New Year's Eve 2012

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil."   Hebrews 2:14

Because Jesus destroyed the devil, we are free from sickness and disease.

"And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
Colossians 2:15

Jesus spoiled Satan's army!

Sickness is not a blessing from God, it's a curse from the enemy from whom we've been redeemed.

Sickness is from the enemy, we don't have a thing to be concerned about because Jesus destroyed the works of the devil, which He was sent to do.

Healing people was a major part of Jesus' ministry.

Jesus accomplished the purpose for which He was sent.

There were times that as many as touched Him were made whole.

Every time Jesus set someone free, He destroyed the works of the devil; spiritual, mental and physical bondage is of the devil!

Every time Jesus forgave someone, He destroyed the works of the devil; sin is of the devil!

Jesus went about doing good.

Every time He healed someone, He destroyed the works of the devil; sickness and disease is of the devil!

If we want to know what the works of the devil are, we need to find out what Jesus destroyed.

Acts 10:38
"Jesus went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him."

Sickness and disease is a work of the devil.

The main reason Jesus came into this realm was to destroy the works of the devil; and He fulfilled what God called Him to do.

Jesus gave people a variety of different instructions to act on their faith.

Let God show you what to do!

What should we do to act on our faith?

Don't do something just because it worked for someone else.

God will instruct you.

While Jesus walked the earth, He healed all that were sick.

As we hear God's Word, we receive our healing because Jesus' ministry is still alive on earth today.

In Acts 1:1, the next verse in the Bible, Luke talks about "all that Jesus began both to do and teach."

The body [Christians] will pick up where Jesus left off.

Jesus' ministry of healing and deliverance will continue in and through us.

The last verse of the book of John says, "There are also many other things which Jesus did. . .even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written"   John 21:25.

Jesus told His disciple, "It's better for you if I go. I'll pray to the Father, and He'll send another Comforter to abide with you forever."
John 14:16

He also said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto My Father"
John 14:12

Jesus is still working in and through us, His body, the church today.

His earthly ministry didn't stop or diminsh, it multiplied.

Jesus was gone.
His earthly ministry wasn't finished.
It was just getting started.

He just ascended to the Father's right hand to become the Head over all things to the body [the church] Colossians 1:18.

In Acts 10:38, Peter preached about the earthly ministry of Jesus to Cornelius' house:
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."

Jesus shed His blood so we could be free from sin,
and He was bruised for our physical healing.

But we must choose to believe the report of the Lord!

The Hebrew for 'stripes' literally means 'bruise'.

Isaiah 53:10 tells us that it pleased God to bruise Jesus. He was only pleased because He knew the end result.

God knew: that Jesus would die on the Cross
                  that Jesus would save us from our
                          sins.
                  that Jesus take on Himself our
                          sickesses.
                  that Jesus would rise from the
                          dead.
                  that Jesus would have a glorified
                          body.
                  that all Jesus suffered for would turn
                          out good.

Jesus bore stripes upon His back so we can be healed.

Jesus took the chastisement of our peace upon Himself so we can have peace.

In Isaiah 53:5, God gives us this report to believe: Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities so we can be free from sin and sickness.

Will we believe God or the world?

Will we believe the voice of the Holy Spirit or the voice of the devil?

Once we know what God says, we can choose to believe His report.

Believing the right report isn't mind over matter or the power of positive thinking.

It's believing God's Word over our problems, symptoms, or circumstances.

This means we have to choose whom we will believe.

Jesus willingly paid the price for us.

He took our sicknesses and diseases;
He gave us His health.

Healing is no longer a promise, it's a firmly established fact.

Now we just have to get the revelation of it in our spirits that it is God's will for us; then we will start walking in the divine health Jesus purchased for us.

If God didn't want us healed, as some believe, why in the world did Jesus bear those stripes on His back before He went to the Cross?

That was one misery Jesus could have bypassed, but He made it part of the atonement.

Jesus died on the Cross and then descended into hell, carrying our sickneses and diseases.

But when He was raised from the dead, He came free of them.

When we are born again, healing is ours to claim just like forgiveness.

Jesus was raised from the dead with a perfect, glorified body.

So where did He leave our sicknesses and diseases? He left them in hell!

