Who initiated the Healing?

exceedingfaith — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:48:44 +0000

When we look at the healing ministry of Jesus in the Gospels, we will soon notice that in some of the accounts of people being healed, Jesus mentioned the person's faith as being involved, while in other accounts, no mention of faith is made at all.

This has caused confusion in the church, as some teach we need faith to receive healing from God while others strongly oppose this, claiming we do not.

In the previous post we mentioned a new mp3 teaching I have put on our website that studies this issue in depth, helping us to fully understand when faith is REQUIRED for healing and when it is not.

To add to this teaching, I have now uploaded a page to our wesbite which lists the healings in Jesus' ministry by category of 'who initiated the healing' – In other words, who made the initial approach, was it Jesus going to the sick person, or the sick person coming to Jesus.

This simple division between the various healings in the gospels shows a very interesting pattern, as you will notice.

The healings that Jesus initiated – going to the sick person -do not reference faith, while those that were initiated by the sick person going to Jesus do.

By studying healing in the Gospels from a point of view of 'who initiated the healing' we can see a very interesting pattern which helps us see when faith is required for healing and when it is not

I encourage you to listen to the accompanying MP3s which look into the doctrine behind this.

Exceeding Faith: Word Blog » Receiving from God

Who initiated the Healing?

This has caused confusion in the church, as some teach we need faith to receive healing from God while others strongly oppose this, claiming we do not.