What classic preachers taught about faith and physical senses in divine healing

Did you know what classic preachers taught about faith and physical senses in divine healing?

You’re really going to be surprised.

 

When we talk about faith and divine healing we face the dilemma of who to trust, in the Word of God or in what our physical senses say when we are sick.

Let’s see what A. B. Simpson, Andrew Murray, Maria Woodworth-Etter, F. F. Bosworth, Carrie Judd Montgomery and E. W. Kenyon said:

A. B. Simpson said that our faith itself is nothing more than simply taking from the free gift of grace.

So come and claim His promise; And having done this, believe according to his Word that you have received it.

Be careful not to start looking at the result or seeing the symptoms, or seeing if you stand. You must ignore all symptoms and see only Him there before you, almighty to sustain you and save you from falling.

Prepare yourself for the trials of faith. Do not always look for the immediate removal of symptoms. Do not think about them. Just ignore them and move on, claiming the reality behind all symptoms. Whatever the symptom, you must firmly believe that behind all symptoms God is working out His own great restoration.

Andrew Murray said this about healing and physical senses:

Considering the body gives rise to doubts, while clinging to God’s promise and being busy only with Him gives entrance to the way of faith, the way of divine healing, which glorifies God.

Let us consider the words of another minister of divine healing about physical senses and divine healing, evangelist Maria Woodworth-Etter.

In seeking healing for our bodies, we are so apt to look at sensations, or symptoms; And we believe that we are healed just in proportion to how much we see and feel. When in reality we are healed when we believe. “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

F. F. Bosworth wrote:

To the extent that we base our faith on our improvement, or are affected by what we see or feel, rather than by only the word of God, in that way we show that our faith is not real. Being busy with what we see or feel is exactly reversing the condition that God sets for us to follow. “Everyone who looks at him will live,” simply means that everyone who, like Abraham, is occupied with God’s promise so that he is no longer affected by symptoms, “will recover.” It means that God’s word (not what we see or feel) will be the basis of our faith. Our “looking to God’s promise” must be maintained until we are healed.

Carrie Judd Montgomery taught on the evidence of the senses this way:

Instead of having the evidence of our senses regarding a matter, we accept the evidence of faith.

Having faith in God is believing His Word without looking at probabilities or possibilities, as humanly seen; Without considering natural circumstances; Without considering any apparent obstacle in the way of fulfilling His promises …

It is faith that does not waver at any complication of adverse circumstances.

Our faith in God must be so firm that even if the evidence of all our senses denies His word, we must consider it as deceiving us, and still continue to hold His faithfulness.

Such faith never fails to move, sooner or later, the mountain of difficulty or doubt.

Kenyon said:

We should not need evidence from the senses. Let us rest on the Word. Faith clings to the confession of the Word. Sense knowledge clings to the confession of physical evidence. If I accept physical evidence against God’s Word, I nullify the Word as far as I am concerned.

From these preachers of the last century, prior to the faith movement, we can find a great truth, if we have believed that we have been healed by the work of Christ on the cross, and have not yet seen the manifestation of our healing, we should not consider what our physical senses say, what we see or feel, but consider the Word of God and the work that Christ did for us on the cross.

Learn from the giants in faith and stop relying on your physical sensations, and simply receive by faith the gifts of God’s grace.

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