Jesus was then called the firstborn of all creation. (Colossians 1:15)

Jesus paid the price willingly, bearing our chastisement and sheddinng His blood to give us peace of mind.

We can live in the peace of God!

Jesus wore a crown of thorns so we could be crowned with glory and honor.

Because He bore our chastisement, we can live in peace now, free from depression and mental anquish.

Jesus was beaten.
He was whipped until His back was laid open.
His beard was pulled out.
A crown of thorns pushed onto His head.
He was nailed to the Cross.

None of His suffering was without a purpose.

Everything that happened to Him was for us!

The second benefit mentioned in Isaiah 53:5 takes care of our health problem,
"the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

"By His stripes we were healed"
(1 Peter 2:24)

The first benefit mentioned in Isaiah 53:5 takes care of the sin problem.

Jesus died on the Cross to pay for our sins.

He shed His blood for us because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. (Hebrews 9:22)

Some think the spiritual is more important.
In the realm of eternity it is.

But God never required us to choose whether we want our spirits, or our souls, or our bodies taken care of.

He paid the price for all three so we can receive the benefits for all three.

Mankind had a triple problem and Jesus gave him the triple answer.

Jesus went to the cross as our substitute,
          bearing our sins,
          the chastisement of our peace,
          and our sicknesses and diseases.

He paid the same price for all three, all three are equally important.

When man fell, he fell spirit, soul and body.

God responded with a plan to redeem them with the blood of Jesus.

God wasn't interested in doing just half a job; He wanted to redeem all of man.

In the New Testament, Matthew 8:17 says, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses."

Isaiah 53:4 was fulfilled during Jesus' ministry as He healed people physically.

Isaiah's prophecy looked ahead to when Jesus would purchase healing for our bodies.

Anyone who says sickness and pain are blessings from God doesn't understand His nature.

"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."
Matthew 8:17

Read Isaiah 53:4

In the Hebrew, it actually says, "Surely He has borne our sicknesses [our diseases], and carried our pains."

Griefs and sorrows are caused by sicknesses, diseases and pains.

Jesus took on Himself our pain and sickness because He loves us.

By faith we receive the divine healing and health that His sacrifice gives us.

Jesus didn't have any sicknesses, diseases or pains but we did.

We lived in this world under the curse of the Law.

Jesus bore it all for us.
He came as our substitute.
He chose to do it, He didn't have to.
We deserved the curse, but Jesus carried it away for us.

When Jesus bore our sins, sicknesses and pains, He didn't just help tote them along; He took them from us; He didn't have any of His own.

"Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted."
Isaiah 53:4

'borne' means to lift up, bear away, convey or remove to a distance.

Both 'borne' and 'carried' imply substitution or bearing another's load.

If we want God's power revealed to us, then we must believe His report, His Word!

God reveals and demonstrates His power for those who believe His report, His Word.

The choice isn't God's, it's ours!

God loved us while we were yet sinners to the extent that He sent His own Son to die for us.

God loved us while we were yet sinners to the extent that He sent His only Son to die for us.

God is no respecter of persons.
He doesn't have favorite children.

What He does for one, He does for anyone.

He loves the whole world equally!

We are in covenant with Jehovah-Rapha, the God who heals us.

We live in divine health, if we continually believe Him.

The good news in James 1:17 says that God never changes.

If He was the Lord who healed His people then, He's the Lord who still heals His people now!

Even in the first covenant, there was a connection between hearing and healing.

God said, I am the Lord that healeth thee, not will or was!

God put a few conditions on His new covenant:
"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give ear to his commandments. . ."

The Hebrew says, "I am Jehovah Rapha"

Millions of Israelites left Egypt trusting God.
They went out with silver and gold, and the Bible
says there was not one feeble person among them in Psalm 105:37.

THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE
was God's first healing covenant with His people.

In the Hebrew it is premissive not causitive,,,God will allow, not put, diseases on thee, which He allowed, not put, upon the Egyptians. He finished by saying that He is the Lord that healeth thee.

We are children of Abraham.

We are loosed from every Satanic bondage.

We have the same rights and privileges as Abraham did, but we live under a new and better covenant, established on better promises including the promise that by Jesus' stripes we are healed.

Jesus is in the business of loosing people!

One of the promises of God is that we can be loosed from every bondage of the enemy!

Sickness and disease is bondage.
Sickness and disease comes from Satan.

