Can Christians Heal Sick People? | Theocast Clips

Do Christians have an ability to heal people from physical illness? In this clip from "Prayer for Healing," Jon and Justin discuss how James 5 should be interpreted in the Biblical context and what that means for us as Christians.

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[hartley]

I healed someone two days ago . Praise the lord

[breannat]

It’s a shame that people would rather have physical healing superpowers than the spiritual healing from sin that comes only through faith in Jesus Christ

[educational]

Personally I think these things sound like excuses. I think Jesus meant exactly what he said. The problem doesn't lie with what he said, when he told us that we could move objects with our faith and heal others with our faith. The problem lies with our faith.

Jesus did not characterize faith as an on-off switch. He characterized it as a degree of size. He said if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could turn to a mountain until it to move and it would obey you, or you could turn to a tree and tell it to uproot itself and plant itself in the sea, and it would obey you or you could turn to a fig tree and tell it to wither, and it would obey you.

And what did he say was the prerequisite? He said that you must believe without doubting. How many of us doubt even before we begin to do one of these actions he says we are capable of doing? And how many of us doubt as we're attempting the thing? And how many of us doubt even after the thing begins to occur? And how many of us doubt even after the thing has already occurred? We are like doubting machines. We are experts at doubting! And that does not bode well for our ability to accomplish the miraculous feats he says we are capable of doing by believing without doubting.

So I believe the entire issue may just come down to a very simple thing: we suck at exercising faith. We think we are doing faith, but subconsciously we don't really believe what we're about to do.

So I think what's going on here may come down to the fact that subconsciously we lack faith to an immeasurably large degree. And that's probably why Jesus characterized a small amount of faith as being the size of a mustard seed and that amount of faith being able to move a mountain from here to there.

That means the natural level of faith we have on an average day is far far far less in size than a mustard seed. And therefore we get just that amount of effect when we try to do something miraculous