Sid Roth - Why 95% of Christians are NOT Healed
Sid Roth: What's going on? I don't know about you but health insurance premiums, they're going up all the time, there's all these dread diseases, it seems like everyone knows someone with cancer, if you go into a church, the majority of people are sick, they say nationwide less than five percent of people in Christian churches are healed. Something is wrong somewhere with the picture. I've got the book, the book is very clear, the book says that God has forgiven all of our sins the book says that God has healed all of our diseases, but there is a misconnect and my guest, Henry Wright has a great a passion, if not more, to find out what is this misconnect, and how can we get the connect going so that we can get what we are entitled to according to the written word of the promises of the living God, because God isn't a man that he should lie and even in the Jewish scriptures he is the God that heals all of our diseases. So, Henry, you come from a family that understood healing, your mother had, was supposed to die, what happened to her?
Henry Wright: She had fiber-sarcoma cancer, fast growing and fatal, and in a church service when everybody was forgiving everyone else for bitterness God took the cancer out of her instantly, she was paralyzed on a stretcher. I assume when she was repenting to God for some bitterness issue that she met the conditions of the covenant.
Sid Roth: And because you knew healing was for real, now you are a pastor, you read the book, you lay hands on the sick, you anoint them with oil, you take communion, you do everything you know to do, and what results were you getting?
Henry Wright: Initially pretty good, and then nothing, very little. And I went to God and I asked him, "How come? I see in the word that you forgive us of all of our iniquities, you heal us of all of our diseases, why not"? And God took me to second Timothy, chapter two, and he showed me in verses 24, 25, and 26 that the enemy, our enemy, our invisible enemy, Satan, his kingdom, can have a legal right to our lives even as believers, and by the way that legal right is the same in the unbeliever's life as it is the believers. And it was shocking to me to read in those verses by the apostle Paul that Satan could have a legal right to our lives and hold us captive at his will. And then I found there that he said, "The servant of the Lord must not strive, must be gentle unto all men, patient, able to teach, in meekness instructing those that are in opposition to themselves, that God per adventure give repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil". And I said could it be that there is something in a person's life that is preventing God from honoring covenant.
Sid Roth: Yes, but if someone's got a dread disease they are not going to rob a bank, they are not going to get involved in adultery, they are not going to murder someone, so what is the misconnect?
Henry Wright: Well I think we have made everything evil, big. I think there are things like, called little foxes, like bitterness and fear. Self-bitterness is a form of self-murder. Bitterness against other according to scriptures is a form of murder. We don't think this way, we always think of sin as, or evil things, as robbing banks and adultery and so on. Could it be that we misunderstand and have maybe humanized what is really a spiritual defect?
Sid Roth: You know you said something before the show started, you were talking about one of the causes of one of the biggies, fear, is lack of love, why is that?
Henry Wright: Well, first John, 4:18 says there is no fear in love, says perfect love casts out fear, fear has torment and he that fears is not made perfect in love. If you don't feel loved, fear is at your door. I mean, you look around, when you were growing up as a child, maybe your father didn't love you the way he should have maybe your pastor.
Sid Roth: Wait, let's talk about me for a minute, coming from a Jewish background it's like the macho, we men don't cry, we are kind of aloof, but the mother, it's okay for the mother to do it, so I can't remember my father, now I'm sure he did when I was real small, but I can't remember my father taking his arm, putting it around me and saying, "I love you".
Henry Wright: Well that's a big issue. In conferences that I do around the world, regardless of culture, regardless of size of audience, regardless of denomination or religion, 95 percent of the people in an audience will raise their hand when I ask this question, "How many of you growing up as children do not remember hearing your father say, "I love you"? Yet in the Bible, and the three things that the father's voice is recorded in the New Testament, only three times, God the Father's voice is audibly recorded, two of the three times concerning Jesus he says, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased". I think probably part of the fear issues we deal with is we are not sure God the Father loves us. Maybe Yeshua is our friend...
Sid Roth: Is it possible to intellectually believe God loves us but in the place that it really counts, not?
Henry Wright: Well relationship is not intellectual, relationship is in the heart and oh we know what is right or wrong, we know we are supposed to forgive our neighbor, we know that we are supposed to love, but it does not mean that we have the ability to because we have not had role models, we have not experienced it and many of the diseases I deal with are coming out of separation at these levels, separation from God, separation of a person from themselves, and separation from others.
