We need to settle the fact that God has
provided healing along with forgiveness
in His Atonement. That He wants every
person to be healed and live healthy all
their lives.

As long as we waver, we will not receive
anything according to James 1:6-7,
"But let him ask in faith, nothing waver-
ing, For he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord."

Healing like salvation is a gift, already
paid for. All we need to do is believe it
and receive it as ours as children of God
because it belongs to us.
Sometimes believers make the mistakes of
thinking that if God wants them to have His
promises of salvation, healing, prosperity,
etc; that God will just give them to them, if
they don't get them, God must not want
them to have it.

We need to get into the Word of God and
find out what belongs to us. If it is promised
to us, or if it is provided for us in His Word,
then it is His will for us to ask and believe
we receive it.
God has laid on Jesus our sicknesses and
our diseases; He bor them, He was ' stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted' with ours; so
Satan has no right to put on us what God
has put on Jesus.

Also what right would God have to put our
sickness on Jesus if He wanted us to keep
them.

There is no need for both Jesus and us to
bear them. Because He has bore them, we
ARE FREE!
Our thinking has to be in line with the Word
of God. 1 Peter 2:24 says ". . .by whose stripes
ye were healed."

Notice that it say "were" not "going to be." If
we believe what the bible says, then we will
believe that "we ARE healed".

Here Peter was looking back at the cross and
he accepted that.
When people are told that they don't have to
pray in order to be healed, they look amazed.

But many fail to receive healing because they
have based their faith on prayer instead of
God's Word.

They expect prayer to do what God's Word
will do for them.

Praying is only necessary if it is based on the
promises in God's Word.
What Jesus did for us means, 'One bearing
another's load.' As our substitute He bore
our sins and our sicknesses.

That is why divine healing belongs to every
child of God. We don't need to question God's
will about it when we know this.

Since He bore our sicknesses and carried our
pains, there's no need for both of us to bear
them.
Merry Christmas
In Isaiah 53:4 the Hebrew word for 'borne'
means to remove to a distance.

The Hebrew word for 'carried' means to
assume as a heavy burden.

The two words are the same as those used
in the 11th and 12th verses regarding His
bearing our sins; "He shall bear their iniq-
uities. . . .and he bare the sin of many. . . ."

They show that He actually took on Himself
the burden of our sin nature. So it is equally
true that He actually took on Himself our
sicknesses and pains. They mean a complete
removal.

Just as that goat bore the sins of Israel, the
Word of God teaches that Jesus bore our
sins and our sicknesses.

Sin and sickness have passed from us to
Jesus, on the cross, and salvation and health
have passed from Him to us!
The word "borne" is a Levitical word, and it
is applied to the scapegoat that bore the sins
of the people.

It is the same Hebrew word used in Leviticus
16:22 ". . . .the goat shall bear upon him all
their iniquities. . ."

The high priest laid his hands upon this goat,
and by faith gave or transferred, to that goat
the sins and the iniquities of Israel.

Then the goat was taken out, "unto a land
not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in
the wilderness."
If Jesus has borne our sicknesses - and Isaiah
53:4 says He has - there is no reason for us to
bear them.

Looking up the word translated "borne" in this
text, in the original Hebrew it means to "lift up,
to bear away, to convey, or to remove to a dis-
tance."

So when the bible says, "He hath borne our
sicknesses," it means that He has borne them
away, or removed them to a distance.

When the
woman with
the issue of
blood
touched
Jesus and
He felt this
power go
out of Him
he said,
". . .who touched my
clothes? And his disciples said unto him,
Thou seest the multitude thronging thee,
and sayest thou, Who touched me?"

There wasn't any way of telling how many
people had touched Him just to see if any
thing would happen.

". . .he looked round about to see her that
had done this thing. But the woman fear-
ing and trembling, knowing what was
done in her, come and fell down befor him,
and told him all the truth. And he said to
her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
whole. . ." Mark 5:24-34 Jesus said her
faith did it. But the others who touched
Him received nothing because there was
not faith.
By laying on of hands, God's healing power is
transmitted to those that are sick, because of
the anointing of that power.

This power doesn't work automatically. We
can't transfer that healing power to whomever
we want to. Jesus couldn't. Jesus said unto
them, "A prophet is not without honour, but
in his own country, and among his own kin,
and in his own house." Mark 6:4
Everyone who has been baptized in the Holy
Spirit has an anointing of the Spirit in them.

1John 2:27 "But the anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you. . . ." We have
the right to lay hands, in faith, on anyone, if
they release their faith and we can expect
them to be healed.
Someone said, "When you laid hands on me
I felt the power of God. I felt alright for two
or three days, but now every symptom has
come back.

There was no faith on the part of the person
to give action to that power. They knew it was
there; they felt God's healing power through
out their body, but they didn't act on the Word
of God.
There are reasons why the manifestation
isn't always instant.

