Objection: God Only Heals Some at Healing Crusades, Thus Proving It Is Not His Will to Heal All

It is undeniable that at most healing services, some sick people are healed while others are not.  However, this does not prove anything about the will of God.  If we take this argument to its logical conclusion, we must conclude that it is not God’s will to save all, because God “saves” only some people at evangelistic meetings, while others leave the service unsaved.  I hope that you understand that God already provided salvation for the masses in Christ.  He does not do a new work to “save” them in the service.  Nor does He have to do a new work to “heal” the people in the service.

At either kind of service, some people will respond in faith and others will not.  Healing and salvation are available to everyone in the service.  They are available to everyone outside the service, too.  Their availability is based on what Jesus did, not based on the fact that a special service is going on.  At evangelistic services, the people are simply told what is already available to them.  At healing services, the people are also told (or at least should be told) what is already available to them.  The service is not the issue; it is just a place where the good news can be proclaimed and people can receive something that Jesus has already provided for them.

The one point where the parallel between evangelistic meetings and healing meetings breaks down is that some people get healed by the gifts of the Spirit without any faith, while no one gets saved without any faith.  Thus, some people may leave healed who were not expecting anything.  However, certain signs and wonders may be done that result in people getting saved!  A sinner might even have a vision of Jesus in the service and decide to follow Him.  I know of cases where that has happened and Muslims immediately decided to forsake Islam and follow Jesus.

God is still in the signs-and-wonders business.  He does miracles as a sign to unbelievers.  He expects more of believers.  That is why you may notice more anointing when you lay hands on an unbeliever than when you lay hands on a believer!  God doesn’t expect much from the unbeliever, but the believers are supposed to grow and believe His Word.

Healings that take place without the recipient’s faith are signs.  Perhaps the most important sign is to the person himself, who can “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8).  Healing is proof of God’s mercy and compassion.

How absurd, though, to think that God would be less willing to heal His own child than a sinner!  It is not that God won’t heal His child; He just uses different means.  His primary means is to have faith rise in the heart of the believer when he finds out that healing belongs to him as part of his covenant with God.  God is not obligated to perform the healing in a miraculous or spectacular way.

You are on very thin ice when you attempt to prove doctrine from experience.  You never look at the results of any meeting to determine God’s will in a matter.  Your only reliable source of information concerning God’s will is the Bible.  Nothing else ever “proves” anything!