Are You One With Your Sickness/Disease?

I have been in a healing ministry for the past 18 years.  It amazes me why most people that I come across do not make themselves available for healing prayer.  They know and I know they have sicknesses and diseases.  Yet, they continue in their sicknesses and diseases.  They become one with their sickness/disease/sin!  Why is this?

This phenomenon is at work with all of mankind and the church is not doing its part to bring brothers and sisters out of captivity even though we have been anointed to do so, Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound.  The church hierarchy has not been properly trained to bring the body of Jesus Christ out of captivity.  The Church has not properly trained the body of Jesus Christ to bring themselves and others out of captivity.  We come to church sick and diseased and leave sick and diseased.

I visit many churches and most teach a surface or grace message, yet we still sin and are still in captivity, Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?  Do we understand that the grace of God brings salvation (deliverance from sin and its consequences to all), but does not absolve us of our sins? For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, Titus 2:11-12.  We must stop telling the body of Christ that all our sins are forgiven because of grace or repentance. Again, grace and repentance do not absolve us of our sins. We must teach the body that our sins are forgiven only IF we confess our sins to God and ask God to forgive us so we may be healed, Confess your trespasses (sins) to one another (to God), and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, James 5:16.  This is effective prayer.  We need to be forgiven of our sins or we will be separated from God, Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. We must identify the sin that you are one with and make it your enemy.

Now comes the hard part in trying to explain the title of this teaching: Are You One With Your Sickness/Disease? My goal is not to bring guilt and condemnation, but to set the captives free.  

A scripture in 1 Corinthians tells a very important truth, But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him 1 Corinthians 6:17. Not one with sickness/disease/sin. God is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14).  God does not want us to be one with anyone or anything.  God wants you to be one with Him and to submit to Him, and be one with Him.

Unfortunately, we are joined more with our sins of this world than with God.  Sins that will allow Satan to deceive us and control us in almost every aspect of our lives even when we claim that we are of God, We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one 1 John 5:19.

Many of you may disagree with the previous paragraph.  Just ask yourself these question, “How much time do you spend with God/Jesus/Holy Spirit, how much time do you spend in the Bible, and how much time to you spend carrying out the Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18)?”  How much time do you spend with this sinful world and it’s influences?

How Does Sin Control Us?

Sin controls us in many ways.  Sin works to destroy our temple, (Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s 1 Corinthians 6:19-20), causing sickness and disease.  Most, if not all sickness and disease get progressively worse as we get older leading to extreme sickness and disease.  Extreme sickness and disease will dominate our physical and emotional.   It dominates our thoughts which leads to being one with the sickness and disease.  Sickness and disease makes it very difficult to seek God when our focus is on our sickness and disease.  Sickness and disease is caused by disobedience (Deuteronomy 28:15-68) and it destroys our body which is the temple of God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit.  1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

I will give you some examples on how we become one with sin.

Addictions – Every addiction has its roots tied to the unloving spirit (not feeling loved or worthy to be loved). With it brings rejection, abandonment, bitterness, anger, and un-forgiveness.  One turns to addictions to fill l the void of feeling unloved. When you see one with an addiction, they will most often have more than one addiction.  Addictions like drugs, alcohol, hoarding, shopping pornography will dominate their lives.  Ever try to throw out anything that a hoarder has?  Nothing else matters.  They become one with their addiction because their attention has shifted away from God to their addictions.    

Unforgiveness – Unforgiveness always includes a record of wrongs of all that have hurt and damaged a person.  It can be against family, loved ones, friends, employers, government, churches, organizations, etc.  Along with unforgiveness comes bitterness and anger.  The record of wrongs consumes them and they will relive the record of wrongs each day with themselves and others.  They become one with unforgiveness and their record of wrongs.  Their attention has shifted away from God to their unforgiveness and record of wrongs.

Fear – Everyone deals with thousands of fears built up since conception including the fears of the past generations. Rear of not being loved is a huge factor.  Fear can paralyze you.  It can lead to high blood pressure, headaches/migraines, insomnia, panic attacks, heart attacks, strokes constricted blood vessels, cramps, and sleep apnea, and depression.  One must consider mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia, paranoia, and psychosis. These are referred to as an unsound mind or a double minded in the Bible, James 1:8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.   One must strongly consider how mental illness is tied to fear.  Many will have these symptoms that can dominate their lives.  They become one with fear and its symptoms because their attention has shifted away from God to their fears.

Depression – This is one that is so very, very impactful.  The root of depression is fear according to God’s Word, Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression Proverbs 12:25. It can progress to oppression or a deeper level of depression called a spirit of stupor in Romans 11:8 just as it is written: “God has given (allowed) them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” Depression is hopelessness and despair and it can take a person into a deep hole.  Fear of not feeling loved greatly contributes to depression.  In extreme cases the person can eventually become comatose.  It is a vegetative state of existence.  They are not able to see God or hear from God or anybody else.  They become one with this sickness. We have given Satan permission to wreak havoc in our lives.

Our sin that has caused sickness and disease will take us away from being one with God to a prison where we are one with our sin.  God and His Word shows us how to come out captivity if we follow His instructions.  God wants us to take back our freedom to escape Satan’s snare (2 Tim 2:25-26 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance (changing our ways), so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will).  We do this by confessing our sins, the sins of the generations, and asking God to forgive us and the generations, which leads to repentance.

Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Paul says in Romans 7:24-25 (NLT) Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin (sickness and disease).

In conclusion. The purpose of this teaching is to bring us to knowledge on how sin can become one with us.  It controls and deceives us.  It will not allow us to seek ministry that will deliver and heal us according to God’s promises.  Biggest hinderance to healing is not making ourselves available for prayer and believing God can heal you.  Are you ready to do your father’s will?

Thank you, God and the Holy Spirit, for given me the tools to write this in Jesus Name.              Tony Sanchez 3-27-2023