See Act 19.) In this instance even inanimate objects, handkerchiefs and aprons, were receptacles for the Spirit of God, imparted to them from the Holy Spirit-filled person of the apostle Paul.
This was not an experience for the early Christian alone, but is the common experience of men and women everywhere who have dared to disbelieve the devil’s lie, so carefully fostered and proclaimed by the church and large, that the days of miracles are past.
Every advanced Christian who has gone out into God, who has felt the thrill of His Spirit, who has dared to believe that the Son of God lives by the Spirit in his life today, just as He lived in the lives of the early Christians, has found the same pregnant power of God in himself. Upon laying his hands in faith upon others who are sick, he has seen with his own eyes the healing of the sick take place and realized the transmission of divine virtue. Today, millions of men and women trust God only, for the healing of their body from every character and form of disease.
What, then, is this means of healing that Jesus gave as a divine gift to Christianity forever? It is the living Holy Spirit of God, ministered by Jesus Christ to the Christian soul, transmitted by the Christian because of his faith in the word of Jesus, through his soul and his hands to the one who is sick. This reveals the law of contact in the mind of Jesus when He gave the commandment: “They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18).
With praise to God we record to His glory, that through twenty-five years in this ministry we have seen hundreds of thousands of persons in many parts of the world, healed by the power of God. Throughout these twenty-five years, in different lands, we have established churches and societies composed of Christian men and women who know no remedy but the one divine remedy, the Lord Jesus Christ. They have faith in His redemption and in the presence and power of the Spirit of Christ to destroy sin and sickness in the lives of men forever.
In our own city, for five years, no day has passed in which we have not seen the healing of many. For five years we have ministered, with our associate pastors, in The Church at Spokane alone, to an average of two hundred sick per day, who come from all quarters of the land and even from foreign countries, to receive the healing power of God. These healings have included almost every known form of disease.
The majority of these healings have been of persons pronounced hopeless by their physicians. Many of them had spent their all, some tens of thousands of dollars, for doctors, medicines, and operations. They found the Lord Jesus Christ and the ministry of healing by the power of God just as efficacious today as it ever was, thereby demonstrating the truth of the Word of God.
CONSECRATION PRAYER
My God and Father,
In Jesus’ name I come to Thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be in spirit, in soul, in body. Give me power to do right. If I have wronged any, to repent, to confess, to restore -- no matter what it costs. Wash me in the blood of Jesus, that I may now become Thy child and manifest Thee in a perfect spirit, a holy mind, and a sickles body, to the glory of God. -- Amen

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I command healing to flow into ur entire body right now. In the name of Jesus I declare u healed perfectly. Life flow into ur spine and into all ur bones right now. I loose u from every affliction in Jesus name. I command satan to loose his hold of paralysis and negative condition upon u. I set u free in Jesus name. I command strength to return to ur legs, ur hands, and every part of ur entire body. I speak to your body right now, to be conformed to the Word of God. The Word of God says Christ took ur infirmities and bore your sickness. He took ur weakness and ur paralysis. He took ur pain and ur disability so you wouldn't have to bear them anymore. There is no legal right for u to be afflicted nor paralysed. Paralysis cannot violate the Word of God. Nothing can violate God's Word which says by the stripes of Jesus Christ you were healed and made whole. You have life in Christ, and that life is in abundance.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image and likeness of God. The same Spirit that rose Jesus Christ from the dead is also in you. And that same Spirit is giving restorative life to your body right now. The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sickness and paralysis.
God doesn't recognize paralysis, neither do I, and nor should you. In the name of Jesus Christ RISE UP AND WALK NOW. Walk to the glory of God.
Your body was purchased with the high price of the blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore you shall glorify God in your body. Your body will never bear the mark of affliction of the enemy. I put a stop to every action of the enemy. I say you are perfectly healed. You are walking, jumping, running and exercising like never before. From this very hour you are totally healed.
Thank you Mighty God for perfecting her healing and giving her a testimony worth shouting about. Glory to God in the Highest.
I look forward to your testimony,
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paul continues in verse 15,
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

If GOD still rewards tithes according to the law, will HE not also reward all other forms of offerings according to the law?
Should we then continue to offer burnt offerings, guilt offerings etc?
Does not all these make the eternal sacrifice of Christ null and void?
Are believers trying to get blessed or has the sacrifice of Jesus Christ qualified us for all blessings from the Father?

Ephesians 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ

2 Peter 1:3
3 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

God has already blessed all His sons,  We receive every good thing through our knowledge of Christ, not through sacrifices or offerings,  The blessings of God are free gifts to all those that believe,

Romans 8:32
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Matthew 10:8
8 . . . . Freely ye have received, freely give.

Malachi 3:10
10 , and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,

Does this refer to money or financial blessing, or does it mean something else according to scriptures?

Genesis 7:11-12
11 , The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 8:2
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained

Malachi 3:9
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Does this apply to new covenant believers?

Galatians 3:13
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

Galatians 4:5
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

1 Corinthians 9:18
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

Heb 13:9-10
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve at the tabernacle.

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