A physician is any person or thing that heals, relieves or comforts. We can freely declare that Jesus our Great Physician heals all manner of sicknesses and diseases. Matthew 8:17, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Isaiah 53:5, And with his stripes we are healed. Promises of healing come from the Old and New Testaments. We need it all, the whole Word of God. Jesus relieves us of anxiety, depression, oppression, trouble of the mind, spirit and body. A comfort to us in time of trouble, He is our loving, tender physician. Behold Him; behold the Great Physician! Examine Him; the Lord wants you to examine His Son. Measure Him; weigh Him. Do you know Him? Is He really the Son of God? Was He really born of the Virgin Mary? Where did He come from? Is He rich or poor? Is He trustworthy, dependable? Does He keep His promises? What does God say about Him? What is His record of providing for the human race? Examine Him closely.

Attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh (Proverbs 4:20-22). The Bible is talking about the Word of God, telling you what kind of ears to have, what kind of eyes. Be attentive to what the Word is saying; hear the voice of the Word—God’s voice—speaking to mankind. Listen to it. Read the Word with a steadfast look; don’t let the Word depart from your eyes.

Look to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith; look to the Great Physician. By enshrining all that He says in your heart, you find life and health. His words are life to those who find them. Not just part of you receives the benefits of His Word, but all of you. Jesus doesn’t specialize in healing only one thing; He heals all manner of sicknesses and diseases.

Although God heals all manner of disease, He does not heal all manner of people because He cannot work with the doubt, unbelief and disobedience that many display. The Lord has rules and regulations. He works with love, His love; faith, His faith, and He offers this faith and love to us.

The words of Christ are Spirit and life—Spirit for the soul and life for the body. The Bible teaches that Jesus is life for the physical person. Jesus said, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). No matter how rich a person is in material things, if that one is sick all the time, he is not really living. Through sickness, many have come to the place they would rather die than to go on living in that condition. The enjoyment of life has been far removed from them. Paul said of the power of Christ: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily (Colossians 1:29). If the power of the Lord worked mightily in Paul, it can work mightily in you. In the Bride that power will work mightly in this final hour as she evangelizes the world.

By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin (Romans 5:12). Sickness comes from sin, and that sin entered the world through one man, Adam. Sickness is no more of God than sin is. Death came because of sin, and death comes most of the time through sickness.

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). This verse tells us that the devil is the one who oppresses; Jesus is the one who heals. If you think you are being oppressed by God, you are wrong. Joy, laughter, gladness of heart and deliverance come from God. Jesus brought liberty from oppression, a great year of Jubilee that has lasted throughout the entire Church Age. Every fiftieth year Israel celebrated the year of Jubilee, but we have Jubilee all the time. Through the blood of Jesus we have the opportunity to live free from sin when we are born again and to stay free as long as we commit no willful sin. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). When you are free, there is no sin in you.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4). We are made partakers of His divinity, of His divine blood. Only through the blood of Jesus can you be saved or healed.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning (I John 3:8). Jesus said you cannot serve two masters; you will either serve God or the devil.

James wrote, Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed (James 5:16). This verse shows that it is the will of God for people to be healed. When James speaks of faults, he is not speaking of ugly sins. What are faults? Such things as finding it difficult to believe God or not following in His steps the way you should, not reading the Word enough, being impatient or inconsiderate. When you confess these types of things, it leads others to examine themselves also. Confessing faults does not mean confessing the contents of gossip and then feeling justified. That would be an underhanded way of passing on gossip. Some people “confess gossip” one to another and then wonder why they don’t get healed.

The earnest of our inheritance is the life of Jesus made manifest in our mortal flesh (II Corinthians 4:11). Part of our inheritance is physical healing. Jesus asked, Wilt thou be made whole (John 5:6)?

The first step to take toward being healed is deciding that healing for you is God’s will. Does God get glory out of your sickness and pain? The Lord got glory out of my life when the hallelujahs began to flow after I was healed. Thank God, I’m healed! The Lord did it! Praise the Lord!

If God is getting glory out of your sickness, then stay sick; but if you believe He gets glory out of your being well, then get well. Tell Him you want to glorify His name, and He will listen.

