The Healing AnointingWe will elaborate a little on this point. Often, in our narrow
thinking, we do not allow God to do everything He wants to do,
because we imagine things have to be done in a certain way.
For example, many believe demons or devils always have to
be discerned and cast out. The demons weren't discerned or cast
out in the Scriptures we just studied, were they? Not in either
case, yet the people were delivered. That just happens
sometimes.
People have come up to me in the healing line and said, "I
think maybe I have a demon."
I answer, "What difference does it make? The same power
that will drive out sickness will drive out devils. That power
went into you when I prayed. Forget it and go on faith; you're
delivered."
That's the trouble—people go by what they think instead of
by what the Bible says. Of course, if you're operating in faith
without the healing anointing, then you do have to speak the
Word, but it doesn't say anything about Jesus' speaking any
Word at all in the sixth chapter of Luke: "And they that were
vexed with unclean spirits... were healed. And the whole
multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue [power] out
of him, and healed them all" (vv. 18,19). That means all those
with diseases and evil spirits were healed.
In my own ministry, I've seen any number of alcoholics
healed, and I didn't know one of them was an alcoholic. In fact,
some of them didn't even come up for prayer for their
alcoholism; they came up for healing, because when you drink
too much the alcohol affects your liver and you get ulcers.
(There's no doubt in my mind at all that alcoholism is a demon.)
I've had any number of people tell me, "Brother Hagin, when
you laid hands on me, that anointing came into me, and I was
delivered from alcoholism."
One such testimony came from a man who had been an
officer in the U.S. Army. He had been in three government
hospitals and three private hospitals. "I took the cure for