Sid Roth: You have been able to identify specific roots or doors, or, if you really want to get technical, sin areas that are not the quote "Biggies" they are very specific for specific diseases, give me one disease and tell me a specific door.
Henry Wright: Well the one that is most famous is high blood pressure which is an easily understood disease, in fact high blood pressure should not be classified a disease at all. That will come as a surprise to you.
Sid Roth: That is, I've never heard a doctor say, "Oh you have high blood pressure, that is not a disease".
Henry Wright: Well, the bulk of high blood pressure is, should be classified as syndrome, because there is nothing wrong with the cardiovascular system at all, but something in our thought process, you can say our spirituality and our thought process, in which we are not at peace about an issue. In fact high blood pressure is the biological manifestation of not being a doer of the word, and when you go back to the Torah, and you look in Deuteronomy chapter 28 it says, "And it shall come to pass". You want to hear a prophetic statement?
Sid Roth: Yes.
Henry Wright: And it shall come to pass. Is that prophetic?
Sid Roth: That is.
Henry Wright: All right. The next word in...
Sid Roth: True prophetic.
Henry Wright: That's true prophetic, and it shall come to pass, as prophetic as you can come. But then the next word is "If". So that means the prophetic has a condition, and it shall come to pass, if you hear what God has said, and you will be a doer of the word, then all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you. Then over in verse fifteen, here comes another prophetic statement, and it shall come to pass is that prophetic?
Sid Roth: Yes.
Henry Wright: Next word, "If" there is your condition, and it shall come to pass if you will hear what God said but you will not be a doer of the word then all these courses shall come upon you and overtake you. So here we have ourselves caught between two realities, blessings and curses. Now what does that have to do with high blood pressure?
Sid Roth: Good question, I was about ready to ask.
Henry Wright: Very simple, very simple. In the writings in the New Testament it says this, "Take no thought for tomorrow for tomorrow may never come". I ask believers, "Do you think that is a Philosophical suggestion or a commandment"?
Sid Roth: Command.
Henry Wright: Well it doesn't say, "Thus sayeth the Lord".
Sid Roth: It's a command.
Henry Wright: It is, isn't it? So what happens to people and they begin to worry and project into the future things that might go wrong, it could be finance, it could be health, it could be a number of things. When we begin to take thought for tomorrow, you see, what it says in the scriptures.
Sid Roth: I tell you what, hold that thought.
Sid Roth: Sid Roth here with Henry Wright, he has fascinating insight, you see he has a passion for seeing people walk in all that God has for them. In fact Henry, you told me your passion isn't for people to be healed, your passion is for them to not get sick in the first place.
Henry Wright: That's right, if we center on the fact that healing is the issue, healing is actually the bonus, healing is God's grace and mercy towards us as we begin to realign ourselves to him. God's perfect will is not to heal you scripturally and theologically, in Deuteronomy chapter seven, beginning in verse eleven it says this, that if you'll hear what God said and you will understand it and be a doer of the word that he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt upon us, so God's perfect will is that we don't get sick. Could we consider possibly that we could live a lifetime and not have a disease? Is that possible theologically?
Sid Roth: Is it?
Henry Wright: Yes.
Sid Roth: All right if someone were to follow and go after those open doors in your book, not even go to your seminar, which is wonderful, I've been to it, but just follow these, do you think that will change their destiny health wise?
Henry Wright: Absolutely, to know the truth, the truth shall make you free. But we are wandering in area even science, even medical science, we are in the dark ages, all we are doing is chasing symptoms, all we are doing is disease management. The ability to consider the root cause for disease is an ever-evaporating reality.
Sid Roth: Let's go back to, first segment we were talking about high blood pressure, and you said it's basically being fearful of what is going to happen in the future was the major root. How does, what happens physiologically to the body when you start worrying about tomorrow?
Henry Wright: Well this is what we call spirit, soul, body connection, everybody knows mind-body connection, but what, it has it's foundation with a spirit of fear, but in the New Testament, in Timothy it says, "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind". And what happens in this pathway to produce this disease is a person begins to become one with fear, they become one with it spiritually, they become one with it psychologically, and it's thought and their thoughts are one. They begin to project what could go wrong in the future. The body sets in motion an imbalance...
Sid Roth: So you are saying all that we have to do is think this and it actually has an effect on our body.
