Topic: Divine healing

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Can someone who has been healed lose their healing?

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They last as long as faith lasts. But when faith fails, then your healing will fail. Would you say every person came to the altar and got converted would be a Christian all their days? He could be tonight a child of God, and tomorrow be a child of the devil. It’s when he loses faith in God, what sen...

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Should medical science and ministers work together?

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But some woman here not long ago trusted God out in California for her baby that died, and every newspaper and magazine packed it across the country. And the same time where one didn’t have faith enough for deliverance, everybody criticized that, all the magazines and papers, and God healed thousand...

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Does having a gift of healing make a person a Divine healer?

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And now, many people on account of the—the newspapers and so forth, I’ve noticed that here, call me a Divine healer. Why, Christian friends, you know that’s wrong. I’m no Divine healer; I’m your brother. Now, there’s only One Healer, and that’s God. He’s the only One that heals. A gift of healing do...

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness foreshadow?

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Jesus said, “I can, if you believe.” Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won’t believe on...

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Was it the water that healed people at the pool of Bethesda?

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Later on after the days of the serpent, God sent a Angel down from heaven and troubled the water on a pool called Bethesda, and ever who stepped in that water first, having faith, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Into the waters… Now, the brass serpent done no heal...

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Why were the sick healed when handkerchiefs from Paul's body were laid on them?

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Another one, they taken handkerchiefs from his body and aprons, and laid upon the sick people, and evil spirits went out of people. Not because it was Saint Paul; he was a man who lived in flesh like you and I. And he died. He had to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ just like we do. It wasn’t the...

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How did shepherds use honey and a limestone rock to help sick sheep?

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I think of David of old. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. When he said there is…Where he talked about…He said, “Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock.” A little old description I used to use, thinking about an old scrip they used to carry on their side here, a little sack that they p...

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When were we healed by Jesus Christ's stripes?

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Now, remember. Remember me now and believe this. Every person in here was healed when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. His stripes healed you nineteen hundred years ago. And the only thing that I, or any other minister could do, would be point you to that.

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Why did Jesus heal only one man at the pool of Bethesda?

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In Saint John the 5th chapter, perhaps you’re acquainted with it, the Scripture, Jesus passed through this famous pool of Bethesda. He find many crippled people there, blind, halt, lame, waiting for the moving of the water. It was strange that He just ministered to one, but if you’ll notice, He knew...

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Brother Branham, I love the Lord, but for the past year I have been—I have been faced with a problem. Seems sometimes I’ve almost been out of my mind. What is it? Please pray for me and my husband.

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Well, if there is no…If this person was on private interview, like you people been in there this morning, it would pull that out what it is, whatever it is. See? The Lord would reveal what it is. But now, that I don’t know who you are, and you’re not setting here; it just said, “A sister in Christ.”...

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Will you explain about Christian—Christian Science?

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All right. I…Here’s…I won’t speak about your religion, my brother or sister, whoever put the question. Christian Science is psychology. (And Divine healing is the power of God!) Christian Science has mind over matter; Christian Science denies the Blood of Jesus Christ. Christian Science…Oh, I got Mr...

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If a doctor sets a broken bone, who heals it?

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Now, if the doctor can feel something that he can cut out, something that some of these five senses will contact, well, then he can…We got some pretty smart doctors today and some fine hospitals and fine drugs. And we’re very thankful to Almighty God that we have them. I’m grateful. And they do all...

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If a pastor does not believe in praying for the sick, who else can pray for you?

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If your pastor don’t believe in praying for the sick, go to some real good Christian who does believe. And they have just as much authority as the pastor. “Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, that you may be healed (James 5.), for the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous...

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Why did Jesus walk past a crowd of sick people and heal only the man who had been afflicted thirty-eight years?

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The woman with the water-head baby, the twisted, the blind, the lame, the halt, and He went right through every one of them and never said one thing to any of them, went over there to a man laying on a pallet that had prostate trouble, or something like that, or…?…He’d had it thirty-eight years; it...

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Did Jesus claim to be a healer?

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Now, if anyone knows (See?), anyone here at all knows that I…So if there be a stranger for your first night. I do not say that I am a Divine healer, friend. I’m a minister of the Gospel. See? I’m your brother. Just like any other minister only I’m not talented enough to maybe to get a Doctor’s degre...

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What can a born-again person do about a sickness that Satan has put on him?

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Well, anything that Satan’s put upon you in the way of sickness, or whatever it is, you, every borned again person, has an abstract warrant—has a warrant from God. And the Holy Spirit is here to put any devil out. No matter if he is cancer, tumor, cataract, whatever he is, the Holy Spirit will put h...

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Was the commission to heal the sick and cast out devils given only to the apostles?

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Maybe there would be someone who wouldn’t believe in Divine healing. I wonder what you’d think of this: the first commission that Jesus gave the Church was to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out devils, freely as you receive, freely give. The first commission was ever give to...

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Why did the woman who touched the hem of Jesus garment feel virtue when the soldier who struck Him did not?

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When you come be-…friend, let me say this to you: it’s your mental attitude, the way you approach anything. The woman that touched the hem of the Master, she felt virtue. But the soldier who put a rag around His head, and hit Him on the head, said, “If you’re a prophet, tell me who hit you, and I’ll...

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Is a serious disease harder for God to heal than a minor one?

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You know that there is such a thing as Divine healing, don’t you? And you know that there is no hard case with God. Why, God heal leprosy same as He would a toothache. See? It’s all under the Atonement. But when…You look, in reading articles, this person was setting paralyzed; healed. Here’s another...

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What did shepherds do with honey and a limestone rock when one of their sheep got sick?

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Taste like honey in the rock. You think that’s silly, but that’s the God’s truth out of His Bible. That’s right. Tastes like honey in the rock. David being a shepherd, he had a experience. You know, the old shepherd’s they used to carry a scrip bag on their side. And every time they’d carry it in th...