Is It Faithlessness to Take Medicines While Believing God for Healing?
1) Direct Answer
No. Taking medicine while believing God is not faithlessness. God is the Healer; medicine is only a help. Keep your faith in God, use what help is available, and give Him the glory.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). Healing is God’s work.
- Hezekiah: God said, “I will heal thee,” and yet commanded a poultice of figs to be laid on the boil (2 Kings 20:5–7). Promise and means walked together.
- The Good Samaritan poured in oil and wine to treat the wounds (Luke 10:34).
- “Luke, the beloved physician” was honored among the saints (Colossians 4:14).
- Paul counseled, “Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities” (1 Timothy 5:23), showing Scripture recognizes medicinal help without endorsing excess or drunkenness.
- The prayer of faith shall save the sick (James 5:14–15). The oil is a sign; God does the healing.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- You see, a doctor can set a bone, but only God knits it. Medicine can fight infection, but only God gives life and restoration. So using medicine doesn’t replace faith; trusting medicine instead of God does.
- If it were unbelief to use means, why did God direct a poultice after promising healing to Hezekiah? The issue is not the fig; it’s the God who heals.
- Keep your confession: after prayer, hold to God’s promise regardless of symptoms or prescriptions. Don’t throw away needed aids to “prove” faith unless the Lord has clearly delivered you. Faith is obedience to God’s Word, not presumption.
- Walk clean and sober. Scripture condemns bondage and excess. Be led by the Spirit, not ruled by any substance.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, God heals; means are servants. Keep your eyes on Christ, use what helps are at hand with a clear conscience, and testify that the Lord is your Healer.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
God has a Provided Way
54-0404E §109
The audience be reverent, be in prayer, be expecting God to bless and to heal. Amen. Have faith in God! You sitting there, lady, with your finger up like this, suffering with a... Do you believe that God is going to heal you of that low blood pressure you got? Do you believe it? Yes. You believe He is. Stand up on your feet then and accept it. It'll leave you, and you can go home and be well. You say, "What did that?" The same Jesus Christ that turned to the woman with the blood issue, said, "Thy faith has saved th...
A Greater than Solomon is here
61-0412 §89
Nurse told me the other day, said, "I believe divine healing, but," said, "they'd take my sheepskin away from me. If anybody professes divine healing up on the hospital" (where I prayed for some people and they were healed), said, "if I profess it, they'd take my nurse's rights, my sheepskin away from me." I said, "That's a goatskin. Throw it away, and get a real sheepskin," I said. "Get a ... where the blood of Jesus Christ is wrote." That's true. Anything ... I believe in medicine, I believe in doctors. I believe...
Taking God at His Word
53-1103 §9
Now, you don't want to discard the medicine, the medicine keeps it clean, while li--God does the healing. If I broke my arm, and would die, and they'd come set my arm, just keep putting splints on it, and lay it there; and forty years from now, that arm would be broke just exactly like it was when it was broke, if the life's gone out of my body. But the doctor sets the bones in places, but God does the healing, life. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but if you won't say it, I will. I--I--I believe, I'm just an old f...
Balm in Gilead
61-0218 §53
Now, if medicine heals the human body, why don't it heal it? Why," you say, "you ain't got no life." Then medicine isn't the healer; life is the healer. Then tell me what life is, I'll tell you who God is. God is life. Exactly right. Now medicine, so much for ... is dangerous to take. But, oh, you might get by with not taking the doctor's toxin; but you can't get by without God's toxin, his balm. You can't do it. You sure can't do it. And then, how do they find toxin? Well, some scientist rigs up a whole lot of stu...
Elijah
55-0301 §43
While we have our heads bowed, the music sweetly, softly playing, the Holy Spirit just above you looking down. God knocking at your heart, saying, "Oh, sinner, come on Home." You may not be here tomorrow to accept it. Won't you come tonight? If God's knocking at your heart and you feel that, it's God speaking to you. Not to me now, but to God, will you raise up your hand to Him, and saying, "God forgive me, I now accept Jesus as my Savior." God bless you, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir, God bless you...