Topic: Divine healing

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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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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...

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Are a person's sins forgiven when they are healed?

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Many of them understood Him. The common people heard Him gladly. And it’s a great deal that way today. But I’ve noticed the peoples; all denominations almost attend the meetings. We even have the Orthodox, the Jews, Greek, Catholic, and all types. But God never respects any different denomination; H...

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According to James 5:14, whose duty is it to pray for the sick?

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“Go ye and sin no more, or a worse thing come upon you.” Jesus said, “Which is it easier do? Say thy sins be forgiven thee, or take up thy bed and walk”? It’s all on the same. And so I believe in James 5:14, said, “If any among you are sick, let them call the elders of the church; let them anoint th...

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Does receiving healing depend on what you feel?

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There’s a fountain open, flowing freely everywhere. Just drink till you just can’t drink no more. The tree, if it just drink to what it was allotment, why, it would just always, still in the drought. That’s what’s the matter with the Christians. They don’t drink enough. You want to drink till you ju...

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Does the gift of healing itself heal anyone?

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If I tell you anything, and Christ doesn’t say that’s so, then don’t you believe it. But if I tell you something that He’s done and He testifies behind, that He has done that, then you believe Him. Is that fair enough? That’s… Now, the gift doesn’t heal no one. The gift is not for healing, no more t...

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When a pastor prays for the sick, does healing depend on his prayer or on the sick person's faith?

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When your pastor prays for you, say, “Well, he must not be a man of God, or God would’ve heard his prayer.” What about your faith? It’s your faith that touches God, not altogether his prayer. You’re obeying God’s Word. And when you obey God’s Word, God’s under obligation to answer you, if you believ...

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How is divine healing related to the immortal body in the resurrection?

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Well, isn’t He the same God tonight? Is them miracles impossible tonight? No, they’re not. And they’re just as possible as they was then. If God would deliver His people out of the bondage back there, from under the Egyptians, so can He deliver the people from under the bondage of sickness; because...

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Does praying for the sick take the place of medical doctors?

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Now, in these meetings I do not wish to—that anyone would miss—be misinformed. I do not take—try to take the place of a medical doctor. This is not Mayo Clinic. This is the house of prayer. When medical doctors, God put them here; they’re doing a good job. But medical doctors does not claim to heal...

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Is divine healing part of the atonement?

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Because, remember, if you’re here from different churches, no doubt, you are; some of them don’t even believe in Divine Presence…?…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] never be forgiven. And Christian friends and sinner friend also, lawyers, doctors, whoever you are, I wish to say this also, that there has been...

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Is there Scripture for a healing being foreseen before it happens?

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Now, I haven’t…Now, to you who say, “Is that Scriptural?” All right, Saint John the 5th chapter: Jesus the Son of God passed by the pool of Bethesda, where great multitudes of people were laying afflicted, halt, lame, blind. You remember the story? And there was one man had an infirmity, not cripple...