Topic: Divine healing & miracles

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Is preaching the Gospel around the world the 'greater works' Jesus promised?

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Now, that’s right. That’s the reason He couldn’t heal all that day there at Bethesda, all the crippled—and crippled and withered, and so forth. The Father showed Him one man that had been sick for thirty-eight years with diabetes, or something. He said, “Take up your bed and go on home.” And he did...

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What keeps a person from being healed?

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There’s only one thing that keeps you from being healed, if I read the Bible right (I believe I have millions that’ll agree with me on the Scripture.), that the only thing that keeps us from being healed is a lack of faith, that is, if our heart’s right with God. Is that right? If…He was wounded for...

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What is a gift of healing?

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Only faith can heal you, your own individual faith. Don’t you see what a gift of healing is? A gift of healing isn’t something that’s in somebody to heal somebody else. The man that’s being prayed for has to have the—the healing. He has to have the faith. Is that right? (Excuse me.) All right.

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Is God the author of sickness?

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Whew. I can’t see that. And I don’t say…And I don’t believe that’s intelligent. I don’t believe that’s…That’s not the Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ. And God is not the author of sickness. You can’t pin that on my Father. He come to heal us. The devil is the one who makes us sick. Absolutely. If tha...

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Was Paul's thorn in the flesh a disease?

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And I will admit there is a sickness unto death. And that’s why prophetic gifts are in the church to know these things. But to say that our Father, that a man had rheumatism, arthritis, say, “Yes, Lord. I’m just glad to have it. Glad You give it to me. I embrace it. I love it. I glory in tribulation...

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If Jesus is Jehovah-jireh, is He also Jehovah-rapha?

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But if he said, “No,” then he wasn’t…If he—if he said, “No,” then He wasn’t Jehovah-jireh, the God’s provided Sacrifice. He’s Jehovah…If He isn’t…The redemptive Names of Jehovah, if they are not applied and fulfilled in Jesus, then He is not God’s provided Lamb, and you’re in your sins, and He was a...

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Did Paul anoint the handkerchiefs and aprons he sent out?

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Look, if my baby was sick, and I wanted some man, that could come from…Now, many times, you believe in anointing a cloth. That’s all right; that’s perfectly all right. Anything that God will bless, I’m for it. Aren’t you? That’s right. See? Now, many people anoint the cloth, but if you’ll follow me...

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Was sickness included in the atonement Jesus made when He died?

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If you bought my ticket…I’m fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now…That’s about a six, seven hundred miles’ trip, right quick. Now, if you’d say, “Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for...

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Was Isaiah 53's 'with His stripes we are healed' fulfilled in Matthew 8?

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And then, the Bible said that He’s the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn’t ta…you couldn’t say that. When anybody tells you that, it’s wro...

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Why did Jesus pass by the multitude at the pool of Bethesda and heal only one man?

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You say why don’t I heal that little girl? If it was me, I would. See? Why’d He leave…Why’d He pass by that little spastic child, and those crippled, and lame, and halt, there at the pool of Bethesda, and moved right on by them, passed up, many of them standing there, the Bible said halt, lame, blin...

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Is sickness always the result of some secret sin in the sick person?

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Here come these fine counsellors or church members. Job cursed the day he was born. He said, “May the stars not shine at night or the sun by the day.” But he wouldn’t curse God. And there, Satan got him right down to the very threadbare moment. Then some of his friends came, and instead of consoling...

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How is Divine healing now connected to the resurrection of the dead?

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No wonder David cried out, “My flesh shall rest in hope, because He will not suffer my Holy One to see corruption, neither will He leave His soul in hell.” All back there, all pointing to Calvary. Then, in Jesus lays the complete of salvation, the complete of Divine healing, a…If there is no Divine...

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What should a person do when symptoms come back after they have been prayed for?

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Now, God help us tonight to believe. Help us to lay aside every shadowy weight, and just move right in now with perfect virgin, unadulterated faith, Lord, and be healed, every one. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Symptoms arise, see it’s all by feeling then. Next morning wh...

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If a man says God sent him to heal the sick, how can people know whether that is true?

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Now, if I come here and tell you that God told me to come down and to—and to heal the sick, and to open the eyes of the blind, to unstop the deaf ears, and…Well, that’s good. You…“Well, all right now, Brother Branham. If God told you to do that, I’ll—I’m going to look at your meetings. If He told yo...

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Can Brother Branham or any other man heal the sick?

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[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…paid the price. He’s the only one that can heal. He did it at Calvary. And for me to do something that He did at Calvary would be robbing Him of His Calvary sacrifice. So I can’t do it, Christian friends. And to be honest with you, I don’t believe there’s anyone else that ca...

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What does the oil represent when a sick person is anointed with oil and prayed for?

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Now, here comes a man up here, maybe, that’s sick. He’s standing here with a…The doctor says he’s going to die. He’s filled with TB. Here he comes up to the pastor, he says, “Pastor, I—I’m…The doctor tells me I’m going to die. I—I’m—I pray, you pray with me, pastor.” The pastor says, “All right.” No...

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Why were the sick healed as Peter's shadow passed by them?

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You believe it? Look. A man, a Spirit filled, Pentecostal born, Holy Ghost man of God, called out, separated, stood under inspiration, knowing nothing about what Ananias and Sapphira had done, but when he came, they came into the building, the Holy Spirit revealed what had happened. And God rewarded...

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Is sickness always the result of the sick person's own sin?

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Now, dear Christian friend, I—I am not a Divine healer; no other man is; no doctor is. And there’s only one healing, that comes from God. You believe that? Now, for instance, if we would speak this…Now, all diseases…Can you hear me better from this mike here? All diseases come from—is direct or indi...

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What is the source of the life in a cancer or tumor?

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Now, Satan…Now somehow, there’s not a cell of cancer in there now. But a cancer could come in there from some cause. Then it’s like…Maybe it’ll be on—on the inside, in the female glands, in the stomach, in the lungs, or wherever it may be. But it starts with first a little cell. Then it…Before it ca...

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Does feeling sick again about seventy-two hours after prayer mean the healing was lost?

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Now, nine times out of ten, if the patient isn’t instructed on what to do, right there they lose out. See? They say, “Well, I feel so good. I just feel so wonderful.” And then about—after about seventy-two hours, they get a sick spell. They start getting sick. They say, “Oh, I’ve lost my healing. Oh...