Hello Geezer. I have been in many services where people were touched. Physically, emotionally, and the greatest miracle of all salvation. I believe He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe every promise in the bible is for us His children. I also believe God is sovereign. It is in His timing. We are always too have faith and leave the results to Him. Drawing closer to God is to be our hearts desire. He is faithful to never leave us or forsake us. No matter what we are going through He is a ever present help. I read this prayer in a book and for me it sums it up.

Father the God who heals, I glorify you for healing me eternally by the stripes of your only begotten Son, Jesus.
I glorify you, if you heal me now.
I glorify you, if you heal me later.
I glorify you, in my life and in my death.
I glorify you for healing in time and eternally.
I glorify you in everything. Amen

Seems weird to me that when Jesus was on earth He healed all who came to Him, but today this often isnt the case. I know sickness is part of this life, a nasty part. But when a person goes for healing why dont we see more?

Geeser I don't have a answer for you. Some people would say your faith is not big enough. I have known people over the years that stood strong in faith believing for healing but it didn't happen. Others have stood and a miracle took place. It does not shatter my faith. My faith is in Jesus. He tells us to believe and trust. If I walk through affliction I have to believe that He will walk with me every step of the way. Ask and keep asking Geezer. Our place is to pray without ceasing. Pray persistently, pray with thanksgiving, pray expectantly, and to pray in faith.

Be very careful of those that say they can heal you. If the Lord wants to heal you He will. if He wants you to wait, thats what you should do. We are not Christians for the benefit we get from knowing Christ, we are Christians because He chose us, the reason He chose us is to make disciples of others whom He has chosen. Healing is a miracle that was used in the Bible when Jesus was alive to show who Jesus is. How God moves among His people.

Jesus healed to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet ISAIAH 53:4 Matthew 8:16,17 When the even was come they brought unto him many that were possed with devils:and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fullfulled which was spoken by the prophet ISAIAH. I have been to people who claim they can heal. I have been prayed over. People have laid hands on me. I haven't been healed. JESUS STILL DOES HEAL TODAY...BUT IT IS SIMPLY NOT GUARANTEED. Everybody different just cause i don't get healed doesn't mean you won't either. They have told me that if i don't beleive god will heal me i won't be healed.The fact that you beleive your already ahead of the race.Good luck

Very well said Vonny01

Oh I agree we wont all be healed, in a miraculous way, maybe not to be healed at all. and yes, if Jesus doesent come before it, we will die. In talking about healing services I am thinking about them in context of churches. It does seem a ministry that dosent seem to be practiced much. Just trying to think this thing out.

I agree with Vonny regarding people who say they can heal you... It is Jesus who does the healing, and he does sometimes do so by annointing a persons touch and with the laying on of hands. But even as it is a persons hands, it is the annointing of the Lord that does the healing, and the person is just a conduit.

I believe that there are times when the healing annointing is present, and yet the person who could be on the receiving end of it allows doubt to steal their healing. The best way I know to grow that faith which facilitates the receiving manifestation of the healing is to really study out the healing scriptures in His Word. Some people are healed in fraction of a moment, upon the annointing touching them... others have to walk in the healing while it comes to fruition. If you are one who has to walk into it, as the man who had to dunk 7 times in the dirty river, then you have to be faithful to not let the devil steal your healing while you are walking. God makes it clear with the healing examples in the bible that God provides the annointing, but often the person needing healing has to DO SOMETHING too... and they have to do it in faith. The man who had to dunk 7 times in the dirty river could easily have been discouraged because there is no intellectual sense in dunking in filth to be healed... but he did what he was told to do even when it didn't make sense to his mind, because he was obedient and faithful.

As you study out healing scriptures and stories, you can stand on the promise and accept the healing as your own. If you allow the thoughts of those who have not received their healing to be a distraction and a deterrant to your faith, then you risk prophesying failure into your situation. While you are nurturing your faith, you must allow for the renewing of your mind which His Word promises, and not lean on your own understanding.

Do not speak the problem. Tell the devil you are healed in Jesus' name! Don't let the devil know what doubt may be present, and as you keep speaking these unseen truthes, they will become more and more real to you. Don't get up and declare how much pain you are in... rather... declare Gods Words... "Thank you Lord that you bore my sickness and by the stripes of Jesus I am healed!" Speak it as fact, and sow the seeds of it in your heart. Listen to good uplifting healing music and sing it into the atmosphere around you. Invite the actual presence of Christ in your midst and rebuke the spirit of sickness and evil. Sing songs like "I'm tradin' my sorrow" and "His Word is an Ointment"... there are so many great songs, and the more you press in to Him, the more you will feel Him working in your life and body. Pray for Him to show you how to receive the healing that He has promised you.

