The Gifts of Healing

by

Norvel Hayes

(Volume number five of a nine part series on The Gifts of the Spirit.)

"... to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit"

I Corinthians 12:9

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

The Gifts of Healing(s)

Chapter 2

Jesus Ministered Healing

Chapter 3

Specialists

Chapter 4

Jesus Confirms the Word

1

The Gifts of Healing(s)

This volume is on the power gift called the gifts of healing(s). I know the King James Bible lists this as "gifts of healing" but in the Greek, both words are plural—gifts of healings.

Why is it GIFTS OF HEALINGS? WHY is it plural?

It's a plural gift because many things cause sickness.

Some sicknesses are caused by accidents. Some are caused by personal neglect. Some sicknesses are caused by bodily abuse. Some sicknesses are caused by organic ailments. Some are caused by a spirit of infirmity or actual satanic oppression. Some sicknesses and diseases are caused by actual demon possession.

The gifts of healings is God's power flowing down through your body to drive out afflictions in Jesus' name. It comes as the Spirit wills.

The gifts of healings is a gift of power that God drops on people, but it's not manifested in the same way all the time. Sometimes God's healing power drops on you and your body just unfolds before Him and you just drop on the floor. Sometimes it drops on you and it comes so easy and precious and sweet and warm. Sometimes God's healing power will drop on you and you won't even FEEL ANYTHING, and you have to check yourself and find out that you're healed.

When the gift of healing comes, it comes so quickly. It's given as the Spirit wills. You never know when it's going to happen.

There are all kinds of ways for you to be healed. Laying on of hands is one way to be healed.

The gifts of healing works differently. It is still God's healing power, don't get me wrong. It's the same kind of healing' power that comes when a person lays his hands on somebody. It's the same kind of healing power, it just usually comes in a stronger way.

Some people receive God's healing power and the gifts of healing and nobody touches them. They don't necessarily try to quote anything or do anything like that. It just comes to them automatically. That's involved in the gifts of healings that's given out as the Spirit wills as listed the 12th chapter of First Corinthians. When it comes, it just comes.

What is it?

It’s an amount of power that God chooses to give as He manifests himself.

You say, "Why doesn't He give it to everybody that's sick?"

I don't know.

Kathryn Kuhlman said one time, "When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask Jesus 'Why do two wheelchair cases get up and walk off, and ten don't?' That's the first thing I'm going to ask Him when I get to heaven. Why does that happen?"

I don't think anybody in the world completely understands it. I discussed it with Brother Kenneth Hagin, and he doesn't completely understand it all. He has told me a lot of his cases and I've been with him when it's happened. I've told him some of my cases. How does it happen? I just don't know.

The only thing I can tell you is that there's a gift called the gifts of healings in the 12th chapter of First Corinthians and it's available for the Church.

But brother and sister, God only gives His healing power out where healing scriptures are taught. God only gives His healing power out where somebody is bold enough and honest enough to stand up boldly for God and say, "Are you sick?"

You say, "Oh yeah, I'm sick."

"Jesus is your healer and He wants to heal you right now."

You've got to tell them. People only believe what they've been taught. The only thing you believe is what you've been taught.

I prayed three days one time, trying to get God to tell me why my mother died with cancer at the age of 37. I made up my mind that if it was possible for a Christian businessman to reach heaven and to have God talk to him, I meant to do it. So I just prayed until God spoke to me.

On the third day of praying, the Word of the Lord came unto me saying, "I didn't kill your mother with cancer, Son. I didn't have anything to do with it. I couldn't give your mother cancer anyway, because I live in heaven and there are no cancers in heaven."

"Jesus," I said, "she was a good Christian. She loved You. She was Your child. Why did she die at 37 years of age?"

I don't want to make you mad, but Jesus said, "Where she went to church, nobody ever taught her how to be healed. Nobody ever taught her how to receive My divine healing that flows down from heaven to the believer. She's in heaven now, but nobody taught her how to be healed."

You better make sure that the church you go to is one that Jesus built. Jesus said, "The church that I build, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18.)