Satan can keep us bound for years.
But Jesus said we can be loosed.

Any sickness or disease that attacks our bodies is a bondage.

No sickness is from God.

Jesus came to set us free from every sickness and every disease, so that we can accept our healing.

Jesus said: "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world."
Matthew 28:20

Jesus never destroyed one work of God.

He only went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Acts 10:38.

Now, if Jesus destroyed God's works, then we're in trouble because the Bible says a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand Matthew 12:25

1 John 3:8 "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil."

If God made people sick then Jesus was destroying the works of His Father by healing them.

People still blame God for sicknesses and diseases.

God had nothing to do with it!

Adam gave his authority and a long-term lease on creation to Satan and Satan brought sickness and disease along with him.

Sickness and disease didn't come into the world until sin did.

When God ruled on the earth through Adam, there wasn't sickness or disease on the earth.

The truth is that God hates sicknesses and diseases as much as He hates sin because they are a result of the original sin.

For years some people have said that God chose to have them sick.

But Jesus said Satan has bound them, not God

Two important points revealed in the Bible are:
Sickness and disease are a bondage, and
Satan is the cause.

We are not confused about where sickness comes from.

Sickness is a bondage from Satan plain and simple.

God wants us to live free from sickness and pain, so we must choose to walk in health daily.

Thank God, the Bible sets us free from wrong thinking and wrong believing so we can enjoy the blessings of healing and health.

If sickness and disease are from God, then Jesus robbed God of His glory when He called sickness a bondage of Satan.

If sickness and disease are from God, then Jesus was fighting against God when He healed people.

Sickness and disease was never called a blessing in the Bible and anyone who calls it a blessing today doesn't know what the Bible says.

The truth is, God never had anything good to say about sickness and disease.

He detested it so much He sent His own Son Jesus to bear all the sicknesses and diseases of the world on Himself.

Jesus called sickness and disease bondage.

He never called them blessings-in-disguise or just a blessings.

God's blessings was sending Jesus to loose of them.

God gets glory when we get healed.

It doesn't glorify Him when we can't function normally.

Our Father can set us free from all bondage and we can give Him all the glory!

The Bible says many times that the majority of Jesus' healing took place on the Sabbath, the Jews sacred day.

Jesus was making a point that healing is sacred.

Jesus has loosed us from bondage.

As we act in faith we are set free from sin and sickness.

When Jesus called someone to come to Him, they acted on their faith by doing so and received their miracle.

Jesus was always getting the Word into people so they could believe.

And when they believed and acted on it, they got results.

Faith always acts on the Word of God;
         by doing, thinking and saying.

We are loosed and free from all circumstances and symptoms because we can hear, believe and act on the Word of God.

We are loosed from all the works of the enemy, whether we realize it or not; now it's time to act like it.

We were re-created in Jesus to walk free of all sickness and disease,

The Bible says those whom the Son sets free are free indeed.
John 8:36

No sickness or disease is too hard for Father God to heal.

We can receive our healing now!

We won't be moved by our circumstances or what others say.

We will only be moved by what God's Word says.

We must be firm about standing on God's Word.

Circumstance cannot more us.

We must walk by faith and not by sight!

We need to get stubborn about holding fast to the anointed Word no matter what circumstances look like.

Thank God for good doctors, but the Word of God is an even higher and more sure authority.

People are double-minded when they flow back and forth between God's promises and man's opinions.

We must be tenacious about receiving our healing.

Tenacity could also be defined as "resistance to flow".

Many people "flow" with whatever others say or whatever circumstances say, rather than what God's Word says.

We have to be tenacious [stubborn] if we are going to live in God's best; we must be stubborn in our stand on God's Word.

The power in God's written Word heals us as we hear it, believe it, and act upon it in faith.

Jesus doesn't dwell among us today in the flesh, but we still have the written Word.

When we set ourselves to continually hear the Word, our faith will grow.

Hearing is the biggest factor in changing the course of our lives.

All throughout the Bible, we find a direct connection between hearing and healing.

We must be convinced that God wants us well.

Then reach out in faith for our miracle!

God's power is always available to His children.

It's just a matter of learning how to connect to the source of power by faith.

It's our faith that releases God's power to perform miracles in our lives.

Our faith + God's power = Healing

We are faith children of a faith God.

