We do not pray for God to come and heal as in the old days. But, looking into His face, believing that He has baptized us in the Holy Ghost, and that we have received the power of God through that baptism, command in the Name of Jesus, the devil and his works to depart.
Nevertheless, dear sister, there are instances when God puts the Spirit of real intercession, even for the sick upon you.
I am convinced that there is a secret and better place of interceding for the sick, in exercising a dominion of God over the devil and his sicknesses, that when learned by the Pentecostal Movement, will put the ministry of healing miles in advance of where it is now.
“His name, through faith in His name hath made this man strong.”
“Such as I have, give I thee.” “Aeneas, Jesus maketh thee whole.”
We have never caught the force of Jesus’ words. “Proclaim liberty to the captive.”
“Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.”
“Believers will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.”
I regard it as a striking example of the force with which this Gospel comes to people of open mind.
--John G. Lake, early Pentecostal pioneer in a letter to Carrie Judd Montgomery (Early 1900's)