I deliberately do not teach healing as a formula. Your flesh would like a little 3-step healing formula that you could work every time and get your healing. The reason your flesh would like this is that then you could "work a principle" independently of God, and you wouldn't have to base any of it on a relationship with him. You could just go out and sin any way you want, have worldly motives, and work your little formula to be healed. God has no interest in having you turn Christianity or even part of it into a formula. The Pharisees were adept at that, and Jesus pronounced hideous woes upon them. They lived their lives based on certain (selected) Scriptural principles, but they had no love at all for God or their fellow man.

God is not interested in healing you so that you can go out and sin better. Really, God isn't even interested in healing you so that you can go out and do your own thing "for God" in your own way. There are people out there whose motive for getting healed has nothing to do with being more useful for the Master's work. Don't expect to get healed if that's you. You will find that if you are holding out on God in other areas of your life, it is difficult or impossible to receive healing from him. You are living in a state of confusion, and until you yield your life to God completely, you will stay sick unless God decides to show some extra mercy to you. For example, some people who are called to the ministry have never responded to the call. If that's you, you may not be able to get healed until you do something about the real problem in your life -- disobedience!


People got healed in all kinds of different ways in the Bible. Thank God, they weren't all thinking in terms of formulas. Healing is centered on the work of the Healer himself. If you're having trouble receiving your healing, pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. What helps you might not be what helps me or someone else. He knows what you need to hear. It's all the same Word, but he knows how to make it come alive to you and communicate it so that you "get it." That is part of the Holy Spirit's job -- to take the things of Christ and reveal them to you. Let him do his job! Ask him! Don't go it alone. God didn't give you the Holy Spirit so that you could ignore him and try to figure out everything yourself.


You need to know certain things to get healed, and these are articulated in the articles in this book. However, it is not enough to just know "Healing Scriptures." Many people are not healed because of sin they won't give up or problems addressed by Scriptures that have nothing to do with healing. The Corinthians had plenty of faith and gifts of the Spirit, yet many of them got sick and died because of their rotten attitudes. If many in this "faith" church suffered this fate, there is probably more of this going on today than you realize. I am not saying that any particular person who died was in this kind of sin, but we should expect this same thing to happen today. If these people "claim" their three-step healing formula, they will be the first on the bandwagon to insult healing preachers and say that the formula doesn't work when they don't get healed.


Some false cults believe in some form of healing, and most of them base the healing "formulas" they use on the Bible! Jesus said that whosoever speaks to a mountain and believes that it will move can move it. He did not restrict this statement to believers. I read a totally Satanic book once by an author who specialized in testimonies of people who used Mark 11:23's principle without Christ and got results! However, these folks will still burn in hell unless they repent. Jesus said that people would even do works in his name without knowing him (Matthew 7:21-23)! That should highlight the risk of using principles rather than living a life led by the Holy Spirit.

You can indeed "get" some things using principles, but still be empty. Mormons are not Christians (despite their claims to the contrary), but they tithe, and they do well financially as a group, probably for that reason. Other unbelievers have tithed and experienced great increase because of it. They still suffer eternal fire if they die without Christ, even though they are successfully working a Biblical formula.


Healing is always God's will, 100% of the time. You do not need to be "led by the Spirit" to discern whether healing rightfully belongs to you as a Christian -- it does. I am just saying that if you are only applying formulas, you may not get your healing, even though God wants you to prosper and be in health.

I am not knocking anyone in particular who teaches three steps to this and seven steps to that. The only caution I have for you is that you can't set hard and fast rules that will apply to everyone in a few steps. People need the whole counsel of Scripture, and you just can't break it down into a few words. The danger is that they'll try it and fail and then give up on healing in general because your little formula did not work.