I like to say a bit about my background in relation to divine healing. I went to hear a Preacher in the late 1970's preach on how Jesus died for our sins and how He bore our sicknesses when He was scourged with a Roman whip. He asked all those who wanted healing to picture Jesus' back and to see that whip with its weighted metal tip slice through Jesus' back and to see the individual stripes as paying the price for their sickness, 1 stripe paid for cancer, another for heart disease another for arthritis etc. While they were looking at Jesus' back: The preacher prayed for the release of the Holy Spirit and many, many people were healed where they stood of sicknesses and diseases, some were lying on the floor under the power of Holy Spirit being healed where they lay.
That gave me a desire to move in the revelation of divine healing. At this point I didn't know the difference between faith for healing and mental assent. So there was a transition period between seeing and believing, I had seen God healing people and believed, but now I needed to believe to see.
When I first started to believe for my own healing, I found I had a battle in my mind. When I would confess the word that by Jesus' stripes I was healed, I'd feel the corners of my mouth turn down and I'd feel unhappy, it was a real strain on my brain to believe and consequently nothing happened in my body. But what I didn't realise was I was actually making progress.
My carnal mind that wouldn't submit to God's Word was objecting. It went something like this, declaring that you are healed when you are sick is wrong!!! You are sick, not healed you are sick.
But I couldn't except that I had to remain sick because I'd been to this wonderful meeting where the presence of God filled the place it was a taste of heaven on earth. The rule and reign of heaven had come into that meeting, it was your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, in a measure. Salvation came to many, others were set free from bondage and ungodly habits
others were filled with the Holy Spirit and many were healed of sicknesses and diseases.
That told me there was a lot more in God than some of the folk in the denomination I was involved with would have me believe.
The light finally came through a series of steps, I started going to a church where they believed in divine healing and saw a lot of sick people healed of various diseases. So there was a corporate faith in that church and a high expectation that if they asked God the Father to heal someone in Jesus name it would happen, most of the time. It was a big lift to my faith to fellowship with such people.
The first physical healing I received from the Lord was at an evening meeting during a time of prayer. I was a little confused by the meetings, charismatic worship was alien to me. I was praying to the Lord in the quiet of my own heart about responding to being prayed for. When the Lord revealed to a sister supernaturally exactly what I had prayed. And she added if I respond to the offer of prayer the Lord would meet me at my point of need. So I went forward to be prayed for, I thought for the confusion to go. One man prayed and the other man just kept repeating Jesus' name. I felt something come down through my head go round in my face several times and then go back up through my head again. At this point I had no idea that I just been healed. I came to the meeting with a dark and angry looking gum it bled at the slightest touch. Towards the end of the meeting I touched my gum with my tongue and there was no pain. I went and found a mirror and looked, the sore gum was now completely normal, I was healed, praise Jesus.
The next problem I had was with a wart on my right index finger. I tried praying without much success, it did seem to shrink a bit but I gave up believing. I went to the chemist and got something that burns warts out. It didn't work very well. So I asked for prayer in a home group meeting. Nothing happened. So I reckoned I'm just going to have to believe what the Lord said in His Word, “... by His wounds I'm healed. It took a while but once I believed the Word was true, the wart vanished.
Another time I was struggling with a bad cold, I'd been trying to make a stand in faith when the Holy Spirit took me outside my physical body for a moment. I saw my body coughing and spluttering, but in my spirit I was completely liberated from all symptoms; it was glorious. Then is a second I was back in my body and the Lord said to me, “Now you tell your body what you've got.” And that was the divine life of the Holy Spirit. So I now realised that the divine, healing life of God was within me. So now with the Greater One within me, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God the Bible and verses like Proverbs 4:20-22 and Isaiah 53:4-5 etc I was well on the way to living and abiding in divine health. When I was finally able to visualise Jesus' back being scourged according to the scriptures, and seeing those strips of broken bleeding flesh paying the price for my sicknesses I was seldom ever sick for more than a few moments, half an hour if I was having an off day.