The work of hell isn't even supposed to work in the church that Jesus built. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THROWN OUT by the leaders of the church. There's supposed to be enough of God's Word going forth to demolish it—anything the devil tries to do to a church member.

You're not some puppet that's just supposed to float along and just take whatever the devil has to offer you. That's not who you are. The Bible says you're a king and a priest. (Revelation 1:6)

Now, you may have thought that that relative of yours that died young with a disease, died because it was time and the Lord came and got him and took him home. Is that what you thought?

Most everybody thinks that unless they've studied the Bible. They have Christian relatives and they just don't know and won't accept it as being the work of hell. So, they just think that it's God's time.

Some people say, "I believe that the way things happen, they just happen that way. That's the way they are." That's straight from hell, too.

Always remember as long as you live: God does what you do. God’s power is available for everybody.

If you have a short leg, God's power is available to make it long. If you need something new in your body, God's power is available to give it to you. If you've got a disease in your body that you've had for a long time, there's no reason for it to stay any longer. The power of God is available for you, if I can talk you into believing it.

"Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

"Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led."

(If you've not been taught about the beautiful healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ, you've been taught dumb idols. God says you've been led the wrong way, because God's healing power is available for the believer—every believer.)

"Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

"Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

"And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

"And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

"For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

"To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit."

I want to point out something right here. I was raised in a denomination that never taught me about God's healing power. That's the reason I didn't know anything about it. I hadn't been taught that God's healing power was a free gift to everybody.

We had our own slant, our own version of it. We believed that Jesus COULD heal people if He wanted to, or if He chose to. But we believed that it MIGHT be God's will to heal somebody and it MIGHT NOT be God's will to heal somebody else. That's not Scriptural and if you believe that way, you're as confused as the devil.

"To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

"But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ...

"But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

"And if they were all one member, where were the body?

"But now are they many members, yet but one body.

"And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you" (I Corinthians 12:1-12; 18-21).

If you're reading this and you're real healthy, not even one small thing wrong with any member of your body, you might say, "I'm healed. I really don't need this."

Listen to me my brother and sister, if you'll learn this now and get it into your spirit now, WHEN the devil come to your body... I said WHEN THE DEVIL COMES TO YOUR BODY. He's coming you know. Oh! You didn't know that? He comes to everybody.

Just because you believe the Bible and just because you believe in God's healing power, and just because you believe that Jesus is your healer, I've got news for you: that's no sign the devil's dead. The devil is not dead.

He's coming to your house to visit you. He's coming to your body to visit you. He might not come this year; he might not come next year. He might not come until you get on in years. But by and by, one day, he's coming.

What are you going to do about it when he comes?

If you've got healing scriptures down in your spirit, and you know that God's healing power is available for you, YOU CAN THROW HIM OUT.

So learn right now, while you're healthy and strong.

Smith Wigglesworth, in his writings says that if you're going to wait until the disease comes upon you and you get flat on your back to try to believe what faith is and what God's healing power is, and accept your healing by faith, you've waited too long.

You can't even believe it now. You want to, but you're flat on your back. You can't because you're having to fight that affliction and fight that pain and fight that disease 24 hours a day. The symptoms are so strong in your body sometimes, and you're trying to give that attention and you don't give enough attention to God's Word and you haven't taken the time to memorize those healing scriptures. You haven't taken the time to put them down in your spirit. They are not a part of you.

Remember: the only scripture that ever works for you is the scripture that becomes a part of you—like your right arm. It has to be attached to you. It has to be so embedded in you that it can't come out of you.

You say, "I don't have God's healing scriptures in me that strong."

Then hunt some up in the Bible and quote them about a thousand times. Go around for about a month saying, "Jesus is my healer." BUT DO IT WHILE YOU'RE STRONG AND WELL, SHARP AND HEALTHY.

Then when the devil comes, you'll look at him and say, "Jesus is my healer," because you've got it in your spirit so strong. It just comes out of you. You have something to fight the devil with.

But as long as you just take the Bible and try to believe it nonchalantly and do what you want to, you'll be robbed of God's healing power. And you won't get healed either. You'll just have to put up with it and spend all your money on hospitals and doctors.

