Healing: Receiving and Ministering Healing in the Name of Jesus

Healing was provided for in the atonement of Jesus Christ, paid for at the cross alongside the forgiveness of sins. By His stripes you were healed (Isaiah 53:4–5; 1 Peter 2:24). The same Jesus who walked through the towns of Galilee healing all who came to Him is the same Jesus who lives in the believer today by His Spirit, and the same gospel that announces the forgiveness of sins announces the healing of the sick.

This pillar is dedicated to biblical teaching on healing — how to receive healing for yourself, how to minister healing to others, how to stand in faith when symptoms persist, and how to think honestly about the difficult question of why some are healed and some are not. The articles here are written for believers in small Pentecostal, charismatic, and independent churches across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and beyond — for believers who want to walk in everything Jesus paid for at the cross.

Healing Is in the Atonement

The cross of Christ was not partial. When Jesus said "It is finished," He meant it. The same blood that washed away sin also opened the door for the healing of the body. Isaiah 53:4–5 declares that He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, that He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities, and that with His stripes we are healed. Matthew 8:16–17 quotes that very passage and applies it directly to Jesus' healing ministry, declaring that He healed all who came to Him in fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy. 1 Peter 2:24 carries the same truth into the New Covenant: by His stripes you were healed — past tense, finished, settled at the cross.

Understanding this is the first step in receiving healing. You do not beg God for what He has already provided. You receive what He has already paid for, the same way you received the forgiveness of sins — by faith.

How to Receive Healing

Receiving healing is a matter of faith, not of striving, ritual, or religious performance. The articles in this pillar teach the biblical pathway to receiving — through hearing the Word until faith rises (Romans 10:17), through laying hold of the promises of God in Scripture, through receiving the laying on of hands and the prayer of faith (James 5:14–16), through standing on the Word when symptoms remain, and through the renewing of the mind that aligns your thinking with what God has already declared.

You will also find honest teaching on the harder questions: what to do when healing does not seem to come, the proper role of doctors and medicine, the tension between human responsibility and divine sovereignty, and the difference between standing in faith and pretending nothing is wrong.

Ministering Healing to Others

Healing is not just for you. Jesus commanded His disciples to lay hands on the sick and to heal them (Mark 16:18). Every believer carries the same authority. You do not need to be ordained, gifted with healing in some special measure, or licensed by any institution to pray for the sick — the only credential the Bible requires is that you are a believer in Jesus Christ.

Articles in this pillar teach how to minister healing — how to pray for someone in pain, how to handle situations where you don't see immediate results, how to release the gifts of healings as the Spirit gives them, and how to walk in compassion the way Jesus did. This is not professional ministry; it is the believer's normal life in Christ.

What You Will Find in This Section

Articles in this pillar cover the biblical foundations of healing, healing scriptures organised by need, how to receive healing for yourself, how to lay hands on the sick, the role of confession in standing for healing, healing in the home, healing for children, the difference between sickness and a thorn in the flesh, common objections to healing teaching answered from Scripture, and accounts of healing in the small church context. Every article is grounded in the Word, written from inside the Pentecostal tradition, and aimed at the ordinary believer who wants to walk in what Jesus paid for.

Connected Pillars

Healing connects with Faith That Moves Mountains — because healing is received by faith, and growing in faith is inseparable from growing in healing. It connects with Prayer That Gets Answered, because the prayer of faith is central to healing ministry. And it connects with Operating in the Gifts of the Spirit, because the gifts of healings — plural in the Greek original of 1 Corinthians 12 — are part of how the Spirit distributes healing through the body of Christ.

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