Twenty years in to studying the Bible and I am still blown away but what was so simple, I missed it.

In the beginning it was so simple: “All believers can lay hands on the sick and they will recover”

Mark 16 KJV

“¹⁷ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;¹⁸ They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.¹⁹ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.”

I believed it, so I did it, and small numbers of people were actually healed. But of course, Jesus, Yahshua, healed them all and promised that the sick “shall recover”. So clearly I had a lot more to learn.

And then, I bought all kinds of books ( only read a few of them), listened to every kind of teacher and attended several conferences, watched endless videos and frankly, got completely overwhelmed. I learned about the 22, 10, 49 reasons why healing is blocked, doesn’t work, fails. Fifteen years of trying to lock down the truth by working through so many ineffectual, partially true, confusing teachings only to directly from the Bible discover:

Laying on of hands was not what I thought. I thought I was to put 2 hands on the sick. Now I see it as I am to put one hand on Jesus(Yahshua) and the other hand on the sick person. I stand literally in the gap and complete the circuit, like a power cord connecting an appliance to the outlet in the wall. Let me attempt to explain this better.

The source of all healing power: Yahweh, Our Heavenly Father, Jehovah Rapha, is the source, the only source of the power that heals the sick. Though God is so much more than this, trying to tap into Our Creator directly, whilst we are living in human and imperfect bodies would be like flying up to the sun and wanting to plug in my toaster. The measure of power is to big and my positioning in relationship to the sun makes the process, inaccessible, nigh impossible.

From the Power Plant to our the Outlets in Our Homes: Jesus Christ (Yahshua), He is the adapter and the delivery system that makes the power of Jehovah to heal the sick within our reach, wherever we are.

The Plug: Our Faith, allows us to plug into the source via the outlet, Yashua. Tis is simply believing what He says to be true. I lay hands on the sick regularly and pray for them because He says I am commissioned to do so. Luke 10 gives a wonderful account of the authority and commission we are given and why it works. Through the name of Yahshua, demons fled from his disciples. The same is true today. I personally am using Yahshua (Jesus in Aramaic) more and more as in ministry I simply find it is more effective.

The Power Cord: The thing that bridges the gap between Yahweh and the person in need of His Kingdom. This includes our physical bodies, our intercession, our prayers, basically us as a spiritual and physical conductor of power. Just as your physical body will transfer static electricity and transfer it to whoever you touch when you shuffle across a carpet, so will transfer the power of the Kingdom if you have one hand plugged into the Father’s Power and the other holding on what needs to receive that power to work.

The Promises of God (of Yahweh): These are like the individual appliances we plug into.

Enter Jesus, Yahshua, our Savior. He is connected to the source and we can safely and in confidence, “take hold of the fringe of his robe” and in doing so, tap into the same power that raised Jesus from the dead.

2 Peter 1:2-4 KJV “² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Two Biblical examples:

1st How we can connect to and receive from Yahweh via Yahshua.

Why was the women who touched the fringe of Messiah’s robe healed?

Ezekiel 44:19 AMPC
“19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they ministered and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, lest by contact of their garments with the people they should consecrate (separate and set apart for holy use) such persons [unintentionally and unfittingly].”

Matthew 9:18-24 AMPC “20 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment; 21 For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health.22 Jesus turned around and, seeing her, He said, Take courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well. And at once the woman was restored to health.”

When she touched Jesus, our High Priest’s robe, the garment he wore was imbued with the power to consecrate by His communion with our heavenly Father. She believed what she heard about him, and in touching him in faith, completed the circuit, the power of Yahweh flowed and she was instantly sanctified, made fit for holy use, forgiven her sins and made perfect). It is that simple. The hard part is the believing part and evicting all the human reasoning, teaching and logic that keeps us from simply touching the source via Jesus Christ.

Matthew 14:35-36 KJV “35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.”

2nd, How do we stand in the gap for the healing of others?

Acts 3:5-7 KJV “5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.”

Peter acted in this verse as the power cord. The promise he took hold of was that the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth heals. He plugged into the source by believing it was true with one hand and completed the circuit by taking the beggar by the right hand allowing his body to become a physical conductor of the power of Yahweh. In the simplest terms, he stood in the gap while holding onto to God’s promise and the one needing God’s promise.

Here’s the thing that rubs anyone with pride or a religious spirit the wrong way. Literally anyone who believes can do this. It is not based on special gifts, it is not based on exceptional skill or wisdom. This flows 100% through believing in the one who was sent and his word (ie reading it, choosing to believe it is true without allowing the teachings of man, personal experience or human reasoning to talk you out of believing it) and than obeying what he says to do. So even the most simple among us can do this without any qualification beyond what is mentioned. I can take zero credit for healing the sick. It is always the power of Yahweh that does the work of healing.