Healing Is Not on a Case-by-Case Basis

One of the biggest misunderstandings about divine healing is that God supposedly handles healing requests on a case-by-case basis.  He most certainly does not, any more than He handles salvation requests on a case-by-case basis.  When someone comes to Jesus to be saved, there is no committee meeting in heaven to decide whether that person should be saved or not.  Likewise, there is no committee meeting in heaven to decide whether someone who comes to receive healing should be healed or not.

ANYONE who wanted to be healed could touch Jesus’ clothes and be healed.  Jesus never made an individual decision about who was worthy to touch Him, and He didn’t even have to know who was touching Him!  (See Mark 5:25-34.)  People decided whether to touch Him or not; He never stopped anyone who wanted healing from touching Him.

Heaven does not review individual healing cases because healing is forever settled.  The only thing you need to do is act on the settled truth of God’s Word that declares you healed by Jesus’ stripes.

The past tense of 1 Peter 2:24 proves that healing cannot be decided on a case-by-case basis.  It’s already decided in ALL cases!  You have the right to receive the healing Jesus paid for.

All prayer designed to convince or pressure God to heal is a waste of time because such a prayer assumes that God has to make a decision that He already made.  Ganging up on God by getting as many people as possible to petition God to heal someone is useless.  He doesn’t need to be ganged up on because He sent Jesus to pay for everyone’s healing.

A person who believes the error that healing is a case-by-case proposition will attempt to be his own lawyer before God and present a case why God should grant his healing.  This leaves the realm of grace and enters the realm of works, which won’t get you anywhere (other than the hospital or the funeral home).  Besides, Jesus is your Advocate (1 John 2:1) and He can do a better job representing you than you’ll ever do.

Healing is by grace, not works.

If it’s by grace, it’s not case-by-case!