I cannot stress too much that it is the will of the Lord for you to be well. The Lord, remember, doesn’t make you sick: Sickness comes from the devil. Jesus is the one who makes you well. The Great Physician heals. Never think that sickness comes from the Lord. When you disobey God, you put yourself in the devil’s territory where he can afflict you, but the Bible tells us that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17). Sickness certainly is neither a good nor a perfect gift. The devil is the one who afflicts.

Eating the Passover lamb brought the Israelites physical life; when they left Egypt there was not one feeble person among their tribes (Psalm 105:37). Not a feeble one was among them, much less a sick one. All were made whole and strong. That Passover lamb is a type and shadow of the Lamb of God slain for our healing as well as for our salvation. Wouldn’t it be wonderful for the Lord to heal the Bride completely and make every member of the bridal company healthy and well in this last hour to bring in the harvest! Don’t you think complete healing is possible according to the Word of God?

Seven hundred sixty-five years after the institution of the Passover in Egypt, the Israelites again were keeping the Passover, and the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people (II Chronicles 30:20). The type and shadow of Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross was still working in Hezekiah’s day, and today that type and shadow of Jesus is our reality. Are you accepting Him? Do you accept Him as your Passover Lamb, your redemptive Lamb? He didn’t only redeem you from sin, I say again, He redeemed you from sickness. Jesus was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8).

Almost every time we look in on Jesus in the four Gospels, He was either healing someone, going to heal someone or coming from healing someone. Healing is mentioned in the four Gospels more than any other doctrine, more even than salvation. Find out just what is in the Gospels; they are for you, Child of God. They belong to you. How strange that many preachers fail to teach physical healing!

By healing the sick again and again, Jesus demonstrated the value He placed on the body. No one knew more than Jesus that the soul is the most important part of us, but the body is important, too. The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (I Corinthians 6:19). If sickness comes from God, as some claim, then Jesus worked against God when He healed people, but we know He never worked against God. Jesus carried out the Father’s will in perfection, destroying sickness wherever He found people who believed in His power to heal them.

For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him (II Chronicles 16:9). How can the Lord show Himself strong? By delivering believers from all the powers of the enemy, from sickness as well as sin. Sin and sickness, remember, are works of the devil.

If your heart is perfect in His love, there is no reason why God would not want to heal you. If your heart is perfect in His love and faith, then you are willing to obey Him, to do whatever He wants. That obedience to Him puts you on healing ground.

Ask the Lord in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord (James 1:6,7). Many have not received healing because their faith wavered. The Lord gave them healing, but they doubted and lost it. Perhaps they had another pain, and they let the pain take the place of the promise of God. Don’t let anything replace God’s Word in your life. The Word is more powerful than anything on Earth. Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (Matthew 24:35). The Word of God will abide forever.

Because we know God’s eyes are running to and fro throughout the whole earth, we know He is present. We need His presence as a provider; we need His presence for peace. We need His presence as the Good Shepherd. We need His presence so we can have His righteousness, and we need His presence as our Physician, our doctor. We need God.

In my early twenties, I went to the edge of the grave. I was so very ill; it looked as though I would surely die. I couldn’t understand why God would call me to preach when I was eighteen and then let me die when I was twenty-three. I had been sick for a long time, on a strict diet for over a year. Watching my body go down to almost a skeleton, I felt as though all my faith were gone. Later I realized I felt that way because I had suffered so much and was living by feelings, not by faith.

Faith and feelings have nothing in common. Never measure your faith by your feelings. Measure your faith always with the Word of God. If you believe the Bible, you have all the faith you need. The Bible is your faith. You don’t need any more faith than you can find in the Word of God, and God doesn’t require you to use more. He put everything you need in the Bible, but you must use it.

Faith is a gift of God, freely given; there is no reason why you should have a shortage of it in your life. When you tie His hands with unbelief, the Lord cannot bring healing. When you doubt His promises, when you use your own opinions instead of His, God cannot move for you; you are not accepting what thus saith the Lord. Use the faith that God has given to you. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3).

What is faith? It’s simply expecting God to do what He said He would do. Faith to be healed is expecting nothing but getting well, expecting nothing but good health. Claim the promise of healing in the Word of God and be healed. This is the walk you walk with God.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III John 2). That’s a lot of prosperity! Since Jesus died on the Cross so our souls would prosper—could be healthy without one speck of sin—realize that He died for you to be healthy in body as well. Jesus doesn’t glory in your being sick. He came all the way from Heaven to make you well, soul, mind and body.

