Spiritual Gifts Part 5 "Gifts of Healing"
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To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Introduction
Introduction
One service this Sunday and next Sunday, Easter dinner and fellowship this Sunday.
Pray for the Lord’s will for Togo trip.
(The Main Thing)
I would rather have the Life of Christ in me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts of healing, the gifts of prophecies, all them other gifts; just give me Jesus. Let me live the Life, the Life is what I want to live. I want to live so others will know. 63-1222 - God's Gifts Always Find Their Places
God, that’s my prayer. Make me a Christian, Lord. If everything else fails, make me a Christian, Lord. Put something in me that’s real. Knock at my heart, Lord. Tell me my short place and where I’m short at.
Come in, Lord, and open up my doors of my own life; open up my private life; open up my eyes; open everything, Lord. Let me see You, the love of God that’s shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. That’s what I want.
That’s what Christ wants to do to this Church. Not give you any more gifts. You got too many of them now. What He wants to do is to give you Himself: Love, the love of God, the abundant Life in your heart that makes you love everybody, makes you love Him till you can’t rest. 58-0617 - Behold, I Stand At The Door And Knock
(Sigh and Cry)
See, we’re so prone to go after the gift instead of the Giver. When you see signs and wonders take place, don’t notice the signs so much, but look what’s behind it. It’s that still small Voice that speaks.
That’s the reason we can’t have revivals in America, is because people go after gifts instead of the Giver. That’s what’s the matter with the world tonight. Oh, we got if you want great crowds and audiences, you have to have a real classical Hollywood outfit with a lot of show.
American people want entertainment. They don’t want the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. So therefore, the radio and the television will give them more entertainment than the church can do it, and they stay home. All that comes out is the elect of God that’s still hungering, and thirsting, and calling, and crying for the real thing of God. 59-0412E - What Hearest Thou, Elijah?
What is a gift of healing?
As the church, we are commanded to heal the sick.
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
The last commission:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
The gifts of healing move in the entire church body.
(Are you believers? Then gifts of healing are here.)
God has set preachers into the church. These pastors here, throughout the countries, wonderful men of God, anointed of God, they have just as much right to pray for the sick as I do or anyone else. And not only the pastor, but every member of the church has a right to pray for the sick.
The gift of healing works in the church, the entire church; not only in the pastor. Said, “Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, that you may be healed; for the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” I believe Him. 53-0602 - The Authority Of The Word
What is a gift? What is a gift, anyhow? Not to take something and use something, say, “I got a gift of healing! I go out and heal this one, heal that one.” If I could, I’d certainly do it. Now, it’s, but, a gift, you misinterpret a gift, a gift is just “get yourself out of the way and let the Holy Spirit use you.” See? That’s the gift. 64-0206E - God's Provided Way For This Day
You know what the gift of healing is? Faith in healing. See, you just release your faith, to pray for somebody, that’s all a gift of healing is. Every minister should have it, everybody, see, should have gift of healing. The Power that heals you is on the inside of you, the Holy Spirit, you just have to let It work Its way out. That’s all.
Just like the life that’s in the tree. You don’t have to pour the apples in the tree, to make it bear apples. It’s just planted in the ground, and it drinks and pushes out.
Well, that’s the way you do the Holy Spirit. It’s on the inside of you. You just drink from the inexhaustible fountain of Jesus Christ, and It pushes out the fruits of the Spirit. 64-0122 - Looking Unto Jesus
Gifts of healing are right here in the body.
When Bro. Branham got hurt, and Bro. Crase was in a car wreck, Rebekah wrote sister Dauch a letter and told her about it. They got together with the local methodist preacher and prayed.
The Methodist minister and Brother Brown, their relative and all of them got together, prayed all night for me. Said, “I don’t know whether God heard or not, but, we knowed that Brother Branham prayed for so many, we thought we’d pray for him.” That’s the kind He does hear, see. That’s right, those kind like that!
(Little Brother named Medcalf came and prayed for Bro. Crase)
And just come out and knelt down, and said a little prayer and went out. God healed Brother Crase right there. See? When, see, it’s the gift of healing in the Body of Christ, you see, one member to another. 62-0506 - Possessing All Things
Healing and miracles are different.
We believe in both. We’ll talk about miracles next time. Miracles are sovereign, but healing is a promise.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Healing is our God given right.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
God never intended the Church to be run by men. God runs His Church, and He runs it through gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit is in the Church to correct the spirit. He’s got five ministerial offices in His Church. First of them is apostles, or, missionaries. Missionary is the highest calling there is, apostle.
The word missionary means “one sent”; apostle means “one sent.” Why they ever chose to be called a missionary, I don’t know. But they are apostles. All right. Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Now, that’s the elected offices of God to His Church.
Then in each local church there’s nine spiritual gifts that come among the people, that is, knowledge, wisdom, gifts of healing, working of miracles, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues.
And all these things go in each local body. And every person in the church has an individual ministry, and that individual ministry goes together with the rest of the ministry, to edify the Body of Jesus Christ. 60-1206 - The Smyrnaean Church Age
Do I need to figure out what my individual gift is?
No.
