Healing Belongs to You!

Are you sick or have a disease? God wants you healed. If there is one thing that God wants us to know and believe, it is how much He loves us and desires our healing. God’s love brings healing because He has a true father’s heart: full of compassion, understanding, and a desire for our health and wholeness. Therefore, being healed and made whole has always been God’s heart for us, His precious children.

Jesus went to the cross to die for our sins so that we could have a relationship with God the Father and have eternal life. But He also went to the cross to die for our sicknesses and diseases.

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses) and carried our sorrows (pains); yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 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 53:4‒5

When we have a fresh revelation of God’s love, we won’t be afraid that He may keep His healing power from us. God is our Healer, and Jesus’ ministry showed us that. Healing is in God’s nature, and His name is healing, Jehovah Rapha (Exodus 15:26). The names of God reveal His character, nature, authority, and kingdom. Jesus perfectly represented the Father while on the earth. We need a greater revelation of God, the Father’s heart, and Christ’s perfect representation of Him.

Death, sickness, and decay come in three different ways: the fallen world we live in, because of sin, or from the enemy (Satan and his demons). We lost everything through Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden. When they sinned by disobeying God, their sin gave the devil authority over the world and humanity, bringing a curse upon the earth and humanity (Genesis 3:1-24).

Jesus recovered everything we lost through His substitutionary sacrifice on the cross, to reconcile humanity to God and restore the authority of the earth to humankind (Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 10:19). Sin, death, disease, poverty, and other afflictions are part of the curse that Christ redeemed us from.

However, there’s a difference between what is legally and experientially ours. Our adversary, the devil, tries to keep us from what is legally ours. Not every born-again believer has appropriated what Christ redeemed for us, even though Jesus’s stripes healed us.

What Jesus did on the cross must be received by faith and acted upon, just as when we believed and acted on the promise of salvation as stated in Romans 10:9-10, and God fulfilled it. Therefore, all the benefits of the cross (e.g., forgiveness, healing, deliverance, and provision) must be appropriated by faith, and we must apply these benefits to our needs.

Healing is part of God’s redemptive plan.

Everything that Jesus obtained for us through the cross is available to us. He took our sins, sicknesses, diseases, and infirmities upon His own body to heal us spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, and relationally.

God the Father made a New Covenant with us through Jesus, His Son. It is a blood covenant between God and Jesus through His death as a substitutionary sacrifice for us. He became a curse for us because the law, through our disobedience to it, brought a curse upon humankind.

Jesus redeemed us from the law’s curse of sin and death, including sickness, disease, poverty, and bondage (Galatians 3:13). God calls sickness and disease satanic oppression.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38

Satan is the oppressor—Jesus is the Healer and Deliverer! Jesus’ stripes provided healing for us (1 Peter 2:24). Satan is the author of sickness, whereas Jesus came to redeem us from Satan’s power and give us abundant life (John 10:10).

The New Covenant went into effect after Jesus was raised from the dead and is unbreakable because it is not between God and us (sinful man) but between God and Jesus, the perfect Son of God.

There is the remission or cancellation of sin, but Jesus also provides healing for our physical bodies and souls (mind, will, emotions). Salvation and healing come from the same work of redemption: what Christ did on the cross. The Greek word soteria means “salvation,” and the Greek root is sozo. Sozo also means “healing.”

But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well (sozo).” And the woman was made well(sozo) from that hour. Matthew 9:22

This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed (sozo), said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.” Acts 14:9-10

Salvation is the Greatest Miracle of all!

The greatest healing miracle of all is the salvation of the human spirit. If you haven’t received God’s salvation, you can take your first step toward total healing by becoming born again and entering into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

First, we must recognize that we have sinned against God by following our way and that the punishment for sin is death and eternal separation from God (Romans 3:23; 6:23). Jesus took our place as the sinless substitutionary sacrifice and paid the penalty for our sins (Romans 5:8). He died on the cross and shed His blood for us to give us right standing with God. Then, God raised Him on the third day (Acts 10:40).

We receive this free gift of salvation by grace through Jesus and what He did on the cross when we choose to put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ for our salvation.

When you believe in Jesus and receive Him as your Savior and Lord, you are born again with the Holy Spirit living inside you. You become a new creation and the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17, 21)!

The Holy Spirit changes you from the inside out. You don’t have to clean yourself up first. We don’t have the power in ourselves to stop sinning. But we need to have a repentant heart concerning our sins and to understand that they separate us from God.

Repentance in the New Testament is the Greek word metanoia, which means “to change your mind, about God and your sin, and to have sincere regret or remorse.” You must desire to turn from your sin and turn to God (Matthew 3:2; 4:17). Godly sorrow leads to repentance when you realize that you have sinned against God, who is holy and good, and that you need a Savior because you cannot save yourself (2 Corinthians 7:10).

If you want to experience God’s love and have peace with Him through a relationship with Jesus Christ, you can pray aloud this suggested prayer. You can also pray in your own words. Remember, it is not words or prayer alone that will save you. Prayer is a way to reach out to the Lord, and it must be done in faith (completely trusting in Him alone to save you). He gives us His faith (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 12:3; Hebrews 12:2).

Christ will save you when you ask Him, believing that He will. Faith is not a feeling; it is simply believing God, taking Him at His Word, and receiving His gift of salvation.

Prayer for Salvation (To be prayed out loud)

Heavenly Father,

Your Word says that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. I ask You to forgive me for my sins. I repent and turn away from them, turning to You. I am calling on You and asking Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life. I believe Jesus died on the cross and shed His blood for me. I believe in my heart that You raised Him from the dead, and He is alive today. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me the Holy Spirit to live inside me. Fill me with the Holy Spirit and Your healing power. I now belong to You. Help me live for You and obey You all the days of my life.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Join me next time for Part Two. Believing in healing is not enough. You must believe it is God’s will to heal you! Believing is the key to everything in the kingdom of God.

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This book will answer questions about healing, eliminate doubts, and boost your faith to receive what Jesus purchased for you. I take you on a journey to discover what the Bible says about healing and deliverance and how to receive it from Jesus, the Healer.

As you meditate on these truths, you will discover: