Healing pt 1

Today we are going to talk about healing. Many of us go around for our whole lives dealing with sickness and disease, not understanding that we don’t have to. We have a covenant with God, and Jesus dies so that we may be healed. You do not have to live another day in your life sick. That doesn’t mean symptoms won’t come, they will because the devil will always be in effect seeking whom he may devour. It is our responsibility to do as James 4:7 says “…Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” When we resist sickness and do not receive it, then it can not come upon us. So let’s start with first receiving our healing. There are three things that you need to realize about your healing and accept before you even start praying about it…

God is able to heal you. Able means…Having physical power sufficient.

Luke 5:17- “…the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”

As you can see from this verse God has the power sufficient to heal you.

God is willing to heal you. Willing means…Free to do or grant.

Psalm 107:19-20- “Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”

As you can see the petition of the people was granted that means God was willing to heal when He heard their cries.

God earnestly desires to heal you. Earnestly means…Warmly; zealously; importunately; eagerly; with real desire. Desire in this case means…Love; affection.

1 Peter 2:24-“ 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.”

As we see in this passage Jesus gave His own body over to torture and death so that we may not only be saved, but that we may also be healed. He wouldn’t have done this and gone through this horrendous event if He didn’t earnestly desire to see us both saved and healed. If we only take the salvation and the cleansing part of what He did and we leave the healing then we are making His sacrifice less than it was, and we are not walking in understanding of what Jesus did for us on the cross. God didn’t create man to be sick, sickness came as result of the fall, and Jesus was sent to redeem us from every curse, which includes sickness.

Let’s look at a passage that addresses the three points I just made…

Matthew 8:1-31 “When Jesus came down from the hill, great crowds followed him. Then a man with a skin disease came to Jesus. The man bowed down before him and said, “Lord, you can heal me if you will.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, “I will. Be healed!” And immediately the man was healed from his disease. “

The man came before Jesus and said “Lord you can heal me if you will.” From what this man says we can see that He knew Jesus was able to heal. He wasn’t questioning Jesus’ ability to heal, He questioned if the Lord was willing to heal him. When He questioned Jesus’ willingness, Jesus said “I will”, which in Hebrew also means to delight in; desire. So you can see Jesus was telling Him, it’s not that I am willing to, of course I am, but it is that I delight in healing you, I desire to heal you. That’s what He is saying to each one of us…

My beautiful children, I love you and I desire to give you everything. That is why I sent my son to the cross for you, so that you may have everything that I gave to Adam in the Garden. I especially want you to be healthy. I have called you to do mighty things upon this earth and if you are sick you will not be able to fulfill those purposes to the fullness that I intended you to. So I say to you this moment, hear me! I am able, I am willing, and I earnestly desire you to walk in the healing that I’ve already provided for you! Believe it is yours, receive it! Let the sacrifice of my son not be in vain, but receive the fullness of what He did for you on the cross. By His stripes, my child, you were healed. Walk in it!

Glory to God!! Isn’t that awesome. It’s time to receive what God has already provided for us. I know I am. I pray that you will as well. God bless!!

Tracy Willey