One is that healing comes in steps. . . .
the degree that healing was ministered;
the degree of the person's faith.
Some people have looked at their watches
when hands have been laid on them. Even
if nothing physical happens, they believe
they received then and there at that time.

There wasn't any manifestation at that
moment, but they simply look at their
watch and say "That's it! Praise God, I
accept my healing now."

Then the manifestation comes.
People have been filled with the Holy Spirit
the same way. They will come to meetings to
be filled with the Holy Spirit, but when hands
are laid on them they don't receive.

But they keep coming back and their faith is
built up by listening to the Word taught to
them and then they receive.
Many times doctors will tell people that they
are going to put them in the hospital for
several days to build them up for an operation.

But what if a man of God told them, "I want
you to stay in the services several days to get
built up for God to perform their healing."
They would get mad!

If they would stay under the sound of the
Word of God, it would have an effect on them,
and the Spirit of God could heal them.

"And there sat a
certain man at
Lystra,
impotent in his
feet, being crippled
from his mother's
womb, who never
had walked:
The same heard
Paul speak: who
stedfastly
beholding him, and perceiving that he
had faith to be healed, Said with a loud
voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he
leaped and walked" Acts 14:8-10
Full Gospel Churches line people up and lay
hands on them. Some have gotten healed
and some haven't. Some have been through
every line in the country.

People who are chronic seekers for healing
and the baptism of the Holy Spirit are best
to attend Bible Classes on the blessing that
they are seeking.

Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.
One time Jesus
walked up to the
pool of
Bethesada, and
there were five
porches around
the pool full of
sick people.


An angel came
down from
heaven every so
often and troubled the water, and the
first one into the water got healed.

Jesus said to one man, ". . . wilt thou be
made whole? The impotent man answered
him, Sir, I have no man when the water is
troubled, to put me into the pool: but while
I am coming, another steppeth down before
me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy
bed, and walk. And immediately the man
was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walk. . . ." John 5:6-9.

Even though many people were sick and
crowded around that pool, he was the only
one who got healed by Jesus or we would
have been told of the others. They were too
busy looking at the pool for their healing,
that they missed the healer.

Peter and John
went through
the gate that
was called
Beautiful, just
a few days after
Jesus had been
there.
A man who had
been crippled
from birth
lay begging
alms.

The Bible says he was carried there every
day. It hadn't been too many days since
He, Jesus, had been through the same
gate.

Apparently this man wasn't believing then
that Jesus could heal him. But now when
Peter and John came through and told him
to arise and walk in the name of Jesus, he
did.
The reason we are not always successful in
a lot of our laying on of hands is because we
make it a practice without the preaching and
teaching of God's Word about it.

Too many times in our churches the laying
on of hands become simply a form, a ritual,
or empty formality. We have hands laid on
us, but nothing happens.

We seem to have the idea that Jesus went
around laying hands on everyone but He
didn't.
Paul wrote a letter to the churches in Galatia.
He said, "He therefore that ministereth to you
the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?"

Of course, the answer was, by the hearing of
faith.

He said that the miracles which were done
among them, and the Holy Spirit that was
ministered was done by the hearing of faith.
There is more to laying on of hands than
just for healing.

The New Testament church laid hands on
men who were ordained into the ministry.
They laid hands on the seven deacons
appointed to serve tables. They also laid
hands on believers to be filled with the
Holy Spirit. (Acts 8:17)
Laying on of hands is one of the principles
of the doctrine of Christ. In Hebrews 6:1,2
"Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfect-
ion: not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith
toward God. Of the doctrine of baptisms,
and of laying on of hands, and of resurrec-
tion of the dead, and of eternal judgment."
God has provided some means to help our
faith to receive healing. One of these methods
is the laying on of hands. ". . . . .They shall lay
hands on the sick, and they shall recover"
Mark 16:18.

Laying on of hands will not heal. If it did then
there would have been no need for God to
lay our sicknesses on Jesus. He could have
told us just to lay hands on one another and
we would be healed.

The laying on of hands help us to release our
faith in the Word of God.
The verses in Isaiah 53 and Matthew 8 deal
with the disease problem that's in the world.

If they don't, then we can't preach salvation
from these chapters.

How can we say that part of it belongs to us
but the other part doesn't.

Jesus Christ provided deliverance from sin
and sickness for us when He purchased our
redemption/atonement at Calvary!
The Word of God states that, "He hath made
him to be sin, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him."

Not only did God make Him who knew no sin
to be sin, but He made Him who knew no
sickness to be sick.

He made Him sick with our sicknesses so we
might be perfectly well in Christ.
We believe that God laid our sins on Jesus,
and we don't have to bear them. We also
believe that He laid our sicknesses on Jesus.

It can be said that God laid our sicknesses on
Jesus and made Him sick with our diseases.