God’s Will For Your Healing

Introduction
You must know it is God’s will to heal you. Until this fact is settled in your mind and spirit, you cannot approach healing without being double minded and wavering. The Scripture says the doubleminded man will receive nothing from the Lord (James 1:6-8).

The Word of God must abide in you concerning your healing. You have a covenant with God that includes divine health—every Christian does. The problem has been that most Christians do not know healing belongs to them.

The Holy Spirit, by the prophet Hosea, says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6). In the realm of healing, this scripture has been literally fulfilled. Christians have allowed sickness and disease to destroy their bodies. But God’s Word says by His stripes we were healed (1 Peter 2:24).

Believers are being physically destroyed because
they are ignorant of the Word concerning their healing.

Chap 1: The Word Is the Seed
In the parable of the sower, Jesus teaches that the Word of God is the seed and the hearts of men are the ground (Mark 4:14-20). The faith seed of the Word concerning your healing must be planted in your heart before you can successfully reap the healing harvest.

The Word says, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23). The Word of God is the incorruptible seed. It cannot be spoiled or weakened by disease or any other force Satan has to offer. It has eternal life and power.

This incorruptible seed worked its power when you were born again. God’s Word concerning salvation was planted in your heart and produced the faith to be saved.

Faith comes for healing the same way it came for salvation—by hearing the Word concerning healing. “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). There is no substitute for the seed—not even prayer. Faith comes only by hearing the Word.

There is no substitute for the seed- not even prayer. Faith comes only by hearing the Word. Praying for faith is a waste of time because God has already dealt to every born-again man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). You received the faith of God when you were born again.

By hearing the Word, you continue to develop the faith for your healing. The force of that faith then rises up in you to receive God’s healing power in your body.

Most Christians have no trouble believing they are saved and going to heaven. Most of the sermons they hear preached are about salvation, so that seed has been well planted, cultivated and watered. ….they have been taught that their name is written in the Lambs Book of Life. Even though they have not seen the book, they believe. That is faith in operation.

Faith concerning healing should be as highly developed in the Church as is faith concerning salvation. If the Church were told what the Word says about healing, Christians would be equally as quick to believe they are healed as to believe they are saved. However, instead of teaching and preaching that healing belongs to us, many have taught just the opposite.

By hearing the Word, you continue to develop the faith for your healing.

It is easy to understand why the Church as a whole has not walked in divine health for all these years, even though healing has belonged to it. Men have tried to teach God’s Word through head knowledge, instead of by His Spirit, which sowed traditions and seeds of doubt. Jesus said that men make the commandment of God of no effect by their tradition (Matthew 15:6).

One tradition tells us healing was just to get the early church started and has passed away. Another tradition says God heals some people, but you never know if He will heal you.

Chap 2: Tradition and the Thorn in the Flesh
Paul describes this evil angel as a thorn in his side: “…There was given me a thorn in the flesh, Satan’s angel to torture me” (2 Corinthians 12:7, Weymouth). Paul had received an abundance of revelation, and Satan came to snatch that Word away (Mark 4:15).

The Word that is alive in you and embedded in your heart is the Word you steadfastly act on. However, you will have to stand in faith for every word of revelation knowledge you receive, just as Paul did. Satan will see to it that no believer is exalted above the measure of the Word that actually lives in him. God had given Paul the revelation of the authority of the believer. He had authority over Satan in the Name of Jesus, just as you do. To get results, Paul had to enforce this authority by directly commanding the evil spirit to desist in his maneuvers against him.

“Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.” (2 Corinthians 12:8).

If you want results, do not ask God to deal with the devil for you. Just as God told Moses to drive out
the inhabitants of the land, He instructs you to drive out the demons or evil spirits yourself (Mark 16:17).

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

God has given you the Name of Jesus and the authority to use that Name in binding Satan and
his forces. God will not deal with Satan for you; but when you take the Name of Jesus and the
Word of God and command him to stop his attack against you, all of heaven guarantees results.

