Topic: Divine healing

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Who has the right to pray for the sick?

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Now, I know there’s people goes through the country, and says they’re the only one that has the right to pray for the sick, and so forth. Now, that is an error. Any Christian has the right to pray for the sick. The Bible said, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other.” Everybo...

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Why might someone healed of cancer feel worse about three days later?

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Someone wrote me a letter today, a woman that was healed with cancer. She said, “For the first two or three days, I was gloriously, I felt wonderful. Then on the third day,” said, “I had an awful upset. Have I lost my healing?” Now, that should be explained in every m—every case each night. No, that...

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Why did Jesus pass by crippled people without healing them?

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Jesus passed by the cripples and left them lay there. He said, “I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first.” Is that right? Saint John 5:19. “Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing.” See? It has to be showed first. Balaam, when he tried to c...

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What part does a person's confession play in being healed?

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And when the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is here to inspire you, remember, God will make your body come into your confession. If you say you’re a drunkard, and want a drink. Don’t worry, you’ll soon be one. If you say you’re a sinner, and want to sin, you’ll be right into it. If you say you’re a...

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Did Brother Branham ever claim to be a divine healer?

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So…?…I said, “Well, I…The only thing that I can do,” I said, “I’ve spoke, I guess, three or four million people, direct or indirect. I have never, at any time, ever claimed to be a Divine healer.” I said, “Never. I can heal no one. But,” I said, “the things that I say, if they are of God, then God w...

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Can Brother Branham heal anyone?

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Tonight, I’d promised that we could go right straight to the prayer line. We’ve got a…?…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] the reason that I read this just now. I was questioned just a little bit before coming here tonight by someone. Said, “Brother Branham, why don’t you heal all those people?” And I believe...

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Why did Jesus heal only one man out of a great multitude of sick people?

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But notice. When Jesus passed by there, He saw that great multitude. Doesn’t it seem like for Him, with all the powers of God in Him…I believe that He could’ve healed every person there. Don’t you believe that tonight? I believe He could’ve done it. But do you believe He was a true prophet sent from...

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Does a person receive what they come to a meeting expecting?

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Just a few words upon “Expectations.” Now, I want you to give me just very close attention, if you will. This is a little difficult. Standing here, already there’s an anointing. And then trying to come over to speak on the Word, it’s—it’s a hard thing…?…now. Expectations, usually, every one…Can you...

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What happens when a sick person keeps testifying that they still have their sickness?

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What if someone came up in the morning to your door, express agent, and throwed a whole basketful of rattlesnakes, and had your name on them. Said, “Here they are; they’re yours.” You know they’re there, just like you know your symptoms is there. If you receive them, they’re yours. But you don’t hav...

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Whose faith does healing come through?

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Now, healing can only come through faith, faith, not in my faith, but in your faith, the individual faith. I might have faith in Jesus to be saved. There’s been a many does not have faith to be saved. You cannot be saved until we have faith. I have faith in healing. Maybe you do not have faith in he...

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Could Brother Branham empty a hospital by telling all the sick to rise and follow him?

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But the minister said to me, said, “Brother Branham, if you…If God has met you and give you that to pray for the sick,” said, “you could go out here to the hospital, and say, ‘All you sick people, rise up, follow me out.’ And if you’re truly a man sent from God,” said, “every one of them would have...

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Does a sick person have to wait for a Divine healing service to come to town?

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Divine healing’s in reach of every person, and every person that is a Christian has a right to pray for the sick. That’s right. If there’s any among you sick, call the elders. That’s the deacons in your church. See? And then he said confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other…That...

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Did Christ atone for sickness when He died for our sins?

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Now, here’s what happens. Sin is what brought sickness in the world. Sickness is a result of sin. Now, before we had any sickness, we had no sin. And when sin came, sickness was a results of sin. So Jesus came to rid us of sin, and to rid…There’s not a Gospel preacher in the world but what would bel...

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Does a sick person have to come up to the platform to be healed?

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Somehow I just, somehow, I believe that there’s great things going to happen, don’t you? Look, Moses performed his signs one time before the children of Israel and every one of them believed him. Is that right? He didn’t have to put his hand in the second time to make his sign. He didn’t have to tur...

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Do the two signs Brother Branham was given heal the sick?

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Listen at the order of it; ministers, especially. Now, here it is, now listen close. “If you get the people to believe you,” He said, “Be sincere when you pray, nothing will stand before your prayer.” I said, “They won’t believe me. I’m uneducated, I can’t speak right, and I have a poor family and s...

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Why do some people healed on the platform lose their healing afterward?

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I’ve seen people come to the platform that was totally blind, couldn’t even see their hands before them. And in less than five minutes, take this same Bible and read a chapter out of it. And so three or four days more, come right back just as blind as they was in the first place. They get out amongs...

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Do you have to be a Christian to be healed?

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Jesus is not going to ask me if I was Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, or Pentecost; He’s going to judge me to what I was in my heart. That’s right. And that’s what He will judge us all by. So now, don’t think it’s just one church. We represent all the churches. And many of the people that come into th...

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How long does a Divine healing last?

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Somebody says, “How does Divine healing…Is it…Does it last all the time?” It lasts just as long as faith lasts. And salvation lasts the same way, just as long as faith lasts. When you feel that you’re not saved any more, you’re not saved. For it’s by faith are you saved through grace. Is that right?...

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Does it take a gift of healing to heal the sick?

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Just for a little text, if I should call it that, I want to speak for a moment or two on the word of “Expectation.” We always get what we expect. When people expect anything, well then they usually get what you look for. It’s the mental attitude that you have. Remember this, and never forget it. The...

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How does expectation affect what a person receives from God?

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Daniel was expecting God to deliver him from the lions’ den. The Hebrew children, when they went in the fiery furnace, they said, “Our God is able…” They was expecting God to deliver them. And they made the last step of the way before He came, but He’s always there at the last end. Jesus comes in th...