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Does Healing Require Faith?

Do you need faith to be healed or not?

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The question about whether faith is needed to receive healing has caused a lot of controversy and confusion. The following groups of scriptures help answer this issue

 

This article works alongside 2 free articles available on our blog:

Does healing require faith or not?

Who initiated the Healing?

Please read these articles, and then look through the tables below to help gain understanding of when healing requires faith and when it does not.

 

These scripture references also go with the following MP3 teachings:

Healing: By faith or not by faith? Part 1

Healing: By Faith or not by faith? Part 2

 

When we group the healing accounts in Jesus' ministry according to 'who initiated the healing' (in other words who made the first approach for healing in each account - was it Jesus approaching the sick person, or the sick person approaching Jesus?), we can notice a very interesting pattern emerging connected to faith and receiving from God:

 

(Please note that we are not including cases where people were delivered from demons here, that is for another study. These are specifically healing related incidents, although a couple of these healing related instances were demon related, so are included here) 

 

A)    The following table lists cases where Jesus initiated the healing:

In each of these cases faith is NOT specifically mentioned as a factor in the person being healed.

Healing Account Matthew Mark Luke John
Man at the Pool       5:2-15
Man with the Withered Hand 12:9-13 3:1-5 6:6-10   
Man Born Blind       9:1-7
Woman with spirit of infirmity     13:10-17  
Man with dropsy     14:1-6    
Malchus Ear 26:47-56 14:43-50 22:47-53 18:3-12

 

 

B)    The following table lists cases where the sick person, or their parent, initiated the healing:

Notice how many of these faith is SPECIFICALLY referred to in their healing

(F) – indicates that faith is specifically mentioned as the determining factor in the healing

Healing Account Matthew Mark Luke John
Nobleman’s Son    (F)       4:46-54
Leper 8:1-4 1:40-45 5:12-15  
Paralytic (F) 9:2-8 2:1-12 5:17-26  
Centurion’s servant (F) 8:5-13   7:1-10  
Jairus’ Daughter (F) 9:18-19
23-26		 5:22-24
35-43		 8:41-42
49-56		  
Woman with Issue of Blood  (F) 9:20-22 5:25-34 8:43-48  
Two Blind Men    (F) 9:27-31      
Syrophoenician’ daughter    (F) 15:21-28 7:24-30    
Lunatic Son  (F) 17:14-21 9:14-29 9:37-42  
Ten Lepers  (F)     17:11-19  
Blind Bartimaeus  (F) 20:29-34 10:46-52 18-35-43  

 

C)    Those healed by Intercession by a group on behalf of the sick person:

Healing Account Matthew Mark Luke John
Peter’s wife’s Mother 8:14-15 1:29-31 4:38-39  
Deaf with Speech impediment    7:31-37    
Blind man at Bethsaida   8:22-    

 

 

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