Heal The Sick

What if every believer actually obeyed Christ's command to heal the sick? What if we stopped debating whether God still heals and started doing what Jesus explicitly told us to do?

The command isn't to pray for the sick—it's to heal them. Every believer carries this authority, but most never learn to use it.

For years, I watched Christians file in and out of churches, singing anthems and reading Scripture while cancer took one, divorce took another, and depression consumed still more. We studied healing in the Bible but never did it. We believed God could heal but never expected Him to heal through us.

John Wimber, who spent three years praying for the sick without seeing a single healing, discovered something revolutionary: "It really doesn't say pray for the sick. What it says is heal the sick. That's exactly what it says, and that's a lot different."

This isn't about becoming a faith healer or starting a healing ministry. It's about every believer stepping into the authority Christ already gave us—the same authority He gave the disciples when He sent them out to heal every disease and sickness (Matthew 10:1).

"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." — Mark 16:17-18

The Gap Between Belief and Action

Most Western Christians suffer from what Wimber called the split between head and heart: "I could believe it at this level and not believe it at this level. By that I mean at an emotional, visceral level I would be frightened, insecure, not sure."

We've been taught that God quit doing miracles at the end of the apostolic age. Seminary trained us that we have Scripture now, so we don't need signs and wonders. But as Wimber discovered, this creates an army without basic training—we have the manual but no practice.

The three-step cyclical process:

1. Read it - Immerse yourself in Scripture's healing accounts
2. Believe it - Not just intellectual assent but heart-level faith
3. Act on it - Believing without acting isn't believing at all

"It's like a stool—if you just have two legs, it doesn't work. You have to continue to read it, continue to believe it, continue to act on it."

Moving Beyond Begging to Command

Jesus didn't suggest healing—He commanded it. When we approach sickness, we're not begging God to maybe consider healing if it's His will. We're exercising the authority He's already given us to enforce His kingdom reality where sickness has no place.

The difference between begging and healing:

• Begging: "God, if it's your will, please heal this person"
• Commanding: "In the name of Jesus, I command this sickness to leave"

This isn't presumption—it's obedience. We are called to lay hands on people and expect results.

"Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." — Luke 10:19

The Reality of Kingdom Warfare

When you start healing the sick, you're not just addressing physical ailments—you're advancing God's kingdom against Satan's territory. As Wimber explained: "When Jesus came, all Heaven broke loose on Earth. The demons started screeching."

Every healing is an act of warfare. Every cancer commanded to leave, every depression broken, every addiction shattered is territory reclaimed for the Kingdom. This is why healing often gets harder before breakthrough—the enemy doesn't surrender ground willingly.

Expect opposition when you begin:

• Your circumstances may temporarily worsen
• The pain might intensify before healing manifests
• Fear and doubt will assault your mind
• Religious spirits will criticize your "presumption"

But remember: "It's not a war between God and Satan. He defeated the enemy, and now we are in charge of the mop-up operation."

Learning to Recognize the Unction

The presence of God for healing isn't always dramatic. Wimber's team learned through practice: "In the early days when we prayed, we didn't know when the unction was there. The presence of God would come but we didn't know what that was. We just felt good."

Signs of God's healing presence:

• A sense of peace or warmth in the atmosphere
• Specific impressions about what God wants to heal
• Words of knowledge about conditions or root causes
• An unusual boldness to command sickness to leave
• Physical sensations like tingling or heat

"We learned to move with that. The power of God's here—now what does He want to do?"

Operating in Absolute Authority

Apostle Delmar Coward Jr. demonstrates what healing looks like when religious limitations are completely removed. When three doctors declared he would die from COVID-19, he responded: "The power of life and death is not in the virus. It's in my mouth. So I said to that coronavirus, guess what? You will die. You would die now." Three days later, the virus was gone without a trace.

His stance is uncompromising: "There's no sickness on this earth that can take you out unless you agree with it."

This isn't presumption—it's understanding your covenant rights. As Coward teaches: "No more religion. No more religion. That's weak. It's time to have what God said." His ministry has documented:

• Casting out the spirit of Down syndrome from a young man transformed overnight
• An autistic child going from 20s to 90s in school after deliverance
• A woman dying from AIDS completely healed within two weeks

The key? Speaking with absolute authority: "Your mouth activates your faith... It takes words to activate your faith... Everything happens because of a word that's spoken."

