Mistake: Going on a Witch Hunt for Mistakes
While there ARE some mistakes that can hinder your healing, one of them is going on a witch hunt for mistakes! It is almost certainly a mistake in itself to say, “Gee, I didn’t get healed the millisecond that hands were laid on me – I must be involved in one of the mistakes that hinder healing! I’d better study them carefully and figure out which mistake I’m making!” The devil would love for you to do that. What will happen is that you will get your eyes on YOURSELF instead of on JESUS and the WORD and start trying to figure out if you’ve fallen short in some legalistic way. Then you’ll ascribe your lack of healing to that. In other words, you’ll put yourself under the LAW and think that your lack of keeping some law is the reason that your healing hasn’t manifested yet – when healing is actually provided by GRACE.
Interestingly, if you were believing that you received a financial miracle when you prayed, you would probably not take the fact that no one handed you a wad of cash the millisecond you prayed to mean that you were making a mistake that was keeping your miracle away. So why apply a different standard to healing?
I had to put some mistakes that hinder healing in this book because such mistakes do exist and this book would not be complete without mentioning them. But I would not spend all my time poring over this list of mistakes, sure that I had made one of them and that I needed to find out which one(s). The devil would love for you to abandon the healing that you actually DID receive in the spirit realm when you prayed before it manifests in the natural realm and start saying instead, “I didn’t get healed. I must be making a mistake, so I need to find out which one.”
Let me also say that if you ARE making some mistake that is hindering you, you should be able to trust God to reveal that to you rather than feeling like you have to figure out which hindrance you’re involved with yourself:
Philippians 3:13-15:
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
God doesn’t expect you to conduct a huge self-investigation to determine where you are “otherwise minded” – He’ll show you. If He doesn’t quicken something to you, you should assume that there is no mistake in play and that your healing WILL manifest.
You may have encountered wrong teaching that God will NOT deal with your sins because supposedly He doesn’t do that under grace, or even worse, that He doesn’t even know if you’re sinning. But Scripture clearly teaches the opposite – Hebrews 12:5-13 shows that God DOES correct you if you miss it (so He must know when you miss it), and Revelation 3:19 makes it as plain as day that Jesus rebukes those whom He loves when they miss it. Some have misinterpreted Jesus’ statement that the Holy Spirit convicts the world of not knowing Him (John 16:8-9) to mean that not knowing Jesus is the ONLY sin of which the Holy Spirit convicts anyone. But Jesus was talking about unbelievers, not believers. God corrects you because He LOVES you and He wants you to be free of whatever is tripping you up. The Holy Spirit will certainly use the Word that He wrote to show you where you’re off!
God hasn’t decided to go with a mixture of Law and grace just because He corrects you! The WORD corrects you (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it doesn’t confuse Law and grace!
If you go through the list of mistakes in this book and God quickens something to you, by all means deal with it. But if God isn’t dealing with you about any of these mistakes, you should assume that your healing has been received but not yet manifested, and that it will manifest as long as you don’t start throwing it away with your mouth by negating your prayers by saying that you don’t have it for some reason.