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.
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