Rhema vs Curry Blake, My Journey for Understanding Divine Healing Doctrine.

When I first heard Curry Blake teach, I was fired up. His boldness and authority message hit me like lightning. He said what few others dared to say, that healing is always God’s will, that every believer has the power to heal the sick, and that if results are not showing up, the problem is never with God but with us. (For the record I would add Todd White in with Curry)

As a Rhema graduate, I already believed in divine healing, but Curry’s message came with a challenge that made me question everything I had been taught. He said Rhema still had “sacred cows.” At the time, that made sense to me. I thought maybe that was why I was not seeing the same results he claimed. So I threw myself into his teachings, listening day and night, trying to do it his way.

Two years later, I was burned out, confused, and no closer to consistent results. The boldness remained, but the fruit was not there. And I began to realize something deeper. Both Rhema and Curry had truth in what they taught, but truth without balance becomes error.

The Fault Line Where Curry and Dad Hagin Part Ways

Curry teaches that if someone does not get healed, it is never the person’s fault but always the fault of the one praying. In his Divine Healing Technician Training Manual he writes, “If the person you lay hands on is not healed, it is not their unbelief. It is your responsibility to set them free.” He also teaches, “Healing is always God’s will and always available right now. If it does not happen, we do not blame God or the sick person. We fix ourselves.”

On the surface, that sounds like personal responsibility, but in practice it creates a system of spiritual performance. You either “did it right” or you failed. That kind of thinking might sound bold, but it puts an unbearable weight on the believer and removes the leading of the Holy Spirit from the process.

Dad Hagin taught something different. In Healing Belongs to Us he wrote, “Faith is acting on God’s Word. We do not deny the existence of sickness, but we deny its right to dominate us.” He believed healing belonged to the believer but also taught that faith is a relationship with God, not a formula. Hagin taught that some healings are received instantly and others progressively, depending on the person’s faith, growth, and walk with God.

He also said, “It is not our job to make faith work. It is our job to believe and to rest in what Christ has already done.” That mindset removes the pressure to perform and replaces it with trust in God’s faithfulness.

The Problem with Unverifiable Claims

Another issue that began to bother me was Curry’s constant claim that his ministry has more recorded healings than any other in history. That sounds powerful on stage, but it is not verifiable. I even worked with some of his trained Divine Healing Technicians, and I saw firsthand how many of the “confirmed” healings were not confirmed at all.

There were times when people would report numbers, testimonies, or even whole city outreaches as proof of massive healing results, yet no follow-up was ever done. In more than one case, we stood in faith believing the person was healed, but the manifestation never came. Some of those people even passed away later. Others remained in the same condition. But in the reports, those same encounters were counted as “healings.”

This is not an accusation. I am not attacking Curry or the people in his ministry. Many of them are sincere and passionate. But sincerity does not equal truth, and faith does not need exaggeration to prove it works. When people claim results that are not real, it creates a false standard and pressures others to pretend the same. That is not how the ministry of Jesus operated.

Jesus never inflated numbers or exaggerated outcomes. When He healed, people were restored, and everyone saw it. When the apostles healed, it was verifiable and undeniable. Healing that requires you to defend the numbers is already off balance.

The Trap of Circular Reasoning

Curry’s system sounds logical until you test it. If someone is healed, faith worked. If someone is not healed, then by definition, faith did not work. How do we know faith did not work? Because the person was not healed. That is circular reasoning. It sounds airtight, but it explains everything while proving nothing.

Jesus did correct His disciples for not casting the demon out of the boy in Matthew 17. He said they had little faith. But that one moment is not enough to build an entire doctrine on. The disciples also grew. They learned. They asked questions. They depended on the Spirit. Jesus never built a theology of failure around one story, but Curry’s model often does.

What I Learned the Hard Way

After two years of following Curry’s method, I had to be honest with myself. It was not working. Not because God’s Word failed, but because I had reduced the supernatural to a formula. I had turned faith into a checklist. If someone was not healed, I blamed myself and wondered what step I missed.

The truth is, healing is not about proving something. It is about revealing Someone. It is not about how loud you command or how perfectly you quote Scripture. It is about knowing Him. The miracles Jesus did were not to showcase His technique but to reveal His compassion and unity with the Father.

When I returned to the foundation I learned at Rhema, I realized that Dad Hagin had it right all along. Healing is the will of God. Faith is how we receive it. But faith is also a living trust in a living God. The power is not in the pressure we put on ourselves. It is in resting in what Christ already did.

Finding Balance

I still love Curry Blake and I’m thankful for many things I’ve learned from him. He is fearless and his passion for getting the church out of passivity is needed. But passion without compassion creates hardness. And authority without dependence creates pride.

I also still love Rhema, because it gave me roots that have held through every storm. But if I am honest, my heart aligns more with Dad Hagin’s balance, where the believer’s authority is exercised under the guidance of the Spirit, grounded in love, and seasoned with humility.

The bottom line is this. The fault is not always a lack of faith. Sometimes it is a lack of understanding, timing, or spiritual growth. Sometimes it is simply that we live in a fallen world and do not see everything clearly yet. Faith does not mean ignoring reality. It means trusting God in the midst of it.

Healing will always be part of the Gospel, but it can never be reduced to a method. Because when faith becomes performance, you lose the Person it is supposed to point to. And when you lose Him, even your boldest declarations lose their power.

Curry often says Rhema has “sacred cows” like asking God for healing instead of commanding it, or believing that sin can hinder healing. But those are not sacred cows; they are scriptural principles that bring balance and humility. Curry teaches that you should never ask, only command, because asking supposedly shows unbelief. Rhema teaches that once you have taken your stand of faith, you remain there by thanking God for the answer. That is not weakness or passivity; it is resting in the finished work of Christ.

Curry also teaches that sin cannot block healing, but Scripture shows otherwise. JJesus told the man at the pool of Bethesda, “Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee.” Rhema has always taught that sin, offense, or unbelief can open the door to sickness or hinder healing, not because God withholds it, but because sin breaks fellowship and makes faith ineffective.

So while Curry points out some real issues in how people at Rhema may have misunderstood faith or turned it into routine, the teachings themselves were not the problem. The foundation of Rhema’s message still reflects the love, patience, and character of Jesus. Faith is not about commanding God; it is about cooperating with Him. Authority is not about control; it is about walking in partnership with the Spirit.

Looking back, I can say that both Rhema and Curry helped me grow in important ways. But the message that has brought me the most peace, the most consistency, and the clearest picture of God’s heart has come from what I learned through Dad Hagin. His teaching on faith rests in love. It produces confidence without pride and action without pressure. That is the kind of faith that draws us closer to Jesus rather than measuring our worth by results.

Returning to this kind of faith changed everything for me in ministry and in my personal walk with God. When I pray for the sick now, I no longer feel the weight of proving my faith or the pressure to produce results. I pray in partnership with Jesus, trusting His timing and His ways. I celebrate every small sign of healing and rest in the reality that God’s power is at work, even when I cannot see it yet. It has freed me from guilt, fear, and frustration, and it has allowed me to minister with a heart full of compassion, patience, and love, just as Jesus did.

Let me be clear, I am not against Curry. I still respect him deeply and will continue to listen to his teaching and learn from it. I have simply learned to take it with discernment, weighing it against Scripture and the heart of Jesus.