What If Someone Wants Healing but Doesn’t Want Jesus?

It depends on why the person doesn’t want Jesus.

If the person doesn’t want Jesus because he doesn’t know much of anything about the real Jesus, God in His mercy will sometimes reveal His goodness by performing a healing miracle on such a person.

However, when someone understands who Jesus is but still chooses to reject Him, the person will have to remain sick unless God, in a sovereign act of mercy, moves through the gifts of the Spirit.  Just as the new birth is available only through Jesus, divine healing is available only through Jesus.  Divine healing and forgiveness of sins were part of the same atonement.  It’s a package deal.  Asking for healing while rejecting the Healer is like telling the mailman that you want your mail but you don’t want him to deliver it to you.  It’s like saying that you want your refrigerator fixed but you don’t want the repairman to enter your house.

Witch doctors and pagan “healers” in some countries make a lot of money (or chickens, goats, etc.) from people who want healing but don’t want Jesus.  Unfortunately, their “patients” (actually “victims”) end up with a lot more than “healing,” which will only be temporary.  They get demonic oppression along with the package.  Satan doesn’t hand out freebies.  He always has a hidden price tag.  He isn’t out to relieve anyone’s suffering; he wants to CAUSE as much suffering as he can.  He is OK with “healing” you if it means that he can keep you under his control so that as a whole you’ll be worse off when he’s done with you.

There is no point casting a devil out and leaving a clean house for seven worse ones to enter along with the original one.  If someone wants deliverance, he needs the Deliverer.  If he needs healing, he needs the Healer.  Divine healing and deliverance are only available through the name of Jesus.  If someone rejects Him, he is denying Jesus the right to work in his body.  How can He work in your body if you don’t want Him there?  He will only go where He is welcomed.  He does not force Himself on anyone.

No one has a “right” to healing while rejecting the Healer.  However, God in His mercy will sometimes heal someone who rejects Jesus to demonstrate His goodness.