We can and do believe we receive our healings.

We should be able to receive our healings just like the the people in the gospels that Jesus healed.

It should be easier, we're full of the life, nature and ability of God.

We are a part of the family of God.

Jesus told us, "May Father and I will come and make our abode with you."

They live on the inside of us as born-again believers through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

We are filled with God's healing power.

God's power heals all who come to Him in faith.

Our faith releases His healing power in our lives

Our faith and His power makes us whole.

A high price was paid for our health and we must refuse to go without it.

We know what is ours and by faith we must not quit until it's manifested.

We need to realize that God has provided healing for us and make a bold stand of faith.

We need to set our wills in action by saying, "Healing is mine and I'm not quitting until it's manifested."

When we get that stubborn and tenacious in our faith, we'll see results.

Sometimes people don't set their wills into action as they try to get healed.

They only hope and pray that their faith works.

And if they don't receive their healing in a certain amount of time, the let loose of their faith instead of holding it fast.

"Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt."
Matthew 15:28

Jesus didn't say to her, "Be unto thee as God wills"; no, He said "Be unto thee even as thou wilt".

This woman was involved.

Jesus called healing the children's bread.

We qualify for that bread because we are children of God.

We don't need to beg for it; we receive it because it already belongs to us!

We have been grafted into God's family through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Through the new birth, we are now new creatures in Christ, the children of God.

"But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name."
John 1:12

We are the children! Healing is ours!

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. . . . "
1 John 3:1

Under the old covenant, Jesus called healing "the children's bread."

The children were the Jews of the house of Israel.

Now, under the new covenant which is built on better promises, both Jews and Gentiles are the children of God.

We must hang on to God's Word with tenacity until our healing manifests.

We can't give up because God's Word works.

Most of us would have given up, but not the woman in Matthew 15:25-28 who was looking to Jesus to heal her daughter.

First Jesus ignored her.
Then He tells his disciples, I'm not sent to help her.
Then He tells her, It's not right to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. Jesus called her a dog.
She continued to worship Him and ask.
She told Jesus, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Jesus had taken this woman to the limits and she passed.
Her faith turned His power loose and her daughter was healed.

Matthew 15:25-28
" Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour."

The written Word is God's word to us.

We believe, we receive and we go our way praising and thanking God for our answers.

We have great faith because we take God at His word.

Jesus said, "When you pray, believe the answer has been granted to you and you will have it."

Great faith always takes God at His Word.

That's why Jesus said, "When you pray, believe the answer has been granted to you and you will have it."
Mark 11:24

Whatever Jesus and His Word has said regarding God's promises, we are to believe Him and take Him at His Word.

We don't need goose bumps or burning bushes to believe the word of God, just trust.

Many people came to Jesus with the same faith.

The ten lepers Luke 17:12,19

The nobleman at Capernaum whose son was sick John 4:46-53

And others.

The woman from Canaan, in a way, said to Jesus, "You just say the word and my daughter will be healed."

In Matthew 8:6-8the Roman centurion showed that kind of faith also! His servant was at home sick. He wanted Jesus just to speak the word and his servant would be healed.

And they were!

Jesus said that the woman from Canaan had great faith.

If she had faith under the old covenant, we really should have faith under the new covenant.

She put so much confidence in Jesus' Words that she came for healing for her daughter and didn't even bring her daughter with her.

At first Jesus ignored the woman from Canaan whose daughter had a devil.

She wasn't a Jew. Jesus said to His disciples, "I'm not sent to help her. I'm sent to the lost sheep of Israel." He wanted to see her faith.

Jesus knew if the woman had faith, she could get results even without a covenant with God. She did have real faith and her daughter was made whole.

Read Matthew 15:22-28 about the woman of Canaan who cried to Jesus for mercy because her daughter was vexed with a devil.

If anyone had a want to give up, this woman should have. She was a Gentile who didn't have a covenant with God. But she kept crying out for help.

We must think, believe and talk in line with God's Word.

God's Word says that both forgiveness and healing are available to us through the new birth.

We have to believe the Word and walk in its fullness to get the benefits.

The Greek word, sozo, is translated saved, healed, made whole in all the scriptures regarding these words.

Mark 6:56
"And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole [sozo]."

Acts 4:12
" Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved [sozo].

