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Which Is Harder to Heal – Cancer or a Cold?

ALL possible answers are right – depending on your perspective!

From your flesh’s perspective (which I don’t recommend that you go along with), cancer is harder to heal because it’s scarier and possibly fatal, which would almost never be the case with a cold. The Flesh Freakout Factor is potentially greater. Your unregenerate flesh will never see things from God’s perspective. Nor will your mind until you renew it with God’s Word. You could reason that you will have to muster up more power to drive out cancer than a cold. That would demonstrate the danger of using reason instead of Scripture! YOUR PART is to lay hands on a sick person. GOD’S PART is to make that person recover. The power flows THROUGH you but it does not ORIGINATE with you. You use your delegated authority and GOD’S POWER drives out the disease whether it be a cold or a cancer. You do not have to “muster up power!” You only need to let God’s power flow through you.

From God’s perspective, colds and cancers are identically easy to heal. What percentage of INFINITE power is left when God heals a cold? 100%. What percentage of INFINITE power is left when God heals a cancer? 100%. Neither healing causes a brownout in heaven.

We should take God’s perspective that arthritis is no harder to heal than a pimple, diabetes is no harder to heal than a hangnail and AIDS is no harder to heal than a scratch on your finger. The name of Jesus makes EVERY knee bow, which means the knee of cancer bows just as much as the knee of a cold bows. When you invoke Jesus’ name, it brings Him onto the scene with all His omnipotence! The sicknesses bow at HIS name, not YOURS, so it’s not up to you to “make” sickness leave or “generate” the power to make it happen. Have confidence in your authority to use the name of Jesus. Cancers and colds will bow equally quickly.

From a practical perspective, cancer is MUCH easier to heal than a cold. Stage 4 (terminal) cancer is MUCH easier to heal than cancer at any other stage. This has been my experience over many decades as a Christian. I have lost count of stage 4 cancer cases that I have seen healed, but other than in my own body, I have very rarely seen colds and flus leave. The reason is quite simple. Let someone, even a Christian, get a cold, and he will run to the medicine cabinet and down some Multi-Symptom Elixir to get rid of the symptoms – until they return in a few hours, at which point he will down some more Multi-Symptom Elixir. He doesn’t even stop and consider that the name of Jesus could make that cold leave for good. Meanwhile, he doesn’t feel well and so he doesn’t go to church where fellow believers could drive that thing out in the name of Jesus, assuming that they aren’t all home with it themselves. But let that person get a report that he has a hopeless cancer case and that the best he can hope for is a less painful exit if his head can be fogged up with enough morphine, and suddenly that person will get VERY serious about obtaining healing from the Lord.

It’s a LOT harder to get a person to be serious about looking to Jesus for healing for a cold that will be inconvenient but not fatal. So in practice, any “I can live with it” disease won’t be healed as often as an “I can die with it” disease.

I’ve seen the same concept in different countries, some of which have good medical care and some of which have rotten medical care. It’s MUCH easier to get people to come to a healing service where no natural alternative is available or affordable! In more developed countries, where people know that they can just go to the Emergency Room, Jesus can be at most an afterthought after people pursue natural help. When you operate in the flesh, looking to man to operate on your flesh is easier on your flesh, which isn’t able to trust God and His Word. That’s why it’s so important to walk in the Spirit instead of walking in the flesh.

While the disciples found it harder to cast out one particular demon than other demons they had cast out, there are NO cases where they failed to heal a particular disease because that disease was harder to heal than another one.

It SHOULD be our experience that colds and cancers get healed equally well, as that is the only position consistent with God’s perspective instead of our flesh’s perspective or our experience’s perspective. We should always strive to elevate our experience to line up with God’s Word rather than watering down God’s Word to match our experience.

For the answer to a similar question where you are the person who needs to receive healing, see Are Some Illnesses Harder to Be Healed Of Than Others?.