No Limits
There are NO LIMITS on what God can heal! He has provided healing for EVERYONE of ALL conditions, no matter how drastic, life-threatening or seemingly impossible to heal. This includes various named genetic “syndromes,” and conditions that involve missing body parts. The limits are at our end, not God’s end:
Mark 9:23:
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Jesus said those words to the father of a boy who certainly seemed like he was beyond hope. Not even the disciples managed to get him cured of his demonic condition. But the issue was that the disciples did not BELIEVE – NOT that the condition was impossible to deal with. Obviously, it wasn’t impossible because Jesus dealt with it, and He was none too pleased to find out that His disciples hadn’t gotten the job done by using His delegated authority in His absence.
Luke 1:37:
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
If NOTHING is impossible, the healing of Down’s Syndrome, Tourette’s Syndrome and anything on the “Autism Spectrum” is NOT impossible, and we should never for a minute think that these conditions cannot be healed in THIS life. Jesus healed ALL manner of sicknesses, so that would include these particular conditions. What He did then, He can do now through His Church – He’s just looking for us to believe!
However, our flesh tends to think, “Oh, that’s a REALLY HARD case – I don’t know if we’ll ever see God heal THAT kind of thing.” That’s why we must renew our minds with the Word – so that our minds side with our spirits instead of with our flesh. Your spirit (if you’re born again) will ALWAYS side with the Word.
Mark 11:23-24 makes clear that God isn’t putting any limit on what we can command to leave or what we can “believe we receive when we pray.”
Your MIND tends to limit God. That must be the case, because God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond what we can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). What do you THINK that God can and WILL heal in this life? He can do exceedingly more than what you THINK He can do – even if you think big, which I want to encourage you to do! So if you can THINK of a “hard case” where someone needs to receive healing, God can take care of that case and even harder cases!
Matthew 16:19:
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Do you see any limit imposed in the verse above? If God didn’t limit it, neither should we!
John 15:7:
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Do you really believe Jesus? If you see a dire need for healing, don’t you want to see it healed? Of course it’s YOUR WILL and it’s GOD’S WILL as well. So you should ask and receive so that your joy will be full, as we’ll see below!
John 16:23-24:
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Once again, we see that word whatsoever in the passage above. Does that sound to you like God has put a limit on what He is willing to do? No, it’s the opposite – God is saying that there is NO LIMIT because you can ask the Father for ANYTHING in Jesus’ name.
At this point, the doubters who obviously don’t believe the Lord Jesus on this subject will sneer, “Does that mean that God will give you the Eiffel Tower if you ask Him to give it to you?” No, Jesus said that you were to ask in HIS NAME. That means that whatever you ask is something that you are pre-authorized to ask for from Scripture. That would INCLUDE healing, but it would NOT include the Eiffel Tower.
1 John 3:22:
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
As is discussed elsewhere, this means that if you keep your conscience clean, you have the boldness to ask for “whatsoever” and receive it! (It is not a new works gospel that God rewards you if you do enough good works.)
1 John 5:14-15:
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
So again, WHATSOEVER you ask, if it’s within the boundaries of Scripture, you can receive! When you encounter a sick person (or if you ARE the sick person), healing for the sickness is DEFINITELY God’s will, so you can “ask according to His will” and believe for that healing to take place.
Matthew 19:26:
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mark 10:27:
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
These last two Scriptures assure you that there are things that MAN considers impossible because MAN just cannot do them, but GOD can do those things that man has written off as impossible. What kind of “impossible” condition do you know of? With God (and you ARE with God), healing those conditions IS possible!
There are more Scriptures along these same lines in the FIRST BASE section of The Baseball Diamond of Healing. I encourage you to read through those Scriptures as well.