Happy New Year 2016

Proverbs 14:26

Proverbs 3:5

Proverbs 2:21

James 1:17

Thanks be to God

Luke 2:12

Luke 2:11

Matthew 1:20-21

Luke 1:46-49

Luke 1:30-31

Isaiah 9:6

We are expected to have confidence in what God says and that is all that He expects of us.

Our friendship with God is to be both ways. We are not forced to love and respect Him, but we should if it is to be a good relationship.

God's dream was to reproduce Himself and to have companionship with us!

We are created for life, love, power, prosperity, success and dignity.

Our heritage is to have God's best, to enjoy His companionship and to use His power for the good of ourselves and others.

We are valuable to God and to people because we are created in His class of being. We are vital because God's plan involves us.

When we recognize our value, we cause the seeds of greatness to germinate in us, Galatians 3:29;
1 Peter 1:23.

God's family is supposed to represent Him and reflect His lifestyle here on earth, because as he is, so are we in this world,  1 John 4:17.

We must begin to see and respect ourselves as members of royalty, Galatians 4:6-7.

God never created anything or anyone inferior, Psalm 8:4-6.

God never planned us for poverty, inferiority, sickness, depression, want or insecurity,
1 Peter 2:9.

God planned that whatever could be said about Him, could be said about us, 1 John 4:17,. . ."as He is, so are we in this world."

God created us humans as much like Himself as any child can be like its natural parents.

Self-value will cause us to stand tall, square our shoulders, to look into the future with a new confidence, to walk steady and rise to the level of importance for which God created us, Psalm 91.

Self-value will give us courage because we discover that with God at work in us, we become unconquerable, 1 John 4:4.

Self-value will eliminate fear of failure or defeat because nothing can stop us and God working together, Isaiah 41:10.

Self-value will wipe out inferiority because we are in God's class of being and He, in us, is greater than any person or any power outside of us, 
1 John 4:4.

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Self-value will rid us of all jealousy because we will never again want to be anyone else, John 15:15.

The bottom line of positive and stable self-esteem is when we can say: "I accept the value that God has put on me."

When we do that, we will then cooperate with God to develop the best possible "ME" in this world.

The man who wrote most of the Psalms was wonderstruck by how God made humans, The Lord made people a little lower than God [the original Hebrew word used for angel was 'Elohim' which is used as God in Genesis 1:1]and crowned them with glory and honor, Psalm 8:5.

The Bible says, You are God's workmanship, Ephesians 2:10

Our God given value doesn't depend on special genes from parents. Our worth before God isn't measured by our assets, the color of our skin, super intelligence or formal education.

All sorts of miracles start to happen when we discover and accept our value in Him.

Before we were born, we existed in God's mind. He knew this world would need us at this time.

He planned us with a special purpose that no one but us could fulfill because no one on earth could do what we are here to do.

God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them, Genesis 1:27.

God made nothing inferior. He is first class all the way. He created us unique. We are exceptional-one-of-a-kind.

God is telling us that He loves us and created His best when He created us.

Jesus paid a price for us and we are worth all He paid.

He had destined His best for us!

God's life, being restored in us, depends on our knowledge of certain facts which open the way to His lifestyle.

We are created in His imagine to share His life, love, purpose and plan. We are therefore valuable to Him.

God's salvation plan is His new life plan for each of us. He created us for life, His kind of life. Jesus came that we might have life more abundantly, John 10:10

There is given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, 2 Peter 1:3-4.

For all things are yours and you are Christ's and Christ is God's, 1 Corinthians 3:21-23.

We should have everything when we have Jesus and we are filled with God through our union with Him, Colossians 2:10.

God gave us a share in the very life of Jesus Christ, for He forgave all of our sins and blotted out the charges proved against us. In this way God took away satan's power to accuse us of sin and He openly displayed to the whole world Christ's triumph at the cross where our sins were taken away, Colossians 2:13-15.

Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them, Ephesians 2:9-10.

Jesus said, the thief comes not but for to steal, kill and destroy; but I am come that you might have life and have it more abundantly, John 10:10.

Anyone who believes on the Son has everlasting life, John 3:36.

Whoever believes in Jesus Christ shall not perish, but have eternal life, John 3:16.

