Why Are Some Believers Never Healed?
1) Direct Answer
Some believers are not healed because healing works on promised grounds—faith, obedience, and a clear channel—yet God also deals as a Father, correcting, proving, and timing all things. Unbelief, unconfessed wrongs, bitterness, wrong approaches to the Lord’s Table, and the atmosphere around us can hinder. And remember, our bodies are not yet glorified; the full and final healing is guaranteed in the resurrection.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Healing is provided:
- “By His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24). Jesus bore our sicknesses (Matthew 8:16-17). The Lord is our Healer (Exodus 15:26). The prayer of faith shall save the sick (James 5:14-16).
- Hindrances the Bible names:
- Unbelief shuts the door: In His own country “He could there do no mighty work” because of unbelief (Mark 6:5-6). A double‑minded man “let not that man think that he shall receive” (James 1:6-7).
- Unconfessed faults and broken fellowship: “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed” (James 5:16). If you’ve got something against your brother, first be reconciled (Matthew 5:23-24). Husbands, dwell rightly with your wives “that your prayers be not hindered” (1 Peter 3:7).
- Dishonoring the Lord’s Table: “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you” for not discerning the Lord’s body (1 Corinthians 11:29-30).
- Some conditions are direct bondage and must be driven out: a “spirit of infirmity” bound a daughter of Abraham (Luke 13:11,16). Some cases “goeth not out but by prayer and fasting” (Mark 9:29).
- God’s fatherly purpose and timing:
- Sometimes it is for the works of God to be revealed (John 9:3).
- Paul’s “thorn” remained so that the Lord’s grace would be magnified (2 Corinthians 12:7-9).
- The Lord chastens sons for our profit (Hebrews 12:6-11).
- Not all saints in Scripture were instantly healed:
- Trophimus was left at Miletum sick (2 Timothy 4:20).
- Timothy had “often infirmities” and stomach trouble (1 Timothy 5:23).
- The finality of healing awaits the resurrection:
- We “groan… waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” (Romans 8:23). Until this mortal puts on immortality, we still fight corruption and death (1 Corinthians 15:53-54).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The price is paid, but the promise is received by faith. Where unbelief or disobedience remains, the channel is clogged.
- Faith works by love; bitterness and broken relationships short‑circuit prayer.
- God has not withdrawn healing—James 5 still stands—but He reserves the right to prove us and perfect character.
- Not healed today does not mean not saved, and it does not make the promise void. Salvation is the greater gift; bodily healing is a benefit now and total at the resurrection.
4) Short Reinforcing Counsel
- Set the channel right: repent, forgive, make wrongs right (James 5:16; Matthew 5:23-24).
- Ask the elders; be anointed; expect God (James 5:14-15).
- Feed your faith on the Word; keep your confession aligned with the promise (Romans 10:17; Hebrews 10:23; Mark 11:24).
- Remove the atmosphere of unbelief; Jesus put out the scorners (Mark 5:40).
- Resist the devil; don’t watch the symptoms—hold the promise (James 4:7).
- If the answer tarries, don’t accuse God. His grace is sufficient, and the full healing of the body is certain in the resurrection.
Now notice, two errors must be rejected: saying “healing is not for today” contradicts James 5 and Hebrews 13:8; saying “if you’re not healed you lack salvation” contradicts Paul, Timothy, and Trophimus. The Bible keeps it straight: the promise stands, faith receives, sin and unbelief hinder, and God’s timing and fatherly purpose are perfect.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
It is I, be not afraid
59-0811 §8
Now, last night I just spoke to you a little. And tonight, it's a healing service. We don't claim now---if there happens to be someone by who would not understand that---we do not heal anyone. We only pray for the sick. I've seen tens of thousands of people healed, but I never did heal one. I've had some direct answers to prayer for praying for the sick, but I've never healed anyone. And I don't believe that lays in the power of man. It's a finished work that Christ did at Calvary. Healing doesn't lay within man, n...
Separation from unbelief
55-0228 §18
A fellow by the name of Dr. Church, a Methodist; I never met him. He wrote a book, and he said, "Here's the reason I don't believe in William Branham." He said, "I met a man here some time ago that come from one of his meetings, that had prostate trouble." And said, "He went over there, and William Branham told him, and prayed for him, and said, 'Thus saith the Lord,' you're healed.'" And said, "I met the man a year later, and I asked him, 'What about that?' He said, 'Well, Mr. Church,' he said, 'I was healed for a...
Do you now believe?
53-1206E §68
The woman with the water-head baby, the twisted, the blind, the lame, the halt, and He went right through everyone of them and never said one thing to any of them. Went over there to a man laying on a pallet that had prostate trouble, or something like that, or [unclear words] He had it thirty-eight years, it wasn't going to kill him. And He said, "Will thou be made whole?" Now watch, the Scriptures said, "Jesus knew that he had been here." See, it was a vision. And He made him whole, walked on away and left that m...
All Things
62-1124E §63
...mon," Mr. Summons? Now you can return to Texas, and get well of your stomach trouble, if you believe it. There's a man sitting here's bothered with sinus. I don't know him, never seen him. He's from Shreveport. Mr. Wallace, you believe? Is that true? Raise up your hand. Your faith makes you whole, if you'll believe it. Lady sitting back here, she's got a rupture. She's got a child with her that's retarded. I don't know her. I've never seen her. But she's not from here. But she believes me, and believes the word tha...
We would see Jesus
61-0409 §4
And the same goes by divine healing, that we believe that divine healing is something that Christ purchased for us at Calvary. It's a finished product of God. And the only thing we do is to receive it by faith, believe it. That's the reason we call it "healed by faith," because that's what it is. Therefore it could not be in an individual---any person have something or another that would heal another person. Frankly, there's nothing that can heal you outside of God. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." The S...