Healing – Faith – Miracles
So, what is the secret of spiritual healing? That is the big question that few have attempted to answer beyond the orthodox one which is to merely have faith.
Yes, faith is important for both he healer and the patient, but the word had a different meaning in the time of Jesus than it does now. Many Christians today see it is as mere blind belief but those who wrote the scriptures saw it differently.
In the New Testament faith comes from PISTIS, which is derived from the root word PEITHO which basically means “to prove a thing true or false by evidence, argument, reason or experiment and through the guidance of your inner authority.”
A scripture that is in harmony with this comes from the Book of Hebrews, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Heb 11:1
Faith does not follow blind belief, but follows the direction pointed to by evidence and then either confirms that the evidence pointed to the truth or proves that it did not.
Now we have evidence that spiritual healing works and belief in this is on the upswing.
In 1991, 73 percent of Americans believed miracles “definitely” or “probably” happen. That number rose to 78 percent in 2008. More recently, a 2010 Pew Research Center report found 79 percent of Americans believe in miracles. Other polls give an even higher number.
So why do so many people believe in miracles when men of science claim that such is only a superstitious belief?
The most potent answer is evidence. A Newsweek poll revealed that 48% of us have experienced or witnessed a miracle and 63% know of an individual who has experienced one.
A person with real faith will see this evidence and want to follow it to its conclusion in life. He therefore tests the evidence and attempts to manifest the miraculous in his own life.
Now most miracles that people experience are from healing, and if we want to understand the principle behind them, then, perhaps we should examine the greatest healer of all time, namely Jesus.
So, did Jesus explain the power behind his miracles? Actually, he did. So, what was it?
Most people would automatically say it was God, but that was not the answer Jesus gave.
Jesus, explained the power that generated the miracles attributed to him. What was it and where was it found? Why was he needed in order for the power to manifest? What part did he play?
Here are some scriptures revealing the actual words of Jesus after his healings;
Matt 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
Matt 9:22 Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matt 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Matt 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Matt 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Matt 17:19-20 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
What was it to which Jesus gave credit over and over for the miracles? Students will often say it was God or a special power that Jesus had that caused them to take place. But this is not the direction that Jesus indicated. He did not say “God made you whole,” or “I made you whole.”
To find the key to power we must examine his actual words.
Here is a popular pronouncement he made: “thy faith hath made thee whole.”
Here are several others:
“as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.”
“According to your faith be it unto you”
“great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.”
What do all these phrases have in common? They all direct us away from depending on an outside god sitting on a throne, or even Jesus himself, and point somewhere. But where?
Where does faith come from? It comes from inside of us. The great secret that is hidden in plain sight in the words of Jesus is the power to heal and perform miracles lies within ourselves. Jesus made this plain when he told a woman, “great is thy faith: be it unto thee EVEN AS THOU WILT.”
In other words, there is magic within us activated by faith that unlocks a power so great that we can make things happen even as we will. That is an amazing thought, is it not?
And where is the limitation? There does not seem to be much for he said, “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
So what is this power within us? The scriptures give several powerful hints.
“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:21
So where is the kingdom of God? It is within us.
And where is God? Answer: In his kingdom.
Where then should we look for God? Answer: Within each of us.
Where then lies the all-powerful presence of God? Answer: Within each of us.
This is confirmed in the book of Revelation where it describes those who are redeemed and saved from the mark of the Beast. “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.” Rev 14:1
So where is the name of God found? Again it is found within our thinking consciousness in our foreheads.
And where the name of God is found, God is found, and his power becomes manifest and available.
Contemplate on this: If God is within us and we have all power to do according to our wills then why does this will seem to be frustrated? How is it unlocked so miracles can happen?
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground? – Alfred Polage
Nov 19, 2013
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