On Divine Healing...

On Divine Healing...

Our faith itself is nothing but simply taking His free gift of grace.

Thus come and claim His promise; and having done so, believe according to His Word that you have received it.

... Be careful not to begin to watch the result or look at the symptoms, or see if you stand. 

You must ignore all symptoms, and see only Him there before you, almighty to sustain you and save you from falling.

Be prepared for trials of faith. 

Do not look always for the immediate removal of the symptoms. 

Do not think of them. Simply ignore them and press forward, claiming the reality behind all symptoms. 

Be the symptoms what they may, we must steadily believe that back of all symptoms God is working out His own great restoration.

-- A.B. Simpson

Before we have the evidence of our senses in regard to the matter, we accept the evidence of faith.

Having faith in God is believing His word without looking at probabilities or possibilities, as humanly viewed; without regarding natural circumstances; without considering any apparent obstacles in the way of His keeping His promises.... 

It is faith not to be staggered at any complication of adverse circumstances.

Our faith in God must be so steadfast that even if the evidence of all our senses should deny His word, we must consider them as deceiving us, and still continue to uphold His faithfulness. 

Such faith as that never fails to remove, sooner or later, the mountain of difficulty or doubt.

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

In seeking healing for our bodies, we are so apt to look at feelings, or symptoms; and believe we are healed just in proportion to the amount we see and feel. 

When in reality we are healed when we believe. 

"What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them." 

The work was all finished on Calvary. 

On Calvary’s tree the remedy is found that will heal all sicknesses and diseases of the soul and body...

Sometimes it is instantly realized in the body, but more often it is a gradual deliverance, requiring us to step out in faith before we see any signs of having it.

Faith looks away from the natural, from the things of the senses, and sees the fulfillment of the promise, through Christ’s complete work on Calvary. 

It sees every need supplied through the atonement... 

We must cling to the promises of Jesus instead of looking at our feelings, or go by them, for our senses are false witness unto us when we step out in faith.

If we are looking and going by our feelings, we are believing them instead of believing God.

-- Evangelist Maria Woodsworth-Etter

Divine healing... calls us to turn our attention away from the body, abandoning ourselves—soul and body—to the Lord’s care, occupying ourselves with Him alone.

The first thing to learn is to cease to be anxious about the state of your body. 

You have trusted it to the Lord, and He has taken the responsibility. 

If you do not see a rapid improvement immediately, but on the contrary symptoms appear to be more serious, remember that you have entered on a path of faith, and therefore you should not consider your body, but cling only to the living God.

To consider the body gives birth to doubts, while clinging to the promise of God and being occupied with Him alone gives entrance into the way of faith, the way of divine healing, which glorifies God.

-- Andrew Murray 

To the extent that we base faith on our improvement, or are affected by what we see or feel, instead of by the word of God alone, just to that extent ours is not real faith. 

To be occupied with what we see or feel is to exactly reverse the condition God lays down for us to follow. 

"Every one that looketh at it shall live," simply means that every one who, like Abraham, so occupies himself with God’s promise that he is no longer affected by symptoms, "shall recover." 

It means, the word of God (not what we see or feel) shall be the basis of our faith. 

Our "looking unto the promise of God" is to be kept up until we are healed.

-- F.F. Bosworth

We should not need the evidence of the senses. 

Let us rest on the Word. 

Faith holds fast to the confession of the Word. 

Sense knowledge holds fast to the confession of physical evidence. 

If I accept physical evidence over against the Word of God, 

I nullify the Word as far as I am concerned.

-- E.W. Kenyon