2

Jesus Ministered Healing

I want to show you two of the different ways that the Lord healed people when He was here on earth.

If you're a good student of the Scriptures and you study them, you'll find out that Jesus had all the gifts of healings operating through Him.

I've never known another man to have that. I didn't say they didn't have it, but I'll put it to you this way: Paul didn't have it. I've never known a minister to have it as strong as Jesus had it. Jesus had healing power working through Him to heal EVERYBODY. He healed all kinds of diseases. (Matthew 8:16.)

Let's read in Matthew chapter 17. We'll begin with verse 14.

"And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,

"Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

"And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

"Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

"And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

"Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

Does Jesus say to His Church, to believers, "And nothing shall be impossible unto you?" Does Jesus say that or doesn't He?

Of course, that case that you thought was impossible and all your friends thought was impossible remained impossible —for that very reason: you get what you believe. And you don't believe victory unless you talk victory. Then victory comes.

"Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting" (verse 21).

You might say, "I don't know why I couldn't make this disease leave." Or, "I don't know why I couldn't get this lunatic healed." Or, "I don't know why I couldn't get this person healed that the devil was attacking."

You have to recognize if a disease has been caused by a devil or by natural things or by your ignorance or neglect (like getting wet and coming back and sitting in front of the air conditioner). It all depends on what caused it.

If it's the dumb devil that has come and tried to possess you and take you over or oppress you, you need to deal with that spirit and cast it out.

Demons cause sicknesses too. They'll come to kill you. Always remember this: if it's a deadly disease, always take authority over the spirit of death. Death is the enemy of God. Say, "Spirit of death, no you're not going to kill my sister (or whoever). In Jesus' name I command you to come out of her." Then take authority over the affliction, break the power of the devil and claim God's healing power to flow down through her. Always do that when you're dealing with a devil of oppression or possession.

When you're dealing with a spirit that's a killer, you need to fast and pray some, so you'll have power over that thing and make it obey you. Some spirits just will not obey you unless you fast and pray.

If you think you can go along and just break the power of the devil and get all kinds of diseases healed and all kinds of goofed up people restored back to normal, I've got news for you: you can't do it with some of them unless you fast and pray.

Jesus said right there, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." It all depends on what kind you're dealing with.

If you're dealing with a normal disease, God's healing power can drive it out of you—literally, drive it out of you.

While I've been speaking on God's healing power, the gift of healing has begun to manifest itself and devils take fits and everything else. Devils leave and the person gets completely healed. Devils leave and crooked legs straighten put.

When God's power starts dropping in the congregation, you'll find all different kinds of things happen.

But you can see that this boy, that Jesus healed, was put in that shape by the devil. The devil did it.

Look now in Luke chapter 13.

"And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself (verses 10-11).

She had a spirit of infirmity. Where does a spirit of infirmity come from? It comes from the devil. That can cause diseases and afflictions upon you.

"And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And (notice this now: a doctrine of the Church) he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God" (verses 12-13).

And they started making fun of Him for healing her. And Jesus said, "And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" (verse 16).

Both of the conditions mentioned in this chapter were caused by the devil. The woman got healed by the laying on of Jesus' hands. The boy that was lunatic got his healing because Jesus cast the devil out of him.

You see, God wants you healed. He always wills to heal you. And He has provided many different ways for you to get your healing. I just wanted to show you two of the ways that the Lord healed people.

3

Specialists

I've never known anybody that's been in the ministry since Jesus that could walk up to 5,000 sick people, some of them crippled, some blind, some demon possessed, some lunatic, and when he left, everyone of them would be healed.

Almost every man that God gives His healing power to, to minister with, usually has one and sometimes two or three things that that fellow can get nearly everybody healed that has that particular disease. I mean, he just has absolutely wonderful results.

I know a fellow in my hometown that used to be a midget.

What do you mean used to be a midget? You mean he's not a midget now?

No, he's not a midget now. He's 6 foot 1 inch tall and weighs about 190 pounds.

I've known his family all my life. I went to school with his sisters. But Jimmy was a little boy that just stopped growing when he got to 12 years of age. Nobody could figure it out. The doctors couldn't figure it out. He just stopped growing. He weighed 92 pounds when he was 12 years old.

