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Can we chose who "we" heal?
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Posted by: Frederik
There are people which say that they can heal whoever they want cause they have Jesus and the Holy Spirit and this mean they can heal whoever they want.
This is the one of the silliest things I've ever heard. No surprise that people don't even know what's the truth now.There is so much distorted stuff out there, I am so sick of it! So sick of all these healing and prosperity books. Bah! This stuff should be forbidden!
Posted by: ramonah
I agree with you Frederik. People like that scare me honestly. God does not perform miracles at our command! He can & does perform miracles thru us, but we alone cannot do anything. Personally, I try very hard to stay far from people like that.
Posted by: ANOINTED WARRIOR
John 15
4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
"They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" ---Mark 16:18
John 15:4 + Mark 16:18 = Healing
Posted by: Frederik
I also had somebody lay his hands on me and I was not healed.
So was it my fault?? Yes of course it's all my fault cause I did not have enough faith.... 
Maybe this guy simply did not have the ability to lay hands on others, who knows. I don't believe that every christian can do this. But what does it matter I don't get anything cause everybody has different opinions I'm really fed up, it makes no sense anyway. Figuring out what's the truth is impossible.
Posted by: jedijeb
Using the verses which AW listed I searched the Matthew Herny commentary and this is what he has to say about it.
3. What power they should be endowed with, for the confirmation of the doctrine they were to preach (Mar_16:17); These signs shall follow them that believe. Not that all who believe, shall be able to produce these signs, but some, even as many as were employed in propagating the faith, and bringing others to it; for signs are intended for them that believe not; see 1Co_14:22. It added much to the glory and evidence of the gospel, that the preachers not only wrought miracles themselves, but conferred upon others a power to work miracles, which power followed some of them that believed, wherever they went to preach. They shall do wonders in Christ's name, the same name into which they were baptized, in the virtue of power derived from him, and fetched in by prayer. Some particular signs are mentioned; (1.) They shall cast out devils; this power was more common among Christians than any other, and lasted longer, as appears by the testimonies of Justin Martyr, Origen, Irenaeus, Tertullian Minutius Felix, and others, cited by Grotius on this place. (2.) They shall speak with new tongues, which they had never learned, or been acquainted with; and this was both a miracle (a miracle upon the mind), for the confirming of the truth of the gospel, and a means of spreading the gospel among those nations that had not heard it. It saved the preachers a vast labour in learning the languages; and, no doubt, they who by miracle were made masters of languages, were complete masters of them and of all their native elegancies, which were proper both to instruct and affect, which would very much recommend them and their preaching. (3.) They shall take up serpents. This was fulfilled in Paul, who was not hurt by the viper that fastened on his hand, which was acknowledged a great miracle by the barbarous people, Act_28:5, Act_28:6. They shall be kept unhurt by that generation of vipers among whom they live, and by the malice of the old serpent. (4.) If they be compelled by their persecutors to drink any deadly poisonous thing, it shall not hurt them: of which very thing some instances are found in ecclesiastical history. (5.) They shall not only be preserved from hurt themselves, but they shall be enabled to do good to others; They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover, as multitudes had done by their master's healing touch. Many of the elders of the church had this power, as appears by Jam_5:14, where, as an instituted sign of this miraculous healing, they are said to anoint the sick with oil in the name of the Lord. With what assurance of success might they go about executing their commission, when they had such credentials as these to produce!
Notice that he mentions that not all will have these powers. They were conferred as needed to bring about the spread of the Kingdom of God.
Posted by: StarChilde
Each time that God used me as His vessel to impart healing to someone else by laying on of hands... I was told by God to pray for that individual specifically & lay hands on them...each time those people were healed. There have been some other times where I laid hands upon someone and prayed and they were healed, but it did not happen in every instance. It may differ from person to person, I don't know. I do know when I was told specifically to do it though, the person was healed.