Paul himself writes by the Spirit in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” When you take the Name of Jesus and the Word of God and command Satan to stop his attack against you, all of heaven guarantees results.

You speak directly to Satan and his evil spirits in the Name of Jesus and cast them out!

Satan’s angel, the thorn in the flesh, could gain no victory over Paul through adverse circumstances because the power of Christ rested upon him. He said, “I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation…” (Philippians 4:12, AMP). In the next verse, Paul shares this secret with you: “I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me]….”

When Paul in himself was weak, Paul in Christ was strong. Of these afflictions and persecutions Paul wrote Timothy: “Persecutions, sufferings—such as occurred to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me” (2 Timothy 3:11, AMP). The Lord delivered him out of them all! He lived to be an old man and then said that he could not decide whether to stay here or to go to be with the Lord.

When human strength ends, the power of God excels.
Paul’s thorn in the flesh is another tradition that Satan has used to deceive and rob the Church.

(SUFFERING)
Tradition says God gets glory from sickness because the world sees how marvelously the Christian bears the pain and agony. (Tradition never produces the right answer.) Everyone knows that the world has all the pain and agony it can stand. What the world wants is a way out of sickness—not a way into it. Suffering has no appeal to the world; but through tradition, Satan has sold suffering to the Church as being the will of God.

How helpless you are in the face of Satan and disease without the seed of the Word of God living in you concerning your healing! And if you allow the traditions of men to usurp authority over God’s Word, you will continue to be helpless in the face of sickness. God will be able to do nothing for you—you will have made His Word “of none effect” in your life.

The Word of God is incorruptible seed. Satan does not have the power to stop it. 
Disease does not have the power to overcome it. In your life only you have the power to stop the Word from working.

 Lay aside what tradition has taught you. Your heart has never agreed with it anyway. Realize that only Satan could be the source of such powerless, defeated beliefs sold to the family of Almighty God.

As you study the Word of God concerning healing, this incorruptible seed
of the Word will drive out the doubt and tradition you have been taught.

Chap 3: Study of the Heart
“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23) 

Man is a spirit. He has a soul made up of his reasoning faculties, will and emotions, and he lives in a physical body.   The heart of man is the spirit of man. Your spirit is the real you. (Do you have a human? No, you are a human. You do not have a spirit. You are a spirit.)

Man thinks of himself as being only a body because he cannot see his spirit with the natural eye. But to understand spiritual things, it is important that you realize you are a spirit.

This “new creature” or the “hidden man of the heart,” as the Scripture calls him, is the spirit, the real man. This is the part of you that was re-created the righteousness of God when you were born again. Your mind and body were not made new but you (the man) were re-created. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

“But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.” (1 Peter 3:4).

The real man is hidden to the natural eye. You can see only the man’s body. Paul speaks of the body as “the clothing of the spirit” and the “tent which is our earthly home” (2 Corinthians 5:1-8, AMP). Your body is a covering for your spirit.

In the same text, Paul speaks of being absent from the body and being present with the Lord. When the man, or the spirit, leaves the body, the body dies. The spirit is the life of the body. The spirit can live independently of the body, but the body cannot live without the spirit.

The spirit does not die. The spirit of man will live forever, with either his god Satan or with the Lord Jesus Christ. When a man dies, he does not cease to exist; he only ceases to live in the physical body.

The spirit is called the heart of a man because it is the core, or center, of his being. Anytime the Scripture speaks of the heart, you know it is not speaking of the physical blood pump but the real man or the spirit.

First Plant the Seed

Many try to reap the healing harvest without first planting the seed.

“Until the person seeking healing is sure from God’s Word that it is God’s 
will to heal him, he is trying to reap a harvest where there is no seed planted.”

Can you imagine a farmer at planting time sitting down on his front porch and saying, “I am going to believe for a crop this year. I believe in crops and know they are real, but I will not plant the seed. I will just believe.” 

Unless the farmer planted the seed, he would have no basis for faith. No matter how hard he tried to believe, he would have nothing in the ground to produce the harvest.

