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Question

Can a gift given to a man heal a sick person?

Answer

Now, just before I read this Word, I want your undivided attention, just a moment. And if there’s anything that you’ve ever paid attention to, to what I’ve said, you listen to what I’m telling you now. That as far as your healing is concerned, in the Presence of God there’s not one other thing can b...
A Greater Witness, 1953-11-15, Owensboro, KY, §14 Read more →

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Who can pray for a sick person if there is no healing campaign in their city?

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And I—and I appreciate your kindness and all that you’ve done. And now, the Lord bless you. And here’s the next thing I want to say is this: that don’t wait for a healing campaign in your city, to be healed. Your pastor or your neighbor that’s a Christian, has just as much legal rights from God to p...
A Greater Witness, 1953-11-15, Owensboro, KY, §17 Read more →

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What gives a devil a legal right to stay on a person no matter how hard people pray?

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In a few minutes, here they come back up the steps, tears streaming down their cheeks…Ah-ha, Satan lost his hold then. See? Now, there’s where it’s at. See? Now, that settled it. But as long as that sin was under there, no matter how loud you scream, how hard you stomp, how much oil you pour on, how...
How the Angel Came to Me, 1953-11-09, Owensboro, KY, §47 Read more →

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If Jesus healed people when He died nineteen hundred years ago, what is left for a sick person to do now?

Answer

And if you believe what I’m telling you to be the truth, and God is confirming it to be the truth, both scientifically and spiritually, believe this, that I’m telling you the truth: that Jesus healed every one of you nineteen hundred years ago when He died for you; and the only thing you have to do...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1953-11-07, Owensboro, KY, §47 Read more →

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Can unconfessed sin keep a person from being healed?

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Now, if there’s something hanging over you, sin, and you don’t confess that, you could anoint that person, pray for them, do everything you want to do, it’ll…Satan will stay right there as long as you got unconfessed sin in your life. Or sometimes something that you haven’t done, something you negle...
Do You Now Believe?, 1953-11-06, Owensboro, KY, §9 Read more →

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Does medicine heal the body?

Answer

By His stripes, we were: were is past tense, is that right, brethren? We were healed. When? Nineteen hundred years ago. Every sinner in the world was forgiven of every sin they ever did, nineteen hundred years ago. Is that right? He’s—He’s the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, is tha...
Taking God at His Word, 1953-11-03, Owensboro, KY, §8 Read more →

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Why does Brother Branham say he cannot heal anyone?

Answer

How many has been in the building—how many has been in my meetings before and seen such things happen? See? That’s right. See? Be careful. Now, but I must be just at my best to pray for the sick. Now, does everybody understand? I am not a healer. I cannot heal. I—I can’t do what Jesus has all…If I c...
The Living Jesus Christ, 1953-09-06, Chicago, IL, §35 Read more →

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Can a sickness come back on someone after they have been healed?

Answer

Now, the thing it is, is a…is to get the difference between what is the Spirit of God, and what is the spirit of the devil. And then by the atonement in Calvary, that devil is cast out. And I’ll assure you, if the believer will come and believe, right here presently no matter what’s wrong with it, i...
The Living Jesus Christ, 1953-09-06, Chicago, IL, §39 Read more →

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Why are some people unable to get healed when they come to be prayed for?

Answer

Usually it’s in a line of discernment. I never try to cast out a spirit, unless first I realize what I’m doing, ’cause that’s a dangerous thing. Did you know that? Very dangerous unless you understand what you’re doing. If you’ll notice on the platform after the anointing comes, you never hear me ch...
Faith without Works Is Dead, 1953-09-05, Chicago, IL, §9 Read more →

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What is the difference between a doctor cutting out a cancer and divine healing?

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Now, the—the cancer come into this sore place or this bruised place, and he took a body, and he begins to suck on your blood: one purpose: take your life. The doctor can cut it out. If there’s one speck of it left, it’ll start right there growing again. See? Now, the thing happens in the way of…If t...
Healing (What Cancer Is), 1953-09-04, Chicago, IL, §19 Read more →

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Why does a person feel good for a few days after being prayed for and then get real sick?

