About Healing

About Healing

“The reason some people have so many groans is that unlike Caleb, they always seem to have a bad report. They testify of their aches, of their hard times, of their many symptoms. They confess weakness and failure, and that is why they continue to have weakness and failure. They rise no higher than their confession.

- Gordon Lindsay

MIRACLES IN THE BIBLE, Vol. 1
Miracles in the Old Testament, p11
Published by
Christ For The Nations, Inc.
Dallas, Texas
1977

God promises divine health fertility and long life.

EXODUS 23:25-26

Until we reach that level of faith, though, we need healing.

Under the old covenant (up to and including the law), healing was a special dispensation granted on a case by case basis.

NUMBERS 12:10-15 The healing of Miriam’s leprosy.
2 KINGS 20:1-11 The Healing of Hezekiah.

There would come a time though that the rules on healing would change.

ISAIAH 53:4-5 Isaiah’s prophecy concerning Christ’s sacrifice for our healing.

Previewing the new covenant, Jesus healed all who came.

MATTHEW 4:23-24
MATTHEW 8:16
MATTHEW 9:35
MATTHEW 12:15-16
MATTHEW 14:13-14
MATTHEW 14:34-36
MATTHEW 15:29-31
MATTHEW 19:1-2
MATTHEW 21:14-15
LUKE 4:40-41
LUKE 9:10-11

MATTHEW 8:5-13 The healing of the centurion’s servant.
MATTHEW 12:22-23 The healing of a deaf-mute.
MATTHEW 15:21-28 The healing of the daughter of a Gentile woman.
MATTHEW 17:14-20 The healing of the demon-possessed boy whom the disciples could not heal.
MARK 6:4-5 Even Jesus was not received in his own hometown, yet he still healed.
MARK 8:22-25 The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida (Jesus laid hands on the man twice)
LUKE 5:17-26 The healing of the paralytic man that was lowered down through the roof (if you need healing, there’s little excuse not to come).
LUKE 8:40-56 The healing of the woman with the issue of blood and the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead.
LUKE 13:10-13 The healing of the woman who was bent over for eighteen years.
JOHN 5:1-15 The healing of the invalid at the pool of Bathesda.

ACTS 5:12-16
ACTS 8:4-8
ACTS 28:7-10
ACTS 14:8-10 The healing of the lame man in Lystra.
***Note: this is when the men of Lystra sought to worship Paul and Barnabas.