Comments on: He Could Do There No Mighty Works

By: Cornel

Cornel — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:08:53 +0000

There are 2 basic ways to get healed Eric. You can either have faith for yourself, or you can go to somebody who can have faith for you. Somebody needs to have faith. Jesus, as the one ministering did not depend on the people’s faith to heal them. He healed them on His faith. People who came to him and got healed without Him ministering, like the woman who touched his garment or the Roman Centurion, did so on their faith. From what I derive out of your statements, you see healing as something that Jesus still has to do. As if your faith is going to get Him to move and heal somebody or yourself. Jesus already did everything to provide healing for you. He moved 2000 years ago. Faith believes it is a done deal and does not waiver until the present reality is mirrored in the truth of the Word that say by His stripes we WERE healed. If you are waiting for God to move, you might wait a while because He ceased from His work and sat down to rest. That doesn’t mean He stopped healing, it means He finished providing healing for all sickness for all time. All we need to do to access that provision is to believe it, hence the need for faith today.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:29:49 +0000

Hello,
if unbelief does not “stop” Jesus then this creates a lot of questions.
I mean if Jesus can heal people totally independent of their faith then why do not all get healed? Then every christian who prays for healing would get healed which isn’t the case.
Then why could I not get healed when I wanted to get healed?
I think this teaching creates more problems than it solves because if Jesus can heal whenever he wants to then this means that those who are not healed simply are not meant to be healed…

I have also seen a christian claim “I have such a great relationship with God everyone I pray for gets healed” but in reality it of course did not work. But unfortunately some christians don’t do reality checks they live in their own reality.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:07:48 +0000

Good, solid teaching Cornel. Thanks! I would like to think that when I’m praying for sick people who have no real expectation of being healed, that my faith trumps their unbelief or limited belief. So often it seems people go for prayer because it’s what you’re supposed to do, as if human touch alone is all they’re after. Their lack of expectation just fires me up, as in, “oh, so you don’t think God can heal you right now do you? We’ll see about that!” (I don’t say that out loud.) I identify with Jesus, not the Nazarenes (Nazarites? Nazaratbags?).

By: Kool Aid Guy

Kool Aid Guy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:47:38 +0000

OH YEAAAAAAH!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:00:24 +0000

Good call, man. I’ve seen people use this to try and let themselves off the hook when they couldn’t get someone healed, but I honestly don’t know how they think it holds up.

I think even the wording says a lot – “Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them”.
Those he laid hands on got healed.
It doesn’t say anything about him failing to heal those he ministered to – that’s seriously reading between the lines.

The people who didn’t get healed are the ones he didn’t lay hands on. A great way to prevent someone from laying hands on you is to not show up at their meetings.
Why would you show up at the meetings of someone you thought was a total crank?
I think this verse has just been over-spiritualised.

Word.