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From Our Heritage Files: The Truth about Jesus and Divine Physical Healing
Coming in Contact with Jesus the Healer |
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By the Late O. L. Yerty |
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And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and he healed them all. –Luke 6:19
A contractor or a carpenter works from a blueprint which is made with accurate specifications for the erection of a building; this blueprint must be so accurate that the building will pass the inspection of the most scrutinizing eye. If the specifications are not carried out perfectly or accurately, the timbers in this building will not fit. The Lord has a blueprint for salvation or for healing that man’s measurements will not fit. We must use heaven’s blueprint or heaven’s measurements before we can fit into God’s most holy plans. So it is when we come to Jesus in order to make contact with the Great Physician.
How to Make Contact with the Power House of Heaven. We must get rid of our sins before we can make contact with our Lord. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Psalm 66:18). This is one of the specifications in heaven’s blueprint. Another is found in 1 John 3:21: “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.”
Sin makes a short in the line that leads to heaven’s power house, and hinders the current of healing virtue from flowing through our diseased bodies. It makes an obstruction on the line from whence the healing virtue proceeds.
We can make Contact with Heaven’s Power house. “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7). Some people think that because they have been in contact with the Lord at one time, they still must be in contact with Him. It is well to check up on our standing before the Lord and see if we are still in the faith, or if God’s approval is still upon us. The question arises, Have you been diligent in the Lord’s business? Have you taken time to pray? Are you reading the good old Book, the Bible, as you did at one time? Have you the normal appetite for the reading of the Word as you had at one time? Do you commune with the Lord in your secret closet, and not only talk to the Lord, but does the Lord talk to you?
A certain switch in the barn on our little farm near Belding, MI, would at one time turn on the power from the power house, thus lighting the electric bulb. But later on the same switch could be turned, but the electric bulb would not light. Was not this the same switch that turned on the current? Yes; but there was no power there. The current had been cut off. The connection had been severed. There was no contact with the power house. Just so, if we do not keep in contact with heaven’s power house, the source of supply will be cut off.
No Room for Short [Cuts]. There is no room for short [cuts] when we are really abiding in the Lord, and when the Word is really abiding in us. We live by the Word. We depend upon it. By it we obtain food for ourselves—soul and body. We ask for our needs because the author of the Word is also the One who supplies our needs.
If we do not keep in contact with the supply house, our source of supply will be cut off. Sick ones, are you abiding in the Lord? If not, you had better not waste any time in making contact with your Lord, as the source of supply will be cut off until you do.
The Great Source from Which Every Need Is Supplied. “I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5).
It is very easy to get what we need for soul or body when we are a branch of the vine, where all the healing virtue lies in the vine, and where the healing virtue has free course through the branches.
If we ask for the needed supply of healing for our bodies, then believe, faith starts the healing balm flowing through that diseased heart, driving all the diseases ahead of it. Christ declared that healing is the children’s bread [Mark 7:27].
Healing Is a Good Thing. “For the Lord God is our sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11).
Healing is a good thing, as it places God’s children where God can get glory out of their service to Him, as no person can be at his best for the Lord with disease in his body.
Healing is a good thing because God can show His compassion and mercy for His children by healing their bodies; He can show His attitude of pity and mercy toward them.
Healing is a good thing, for it gives opportunity to prove the truthfulness of God’s promises; it shows, or proves, that Christ is a divine Being Who can be trusted at all times. He can be trusted to do all the things He has promised to do, even the healing of our diseased bodies. Christ says that He will not withhold any good thing from them that walk uprightly. Child of God, if you are walking uprightly, the Lord says He will not withhold your healing from you, as healing is a blessing to mankind.
Healing is a good thing: Jesus used the working of miracles to convince John that He [Jesus] was the Messiah, and the He is divine. Jesus did not use the sick ones to convince John, but rather, those who had been healed [Luke 7:18-23].
Faith places us in contact with God; faith is just like pressing the button, or switch, that turns on the electric current from the power house. Faith just turns on the all-power in heaven and earth, and our bodies are just charged with the heavenly balm from heaven’s power house, that healeth all manner of diseases.
Faith is Always on the Winning Side. “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love” (Galatians 5:6).
Faith says the disease is rebuked and it must subside. Unbelief says the pain is gone for now.
Faith always honors God’s promises, and does not hesitate to lay claim to healing as a finished product; it does not put on the soft pedal to honor the devil by saying, “I believe that God has helped me.”
Unbelief dishonors God by fearing to claim what God has promised.
Faith recognizes the impossibility of the promises failing, when the Bible says that God’s Word is forever settled in heaven.
Unbelief says, “I know that there is nothing that Christ cannot do, but what if He does not do it?”
Faith is so thankful for the privilege of obtaining healing which Jesus has provided for His afflicted children by shedding His precious blood on Calvary’s cross that faith’s praises close the door against Satan’s doubts.
Unbelief closes its eyes to the provision which our dear Lord has made for the healing of our bodies, thus closing the door to God’s blessings and placing us on the losing side.
Unbelief loses sight of faith with its victories, as unbelief is so busy caring for the appearances and conditions, and hanging on to symptoms, that faith is completely banished from sight.
Faith places our case in God’s hands unreservedly, then counts it God’s business—not ours—to carry out His promises, and counts God capable of performing that which has been committed unto Him.
Faith implies obedience, so that it is pleasing to God, as faith knows that it cannot bring results without working in accord with God’s plans. God has not promised to bless any other plans than those which have been made perfect by Himself.
Unbelief, with its whys—why does God do it this way, and why does He not do that way—releases God from His promises. Unbelief has no claim on God’s promises, as God has never promised to honor any claims but the claims of faith. Unbelief looks around and asks if the child for whom prayer has been offered looks any different since prayer was offered in its behalf, and hastens to inform faith that the child is about the same as before.
The Contacting Touch. “They came into the land of Gennesaret. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all of that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole” (Matthew 14:34-36). “For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for touch him, as many as had plagues” (Mark 3:10).
The Cleansing Touch. “And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed” (Matthew 8:3).
The Illuminating Touch. “Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29).
The Quieting Touch. “And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them” (Matthew 8:15).
The Liberating Touch. “And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue: . . . and straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain” (Mark 7:33-35).
The Touch upon Child-hood. “And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them . . . and he took them up in his arms . . . and blessed them” (Mark 10:13-16).
The Healing Touch. “And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him” (Luke 22:51). Contact God, and He will heal your diseases.
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