Even if you believe in healing, without the healing seed from God’s Word planted in your heart, you have nothing in the ground to produce the harvest. You have no real basis for faith. Neither you nor the farmer will reap the harvest—unless you first plant the seed.

Believing in healing is not enough. You must know that it is God’s will for you to be healed.

Allow the faith seed of the Word of God concerning your healing to be planted in you, and you can successfully reap the healing harvest.

Unless the farmer planted the seed, he would have no basis for faith.
Through the Word, you can know without a doubt it is God’s unchanging will for you to be healed.

The Heart of Man is the Ground
The Scripture tells us that God provided the seed for the sower (2 Corinthians 9:10). God has already given you the incorruptible seed—the Word of God.

He has not only provided you with the seed, but He has prepared the ground. The heart of man is the ground in which the seed of the Word is planted. When you were born again by His Holy Spirit, your heart was created in His image. “And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:24).

At one time your heart was corrupt. You had the nature of spiritual death and could produce only sin. Now you are a new man created in God’s image.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). God paid a great price to make you good ground for His Word. Through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, He has made you the righteousness of God.

The good ground of your heart was created by His power to be the dwelling place for His Spirit and His Word. God paid a great price to make you good ground for His Word.  Not only that, but the force of faith was born into this new creature.

If you have been born again, you have faith. You may not have known how to use it, but faith has been born into you. It is the same faith with which God created the world. It is by this force issuing out of the heart that the Word, the seed, brings forth fruit.

Jesus teaches us some very important things concerning the good ground of the heart and the seed of the Word.

Satan Steals the Word
“The sower sows the word. And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.” (Mark 4:14-15).

The Word was sown and went into the heart. It is the incorruptible seed and would have produced after its kind, but believers allowed Satan to take the Word out of their hearts.

Satan snatches the Word away through doubt, unbelief and tradition.

He does everything in his power to keep the Word from abiding in your heart in order to keep you unproductive. The seed was taken out of the ground; therefore, it could produce no harvest and Satan’s work continued unhindered.

Stony Ground
“And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended” (Mark 4:16-17).

The stony ground did not allow the seed to take root. These people believed the Word until trouble came. Then they had no confidence to act on the Word. The Word had no root.

When you receive revelation knowledge from the Word, Satan will test and try you to get the Word out of your heart. There is no way seed can produce fruit unless it is in the ground.

The Word is no threat to Satan until it is put into the heart of man.

Notice this verse said affliction came because of the Word. When you receive the Word on healing, Satan will attempt to make you sick so that you will be offended and let go of the Word that was put in your heart. He will try to make you sick, but he cannot if you will resist him. However, if you allow yourself to be stony ground, when trouble comes you will be offended and fall away from the Word.  You will let the Word wither away in your heart before it can take root.

When feelings or circumstances looked contrary to the Word that was sown, these people let the Word go and believed what they could see.

Thorns in the Heart

“And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the 
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful” (Mark 4:18-19).

Be cautious of the thorns of life. The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things are dangerous weapons of the enemy. They enter into the heart and choke the Word until the Word cannot produce.

These people have given their thought, life and energy to the cares of this world, running after riches and the lusts of their flesh. They have set their minds on and pursued those things that gratify the flesh. The Scripture teaches that the mind of the flesh is death (Romans 8:5-6).

This is directly opposite of what God told Joshua to do in order to make his way prosperous and have good success. He told Joshua to meditate in His Word day and night, to set his mind on the Word.

You, like Joshua, are admonished to set your affections on things that are above and not on things that are on the earth (Colossians 3:2). Oh, yes! It is to your great advantage because to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:6). We have God’s Word that when we seek first His kingdom, all these other things will be added unto us (Matthew 6:33).

The same formula God gave Joshua still works today. God has given the formula for success. He has given the seed. He has prepared the ground of your heart to receive that seed, but you must use the formula.

You set your affections. This is a matter of your will. You set your mind
on those things that gratify your flesh (five senses), or you set your mind
on those things that gratify the spirit. God cannot do that part for you.

