Do you believe faith healing is real?

[Frank Goad]

Do you believe faith healing is real? 

[Jayne]

Not really.  

To claim that God will not heal you via a faith healer unless you have enough faith [usually accompanied by an envelope to put money in] is not Biblical.

Any many times, especially on television, these people do not have all the disabilities that they claim.  In the 1960's my mother watched a Kathryn Kuhlman healing service that came to town and was locally televised.  Kathryn Kuhlman was Benny Hinn's mentor [he has claimed that].

One of my mother's close friends at the time brought her dad to the healing service.  He was getting elderly and had some "elderly" problems.

BUT, she brought him in a wheelchair and presented him to KK in that wheelchair.  The man was NOT confined to a wheelchair.  In fact, my mother said she never saw him in one, but sawing him walking.  KK "healed" him and stood him up from the chair and he walked around.  He already had that ability.

KK didn't know that, but my mother's close friend did.

It's all so strange to me.

I do believe in church member laying hands on the sick and praying for them.  Whether God heals them or not is up to him.

But to pay [which that part of healing services are not shown] someone to "heal" you - I don't believe in that.

 

[Frank Goad]

I think faith healing is the ability to lay your hands on people.And to heal them just by praying.

[JTC]

Yes, the principle is true but there are more false faith healers around than real ones. A real faith healer will first be a most humble man of God. From what I have seen if a person wants these kinds of favors from God then that person better start trying to live as sin free as you can.

The best author to read for this was Kenneth E. Hagin, who went home in 2004. Brother Hagin has tons of videos but he doesn't teach as well while speaking as he does in writing. So you need to read some of his books. I've read close to 75% of them. Brother Hagin was the real deal and I know this because I went to see & hear him 6 times in the early 1990's. One night, instead of the healing line he had a vision to pray for certain people. I was 1 of those people. No, I was not miraculously healed of a physical ailment but I was healed of many of my spiritual ailments. I mean something happened to me and I sure did change after that night. We all know we're all sinning big time when we get saved, so this is not about salvation. This is about getting favors from the Lord and He doesn't usually do them for people who don't want anything beyond salvation.

I highly recommend the Kenneth E. Hagin book "I Believe in Visions", start with that one.

[JTC]

24 minutes ago, Jayne said:

Not really.

This is an excellent example of a phony faith healer. Never send anyone money for healing, those are always false.

But folks, Faith is the keyword in the term faith healing, and judging simply from our board I'd have to say almost no one has the kind of faith necessary to speak miracles into existence. This is sad but it's what's going on these days.

[Sower]

1 hour ago, Frank Goad said:

Do you believe faith healing is real? 

Only God can miraculously heal, as He does all healing.
God has blessed me with a certain discernment, and what I see
on TV and U tube, my spirit cries out to be false.
If they were some kind of true healers, blessed by GOD, they would be walking the halls of the hospitals, 
and the streets alleys  in the hoods, blessing/healing the poor and downtrodden, for a payment of
only knowing they may hear someday a 'well done' by their Savior.

"Confess your faults/sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."  James 5:16

 

[simplejeff]

2 hours ago, Frank Goad said:

Do you believe faith healing is real? 

How could it not be real ?

[JTC]

4 hours ago, simplejeff said:

How could it not be real ?

Here's one way that already happened.

Back in the 80's or 90's a major fraud was put over on naive Christians by a man named Robert Tilton (I think). This guy was sending out hankies, pieces of thread, and some other items that supposedly could heal you. This man was finally caught, publicly exposed, and sent to jail. A couple yrs later I saw an anonymous interview with another man who claimed he had been a collage roommate with Tilton. As unbelievable as this may sound, the 2nd man said Tilton used to discuss doing this when they were roommates. Tilton always considered being a phony faith healer a last ditch method of getting rich. I forget what he did that lead to his arrest and conviction, but he swindled millions of people. I don't think any, or not many, got any of their money back.

   Even though I am convinced that Kenneth E. Hagin was for real I know the OPer has a legitimate concern. Hagin may have died as a successful man but he didn't live a life I wish I had. What I mean is God gave him a wonderful gift, the gift of healing, this is true, but Hagin didn't have such a wonderful life. So I would never envy him or think he said and did all he did for personal gain. I also think an Englishman named Smith Wigglesworth was also the real deal. But that means there are a whole lot of more phonies out there than real faith healers. Be very careful and never send them money for the promise of healing. God doesn't sell His gifts for money and neither would a true servant of God.  

[BeauJangles]

Do you believe faith healing is real?

I do believe in the miraculous, because a number of them have been personally experienced in my lifetime. The term: faith healing has a rather off-color stigma to it. To me, it would be a demonstrative event, like a theatrical televangelist making overt displays of the Holy Spirit. Benny Hinn comes to immediate mind. 

[Revlori]

9 hours ago, Frank Goad said:

I think faith healing is the ability to lay your hands on people.And to heal them just by praying.

Yes I believe that God heals people. People who walk in faith and pray for those that are sick have had there prayers answered many times. Are there still sick among us, yes. Why haven't everyone that we pray for gotten healed? That is up to God. We are required to pray, also when we can, lay hands on people and pray for healing. Faith works with both people, the ones praying and the one receiving. However God's reasons for healing or not is between the person and God. Not everyone who remains sick, lame or what ever the case may be ( mental, physical, spiritual, financial, or emotional) lacks faith, nor does the person praying. I believe God is in control and his plans are best even when we don't understand, all believers have been given a measure of faith and each one uses that measure when they are praying. Whether for themselves or others, however the manifestation of those prayers come from God and in his timing.

God bless ?