Heading For Healing 42: On T. L. Osborn's Technique Of Preaching For Healing

If I needed healing, I would go to a place where healings are commonplace. The evangelistic crusades of Dr. T. L. Osborn, his wife Daisy, and daughter La Donna Osborn, were (and are) such places. I would read T. L. Osborn's books a) Biblical Healing, b) Healing the Sick: A Living Classic, and c) The Message That Works, not letting all the verbiage in these books obfuscate the technique Osborn used to achieve healings. I would let Dr. Osborn speak to me, putting myself there. The message that worked for Osborn followed a very specific order, putting his audiences in a certain PLACE. Follow his progression to where we also need to go. Osborn preached (see The Message That Works, pgs. 18 and 20):

1) God's will for man was, and still is, the Paradise. God ASSUMED that His own Manifestation was us, there in the Garden of Paradise, learning to give life to the Garden as He gives Life to man. The Paradise is where we are supposed to be, giving life is what we are supposed to be doing, and the Paradise on earth is where redeemed man will wind up.

2) Due to Satan's deception, man did not believe what God had said. By ignorance, selfishness, and doubt of God's words, sin was introduced, and death--separation from conscious connection with God--became man's lot. Self-directing man outside of Paradise maintains the image of God in corruption, and with it all the sickness, disease, conflict, discord, confusion. strife, affliction, pain, animosity, guilt, fear, etc., etc., that Satan can disperse.

3) Christ died for us. Jesus Christ's substitutionary punishment, scourging and death in our place completely satisfied God's moral demand for justice and retribution for our sin. God has accepted it 100% upon His Word, and upon our repentance to believing His Word, we are joined with Christ in His resurrection.

4) Upon forgiveness for our sins, we are restored to the guiltless, humble, open-to-God state of item #1 above.

In this last state, we ask God to restore our living realities to what He would have them to be. God does the healing, destroying Satan's work. Osborn never claimed one iota of the power or credit for his hearers' healings. THIS IS GOD'S DOINGS. God wants us to proceed to becoming His Milta, His assumed Manifestation hardened into fact.