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Can We Command Healing? you would think this would be
Pastor Sue Garnett a no brainer. But if that were
the case, why are we seeing so
In this article I want to many of our loved ones
talk about healing and what repeatedly being attacked with
rights or authority we have as sickness? Why do we ourselves
believers. Most of us know struggle so much?
someone who is currently
battling an illness, whether it While I know there are
be cancer, dementia, some things about faith and
fibromyalgia, an auto immune healing that we will never
disease, COVID, the after effect understand, especially
of COVID, or any other illness concerning those loved ones
you can think of. I believe it is who believed in healing, yet
imperative we learn what died well before what we
authority we have as a believer consider to be their time. Let
over these diseases. me stop here and make this
statement before we go any
When our granddaughter further. I am by no means
was two years old and she saying, nor would I ever say or
would see someone who was insinuate that someone lost a
sick or hurting and would battle because they did not
immediately go to them, lay her have faith.
hand on their forehead, and say,
“Be healed in name of Jesus.” There are a multitude of
And guess what? Their healing things that can influence the
manifested. If she can do that results of a battle, but faith is
at 2, imagine what we can do a major component of healing.
at 22, 32, 42, 72 or any age. She The question that arises then,
had the faith of a child and was is our faith based on head
innocent enough not to believe knowledge or heart knowledge.
anything less than the person How can we expect to receive
she laid hands on and prayed our healing when we do not
for would be healed. believe He will heal?
When our granddaughter
For those of us who have
studied healing and seen was saying that little prayer, it
miracles happen in front of us, didn’t leave any room for
