If someone told you that the debt that you owe has been fully repaid, would you still be in unbelief and continue to pay towards your debt?
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies” – Psalms 103:2-4
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
– Isaiah 53:5
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
– 1 Peter 2:24
We see in the scriptures that God has provided atonement and forgiveness of our sins together with the healing of our bodies through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Just as God doesn’t want you to live in sin, He doesn’t want you to live in sickness either. God’s will is for you to walk in health, just as much as in righteousness.
It would be remiss of a doctor to only diagnose you of your sickness and not to inform you of the possible remedies or treatments, especially if these are already made available. How much more does our loving God desires for your wholeness – free from both sin and sickness. Our heavenly Father has paid for it with the suffering death and resurrection of His son Jesus Christ – the one perfect sacrifice on the cross for your eternal and complete redemption. It is up to you to consent to undergo treatment from the hospital, just like you have to accept the healing from God!
We often find it easier to believe God wants us free from sin, yet struggle to believe He wants us healed, but the same Love (God is Love) that forgives also restores and desire wholeness – spirit, soul and body.
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.” – 3 John 2
Firstly, we must understand that sickness is of the devil and a result of the fall in the garden of Eden, because of the first Adam. Sickness does not come except to steal, to kill and to destroy (John 10:10), but Jesus came so that we may have life and have life more abundantly!
Healing is the children’s bread (Mark 7:27) and this is a powerful truth – healing is the rightful portion of the kingdom of God and the inheritance of God’s children. Just as bread is a daily necessity for life and nourishment, so is healing – it is part of the covenant. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21). You and I have been accepted into God’s family through this restoration, and we now inherit all His blessings and promises, including healing.
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.” – Galatians 5:6
Faith begins to work in your life and becomes effective when you understand God’s everlasting love for you and towards you – when you know that you know that you know that God loves you. When you have this revelation of His love, you would start to understand and appreciate that He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things (Romans 8:32), including healing?
“But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.” – Luke 9:11
We pray that your understanding be open that you might comprehend the scriptures (Luke 24: 45), being rooted and grounded in love, to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:16-19).
DAN MOHLER
We fight in the Body of Christ over the will of God to heal because people haven’t been healed. And we use that as our evidence. And we use our experience to trump the validity of God’s word. We are missing something. Let’s not have anything stop the power of God. Let’s not have any reason why God doesn’t heal. Let’s settle into one reason why that’s possible and grow into that until it becomes a reality.
The problem (be it backache, flu, cancer) should not become our identity. Christians’ prayers are often driven by their problems. Faith doesn’t come because we have a problem. Faith comes because of Love. Faith comes because of the Word and the Promise. We’re not problem driven people, we’re promise driven people. We’re answer driven people. We have a victory in Christ we are contending for, and appropriating because His Word is true. It’s not just because we read our bible and have “christian rights”, it’s because we have a covenant and relationship with God. Some of us are discouraged and hurt because we’ve tried everything, prayed everything and we turn relationship with God into a method, a Christian method to get results, a method to get help in time of need and there’s discouragement there. It should be about relationship with God, and Faith working through Love, and Love never failing.
Often times, we try to find God through the experiences of life. We say because Bob died and Bill lived, God healed some and doesn’t healed all. Jesus didn’t declare that. Life declared that. John 1:18 says No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him and in the last days God has spoken through His Son. Jesus didn’t declare that God heals some and doesn’t heal all. Circumstances have declared that. So who is the voice of truth? Circumstances or Jesus? God has magnified his Word above his Name (Psalms 138:2) so we ought to magnify His word above our circumstances, how we feel and what we think. Let’s get humble and really die to our know-it-all. Knowledge puffs up and is putting a ceiling over the power of God that we desperately need.
Nobody was bold enough to declare this (God’s healing) was possible but only making excuses for the lack of power, explaining away the death of people and all of a sudden we become trapped in life being subdued when we are created to subdue.
I’m telling you, you don’t even have to agree with me but I’m cheering you on to agree. You can disagree all you want and people are still going to get healed and you are just going to get mad, come up with another reason why or why not. Jesus did not declare the Father as healed some and did not healed others. He healed all who came to Him, and everyone He touched was healed so He declared it is the will of God to heal. If God had said it one time to one person that it’s not your time or that it’s not God’s timing, just one time concerning healing, then we have reason to not believe because everybody you prayed for, you wonder if they are in that category. If God made just one exception, then we throw that person in front of us (we’re praying for) into that exception. Because when we let our experience be our doctrine, we’ve created that exception, because we created many exceptions.
2 Cor 6:2 2 For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (deliverance, preservation, safety, sum of benefits and blessings which Christians redeemed from all earthly ills will enjoy).
It’s the prayer of faith that will heal the sick.
Faith is the substance, tangibility, realisation of our hope. We can have the realisation of our hope when we are settled in the matter. Faith works through Love. Faith doesn’t work because I have a problem. Need works because I have a problem and need drives fear. Faith works through Love and Love casts out fear. We pray from fear a lot. We hear we have cancer and we’re going to die and we hear Sally has cancer and is going to die and the whole church goes into fasting and praying because they’re scared half to death she’s going to die. So they go into Christian performance to get a breakthrough when the stones are already rolled away. And then we say but then the whole church was praying, we all were praying, there was 150 praying, it couldn’t have been God’s will or she’d have been healed because we were all praying. I don’t know what we were doing, I’m not sure, because the bible says if a man has faith and says to the mountain, ‘move!’, it will move. So if the mountain doesn’t move, we’re missing something. We’re not seeing something. We’re good, sincere people and we don’t want Sally to die! But we’re letting our emotion and our empathy drive us in prayer and turn this into a method when it’s relationship and the power of God! You can’t take things personal, you take the Gospel personal. You can’t pray because it’s Sally and oh my, she is the sweetest thing and the flowers bloom when she walks by and how can she die? She can’t have cancer, not Sally! Well, not anybody! When that stuff gets into you emotionally, you start praying for all the wrong reasons. They seem right but they don’t have the power of God. And you can see that we are on the wrong track because then the results causes great animosity and division among us and now, we have camps and rivers and streams that God never built and dug, because we start justifying our own experiences and our own belief systems and a lot of our belief system came through our lives instead of through Jesus’ life. A lot of what we believe transpired through the way life’s been. There’re people that’s so discouraged with healing because they prayed and prayed and prayed for an uncle and he didn’t get healed and they said never again. But it’s all the more reason we should not behave this way because God’s word says it can happen. There has to be something. I need to see this, there has to be something that I can be enlightened and God forbid I get selfish, turn inward and quit in something I’m predestined for, God forbid I throw in the towel when it’s not even my privilege because I am not my own, I am bought with a price. Have your way in me God and give me a revelation. I’m going after this thing. We might have lost my uncle but God forbid we lose anymore because I promise you if you take a back seat, you take a bench, you’re gonna watch more and more die and your belief system will be justified by the more deaths and you will be a million miles from the power of God and truth and you will just settle into a doctrine that tries to protect your soul but you are not okay. These lies are costing us so much. We don’t need a reason why to give permission for more and more people to die when our hearts aren’t good with that. We come up with reasons but we’re still not ready for all these people to die.