Once I learned how to walk in faith for my own healing, I was able to minister it to others too. Often with astounding results.
I believe these principles of believing, visualizing and giving thanks will work for anyone who needs physical healing. You might have to stick with it until you have a break through.
God bless,
Tonyb
That gave me a desire to move in the revelation of divine healing. At this point I didn't know the difference between faith for healing and mental assent. So there was a transition period between seeing and believing, I had seen God healing people and believed, but now I needed to believe to see.
When I first started to believe for my own healing, I found I had a battle in my mind. When I would confess the word that by Jesus' stripes I was healed, I'd feel the corners of my mouth turn down and I'd feel unhappy, it was a real strain on my brain to believe and consequently nothing happened in my body. But what I didn't realise was I was actually making progress.
My carnal mind that wouldn't submit to God's Word was objecting. It went something like this, declaring that you are healed when you are sick is wrong!!! You are sick, not healed you are sick.
But I couldn't except that I had to remain sick because I'd been to this wonderful meeting where the presence of God filled the place it was a taste of heaven on earth. The rule and reign of heaven had come into that meeting, it was your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, in a measure. Salvation came to many, others were set free from bondage and ungodly habits
others were filled with the Holy Spirit and many were healed of sicknesses and diseases.
That told me there was a lot more in God than some of the folk in the denomination I was involved with would have me believe.
The light finally came through a series of steps, I started going to a church where they believed in divine healing and saw a lot of sick people healed of various diseases. So there was a corporate faith in that church and a high expectation that if they asked God the Father to heal someone in Jesus name it would happen, most of the time. It was a big lift to my faith to fellowship with such people.
The first physical healing I received from the Lord was at an evening meeting during a time of prayer. I was a little confused by the meetings, charismatic worship was alien to me. I was praying to the Lord in the quiet of my own heart about responding to being prayed for. When the Lord revealed to a sister supernaturally exactly what I had prayed. And she added if I respond to the offer of prayer the Lord would meet me at my point of need. So I went forward to be prayed for, I thought for the confusion to go. One man prayed and the other man just kept repeating Jesus' name. I felt something come down through my head go round in my face several times and then go back up through my head again. At this point I had no idea that I just been healed. I came to the meeting with a dark and angry looking gum it bled at the slightest touch. Towards the end of the meeting I touched my gum with my tongue and there was no pain. I went and found a mirror and looked, the sore gum was now completely normal, I was healed, praise Jesus.
The next problem I had was with a wart on my right index finger. I tried praying without much success, it did seem to shrink a bit but I gave up believing. I went to the chemist and got something that burns warts out. It didn't work very well. So I asked for prayer in a home group meeting. Nothing happened. So I reckoned I'm just going to have to believe what the Lord said in His Word, “... by His wounds I'm healed. It took a while but once I believed the Word was true, the wart vanished.
Another time I was struggling with a bad cold, I'd been trying to make a stand in faith when the Holy Spirit took me outside my physical body for a moment. I saw my body coughing and spluttering, but in my spirit I was completely liberated from all symptoms; it was glorious. Then is a second I was back in my body and the Lord said to me, “Now you tell your body what you've got.” And that was the divine life of the Holy Spirit. So I now realised that the divine, healing life of God was within me. So now with the Greater One within me, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God the Bible and verses like Proverbs 4:20-22 and Isaiah 53:4-5 etc I was well on the way to living and abiding in divine health. When I was finally able to visualise Jesus' back being scourged according to the scriptures, and seeing those strips of broken bleeding flesh paying the price for my sicknesses I was seldom ever sick for more than a few moments, half an hour if I was having an off day.
Once I learned how to walk in faith for my own healing, I was able to minister it to others too. Often with astounding results.
I believe these principles of believing, visualizing and giving thanks will work for anyone who needs physical healing. You might have to stick with it until you have a break through.
God bless,
Tonyb
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