When he went to be examined for the army (of course they didn't take him), he still weighed 92 pounds. I think he was 4 foot 9 inches tall.

God called him to work with little children. He said, "God, I don't want to work with those little kids. I want to be big. Get yourself another man."

When he was 26 years old, he was riding down the road one day. He was driving about 35 or 40 miles an hour. A drunk came driving down the highway doing about 95. They had a head-on collision. The boy that was the passenger was killed. Jimmy's legs were knocked out of their sockets and his thigh bones were driven through his hips and they were sticking out. He was crushed; but for some unknown reason, he was still breathing.

They took him to the hospital. The hospital said they couldn't help him but that they thought he would be dead in a few minutes anyway. They suggested that perhaps someone in Chattanooga could help him, but he'd probably die before he got there.

They took him to a big hospital in Chattanooga. The doctor there said, "There's no way we can help him. He'll be dead in just a little while. He won't live. There's no use trying to operate on him. He's too crushed. Just put him in a room over there. He'll be dead by morning."

He had been unconscious. But he opened up his eyes and he asked Jesus, "Lord, don't make me meet You like this. Lord Jesus, don't make me meet You like this. I've never won any souls for You. I know You tried to get me to win souls for You, Jesus, but I never have won any. Jesus, if You'll heal me, I'll knock on doors for You. I'll win souls for You for the rest of my life Jesus, if You'll heal me." Then he lost consciousness again.

To the doctors amazement, Jimmy opened up his eyes the next morning. He had lost about a gallon of blood. The doctor said, "I can't understand it. I can't understand how this boy is still breathing. He even acts like he's alert this morning."

Do you know that Jesus makes blood? Do you believe that God's power can do anything? Do you believe that Jesus would have compassion on a little midget boy laying in the emergency room, crying out for mercy?

I've never known a human being in my life to ever cry out to Jesus in an emergency that didn't get mercy. I've never known one to cry out for help and mercy and not get it.

It's these stubborn spirits that God doesn't help. It's rebellious people that God doesn't help.

When you cry out for mercy from Him, I'll tell you, He'll help you. He'll send His power down upon you and help you.

Anyway, there he was, a few days later, still living. Six or seven days later they put, I think, 35-pound weights on his feet and started pulling his bones back through his hips. They kept him in the hospital for months and months.

One day when he was in the hospital, the doctor and nurse thought he was asleep and the doctor said, "You know it's a shame what's happened to this little fellow. He seems like a nice little fellow. But even if he lives through this, he'll never be able to walk again. Of course, I personally, don't think he's going to live."

The devil took that statement and bombarded his mind with it. "You'll never walk again. You'll never walk again. You'll be a cripple the rest of your life." And he became afraid that he'd never walk again.

Finally they sent him home. Reading the Bible one day, Jimmy saw that God has not given you a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (II Timothy 1:7.) He started reading where Jesus heals people. He started believing that Jesus was his healer. He took authority over the spirit of fear and made it leave him.

The ambulance came and got him, once a week for about nine months and took him to the hospital. Toward the end of the nine months is when he found that in the Bible. In two weeks time, after he found it and broke the power of the devil over him, his legs and body began to grow. He got up and started walking around.

Every 30 days he'd look down and his pants were too short. He had to go and buy new trousers every 30 days, he grew so fast. He grew from about 4 foot 9 inches to about 6 foot 1 inch in ten months.

See, that's really the number one way to be healed: to find scriptures and just stand on them yourself. Just tell God that you believe it and stand on it.

I believe God will do anything for you. I believe He loves you that much. All things are possible to him that believes.

The Lord has given Jimmy a ministry and I would say that 95% of the people that have bad backs, that that boy prays for and lays hands on, get their healing. God just gives them a brand new back. At least nine out of ten get their healing. In other things, you might not get it. But if you've got a bad back and he ever comes to your area, go to the service and say, "Lay your hands on me, Jimmy."

God does that sometimes. There are certain things that seem to work stronger through some people's ministry. God's healing power works through them and heals many people, but there are just certain things that it seems like God gives to somebody and everybody they pray for that has that particular thing gets healed.

