Healing

Why Doesn’t Everyone Get Healed?
by Rich Murphy

It seems like everyone has asked this question at one time or another. God directs a minister to pray for healing in a service. People come forward, there’s a great move of the Holy Spirit, and many are healed. But yet, even though many are healed, there are still those that walk away from the service seeming to be unchanged. Even in the great healing crusades of ministers like Kathryn Kuhlman people left the same way they cam in. Why is that?
The Bible tells us that “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34). Yet, when we see some instantly healed, and others going away from the prayer line with the same symptoms seeming to be active in their life.
Healing is a process. It takes some time in the natural to see healing, and an instantaneous healing is just a supernatural speeding up of the process. There is still a process, but it happens so quick that we don’t “see” it happen, all we see are the results. Because the healing happens so quick, it is exciting to watch.
What we want to see, is the miraculous, instantaneous healings. But, that’s not what all of them are. If God doesn’t heal someone instantly, we don’t think He’s done anything.
Jesus Healed Them All
When Jesus walked upon the earth, “he healed them all” (Matt 12:15). So, since He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, we should see the same thing happening today, that His disciples saw then.
Some people write this off by saying that it’s God’s will that only some be healed, but that doesn’t make sense. If Jesus healed all then, and “by His stripes ye are healed” (1 Pet 2:24), then it stands to reason that all should be healed today.
Others have taken the stand that some don’t get healed because they don’t have enough faith. But Jesus 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” (Matt 17:20). So, it doesn’t take super faith to receive healing.
However, when we pray for someone’s healing, faith does play a part. We can’t see what has happened in the spirit realm, and that’s where healings come from. God may very well have done the necessary work for that person’s healing, even though our natural eyes can’t see the results of it yet. We must continue to stand in faith, if we are going to see God bring forth the answer.
Daniel’s Answer
In the tenth chapter of Daniel, the prophet Daniel mourned and partially fasted for three weeks seeking an answer from God (Dan 10:2-3). At the end of this time, an angel appeared to him to give him an answer to his questions (Dan 10:5-6, 11). The answer this angel gave to Daniel reveals something about the arrival of our answers.

“Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. ¹³ But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.”
Daniel 10:12-13

Notice that it says the angel had been dispatched on the very day that Daniel set himself to receive the answer. However, due to demonic opposition, it took 21 days for the answer to get from heaven to earth.
When we pray for healing, or the answer to any problem, we tend to expect instant answers. Yes, God answers instantly, but the answer doesn’t always arrive in our hands at the moment that God dispatches the answer to us. Sometimes, just like Daniel had to stay in faith waiting for his answer, so do we.
If you stop standing in faith for our answer, you can be guaranteed that you won’t receive it. During that 21 days, if Daniel had stopped seeking and confessing, the angel who had been dispatched with his answer would have had to turn around, and return to heaven with the answer to Daniel’s prayer.
Having Done All, Stand
If you don’t see the answer to your prayer immediately, don’t lose hope! God is still moving on your behalf. Somewhere between heaven and you, there is an angel who has been dispatched with what you need.
As long as you continue to speak words of faith, that angel will continue to come, bringing your answer. In a sense, your prayers and confessions of faith empower that angel to continue battling his way to you.
But, when you start saying words of doubt and unbelief, talking about how sick you are, and how God hasn’t answered your prayer, that angel must return to heaven, taking your answer back with him. Although God provided everything for your healing, you didn’t receive it in the natural realm, because you didn’t stand for it.
In the book of Ephesians, Paul writes “take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Ephesians 6:12). How long do you stand? Until you receive the answer, that’s how long.
It doesn’t matter if you receive your healing instantly, or after standing for it, God is still the one providing the healing. It does matter however, if you are willing to stand in faith for your healing.
Don’t lose the healing that has been provided for you by allowing your faith to stop! Don’t lose the healing that has been provided for you by allowing your confessions to fail! Stand therefore, and see the deliverance of your God!

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