When Jesus asked people if they would be made whole, they were healed if they agreed with Him. When the Lord came to heal me, there were many things wrong in my body. Later He reminded me that when He came to heal me, He made me whole all over. Study how Jesus healed when He was here on Earth and know that He still heals today. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Not another Christ, He is the same Jesus. Many have presented a warped version of Christ, a version that can’t be found in the Bible at all. I have never found their Jesus in the Bible, but I find mine every time I look. He is always there is all His glorious power.

Ye are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). Of all the wonderful promises God made to the Israelites, the promises under grace are greater. Paul is reminding the people that they are under grace, not under the Law. They have all the promises of God available to them.

Once a year on the Day of Atonement, Israel had to stand outside the holy place. They couldn’t contact God directly; but the Bible tells us that when Jesus was crucified, the veil in the temple was torn in half from top to bottom, signifying that God had come down and there no longer was a wall between man and his God. Now it’s whosoever will, let him come. Anyone can step right into the presence of God. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).

Seven redemptive names are applied to Jehovah God.

1: The Lord is there, ever present. God had been in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, but sin entered mankind and caused a separation between man and his God that existed until Jesus came to Earth with His redemptive work. The revelation of the opportunity of enjoying His presence tells us that He is with us. We have been made nigh through His blood.

2: The Lord, our peace. This is redemptive knowledge: Jesus is our peace. He said, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you (John 14:27). Through His atoning blood, Jesus gave us His peace.

3: The Lord is my shepherd. Jesus is our shepherd. He gave His life to redeem the sheep. What great benefits we have through the atonement of Jesus! At different times, the Lord revealed these names to people, and now in Christ we have all seven. He brought them to us. When you say Jesus, you have all.

4: The Lord will provide. He provided Christ as an offering to redeem us from sin.

5: The Lord is our banner. In other words, He is our power, our strength, our deliverance, our victor, our captain. Thanks be unto God who giveth the victory! He gave it all to us through Jesus. We speak the name Jesus with all the knowledge, power and love of God, and we make hell shake. I speak the name Jesus and the blind receive their sight, the deaf hear and the crippled are made to walk. I speak the name Jesus and devils go out of those they possess.

6: The Lord, our righteousness. The Lord became our righteousness. He bore our sins on Calvary to give us His robe of righteousness. We couldn’t have worn that robe had Jesus not come. You can’t carry the name Jesus unless you are wearing that robe, living free from sin. When you come to the Lord, the first thing that happens is that He makes you brand-new, a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old way has passed away, and you are redeemed in the new and living way.

7: I am the Lord thy physician, or I am the Lord that healeth thee. God gave that promise to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. For I am the LORD that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26). Thank God for the redemptive works of Jesus!

And he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:16,17). Sin and sickness pass from us to Calvary. Don’t forget this: Sin and sickness pass from us to Calvary, and salvation and healing pass from Calvary to us. Aren’t you glad Jesus came! Knowing your sins are gone should give you faith to know your sicknesses will be gone, also.

The Lord promises in Exodus 23:25, I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. He will do this if ye shall serve the LORD your God. In Deuteronomy 7:15 we read that the LORD will take away from thee all sickness. This was the promise to the Israelite people, but they had to obey Him in everything. If they would, the Lord said He would put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee. But the Israelites didn’t obey, and through their disobedience they brought sickness upon themselves.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 91:10). The Lord is the one who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3). When you are born again, you are rid of your sins. The Lord has made provision for you to be rid of your sicknesses, too. Being sick is a miserable existence. I hated being sick, but how wonderful to know that Jesus is our sickness bearer as well as our sin bearer.

Can you really doubt that it is God’s will to heal? He proved that it was in Christ. Christ is the manifestation of God’s will. Everything that God manifested through Jesus Christ when He was here on Earth is God’s will. A legal will is no good until the person making out the will dies. Jesus died for us, rose again and left the New Testament as His will for us. We have inherited all the benefits of God’s will through Jesus. Christ was the manifestation, the expression of God’s will for us.

