The subject of healing- Divine Healing- especially is broad and it’s just being recognized even by medical science. Research by many Western institutions has now established that patients who are supported with prayers during treatments get healed faster than without prayers. Church History tells us that for about 300 years- before Constantine- the church had no other means of healing except through faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ on the Cross. This was divine healing. it was effective and permanent for the one who can best heal the body is the One who created it.
Unfortunately, this knowledge is lost to most people today and to the noisy church of this Laodicean Age, with the consequence being that professing Christians go through the same hazzles that non-Christians go through. Baker Eddy represents another extreme- Christian Science- which is not without its errors for it is ‘neither christian nor scientific.’ The real exponents of Divine Healing, its theology are- A.B.Simpson, Wesley, A.J Gordon, Andrew Murray etc. His notable proponents and practitioners in the Pentecostal Movement are- Alexander Dowie, Bosworth, John Lake, Aimee Semple Mcpherson ( the founder of Foursquare Denomination) Smith Wigglesworth etc In Nigeria some of the apostles are Sophie Odunlami ( Nee Ajayi) Moses Orimolade, S. Shadare, J.B. Babatope, Joseph Babalola, etc These were men and women who understood the revelation of Christ as not only the Saviour but also the Healer and they lived all their lives till death trusting in the Atonement without hospitals or doctors. These were the real Christians, APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANS in every way like their counterpart in the First Century- not like the game- players and time- servers of our day who know neither the Christ of the Bible nor the Healer of Nazareth, yet so full of themselves.