Healing Through the Strength of Their Own Faith
Jesus’ fame as a healer had spread throughout Syria, Palestine, and into the surrounding countries. For weeks after they left the Bethsaida camp people continued to arrive looking to be healed, and when they did not find Jesus they would then go searching for him. During this period Jesus did not perform any miracles, but because of their intense faith in Jesus many people were healed.
From this point through the remainder of Jesus’ time on Earth strange things started to happen when people asked to be healed. During this particular three months more than one hundred people from cities far away were somehow unconsciously healed by Jesus. They in turn returned home and told everyone they had been cured, even though every single time Jesus told them to tell no one. All of this increased Jesus’ fame throughout the region. The celestial host was never told exactly what occurred in these cases of spontaneous healing. All they know is that a few times Jesus simply said “I perceive that power has gone forth from me,” like one time when he was touched by a sick child and he said “I perceive that life has gone forth from me.”
Since Jesus did not tell us exactly what happened in these events, it is not our place to try and explain them. But we can give you our opinion about what occurred. We believe three powerful and inter-related influences came together to result in these cases of spontaneous healing.
The first power relates to the degree of living faith in the heart of the person asking to be healed, and the fact that the person wanted healing for its spiritual benefits rather than just physical relief. The second relates to the sympathy and compassion of a mercy-dominated Creator Son with almost unlimited healing powers, and third, the fact that Jesus was the personified expression of God’s will—that when Jesus met someone with a human need his divine nature could fulfill, and if in that moment God did not will otherwise, it was. While these events were not conscious to Jesus’ mortal mind when they occurred, they were immediately recognized by his divine nature.
We believe the cause for these events of spontaneous healing can be found in the great law of creation: “What the Creator Son desires and the eternal Father wills, IS.” Our opinion is that when people were in Jesus’ presence their faith was so strong that it could actually compel healing by the spiritual forces associated with him. It is therefore a fact of record that there were many times when Jesus caused people to heal themselves through the strength of their own faith.
Excerpt from Son of Man: Urantia, Chapter 28, The Second Preaching Tour
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Godspeed, everyone.
Bob
Excerpt: Healing Through the Strength of Their Own Faith