Practical Steps to Begin Healing

Start where you are. You don't need special training, ordination, or a "healing gift." If you believe in Jesus, you have authority to heal in His name.

Begin with yourself and family. Practice commanding headaches to leave, colds to depart, pain to cease. Build faith through small victories before tackling cancer or chronic conditions.

Use clear, authoritative language. Don't beg—command. Speak directly to the sickness as Coward demonstrates: "Arthritis, you bow down." Examples of specific commands:

• "In the name of Jesus, I command this pain to leave now"
• "Cancer, you have no right to this body—shrivel up and die"
• "Tumor, dissolve in Jesus' name"
• "Depression, lift off this mind immediately"
• "Damaged cells, be restored to perfect function"
• "Infection, leave this body and never return"
• "Broken bones, knit together perfectly right now"

Activate faith through visualization. As Coward teaches: "See yourself with what you want... You can have what you see." Guide people to visualize themselves whole before manifestation occurs.

Persist through failure. Wimber prayed for the sick for three years before seeing his first healing. Most of us give up after three attempts. Healing is learned through practice, not just study.

Learn from those who do it. Find believers who regularly see healings and learn from them. Watch how they minister, but don't just copy techniques—learn to flow with the Spirit.

Address root causes. Many physical ailments have spiritual roots—unforgiveness, trauma, generational curses, demonic oppression. Learn to minister to the whole person. Sometimes it's about casting out spirits, not just praying for healing.

Create expectation without pressure. Believe for healing while releasing outcomes to God. Your job is obedience, not results. Build corporate faith through worship, testimonies, and group declarations.

Understand faith mechanics. As Coward explains: "Faith trumps time... It reaches places we can't go." Faith operates in the NOW, serving as a transportation system that brings heavenly realities into the present moment.

When Healing Doesn't Come

The hardest part of healing ministry is when nothing happens—or worse, when people you love die despite fervent prayer. Wimber buried his best friend David Watson, watching cancer destroy him while simultaneously seeing others with the same cancer healed.

This mystery doesn't negate the command. We're not called to understand everything; we're called to obey. The alternative—not attempting to heal—guarantees that no one gets healed through us.

Remember: Jesus Himself faced limitations in Nazareth where "he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them" (Mark 6:5). If even Jesus experienced varied results, we shouldn't expect 100% success rates.

The Overlooked Power of Music in Healing

Why do we not create more music specifically for healing? The ministry of Vicki Jamison-Peterson demonstrates a profound truth: music bypasses the mind and goes straight to the heart, serving as a carrier for God's healing anointing.

Unlike traditional healing ministry that speaks declarations, Jamison-Peterson sang them. As she moved into higher octaves and frequencies, witnesses reported increased manifestations of healing. Her meetings saw remarkable results:

• She would sing specific words of knowledge: "You're healed in your throat right now. Goiters disappear. Your thyroid is restored."
• Music carried the healing anointing in ways that transcended normal prayer
• In a three-year period in New England, 20,000 people came to Christ through her healing concerts
• A glory cloud manifested in Dallas when she yielded to God's call, flattening 500 attendees under God's power

As Annette Capps observed: "Music bypasses the mind and goes straight to the heart... there's something about the frequency of music that carries the words of knowledge and the gifts of healing."

This invites urgent questions: If music can carry healing power so effectively, why aren't we composing healing songs? Why aren't worship teams trained to flow in this anointing? Could the next breakthrough in healing ministry come not through better techniques but through Spirit-led melodies that carry heaven's frequency?

Reflection and Practice

Ask yourself as you consider healing ministry:

1. Do I believe God still heals today through ordinary believers?
2. What fears keep me from laying hands on the sick?
3. Am I willing to look foolish while learning to heal?
4. Will I persist through failure until breakthrough comes?
5. Do I love people enough to risk disappointment for their healing?

The church desperately needs believers who will do what Jesus did, not just study what He did. We have enough commentaries on healing. We need practitioners who will lay hands on the sick expecting heaven to invade earth.

Stop waiting for special feelings or perfect faith. The sick are dying while we perfect our theology. Christ's command is clear: Heal the sick. The authority is yours. The need is everywhere.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." — John 14:12