The Healing Room in Heaven

Jesus did remarkable miracles during His short life, many of which were healing the sick.  Healing is also one of the gifts of the Spirit Jesus gave to His body of believers (1 Cor 12:7-11).  There will be Christians who have this gift for the benefit of others, yet in our own churches we seldom see them.  In fact, there are few ministers in the body of Christ who have this gift, though many pray for others’ healings. One of the reasons we do not see God’s healing is that we pray, and teach in error.

In February of 2006 I had a dream wherein an angel escorted a woman into the healing room in heaven.  It was a place where prayers were received, and the angel instructed the woman that this was the correct door to walk through.  There were other doors which went to rooms where other things could be accomplished, such as by prayers for forgiveness, or by petitions for wisdom and knowledge.  However, the angel was plain and direct with the woman, that she walk through only the one door which led to her healing.  In that room were animals, and the angel gave the woman scissors, as if to cut off any curses that were on her that instigated or prevented her healing. Also, she was to deal with any unbelief, cutting it off so that she could have faith for her healing. That was the end of the dream.

I said that we pray and teach in error, and that the results are a lack of healing amongst us.  One error taught is that we need to be holy to receive God’s healing.  That is an easy trap to fall into, for we often search our souls for reasons that our present illness came upon us. After healing a blind man, Jesus’ disciples wondered the same thing, asking Him about the reason for the man’s blindness;

And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. "We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.…” (John 9:2-4).

Jesus made it plain that illness does not always come from sin.  Many healing ministries lead the sick through prayers of confession of sin in order that they may be healed.  This feeds into the error that we must be holy in order to be healed.  Since it is the Holy Spirit’s ministry to lead us daily through sanctification, those who are ill understand that they are in need of daily cleansing and therefore are not sinless.  Believing they must first be sinless, therefore defeats their faith for healing.  Though confession makes one feel as if he has “come clean,” our daily walk brings new items to the forefront of our mind that we also need to confess . . . more territory to walk through with Him to Whom we trust our soul. Holiness, or sinlessness, cannot be a condition for healing.

John 9:2-4 (see above) is also used by some to propose another error in our thinking; that illness is a divine appointment.  If the sick believe that God appoints them to illness so that He can get the credit when they are healed, the sick can either pray for that healing (so that God is glorified), or endure their time on this earth with the illness because they think it is appointed to them.  The latter will become stuck in their perception of God’s will for their lives and will have no faith for healing. They also risk becoming resentful of God for appointing them to illness.

Because our hardships are used to conform us into God's image, we may also think that we should endure illness because it will ultimately result in our entering into God's holiness (see Heb 12:7-11). Some Christians see their sickness as God's hand in their lives, molding them into His image.  Yet there is no Biblical evidence that God works this way.  Though Paul was given a thorn in his flesh so that God's sufficiency would be seen in His strength instead of Paul's, Paul was not assigned to illness so that he would become holy. (2 Cor 12:7-9). Holiness comes from the Holy Spirit, and not from illness.

It is God’s wisdom that our healings should not be intermixed with our personal sanctification, nor with His appointments for our lives. God’s healing comes from His compassion and mercy. Our sanctification from past sins is accomplished by the covering of Jesus’ blood, and is irrevocable. Jesus’ blood is so strong that, once we’ve confessed our sins, we never need to bring them up for examination again. We also do not to inspect our lives for having “missed” the will of God concerning His divine appointments of healing, because it is the Holy Spirit Who counsels us and leads us into them. Finding God’s will is not so frail as to depend upon our thought processes: it is found through the strong leading of the divine counsel of God and facilitated by many angels, just as the angel in my dream led the sick woman into the healing room in heaven (Heb 1:14).

There is great freedom in entrusting our souls to the care of the Holy Spirit.  It is that freedom that sets the platform for us to pray strong prayers in faith.  When we trust God’s cleansing power, and His love for our lives, we will not walk down a road of resentment towards Him concerning our illness.  Rather, we will seek Him at the door of the Healing room through our prayers.

 “Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may

 receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time. ...” (Heb 4:16)

Does your petition for healing lack boldness today? Let us cast off our errors of thinking and enter into God’s help for us, believing it is indeed His will.  Amen.