It has not been the ground that has prevented the Word from bearing fruit in any of these illustrations but the things that were allowed in the ground—Satan, the stones and the thorns.

Give the Word first place in your life in order to be good ground for the Word!

Good Ground
“But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” (Mark 4:20).

You have learned from the previous scriptures what will keep your heart from being good ground. Now Jesus teaches how to be good ground for the Word, and thereby produce the harvest.

The Word of God is the will of God. When the Word is planted in good ground—free from hindrances—the crop produced will be God’s will for your life.

The law of Genesis is that everything brings forth fruit after its own kind. You plant the Word of God in your heart, water and cultivate that Word, and it will bring forth the fulfillment of that Word in your life.

Look at the hearts that were called stony ground. They heard the Word and received it with joy. That was not enough!  When trouble came, they had no confidence in what they had heard. They were moved by what they saw, rather than by the Word of God. Circumstances scorched the seed, and it withered away before it could take root.

Bringing forth fruit is acting on the Word. Acting on the Word germinates the seed—causes it to sprout and take root.

Faith is acting on God’s Word regardless of what you see.
Faith brings forth the crop.

The time that you must hold fast to God’s Word is when trouble comes. It is the man who will hold fast to his confession of the Word in the hard places and the crises that will obtain faith’s results.   

The soil brings forth fruit before the crop is harvested. You are the good ground. You must act on the Word before you see the results. “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).

“Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” (Mark 11:24). You believe that you receive when you pray and before you see because God’s Word says the answer belongs to you. And, according to Jesus, you shall have what you desire from the Father.

Acting on the Word is the difference between stony ground and good ground.
Good ground hears the Word, receives the Word and does the Word.
Good ground hears the Word, understands it and acts on it.

Jesus tells us the thrilling result of the seed of the Word planted in good ground. “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7).

Chap 4: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
Healing was not introduced during the ministry of Jesus, nor is it only a New Covenant blessing. This comes as a surprise to many who are trying to believe that God wants to heal them. God has always provided healing for His people through His covenants.

He revealed Himself as the Great Physician when He told Israel that if they would obey His Word, none of the diseases of Egypt would come upon them. He said, “…For I am the Lord that heals you” (Exodus 15:26).

When God gave Israel the blessing of the law, He said if they would hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord and be careful to do His commandments, the blessings would come upon them and overtake them.

He placed Himself as Israel’s healer, Jehovah-Rapha.

Healing was not an automatic blessing but was conditional, based on diligently obeying His Word.

“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:17, 19-20).

Disease came through disobedience to the law. Forgiveness for that disobedience brought healing to their bodies.

God provided an umbrella of protection and blessing for His people through His Word.
When they sinned, they broke the covenant, and they took themselves from under its protection.

As long as Israel kept the covenant with God, no disease was powerful enough to come upon them. When they turned away from God’s Word, disease filled their bodies.

When Israel got out from under God’s protection by disobedience, the curse that was already upon the earth overtook them. The whole world was under the curse that came when Adam changed gods and Satan became his ruler.

All Israel had to do was to be like the other nations and the curse would come upon them. Without acting on God’s Word, Israel became helpless in the face of poverty, sickness, fear and her enemies.

God provided an umbrella of protection and blessing for His people through His Word.

The Origin of Sickness
Our Father is the God of Love and from the beginning has desired for His people freedom from the curse that came upon the earth when Adam committed high treason.

Adam’s sin of high treason was not God’s will. Adam was a free man and ruler of the earth. God had given him this domain and Adam by his own will made Satan lord and father over him.

The nature of spiritual death replaced God’s life in Adam’s spirit. Sickness came into this world order on the wings of spiritual death. Man was not sick before he died spiritually.

Adam’s sin was not God’s will—neither are the results of that sin God’s will. Satan, through the Fall of man, is the origin of the curse and all its effects.

Sin manifests in the spirit. Sickness manifests in the body.

Both are the result of Satan and the rulership that man committed to him in the Fall. Both are works of evil. Neither is from the hand of God.

If God’s will had been sickness and death, He would have placed them in the Garden Himself. He would not have wrought sickness or sin by the hand of His enemy.

