As we know from Scripture, Jesus and Paul healed many people.  They often touched the sick person when healing them.  We, as believers, are also instructed to place out hands on the sick.  Mark 16:17-18

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 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.”

These important instructions to lay hands on the sick, were the last words spoken by Jesus on this Earth, according to the Book of Mark.  Therefore, they reveal His great love and compassion for the sick; and they also emphasize the importance of signs and wonders as His method of reaching the lost of the world with the Gospel.

In the Book of Acts, Chapter 19:11-12, it is written:

“And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.”

So often we find that people are too ill or are bedfast, and thus unable to attend special rallies, where the Gifts of Healing and the Working of Miracles are in manifestation, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sick believers don’t need to remain sick!

James 5:14: “Is anyone of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him…” James was writing to Christian believers. He asked them if any of them were sick. It is a “FACT” of life in our fallen condition that our bodies on occasion tend to sickness, and eventually they die. However, as the verse directly below points out, it is also a “FACT” for the believer that God is Jehovah-Rapha, “the Lord who heals you.”

Exodus 15:26 God said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”