Henry Wright: Absolutely. Unfortunately many people don't know that their thought aren't their own and so, and that opens up, Paul said our battle is not with flesh and blood, so this may not be just be a psychological problem, it may not be just a soul problem, I understand it as a spiritual problem. I know the source of people's thoughts more than they wish I would know and that is a whole new dimension we don't want to get into here. But lets just talk about this pathway of one disease because it will help people understand what we are saying. If you have fear of tomorrow and what could go wrong, then there is an imbalance of the sympathetic nervous system...
Sid Roth: Listen you can't watch tonight's news without getting fear of tomorrow with all that's coming out there.
Henry Wright: I understand, but what does the Bible say? It says when you see these things happening in the earth don't let your heart be troubled. So why don't we just take our peace?
Sid Roth: Okay, someone sees that it's going to be a pandemic death throughout the world from bird flu: over and over again the fear hits them, then what happens to them.
Henry Wright: Well if you're a natural man I'd be afraid, but if you're a spiritual man what is the worst thing that can happen to you? You can die and go to heaven. So why would we, see Paul to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
Sid Roth: Okay, but what is going on inside a body when they don't take their thoughts captive and they see what goes on in the six p.M. News?
Henry Wright: In the area of high blood pressure there is a mechanism of the cardiovascular system in which the membrane of the cardiovascular system actually stiffens and narrows, and the blood that's being pumped by the heart cannot get through, and that raises the blood pressure. And so the person goes to a doctor and they don't feel well and he says to them, "My, your blood pressure is off the charts". And they say, "Is that serious"? And he says, "Yes, you could die". You think they had fear coming into his office? Now they have the fear of death, they thought they were worrying about their mother-in-law coming next week.
Sid Roth: And at least they get medication that will mess them up even worse sometimes with high blood pressure.
Henry Wright: Well the medication is a beta- blocker, all that does is circumvent the imbalance of the sympathetic nervous system, but now they are being maintained by a drug. Do they still have the same fear about what can go wrong tomorrow?
Sid Roth: Yes.
Henry Wright: Yes. Have they been sanctified? No. Are they doers of the word? No. They are being maintained by a drug.
Sid Roth: Listen, you know what I think is so wonderful? Is in Henry Wright's updated new book, especially this booklet on cancer, he takes every disease, he points out what the problem is, and what to do about it and how to get rid of the problem and he is not against medicine, without medicine a lot of people would die, without doctors a lot of people would die, so use these things that just puts you in a maintenance mode with your disease until you can get whole. Don't go away, we'll be right back after this message.
Sid Roth: Sid Roth here with pastor Henry Wright, I am so excited because I have a passion to understand how we can have physical healing actually effect our body to change so we can feel good, and you know I take vitamins, that's not what I'm talking about, I'm saying there is a principle in God's word that he has healed all of our diseases and I will not be satisfied until I see this played out in life. We were, in the last segment we were talking about someone that had high blood pressure, and how worry about what's going to happen tomorrow, which is actually a sin because you are doing the opposite of what God says, don't worry about what's going to happen tomorrow, so you are involved in sin, so your blood pressure goes up, you take your medication, and then Henry, you read this book, what's going to happen to the body and you follow the instructions.
Henry Wright: Well if we can show a person that their high blood pressure is because they are worrying about the future, and it's a fear issue, and get them to repent to God, recognize it, take responsibility with the father, say I'm sorry, I didn't see this, I didn't know this, I repent to you father, I know you have not given me a spirit of fear, I repent to you for worrying that you cannot take care of me in the future. Then in that moment as they begin to line up with God, as a work of the Holy Spirit, the power of that fear is broken and it becomes a diminishing reality, they have their mind renewed because they have the Word of God now to meditate on, not just that thought that comes to them that something is going to go wrong in the future, there are hundreds of people in the world no longer have high blood pressure when they just become a doer of the word and take no thought for tomorrow. In that time the mind-body connection is broken, the cell membrane semi-rigidity is broken, the blood vessel's open up to proper diameter, the blood flows and high blood pressure is finished and the good news is this, no medication is not required any longer. This is what God wants for us, to be able to walk in health, not be maintained in a disease, or managed in a disease he wants us to be changed spiritually.
Sid Roth: You know Henry, at dinner last night we were talking about environmental illness, e.I., which seems to be almost epidemic, especially among a lot of Jewish people, and your comment was, "That's easy, what's the root cause"?
Henry Wright: Oh easy, compromised immune system coming with a broken heart. All a broken heart is, is this: a person was damaged by somebody who was supposed to love them and didn't. And when you are not loved by somebody who was supposed to love you, fear comes because there is no fear in love. Now that compromises the immune system, we are internationally recognized in healing and prevention of simple and complex allergies as you know, and allergies are so easy to get rid of.
