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Throughout
the history of the Church there have always been people and groups that have
emphasized healing as part of the gospel and purpose of God for his people, and
this emphasis became much more prominent after the time of the Reformation
through leaders and among groups such as the Quakers, the early Moravians and
John Wesley, to name just a few.
George
Fox (1624 – 1691, founder of the Quakers)
‘George Fox was
active in Britain during the second half of the seventeenth century. He is best known for being a central figure in
establishing the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and is less well known
today as a healer but during his lifetime he was very well known for his
healing ministry
George Fox’s Journal
and other contemporary records bear witness to the amount of healing that
he is associated with.
The gift of healing
manifested in George Fox in two ways; firstly as self-healing and secondly as
the healing of a variety of diseases and conditions in others.’[1]
Count Zinzendorf (1700 – 1760, founder
of the Moravians)
‘To believe against hope is the root of the gift of
miracles; and I owe this testimony to our beloved church, that apostolic powers
are there manifested. We have had
undeniable proofs thereof in the unequivocal discovery of things, persons, and
circumstances, which could not humanly have been discovered, in the healing of
maladies in themselves incurable, such as cancers, consumptions, when the
patient was in the agonies of death, all by means of prayer, or of a single
word.’[2]
John Wesley (1703 – 1791, founder of the Methodists)
In a letter written in 1778, Wesley wrote:
‘It will be a double blessing if you give yourself up to the Great
Physician, that He may heal soul and body together. And unquestionably this is His design. He wants to give you… both inward and outward
health.’[3]
In
addition to seeing healing miracles in answer to prayer, Wesley also recorded his general interest and care for people’s health
in his famous booklet Primitive Physic: An Easy and Natural Method of
Curing Most Diseases.
We have also listed below quotations from the writings of some men
and women who have been powerfully used by God in healing ministry in the past
century or so.[4] We hope that you will be inspired and
encouraged by what you read below, and that these quotations will help you to
feed and strengthen your faith and encourage you to believe God for your own
healing and/or to step out in praying for and ministering healing to others.
Andrew
Murray (1828 – 1917)
‘We see that healing and
health form part of Christ’s salvation.
Does Peter not clearly state this in his discourse to the Sanhedrin
where, having spoken of healing, he immediately goes on to speak of salvation
by Christ? (Acts 4:10,12). In heaven
even our bodies will have their part in salvation; salvation will not be
complete for us until our bodies shall enjoy the full redemption of Christ. Why then should we not believe in this work
of redemption here below? Even already
here on earth, the health of our bodies is a fruit of the salvation which Jesus
has acquired for us.’[5]
‘Happy is he who comes to
understand that it is the will of God; that God wills to manifest the power of
Jesus, and also to reveal to us His Fatherly love; to exercise and to confirm
our faith, and to make us prove the power of redemption in the body as well as
in the soul.’[6]
John
A. Dowie (1847 – 1907)
‘I
want a salvation that extends to my spirit, that extends to my soul, that
extends to my body. I must have a full
salvation if I am to be perfectly happy. I must be set free. I want a salvation that saves not only my
spirit, but my soul and my body from the power of the devil, from the ravages
of sin and from the consequence of sin of which disease is one.’[7]
Carrie
Judd Montgomery (1858 – 1946)
‘You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you ‘knows
that you know’ and that you do not just hope that you know.’
Smith
Wigglesworth (1859 – 1947)
‘There is nothing
impossible with God. All the
impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our
unbelief.’
‘Great faith is the product of great
fights. Great testimonies are the
outcome of great tests. Great triumphs
can only come out of great trials.’
John
G. Lake (1870 – 1935)
‘God is willing, just as
willing to heal as he is to save.
HEALING IS PART OF SALVATION. It
is not separate from salvation. Healing
was purchased by the blood of Jesus.
[The Bible] always connects salvation and healing… Jesus Christ did not leave us in any doubt
about God’s will, but when the Church lost her faith, she began to teach the
people that maybe it was not God’s will to heal them… We have gone to the eighth or the tenth grade
or the university on the subject of salvation, but on the subject of healing we
are in the ABC class.’[8]
‘When I saw for the first
time by the Word of God that sickness was not the will of God, everything in my
nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.’
‘Beloved, all there is to
divine healing, is that the life of
God comes back into the part that is afflicted and right away the blood flows,
the congested cells respond, and the work is done.’[9]
Fred
F. Bosworth (1877 – 1958)
‘Some people wonder why
they can’t have faith for healing. They
feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.’
‘When we steadfastly believe and act our
faith in God’s Word, nothing can keep the power in the Word from making all
things to become exactly as the Word says.’
Kathryn
Kuhlman (1907 - 1976)
‘Living with faith and courage is
something that life requires of each of us.
Never, absolutely never, give up!
Never give in no matter what!
Fight it through! And I promise
you something with all of my heart – God will help you.’
T.L.
Osborn (1923 – 2013)
‘Both sin and sickness came into the world
through the fall of the human race.
Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the saviour of the
human race. God is as willing to heal
believers as he is to forgive unbelievers.
Now this: if he was merciful enough to forgive you when you were
unconverted, he is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!’
[1]
Taken from www.quaker-healing.org.uk/georgefox.html,
accessed 17-01-2017.
[3] Taken from http://www.faithandhealthconnection.org/john-wesley-holistic-health-and-healing-interview-by-randy-maddox/,
accessed 17-01-2017.
[4]
Many of these quotations are taken from http://www.azquotes.com/, accessed
20/01/2017.
[5] Taken from http://www.worthychristianlibrary.com/andrew-murray/divine-healing/chapter-4-health-and-salvation-by-the-name-of-jesus/,
accessed 19-12-2015.
[7] Dowie, J.A. (Ed.), “God’s Way of Healing”, Leaves of Healing, Volume 1, Number 32,
May 17th 1985, p.502.
[8]
From “Behold, I Give You Power,” Chapter 36 in John G. Lake: His Life, His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith,
Revised Edition, Kenneth Copeland Publications: Fort Worth, 1995, pp.419-425.
[9] Liardon, R.
“Science of Divine Healing” in John
G. Lake: The Complete Collection of His Life Teachings, Laguna Hills:
Roberts Liardon Ministries, p.343. Used
with permission.
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