I don't know, but it seems like if there is anything like that with me, it's bad hearts and crooked limbs.

Sometimes people walk up to me in conventions with some of their limbs crooked. Sometimes I just start to pray for them and they are just made normal, right in front of your eyes.

Don't ask me why it works that way with some people. I don't know why it works that way, but it does.

Sometimes God deals with me mightily at different places about people with bad hearts. He wants to give them new hearts—and He does.

He came on me so strongly one time in Indiana at a convention. I was just sitting there and my heart started hurting. I couldn't take it any longer. It felt like it was going to stop or something. I knew what it was. God had already shown me what it was.

The MC was just going along, talking about a bunch of stuff. I mean, it wasn't important what he was saying. He could have said it the next day.

I was sitting there and my heart was hurting so badly I couldn't take it any longer. The Lord said, "Right now."

So I got up and called all the people with bad hearts down to the front. If I'm not mistaken there were ten of them. They were standing there and all of a sudden God's healing power just dropped on them. He just began to heal their hearts and give them new hearts. All of them just fell over on the floor, right in front of the convention. Nobody even touched them.

The gifts of healings work differently, but they're still all God's healing power.

4

Jesus Confirms the Word

The Bible says that the Lord confirms the Word with signs following. (See Mark 16:20.) He confirms the WORD. The gifts of healings as listed in the 12th chapter of First Corinthians are given out as the Spirit wills.

Always keep this in mind: the Spirit of God always wills to heal you. He doesn't always will to manifest himself in the gift of healing (drop it on somebody and heal somebody out there by himself). But He always wills to heal you.

The gifts of healing, given out as the Spirit wills, manifests a lot of times when I'm teaching the Bible. Now it doesn't happen real often, but over a number of years it has happened a lot of times.

I was teaching one night in a church in Batan Rouge, Louisiana. It was a missionary church with a couple of thousand people there. I was teaching, when all of a sudden, four or five people just stood up in the back of the congregation.

They said, "Brother Norvel, there's a crippled girl that has been healed here."

I saw a little girl standing up. The Spirit of God was all over her. I said, "Come down here."

When I said that, she just walked out and walked down there. I had no idea that she had come on crutches. I didn't know her high school brother helped her get in there. I didn't know anything about it at all. Nobody had prayed for her.

She came walking down the aisle crying and trembling and a boy (he looked like he was about 16 or 17 years of age), was walking beside her looking at her legs.

He said, "This is my crippled sister. I helped her get in here. I helped her get out of the car. Folks, I'm telling you, this is my crippled sister. I helped her get in here." He was so astonished at his sister's legs being stretched out.

I said, "Come up here, honey. Just tell the congregation what Jesus did for you. What happened to All you?

"I don't know," she said. "I was just sitting back there. I was crippled when I came in here. This is my brother and he helps me get out of the car and helps me get in places. I was just sitting there and all of a sudden my legs began to turn warm, at the beginning. Then, it wasn't very long until they began to turn hot. When they began to turn hot I felt strength come into my legs. When I felt strength come into my legs I just stood up."

Everybody around in the church knew that girl was crippled. They'd known her for a long time. And all of a sudden, she was standing there, tears flowing out of her eyes. It kind of shakes people up.

I had a supernatural healing one time but I did lay my hands on this person. But I saw it with my own eyes. In an Assembly of God church in Mississippi, I was praying for sick people on Sunday night when I had taught on healing.

I came to a man and he said so simply, "Mr. Hayes, skin cancer is all over my body. I want Jesus to heal me."

I just reached out and said, "I curse this cancer in Jesus' name. And I want to thank you Jesus, for giving him new skin." I'm sure I didn't pray for him over 30 seconds.

I then went on to the next person. He just turned around and was going to sit back down on the front bench there. He just said, "Thank you." He didn't notice anything. He just turned around and started to sit in the seat and new skin was on him and he jumped up.

He said, "Everything's disappeared. I've got new skin on me. People, new skin has come upon me."

People started breaking, crying. It was the most simple thing you've ever seen in your life. The Lord put new skin upon him.

