period of several years. And in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, these types of afflictions
were eventually all healed.
Some of the growths disappear within a month. Others sometimes take several months before
they completely disappear. But in most cases these growths disappear and the people are
healed. That is a manifestation of the gifts of healings.
One fellow who was greatly used of God in praying for people who were deaf, said by his own
admission that he very seldom got any other type of malady except deaf folks. I watched him
several times in various meetings, and I never saw a deaf person fail to receive healing under
this man's ministry.
In the ministry of Jesus, every manner of sickness and every manner of disease was healed
(Matt. 9:35). That's because Jesus had the Spirit without measure and all the gifts of healings
were in manifestation in His life and ministry.
Gifts of Healings vs. Receiving by Faith
There is a difference between receiving healing through the manifestation of gifts of healings
and just simply receiving healing by our own faith in God's Word. God has taught me through
the years the difference between the two. Both are scriptural ways to receive healing.
When I received healing for my own body, for example, no one laid hands on me. In fact, I
didn't really know there was any church group that believed in divine healing. I didn't know
there was such a thing as a Full Gospel movement.
But as a Baptist boy on the bed of sickness, I read Grandma's Methodist Bible and I was
healed, not just because I believed in divine healing necessarily, but because I acted on and
stood on Mark 11:24: ". . . What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them."
So I prayed and began to say, "I believe I receive healing for my deformed heart. I believe I
receive healing for my paralyzed body. I believe I receive healing from the top of my head to
the soles of my feet." And God's healing power was manifested in my body.
My healing came because I acted in faith on God's Word. You can do the same thing. God's
Word will work for you if you believe and act on it. Gifts of healings are manifested through
another person to you. All healings are done by God, of course, but the difference is in the
channel through which healing is manifested.
Someone has said that any time you receive healing, it is done by the gifts of healings in
operation. In one sense of the word "gift," healing by any method is a gift because anything
you get from God is a gift generally speaking.
However, all healing is not necessarily the gifts of healings in manifestation. My own healing,
for example, was manifested as I believed God's Word and acted on it in faith.
Ministering by the Gifts of Healings
Look again at First Corinthians 12:28: "And God hath set some in the church. ..." Paul was not
talking here about spiritual gifts, or the gifts of the Spirit when he said, "And God hath set