It is possible to confuse "the anointing" with "your healing" when you are being prayed for in a service setting. I have some thoughts on this to share with you that I believe will help you.

When you are in a prayer line, it is common (at least in better places) to feel something tangible in the air. You are feeling "the anointing." However, it is possible to feel the anointing go into you and still not receive your healing. In fact, if you don't receive your healing, the anointing will go back out of you because there will be no demand on it.

It is possible to feel the anointing so strongly that you cannot even stay on your feet, and yet get up without your healing. That is because the anointing is not the same thing as your healing. The anointing will go into you and work in your body when you exercise faith for your healing. It's not enough just to be around the anointing. Recall the story in Luke 5:17-26 about how the power (anointing) of the Lord was present to heal the religious leaders. The anointing was there to heal them all, but they did not get healed because they did not mix faith with that anointing. The anointing by itself is not enough. Even if you are healed by the gifts of the Spirit with no faith of your own, you will generally need faith to keep your healing.


I think what happens is that some people feel the anointing and assume that it is their healing. Then they don't exercise any faith because they figure that they must have received something already because they felt the power of God. Then they are disappointed when they feel rotten again after the anointing subsides or the service is over. They think, "I felt something, so I assumed I had my healing." But faith does not have anything to do with your physical feelings! You don't assume anything based on how you feel after you pray, even if you feel the presence of God all over you. You wouldn't ask your body how it feels to determine if you're saved or righteous before God, would you?

On the other hand, if you keep your focus on God and his Word rather than on the minister or your physical sensations in the service, you will pull the anointing right into you. It will go to work in your body and bring about the healing that you desire. If you're going to focus on something, focus on receiving your healing, not on feeling the power of God. Most of us love to feel the power of God and get "goose bumps," but the idea is to receive something, not to feel something. Remember, it's a healing line, not a feeling line. You can receive your healing without feeling a thing. Do not assume that just because you did not feel a tangible anointing, you did not receive your healing. As I've said elsewhere, I remember being the only person left standing in a healing line once where I received by faith. I was also the only one I know of who received his healing then. We don't know if the people in Jesus' ministry fell over or not. If they did, God doesn't consider that important because he doesn't mention it. The idea is to get healed, not upended.


Can you see the difference? The power of God (the anointing) can be there to heal you, but just because you feel it in the air or feel it go into you does not mean that you have received your healing. You receive by faith, not by feelings. Stay focused on receiving your healing, Don't be distracted by feelings.