Answer

Now, believers, here’s what’s the matter with you. You’re afraid to take the initiative. You’re afraid to stand and claim your God given privilege. See? And the devil actually leaves, and when he goes out, then you feel better for a few days, and then after while, you say, “I’m getting sick.” About...
Healing (What Cancer Is), 1953-09-04, Chicago, IL, §24 Read more →

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Can a person lose their healing?

Answer

In plain words where the simplest child would understand, and the only way I know to put it, it’ll rot. And it’s laying right in there rottening in your body. And when it does, your heart stream, your bloodstream is being purified by your heart, and it picks up that and causes sickness and headaches...
Healing (What Cancer Is), 1953-09-04, Chicago, IL, §26 Read more →

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What does it mean when someone is prayed for and does not get healed?

Answer

Now, if you’d go in the morning and turn on your electric iron, some of you women, to start to iron. And the first thing you know, well, the iron doesn’t come on. Well, you’ll not go around and say, “There is no such a thing as electricity.” Huh-uh. I don’t…No, you wouldn’t do that. There’s just som...
Expectancy, 1953-09-03, Chicago, IL, §15 Read more →

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What part do doctors and medicine have in healing?

Answer

Then if medicine is the healer, it doesn’t need life. But medicine doesn’t build tissues. Medicine only keeps you clean while God builds tissues. See? God is the only One. Medicine…Now, I have nothing against doctors and their work. That’s—that’s God’s mercy sent to us. But they can’t heal. They don...
Expectancy, 1953-09-03, Chicago, IL, §31 Read more →

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

Answer

Now, look at Saint John 5:19. Saint John 5, Jesus passed through the pool of Bethesda, where all those crippled, and twisted, and withered people were laying. He passed by every one of them, full of love and compassion for them, yet passed right by them healed a man laying on a pallet, had a retarde...
Expectancy, 1953-09-03, Chicago, IL, §33 Read more →

Question

Why would a person feel sicker after being prayed for a growth?

Answer

And if you don’t know those things you’ll sure can’t…You don’t understand Divine healing, well you—there’s no need of trying it, because it’s just a try anyhow. See? If you’re trying it like that… But if you know what’s going to happen, then your faith is centered. Then you’ve got to sick before you...
Testimony, 1953-09-02, Chicago, IL, §45 Read more →

Question

What did the man born blind do to receive his sight?

Answer

What a marvelous occasion. A man born blind, Jesus opened his eyes. And then the people didn’t believe, it and they was questioning him, what he did about it. He only did what Jesus told him to do. And if any person will do what Jesus tells them to do, he will receive just what you have need of, if...
Lord, I Believe, 1953-09-01, Chicago, IL, §4 Read more →

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Should someone who does not believe with all their heart come into the prayer line?

Answer

Because the Bible said, “Go ye and sin no more, or a worse thing come upon you.” And what is sin? Unbelief. When God has made Hisself manifested to you, like that. And you go away, “Well, I don’t know. He might’ve guessed that. It might…” Brother, it’s not guessing. See? No. And you go away like tha...
Lord, I Believe, 1953-09-01, Chicago, IL, §31 Read more →

Question

Should someone who came to be healed rejoice even if God says nothing to them?

Answer

And that’s the way God wants you to say, “Why, thank You, Father. I come up here to be healed, and it’s all explained to me. And You’ve proven it to me now. So I’m ready to go away from here rejoicing. Praise the Lord.” And go away just rejoicing and made well. That’s the way to do it. No matter if...
Lord, I Believe, 1953-09-01, Chicago, IL, §36 Read more →

Question

What does the brass serpent in the wilderness have to do with healing through Jesus Christ?

Answer

Let’s read a little farther. Don’t bow down to them. Don’t serve them. Destroy their images. You shall serve the Lord your God. And He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness out of the midst of thee. (Hallelujah.) God said that. If God said that in the type of the journey, how...
God Talked to Moses, 1953-08-31, Chicago, IL, §49 Read more →

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