His Name On Our Lips Brings

Healing Kenyon

By E.W. Kenyon (c. 1945) Used

by Permission
The following article by E.W. Kenyon relates the development of his ministry
of healing. Some of Kenyons critics, most notably D.R. McConnell in his book
A Different Gospel freely speculates that Kenyon learned healing under the
influence of the metaphysical cults. The article below was written in the
nineteen forties and Kenyon, of course, had no idea people would make up
stories about his supposed history and influences! It is a pleasure to let
Kenyon himself answer the speculations of his critics. Note that he tells what
his attitude toward healing was before he discovered Biblical divine healing.
This ought to answer forever the unwise and misguided accusations of his
critics.
Joe McIntyre

His Name On Our Lips Brings Healing

Christianity is a miracle. It has grown through the avenue of miracles
throughout all the years since Pentecost.
To me one of the amazing things of Christianity is that the Name of Jesus in
my lips or in your lips can heal the sick and set free those who are in bondage
to the adversary.

In the early days of my ministry I found that Gods Word, spoken through my
lips changed mens lives and set them free.
The Name of Jesus in the lips of men today is as mighty as it was two months
after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I saw the first miracles of healing in my ministry in Springville, New York,
where I was pastor.
Before this I had always been suspicious of anyone who claimed their prayers
were answered along the line of healing.
I felt we had doctors and surgeons and sanitariums for that purpose. Why did
we need anything else? I then firmly believed that God had given us the
physicians and other methods of healing.
I knew nothing about the Name of Jesus and that healing was a part of the
plan of Redemption, but my heart was very hungry and I was studying the
Word diligently.
I had just received the Holy Spirit. The Word had become a living thing. I had
awakened faith in many hearts by my new found love for the Word.
One day the clerk of our church came down and asked me if I would pray for
his wife. She had been ill for many months.
I will never forget how I shrank from it. I had to go. She lay in bed and I prayed
for her the best I knew how. I did not understand about the Name of Jesus,
but God in His great grace honored me and she was instantly healed.
That night she came to church and gave her testimony. It created a great deal
of sensation and some criticism. Some said it was time for her to get well
anyway. A few gave credit where it belonged.

A young woman in a neighboring town was healed next. She was helpless,
unable to walk. If I remember correctly, she had had an operation and it had
left her in a fearful condition.
I prayed for her. She was instantly healed and got up and went about her
work. She is now on our correspondence list.
From that day on healings came not many, for not many people asked to be
prayed for.
While we were holding services in Massachusetts, healing became more
frequent. One day I discovered the use of the Name of Jesus. Then miracles
became a daily occurrence.
I remember some instances in Northern Maine. The night I arrived in the town
of Monticello for a campaign, my hostess told me that the woman across the
street was very ill. She had had four operations and was no better.
She was in great pain. The next morning I called on her and I opened the
Word and told her that I would pray for her the next afternoon when her
husband came home, for I was very anxious to lead him to Christ.
She said, I am in such pain, wont you pray a little prayer for me now? She
was then instantly healed. She came to our service that night.
The next morning I was called to pray for a woman with gallstones. She was
suffering greatly. She was instantly healed. Then she said, My niece is here
with erysipelas in one of her feet and legs, and she cannot step on her foot.
They helped her into the room where I was, and I prayed and instantly she
was dancing and shouting for very joy.
That happened over thirty years ago. Last year when I first went on KJR. I
received a letter from her in New Brunswick, Canada, clear across the

continent. She was able to get me on the air. She wanted to know if I was the
man who had prayed for her in Monticello years ago.
While holding a campaign in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a man came down
from Northern Main to receive a treatment at the hospital for an injured spine.
He had been treated for months. He saw the notices of our meetings and he
came in and asked me to pray for him. I had never met him before. I opened
the Word and offered a little word of prayer and he went out.
I never saw him again at our services in Fredericton. In a few days I began to
receive letters from Allagash in Maine saying that a man had been in my
service and had been healed of an injured spine and they wanted us to pray
for them. So many requests for prayer came and so many testimonies in
regard to this man that a couple of my workers and myself went up to that
great hunting and fishing section in Northern Maine.
We were there only three days opening the Word, but I have never seen God
work as He did then. Several, who had written as the result of this mans
testimony, had received their healing. This added peculiar interest to the three
days of services, and on the closing day when we prayed for the sick, many
remarkable healings took place.
Man after man, and woman after woman came forward, or were led forward
and were instantly healed.
I will never forget the joy of seeing a man and a woman who had been
bedridden for years walking backwards and forth in the service while we were
praying. One had not walked for 14 or 15 years and the other had not walked
for 10 or 12 years. The last person for whom we prayed was a Roman
Catholic, whose arm had been paralyzed for about two years. He gripped my
hand and shook it for very joy.
In the town of Blaine we saw a great many healings. A school teacher who
had been injured in an automobile accident came. She had lived in absolute
agony. X-ray pictures showed a splintered spine. She was instantly healed.
I dont know how many wrecked spines I have seen perfectly healed.

In San Francisco one was injured on a man-of-war and for three and a half
years he lay in a plaster paris cast. Then when he was discharged from the
hospital he wore a steel jacket. He was instantly healed, took off the steel
jacket and could bend his body any way. The next day he swung a sledge in a
blacksmith shop with the utmost freedom, with no sense of weakness.
Another one in Los Angeles was a hay buyer. While crawling through the hay
in the dark in a barn, he fell down through a chute, striking his back upon a
manger, utterly breaking and crushing his spine.
If I remember correctly, he said he had had 19 x-rays taken. He wore a steel
jacket. When we prayed he was healed instantly. The next day he was able to
load a car with 100-pound sacks of beans. He could not lift 5 pounds the day
before when he had the steel jacket on.
Others here in the city of Seattle who have had crushed spines have been
instantly healed.
I have seen curvature of the spine straightened instantly while our hands were
on the back. I have seen many cases of pneumonia instantly healed, perfectly
delivered while we were praying.
An elderly woman in Los Angeles had double pneumonia. The doctors had
given her up. She was instantly healed, got up and dressed and went about
the house.
We have seen many insane perfectly delivered. We have seen broken bones
instantly healed and become perfectly normal and well.
Had we space we could tell of men and women who have been given up to
die who have been perfectly restored.
One of the most remarkable cases happened in the last two years. A mother
telephoned in, saying her daughter was already on the operating table about
to take the anesthetic and asked me to pray for her. We did, and the thing for

which they were going to operate passed instantly out of her body before they
could give her the anesthetic.
All these things mean God is cooperating with us as He cooperated with the
Lord Jesus.
I have seen hundreds of men and women healed while I have been in Seattle.
If any physician in the country had as many healings as we have witnessed in
our ministry, he would be known the world over. No building would hold the
patients that would come to his ministry.
Through all these years I have witnessed the power of that Name and the
Grace of the Lord Jesus