But the gift of healing is when God's healing power falls on the congregation many times, and starts to heal a person.

I was at a University one time teaching and it happened. I was just teaching the Bible, minding my own business. And all of a sudden, some woman just jumped up and shouted, "It happened right there. It happened sitting right there."

I looked back there and this real fancy, socialite type woman was standing back there looking at her chair.

I said, "Lady, what happened sitting right there?"

"I've been deaf for 30 years," she said. "And when you were teaching the Bible, you pointed here to where we were sitting and you said real strong, 'God will do anything for you if you'll believe Him.' And all of a sudden, when you said that, my ears went bloop. I started hearing everything and it happened sitting right there."

In Florida

I was teaching one time at the University of Florida. I started praying for the sick one night and God's healing power was flowing strongly.

A professor was there. He came up and God healed him right in front of the congregation. His daughter was visiting from New York. He said, "My daughter's got a disease, and she's here. Would you be willing to pray for her?"

"Oh sure," I said.

She came up there and God laid her out on the floor and healed her. The professor and his daughter both got healed completely. (That was a laying on of hands service.)

The girl went back to New York and told a bunch of people in Kingston, New York, "I met this fellow and God heals people when he prays for them. The Lord healed my daddy, a professor at the University of Florida, and He healed me. Tell some of the pastors. Write him a letter and ask him to come up here to Kingston."

They wrote me a letter and the Spirit of God dealt with me to go up there. So I went.

The ministers in that city had a meeting once a week. They would get together and have breakfast and pray together. The Lutheran minister told me that he agreed to let them use his church. It was one of those beautiful, fancy churches. It had real dark wine-colored carpet. There were two pulpits, one was way up in the air. You had to climb steps around in the back to get into it.

I sat there wondering, do I have enough nerve to climb those stairs? Right before they introduced me, I decided I had enough nerve. (I'd always wanted to do that anyway.)

I spoke and the first night 26 people came forward to get saved. I just gave a plain salvation invitation and they jumped up out of their seats and rushed down front to get saved.

Then, when I gave an invitation for healing, there must have been 40 people come forward. They were standing at the altar. All of a sudden a boy, about 22 or 23 years of age, standing on two crutches, lifted both arms and his crutches fell. He just turned and walked right down the middle of the church. He went past a blind boy and the boy's eyes popped opened.

Thank you, Jesus, for the gift of healing.

The gifts of healing is God's healing power flowing down through your body to drive out afflictions in Jesus' name. And it comes as the Spirit wills. Of course, when you teach on it, usually all the time, the Spirit always wills; I mean, always wills to manifest himself in the gifts of healings.

You can accept your healing right now, on your own. You see, you can accept it from God's Word. That's the reason I pointed out several ways for you to be healed.

Say: "Right now, I receive God's healing power to do His work in me, in Jesus' name. I receive God's love in me to do His work for me that I need right now. I command my mind not to be confused. I claim the peace of God.

"I say my body is strong and not weak.

"I say my spirit is receptive to God's Word and God's power. I'm God's man. I claim God's best through the power of the ministering gifts of the Holy Spirit.

"Thank you, Jesus, for the 12th chapter of I Corinthians. Thank you, Jesus, for the gifts of healings. It's a gift to the Church. I'm a part of the Church. I have a right to it. I receive it in Jesus' name.

"Thank you, Jesus. I worship you, Jesus. I praise you, Jesus."

THE GIFTS OF HEALING

VOLUME NUMBER FIVE

by

NORVEL HAYES

Norvel Hayes shares God’s Word boldly and simply with an enthusiasm that captures the heart of the hearer. He has learned through personal experience that God’s Word can be effective in every area of life — that it will work for anyone who will believe it and apply it.

Norvel owns several businesses which function successfully despite the fact that he spends over half his time away from the office, ministering the Gospel throughout the country. His obedience to God and his willingness to share his faith has taken him to a variety of places. He ministers in churches, prisons — anywhere the Spirit of God leads.

Table of Contents

The Gifts of Healing(s)

Jesus Ministered Healing

Specialists

Jesus Confirms the Word