Expression means putting into words. The Lord put His will into words through Jesus, showing how much He loves you, how much He cares. He will do anything for you who serve Him. He is your healer, your deliverer, your everything. Christ is God’s wonderful picture of life, of deliverance, love, faith, care and understanding. What a picture He made of living life to its fullest according to the will of God!

Jesus brought the language of love, peace, joy, happiness, grace—Jesus, the expression of God’s language, the language for the new person. No wonder the Bible tells us to be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy (I Peter 1:15,16). God’s people never tell dirty jokes or use “shady” language. They don’t desire smut. Seeking to be holy like Jesus, they have adopted the Jesus language, a holy language, a language the Holy Spirit uses.

Do you use the language of Jesus or do you defile your mouth, your soul, your life with language vulgar, sinful, shady? Do you speak words that edify and bless? If you use the Jesus language, people are blessed, helped, strengthened. Be careful what you say. Jesus said, Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment (Matthew 12:36). Many Christians are careless with their words, not speaking unto edification. Can you imagine the apostle Paul, who was so much like Jesus, having his speech filled with frivolous words? Do you picture him wasting time and not blessing people, not speaking unto edification?

I use the Jesus language, and people are healed as I speak because His healing power goes forth in His language. In His language is His love in perfection, His faith in perfection. All that He brought goes forth in His language. The new man, the new woman, the new boy and girl are supposed to speak with the Jesus language, but many try to keep the language of the world. In the new and living way, people speak a different language. They become so holy through the blood of Jesus that they are candidates for the Holy Ghost baptism; He will baptize them and dwell in them. The first thing the Holy Spirit does when He baptizes a person is take the tongue over and speak in a heavenly language. Think of it; Divinity will take the human tongue and use it to speak as He chooses! I never get over the wonder of it.

In Christ we find the manifestation or expression of God’s loving mercy. Not until Jesus came did people fully realize the mercy of God that He brought. Anyone who has never known Jesus does not understand His mercy, for only through Jesus can you begin to measure it.

Mercy is compassion. In the Bible we read that Jesus had compassion on the people. With great compassion He brought that manifestation of God’s will to us: healing, healing, healing. And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick (Matthew 14:14).

The Lord is manifesting Himself today through the dedicated, consecrated born again, through the Bride of Christ. More and more He will manifest Himself through each member of the bridal company in this last and final hour. His mercy, faith and love will pour forth to the world, and miracles and healings will take place in abundance. That’s the way it was when Jesus was here on Earth, and that’s the way it will be again. He healed multitudes of people, and His power is not diminished to heal today.

Study the healing God put in nature. Nature heals or else seeks to heal itself. Nature doesn’t rebel against healing like man does. Man is stubborn; and stubbornness prevents God from manifesting His healing power in His greatness, compassion and mercy the way He wants.

God loves us and longs for the whole person to be with Him in Heaven. To make that possible, Jesus paid the price, became related to the human race, but with divine blood: He was very God and very man. He died for us so we could have deliverance for our souls. He was resurrected for us, showing us that we could have new bodies, glorified bodies not subject to death or pain. Isn’t that the victory in Jesus? Isn’t that the greatness in Jesus? How exciting it is to study the greatness of Him!

Some people do not realize their benefits in Jesus. When you have Him, you have everything you could ever need. Healing for the whole person is in the language Jesus spoke to the people; it’s a language of comfort. The Bride will heal much hurt in this her final hour. People are stepping into the holiness of God and becoming like Jesus. Many in our midst have stepped into that role, seeking to be like Him, but if you don’t have the Jesus language, you are not like Him.

First Peter 2:24, Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. You must be dead to sin, but how can you be dead to sin when you can’t get rid of it? If you are not dead to sin, there is a live sin in you. When you become dead to sin, you live unto righteousness.

Ask what you will, but remember, you can’t use the Word unless you live the Word. You can’t use something you don’t have. The Word must come to life in your spirit, for it is not alive on the printed page. The Holy Spirit lifts it off the pages of the Bible and places it into your spirit where it lives. You don’t have any more Word than what is alive within your spirit.

Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them (Matthew 4:24). Jesus is the one who casts out devils and heals.

