“He sent His Word and healed them” (Psalm 107:20). What an amazing and loving Father we have that He sent His Word (Jesus) so we could be healed and free from sickness and pain.
Healing, prosperity, and deliverance are found in God’s Word. If you are struggling in any of these areas, you may lack a proper understanding of God’s Word. In 2 Peter 1:3, Peter helps us to understand that all things pertaining to life and godliness come through the knowledge of Him. How do we get this knowledge? We get it by diving into God’s Word and believing it over what we are seeing and experiencing. We then begin to understand what He says about healing, prosperity, deliverance, and any situation we are experiencing. When we gain the knowledge that everything we could ever need has already been given to us as born-again believers, we don’t need to ask God for anything else. We don’t need to beg for healing or deliverance. We only need revelation knowledge of what Christ has already done for us.
If God sent Jesus to deliver us from sickness, and healing has already been paid for at the cross (1 Peter 2:24), then we only need to believe and receive it. If we are having a knowledge problem in this area, it could mean that we don’t know or truly believe what God’s Word says about healing or that our “receiver” isn’t working. In Ephesians 1:20, we read that as believers we have the same raising-from-the-dead power that raised Jesus from the dead. This means we don’t need any more power; we only need to learn how to believe and receive it. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Many times, we are looking for a quick fix. When a pain or sickness occurs, we pray and ask God to remove it. If we don’t know what has already been done for us, it is like we are throwing our prayer into space and hoping God catches it and answers it. Instead, the Bible tells us to come boldly to the throne of grace to help us in time of need (Hebrews 4:16) because we are children of the Most High and need to take what has already been provided to us by the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior.
We need to believe God’s promises about healing. “By His stripes, I am healed” (Isaiah 53:5); “The Lord heals all my diseases and redeems my life from destruction” (Psalm 103:4-5); “As Jesus is, so am I in this world” (1 John 4:17); “The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, lives within me” (Romans 8:11); “I have been given authority over all the power of the enemy, and all sickness/disease” (Luke 10:19). These are just a few of His promises.
In John 20:29, Jesus said that it is a greater blessing to those who believe and who have not seen. Jesus was talking to Thomas, one of his twelve disciples, who only believed Jesus rose from the dead because he saw Him in the flesh after He had died. As Jesus was talking to Thomas, He was thinking about us when He said that those who have not seen Him are going to be blessed because they believed without having seen Him in the flesh. As such, it is more powerful when we believe we are healed than waiting to be healed and then believe. When God’s Word becomes more real to you than what you see, feel, taste, hear, or smell, that is the greater blessing. You do this by taking God’s promises which are like seeds, and plant them in your heart. Your heart is the soil that has all you need to make the seeds bloom. Similar to how a seed in nature works, it is the soil that makes the seed grow. If you have bad soil, you will not experience good fruit; however, good, healthy soil will reap great fruit. How do you ensure your soil (heart) has the right nutrients? You do it by reading or listening to healing scriptures and meditating on them day and night. Do this until the Word becomes alive inside of you and God’s healing power is released. There is no specific timetable. A mustard seed takes 80 to 95 days to grow, while a bamboo seed takes 2 to 3 years. It takes time to sow God’s Word into your heart. This means staying in God’s Word until you get revelation knowledge about your healing.
~Donna Jones