When God the Father, with glorious power, brought Jesus back to life again, you were given His wonderful new life to enjoy. Now you are his new life, Romans 6:4-5 LB

So look upon your old sin nature as dead and instead be alive to God through Jesus Christ, Romans 6:11.  LB

Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And you did God make alive together with Jesus Christ, Colossians 2:`3.

God says: I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God and they shall be My people, 2 Corinthians 6:16.

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

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also LIVE WITH HIM . [That isn't just in heaven, but here and now], Romans 6:8.

Jesus Christ was raised again for our justification, Romans 4:25.

God has raised us up together with Christ, Ephesians 2:6.

We have been planted together in the likeness of His death. Our old person is crucified with Jesus Christ so that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin, Romans 6:5-6.

Jesus Christ, was wounded for OUR transgression. He was bruised for OUR iniquities, Isaiah 53:5.

It was through what His Son did that God cleared a path for everything to come to Him—all things in heaven and on earth—for Christ’s death on the cross has made peace with God for all by His blood.  This includes YOU who were once so far away from God. You were His enemies and hated Him and were separated from Him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now He has brought you back as his friends.  He has done this through the death on the cross of his own human body, and now as a result Christ has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are standing there before Him with nothing left against you—nothing left that He could even chide you for; the only condition is that you fully believe the Truth, standing in it steadfast and firm, strong in the Lord, convinced of the Good News that Jesus died for YOU, Colossians 1:20-23 LB.

God has laid on Jesus Christ the guilt and sins of everyone of us, Isaiah 53:6.

God's salvation plan is and has always been based on our confidence in the integrity of His Word, Hebrews 11:6.

God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, 1 Corinthians 1:9

God wants to have us near Him and He wants to near us!

When we know that God loved and valued us enough to give His Son to be judged in our place so that we could be restored to Him as though no sin had ever been committed, then we realize that there is nothing left to stand between us and Him, Romans 8:1.

The Bible says, There is no peace for the unbeliever, because when Adam and Eve questioned God's integrity, they abandoned the lifestyle and the friendship of God.

Fear replaced confidence.
Disease destroyed health.
Grief and sorrow replaced happiness.
Loneliness ruled instead of friendship.
Guilt exchanged for peace.
Confusion to the place of faith and love.

Psalm 30:2

God promised that if we believe what His Word says about Jesus dying for us, His power would come and transform us into His child again by His life being reborn in us, John 1:12

Know this, that your old person was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin, Romans 6:6

We have been crucified with Christ, Galatians 2:20.

When Jesus died, it wasn't for sins He had committed. The punishment was for our sins being judged once and for all.

The key to the God-life within us is to understand and personally relate to what Christ did for us when He died on the cross in our place.

Healing is a part of the atonement, the same as forgiveness. We have to use faith for healing, the same as for forgiveness.

They are meant to go together but preachers have separated them and made healing a secondary blessing. That is why we have not faith for healing like we do forgiveness.

Peter said, Whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved/healed, Acts 2:21.

Paul said, That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved/healed, Romans 10:9.

Jesus said, He who believes and is baptized shall be saved/healed, Mark 16:16.

We are able to know that we are saved and every one should know this.

The Bible says, "We know that we have passed from death to life," 1 John 3:14. There are many things  in which we shall never know; but, thank God, we can know we have passed from death to life.

Paul said, If anyone be in Christ, he or she is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Everyone who has never accepted Jesus as Savior must remember that 'all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23

Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish, Luke 13:5.

Jesus said, 'you must be born again, John 3:7.

God is waiting to bless us. He longs to reveal Himself to us in His fullness.

If we will serve God, He is Jehovah 'rapha the Lord that heals.'

Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, John 8:32.

Knowledge of His truth regarding healing sets us free and makes it possible for God to fulfill it in our lives.

Never consider symptoms that are opposing the word as grounds for doubting God's Word because it is written: "I will watch over my word to perform it."

We must keep the word [promise of healing] before our eyes and keep looking at it continually.

Do as Abraham did: Be strong in faith by looking at the promise of healing.

To say anything other than 'You shall recover'  [Mark 16:18] would be a lie from the devil and has to be treated that way. We have to stand on God's word in order for him to make it good in us.

We cannot talk contrary to God's word and get His blessings.

Our words are our standard of faith. They express what we really believe.

