Jesus was the will of God in action.

He constantly showed people that God wanted them healed.

"Thank God, I believe I receive my healing. I'm healed by the stripes of Jesus"

We are to tell sick people that God wants to heal them.

Then lay hands on them and watch healing come to pass in their lives.

We are to gladly tell other the good news that Jesus delivered them from sin and sickness, lay hands on them and watch them recover.

God didn't say that healing was a sign that followed only apostles and prophets.

It's very clear that He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."

We should be interested in learning how to operate in faith so that we can take hold of our healing.

We should also be interested in learning how to minister healing to sick people, so they too can be healed.

God has been trying to get this across to the church for ages.

Jesus didn't tell us to fast and pray to see who He would choose to heal.

He told us to preach the gospel to them and then "lay hands on the sick and they shall recover"!

This is a sign that He said would follow all believers.

Knowing that our God wants us well, we are to believe and receive healing.

And when we lay hands on the sick, they are to recover.

God offers us all that salvation covers.

He says, "Whosoever will, let him come."

He wants every creature to hear the Gospel and He wants every creature healed!

Jesus tells us God wants every person saved, healed and delivered.

God doesn't want anyone left out, but He won't force His blessings on anyone either.

He is a gentleman, and He only leads as we yield to Him.

Just by the fact that healing the sick was the last thing Jesus shared with His disciples while he was on earth, we know how important it is.

God wants ALL healed!

If God didn't want every sick person healed, Jesus wouldn't have told us to lay hands on them so they could be healed.

"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

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 16:15,17-18

Jesus paid the price so we could be saved and healed!

Therefore, we live free from sickness! We are healed!
We are well! We are whole!

When we study what the Bible says about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we will come to the conclusion [an unshakable confidence] that
we are as healed as we are saved.

God wants us to have both salvation and healing, and we receive both the same way, by faith!

Healing isn't more important, but God wants us to know it's equally as important as salvation.

Jesus bore stripes on His back before He was hung on the Cross, which means He paid the price for our physical health before He paid the price for our new birth.

Isaiah 53:4-5
Healing is revealed in verse 4
and salvation in verse 5

Does that mean healing is more important? NO, but God knew the body of Christ would have more trouble believing for healing; so perhaps that's why He put it first.

"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your BODY and in your SPIRIT, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:20

Sickness doesn't glorify God!

When we receive Jesus as Savior, He becomes our healer also.

He bore our sicknesses and pains so we wouldn't have to.
'By His stripes, we are healed' Notice already ARE!
Healing didn't come later, it came at the same time.

Forgiveness of sins and healing go together: Jesus shed His blood for the remission of sins, and His body was broken [lashed] for us so we could enjoy both forgiveness and health.

He provided both at once and no place in the Bible does it tell us to separate these two parts of the Atonement.

Healing belongs to us just as much as salvation!

Psalm 103:1-3
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

When we call on Jesus to be our Savior, He also becomes our Healer.

It's by faith that we receive both salvation which also means healing. Jesus bought and paid for them together for us on the Cross.

Isaiah 53:5 says Jesus...
"was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

Jesus already took sickness from us. We have as much right to be healed as we do to be saved.

Unfortunately, many believe He left us with our sicknesses, intending to decide on an individual basis who should be healed.

They believe salvation belongs to everyone, but that a person can never know who God will heal. They don't understand that healing is a part of the atonement.

Jesus Christ came and took our place by dying on the Cross for us.

Most people don't have a problem believing He bore our sins so we can be free from sin.

But they do have a problem believing He bore our sicknesses so that we can be free from sickness.

After Adam fell, man inherited a load he couldn't carry. A load of death, sin, and sickness.

The old covenant provided man's sins to be covered for a year at a time by the shedding of animals blood. The animal sacrifices also provided man with bodily healing. But these sacrifices were only temporary, they could only cover sin, not
wash them away.

God sent His Word to heal us. His Word is life and medicine to all our flesh. We hear His Word and obey it and then delivered from sickness and disease.

Walking by faith doesn't come by leaving our Bible on the table until it's time to take it to church. Faith comes as we get into God's Word by reading it.
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It builds up in our spirits as we hear it from the preacher, from recordings and especially if we hear it out of our own mouths.

Sometimes we just want to go to a service and miraculously receive healing; we're not interested in hearing.
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And sometimes God does manifest Himself and we get a miracle.
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But most of the time, we have to take time to hear before we are healed.

When we need healing, the best thing we can do is to hear and hear and hear and hear.
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We need to keep God's Word going into our ears every way we can. We need to keep hearing what God says about our healing.