THE GIFTS OF HEALINGS!

 Last Sunday, we looked at “THE GIFT OF THE WORKING OF MIRACLES.” Today we are going to look at another power gift, “THE GIFTS OF HEALINGS”

 In 1 Corinthians 12:9, 28-30, the Scriptures say, “…to another THE GIFTS OF HEALING by the same Spirit;…28 And GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then GIFTS OF HEALINGS, helps, governments, diversities of tongues…30 Have all THE GIFTS OF HEALING(S)?...”

 

What is healing? This is the process of making one that is sick whole. There are two types of healing: 

 

1. General healing: People can be healed by simply exercising their faith in the Word of God. It always works. Yes, as a Born-Again believer, you can be healed on your own faith in God’s Word. If you truly believe, and act on the particular Scripture you are standing on, you will receive your healing. 

 

For instance, Jesus said to the woman with the issue of blood, “Daughter, your faith hath made thee whole” (Mk. 5:34). 

 

Look at some promises of God concerning healing – Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24; Ps. 107:20).

 

2. The gifts of healings. When the gifts of healings are in operation, they are manifested through a person that has the gift to the one in need of healing, as the Spirit wills.

 

The gifts of healings are not the normal healing ability you acquire by believing the Word of God about healing.

 

What is the difference between the gifts of healings and receiving healing by faith? The difference is in the channel through which healing is manifested.

 

The gifts of healings are manifested through the person that is operating in that gift to the one in need of healing in his body.

 

But when you believe God’s Word, the healing virtue is drawn directly from Jesus to you (Mk. 5:30). “And the whole multitude sought to touch Jesus: for there went virtue out of Him, and healed them ALL” (Lk. 6:19).

 

What then is the Gifts of Healings? The gifts of healings are supernatural manifestations of the Spirt that are manifested through someone who has this gift to another person that needs healing. They are for supernatural healing of diseases and infirmities without natural means of any sort. 

 

It is a special endowment that the Holy Spirit has given to some believers to heal the sick. It is a supernatural ability imparted to a Born-Again Believer to bring God’s healing power to the sick. This gift is used to bring deliverance to those bound by disease, infirmity, and affliction (Lk. 4:18-19).

 

1 Corinthians 12:9 talks of gifts of healings. This implies a supernatural ability to heal more than one type of disease. That is to say that there are more than one gift of healing. For instance, God used Phillip in Samaria to heal palsies and lame people (Acts 8:5-7). Phillip had the supernatural ability to heal more than one type of disease. 

 

The gifts of healings have nothing to do with medical science or human learning. Divine healing comes by:  

1) The laying on of hands. The major purpose for laying hands in the New Testament was to minister healing. Jesus Christ Himself employed this doctrine of the laying on of hands in healing people. 

 

In Mark 6:5 the Bible says, “…Jesus could there do no mighty work, save that HE LAID HIS HANDS UPON A FEW SICK FOLKS, and healed them.”

 

In Matthew 8:15 the Bible says that when Jesus entered Peter’s house, He found Peter’s mother-in-law sick with a fever. “And He touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.”

 

You see, if you don’t expect to be healed or delivered through the laying on of hands, then having hands laid on you will not produce any results. For the laying of hands to work for you, you must believe in it. Without faith, the laying on of hands is a mere ritual.

 

For instance, Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue in Galilee, also believed in the laying on of hands. Mark 5:22-24 says, “… COME AND LAY THY HANDS ON HER, THAT SHE MAY BE HEALED…”

 

In Acts 28:8 Apostle Paul was shipwrecked on an island. The father of Publius, the ruler of the island, was sick, so Paul went to his house “...and prayed, and LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM, and healed him.”  

 

God gave Paul the power to do unusual miracles, so that even when handkerchiefs or cloths that had touched his skin were placed on sick people, they were healed of their diseases, and any evil spirits within them came out (Acts 19:11-12). These cloths were anointed with the same power that Paul was anointed with.

 

Some years ago, I imparted the healing virtue into a white handkerchief in a shopping center at Enugu, and when that handkerchief was laid on a man that was sick unto death, God healed him.

 

When a person who is operating in the gifts of healings lays hands on the sick in obedience to the spiritual law of Contact and Transmission, his hands transmit God’s healing power into the body of the sick person, thereby effecting a healing and a cure.

 

2) Anointing with oil. The Bible says, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:…” (Jam. 5:14-16).

 

The Bible says, “And the disciples of Jesus cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them” (Mk. 6:13).

 

3) Sometimes just by speaking the Word. The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the Word only, and my servant shall be healed” (Matt. 8:8).

 

The Bible says, “And Jesus arose, and rebuked (spoke to) the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm” (Mk. 4:39).

 

Conclusion: In this day and hour in which we live, these gifts of the Holy Spirit are necessary to bring about that which God desires to do in the earth.

 

Watch out for the edition of Good News from the pulpit!

 

• Your friend, I. I. MADUBUNYI (Head Pastor)             @ the HQs on 09.08. 2026