Our faith can never rise higher than our words. God's promises become real and living only as we confess them.

We should not allow the devil to hear any words coming out of our mouths other than speaking the Word of God nor should we think anything contrary to what God has promised in His Word.

We must hold fast  to the profession of our faith without wavering; for He is faithful that promised, Hebrews 10:23.

Jesus took on Himself all the physical consequences of our sinful nature so that He could come into our life as our physical healer and as our spiritual Savior.

The reason we can call on the Lord right now and be healed of our physical infirmities and diseases is that Jesus Christ Himself suffered all of them for us and He did it willingly.

Everyone that asks receives.  Matthew 7:8

Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. John 16:24

Call unto me and I will answer you.
Jeremiah 33:3

Jesus said, These signs shall follow them that believe, in my name they shall cast out devils;. . . they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, Mark 16:17-18

Once we realize where sickness comes from and that it is not the will of our loving, heavenly Father for us to suffer, we can approach Him with humility and in faith.

If we need healing, we can pray and be healed in the same way that we were saved.

We must accept God's promise as true and believe that we are forgiven before we can experience  His forgiveness.

We must accept God's promise as true and believe that we are healed before we can experience physical healing.

If God is merciful enough to forgive us when we sin, surely He is merciful enough to heal us! When Jesus ministered on earth He healed those that were unsaved. He hadn't died for any of us yet.

God is as willing to heal as He is to forgive.

Jesus bore our diseases so that we may be healed. Divine health is ours.

Claiming this blessing and confessing it by faith, God will manifest it in our body.

Jesus bore out sins so that we can have forgiveness. Eternal life is ours. 

Claiming this blessing and confessing it by faith; God will make it good in our lives.

Multitudes of sincere people all over the world are receiving physical and spiritual healing through their faith in God's promise.

As long as Jesus' commission is in effect, the unsaved and the sick can be healed and forgiven by believing the gospel.

Jesus' promise to save us spiritually, is in His commission. His promise to heal our bodies, is in His commission and it is for all.

To deny that one part of His commission is for today, is to deny both parts.

When Jesus sent His disciples to preach the gospel, He told them, These [supernatural] signs shall follow them that believe. This was for everyone, for all nations until the end of the world.

The end of the world hasn't come yet, and Jesus' commission hasn't been withdrawn or cancelled. 

The age of miracles is not past because Jesus, the miracle-worker, has never changed: Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever, Hebrews 13:8.

If we pray at all, we should expect that prayer to be answered. 

When that prayer is answered, God has done it; He has performed something supernatural!

If there are no miracles, prayer is nothing and only ignorance would cause anyone to pray or expect an answer.

If prayer brings an answer, that answer is a miracle. If there are no miracles, there is no reason for faith.

Anyone who claims that the age of miracles is past denies the need, the privileges and benefits of prayer.

For God to hear and answer prayer of any kind is a miracle.

If the age of miracles is past, that would mean that all evidence concerning many cases of miraculous healings, is false and that God's promises to do such things are not for us today.

If the age of miracles is past, no one could be born again because the new birth is the greatest miracle a person can experience.

The most common tradition is: the age of miracles is past.

For that to be true, there would have to be a total absence of miracles. Even one miracles would prove that the age of miracles has not pasted.

Our diseases and sicknesses were laid on Jesus.

God couldn't require that we bear them as punishment, because Jesus bore them for us.

Another tradition is that God chastises His children with  sickness. They quote part of Hebrews 12:6-8, which says, "whom the Lord loves he chastens".

God does chasten those whom He loves, but not by making them sick.

The word "chasten" here means, to instruct, train, discipline, teach or educate" like a parent with a child. A parent would go to jail if they did such to their child. God is not a child abuser!

Those who defend this tradition quote 1 Peter 5:10; but this suffering doesn't refer to suffering sickness, but to the many ways in which God's people have so often had to suffer for their testimony,
Acts 5:41 and 2 Corinthians 12.

Another tradition is that if we are righteous, we should expect sicknesses as a part of our life. They quote Psalm 34:19, but that doesn't mean sicknesses; it means trials, hardships, persecutions and temptations, never sickness or physical disabilities.

They don't finish the verse:  Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Jesus was made a curse for us, Galatians 3:13, when He bore our sicknesses, Matthew 8:17.

