Big Healing Book - Faith People Sometimes Say That They’re Healed but Just Have

Objection: Faith People Sometimes Say That They’re Healed but Just Have Symptoms. What Good Is It to Be Healed If You Have Symptoms?

I agree that it is useless to be “healed” if you’re going to keep the symptoms. But the objector errs in thinking that the symptoms have to stay. The fig tree that Jesus cursed had “symptoms” of life but it was as good as dead the moment Jesus spoke. It began to wither away, but from the roots, which no one could see. Jesus did not re-curse it when there was no immediate visible result. The next day, it was the disciples, not Jesus, who were surprised that the tree that Jesus had cursed had withered away.

When you believe that you receive your healing when you pray, you are healed as far as you are concerned and healed as far as God is concerned, even if symptoms remain for a while. What good is that? It’s very good when your healing fully manifests and your symptoms are gone, which would never happen if you do what too many Christians do – throw away your healing by going by what you see and assuming that because you still have symptoms, you didn’t really receive your healing.

The serious things I’ve been healed of all continued to manifest symptoms for a short while after I believed that I received my healing, and in a couple of those cases, my symptoms worsened after I prayed and believed that I received my healing. Having done all, I stood, and I’m glad that I did. The conditions left and there were no more symptoms.

The objector in this case generally mocks the idea that you could have symptoms without “having” the sickness and thinks that distinguishing symptoms from sickness is just faith mumbo-jumbo. But if you aren’t willing to “believe that you receive” and stand your ground while symptoms persist, you are in no better a position than the objector to actually receive divine healing.

Satan sometimes tries what I call his “one-two punch.” He’ll try to put an impure thought into your mind about someone of the opposite gender (or maybe even the same gender). If you dwell on it, he wins on the first punch. If you rebuke the thought, casting down his imagination with what is written (for example, “whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4)), his second punch is, “You call yourself a Christian and you just had that thought about Betty Lou! You probably aren’t even saved! If you were saved, thoughts like that would not be coming into your head!” You need to wise enough to realize that temptation isn’t sin, and having a symptom does not mean that you have “received” the illness from a spiritual perspective. An initial temptation is to sin what an initial symptom is to illness. You have a choice at that point. The devil will taunt you, “If you were really in good health right now, you would not have just noticed that symptom. You’re SICK! Admit it!” But if you rebuke the symptom and stand on God’s Word that you are healed, that illness won’t be able to take root in you, just as if you rebuke an impure thought, it won’t be able to take root in you. When the devil says, “You aren’t really saved – admit it,” I hope that you would let him know that it is written that if you believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and confess Him as Lord, you are saved. When he says, “You aren’t really healed – admit it,” I hope that you would let him know that you are healed by Jesus’ stripes, so sickness has no right to be in you.

I’ve met Christians who manifest the “symptoms” of being ornery old sinners. Does that mean that someone really is a sinner just because he “lost it” one day when someone whirled into a parking place in front of him that he clearly showed his intention to take by having his blinker on? No, he just had a “symptom” of being unsaved, but that is not the same thing as having “unsalvation” on the inside.

If you want to walk in divine health, you have to resolve to go by the Word and not by outward appearances. Sometimes you will have a symptom on the outside, but on the inside, you do not have “unhealing” just because you have a symptom. You “have” a disease when you accept it and speak with your mouth that you have it.

The people Jesus ministered to ceased to have symptoms as well as sickness, and so it will be with you if you stick with the Word!

When it comes down to it, the objector assumes that you will not have any relief and that you are just engaged in “faith person doubletalk” by saying that you have symptoms but not sickness. But you can put the objector’s criticism to rest by continuing to believe that you did receive your healing when you prayed. The symptoms will leave and there will be nothing left for the objector to mock!