It was necessary for Israel to diligently hearken to God’s Word. The curse was a powerful force. It had overtaken the whole world. God was not being hard or demanding by putting a burden on His people through the statutes and ordinances. Only His Word—a power greater than evil—could stop the effect of the curse.

Keeping God’s covenant was Israel’s only deliverance.

God Is Not the Thief
We must understand that the laws governing the earth largely came into being with the Fall of man and the curse on the earth. Because of this, many accuse God of the accidents that take place, of the sickness and death of loved ones, of storms and catastrophes, of earthquakes and floods that continually occur.

All these natural laws came with the Fall. Satan is their author, and when Satan is finally eliminated from human contact, or rather, from the earth, these laws will stop functioning.

After Satan is cast into the lake of fire, there will be no tears, no death, no sorrow and no pain on the earth. The source of these evil works will be bound and tormented day and night forever and ever. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:4).  Only God’s Word—a power greater than evil—could stop the effect of the curse.

The origin of sickness and disease is as obvious as the origin of sin. Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

God is not the thief! Satan has come to steal from you, kill you and destroy you in any way that he can.

Until you find out from the Word what belongs to you,
Satan will continue to distress and manipulate your life.

Most people, even Christians, blame God for Satan’s work because they do not realize that it is only through the intervention of the Body of Christ in the affairs of earth that God is able to bless humanity today. “We know [positively] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] is under the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19, The Amplified Bible).

All the authority and dominion the Church does not actively enforce is under the sway and power of Satan, not because it is God’s will, but because man originally gave Satan dominion over him. Even though Jesus has taken that dominion away from Satan, the Church still has to enforce its authority in the earth.

Because of our enemy, this authority will not operate passively. It will not work automatically, but must be enforced. In ignorance of God’s Word, the Church has allowed Satan to steal its authority and, for the most part, to control the earth.

Jesus conquered Satan in his own domain. “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.” (Colossians 2:15).

Jesus took by conquest all the authority that Adam had given Satan in the Fall. Jesus, the Son of God, stripped Himself, became like man and was born a human being so that, as a man, He could conquer Satan and take back from him all the authority that belonged to Adam.

Jesus incapacitated and paralyzed Satan. Satan has been disarmed—he has no weapons where the Church is concerned. All the earthly power and authority Satan has is now useless against the Church of Jesus Christ.

Jesus gave the power of attorney to the Church before He ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Father. He said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore…” (Matthew 28:18-19). “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:17-18).

Jesus said, “All power—ability to do or act—has been given to Me. Therefore, you go in My Name and these signs shall follow you.” He authorized the Church to use His Name with all its vast authority. The word authorize means “to give official approval or legal power; to give right to act; to empower.”

In the Great Commission, Jesus proved that in His Name believers were not limited by the natural laws that had governed the earth since Satan began to rule.

“They shall cast out devils….” In the Name of Jesus—because that Name has all authority in heaven and in earth invested in it—the believer has the power to cast out devils. (Man did not have authority over Satan under the old covenant. Only under the protection of the law could he enjoy any kind of freedom from distress. He did not deal with Satan directly.)

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them….” If a believer accidentally drinks poison or gets a snakebite, the Name of Jesus spoken in faith will stop the deadly effects, even though natural law says these are fatal. 

You see record of this in Paul’s ministry when the deadly viper attached itself to his hand and the natives of Malta waited for him to die (Acts 28:1-6). Natural law had no power over him because he was operating under the jurisdiction of the Name of Jesus. Death did not have the power to overcome this authority!

“They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”  Not all the sick in the world will recover, but those on whom the believer lays hands in the Name of Jesus will recover. The law of sickness and disease that has worked practically unhindered since the Fall of man must cease to operate at the command of a believer in the Name of Jesus!

Just as in the days of old, the curse is still a powerful force today, and only a power greater than evil can stop the effect of that curse.

The Name of Jesus is greater than the curse.

The Word of God is greater than the curse.

The Holy Spirit is greater than the curse.