Acts 4:9
"If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole [sozo];"

Luke 17:19
"And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole [sozo]."

Mark 5:28
"For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole [sozo].

Mark 5:34
"And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole [sozo]; go in peace, and be whole [sozo] of thy plague"

James 5:15
" And the prayer of faith shall save [sozo] the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

Luke 18:42
"And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved [sozo] thee"

Ephesians 2:8
" For by grace are ye saved [sozo] through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"

Acts 14:9
" The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
[sozo]".

Acts 2:21
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved
[sozo]."

Luke 8:36
"They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed
[sozo]."

Mark 16:16
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
[sozo]"

Mark 5:23
"And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; [sozo]."

Mark 6:56
" And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole
[sozo]".

Romans 10:9
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved
[sozo]."

We have seen people who's sinful lifestyle has had an adverse effect on their personal appearance.

If sin can have an effect, righteousness can have an effect also.

When the new birth, which takes place in the inner man, works its way to the outer man, the results are strength, healing and health.

We've taken what God put together at the Cross and tried to make them into separate issues.

Forgiveness and healing cannot be taken apart.
They are not separate.

Healing is nothing more than the new birth affecting the body; just as forgiveness affects the spirit.

Mark 2:9-10
"Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,. . ."

Healing belongs to us whether we know it or not.

God has provided forgiveness for our sins and
healing for our physical bodies.
He wants us healed as much as He wants us forgiven.

Jesus never turns anyone down for either
forgiveness or healing.

If we are forgiven then we should be healed.
If we are healed then we should be forgiven.

The truth is, during Jesus' ministry on earth He could forgive sins and heal.

And, today, He can forgive sins and heal also.

Back then, most people thought Jesus could heal but not forgive sins.

Today, most people believe Jesus can forgive sins but not heal.

Jesus wasn't trying to make the religious leaders
angry; He was trying to point out to them that
under the new covenant that He was bringing,
brought forgiveness and healing together.

All through the Bible forgiveness of sin and
physical healing have always been a packaged deal.

We are forgiven and we are healed!

Both belongs to us and are included in the covenant with our heavenly Father.

Healing comes with forgiveness
and forgiveness comes with healing.

When Jesus asked the religious leaders,
"Which is easier to say; your sins are forgiven
or take up your bed and walk?"

He was saying that it doesn't matter which one.

If He said,
"Get up and walk" that means "you're forgive"
and if He said
"You're forgiven," that means "get up and walk"

Several times throughout Jesus' ministry, He proved
that forgiveness and healing were to go together.

When we receive one, the other belongs to us too!

Jesus paid for our healings and we have them by faith regardless of how we feel or our circumstances.

When Jesus sees our faith, He forgives our sins and heals us!

No one likes tests and trials, but faith thrives on them.

Our heads may give us trouble in hard times; but if we're really in faith, we won't give up!

Hope will only go so far, but faith won't quit!

Faith has tenacity, it digs its heels in.

It says that healing belongs to me and I won't go without it!

Jesus continued teaching.

That was always His solution to unbelief.

Suddenly, four men lowered a stretcher down through the roof, after removing part of it, putting a man in front of Jesus because they were so determined to get this man healed.

When Jesus saw their faith, he told the sick man that his sins were forgiven him which also healed him.

The first time Jesus visited Capernaum, people came to be healed.

The second time he visited, many came to stop folks from being healed.

Doubt and unbelief are strong sometimes that it's difficult for anyone to get healed. That was happening here, even though God's power was present, no one was getting healed.

Things happen when we get tired of being overrun by the devil.

That's when we jump out in faith and refuse to give up until we receive the miralce we need.

We have to refuse to put up with sicknesses and pains because God's Word is medicine to our flesh.

"And they come unto him bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four."
Mark 2:3

This man who had the palsy, or paralysis, found four friends to pick him up and carry him to Jesus.

This man was sick with it and sick of it!

We are not to just listen; we are to hear the Word of God concerning healing.

Then faith will rise up in our hearts to receive and then we will be healed.

The Bible doesn't say a word about the scribes, Pharisees or the doctors of the law hearing the Word of God that Jesus was teaching so they would receive faith for healing.

They were only listening for what they could accused Him of.

Yet God still sent His power to heal them.

