Bible Study Differentiating Gift of Healing, Healing Scriptures and Faith

[jonahmano]

To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit (1 Cor 12:9)

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.(Mark 6:5-6)

Hello

I would like you guys to differentiate these three set of scriptures.

Gift of healing - Will it work without faith? Does a person needs gift of healing to get healed. If Gift of healing is a ministry then will it work for without faith?

Healing Scriptures - Can a believer heal another person in the name of Jesus by claiming healing scriptures. Are these healing scriptures for believers only? Can unbelievers claim healing scriptures and get healed?

Faith - Can a person get healed without faith if he is taking part in a healing session of a minister having "The gift of healing"?

I'd like you guys to answer this in wisdom and sound doctrine with the Holy Spirit as your guide

Thank You

 

[jonahmano]

I know some of my doubts were meaningless but I'd like you guys to tie-up these three set of aspects 1. Gift of Healing 2. Healing scriptures 3. Faith (in the matter of healing)

 

[Eugene]

I know some of my doubts were meaningless but I'd like you guys to tie-up these three set of aspects 1. Gift of Healing 2. Healing scriptures 3. Faith (in the matter of healing)

Sorry jonahmano, I thought I had tied the three aspects in my reply to be all of God's ability and responsibility; evidently I didn't to your satisfaction. I deleted the post.

Blessings.

 

[Chopper]

Hi jonahmano, The gift of healing, very interesting....I have been used by God in the healing of some individuals. The Lord asked me to pray for a woman named Virginia. She was our pianist on our worship team. I had some of the members of the team lay hands on Virginia while I anointed her head with oil and prayed. The reason for the laying on of hands was because I did not know who the Holy Spirit would cause the gift of healing to flow through. That way, no one is singled out as a healer. Virginia was healed of migraine headaches that she had for 60 years.

Faith is required for healing to happen. As Jesus moved about healing, we see that faith was what He was looking for. Now healing Scriptures can be very difficult to understand. In the past, I have quoted these verses with little success. I think it has to do with the person that needs healing. Either they doubted, didn't have faith they would be healed. Or for some reason, Satan was there to hinder. There are just too many reasons that it fails. Not because of the Scriptures but people.

In my case, when the Lord indicates He wants to heal someone, He will let me know who, and He lets me know how. The person was healed every time.

 

[reba]

 

[Edward]

Chopper: Faith is required for healing to happen. As Jesus moved about healing, we see that faith was what He was looking for. Now healing Scriptures can be very difficult to understand. In the past, I have quoted these verses with little success. I think it has to do with the person that needs healing.

I thought so also for a long time, but now I wonder...those people in the scriptures who were healed that Jesus said let it be so according to your faith...they were believers, or professed to be so? That may be a decisive distinction, for in Mark 16, when Jesus was giving the commission to the disciples to go out into the world, we see a very curious statement. The signs follow those who believe...which was of course the disciples. It doesn't say go and heal those who have faith. Consider that and tell me what you think brother.

Mark 16: 14-18

14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover./(KJV)

So it seems to read that the faith requirement is upon the one doing the healing and not upon the sick one! ?? Eh?

 

[Chopper]

I thought so also for a long time, but now I wonder...those people in the scriptures who were healed that Jesus said let it be so according to your faith...they were believers, or professed to be so? That may be a decisive distinction, for in Mark 16, when Jesus was giving the commission to the disciples to go out into the world, we see a very curious statement. The signs follow those who believe...which was of course the disciples. It doesn't say go and heal those who have faith. Consider that and tell me what you think brother.

Mark 16: 14-18

14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover./(KJV)

So it seems to read that the faith requirement is upon the one doing the healing and not upon the sick one! ?? Eh?

Hi there Friend ED When Jesus was healing, the totality of the power to heal was in Himself. We see Him healing non-believers as well as believers. At that time, the Jewish people were who Jesus is ministering, some didn't have faith and some did.

Now, as for Mark 16:9-20. Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include these verses. The Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and early Latin, & Syriac manuscripts do not contain these verses. Soooooooo, to build solid doctrine on these verses is a problem....personally, I hate it when this type of situation arises. If these verses are real Scripture then, you are right. The one who is doing the healing is the responsible one to have faith. Obviously Jesus had no problem. Now, for so called faith healers. There are certain men who have been set apart and infused with faith and a ministry of healing the sick. Bosworth, Wigglesworth, Roberts, Hinn, are a few who have or had this calling. Some who have had this calling have over the years stolen the glory of God and have focused it on themselves. But, God still uses them because of the ones who are hurting.

I like how the ESV puts forth Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the ASSURANCE of things hoped for, the CONVICTION of things not seen". It just seem to speak more more clear to me.