Isaiah 53:4 is actually translated: Surely [or certainly] He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.

To prove that our sicknesses were carried away by Jesus, just like our sins were carried away, the same Hebrew verb for borne and carried is used to describe both.

Bodily healing in the new testament was called a mercy and it was God's mercy which always moved Him to heal all the sick.

His promise is that He is plenteous in mercy to all that call on Him, Psalm 86:5. That includes all believers.

Paul said that God would have us prepared to every good work, 2 Timothy 2:21; thoroughly furnished to all good works, 2 Timothy 3:17; that we might abound to every good work, 2 Corinthians 9:8.

Sick people cannot measure up to these words. Either healing is for all, or these scriptures do not apply to all.

If today, God has done away with healing in answer to prayer and favors only healing by medical science; that would mean that He requires us to use a less successful method during this better New Testament time. Back then He healed them all. Now many diseases are incurable.

James says: Is any sick among you? Call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise them up, James 5:14-15.

Jesus said, If you live in me and my words live in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done to you, John 15:7

Twice Jesus promised that If we ask anything in His name, He will do it [of course it has to been according to God's will].

He didn't exclude healing from this promise....it includes healing for all who will ask and believe.

We are to preach the gospel [that He bore our sins] to every creature.

We are to preach the gospel [that He bore our sicknesses] to every creature.

Faith for spiritual healing comes by hearing the gospel: He bore our sins.

Faith for physical healing comes by hearing the gospel: He bore our sicknesses.

Since it is written, "Faith comes by hearing the word of God", then the best way to build faith in our heart that God is willing to heal us, is for us to hear that part of God's word which promises us healing.

God's word is His will. His promises reveal His will.

When we read of what He promises to do, then we know what it is His will to do.

If it's not God's will for all to be healed, then God's promises to heal are not for all.

That would mean that faith doesn't come by hearing the word of God alone, but by getting a special revelation from God that has favor and wills to heal us.

If healing isn't for all, why did Jesus bear our sicknesses, our diseases and our pains?

If God wanted some of His us to suffer, then Jesus relieved us from bearing something that God wanted us to bear. 

No, since Jesus came to do the Father's will and since He has borne them for us, it must be God's will for all to be well.

There are those who believe that while God heals some, it's not His will to heal all.

But Jesus, who came to do the Father's will, did heal them all.

John's gospel is used by some to prove that sickness glorifies God; but God was not glorified until Lazarus was raised up from the dead. The result was that many of the Jews believed on Him, John 11:45.

We can not glorify God in our spirit while we are in sin.

We can not glorify God in our body while we are sick and in pain.

Paul said that we are bought with a price, therefore we are to glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits which are God's, 1 Corinthians 6:20.

If sickness glorifies God, Jesus robbed His Father of all the glory that He possibly could by healing everyone, Luke 4:40 and the Holy Spirit continued doing the same through the Acts of the Apostles.

There is a tradition that we can glorify God more by being patient in our sickness than by being healed.

If sickness glorifies God more than healing, then any attempt to get well by natural or divine means would be an effort to rob God of the glory that we should be giving to Him.

Only one person in the Bible ever asked for healing by saying, "If it be your will" to Jesus.

That was the poor leper to whom Jesus immediately responded, "I will; be clean, Mark 1:40-41.

Jesus never refused those who looked for His healing; He has never changed. He continues to heal today!

If it's not God's will for all to be healed, why would the Bible say, "With his stripes we are healed and by whose stripes you were healed" Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24.

If it's not God's will for all to be healed, how did everyone of the multitudes get healed from Jesus what wasn't God's will for some of them to receive?

Since Jesus came to do the Father's will, the fact that He healed them all is proof that it is God's will that all be healed.

If sickness is the WILL OF GOD, then every doctor, nurse and hospital are against God when trying to help or cure the sick.

The failure of many to be healed today when prayed for is never because it isn't God's will to heal them.

When Jesus healed the demon possessed boy whom the disciples couldn't heal, Mark 9:18, Jesus proved that it is God's will to heal even those who failed to receive healing.

Jesus said it was the unbelief of the disciples that the boy wasn't healed, not God's will not to heal him, Matthew 17:19-20.

One teaching of some preachers is that God wills some of His children to suffer sickness and that, therefore, many who are prayed for are not healed because it isn't God's will to heal them.