The power of the Lord was present to heal all including the Pharisees and the doctors of the law, but not one of the Pharisees or doctors were healed.

You can be listening without hearing!

God's power is available to us through the Word.

We tap into His power by believing, confessing and acting on the Word.

To learn to receive from God,
we need to get a revelation of His will,
act on it, and
hold fast to our confession
that God's power is working in us,
effecting a healing and a cure.

Why do so many not get healed today?

The problem hasn't been a lack of power, but a lack of knowledge.

Jesus said, "My meat is to do My Father's will."
John 4:34

It must have been God's will for Jesus to go to
Capernaum and teach the Word.

When God's power is present, anyone who will
receive by faith can be healed.

". . .and the power of the Lord was present to heal
them." Luke 5:17 Read the whole verse

Who is them?
The Pharisees and the doctors of the law.

It was God's will to even heal them or He wouldn't
have sent his power to do so.

Reading and hearing the Word of God produces faith
for healings and miracles.

Faith comes by reading and hearing the Word and
meditating on the Word [thinking alot about what
was read and heard].

Often today, people aren't healed because they haven't taken time to hear God's Word.

They want the healing or miracle, but don't know they have to hear the Word.

When the people heard Jesus preach and teach
the Word, faith grew in them, then as He
instructed them to act on their faith,
they were healed.

"And again He entered into Capernaum after some days....and straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door; and He preached the word unto them."
Mark 2:1-2

Jesus had to preach the Word to the people so they would have faith to be healed.

Matthew 4:23 says, "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people."

Healing came after teaching and preaching.

They got their faith the same way we get ours today.

Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17

There was a method to what Jesus did.

About 70% of the time, Jesus either stated or implied that people were healed on their own faith.

Jesus alway gave the people something to believe....

He preached the Word to them, hearing and miracles
go hand in hand.

When Jesus preached, miracles happened!

The Holy Spirit teaches us that same living Word produces miracles in our lives.

As more and more people are healed and set free through the preaching of the Word, churches won't have buildings big enough to hold all the people.

Word gets out when Jesus shows up!

In Mark 2:1-5, verse 1 says, "And again he entered into Capernaum."

The word 'again' indicates that Jesus must have been there before.

Mark 1 mentions the first time He went to Capernaum that many sick were healed, many devils were cast out and that Jesus performed miracles all over the city.

So when Jesus returned, word got around and soon the house where He stayed was packed .

"And again He entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that He was in the house.

And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door; and He preached the word unto them.

And they come unto Him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto Him for the press, they uncovered the roof where He was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee."

Mark 2:1-5

By His Stripes

Never stop believing

All Things are Possible

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

We hear the Word of healing, act on it, and confidently receive our healing.

People heard Jesus teach, faith came and then they were healed.

The same will be true today!

Real faith does what it can do and then trys to do what it cannot do.

That's the way most of the miracles in Jesus' ministry happened.

Jesus healed all who came to Him in faith and He's still the same today.

God is still pleased when we receive our healings.

Acts 10:38 says Jesus "went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him."

Obviously, healing is good in God's sight!

Jesus was looking for a way to show the goodness of God, the Lord of the Sabbath, by healing the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath in the synagogue.

"And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.


Jesus said to the man, 'Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.

And the man arose and stood forth.

Jesus said to the man, 'Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other."
Luke 6:6-11

Our God is full of mercy and compassion.

We can call upon His mercy and compassion,
and by faith receive healing or any of His
blessings/promises.

The father in Mark 9 and the two blind men in
Matthew 20 called on God's nature.

Jesus responded that He was there for them
and that whatever they needed, it was theirs
because they had called on the nature of God.
He was there to meet their needs.

He is ready to meet our needs also!

The boy's father that the disciples couldn't heal but got healed when they took him to Jesus, called on His compassion or the mercy of God.

Same with the two blind men who cried out for Jesus to have mercy on them.

Jesus is the will of God in action and He's revealed God's will to us.

We know God wants us free from sicknesses and diseases.

Read Matthew 17:14-18 about the demon possessed boy that the disciples couldn't heal but the father brought the boy to Jesus who "rebuked the devil; and it departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour."

Neither the father nor Jesus concluded that it wasn't God's will to heal the boy just because the disciples couldn't heal him.

We must take God at His Word, even when we are not able to see our answer.

