Chapter 14
14 The Healing Anointing.............................................................................
There is a healing anointing.
Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because HE
HATH ANOINTED ME to preach the gospel to the poor; he
hath sent me TO HEAL...." (Luke 4:18).
Acts 10:38 also refers to Jesus' anointing to heal: "How
GOD ANOINTED JESUS of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power: WHO WENT ABOUT doing good, and HEALING
all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."
I got people healed after I was saved and had the Holy Spirit
dwelling in me. I didn't have the baptism of the Holy Spirit yet—
I didn't know about it.
I myself had been healed by acting upon the promises of
God, not by being ministered to by somebody who was anointed.
I had been healed reading Mark 11:23,24: "When ye pray,
believe that ye receive... and ye shall have...." (v. 24).
I taught people what I had learned: that you can be healed
through faith and prayer. I knew nothing about ministering with
an anointing to heal, although I knew something about preaching
with an anointing. When I prayed for people's healing, I never
felt anything. Nothing went out of me into them.
The Pentecostals I began associating with knew a depth in
the Holy Spirit that I didn't know, and they waited for something
supernatural to happen. When it happened, someone got healed,
but if it didn't, they didn't know how to teach people to believe
God and receive by faith alone.
I just went along ministering by faith, basing healing on the
promises of the Word of God, and getting people healed on a
regular basis. (Smith Wigglesworth said, "There's something