These three weapons make the believer greater and more
powerful than the curse of sin, sickness, fear and poverty.

Jesus said, “I will not leave you comfortless” (John 14:18). He kept His Word. He sent the Holy Spirit to teach you the truths and laws of the world of the spirit. These truths of the Spirit are more powerful and will supersede the natural laws that govern the earth. They do not nullify natural laws; but just as the law of gravity can be superseded by the law of lift, God’s laws of the spirit are higher than the laws of the physical world.

God, by His Spirit, caused the Bible to be written in man’s language so that man could see the Word with his eyes and thereby put the Word in his heart.

By knowledge of God’s spiritual laws, the man in Christ can once again exercise authority
in the earth. You have the authority of Jesus to stop the effect of the curse in your life.

 He said: “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 18:18-19).

Chap 5: Jesus the Healer
“Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” (John 14:8-10).

If you want to see the Father, look at Jesus. During His ministry on earth, Jesus revealed to men the express will of God in action. When you have seen Jesus, you have seen the Father.

Jesus did not even speak His own words, but the words He spoke were the Father’s words. He did not take credit for the works done in His ministry, but said the Father in Him did the works.

Everything He said and did was a picture of the Father’s will. Jesus said in John 8:28, “I do nothing of Myself (of My own accord, or on My own authority), but I say [exactly] what My Father has taught Me” (AMP). He was God’s vehicle on the earth, God’s way to man and man’s way to God.

“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John 6:38).

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8).

Jesus came to do God’s will in the earth. His will was for Jesus to destroy the works of the devil. God set Jesus in direct opposition to Satan, the curse and all its effects.

Every move that Jesus made and every word that He said was geared to destroy the work of Satan. Every work of power and every healing was the will of God.

If you believe God’s Word, you have to believe that Jesus’
attitude toward sickness is God’s attitude toward sickness.

God’s people were under the yoke of Satan. God sent Jesus to destroy Satan’s work in their lives. Jesus operated as a prophet under the Abrahamic Covenant. The people Jesus ministered to had a covenant of healing with God, but they did not walk in the light of that covenant. As heirs of Abraham, they should have been free. (Matthew 13:57).

Jesus could not be against sin without being against disease. His Father’s Word opposed disease; therefore, Jesus opposed disease. Satan is the source of both. You cannot be against one and not the other.

Jesus preached deliverance to them and healed all that were oppressed by the devil. He taught them their covenant rights. He freed the people from evil spirits and healed their bodies of disease. He broke the yoke of Satan’s oppression wherever He found it.

Jesus—the expression of God’s will—never refused to heal anyone. Power (or virtue) was continually going forth from Him to heal all. Healing power was available to anyone who would receive it. He never asked God if it was His will to heal an individual.  He knew what God’s attitude was toward sickness. He harbored no doubt about God’s will in healing the multitudes.

The only record of anything hindering Jesus from accomplishing the will of God in the lives of His people occurred in Nazareth. Because it was His hometown, the people gave no honor to the ministry of Jesus. The Bible says, “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58).

It was not God’s will that stopped the work but their will—their unbelief. They were not willing to receive from the man they considered to be just the carpenter’s son.

Sickness is a work of Satan. Jesus, fulfilling the will
of God, stopped the effect of disease at every turn.

When Jesus sent His disciples out, He instructed them to “preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick” (Luke 9:2). He placed no limitation on the sick—any sick were to be healed if they would receive it. He told them to freely give what they had received.

The Scriptures have shown us beyond doubt that Jesus, fulfilling the will of God, offered healing unconditionally during His ministry on the earth.

Jesus told no one that he should keep his disease because God was trying to teach him something through sickness. No one in all the vast throngs and multitudes was told that God wanted him to stay sick in order to give Him glory. No, the scripture tells us that healing brings glory to God—not sickness. The people glorified the God of Israel “when they saw the dumb speak, the maimed be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see…” (Matthew 15:31).

Never did anyone come to Jesus for healing and receive, “It is not God’s will to heal you,” for an answer.