There were seven children in the Angley family, and none ever had to go to a psychiatrist because we had the Word in our home. The Word kept our minds in wonderful condition to be dealt with. We weren’t tormented mentally, never had nervous breakdowns. Healing, soul, mind and body, is the will of God.

If man doesn’t go by God’s will, he has to do the best he can. How tragic to see people shut away in institutions who could be free! In one of my services, I remember so well a man who came to the healing line, tormented because his daughter was in a mental institution, in a padded cell. Her mind was gone, and those in charge of the case wouldn’t let him see her. They told him that as fast as they put clothes on her, she would tear them off. I said, “I will agree with you; God will deliver her. God will bring her into her right mind.” I held his hand; I had the Jesus compassion for one so terribly grieved. His wife was dead; all he had left was the daughter he loved so much, and she was completely insane. About a week after I prayed with him, he returned, eyes shining like stars. He said, “You know what? God completely delivered my daughter. I went in, and she was as normal as could be. She is at home with me now.” It was a wonderful deliverance. The father came the second time to find Jesus for himself. He wasn’t looking to me; he was looking to God, seeking the way to Calvary.

Miracles bring people to God. And there followed him [Jesus] great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan (Matthew 4:25). Why did they follow Him? Something great had to be taking place: he was healing the people, and His fame spread far and wide.

A woman just touched His garment, and the miracle happened. It is the first record of someone touching His garment and being healed. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour (Matthew 9:22). Her faith, which was His faith, brought about the miracle. Everyone, remember, is given a measure of faith.

Two blind men followed Jesus, crying out for mercy. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it (Matthew 9:29,30). It always thrills me for God to open the eyes of the blind, especially of a child who was born blind. I have had that privilege of witnessing the expression on a mother’s face whose blind child sees her for the first time.

Another great, great privilege was praying for a blind mother who had never seen her children. She had been blind over thirty years. The children were either grown or in their teens. In a crusade she received her sight, and her husband kept running back to his pew to get another child to bring to her. “Mamma, do you know this one?” he would exclaim. She didn’t, and he would say, “This is Grace! This is Jane! This is John! This is Frank!” She lit up each time. He brought a number of them to introduce to their mother. It wasn’t the will of God for her to be blind. His will was for her to see. The devil was the one who had robbed her all those years of her sight. That miracle was a wonderful experience, a manifestation, an expression of God’s will.

A man from Canton came to one of my healing services. He brought his blind and crippled wife for prayer, and she received her miracles. He later came back to tell me, “I thought I would never get her to bed that night. She had to see everything in the house, all the pictures, everything.” The doctors had said there was no more they could do, but now she could see and could walk. The husband ran to tell a neighbor who had been helping take care of her, “I got a new wife!”

“You got a new what?”

“Come, come! My wife can see; my wife is walking!”

“I won’t believe it until I see it.”

They went racing to his house and the neighbor was flabbergasted. The man’s wife was walking and seeing as well as they were. God did it.

No sickness or disease is too hard for Jesus to heal. 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 (Matthew 9:35). Some people didn’t yield to Him, but He healed every kind of sickness and disease of those who did yield. Jesus, remember, is the expression of God’s will for us in the form of healing all sickness, all disease. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest (verses 36-38). What kind of laborers does God want to go forth? Laborers with the Jesus ministry, nothing less. Laborers that will set the captives free, that will carry His power for healing the soul, mind and body. There has always been a shortage of laborers who will carry the almighty power of Almighty God.

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease (Matthew 10:1). We learn from this that there was no shortage of the power of God. Jesus gave them all of His power, the same power He used to heal the sick, to cast out devils. This is God’s manifestation of His will for you. He sent it in the form of His Only Begotten.

Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other (Matthew 12:13). You must exercise faith. Some people say they have faith, but they won’t use it. If asked to stretch out their hand for healing, they say “I can’t do it. That won’t heal me. I want my healing to come some other way.” This man who came to Jesus obeyed what Jesus told him to do. He used his faith. When the Pharisees heard about the miracle, they planned to destroy Jesus. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all (verse 15).

