How to Heal the Sick   Adapted from the  book by Sangat S. Bains MANIFEST GOD’S POWER NOW Session 3   V. How to Heal the Sick A. Principles of How to Heal the Sick  The following are important points to note with regard to healing.  1. You speak or proclaim to those who need healing that they can be healed right  now.  This is the first point and it is very important. We have seen that all of the manifestations of Holy Spirit are based on the same keys as needed to evidence speaking in tongues.  Then this next point of proclaiming the immediate availability of healing, indeed comes first in bringing deliverance to those who need healing. Those who need healing must desire strongly and believe to be healed. As people hear that healing is immediately available, their believing or faith will increase. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.  Romans 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  That particular Word of God, the Word of promise, the specific Word from the Spirit of God that you speak forth enters into the heart of the one who needs healing, and brings faith and confidence that he or she can be healed.  Therefore Jesus Christ preached the good news of deliverance first before healing  people.  Matthew 4:23  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the  gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of  diseases among the people.  Teaching and preaching of the good news preceded healing.  Matthew 9:35  And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every  disease among the people.    The preaching of the good news and what is available from God preceded healing  deliverance, because Jesus Christ could heal if they had faith to receive healing. In other words, he could not have healed and delivered people had they not believed to be healed.  You could minister healing all day to a person without faith or with little faith, but you will not be able to impart the gift of healing to him.  Mathew 13:58  And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.  Mark 6:5  And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few  sick folk, and healed them. Of course, we should not use this as an excuse and therefore not heal people. Do not worry about this; there are plenty of people who want to believe and be healed who have not yet heard the Word that brings faith to their hearts. Therefore, we speak/proclaim to people that deliverance is sure and it is available right now.  You have to proclaim the information regarding deliverance from sicknesses and  diseases. And when you proclaim this, you must speak it with confidence and boldness so that the hearer can also become confident that they can receive healing.  Tell them of your and others’ testimonies of deliverance. Confidently and boldly tell them God’s testimonies of deliverance from the Word of God. If we are unsure of the deliverance then the hearer will also be unsure. God is the guarantor of deliverance. We speak what He says and do not worry that God may fail to bring to pass His promise because since the world began, He has never failed to bring to pass His promises.  Acts 8:5  Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.  Philip must have spoken what was available in Christ first.  People will decide whether or not to receive healing after they have heard that healing deliverance is available. If they decide to receive healing and come to you, then you heal them. God’s Word says Philip did the miracles.  Acts 8:6 & 7  And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake,  hearing and seeing the miracles, which he did.  7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.  Speak to those who need the healing that healing is absolutely available for them. By speaking this truth to them, you will build up their confidence to receive healing deliverance and when they come to you, you heal them.  Therefore, proclaiming and speaking the good news regarding healing deliverance is the first and the most important step.    2. The recipient of healing must strongly desire and believe to receive healing, thus  they come to the healer to be healed. You do not go to a person to minister healing  just because you are aware of his need for healing. – LOOK AT THEIR FAITH!  The second important point you need to see from the Word of God regarding ministering healing is that the recipient of healing must desire strongly and believe to receive healing. People will come to you for healing after they have heard the good news regarding the availability of immediate healing. Then when they come to you for healing, you must look at their faith level.  You can become aware of their level of faith by listening to what they say. It is essential to speak with the one who desires healing. Listen to what they are saying as it will reveal to you what they believe. Revelation comes when you cannot receive the necessary information by your five senses. God expects you to know something that you can first receive by your five senses.  When the person desiring healing speaks the language of faith, that is, “I know I shall be healed,” “I know you can heal me,” etc., then begin healing him and he shall receive healing. If he speaks with doubt or he is not confident about receiving healing, then you work with his faith. God works in you and shows you how to get the level of his faith up so that you can impart healing to him.  God’s Word shows that when those in need of healing desired and believed to be healed (after knowing that it was available), they went to the healer to get the healing. Another thing we notice from the Word of God is that the healer (with some exceptions that will be shown later) never went to the homes of the sick to heal them just because he heard or came to know that a sick person lived there.  Many records of healing in the Word of God show us that those who needed healing desired strongly for healing, then came to the one who was able to heal and cried or beseeched the healer to heal them because they believed that they could be healed.  The following are some of the scripture references that teach this principle.  Matthew  8:2, 5-6, 16; 9:2, 18, 20-21, 27-28, 32 12:22  14:35-36, 15:22, 29-30; 17:14-21;19:1-2  20:30-34; 21:14  Mark  1:40; 5:23; 6:54-56; 7:24-35; 8:22; 9:17-29  10:47, 51  Luke  4:38-39, 40-41; 5:12-14, 17-26; 6:17-19  7:3; 8:41-44; 9:11, 38-43; 11:13-16  17:12-13; 18:38  Acts  3:1-8; 4:22; 5:15-16; 9:38    Therefore, this is a very important point when we minister healing to people. Heal those who respond to the Word and desire, expect, believe and come to be healed.  You will notice as you study the above-mentioned verses that Jesus almost never went to minister healing in someone’s home just because he heard that a person in that house was sick. The few cases where Jesus went to heal someone without them asking happened because he knew by revelation that they had faith to be healed. (John 5:2~15; 9:1~7)  The truth God shows us in the Word of God about those who received healing always has this pattern.  Summary of principles   1. You speak or proclaim to those who need healing that they can be healed right now; that healing is absolutely available for them. 2. Teaching and preaching of the good news preceded healing.  3. You could minister healing all day to a person without faith or with little faith, but you will not be able to impart the gift of healing to him.  4. The recipient of healing must desire strongly and believe to receive healing  You do not go to a person to minister healing just because you are aware of his need for healing. – LOOK AT THEIR FAITH!  5. Heal those who respond to the Word and desire, expect, believe and come to be healed.