Faith is the Key to Your Healing!

Believing is the key to everything in the kingdom of God.It is the way to tap into the power of God. Our healing, which Jesus secured for us 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. We received God’s faith when we were born again. Every believer has received a measure of faith (Romans 12:3).

Kenneth Copeland reminds us in his faith series study guide that faith doesn’t come from striving because it isn’t a product of our will. Instead, faith is a spiritual force already dwelling within us if Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, and it is the nature and life of God operating in us when we surrender to Him and believe His Word (Mark 11:22; Ephesians 2:8-9).[1]

Our faith is in Jesus, not in how much trust we have or don’t have, nor is it based on what we do or don’t do. It is not having faith in our faith but in who He is and what He has provided. We don’t look to ourselves to see if we have enough faith, but to Jesus, “the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). Look to the One who never doubts, whose faith is strong and never wavers!

Faith as small as a mustard seed can move the mountain of sickness (Mark 11:22-23; Matthew 17:20)! We must look at circumstances through Jesus’ eyes and see that He has defeated them on the cross. We can’t allow the situation to become more significant than the answer that is Jesus—what He provided us through the power of His blood, in His death, resurrection, and ascension. Healing is about what He paid for and what He’s done.

Jesus healed all who came to Him and declared that nothing is impossible with God. The Father’s heart is to heal, and Jesus responded as His Father would. He responded to every level of faith, never withholding the miracle (Matthew 4:23-24; 8:26; 15:28; Mark 9:23-24).

Building genuine faith happens through the Word of God, so if God says it is true, it is. Our faith doesn’t depend on physical evidence—what we feel, see, hear, or experience through our five senses in the natural realm.

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hoped for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. Hebrews 11:1 AMPC

Faith is taking hold of the things we hope for that align with His will—while keeping our eyes on Jesus—as we wait for it to come to pass. We can’t move into faith without hope. The key to our hearts is hope. You have to have hope before faith (Romans 8:25). Your hope compels you to act, and that is faith. The battle to steal your faith begins with the enemy trying to get your hope.

Natural hope, or wishing, is a false substitute for faith. We must not act as if we are in faith when we hope to receive something. Hope doesn’t work in connection to prayer, or just wishing something will happen, or hoping it to be true without expecting it (e.g., I hope I’m healed). Hope is an expectation of God’s goodness. The expectation that God will heal activates faith, and healing follows.

Remember, hope comes before faith, but faith knows it will receive something in return. In fact, faith has already received it!

The Word is like a seed. It carries within it the power to fulfill itself, and it goes forth and returns to God, accomplishing what He sent it to do. It never fails. When you plant the Word about healing in your heart, believe, confess, and act on it, that Word will release God’s power in you to affect that circumstance (Matthew 13:3-9; 18-23).[2] The essence of faith is the power of agreement with God, His Word, and who He is, which releases His supernatural power.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

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. Isaiah 55:11

Therefore, we must agree with God and His Word. The Word of God is His voice to us, and it has His authority. We must not separate God from His Word. But we must also grow into an agreement with God, which is a process. We do this by opening our hearts to the Holy Spirit and spending time with God in His Word, prayer, and worship.

Biblical faith acts in accordance with the Word of God, contrary to the evidence seen in the natural world. Therefore, believing is acting on the Word of God. There is no faith without action (James 2:14-26)!

Abraham is the father of the faith because he believed that God could resurrect dead things, and for things that didn’t exist, he knew God could call them into being.

(As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed – God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about 100 years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. Romans 4:17-21

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Hebrews 11:11

What I am teaching you now comes from what the Holy Spirit taught me through God’s Word about healing. About ten years ago, I needed healing for multiple debilitating back injuries, migraines, allergies, and other sicknesses.

As I began to walk in the revelation that healing belonged to me, I knew what Jesus had provided through the finished work on the cross, and that it is God’s will to heal me. Still, I didn’t believe God could do it, so I asked the Holy Spirit how I could change this to see God as He is: the God of the impossible. The Holy Spirit led me to read the Old Testament accounts of God’s miraculous deeds for His people, until I came to believe that God was capable of carrying out whatever He said He would do.

Faith is not just believing God can, but that He will. Faith is what moves the impossible into the possible.[3] So, who is God to you? The revelation of how we see God will create the faith dimension we can walk in.

Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” John 11:40

We must appropriate by faith all the benefits of the cross (e.g., forgiveness, healing, deliverance, provision, protection, etc.) and apply these benefits to our needs. A point of contact helps release our faith in God, such as the laying on of hands, anointing with oil, prayer cloths, participating in Holy Communion, and worship.

Faith is like a muscle that grows as we continuously immerse ourselves in the Word of God and learn to trust God and His faithfulness. I encourage you to start exercising your faith in the little things. To grow in faith is to utilize what we already possess within us and continue trusting God for greater things.

It is essential to ask the Holy Spirit what we need to do to act upon our faith because He knows our current level of faith (e.g., whether we should consult a doctor for treatment, believing God will work through them, or whether we should discontinue medications, etc.). We need a Word from God, not to act on someone else’s opinion or experience.

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” John 2:5

We should not be listening to our flesh (our body) and its symptoms, but rather to the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, and then speaking to our bodies to line up with God’s Word.

Did you know that our flesh, our bodies, respond to the Word of God? The Word created our bodies, and it is the Word that can also recreate them. Jesus is the living Word (Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 139:15-16; John 1:1-3,14).

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. Proverbs 4:20-22

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21

That is why it is vital to meditate on His Word and to speak words of life, aligning our words with His. When we speak the Word over our body, it remembers its origin, our Creator. It isn’t about trying it but believing and speaking it until our bodies obey. Our mouths speaking faith-filled words and obeying God’s instruction are keys to our miracle.

We can also consecrate our bodies and the specific places that need healing (Romans 12:1). Consecration brings the consecrated object back under the rule of Jesus. We can present our bodies to Him as a living sacrifice.

Oftentimes, with acts of consecration, repentance is needed. You can repent and renounce every misuse of your body and all forms of sin through your body or against your body (e.g., Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, overeating, binging and purging, anger, etc.).

We can then cancel every claim the enemy has made against our bodies by the blood of Jesus Christ, and through the cross and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, cancel every form of access or dominion the enemy has over us, and rededicate our bodies as the temple of the living God.

Let’s make a decree. Sickness is not my portion. Symptoms are not my master. Jesus is my Lord, and His Word governs my body. The Word is working in my body from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. Amen.

Receiving healing reveals the glory of God, not being sick. God doesn’t bring sickness on us to teach us something, and when He chastens us, it is in love through discipline and training, not punishment. Hallelujah! Jesus already bore our punishment on the cross!

Join me next time to explore the obstacles to healing and learn how to overcome them.

To find out more about how to receive healing from Jesus the Healer, go to Amazon.com to purchase the Kindle or paperback version of my book, Jesus The Healer.

This book will answer questions about healing, eliminate doubts, and boost your faith to receive what Jesus purchased for you. The author takes 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:

How to receive your healing
How to avoid hindrances to healing
Healing for soul/heart wounds
Healing through deliverance
How to steward your healing and deliverance

Healing belongs to you! Receive your healing NOW!

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[1] Kenneth Copeland, Faith Series: A Study Guide (Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1982).

[2] Kenneth Copeland, “Start Planting,” March 17, 2016, https://blog.kcm.org/march-17-from-faith-to-faith-devotional-start-planting/.

[3] Winter, Dr. Aaron. “3 Keys to Unlocking Miracles.” Empower 2000, August 26, 2025. http://www.superfaith777.com.

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