A great multitude had such faith that Jesus was able to heal them all. The Bible, I say again, doesn’t teach that Jesus healed all manner of people. He healed all manner of sickness and disease in those who used their faith. The multitude accepted Him as the Christ, as the Son of God, as the Great Physician. They accepted His mission, believed He had come from God just like He said. His words were backed up with signs and wonders; people were healed and delivered, they decided He told them the truth. They knew about Him, that He was the Christ, the Son of God. Do you believe Him to be all that He said He was, all He claimed to be?

Some people think I don’t give them enough attention in the prayer line, that I should do more than lay a hand on them. They don’t claim the promise that says: they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). When a believer lays hands on you, that is all that is required of the believer. Now use the faith God offers and get well according to the promise of God.

Jesus departed into a desert place, and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick (Matthew 14:13,14). Faith was mounting high. People were coming out of the cities to go after Him. They wanted His message, His love, faith and healing power. Jesus said to ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). Ask and receive, knock and it will be opened. It’s just that simple.

The people had to have knowledge of Jesus, had to learn about Him. They listened to Him speak, to the teaching of the Word.

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole (Matthew 14:35,36). When people learned that Jesus was the Christ, the Great Physician, the Only Begotten Son of God born of the virgin, when they believed Him to be the Redeemer of Israel, they sent out into all the countryside and brought to Him all that were diseased. They used faith. Come on, you can get well! We know of a man who can heal you! He’s the Son of God, the one we have been waiting for! They must have heard about the woman who had been healed by touching the hem of His garment, and that was good enough for them. As many as touched Him were healed, too.

God the Father sent his word, and healed them (Psalm 107:20). Jesus was the Word made flesh: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:14). How can you believe God if you don’t know what He has said? You must have knowledge of the promises in His Word. The Bible is that knowledge. Faith comes from the knowledge of the Word of God, from accepting what God has said. When you have the knowledge of what God has said in the Bible and accept it, you have faith to receive miracles.

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them (Acts 19:11,12). To places throughout the world I send anointed, prayed-over blest cloths. In faith, people touch those anointed cloths of God and are healed. The cloth isn’t the healer; it’s the anointing of God that goes with the cloth. The anointing drives out evil spirits. In one nation, five lepers from one village have been cleansed. All kinds of fantastic things are happening. Some of the churches have miracle services with the blest cloths. People line up to touch the blest cloth, and are healed—the pastors are reporting this to us. It isn’t the cloth that heals, I say again, it’s the power of God that goes with the cloth. The garment of Jesus didn’t heal; it was the anointing of God that healed. People simply used the garment as a point of contact to release their faith, just as people use the blest cloths to release their faith.

Jesus felt the healing power go out of Him when people touched His garment in faith. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me (Luke 8:45,46). Some people could touch His garment and get nothing, complaining that they still hurt. They didn’t touch in faith. Others would reach out, touch His garment and be healed.

Jesus came to lift burdens, to make life simple, not to burden you down. Life becomes complicated when you listen to the devil instead of the voice of God, the Word.

Wilt thou be made completely whole or do you want healing on the installment plan? Why accept partial healing when God wants to make you whole all over? In receiving salvation, I didn’t get it a little at a time. My whole soul was saved that night. The night the Lord came and healed me, my whole body was healed. That’s why I preach Jesus to you, why I’m taking Him to the world. There has never been such a wonderful personality as His. Fasting, seeking God, trying to be just as much like Jesus as I can be, I want people to see Jesus, not me. I preach Jesus to the people. He’s the wonderful one. I must decrease; He must increase as I take Jesus to the people.

And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there (Matthew 19:2). And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed (Luke 6:17,18). The devil possessed, the vexed were healed. People came from all over to hear because of the miracles Jesus was performing, and they were healed of their diseases. When you have knowledge of what God said He will do and assurance that He will do it, then in all faith act on it. With God’s faith, act out the Word.

In my services, the devil possessed are delivered again and again. One young woman, possessed by a number of devils, was brought into my service. Her facial expressions were those of the demons that possessed her. The family, assisted by ushers, was having trouble with her, but through the power of God, she was completely delivered. I saw her again not long ago, and she didn’t look like the same girl. Full of the love of Jesus, she was lovely now, the glory of God shone on her face and in her eyes—that’s what the Lord can do.

Those who really believed reached out to touch Jesus; they touched in faith believing, accepting who He was, the Great Physician. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all (Luke 6:19). The whole multitude knew if they could just touch Him they would be healed, and the healing virtue flowed.