Jesus says He has healed us, so we are.

We must find out what God has to say about our situation and then we have to step out on that Word.

That lets our faith release God's power into our lives.

There was a man who had been blind from birth.

Jesus walked over to him, spit in the dirt, made clay of the spittle, smeared the clay on the man's eyes and said "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam."



The man obeyed Jesus' words and by faith he washed and came back seeing.

Our Father sent Jesus to destroy the works of the devil, including sickness.

Sickness isn't God's plan for us.

So, by faith, we can receive any and all healings or live in divine health.

John 15:5

A Hundred Reasons

God never told Jesus to seek out a few here and there who needed healing.

Jesus was sent to heal all.

Jesus' commission was:
*to heal the sick
*cleanse the lepers,
*raise the dead,
*cast out devils, and
*bring deliverance to all!

Jesus didn't have to fast and pray to fnd out God's will to heal people.

He healed all that came to him.

He came to destroy the works of the devil, sickness is of the devil because it kills, steals [our money and health] and destroys [lives].

"The thief [the devil] cometh not but for to steal, kill and destroy, but I [Jesus] have come to give you life and give it more abundantly."
John 10:10

Jesus did two things when He was moved with compassion:
He touched the person
He spoke to the disease

God's love and compassion reaches out to us and heals us of every sickness and disease.

He's able and willing!

We must trust God and His love.

As we come to Him in faith, His compassion will flow freely to heal us and make us whole.

God's ability shows His power, but His willingness shows His compassion.

In the Word, God's compassion is magnified above His power.

1 John 4:8 says "God is Love", but it never says "God is power".

The one leper in Mark 1 came close to Jesus.

He could've been stoned for being there, but he had the determination of someone who wanted healing so badly he was willing to risk his life for it.

Jesus heard the 10 lepers call to Him from afar and He told them to go show themselves to the priest and they were healed as they went.

In Luke 17:12, ten lepers cried to Jesus from afar because it was unlawful to come near him.

If a leper came within a certain distance of a healthy person, they had to get out of the way and call out, "Unclean!, Unclean!"

"Moved with compassion,"
Jesus touched the leper.

This may have been the first time in years that this man had been touched by someone.

No one wanted to touch him.
He wasn't even supposed to come near people.

God's Word can create an unshakable confidence in us that God wants us healthy.

We can boldly say, "I am healed."

And the Holy Spirit in us does the work!

Jesus did God's will and not His own.

He said
"The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10

Jesus was the will of God in action.

He took the "if" out of the healing issue.

He didn't beg, plead or spend time searching for God's will about healing.

Neither should we. We are to do what He did.

We must take the"IF" out of healing prayers.

Healing is part of The Great Commission.
Healing is part of why Jesus came.
Healing is part of the Atonement.

Faith always begins where God's will is known.

We know without a doubt it's our Father's will to heal us.

We have confidence that He desires our healing even more than we do.

Happy Mother' s Day 2012

Many people have to be convinced,
through the Word of God,
that it is His will and it is for us NOW!

Knowing God is able to heal isn't enough; we have to be sure it's His will.

And it is!

The average Christian is a lot like the leper was.

He believed God is able to heal, but he doesn't know whether or not it's God's will to heal.

With the two words, "I will", Jesus shows beyond a doubt that God's will for us is divine health.

According to God's will, we can accept our healing.

When Jesus answered the leper and said, "I will, be clean" He was giving that same answer to all of us.

God is able and willing to heal us.

He wants to!

The major obstacle between Christians and miracles today is they know God is able to heal, but they don't know if He's willing.

The leper in Matthew 8:2,3 is the only person in the New Testament to question God's will to heal.

This man is also the first in the four Gospels whom Jesus heals.

So the first thing God does through Jesus is to clear up the question: Is it God's will to heal?

When we hear the full Gospel of salvation and healing, faith rises in us to be healed.

We act on that faith in God's Word, it produces what we desire.

GOD'S WORD WORKS!

Just as Jesus was healing people,
we can know for a fact it's God's will to heal
EVERY person
EVERY time of
EVERY disease and sickness

We have God's Word on it!

National Day of Prayer 2012

Our faith that comes from hearing the Gospel must be acted on in order to receive our healing.

We receive faith from hearing the Gospel message which includes healing.

