Objection: Only Those with Gifts of Healings Receive the TEMPORARY Right to Speak Directly to an Illness

We ALL have the power of death in our tongues.  While Proverbs 18:21 is often used to exhort people not to make bad confessions that lead to death (and that’s a legitimate use of the verse), a good use of it is to show that we have the power of death in our tongues so that we can speak death to cancer and other illnesses, and they must die!  This right comes not by having “gifts of healings” but rather by having a tongue.

Mark 11:23 says that whosoever speaks to a mountain to be cast into the sea, and believes in his heart that it will happen, he will have whatever he says.  He did not say that “some” could do it when it was God’s will in a special case.  In this context, it was about having faith in God.  ALL of us, not just people with healing ministries, should exercise faith in God.  (If your faith isn’t in God, you’ll think that “your” power has to move the mountain rather than trusting God’s power to back your words.  In other words, you’ll think that you have to move it all by yourself.  That won’t work.)

Likewise, when He talked about commanding a tree to be uprooted and cast into the sea, there was no hint that you had to pray about the matter first or that only people who would get baptized with the Holy Spirit and flow in gifts of healings could actually act on His statement.  It was another statement for “whosoever” without restriction.

There is such a thing as the gift of faith coming on you and you suddenly curse the illness and command it to leave even when you weren’t planning on doing things that way.  Perhaps the objector has seen this kind of manifestation in action and thinks that this is the ONLY time when you can speak to an illness.  However, I have spoken to illnesses and they’ve left WITHOUT any prior direct word from the Lord to do so.  I acted in faith on the GENERAL Word that God has already given.

James makes it clear that ANYONE can set the course of nature on fire with his tongue, but he can also use his tongue to bridle his own body (James 3:2-6).  That certainly was not restricted to those with gifts of healings either.

Take a look at how Jesus commanded His disciples to go out and preach.  You’ll see that He gave them power over ALL sicknesses and over ALL demons (see for example, Matthew 10:1).  They did not have to wait to see if “gifts of healings” manifested as a “temporary” right – they had the ongoing right to command ALL sicknesses to leave.  That is still true today.