Faith and Healing

I really need to find out the relationship between faith and healing.

 

Todd White says that His faith can trump anyones unbelief for thsoe he prays for and he regularly demonstrates this.

 

Curry Blake says a similar thing that we can have faith for others so even when their faith is weak, as long as we believe than healing will occur.

 

But What does the bible say?

 

Jesus asked if you believe that He could do a miracle.

 

Jesus often said "According to your faith be it unto you" and "your faith has made you whole".

 

Paul saw that a cripple had faith to be healed and raised him up.

 

Yet Peter and John healed the beggar at the temple who had no faith.

 

Jesus raised a young man from the dead as he was in a funeral procession. who had the faith there? Only Jesus.

 

The father of the epileptic child had some serious doubts ("if you can "), but Jesus adressed those doubts and the father cried out to Jesus to help him overcome his unbelief.

 

My experience is similiar. In two recent case while prayin with Christians, I saw the interaction between faith and unbelief.

 

I was praying for one person , and they had great faith at the time and they got healed. However a little later the sickness returned. You see she had serious doubts about healing and a lot of wrong doctrine concerning healing. I gave her some material that addressed her doubts and in no time she was healed and maintained her healing.

 

Another reccent case, achristian had a long standing condition. She had several reservations, fears, doubts, blocks etc, so she was not open to ministry previously.

 

However in a moment of desperation she said that she absolutely believed that God would heal her. We prayed and God answered and began a progressive / gradual healing. She was open at first but then was fearful at how fast the healing was going. Later on that day when I followed up on her, she said nothing much had changed since we last spoke. But at this time she started wavering and doubting, talking about Gods time is not our time and not willing to deal with unbelief.

 

I fully believe that God was willing and able to heal her completely but by her refusing to address her doubts, her healing was only partial. The hurts and pain, guilt and condemnation she had felt from being prayed for on numerous ocassions in the past prevented her from receiving her miracle.