Lost Healing Secrets from Lilian B Yeomans’ Unpublished Teachings

People often ask me, “Where do you find divine healing in the Bible?” To this I invariably reply, “Where don’t I find it?”

The Bible’s one theme is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of the world. His very name is as ointment (healing and fragrance) poured forth. Wherever you find Jesus you find healing for every disease, balm for every wound, an anodyne for every pain.

Someone has said, “I don’t know how to pray for healing”—meaning what form of prayer to use, thinking a form necessary. So, I said, “You can say the Lord’s Prayer, can’t you?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Well, that’s pretty strong on healing, isn’t it?”

“Why I didn’t know there was anything about healing in it.”

“Well, let us study it together and see if we can’t find something,” I replied. And as we did so it opened wider and wider, in connection with the great truth of the Lord for the body.

I just long to have everyone enter those beautiful portals with me and share the precious treasures we have found there. So I am writing this little message.

Our Father which art in Heaven—Matthew 6:9

My earthly father was a physician and surgeon in the United States Army, a veteran who had charge of many different hospitals during, and subsequent to, the Civil War. As a child I always felt that I was much safer than other children, for was not my father a doctor and, in my estimation at least, a wonderful one?

I remember on one occasion, my youngest sister, a child of about three, toddling around, fell and cut her forehead wide open on the carved leg of an old mahogany bedstead. Blood poured from the wound and her face was a sight to behold, while her shrieks, and mine rent the air. But my wonderful father came instantly to our relief.

“What can he do?” I pondered in my childish mind. But he seemed undismayed, and after laying the little thing very tenderly on a couch, made her breathe something from a handkerchief for a moment or two, after which she lay quite still. Then he washed her face gently till it was quite free from blood. But, alas! the deep, awful gash showed even more plainly than before.

“Yes, he can wash her face but he can’t mend her.” I said in my poor little unbelieving heart. But there was a great surprise in store for me. A man who had come to assist my father produced a leather case full of bright steel things.

What are they? I wondered and ventured to move a step nearer, for in the excitement I was quite lost sight of, or I would certainly have been told that my room was more desired than my company.

Then my wonderful father disclosed yet more of his amazing capabilities, for taking one of the gleaming things, which I saw must be strangely shaped needles, he proceeded to sew up my sister’s face, and what a job he made of it! She looked as good as ever when he was through. Oh, how my confidence in my father was confirmed and extended almost limitlessly, by this experience!

I just felt I couldn’t be sick, or have any part of my anatomy seriously damaged, just because I was my father’s daughter. He would prove more than equal to any emergency that could possibly arise, and I had a rightful claim to the very best he could do for me, for he was my father.

Do you read the parable? Our Father is God Almighty, our Creator, and our claim upon Him is that of children. You will never urge it in vain for spirit, soul, or body, if you present it in simple, childlike confidence. “Our Father which art in Heaven.”

Hallowed be Thy Name—Matthew 6:9

Pray that His name may be held sacred, given all honor in Heaven and in earth, believed on implicitly. And what is this but a prayer for the manifestation of those things for which that name stands, including, among others, deliverance from disease and physical infirmity?

In Acts 3:16, we read, “His name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Faith in His name brings perfect soundness.

Thy kingdom come—Matthew 6:10

This is also a prayer for healing and physical well-being, for we read that the increase of His government means the increase of peace, “Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end” (Isa. 9:7).

Nothing in the world is more surely inimical to peace than bodily affliction. Even a toothache, or a corn on the little toe, has power to mar our tranquility. But God has promised to keep us in perfect peace if we trust in Him (Isa. 26:3), and that means superb health—health so perfect that we hardly know we have a body except for the things it accomplishes.

I have a friend who has a beautiful Cadillac car and he used to employ it in the Lord’s service by taking some of us to our preaching appointments. It purred gently, and rolled as though on velvet, and I could hardly realize that I had been in a car at all except by getting to my destination. I believe that is the way God wants our bodies to function—”in perfect peace.”

Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven—Matthew 6:10

Here we pray that God’s will may be done in earth, even in the clay which composes our mortal bodies, as it is done in Heaven! How much arthritis, catarrh, rheumatism, diabetes, cancer, locomotor ataxia, and all the rest, do you think they have there? How many cases of measles, diphtheria, mumps, and whooping cough? If you can think of any dis- ease they have in Heaven you may have that, but no others, for our Lord Jesus teaches us to pray that God’s will may be done on earth as it is done in Heaven.

In Revelation 21:4, we are told, “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.”

Give us this day our daily bread—Matthew 6:11

Here again we are praying for physical as well as spiritual blessing. The Lord Jesus Himself speaks of healing as “the children’s bread” (Matt. 15:26). So we pray for healing and health when we ask for bread, as well as for material sustenance, and spiritual strength. What good is bread, or food of any kind, to a man whose stomach, and liver, and pancreas, and other digestive organs, are out of kilter? In this petition we ask for perfect digestion, absorption, and distribution for our bread has to be “given” not only into our hands and mouths, but into our stomachs, and through the absorbent system into the blood current, and by means of it to every cell in the tissues that make up our bodies.

And forgive us our debts (or sins)—Matthew 6:12

In the second chapter of Mark’s Gospel Jesus healed the paralytic that the onlookers might know “that the Son of man hath power on earth to for- give sins” (Mark 2:10). God wants people to know that His spiritual gifts to believers are real, and to this end He manifests His power in our bodies in a tangible manner by healing us and making us strong and vigorous. He desires to be the health of our countenance that we may be living epistles, known and read of all men, for He is not willing that any should perish. Your very face is to preach full salvation.

Lead us not into temptation—Matthew 6:13

I do not know any temptations that are harder to withstand than those to fear, unbelief, discouragement, and despair, which come with Satan’s attacks on our bodies. It is said that the third chapter of Job is the most eloquent of despair to be found in all literature. We are taught to pray, in full submission to the divine will, of course, that we may not be led into temptation.

Deliver us from evil—Matthew 6:13

This petition covers all forms of disease, for the curse entailed upon the Israelites by disobedience to the divine law includes “every sickness, and every plague” (Deut. 28:61). So when we pray, “Deliver us from evil,” we are asking for immunity from all sickness and every physical disability. And we are sure of the answer to our petitions, “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”