Healing is God’s will or Jesus would not have healed all who came to Him. We know with God there is no breach or deviation—no change. We know He is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34).  The ministry of Jesus is evidence of that.

The Bible teaches us a good tree can only bear good fruit. Jesus said that a good tree cannot bear evil fruit (Matthew 7:18).

God is good. He cannot be the source of any sickness. It is an abomination to His nature of love for people to believe God made them sick.

Some people say they know God does not make people sick, but they believe He allows Satan to put sickness on them to teach them or to get them into His will.

God does not have to allow Satan to do his evil work. Satan is quick to bring disease to Christians if they will allow it. It is you who must govern Satan in your life and circumstances. If you are not walking in God’s Word, you have no defense against Satan and his fruit of sickness.

Your lack of knowledge of God’s Word or your lack of
diligence to act on that Word allows disease to fill your body.

God is never the source of sickness.

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” (James 1:17).

The Amplified Bible says there can be no variation in Him. This is a key to knowing the source of everything that comes your way in life. According to scripture, we can say without reservation, “Every good gift is from above. Jesus came that we might have life.”

Every evil, corrupt fruit is from Satan.
Satan came to kill, to steal and to destroy.

Anything that brings doubt, discouragement or defeat is from the enemy—not from the Father

Chap 6: Faith in God’s Mercy
Many Christians today have the same attitude as the leper in Mark 1:40-42. They believe that God can heal, but they doubt that He will heal them.

Many believe in His ability but not His mercy. They have no faith in God’s love and mercy because they have no knowledge of His Word.

When speaking to the Syrophenician woman, Jesus called deliverance “the children’s bread.” If my children were hungry and knew I had bread but believed I would not give it to them, what an insult to my care, love and affection for them! I would prefer they believed I could not give them what they needed, than they believe I would not. I would much rather they doubt my ability than my love.

Theology teaches man about God’s power, but for the most part denies His willingness to use that power on man’s behalf.

Theology lacks the vital experience of the father-son relationship that we can enjoy in Jesus as children of God.  Man’s idea of God always comes up short and lifeless. The mind of man is not capable of grasping that God is Love unless God’s Spirit, through the Word, reveals it to him.

It is God’s idea of God on which we must base our faith. It would be foolish to believe what man (who has never even seen Him) says about God, rather than to believe what He says about Himself.

God says of Himself that He is merciful and gracious, longsuffering (slow to anger) and abundant in goodness and truth.

The Bible magnifies God’s mercy—His willingness to use His power to meet every need of man. The scripture speaks of the “exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe…” (Ephesians 1:19). His power is directed toward you not away from you.

“The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy” (Psalm 145:8). God is full of compassion and great mercy. Mercy and compassion are translated from the same Greek word.

Compassion is a moving or a yearning desire in the inward parts, the heart or spirit, toward another.  Compassion abides in the heart.  Because of His compassion, God’s heart yearns to meet the needs of man.

One who does not know the Scriptures might wonder why, then, God does not heal
all those who are sick regardless of their position of faith. God’s mercy goes forth in
accordance with His covenant, the Word. Because He has bound Himself by His Word,
He can move freely only toward those who put themselves in a position to receive.

Acting on the Word puts you in this position to receive the mercy of God. His mercy endures forever! His willingness to act on man’s behalf is still operating in the earth. His mercy never runs out. Neither has it abated nor weakened.

His mercy continues toward those who love Him and do His Word. He is faithful to keep His covenant and offer His mercy.

Praise the Lord!  His mercy endures forever! Mighty and powerful things happened when Israel said these words.  

The weapon of praise!  Singers going before an army? It happened just that way.  Israel never had to unsheathe a weapon of war.  Only to sing “Praise the Lord!  For His mercy endures forever!”

Mercy is the result of compassion. The inward moving of compassion results in the outward manifestation necessary to meet the need.

