Healing belongs to us! "Surely he hath borne
our sicknesses, and carried our pains. . . . . "
God laid our sicknessess and pains on Jesus
and He bore them. That means that the pains
and afflictions we may suffer were laid on Him.

Actually He bore them just like He bore our
sins. "He was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed."
God works by our faith. He gives us His Word
so we can have faith. Then He expects us to
come according to the Word and believe it.
Then He honors His Word.

When we don't believe it, when we don't act on
it, then He doesn't have anything to honor.
Someone might say, "God may just heal
some of those to prove it is real." Then
why doesn't He just save some of them
to prove it is real. Or why doesn't He just
fill some of them with the Holy Spirit to
prove that the baptism of the Holy Spirit
is real.

God doesn't work that way!
We can't pray with someone who is lost,
and get them saved without their believing
in salvation or Jesus. We can pray from
here and back and never get them saved.

We can't pray with someone to receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit without
them believing in it.

So then, how can we pray for someone
and get them healed when they don't
know anything about healing!
People are not always ready to be prayed
for. When we go ahead and pray for them,
and nothing happens, many times we push
them further away from God.

We should give them an opportunity to
hear the Word of God taught on the matter
before we pray for them.

Then they can receive, by faith, what they
need from God.
If we can believe that God laid our iniquities
on Jesus, and because He laid our iniquities
on Him that there is salvation for us; then
we can also believe that He laid our sicknesses
and diseases on Jesus.

We can believe for our salvations and our heal-
ings.
Every church believes the part of Isaiah 53:6
". . . .the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all."

Why not believe the rest of the chapter too?
It continues "he hath borne our sicknesses,
and carried our pains" also.
A Hebrew scholar named Dr Robert Young,
the author of Young's Analytical Concordance,
in his Literal Translation of the Bible has
translated this passage Isaiah 53:3-6,10,12 as:
"He is despised and left of men. A man of pains
and acquainted with sickness. And as one
hiding the face from us, He is despised and we
esteemed him not. Surely our sicknesses he
hath borne, And our pains he hath carried
them, And we, we have esteemed him plagued,
smitten of God and afflicted. And he is pierced
for our transgressions. Bruised for our
iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is
upon him and by his bruise their is healing
to us. All of us like sheep have wandered, each
to his own way we have turned. And Jehovah
hath caused to meet on him, The punishment
of us all. . .And Jehovah hath delighted to
bruise him, He hath made him sick. . .With
transgressors he was numbered, And he the
sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors
in intercedeth"
Matthew 8:17 says, "That it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by Esaias [Isaiah] the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses."

Matthew is quoting Isaiah 53:4. The correct
translation is "Surely he hath borne our sick-
nesses, and carried our pains," for as Matthew
said, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare
our sicknesses."
Chapter 53 of Isaish holds the key to our
atonement/redemption spiritually and
physically.

The fourth verse in Hebrew reads, "Surely
he hath borne our sicknesses and carried
our pains."

In the tenth verse the KJV reads, "yet it
pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath
put him to grief. . . " Again that is the word
for 'sick'. The Hebrew literally says, "He
hath made him sick."
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man
of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and
we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs [Hebrew word

sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [pains]:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,

he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed."
Isaiah 53:3-5

We need to believe in supernatural mani-
festations. We need to expect them. But
in the meantime we must preach God's Word,
and believers should continue to feed on His
Word concerning divine healing to keep their
faith strong.

Healing belongs to us!
We must endeavor to help sick people to
understand that God wants them healed
one way or the other.

Either by supernatural manifestations of
the Spirit of God or by getting the Word into
them so that their faith will rise up in their
hearts.

Then when hands are laid on them and they
are prayed for; they can receive their healing
through combined faith.
Healing belongs to every born-again believer.

It isn't a matter of prayer or spiritual gifts. It
belongs to us because the Lord Jesus provided
it as part of the atonement/our redemption.

He has saved us from sin, sickness and dis-
ease and all the works of the devil.
We should stay open for manifestations of
the Spirit of God, but we don't have to wait
for a supernatural manifestation to be
delivered from anything that is wrong with
us.
In Chapter 4 of Luke, Jesus said that when
there was a great famine in the land during
Elijah's time; there were many widows in
the Israel.

"But unto none of them was Elias sent, save
unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman
that was a widow" [vs 26].

Even though Elijah had God's power in his
life, he couldn't make it work for everybody.
But because he was sent to this particular
widow's house, there was a continuous
miracle. The meal barrel never emptied, it
kept giving out meal and the cruse of oil
never stopped.
In Matthew 13:58 we learn why Jesus couldn't
heal on some occasions.

"And he did not many mighty work there
because of their unbelief."

Their unbelief hindered Him.
Jesus didn't heal people just to prove that
He was God. He was not ministering as the
Son of God. He was ministering as a prophet
of God, anointed with the Holy Spirit.

He said in Luke 4:24 "Verily I say unto you,
no prophet is accepted in his own country."
He called Himself a prophet.
The Amplified New Testament says, "He
laid His hands on a few sickly people."
They were just sickly, nothing like being
blind, deaf, crippled or palsied.

W.E. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New
Testament Words also brings out the fact
that the Greek reads, "He laid His hands
on a few sick folk with minor ailments and
healed them."
Mark 6:5 "And he [Jesus] could there [Nazareth]
do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands
upon a few sick folk, and healed them".

Notice that Mark didn't say that He wouldn't do
any mighty work there, he said Jesus couldn't.
Many of us have been taught that the only
reason Jesus healed was to prove His deity.

If that was the case, He didn't prove it in the
city of Nazareth, because He could never do
any mighty work there because of their unbelief.
People don't operate these supernatural gifts,
they are manifested through them.

These gifts will not work any time we want
them too! We just have to stay open for them
to manifest as the Spirit of God wills.

We need to tell the difference between heal-
ings received through supernatural gifts or
manifestations, and those that are received
by exercising faith in God's Word only.
Gifts of healings and supernatural manifest-
ations are given mainly to advertise the Gospel
and the gain the attention of those who are not
in the Church!
These supernatural manifestations of healing
are seen either among sinners or denomina-
tional people who have not heard divine heal-
ing taught.

Seldom do they work for Full Gospel people.
The believers should be healed by releasing
their faith in the Word of God.
The supernatural gifts are not always in
operation.

Many times Christians have been healed
by a special manifestation, then the next
time they are sick, instead of believing
God's Word, they expect to be healed again
in the same way, and they are disappointed
when they're not.
Also much has been placed on the gifts of
healing which are among the gifts of the
Spirit mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10.

There will be manifestations of the super-
natural gifts where people preach them,
teach them, believe in them, and yield to
the Spirit of God.
If we do not know what God's Word says,
we cannot release our faith in it.

Then we just release our faith in the laying
on of hands or the anointing of oil and are
disappointed when these won't work.
Much has been taught on the laying on of
hands; on the anointing of oil; and praying
for the sick. They will not heal!

These are methods (or points of contact)
used to help people to release their faith
in God's Word. It will heal!
Healing belongs to the born-again believers!
"By His stripes ye were healed" 1 Peter 2:24