Do you think you have to be worthy to be healed? Do you think that you have to be perfect to receive healing from God? Do you think there are steps you need to perform in order for your healing to manifest?
Healing is for everyone! There is nothing anyone must do to receive healing—except believe! To some that might sound easy and to others it might seem challenging when they are dealing with sickness, disability, pain, or emotional bondage. Matthew 21:22 says, “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” To understand this verse, you need to study it with the context of the previous verses that say, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will receive. Having faith and not doubting are keys to receiving healing as well as to be consistent with God’s Will. This doesn’t mean there is a formula for healing. It means that we need to have the faith to believe and a heart that does not have doubt and unbelief.
For my own healing, one of the biggest hindrances that I did not feel worthy to be healed; this also included doubt and unbelief. When I look back, I’m not even sure I prayed to be healed of the traumatic brain injury. I just accepted what the doctors said. Unfortunately, at the time of my car accident, I didn’t know that God wanted me well. Once I learned the truth that it was God’s Will to heal, I had to battle doubt, unbelief, and my feelings of unworthiness.
It was the love of God and learning that my identity needed to be rooted in Jesus Christ that turned around my situation. My identity had been rooted first in my job and then in the disability. Both of these situations enabled me to bury my feelings and emotions into something other than the truth that God loved me and He gave His life for me—”For God so loved me that He gave His only begotten Son, that when I believe in Him, I will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
At times, when you are battling sickness or a disability, your identity is rooted in that disease. It becomes your life and often consumes your thoughts and focus. The words you speak are powerful and when you are struggling in any area of your life, you must be careful what you are saying. Proverbs 18:21 says “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” If you are battling a sickness, the words you are saying might be keeping you in bondage to that disease. Doubt, unbelief, and feeling unworthy are caused by lies from the enemy who is trying to keep you in bondage, and this could be holding you captive from receiving your healing.
When I found in the scriptures that God wanted me well and that He loved me and had adopted me into His family, my heart and emotions were healed. My identity turned from someone unloved and living with a disability to knowing that I was the daughter of the King. I was now able to trust in God’s Word and believe I could be healed of the traumatic brain injury that consumed my life for 13 ½ years. As my heart (emotions) healed, it was now open to believe and receive as discussed above in Matthew 21:22.
Isaiah 53:5 came alive inside of me and I knew without a shadow of a doubt that “By His stripes I was healed.” I believed God’s Word over the symptoms and emotions I had been experiencing. I believed when Jesus died on the cross over 2,000 years ago that He took my sins, sickness, and emotional and physical pain so that I no longer had to live with them or identify with them—I knew He paid for them with his life.
What Jesus did for me, He has done for you as well. He took your pain, unworthiness, and whatever lies you have been believing and He nailed them to the cross. Whatever situation you are holding onto, see it nailed to the cross. God says, “you are my beloved, you are my child, I’ve crowned you with my glory, you are my crown jewel, you are my prince/princess.”
Here are some declaration statements you can speak over yourself and replace with the lies from the enemy. I am the Righteousness of God in Christ (2Cor.5:21); God’s love has been poured into my heart (Romans 5:5); I am His beloved (Song of Solomon 6:3); I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16); God has crowned me with glory and honor (Hebrews 2:7); As Jesus is, so am I in this world (1 John 4:17); I am a child of the King and adopted into His family (Ephesians 1:15); As one of His children, I am an heir together with Christ (Romans 8:17); I am a child of God; I don’t forget all the benefits of being a child of God (John 1:12 Psalms 103:2); I was healed at the cross and walk-in total wholeness (Isaiah 53).
~Donna Jones