And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing (Luke 9:11). All who had need of healing and yielded to the Gospel received their miracles.

When you are reviled and persecuted for His sake, Jesus said to rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven (Matthew 5:12). To rejoice in persecutions takes God’s happiness, not man’s. You won’t rejoice when you are persecuted if you use only human feelings. It’s through the faith of God that you rejoice when you are persecuted for His sake. The happiness of God from deep inside bubbles up and brings joy in the valley.

A crippled man lay by the waters of a pool waiting for an angel to come down to trouble the waters so he could be healed. The first person to step into the troubled waters was healed no matter what disease or affliction he had. This healing was a wonderful type of the healing of Jesus, except the healing of Jesus is for everyone, not just one person at a time. Whosoever steps into His love, His faith, His knowledge, His greatness, His promises can be healed. But the crippled man waiting by the waters had no one to help him to be the first in. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked (John 5:6,8,9). The Word spoke. The man looked at Jesus, received the Word. The Word said, You can get up from there. You can walk. The man didn’t protest that he had been crippled for thirty-eight years. He used faith in the Word and received His miracle. It was a great miracle, but some people there were angry. They informed the man that it was not lawful to carry his bed on the Sabbath. Too happy to worry about them, however, he was walking by faith.

When you walk by faith, you leave doubters behind. If doubters can sway you, you’re not walking by faith but by your feelings. Faith and feelings have nothing in common. Don’t listen to doubters; listen to the words of Jesus. The devil tries to bring doubt, but he is a liar and the father of lies, apt to tell you anything. Why listen to him when you can listen to the Word of God? The Lord, I say again, tells you that which will edify and bless, something that expresses God’s will for you.

Peter stepped out of the boat onto the waters in faith, but after a few steps, his feelings took over and he began to sink. The waves were coming and he took his eyes off Jesus. At first he was looking only to Jesus. He had heard the Word, and the Word said he could walk the waters. But then the devil whispered Look! and Peter took his eyes off Jesus. Feel that wind! the devil said—and down Peter went. Oh Lord, save me! And the Lord reached out, took Peter’s hand and caught him back up. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Jesus asked (Matthew 14:31).

Peter had been doing well until he doubted. Many are like Peter, doing well until they let doubt come in. Beginning to feel, beginning to see, they let feelings drown out their faith. Feelings, I say again, have nothing in common with faith.

As it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). The just will live, walk, breathe and receive the faith of God. Do you have real faith? Don’t look at your affliction; don’t live in fear and doubt. You may have been told that you are going to die, but faith will tell you that you are going to live. If, however, faith tells you that you are going to die, there is no need for me to pray for you—unless your soul is not right. Until faith tells me I’m going to die, I will believe the promises of God’s healing power. Jesus is on center stage; the Great Physician came to manifest Himself and to minster to the people. Again and again He performs masterful surgery. Thank God for Jesus!

Talk the Jesus language; know how He talked. Study Him. He is your example. Use the faith that those in the Bible used and were healed. Jesus is still healing today; He hasn’t gone out of business. He heals through believers. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). When Jesus went away, He sent the Holy Ghost to dwell in His followers, power for service. Are you ready to step into His greatness or will you sit and wonder whether or not you can be healed? Paul said, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13).

And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole (Luke 17:19). Carefully study the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. There you will find what Jesus died for. He took our place, became our substitute. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). By whose stripes ye were healed (I Peter 2:24). Your healing has already been paid for. Jesus the Great Physician paid the price. Why believe the Lord only takes your sins and not your sicknesses? The Bible tells you He takes both. Claim His promises: He is the Lord that healeth me, and with His stripes I am healed! Claiming the blood for physical healing works the same way claiming the blood of Jesus works for your salvation. I am the Lord that healeth thee is not only a promise but a statute of the Law, an ordinance.

It’s the divine blood that heals. The life is in the blood. Jesus had only divine blood, for the blood comes from the father, and God was the father. The Holy Ghost overshadowed a virgin and that which was conceived within her womb was of the Holy Ghost. That’s the reason that although Jesus had a physical body, He still was the divine Son of God.

