I Lost My Healing – Now What?

Well, the first thing NOT to do is give up on your healing, thinking, “I guess I can’t keep my healing.  Why bother trying anymore?”  That’s exactly what the devil wants you to do.

Most of us have been in that position where we experienced relief and thanked God for our healing, but then the old sick feelings started to come back.  Through either lack of knowledge or feeling weary of making a stand, we thought, “Oh, rats, I guess I’ll be stuck with the sickness after all!  I’ll just have to suffer it out.  I lost my healing.”

Let me start by saying that the devil may lie to you that you have “lost your healing” when you really haven’t.  Just because you have some disagreeable twinge in your body doesn’t mean that you have forfeited your healing – you have to do that with your mouth.  For example, you’d have to SAY, “NUTS – I thought I was healed but I guess I’m not!” or something to that effect.  You have what you believe in your heart and SAY (Mark 11:23).  If Satan can’t get you to SAY that you’ve lost your healing after you believed that you received it, you still have it, no matter what you feel like.

Also, Satan loves to hammer people with this one: “You just had a thought of doubt!  Hah!  You doubted, so now you aren’t in faith anymore!  You just lost your healing!”  But Jesus said you had to not doubt in your heart.  If a thought of doubt goes through your head (Satan will try to see to that), you can still not doubt in your heart unless you receive that thought and make it your own.  The only sure way to make it your own is to SAY IT.  Then you’ve activated a spiritual law that both Jesus and Satan are well aware of – and that you need to be more aware of.

So consider whether you’ve really given up or if Satan is just trying to badger you.  If you haven’t given up on the inside, stand your ground and keep speaking the Word.

On the other hand, if you just know in your heart that you believe that you have the condition back, and thus you’ve lost your healing, Satan now wants you to just throw in the towel about ever being healed.  He’ll likely tell you, “See, you aren’t able to receive healing.  Give it up; it won’t work for you!  Just SUFFER!”

But instead of beating yourself up like he wants you to do, consider this – you believed and did receive supernatural healing for a while.  If you did it once, you can do it twice!  Believe that you receive again and be determined not to let it go no matter what your body says this time.  Determine that you will say – to yourself, God, the devil, other people – only what God says.  Healing belongs to you as a Christian.  Declare that you are redeemed from the CURSE of sickness (Galatians 3:13), no matter what you feel like. Walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).

I think it will be helpful to you to remember that healing ALWAYS belongs to you because of what Jesus did.  Thus, it is NEVER wrong to believe that you are healed.  If you’ve wavered, healing is still LEGALLY yours and you can believe that you receive it again.  God certainly will not withhold healing from you the second time around just because you wavered the first time!  It’s still your inheritance in Christ.  Don’t condemn yourself – just get back on track and believe!

Another important thing – going to the doctor or the hospital or taking medicine does not prove that you’ve lost your healing or that you are not trusting God!  You can do what you can to get natural relief while you’re standing in faith.  Don’t let the devil tell you that taking an aspirin means that you can’t be healed of a headache.  Let’s face it – it’s easier to stand for things when your body isn’t screaming in pain.  But it’s not an either/or thing.  God isn’t against doctors or medicine.  If He were against natural help, He wouldn’t have set up the earth so that there are natural ways to get relief.

Just don’t do what too many Christians do – going to the Emergency Room and immediately giving up on any prospect of God’s supernatural healing manifesting.  What are you going to do if they say there is no hope in the E.R.?  You’ll have to believe God anyway.  The issue for more Christians is when the doctor tells you that there IS hope and if you just do thus-and-such and take thus-and-such, you’ll get better.  Christians tend to get completely in the flesh at that point and reason that the doctors have it all under control, so there must be no more need to trust God at all.  If you want the same results that a rank sinner can get, that’s what to do.  But there is better available to you through the same Jesus who was moved with compassion and “healed them all” in the Bible.  At least believe for a faster recovery than man says is possible!

Also, realize that God is not upset with you if you get natural assistance.  I realize that many faith preachers in years gone by tended to say that it was a sin to go to the doctor or take medicine.  This would include one who is still hailed as a great man of faith whose writings are still popular, although he has been gone for a long time.  I don’t think he was right on this issue, though I appreciate his bold faith and teaching in most areas.  You should never feel guilty about getting help when you know you need it.  It’s less shameful to get help when you need it than to die because you’re too proud to admit that you need natural help with something you are trying to “believe God” to be rid of without man’s help.

Even if you need man’s help to get through something, determine that you will continue to meditate on God’s Word so that next time things will be different.  God is patient with you.  He understands that no one becomes a faith giant overnight.