THE DESIRE FOR BEING HEALED FROM CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES AND AILMENTS CAN LEAD PEOPLE TO FAKE HEALERS WHO LIKE PHSYCIANS ARE KNOWN AS QUACKS. Quackery is not a term used to refer to the sound ducks make when they quack, quack, but is used for doctors who botch operations and make false prognostications based on faulty diagnoses of an ailment. So, why are farcical physicians and fake healers called quacks? Well if it quacks like a duck and demonstrates that it is a duck, it is a duck, except in this case the reference is to a healer being a fake and making fake claims, which means the healer is a fake.

If one asks the healer for healing, and then doesn’t get healed, is the healer then still the healer?

Happy Riches Answer requested by Aharon Fierinck 

Much depends upon who it is that you are calling the healer. The book of wisdom informs us:

1. A bad messenger plu nges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing. (Proverbs 13:17)

A bad If you see a person who claims to be a healer that is a psychic, understand, many people are healed when a psychic gets lucky and a demon leaves the person seeking help.

In fact, many people are healed when they believe they are healed, irrespective of who is performing the voodoo or whatever the abracadabra might be.

Once I heard a surfer telling a Seventh Day Adventist that he had a serious cold and went surfing in the freezing Antarctic Ocean water off the coast of Australia. After he spent time catching a number of waves, he no longer had the cold. He concluded that the energy he exerted rejuvenated his immune system sufficiently to overcome the virus.

Another view proffered by a non-Adventist was the person was actually experiencing the value of homeopathy; by ingesting small amounts of cold Antarctic Ocean water to remedy the cold virus.

However, Jesus said to many people that if they had the faith to believe they were healed, then they would be healed. When Jesus was walking around Palestine, people were being healed for different reasons, even though it was their own faith that made many of them well.

• And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” (Mark 5:34)
• And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way. (Mark 10:52)

Faith without works is dead. This principle is elaborated upon in the book of James.

• Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, and the scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead. (James 2:21-26)

Therefore when people act upon the faith they possess in the words of Jesus, they are made well. This is illustrated in the account of the ten lepers.

• And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then said Jesus, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” (Luke 17:12-18)

The Apostle Paul was in Lystra and observed that a person possessed faith and because of this would be healed.

• Now at Lystra there was a man sitting, who could not use his feet; he was a cripple from birth, who had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking; and Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well, said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and walked. (Acts 14:8-10)

The importance of people possessing faith is often disputed by people who teach the doctrines of TULIP. You will here these religionists pray prayers of unbelief along the lines of:

Dear God, we know that we are such evil people and our hearts are so deceptive, that we are not worthy of you. We understand that you look upon us with such contempt because we are so wicked and can never do any good in your eyes. Our thoughts are not your thoughts. Our ways are not your ways. But if it is your will, we will pray that Mary will be healed by the doctor on Monday morning when she attends the rooms at the clinic. We ask that you guide the doctor to give her sound advice and provide the appropriate pills that will assist her constitution so that she no longer suffers from constipation and can have a good purge.—They are pathetic!

According to Jesus, one girl was made well because of the faith that her mother possessed in respect to her obtaining her healing.

• Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly. (Matthew 15:28)

We might wonder how it is that the girl was healed according to the faith of her mother. The answer is found in the Epistle of First John, when the apostle instructs how healing is effected.

• I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. (1 John 5:13-15)

The woman, whose daughter was healed, understood that Jesus had heard her request and believe that because of this, the girl would be healed. We do not have the physical presence of Jesus in our midst, but this does not mean we cannot be heard by Him. Therefore, we pray as Jesus taught us to pray until we are absolutely assured that we have been heard by Him. When we do this, we will be healed.

Other reasons people do not get healed is people eat unhealthy food.

Unforgiveness and unconfessed acts of sin are also barriers to divine healing.

Doubt, of course, is the biggest difficulty we have to overcome. One moment—one split second—of doubt within one’s heart and then one’s faith is incomplete and thereby insufficient.

Many do not get healed because of subconscious and unconscious unbelief.

Some people surprisingly seem like conscious doubters but unconsciously, within their inner person, they possess faith and they are healed.

Healing Is Said To Be The Children’s Bread, Because They Do Not Doubt