Your healing comes through the blood. Many have confessed: With His stripes I am healed! and God healed them. It wasn’t my prayer that healed them; it wasn’t because I laid a hand on them. They confessed that they were healed with His stripes, and the healing took place.

In the beginning of my ministry when I was traveling with a tent, I had a large sign over the platform that read: With His Stripes We Are Healed. Night after night people were healed sitting in the tent reading that promise of God. It is in accord with the Word of God. He sent His word and healed them.

In this final hour since the gift of miracles is working in a great way, many have been made completely whole. This is what Jesus died for. He died for our sicknesses; it isn’t the will of God for us to be sick. He died for our pains; it is not the will of the Lord for us to have pain. He died for our transgressions; He died for our iniquities. He died for our peace. He wants us to be healed soul, mind and body, free of sin and filled with peace. With His stripes we are healed.

Let those words ring in your heart, in your very soul: With His stripes I am healed! Accept healing the same way you accepted your salvation: put it all under the blood. Anything unlike Jesus, put under the blood. That means the blood conquers it. Through faith, you put your sicknesses and diseases under the blood when you say: With His stripes, His blood stripes, I am healed! If you have any more pain, just say, That can’t be; it’s under the blood! Send the devil to the blood; let the blood deal with him. You can’t have a disease when it’s under the blood. Although the devil tries you a week, a month or more, as long as you cling to the blood faith, you will come out of it. The Lord taught me this. I have tried it and it works. Fall in love with Jesus and with God’s manifestations of His will for you. When you walk in the footsteps of Jesus, you know you are pleasing God, wearing His shoes.

Jesus shed His blood for your sins. If you don’t know Jesus as your Savior, say the sinners’ prayer with me. Get rid of all sin through the blood of Jesus, and sin will have no more dominion over you. Oh, God, save my soul! Forgive me for all my sins. I’m so sorry I sinned against you! But I have come home, and I will serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins. Come into my heart Jesus! Come on in! If you meant that prayer, He has come.

Now that your sins are gone, your next wonderful benefit is healing for the physical body; through Christ you can have it all, healing for the whole person, for you or your child, for that little disabled one. It’s hard to tell how many children born deformed have been healed through this Jesus ministry and their miracles verified by doctors. I have prayed for many children who couldn’t learn; suddenly they could learn. Suddenly they could make good grades. God did it.

God can heal that cancer, that heart trouble, that lung problem, those crippled limbs. Nothing is too hard for the Lord when you trust Him in faith believing. Never forget that He heals all manner of sickness and disease with His stripes, His blood stripes. If you or a child needs healing, let me pray for you now.

Lord, in obedience to your Word that says, the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up I come (James 5:15). You told me years ago how to pray for the sick, that you would heal the people, and you’ve healed hundreds of thousands as your servant has ministered to the people. As a servant of the living God, with your marvelous gifts of healing and your gift of miracles being manifested, I come. From your gifts of healing, from your gift of miracles it flows through the power of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus: Heal! Heal! in the holy, all-powerful name of Jesus!

The healing virtue is flowing, flowing. Feel His presence. Remember one of the seven covenant names of God: The Lord is there, ever present. He is there right now, nigh unto you through His divine blood. His presence got people well when Jesus was here, and it can get you well now. We have been made sons and daughters through God. Watch yourself get well, or watch your child get well. Write and tell me what happened to you and yours today.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am your healer; I am the one to deliver you. You have hindered me again and again. Many of you have been so nigh, so close that you could have touched me and been made whole; and yet you let the enemy make you doubt. I sorrowed when you failed to receive. You walked away disappointed. You went to bed in fear. I tried to strengthen you. My Holy Spirit worked and worked, seeking to bring you to that place again and to help you to reach and receive.

I am here. I’m not afar off. I am nigh unto my children. I am here to deliver you from all manner of sicknesses and diseases. I love you just like I loved the people when I walked the shores of Galilee and delivered them and walked the streets of Jerusalem and healed their sick and afflicted. I am yours. I belong to you, and if you will only believe, you will make everything possible for you. The faith that I have given to you, the love that I have given to you, it is divine faith, divine love and it works with divinity. I will deliver you. I will set you free, only trust me. Only believe me nothing doubting, and it shall be done, saith the Lord.

Behold the Great Physician and be made whole!