If God Is Really No Respecter of Persons, Why Do Only Some Get Healed by the
Gifts of the Spirit in Services?
The gifts of the Spirit manifest as the Spirit wills. It is up to Him to heal as He sees fit through these gifts. Healing is available to everyone through faith, but only some will receive miraculous healings through the gifts of the Spirit. The truth is, we will never know this side of heaven why God heals some and not others in this way. However, it is still God’s will to heal the ones who are not healed by the gifts of the Spirit in a particular service. Everyone in the service could be healed by faith in God’s statements regarding healing. God would not “respect persons” when it comes to that. Healing is universally available because Christ paid for everyone to have it.
This question gets into a whole area that includes dreams, trances, visions of the Lord, angelic visitations, and so on. I have yet to see the Lord but I’ve seen angels a few times. (In one case, several of us in one of our services saw someone who seemed to be an Orthodox Jew walk toward the back of the room, but we figured out that he was really an angel when he disappeared into thin air, which was highly unorthodox.) How could God give Paul so many special experiences and not give me the same if He is no respecter of persons? I don’t know why He does these things for some people and not others. Why did He appear to Paul but not to notorious modern persecutors? I suppose we can ask such questions when we get to heaven.
God is no respecter of persons as far as covenant rights go. Everyone gets the same. Everyone can be healed. Everyone can get provision from heaven to pay bills. Everyone can enjoy peace and joy that the world cannot take away. Everyone can reign in this life through Jesus Christ. Everyone can speak to a mountain or a tree and have it obey. Everyone can believe and receive through prayer. Anything God promised in the New Testament is for all Christians today. God is no respecter of persons in that He will not withhold a blessing that Christ paid for from one and bestow it on another.
The point that people miss is that God has already healed you as far as He is concerned. 1 Peter 2:24 puts healing in the past tense for the Christian. People sometimes mistake God’s healing of some in services as proof that it is only His will to heal some. Since you were healed already in God’s eyes, it cannot possibly be His will for you to stay sick.
If everyone could always get healed through manifestations of the Spirit, there would be no reason to teach faith! Jesus taught faith. It is essential to teach personal faith to be healed so that the people who are not healed through the gifts of the Spirit can still get healed.
Here is a practical hint for you. Your faith can “pull” on the anointing that is in a healing evangelist if he calls a healing line even if the gifts of the Spirit are not operating at the moment. The woman with the issue of blood made a demand on the anointing that she knew was on Jesus, even though Jesus was not even explicitly ministering healing to anyone at the time.
Jesus did not decide who would touch His clothes; people did. No one was disappointed after making a demand on the anointing that was on Jesus. You can make a demand on the anointing just as the people in the gospels did.