Can Someone Else’s Unbelief Stop Me from Getting Healed?

Not unless you allow it to!

No force in this universe can prevent you from receiving your healing from God, just as no force can prevent you from getting saved if you choose to do so.  If everyone else in town hates the gospel and you call on Jesus to be your Lord, you will be saved in spite of other people’s unbelief.  When it comes to personal faith for receiving things, the only thing that will stop you is your ignorance or unbelief.  Other people’s ignorance and unbelief cannot stop you unless you permit them to become your ignorance and unbelief!

You may be thinking of the encounter at Nazareth where Jesus could do no mighty work because of their unbelief.  This passage cannot be used to say that mass unbelief could stop you from getting healed if you are in faith.  Apparently, few there were in faith, but those few still got healed despite the town’s general atmosphere of unbelief.  On other occasions, only one person was in faith and that person received.  The woman with the issue of blood received a healing at a time and place where no one else was being healed.  The paralytic let down through the roof was healed while the others in the room (who were not in faith) were not.  If their unbelief could have stopped the paralytic’s faith, he would not have been healed.  Blind Bartimaeus got no help in his faith from those around him who were telling him to shut up as he cried out to Jesus, but he was healed in spite of their hostile unbelief.

Mass unbelief such as that at Nazareth definitely stops the flow of the anointing and the moving of the Spirit.  In such an environment, you will probably either be healed by your faith or not be healed at all, since there will be few if any gifts of healings in operation.  Remember, though, that Jesus did lay hands on a “few” sick people and heal them even at Nazareth.  It is possible to get healed even when you are surrounded by Nazareth-level unbelief.

This having been said, it is still a bad idea to have people who are critical of divine healing around when you are standing for your healing.  They may mean well, but you may have to be firm with them about not coming and trying to make you feel sorry for yourself instead of encouraging you in your faith.  You do not need some man in a religion costume praying over your bed for God to prepare you for your imminent departure.  A true minister should read you your covenant rights, not your rites.  Avoid any minister who attempts to talk you out of believing and receiving your healing.  Yes, you may hurt the minister’s feelings or those of your family, but it’s your body and your life.  If not hurting people’s feelings is more important to you than getting healed, you are free to let anyone come in and do his religious mumbo-jumbo over you.  If you really want to get healed, you need to avoid having unbelieving ministers in, who will not only not build your faith, but will try to talk you out of any faith that you already have for divine healing.