Why Didn't I Receive My Healing?

God doesn't want you to have any diseases. He wants you to receive His miracle-working power and be totally free! He wants you to not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord (Psalm 118:17). Stick with God's Word until it sticks with you!

Now, to pray in faith for anything--whether it’s healing for your body or a financial miracle--you need to know God’s will. Then faith can begin. And the way to find God’s will is to go to the Bible and find a Scripture that covers your case.

For example, Jesus paid the price for our redemption and for our healing. First Peter 2:24 says “…by whose (Jesus’) stripes, ye were healed.” Were is past tense and that means we are healed. God will manifest Himself to you and your disease will disappear, as soon as you find out from the Word that you’re healed. This Scripture covers your case.

Many people are waiting on the Lord to come and heal them sometime. They are trying to convince God to heal them.

The price has already been paid, but you have to find the Scriptures that cover your case and make them a part of you.

Never let these them depart from you, regardless of the circumstances. If you don’t do this, you’re whipped. You will live your whole life without victory. It may even cost you your life.

Suppose you died at an early age from sickness. When you got to heaven, you went to church and heard Jesus preach. After the service you walked up to Him and said, “Jesus, I was a pastor’s wife (or this or that), and my husband and I love You. We saw You heal lots of people. But, Jesus, why didn’t You heal me?”It will be sad, my friend, when Jesus turns to you, shows you His back, and says, “I did! Why didn’t you accept it?

"Why didn’t you take a long hard look at the stripes on My back?”

You may say, “Well, Jesus, I didn’t see You on earth.”

And He’ll reply, “You saw that verse of Scripture. Why didn’t you accept that as truth? It says that by My stripes you were healed!”

Attend to God’s Word

Read Proverbs 4:20: My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Pay close attention to verse 20: “My son….” God is talking to you. When He says “son,” he means “daughter,” too. “My son, attend to my words….” Attend to them.

Growing up on a farm, I had to learn to attend to things. If you didn’t milk your cows, they would dry up. You had to feed the horses right because they would be working all the next day. My daddy used to check up on me to make sure I was doing things right. If I didn’t, he’d get me. You have to attend to things or they’ll just die.

The Bible is exactly the same way. God says, “My son, attend to my words….” That means you’re responsible to know what is in the Bible for yourself. Quit driving around the country, wearing your tires out, looking for someone to pray for you all the time. You never walk the floor, you don’t worship God or read the Bible very much. That’s why you want someone to pray for you all the time.

Come to God on Your Own!

You may think you’ve got to get to a particular person so that he can pray for you. You don’t need to get to anybody except the Lord Jesus Christ! That’s what you need, and it’s all you need.

One time I ministered to about 2,000 people in Baltimore, Maryland. I was teaching on the importance of coming to God on your own and asking Him for mercy. While I was speaking, about 200 people got up and ran to the altar, fell down on their knees, and began praising God. All over the place, God began to heal people.

One lady had been pushed to the front in a wheelchair. After being shaken by the power of God for about twenty minutes, she arose from the wheelchair healed! I did not pray for her. She received from God on her own. She came to God and showed great and deep appreciation for Jesus as her Healer. She reminded Him of how much she loved Him and how much she knew He loved her. And after God shook her like a tree, she rose up and walked off. Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden….”

You look up the Scriptures that cover your case, and you claim them boldly in Jesus’ name.

Go before the throne of God and remind God of what He said.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:15,16God said, "Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified" (Isaiah 43:26).

Claim a Scripture for yourself, and the Holy Spirit will absolutely perform it for you.

When you confess Jesus as the best businessman in the world, it’s amazing how much money He will make you. He will help you accumulate things without much effort. He will show them to you. Put the gospel first and “all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33).

Get the Word in Your Heart

Let’s take another look at Proverbs 4:21: “Let them (God’s words) not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.” I want you to learn how important it is for you to know the will of God, how important it is for you to not let the Word of God depart from before your eyes.

The victory for you is in the Word, not somewhere else. But you have to get the Word on the inside of your heart, so your mouth can speak it. If the Word gets in your heart, it will come out of your mouth, “…for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matt. 12:34). You need to realize the importance of getting Scriptures that cover your case down on the inside of you and out your mouth.

You can tell what kind of Scriptures you need by what the devil is doing in your life. For example, if you want to live free from disease, confusion, turmoil, and other attacks of the devil, get into the healing Scriptures of the New Testament.

Someday for your body’s sake, you’re going to have to memorize healing verses! You live in a body and the devil isn’t dead. Don’t you know that the devil is going to try and attack you? That doesn’t mean he’s going to be able to do anything to you— you might be strong enough to throw him off. But the devil is going to try to attack your body, and your wife’s, and your children’s bodies. You need to get that straight!

The devil is a crazy and ruthless attacker.

He will do anything to get your whole family to die and go to hell. He has a one-track mind—he wants the grave for all of us. From morning till evening, then all night long, he’s a ruthless killer (John 10:10)If you don’t smother the devil, you’re going to have trouble all of your life. Even though you might be a Bible teacher, or a worldwide, well-respected evangelist, you can still get in trouble with the devil. He’ll bombard your mind and try to get you to do things the way you want to do them, rather than the way God says to do things in the Scriptures.

Get a hold of God's Word. Attend to it. Get it in your heart. Believe it. Speak it out your mouth. And it will work for you! "There has not failed one word of all His good promise..." (1 Kings 8:56).