Branham believed that healing was the finished work of Calvary. He also believed that
all sickness and sin were caused by Satan. “What doctors call ‘cancer, God calls it a
devil,” Branham preached.
Branham also had a strong deliverance ministry. Along with sin and sickness, he
identified insanity, temper tantrums, disbelief, and lustful habits as the work of demons.
Branham didn’t believe that deliverance healed a person, but he did believe it cleared a
path way for healing to have entrance.
Before Branham would cast out demons in his services, he would stop and tell the
skeptics present that he couldn’t be responsible for what “evil fate befell them.”
If a person desired healing in his meetings, the person must do two things: (1) believe
and confess that Jesus died for his healing and (2) believe that Branham was the prophet of God sent to administer healing.
Branham believed that faith was a sixth sense. To him, faith was believing what God has revealed. People lost their healing because they quit believing what had been revealed to them. “As faith kills it [disease], unbelief resurrects it” Branham reasoned. A
person didn’t have to be a Christian to be healed, but they must become a Christian to
remain healed, according to Branham.
While Branham supported the work of physicians, he also believed their work was
limited. He felt that medicine merely “kept the body clean while God performed the
healing.” Branham asserted, “There’s not one speck of medicine ever did cure any sickness.” It is said that Branham would “bristle” when one described divine healing as fanaticism. He would respond by stating that “medicine was never defined as fanaticisım when a person died from incorrect medical treatment.”
