Opening the Faith for Total Healing series, this message explores three biblical reasons God allows sickness, to call a believer home, as a consequence of sin, or so that God may be glorified, then explains sickness as originating in the spirit realm before taking physical form, and distinguishes a miracle from a healing that unfolds gradually as a process.
Scripture Reference
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth
Key Points: Why Sickness Is Allowed
- Three biblical reasons are given for why God allows sickness: to call a believer home, as a consequence of sin, illustrated by Miriam, Aaron, Uzziah, and Israel in the wilderness, and so that God’s works may be revealed, as with the man born blind.
- Sickness and disease are described as beginning as an evil spirit before taking on a physical or diagnosable form, which is why some conditions can go undetected by medical testing yet still be real.
- Testimonies drawn from William Branham’s ministry describe conditions that doctors could not locate being identified through discernment, offered as evidence that what medicine could not see was still present in spirit form.
- A short explanation of the body’s natural immune response is used alongside the spiritual explanation, showing physical infection fought at the cellular level as a picture of the larger spiritual battle behind sickness.
- Cancer and tumors are described as taking on varied, formless shapes because their origin is spiritual rather than physical, multiplying and drawing life from the body once allowed to develop.
- A miracle is distinguished from healing by immediacy: the centurion’s servant and the blind man in Mark 10 show instant results, while the gradual restoration of sight in Mark 8 shows healing unfolding as a process.
- The session closes by introducing the idea that spiritual gifts are not what produce healing but rather what raise a person’s faith to the level needed to receive it, setting up the following week’s continuation.