Objection: You Must Let GOD Choose When to Grant Power to Heal the Sick

At least this objector realizes that there can be cases TODAY when the sick are healed by the power of God flowing through a person, which is farther along than most objectors are!  His particular thing is that He believes that healing is not in the atonement but is granted on a case-by-case basis according to God’s will through the “gifts of healings.”

One problem is that Jesus said that BELIEVERS (those who believe) would lay hands on the sick and they would (not might) recover (Mark 16:18).  However, Paul made it clear that not all have gifts of healings.  So there must be another way for saints who are not used in “gifts of healings” to minister healing.

Fortunately, even if “gifts of healings” are not operating (when even people who aren’t in faith for healing can sometimes receive), ALL believers have the right to be filled with the Holy Spirit – the SAME Holy Spirit who ministered through Jesus, not some watered-down Holy Spirit Temporary Free Trial Version.  And that’s where this objection really breaks down.  Jesus said that His disciples would receive power when the Holy Spirit came upon them – when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit.  This word power is the Greek word dunamis, which is the same word that Jesus used to describe what went out of Him when the woman with the issue of blood touched Him.  (The King James says virtue, but it doesn’t mean moral virtue, which wouldn’t have left Him, obviously!)  It’s the same word dunamis in Acts 1:8.

So you see, when you’re baptized with the Holy Spirit, you HAVE the power to heal the sick.  God has already “granted” it!  So now it is up to you to use it.  If you are wise, you will proclaim to the sick the good news of what Jesus did about their sicknesses so that they have a basis for faith, though there may times when God uses YOU in gifts of healings and someone who hardly knows what’s going on will get healed anyway.  My personal experience is that when I’m bold to act on what I already know, that is when God is most likely to kick in with special manifestations.  After all, it’s hard to flow in gifts of healings when you’re not actually ministering to any sick people!

But you DEFINITELY do not have to wait for GOD to choose to grant power that you already received when you received the Miracle Worker Himself – the Holy Spirit!