Tommy Osborn, Portland Meeting
And Tommy and them seen that, he went home and nailed hisself up in a room, waited three or four days, then come home up to Indiana, run around the car, a little nervous fellow, said, “Brother Branham, you think God has give me a gift of healing?”
I said, “Tommy, it shall come to pass that that talk about gifts of healing will be run so far into the muck and mire, until it’ll be terrible. There’ll be such a mixed multitude go up with this.
It’ll be all kinds of sensations, and isms, and everything else arise, till it come to pass that everybody has to have some kind of a healing ministry or they won’t even be…feel they’re on the field.
And that’s only to degrade the man that’s absolutely trying to hold his position. Remember, you’re just as important in the Kingdom of God as anybody else.” And so, and I said, “God called you to preach the Gospel, did He?”He said, “Yes.”
I said, “You look like a promising young man.” I said, “Then, Divine healing goes with preaching the Gospel.” That’s right. “So just pray for the sick.” 62-0701 - To Take On The Whole Armor Of God
I know you think that my not being educated, and I’m not much of a preacher, ’cause I have no education, but God just give me a gift: That’s just to get William Branham out of the way, so He can take the hull and speak through it Himself. 60-0313 - Hear Ye Him
Now, as a gift. Now I’m going to tell you a secret, as I leave. You’ve been sweet and kind. I’ve never exactly expressed this, I know of, public, before. “Brother Branham, what is that gift?” It’s a gift of knowing how to get William Branham out of the way, so Jesus Christ can live through a vessel. Just getting yourself out of the way! 63-1117 - Once More
It’s like I said, a gift is not something that’s like you take a knife, and if you want to cut this with it, you can cut it, or you cut this, you can cut it, or whatever you want to. That’s not a gift of God. See? No.
A gift of God is some way you have of getting yourself out of the way. And gifts and callings are the predestination of God. “Gifts and callings are even without repentance.” You are born with it. A little gear that you pull yourself over in, but you cannot step on the pedal. See? God has to operate it. You have to get yourself out of the way.
Your faith can operate it, not mine; yours. Mine just takes it out of the way. You believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ lives today. 65-0120 - Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding
Now to heal, I cannot, you know that. “What is a gift, Brother Branham, something that you take?” No. It’s something you know how to get yourself out of the way. See? As long as you are there, it’ll never work.
William Branham is the greatest enemy I got. See? But when I get him out of the way, see, then Jesus Christ can use the body. See? See, now, I come to that woman. Now what? Now say if she was sick.
Here’s a lady here that’s got her limb laying up on on a chair. Now, if I…if Jesus was here, and go down and lay His hands upon that woman, that limb would get well. There’s no doubt about that. But, you see, we are human beings with dirty hands. His hands is holy, God a vindicated Him.
He was the Word. You believe that? Sure, He had no doubt. He would lay His hands upon her, say, “Daughter, be well,” and she’d get well. But then He commissioned us to do the same thing. I think He’s clearly identified it.
Now, what if He would give me a vision, and tell this woman something to do? That, well, I believe then if I laid my hands upon her, she’d get well. Do you believe that? But what if He didn’t give the vision? What would the vision do? Only give me faith. Transmitting my faith, the unseen power of God. See?
And Jesus said, “They shall lay hands on the sick.” Now, see, if I went and had a vision and laid hands on her, I believe that she’s going to get well, ’cause I saw the vision, my confidence is in the vision.
But what about the Word? Lay hands on her with the same faith. The vision’s only given to motivate my faith and your faith. With the same faith without the vision, it’ll work just the same. 64-0816 - Proving His Word
(Vision of dead boy in Finland)
Now, that’s God speaking in this day through vision. But this: if that vision was contrary to This, that would be wrong; This is more than the vision. If any vision’s contrary to the Word, leave it alone; it ain’t of God, God don’t contradict His Own Word.
So, if this Word told you something, then you can have the same confidence then what’s going to happen. If It says, “They shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall recover”; well, brother, if faith, that Perfect Faith, got a hold of that, you’d…when you passed by this prayer line, you’d be jumping and shouting till you…when you left here, “It’s over!”
It’s over! It’s all over, it’s finished! If you had a request in your heart and believe that when that prayer was made for that, it was going to be answered, there isn’t nothing you discuss, that’s what’s going to happen; like the woman with the blood issue. 63-0825E - Perfect Faith
Now, a gift is just not something you take like a chopping axe, and go to chopping and cutting away. That’s wrong. A gift is know how to get yourself out of the way. It’s just relax yourself and get yourself out, and then God comes in and uses you the way He wants to.
A gift is get yourself out of the way. See? Not something you put in your hand, go to stabbing and sticking; that, that ain’t God. See? The thing we do is just get yourself out of the way, then the Holy Spirit comes in and goes to using it any way that He wants to use it. 64-0401 - The Identified Christ Of All Ages
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bro. Branham points out that “gifts of healing” is plural. God has always made a way for healing.
Pool of Bethesda. The Angel who stirred the Waters came right among the people, the healer was in their midst. How many people were waiting on the waters to move, and all they had to do was reach out and touch Him.
The Angel who stirred the Waters came right among the people, the healer was in their midst.