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.
Sirs, we would see Jesus
54-0328 §28
...le it is, He'll come. No matter how humble your welcome is to Him, He'll come to the humblest in this building. He'll come to the poorest; He'll come to your home. He'll do something that you'll know He's there, if you'll just open up and let Him. Then Jesus, once inside with these disciples, who He had walked with, He made Himself known to them. And if you've never believed in divine healing, never believed in the power of the resurrection of Christ, just invite Him into your heart tonight, and He'll make Himself...
Healing Line
53-0907E §24
...me? Oh, how wonderful our Lord Jesus. Always do just exactly what He says do, and you'll find out it's exactly right every time. To disobey... The man has been crippled for sometime, but there he is now, just as normal as any man could be at his age. He's made whole, because he believed. I never healed the man. God healed the man. His faith in God that made him whole.
God's provided way of healing
54-0719A §35
...until He returns again in glory. Amen. Now, your enemy is the devil. And God has in every way, in every age, always tried to keep people well. Do you believe that? God has never left the people anytime, without a provided way of healing. You name it in the Scriptures, when He did. No matter how blacked out, how far away the people got, God had a provided way of healing. He's always had it. He's had someone who believed it, too. Look, way back in the early days, He had a provided way. Then He had a brass serpent; t...
God keeps His Word
57-0407M §87
But God is the only One who can heal, or ever did heal, or ever will heal. If we had some medicine that would heal, we could build a man right here on this platform with the medicine. That's right. We could build a man, create him right here on the platform. Just think of it. All healing is Divine healing. God has methods of doing it. Now, you say, "Well, Brother Branham, I had an operation;, the tumor or appendicitis, that the doctor had to cut it out, or I'd died." That's probably the truth. But did you know, the...
The Forgotten Beatitude
61-0425E §60
..." And she run into the city, and said, "Come see a man who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And all the people believed. And every one... Jesus never done it to one more person, but the whole city believed on Him. He never healed anybody. Just went in there, declared Himself to the woman. The Bible said that the whole city believed on Him because of the testimony of the woman. Now, if that was Jesus yesterday, and He come do the same thing---as an African girl, and an Anglo-Saxon man st...