Speak of His Compassion and Mercy
We honor the Father when we believe His Word and magnify His love and mercy. We honor and praise Him when we speak of His goodness and lovingkindness. We honor Him when we speak of Him as our Father of love who does only good. So speak of the great God of the universe who is eager to bless and who even gave His own Son because He so loved the world! Speak of the Lord whose eyes “run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong in behalf of those whose hearts are blameless toward Him…” (2 Chronicles 16:9, AMP). When you speak of Him in this manner, you are praising Him. We are told to continually offer up to Him a sacrifice of praise (Hebrews 13:15).

David was a man after God’s own heart. He knew how to praise His God. Until you have the Word dwelling in you richly so you can speak psalms and praises out of your own spirit, use the praises of David to magnify God. Speak them or sing them out loud to the Father.

“I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at Your presence. For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.” (Psalm 9:1-4).

The Word says God inhabits the praise of His people (Psalm 22:3). The enemy is turned back, falls and perishes at the presence of our God.

Praise not only honors God and empowers our faith, but it is also a powerful weapon where Satan is concerned. When we praise God, it works deliverance for us.

Abraham “…grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God” (Romans 4:20, AMP). As you praise God and speak of His marvelous works, your faith rises inside you to receive the blessings of God.

Honor God with the words of your mouth. Cause your words to agree with God’s words where He is concerned. Look in His Word for good things to proclaim about Him.

Great things happen when you continually confess the mercy of God. Faith rises up inside you. The reality that God loves you begins to sing through your spirit.

When God’s mercy first became a reality to me, it was so alive in my heart that I continually confessed, “Praise the Lord. His mercy endures forever.” Something supernatural happened inside me; my faith rose to the knowledge of God’s mercy and to the knowledge of that mercy continually surrounding me.

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Because of the Word, your faith has risen to the level of God’s mercy. You are now in position to come boldly to the throne of grace and obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Chap 7: God’s Medicine
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:20-23).

This is God’s prescription for life and health!

“Attend to my words….” Give your undivided attention to God’s Word and heed what He says. If you attend to someone you “take care of” that person. Give your time to the Word. Give thought and meditation to the Word. Give action to the Word. Continually give the Word first place in your life.

“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3). Your mind will be free from doubt when you keep your attention on God’s Word. When you are trusting in God’s Word you are trusting in Him. Stay your mind on the Word. Because you have committed yourself to God’s Word, fear and doubt have been driven out. God’s Word will keep you in perfect peace.

If you are not enjoying peace, you are not staying your mind on Him.

“Incline thine ear….” Open your understanding to take in God’s sayings. Desire and pursue the knowledge of God’s Word.

Put your physical ears in position to hear the Word of faith preached. Take your ears places where the Word is going forth. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God preached. Listen to what is being said with your spiritual ears.

If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening, and let him perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you—and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away [by force] (Mark 4:23-25, AMP).

Every man to whom Jesus was speaking had physical ears. Jesus was referring to receiving God’s Word in the heart by listening to the Holy Spirit speak revelation knowledge.

God’s Word will keep you in perfect peace.

Jesus is not talking about passively hearing. He said listen, perceive and comprehend, and even be careful how you hear.

The time you give to digesting the Word you hear will measure the return of virtue (power) and knowledge that will come back to you through the Word.

The man who hears (or receives revelation knowledge) will be given more. If you want to grow in the knowledge of God, be careful how you hear His Word.

“Let them not depart from thine eyes….”

Keep your eyes trained on the Word of God. Do not look at circumstances or feelings that
appear contrary to your healing. Look at God’s Word. Give attention to what He says. Consider
(or give thought to) God’s Word instead of your body. Keep God’s Word ever before your eyes.

Jesus said, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matthew 6:22). This scripture reveals why it is so important that we not let the Word depart from our sight. The eye is the gateway to the body.

If your eye, or your attention, is on the darkness—the sickness—that is in your body, there will be no light to expel the darkness. The eye is unsound; therefore, the body is and will continue to be unsound. But cause your eye to be single on the Word of God and your whole body will be full of light. The single eye allows no darkness to enter. What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death.

To look at the sickness brings death.
To look at God’s Word brings life.

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