The whole Gospel cannot be preached without preaching healing.

Hearing God's Word produces faith in us.

So, as we continually hear the Word, we walk in divine health, peace and abundance.

Paul and Barnabas were preaching the Gospel
The Good News

Good News to a sinner is he can be saved.
Good News to a poor man is his needs can be met.
Good News to a sick man is he can be healed.

Just like the centurion, we believe in the power and authority of Jesus' words.

We know God's will is for us to be healed and to live in health.

So we ask in faith for our healing and we believe we receive our healing now! In the name of Jesus!

Healing the servant was God's Will.

Jesus knew the will of the Father - Healing was for everyone!

Then the centurion told Jesus that He didn't have to come to his house.

But that He could just speak the word and his servant would be healed and set free.

Jesus didn't know the centurion's servant and had never seen him.

But Jesus knew the will of the Father.

When the centurion asked Jesus to come heal his servant, Jesus said He would.

Jesus was saying that His will to heal him was the Father's will to heal everyone who allows Him to.

Jesus has spoken healing to us through His Word and we have authority to stop the devil from hindering us.

Healing is ours in the name of Jesus!

God is waiting for us to give orders to the enemy so He can legally enforce them.

We're the ones with the authority to do something about the devil.

Jesus is the head of the Church.

We're His body on this earth with the right to use the authority He has given us in His name.

The body has the same authority as the head.

Jesus gave us His authority.

In Matthew 18:18 He tells us that
what we forbid is forbidden
and what we allow is allowed.

There is a connection between understanding authority and having great faith.

Sometimes a believer's faith doesn't operate because they don't understand their authority.

God responds to faith.

We are healed because we believe God's healing promises are at work in us.

God doesn't expect us to wait for some special manifestation [even though it happens at times];
He expects us to simply take Him at His Word,
believe we receive His promises
and boldly act on them in faith.

The Roman Centurion had great faith because he understood Jesus' words had authority over sickness and disease.

He was willing to believe the words of Jesus and act on them, He didn't need Jesus to come to his house.

Jesus responded to his faith, "Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour."

The Holy Spirit is the One who causes our answers to come.

He's the One who confirms the Word.

When the Holy Spirit moves, the manifestation of our prayers catches up with our confession of the Word.

To receive healing,
we hear the Word of God,
we act on the Word,
we hold fast to our confession of faith,
and stand fast until it manifests.

We have a man - the Man named Jesus - and in Him we must trust.

Some people will go to a specific healing evangelist,
but regardless of the anointing, no man is the healer.

Only Jesus is the Healer!
Jesus is all we need.!

Jesus walked directly to the man and asked, "Would you like to be healed?"

The man replied, "But I have no man. . . . ."

That was the man's first problem, he looked to man.

Put trust in Jesus, not man!

Healing is ours....it belongs to us!

We take it by faith!

We must examing ourselves.

Are we waiting for the water to move OR are we doing our part to receive healing by faith?

Some Christians think that if healing was for today, everyone would be healed.

But not everyone even wants to be healed or wants to believe for their healing.

Many Christians are like those who gathered around the pool of Bethesda; they'd like healing to hit them, but they haven't done their part to take hold of it by faith.

At the Pool of Bethesda a group of sick people were waiting for the water to be troubled.

The first person who stepped in would be healed and everyone else had to wait for the next visitation.

They'd wait and wait and wait. There were no guarantees.

Our words control our lives.

We can have what I say by saying we are healed!

God's Word in us drives out sickness and disease.

God heals sovereignly as He wills, but He made a way for us to receive healing by faith at any time.

We can exercise our faith and receive healing daily!

The man at the Pool of Bethesda wasn't healed
by his own faith.

Jesus never said he was healed by His faith.

If Jesus' faith had healed the man, He would
have healed everyone else there too.

The miracle that took place at the Pool of Bethesda
shows us God's sovereignty.

Five areas full of people sat by the pool not knowing when the angel was coming or who would be healed.

And afterward, the rest of the people would have to sit and wait for the next time the angel came to trouble the water.

Our words create God's realities into our lives.

We must watch our words carefully and speak only truth and life.

As we walk in faith according to God's Word, we shall have whatever we say.

If we're going to be people of faith whose faith works, we have to be people of our word.

We must:
Keep our word,
Honor our word,
Watch over our word.