It Works!

There are plenty of objectors to divine healing out there saying that it’s too hard and that this stuff doesn’t work.  If you want to hear what they are saying (with responses), refer to the Objections Overruled! section.

However, the fact is that healing works!  The “gospel of healing” is producing fruit all over the world right now.  People are receiving “faith to be healed” by hearing the gospel (like the man at Lystra in Acts 14:7-10) and rising up healed.  The Lord is still healing the blind, the deaf and the crippled.  Thousands at once get healed in large crusades.  Undeniable miracles are happening now.  There have been crusades in Africa where dozens of blind or deaf people were healed in a single service!  (I knew a man personally who preached services where that happened!)  You really have to deliberately stick your head in the sand to believe that faith for healing doesn’t work or it’s too hard.  If it’s too hard, how are these people getting healed?  Why are there testimonies everywhere of people being healed by the power of God when Jesus Christ is preached?  Don’t let anyone talk you out of it – divine healing works!  I can testify to this from experience, and it’s too late to convince me or anyone else who’s been healed this way that it doesn’t work!  People in churches all over the world are believing they receive healing when they pray and getting it!

Don’t just assume without trying anything that your neck of the woods is too “hard” of a place to have miracles.  People tell me almost everywhere I go that their particular spot is the hardest place in the world to preach!  In the Caribbean they claim their islands are hard because of all the voodoo.  In California they say it’s hard because of all the New Age adherents and politically liberal people.  In Massachusetts it’s hard because of a “spirit of intellectualism.”  In Northern New England, people have too much of a “Yankee independent spirit” to want to submit to Jesus or anyone else.  In Florida the retirees just want to take it easy.  But somehow all this doesn’t stop God from doing astounding miracles in these places.  The Word works anywhere where someone dares to believe it!  Don’t let anyone talk you out of it!

People tell me that big principalities over their areas make it hard for God to move.  That’s hogwash; those principalities are all defeated.  Which of them did Jesus fail to make a show of openly, triumphing over it in the cross (Colossians 2:15)?  Are they more powerful than the Word, which IS the power of God (Romans 1:16)?

I preached for years in one of the most unchurched areas in the United States and saw some of the types of miracles you hear about in Africa.  In fact, the best service I ever preached in my life at this writing – the service most like the book of Acts – was in what I was told is the most unchurched COUNTY in the United States!  I was presenting the gospel to people who had never heard it before, and God confirmed His Word with signs following!

If you need healing, go where healing is going on!  You won’t be in much shape to receive healing if you listen to anti-healing radio programs and read anti-healing books.  Get around people of like precious faith (2 Peter 1:1) who will encourage you to stand your ground.  Get around people who have their own testimonies of how they got healed; they can probably help you get your healing!  Get around people who know that divine healing through faith in Christ’s atonement works.  Go where they preach healing, not unbelief.  Read books on healing.  Listen to audio recordings about healing.  Immerse yourself in healing scriptures until faith rises up and unbelief is snuffed out.  It may not happen overnight, but if you keep at it, faith for healing will rise up within you in a big way.

If you go places where you can see people’s faith for healing working, it will be a tremendous encouragement to your own faith.  If you stay in some dead, dry church that doesn’t believe that the power of God is for this age, you’ll be dragged down with their unbelief.  (Unbelief, like faith, comes by hearing preaching!)  Just because it doesn’t work there is no proof that it doesn’t work any more than the fact that it didn’t work at Nazareth proves that it didn’t work anywhere else.

One quick note to those of you attending Deadville Community Church because you think God told you that you will be His instrument to bring a great revival to that church: You are the umpteenth person deceived in that manner.  You will not “wake up” a church where the pastor does not want healing taught, and you’re out of order if you try to subvert that pastor’s teaching behind his back.  You ought to go somewhere that’s already “revived” rather than thinking that you will bring revival to a place that can’t or won’t teach faith properly.  I’ve been saved since 1979 and I have NEVER seen that “bring revival to the dead church” thing work.  But I’ve seen a lot of Spirit-filled people waste valuable years of their lives trying to do it, sometimes even giving tithes to support a tool of the devil in the pulpit who won’t even preach the new birth!