Do I Have to Wait for a Healing Service to Receive a Healing?

No.  You can receive your healing at any time by believing that you receive it from God when you pray (Mark 11:24).  God has already provided it for you.  It’s always available.  It is just like the new birth.  You don’t have to wait for an evangelistic service to get saved, and you don’t have to wait for a healing service to get healed.

I was saved alone in my dormitory room in college because someone had told me how to get saved.  I didn’t have to wait for a “salvation service.”  Likewise, once you know how to get your healing, you can receive it at any time rather than waiting for a healing service.  Wouldn’t it be a bummer if you had a headache right now and you had to wait until there was a healing service to get rid of it?  You don’t have to wait another minute.  You can receive your healing from God right now.

It is sometimes easier, especially with major conditions, to receive your healing in a healing service because there is a special anointing to lay hands on the sick.  “Gifts of healings” are often in manifestation.  Many times, God will “meet you halfway” if you are not fully in faith yet at such meetings if you will make the effort to get out to the meeting.

Never be ashamed of going forward at a healing service if you are sick.  I say that especially for any ministers who are reading this!  Don’t be caught up with what other people think of you.  Don’t let the devil cheat you out of a blessing by lying to you about how people will think you’re not really a faith person (even though you preach faith) because you went up in a healing line.  Isn’t that better than staying sick so that we’ll all know you weren’t in faith anyway?  I preach healing but I have been in plenty of healing lines myself.  It’s just easier to receive in such an environment, and if you have the opportunity, take advantage of it!

The only sense in which you could answer that you have to wait for a healing meeting is if your faith is not developed enough yet to receive healing on your own.

I have found in my experience that some unbelievers and baby Christians who don’t know much of anything yet about divine healing can receive healing in a healing service if they will at least “get in neutral” and give you permission to lay hands on them and command disease to leave their bodies by faith.  God honors your faith in such cases.  I have seen people healed of many drastic and life-threatening illnesses when I was sure that they weren’t in any position to receive based on their own faith.  However, these people were unbelievers, people who just got saved, or people who were still baby Christians.  As you grow in your walk with the Lord, God expects more of you and you should learn not to have to depend on others’ faith when you get sick.  Frankly, it’s fun to do a healing service somewhere where people don’t know much about the Lord, even how to be saved.  If people will at least be willing to let you lay hands on them, God can show them His goodness by healing them.  Just before writing this, I saw cases where unbelievers allowed us to lay hands on them and they got healed – and then decided that they wanted this Jesus who had just healed them!