Many promises of GOD are conditional, including healing!
Jesus spoke in John chapter 15:
7 If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
Jesus begins with the conditional Word “If”. How do you get GOD’S Word in you? It is by feeding on The Word and meditating on The Word continually. This verse tells you how to get your prayers answered every time. If GOD promises you something, that’s HIS Will.
We are to find Scriptures that promise us the things we are praying for.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 6:
18 praying always with all manner of prayer and supplication being led by THE Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints-
Our prayer life should be a daily occurrence, not an occasional requirement as the need arises.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 6:
8 “Therefore do not be like them. For Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
This verse indicates the necessity of asking FATHER even though HE knows the need.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 18:
18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.”
Heaven limits Itself by what we do and don’t do on earth. We have a responsibility to pray and have HIS Words abide in us.
Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 4:
23 And being let go, they (Peter and John) went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, Who made Heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
25 who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: ‘Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
26 The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ.’
27 “For truly against Your Holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
28 to do whatever Your Hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
They spent the first half of the prayer glorifying and magnifying Our Heavenly Father.
29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your Word,
30 by stretching out Your Hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the Name of Your Holy Servant Jesus.”
They prayed for FATHER to bring forth healing, signs, and wonders to the earth through the Name of Jesus Christ. Could GOD do this without such a prayer? Yes, but HE wants us to establish HIS Kingdom on earth. After all, we are HIS Sons and Daughters.
How did FATHER respond?
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness.
We know that at least 120 of these who were assembled together had already received the Baptism of The Holy Spirit. However, this shows that there are “re-fillings” of The Holy Spirit as well.
Did Our Heavenly Father answer their prayer?
In Acts chapter 5:
12 And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.
13 Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly.
14 And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
15 so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
FATHER was not reluctant to answer their prayers nor is HE reluctant to answer our prayers… by HIS Word!