Healing Did Not End With the Apostles

What the life of George Jeffreys and the Welsh revival taught me about God's power to heal today

During the Welsh revival, bars and public houses were shut down. Liquor sales dropped by 75%.

That single fact shows how powerful a revival can be. When Christians in a community are outspoken about their faith, when they carry the life God has given them into the streets, the culture around them begins to shift. Everybody knows there is a life at work, and that this life is carried by the people who profess Jesus Christ.

This was the world of George Jeffreys. I've been reviewing God's Generals: The Healing Evangelists, and his chapter stirred me deeply. The revival itself didn't last forever. After about two years, some of what was gained began to be reversed. But George, his brother Stephen and a few others decided they were not going to let it go down. They would continue with the Lord and continue with the work of the Lord.

The mindset that healing died with the apostles

George Jeffreys was an evangelist who saw many kinds of miracles. Like his contemporary F. F. Bosworth, he believed that miracles and healings were a present-day reality.

What fascinates me is that even back in the 1930s, many people thought miracles and healings belonged to the past. They believed only people like Peter and Paul could cast out demons and heal the sick, and that when the apostles passed away, all of that ended.

That was a common mindset then. In 2026, some people still have it.

But from that time until now, believers have kept pushing back, and they've shown evidence that the power of God has not changed. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8).

The same Spirit who saves also heals

Here is how I see it. If people can receive salvation today by the ministry of the Holy Spirit, then people can be healed and receive miracles today. It's the same Holy Spirit.

Jesus healed the sick by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the disciples did the same. Scripture says "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him" (Acts 10:38).

That power is available to heal today. If you have any form of sickness in your body as you read this, get ready to receive. The power of God flows through words. Everything that was created came from the word of God, so everything listens to, obeys and responds to His word.

So I speak to you now: sickness, go out in the name of the Lord Jesus. I speak healing to your body. The life of God flows into you right now. The Son of God paid for you to be free, and you are made free in His name.

Testimonies that still speak

The book records many testimonies from Jeffreys' ministry. A few stood out to me.

A man who dragged his legs behind him. He had fallen, and his legs became so bent that to move forward he had to propel himself and drag his legs behind him. He was on crutches. He came to one of Jeffreys' meetings, was healed, and walked without his crutches. He even regained his weight. God didn't just restore his legs. He restored his health.

A girl scheduled for amputation. Before that, George and his brother Stephen prayed for a girl whose leg was diseased. The doctors had scheduled her for amputation because there was nothing more they could do. The brothers prayed and anointed her with oil, and she walked. Her leg was healed.

A woman laid down permanently. Another woman had tuberculosis of the spine. She could do nothing and had to lie down permanently. The power of God came over her, she walked, and she went back to her normal life.

Three layers of healing. One more woman had fallen and injured her knee. On top of the injury she had tuberculosis causing constant pain and degeneration in the leg, and a skin condition that made her skin bleed, so her hands had to be wrapped in bandages. She was prayed for and anointed, and all of it went away.

There is nothing God cannot do. No condition is beyond Him.

How Jeffreys himself was healed

Jeffreys didn't only pray for others. He was miraculously healed himself of facial paralysis and weakness in his body.

The way it happened is worth noticing. He was praying, interceding for a church service, when the power of God came over him. He described it as something like electricity surging through him, and he was healed.

There are many ways we can receive healing. Someone can lay hands on us. But as believers, we can also release the power of God that is already in us. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Romans 8:11).

Stirring up what is in you

Here is the lesson that spoke to me most. After his healing, Jeffreys kept himself in health by relying on the Spirit of God. It was almost as if he kept stirring up the power of God within him until it overflowed into his body.

His reasoning makes sense to me. If this power could come over him and remove facial paralysis, it could also keep him well.

Paul told Timothy the same thing: "stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands" (2 Timothy 1:6). Jude tells us to build ourselves up on our most holy faith, "praying in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 20). And Paul says, "be not drunk with wine... but be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18).

Think about it. When someone is drunk, it affects their body. It affects how they walk and even how they think. When we are filled with the Spirit, He affects us too. That power in us flushes out sickness and pain.

Healing is open to anyone who believes

Many of us no longer need convincing that Jesus can heal. The real problem is that many people don't believe it can work for them, or that they could be the ones to lay hands on the sick. They think there's some special requirement to meet first.

Jesus didn't set one. He opened it to anyone who believes in Him: "they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:18).

I also want to be clear: believing in divine healing is not against medicine. Doctors and treatment are a blessing, and receiving care is not a lack of faith. My point is that the power of God is still real, still available and still at work, and we should expect it.

Keep Jesus at the centre

Jeffreys' story isn't only about miracles. He was the spiritual head of a growing movement, and he fought for the local church to have the freedom to run its own services and raise its own leaders. A power struggle with the movement's administrative head eventually led him to resign. He left hundreds of churches behind and started afresh with the Bible Pattern Fellowship, and about 21 churches joined him.

Years later, after both men had died, the two groups came back together and continued the work of the Lord.

Two lessons stand out to me. First, everyone in the body of Christ has a place. A gifted administrator is not meant to take up the office of the pastor, and the pastor isn't meant to do everything. Like the hand and the eye, we complement each other.

Second, it is all about Jesus. We have to put our differences aside and focus on the work God has called us to do.

A takeaway for this week

Jesus is the same today. The Spirit who raised Him from the dead lives in you.

This week, take time each day to pray in the Spirit and stir up the gift of God in you. If you are sick, receive your healing in Jesus' name, and keep following your doctor's care as you do. If someone around you is sick, don't wait to feel qualified. Lay hands on them and pray. Then watch what God will do.

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Michael Adegoke