Is It God's Will To Heal You?

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A Corrected Theology

Among all those who sought healing from Christ during His earthly ministry, we read of only one who had this kind of theology. This was the leper, who said, "Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." The first thing Christ did was to correct his theology by saying, "I will, be thou clean." Christ's "I will" cancelled his "if." This added to his faith that Christ could heal him, the fact that He would.
The theology of this leper, before Christ enlightened him, is almost universal today, because this part of the Gospel is so seldom and so fragmentarily preached.
We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scriptures, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing so that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise. Of course, we mean all who are properly taught and who meet the conditions prescribed in the Word. Now I hear someone say, "If healing is for all, then we shall never die." Why not? Divine healing goes no further than the promise of God. He does not promise that we shall never die, but He says:
I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.... the number of thy days I will fulfill (Exod. 23:25, 26).
Take me not away in the midst of my days (Ps. 102:24).
Why shouldest thou die before thy time? (Eccles. 7:17).
How much time do you have?  120 years!!!  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. (Gen 6:3) 
Then someone may ask, Well, how is a man going to die?
Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust (Ps. 104:29).
The Rev. P. Gavin Duffy writes on this point:
He has allotted to man a certain span of life, and His will is that life shall be lived out. I want you to recall that all those He called back from the dead were young people who had not lived out their fullness of years; and in that very fact we may well see His protest against premature death.... Of course, we must not expect that the old shall be physically young, but if the allotted span has not been spent we have a right to claim God's gift of health; and, even though it be past, if it be His Will that we should continue here for a time longer, it is equally His Will that we should do so in good health.