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.