If You Need Healing Do These Things by Oral Roberts

Author:Oral Roberts
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Healing, General
ISBN: 9781169961302
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2010-09-09T22:00:00+00:00

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Seven Rules of Faith You Can Use Today for Your Healing

2 Kings 5: 1-15

OUR STORY centers around a famous man, General Naaman of Syria. Naaman was commander-in-chief of Syria's expeditionary forces, and, because of his outstanding military successes, had been hailed as a national hero.

It was shocking news when the general's personal physician found his chief had contracted leprosy which was widely prevalent in those days.

Across the nation, the cry went up, "General Naaman is a leper! Our beloved leader is a leper!"

Leprosy meant living death—slow, torturous, isolated suffering.

Disease is a foul and inhuman thing and is not numbered among the blessings of life. Jesus Christ came against it in the power of His pure and healthy humanity, laying His healing hands upon the sick and tormented, healing every sickness and every disease among the people (Matthew 9:35). People touched Him, too. The Bible record states that as many as touched him were made whole (Mark 6:56).

In the story of Naaman's miraculous healing through his faith in God, there are seven rules of faith that we can use today for healing.

Rule one: Recognize sickness and disease as the oppression of the devil

This rule of faith is made plain to us by the leading member of the Twelve Apostles — Simon Peter. The great Apostle knew the Savior's love for suffering humanity. After the resurrection of Christ, the Apostle was preaching to the soldiers in the house of Cornelius in Caesarea. He said, 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).

Healing all that were oppressed of the devil; this is Peter's summation of the ministry of the Lord Jesus.

Satan, Peter is saying, is a destroyer of human life, while Jesus is a destroyer of the oppressions (human afflictions) of the devil.

The writers of the Four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — tell the story of Jesus and His healing power. All of them tell how Jesus found the people oppressed with all manner of sickness and all manner of disease and demons. They tell how He healed their sick. (Matthew 4:23; 14:14.)

They tell how compassion flowed through Him like the water of a pure mountain stream and became healing virtue for all who would believe. (Mark 5:30.) The healing virtue of Jesus is God's antidote against disease and is available now to all who will send their faith to Him.

The Savior did not turn any person away who had faith. Making no differentiation as to race, He looked for faith and wherever He found it He healed the sick. One of His favorite expressions was, As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee (Matthew 8:13).

He healed the blind, the deaf, the crippled, the demon-possessed, the feverish, the brokenhearted and many others.

Those so afflicted were classified by the Apostle Peter as being oppressed. He saw these oppressed people healed by the Master.

Later, Peter in writing the first of his New Testament books declares, by whose stripes ye were healed (1 Peter 2:24).

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