Sid Roth: Now I'd like, the best thing for us to do right now is tell me a few people, real people and what was wrong with them and what happened?
Henry Wright: Well first of all we have karen who is a gold medallist. We bumped into her in Dallas, Texas, actually Houston when she was nine, having epileptic seizures, she had grand mal seizures. She couldn't continue her training as a young girl to be a gold medallist because you can't go out and skate and have a seizure. Her parents brought her to a conference that I was doing in Houston, and actually I had had some success in the removal of epilepsy from people. This is a great story because I was busy in that conference and my wife Donna was there and I said, "You go deal with it, all you have to do is cast out a deaf and dumb spirit like Jesus and the disciples did".
Sid Roth: That's all you have to do.
Henry Wright: That's all you have to do in the name of Jesus, and my wife looked at me and said, "Me"? And I said, "Aw you can do it, he'll work with you". And she went over and spoke to that deaf and dumb, that was an evil spirit Sid, causing the seizure manifestation. She cast it out in the name of Yeshua. And that young girl never had another seizure and now she is a gold medallist in America in figure skating.
Sid Roth: That must excite you when you turn on your TV and see her skating. Tell me someone else.
Henry Wright: The other situation was Randy, and he was advanced ms, when he came to us he had to have a walker: he had lost most of his mobility. And in one of our programs, "For my life," he understood that he had self-hatred, he had not been loved by his father, he didn't experience the love of a father, and he had come down under it. When he received the love of God his father, and that was removed from his life, the doctor's reports are incredible. The very same week when his doctors interviewed him, they took him off his medication, he is healed today. The sclerosis of the immune system eating the myelin sheath in the nerves has been healed, and he has full mobility and goes where he wants to.
Sid Roth: Quickly tell me about this man that died with his doctor right next to him in your presence.
Henry Wright: That was Casper. In Casper's case, he was a well-known rock musician in America: he played John Lennon in Beatlemania on Broadway, he was led to the Lord by Phil Cagey, and, but he had atrafibulation, he had allergies, he had asthma. His doctor brought him to me for prayer, I didn't get that far, he dropped dead with his doctor standing there in my church.
Sid Roth: Now that is not someone that has a passion for healing, something you look forward to.
Henry Wright: I'll tell you something: it's not good when people drop dead in your church.
Sid Roth: No.
Henry Wright: You can bring them in dead already, but not when they are alive, okay? In this particular case, he had no more pulse, his doctor was there, and I cast the spirit of death out of him in the name of Jesus, or Yeshua, and he came back to life. And when he got up off the floor, he not only was alive, he had no more asthma, he had no more allergies, he had no more atrafibulation, and this has been over five years and he is well today.
Sid Roth: Now do people get healed, I know they get healed in your church, I know they get healed from your seminar, what about just reading these books?
Henry Wright: Around the world, and this book is an international best-seller, and people have this book all over the world and the letters and e-mails that we are getting from around the world of people who have been healed just reading the truth their hearts open and they go, "I didn't know that".
Sid Roth: How many diseases have you researched?
Henry Wright: We have, being in health research, we are now researching in our research department over seven hundred diseases ongoing, and Sid, with God's help, we intend on defeating every single one. You know why?
Sid Roth: Why?
Henry Wright: Because when you take a disease and you say incurable, you are exalting Satan. There is no such thing as incurable because that means God is limited. God is all-powerful and he is able to save and heal and deliver one hundred percent and as a believer, a human being, as a pastor I must hold out for God being God at this level one hundred percent of the time.
Sid Roth: God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Do you realize if you are not walking in power, you are not walking in love, you are not walking in a sound mind, you may be walking in a spirit of fear, that's the way of checking yourself. And the minute that you are out of love you are in fear, so you know what you do? Resist that thought and jump back into the love realm, of course you can't jump into the love realm mentally, you can't do it through the occult or the new age, you can only do it if the king of love lives inside of you. And you don't have to say, "Oh love come here, you see if Jesus is your Messiah and Lord, you say, "Thank you Lord, your love is inside of me, your peace is inside of me". I'm so grateful for intimacy with God, I want you to have intimacy with God. There is nothing this world has to offer and when you have intimacy with God this is what God's word says, "All things are yours". Don't you want to walk in peace no matter what's shaking? Yet once more God says I am going to shake this earth and those that are not on a foundation will not stand, get on that foundation, go for the gold, you may not be a swimmer, but go for the real gold.