Topic: Divine healing

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Does God heal people on the merits of their salvation or on the merits of their faith?

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That night in the—in the service, it was a marvelous great service. Now, those Laplanders and things coming in, being healed, hundreds after hundreds of them…Never even get to the prayer line, if they could even gain the…They’d get into the auditorium; they’d stand way back there, and you’d see crut...

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Does the Angel of God heal people?

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And now, friends, do you believe me? Then listen to what I’m telling you. Jesus Christ the Son of God healed every one of you at Calvary. And I, or no other man, can do anything about it, no more than point you to Jesus Christ, the Sacrifice of God, Who was wounded for your transgressions, bruised f...

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Why did Jesus heal a man with a thirty-eight-year infirmity but not the withered and afflicted?

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Instead of that, going to a man that was just sick, and had lived an ordinary life with an infirmity for thirty-eight years. That looks strange, doesn’t it? You couldn’t hardly understand that. Now, I want you to remember that word, “couldn’t understand it…” if the Scriptures didn’t declare it later...

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Does a person need a prayer card to be healed?

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And if you couldn’t get up for past ten or fifteen, they say, “I don’t want it. I won’t be called anyhow.” See? ’Cause that’s about all I could get to in one night. Maybe sometimes not over one or two. And people misunderstand it. And letters flow in. “We don’t get prayed for.” Our Master went into...

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When a person is healed by Divine healing, who has the gift of healing?

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Now, it’s the prayer, your prayer, your prayer. Now, remember, if you’re going to be healed, don’t think that somebody that’s got a gift of Divine healing heals you. If you’re going to be healed by Divine healing, you are the one that’s got the gift of healing. It’s your faith in Christ, not this pe...

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How is Divine healing related to the resurrection of the body?

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And if there is no Divine healing now, there is no resurrection of the body. Divine healing is the earnest of our redeemed body. Did you ever think of that? If there’s no Divine healing, then when you go at the grave, that’s all of it. You’ll be there forever, and your dust will go away, and there’l...

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Can 'saved' in the Bible mean physically healed?

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Now, the same word in the Bible, translated, s-a-v-e-d, and healed, is the very same word all the way through the Scriptures. Anyone knows that. Now, well, when you’re—you’re saved, spiritually, or you’re saved physically…now, He said to the woman, “Thy faith has saved thee,” physically, saved you....

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What do the redemptive names of Jehovah show about whether Jesus heals today?

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So he said…he wouldn’t do it. So the moderator asked, and so he said, “All right, Mr. Best answer me this.” He said, “Was the compound names of Jehovah, Jehovah’s redemptive, compound names, were they applied to Jesus, yes, or no?” Well, that like to shook me off of the seat up there. Well, Mr. Best...

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Does preaching Divine healing make a man a Divine healer?

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And Brother Bosworth said, “Brother Best, I—I certainly apologize,” said that—that, “Brother Branham is no Divine healer, and never said he was.” He said, “Would you…” said, “Do you believe in salvation?” “Yes, sir.” He said, “Would you want to be called a Divine Saviour?” Said, “If preaching Divine...

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If Jesus atoned for sin, did He also atone for sickness?

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Now, just for a word now, when Jesus Christ…He came to rid sin. You believe that, don’t you. All right. Now, sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we had any sin, we had no sickness. Sin came and sickness followed sin as an attribute of sin. We all know that. Any sickness is… May not your sins. It...

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Does what a person expects affect whether they are healed?

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And how many in here tonight is expecting to be healed tonight, let’s see your hands? Well, you’re not going to be disappointed then. If you…You just can’t be disappointed if you’re expecting it. If you’re not expecting it, you say, “Well, I’ll wait maybe tomorrow afternoon; I’ll get it tomorrow aft...

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Who has the right to pray for the sick?

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All right, I don’t know what to do. I’m asking my minister brothers, just stay here where you’re at. I want you to help me tonight. Will you do it? These men are ordained of God; they publicly come out here before the city, like this, to show theirself, that they believe in Divine healing in Jesus C...

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Did Jesus claim to be a Divine healer?

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Now, for the…a few nights, we have been trying to have meetings where we just call the people up and pray for them, like the other brethren do. That is not exactly the—the—the gift that God gave me to do. He wanted me to pray for them. But these signs and wonders was to be committed to the people, t...

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What is the 'virtue' that went out of Jesus when the woman touched His garment?

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Jesus, a woman touched His garment. Those people have faith who come here. And she touched His garment, and He said, “I perceive that virtue…” Well, what is virtue? Virtue is your strength. Is that right? Strength went from Him. Once I didn’t know what it was. Someone was trying to tell me. I said,...

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Can anyone have healing power in their hands?

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Healing: There’s no one in the world…Now, get this real close. There is no one in the world that could do one thing for you towards Divine healing, only to get you to believe in what Jesus has already done. See? People say, “I have healing power in my hands. Lay…” That’s wrong. There’s no such a thi...

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What did the brass serpent in the wilderness represent?

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Now, closely, I want you to notice this. God shouldn’t have to have this, but He’s always had to have it, seemingly, some object that people could look to, some object like the brass serpent. Now, they should not have had that, they should’ve believed God. But for a memorial, that there’d been an at...

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Is it wrong for a Christian to take medicine or see a doctor?

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Now, keep your heart towards God. Now, God used remedies Himself. Isaiah went and got some poultice that was made out of figs and put them on Hezekiah to heal him of his boils. And many things was dipped in water. And Jesus put some mud on a man’s eyes, mud, the very thing that medicine and things c...

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Does it matter who prays for you or lays hands on you for healing?

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You notice in the night I’ll have you stand up and put your hands on one another, and if the person gets healed, then the person say, “Well, Sister So-and-so had her hands laying on me.” See? Or, “Brother So-and-so had his hands laying on me.” Many times a Christian has his hands laying on a sinner....

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If I feel no better after being prayed for, does that mean I am not healed?

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Daniel, when they told him they was going to throw him into the lions’ den, he was expecting God to be there. He believed that he lived right before God and he had a right. And every day he raised the shades, if there was any in them days, towards the temple and looked towards that holy temple and p...

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What were the 'lying vanities' Jonah spoke of in the belly of the whale?

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There he is now, backslid, stormy sea, hands tied behind him, belly of a whale. Every time that fish eats it goes to the bottom of the sea and or the…A goldfish, when you feed him, he’ll go down and throw his little swimmers out and rest at the bottom of the water, the bowl. He’s found his prey and...