Healing in The Name

The Name for Healing

They used it in connection with the sick; it would seem that they did not pray for the sick especially but that they laid their hands upon them in Jesus’ Name, or as at the Beautiful Gate, they said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise and walk.”

At Paul’s conversion in Acts 9:15-16 where God is sending Ananias to baptize Paul, He says “For he is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My Name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will show him how many things he must suffer for My Name’s sake.”

That Name of Jesus was the battle axe in the ministry of Paul. That Name was in the hands of Paul what the rod was in the hand of Moses. If the Egyptians could have stolen that rod, they would have stripped Moses of his weapon.

Now, if the Gentiles and Jews could stop the Church from using the Name of Jesus, they would rob the Church of its supernatural power, and like Sampson when his hair was cut, they would be common men.

The Modern Church, having lost the power of the Name of Jesus, is reduced to the position of the shorn Sampson. In Acts 9:27-29, we read “But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how at Damascus He had preached boldly in the Name of Jesus. And He was with them, going in and out of Jerusalem preaching boldly in the Name of the Lord.”

That means more than simply preaching the Gospel, as we understand it today.
Again, in the Council at Jerusalem, as recorded in Acts 15:14, James said
“Brethren, hearken unto me: Symeon bath rehearsed how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His Name.”

The Wonderful Name of Jesus