God is our healer its part of His nature it who He is –Jehovah Rapha
Exodus 15:26 “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
There are some prophecies about this in the old testament
Psalm 103:1-. ‘Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s’
Isaiah 53:5 ‘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.’ (In the Hebrew it says we were healed)
This prophecy is quoted again in the New Testament
1Peter 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.’
Note this time it says you were healed – past tense – the price for our healing was paid for at the cross! That’s amazing isn’t it…we perish through lack of knowledge …..if we don’t understand this we will perish! His word is a seed that we plant in our hearts that when watered produces a tree, if you don’t water a seed what happens – it shrivels up and dies – when we water it with good confession, faith etc God provides the increase!
Romans 10:9 ‘that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.’
The word here for saved is Sozo it means saved, healed, made whole, delivered, preserved this word is used over 100 times in the New Testament in different places. It is part of our inheritance when we received salvation …so how do we receive healing .. the same way we accepted Jesus into our lives by faith ..it is part of the same package! Sozo impacts both spiritual and physical body, we are a temple of the Holy Spirit.
John 3:17 ‘For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Or Sozoed!’
Luke 8:43-48 – The woman with the issue of blood was Sozoed – she received healing in her natural body ‘Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
3 John 2 ‘Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.’
This is Gods will for us He wants us healed body, soul and spirit! He paid the price for our healing !
Hebrews 11:1 (The Passion Translation )
‘Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.’
Hebrews 11:1.(Amplified Bible) ‘Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].’
2 Corinthians 5:7 ‘For we walk by faith, not by sight.’
Hebrews 10:23 ‘Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.’
Hebrews 11:6 ‘But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him’
James 2:26 ‘For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.’
Gods word in us produces faith and its Gods supernatural power that heals – the Holy Spirit at work in us. When His word produces faith, failure is overcome!
Mark 16:18 ‘they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. i.e. they shall progressively feel themselves getting better and better, until finally they are well and healthy.”
This is not always instantaneous. God’s power is released into our body and we release our faith and believe healing virtue will be deposited into our body. Just as medicine slowly works to reverse a medical condition, the power of God that was deposited with the laying on of our hands will begin to attack the sickness and progressively bring that person back into a state of health and well-being.
Then we water the seed.
Isaiah 55:11 ‘So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.’
Proverbs 4:20-22 ‘My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.’
The opposite of faith is not believing what God says true – doubting
James 1:6-8 ( Amplified Bible)
‘But he must ask [for wisdom] in faith, without doubting [God’s willingness to help], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that is blown about and tossed by the wind. For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].’
Mark 11:22-23 ‘So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.’
Let us meditate on these scriptures that will enable us to move in faith for healing!
Mark 9:23’Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”