While those services do work for some people in a quickened moment, and for some others "as they go" and walk it out sometimes for weeks and months following the service.... they are not the only venue for healing. The key is to join your faith with the faith of those who are praying for and with you. No matter how much faith another might have for your healing, you have to join your faith with them in agreement with His Word, or else you might frustrate your healing. I don't believe that a person who goes to one of those services thinking "this probably won't work for me" is going to get anything other than what they have prophesied. Prophesy healing over yourself, and then you will receive.

He is able. And He wants our cooperation. There are many fabulous stories, one of a man I know personally, who had an inoperable brain tumor on the base of his skull/spine and was given only months to live. He refused to accept the worlds diagnosis over the Words diagnosis, He locked himself in his prayer closet and spoke the Word over himself for months.... and 13 years later, he still shows no signs of cancer present in his body! Another woman I know personally prayed recently after a major heart attack, and after a battery of tests, stunned the doctors that she, in her 60s, not only now shows no indications of the heart attack she had, but also tests as having the heart of a 30 year old! Both of these folks prayed and had others praying for and with them and took an active role in receiving the promise. Dodie Osteen is another success story to read. There are many. And I am joining my faith and prayers with you that you will be able to share your testimony of healing too! No testimony comes without a test.

I most certainly believe its Jesus that heals and not a person. I would also see healing as within the community of believers. I also believe most times we are healed by medicine.

I believe that medicine is one way which God uses to heal people. God supplies the wisdom and knowledge to people so that we can conceive the medicine. But even medicine doesn't always help someone who is resistant to the healing. I believe that medicine is best used prayerfully, and shouldn't be a crutch to avoid doing things that are within our power to do without such chemicals. I wouldn't be so bold as to impose my choices on another person, but for me, even when doctors have at times prescribed me pills, I will investigate whether there is another way to approach the issue at hand, and utilize chemicals as a final resort. I don't believe there is an inherent problem with medication, but I personally am a bit of a control freak when it comes to putting things into my body. Especially when it isn't necessarily warranted. For example, God created my body to fight infection by creating a fever to burn out the germ... as long as the fever is within a non-threatening range, I prefer to let my bodys God given wisdom do the work, rather than take a fever reducer, and then end up needing a drug to do the work that the fever was intended to do. But I wouldn't judge someone else for choosing not to suffer with a fever if they want quick relief. Just sharing my personal choice. Meds do have their usefulness, indeed, and can be used in both wise and unwise ways. I did rely on meds to get me out of the harsh slump of depression that I had fallen into.... I was blessed to have the opportunity to do so and would never discourage someone away from the pharmacy, but would encourage them to use pills as a supplement to prayer and relationship with God, not a replacement for it. (Geezer, I'm not saying that you were suggesting them as a replacement. Don't misunderstand. I'm just sharing my thoughts, not contingent on yours...)

No problem, and you are correct medicine has to go hand in hand with prayer and faith.

The healing that is THE most important, is the healing of the relationship between you and God. That is what Isaiah meant, (i believe) by His stripes we are healed, the chastisment of our sins was on Him. at the moment of death Jesus cried out, it is finished, and the curtain that was in front of the Holy of Holies was torn in two. symbolising that the rift between God and man had been healed. Jesus did it. Amen. I dont mind if the Lord doesnt heal me of my illness, I pray for it. It might be, for all I know the thorn in my flesh, that Paul talks about. I bear it because it shows me how weak I am on my own, that I need my Saviour.

Geezer have you ever heard of Kathryn Kuhlman? She is been promoted to glory now but for years she packed auditoriums praying for the sick. She wrote a little book I Believe in Miracles. She believed that doctors can diagnose, give medication but in the end it was Divine power that healed. She took no credit for the healing that took place in those auditoriums. She just brought them before the great physician and prayed. She knew that being in the presence of Almighty God brought healing. She knew that the promises were for today. This book is based on the lives that were changed by the healing power of God. Do you have a library there you could get one. If God is the same, yesterday and forever He does heal today. I believe that!

This is from youtube 1975 of a portion of one of her services. I thought you might like to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocW5ovSXpZw