Truths About
Healing
Healing is not received by feeling.
Healing is received by believing. If you are born again
you simply believed that God’s loving Son, Jesus Christ died on the cross for
you and since He loved you enough to die for you, you received Him as your
Savior. It was a work of faith to
receive Him as you have walked with Him more and more. As a result, more of Him is revealed to you
and in you. Same thig is true about
healing; sometimes it takes some time to work its way into the body. Healing can be at work in you for a time
until it is reflected in your body.
You are a spirt.
You have a soul (mind, will and emotions) and you live in a body. Our bodies are not yet fully redeemed, so
don’t let your body tell you what truth is.
God tells us truth and communicates to us in our spirit. We must stop telling God (and everybody else)
about the attacks of Satan on us. God
already knows this. Instead, tell the
attackers about our awesome God. Tell
your body to line up with the truth of His Word.
Prayer: “Body, In the name of Jesus,
I command you to reflect the truth of God’s Word. In Jesus name, I break and
abolish the covenant that was made with sin that caused this sickness and
disease.”
As a man thinks in his heart, that is
how he is. What we
think in our heads (unredeemed body parts), has influence on what we believe in
our hearts. Knowing in my head is not
enough. Romans 10 says that if I believe
in my heart and confess with my mouth, I will be saved, (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 Romans 10:9).
The word “saved” is the Greek word “sozo,” which means: to save, i.e. deliver
or protect (literally or figuratively): heal, preserve, save (self), do well,
be (make) whole, which sets us up for all that we need for our lives. The Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: 1) to save,
keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, 2) one (from injury
or peril), 3) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from
disease, to make well, heal, restore to health, 4) to preserve one who is in
danger of destruction, to save or rescue, 5) to save in the technical biblical
sense, 6) to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment, 7) to save
from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance.
So many
think salvation has to do with “some day in heaven.” True salvation is reflected in heaven, but it
has to do with right now! Healing is
needed now. Forgiveness is needed now,
and deliverance is needed now. Truth is,
we won’t have need in Heaven.
If you can really hear with the ears
of our spirit, we can be healed. Over and over the Bible says that many
came to hear and be healed (Matthew 14:35–36
And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that
surrounding region, brought to Him all who were sick, and begged Him that they
might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made
perfectly well, Luke 5:15 However, the report went around concerning Him all
the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him
of their infirmities, Luke 6:17-18 And He came down with them and stood on a
level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people…...who
came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, as well as those who were
tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.). What you think and
believe about God’s Word matters. What
promises you expect from God’s Word matters.
Only the Word of God that we must know can help us. That is why we must know God’s Word.
Satan
brought sickness on us and he wants us sick.
He tells us we are sick because we have been so bad and we buy into his
lies about sickness and disease. We do
this by advertising our sickness and disease to anyone that will listen
including ourselves. We are cursing
ourselves and blocking the healing God promises us, (Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these
things ought not to be so James 3:10). If
you accept God’s promises about healing and take them for our self, Satan will
continue to try to convince us that God is a liar, that God is not faithful,
and that we did not get what we know in our spirit that God has given us. These are some of the common ways Satan
attacks us after we receive the healing God gave you (Key point to remember,
you actually are guaranteed healing when we are born again). Satan will keep attacking your body. He will hit you with symptoms (symptoms are
not a sickness or disease). Satan will try to get you to think about your
experiences in the natural world (flesh) as evidence that God is not God.
You must use
God’s Word and the fact that God cannot lie.
Satan is the liar and father of lies, (He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
resources, for he is a liar and the father of it, John 8:44). We use God’s Word as our ammunition to
receive and to stay in healing. God’s
Word is very powerful in healing and deliverance (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
Hebrew 4:12). Declaring God’s Word
sends a message of truth to Satan and his army.
God’s Word send a message to us.
A message of love, power, authority, truth and faith that defeats
sickness and disease. All we have to do
is rest on His truth in the name of Jesus.
Healing is a
process that works over a period of time.
Sometimes healing is instantaneous.
More often it takes some time to be reflected in our bodies. Praise God for our healing of sickness and
disease from now until we see evidence in our bodies. Remember, our bodies have
been unredeemed and they are stubborn to reflect God’s Word. When your soul
(mind, will, emotions) gets in agreement with your spirit (which already knows
God’s truth), it is two against one.
Unfortunately, if your soul stays in in agreement with your body, you
will stay sick.
What God has given
you, your faith must possess. It is
not enough to know the truth. The truth
is activated with a knowing heart and a mouth that declares the truth with
Scriptures. We must believe God’s
Word. We must know in time, the Word of
God, which is declared over and over, will push sickness out our bodies. Declare out loud what our loving God says over
us. He says we are healed by the blood
of Jesus (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).
Some key questions to
ask yourself:
1. What doctrine are you believing that is
contrary to God’s promises of healing?
2. Are you walking in the Spirit declaring
healing according to the Scriptures?
3. Are you advertising the symptoms of
sickness and disease not knowing that hurts, regrets, fears, feeling unloved,
bitterness, anger, unforgiveness of others and self, etc. are roots of sickness
and disease?
4. Are you casting down those imaginations of sickness
and disease from Satan and imagining the promises of healing from God Almighty?
5. Do you truly believe that healing is for
today and as a child of God, you can receive healing?
Does God want you to
remain tortured by the evil one? NO! What does God say about the emotional and
physical sickness and disease that is attacking you? Who will you listen to? The “father of lies” say you are bad (sinful)
and that is why you are sick. God the
Father, whom Jesus called “Abba” says you are forgiven. The Old Testament curse is gone and you are
healed. Receiving healing is a decision
just as being born again is a decision.
Let Jesus be more than your savior, let Him be your Lord, let Him be
your healer.
Healing Blessings,
Tony Sanchez