Jesus said that certain teachers were making the word of God of no effect through [their own] traditions, Mark 7:13.

For centuries, man made ideas and theories has hindered the healing part of the gospel from being taught and acted upon as it was by the early church.

In connection with the Lord's Supper, the cup is taken in remembrance of Jesus' blood which was shed for the remission of our sins.

The bread is eaten in remembrance of His body on which were laid our diseases and the stripes by which we are healed.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 and Isaiah 53:5

Jesus said that He would continue His same works through believers while He is with the Father.

Verily, verily, I say to you, the person that believes on me, the works that I do you shall do also; and greater works than these shall you do because I go to my Father, John 14:12. This is healing also.

Jesus never commissioned anyone to preach the gospel without including healing for the sick.

He said, whatever city you enter, heal the sick that are there, Luke 10:8-9. That command is still for today!

Healing is given to the whole body of Christ as one of its ministries and gifts, until Jesus returns. 

1 Corinthians 12:9-10 ". . . . . .To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;. . . . . . "

The ministry of healing is given to the elders of the church. Healing and forgiveness go together in the atonement.

James 5:14-15  "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

The ministry of healing was given to all them that believe the gospel, to them that act on the gospel; or those who practice and are doers of the word; Mark 16:18, ". . . .they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

The ministry of healing was given to the seventy, who represent the future workers of the church. 

Everyone that asks believing, receives.

That promise is for all, it includes everyone who is sick.

The right to pray and receive answers is given to all who believe.

John 14:13-14, If you shall ask anything [according to God's will] in my name, I will do it.

This includes asking for healing which is God's will.

Jesus said, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed, John 8:31.

These words apply to us, that is, if we continue in and act on His word.

All authority and power over all devils and diseases was given to every disciple, Matthew 10:1, And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Satan's work is to kill. Jesus' work is to give us life.
Satan is bad, bad things come from him.
God is good, good things come from Him.
Sicknesses and diseases are from satan.
Health and wholeness is from God.

The Bible teaches us that the Spirit's work is to quicken [make alive] our mortal bodies in this life, Romans 8:11,  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

We are promised the life of Jesus in our mortal flesh, 2 Corinthians 4:11, For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Satan is a killer; his diseases are destroyers of life. His sicknesses are thieves of happiness, health, money, time and effort; but Jesus came to give us abundant life in our bodies and spirits.

Jesus said, The thief [satan] comes not but to steal and to kill and to destroy; I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly, John 10:10.

Jesus came to save us, that means to deliver us, preserve us, heal us, to give us life, to make us whole, but never to destroy us.

Jesus said, The Son of man is not come to destroy human lives, but to save them, Luke 9:56.

Sickness, disease and sin destroys so it isn't from God.

Jesus doesn't want the works of the devil to be in our physical bodies.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? 1 Corinthians 6:15.

Jesus always treated sin, diseases and sicknesses the same. They were all hateful in His sight.

He rebuked them all because He was manifested to destroy them.

We are told that The Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3:8, sickness is part of satan's works.

It is written: Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, Acts 10:38, sickness is oppression of satan.

A demon was the cause of a boy being deaf and dumb and also the cause of his convulsions.

When the demon was cast out, the boy was healed, Mark 9:17-27.

A devil which possessed a man was the cause of his being both blind and dumb. 

When the devil was cast out, the man could see and talk, Matthew 12:22.

Jesus declared that the infirm woman was bound by satan and ought to be loosed.

He cast out the spirit of infirmity and she was healed, Luke 13:16.

Sickness is revealed as coming directly from satan, Job 42:10,12.

Jesus fulfilled Isaiah's words: He healed all that were sick, Matthew 8:16-17

The word bore implies substitution [suffering for], not sympathy [suffering with].

If Jesus has borne our sicknesses, why should we bear them?

The healing of our diseases and sicknesses is included in Christ Jesus' work on the cross along with the forgiveness of our sins.

It is never God's will for our spirits to be sick, nor for our bodies to be sick!

God's will is that we be as healthy in our bodies as we are in our spirits.

John in 3 John 2 wishes above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

God promises protection for our bodies as well as for our spirits if we will live in Him [Psalm 91].

The promise of salvation and healing are to all, without exception, whosoever believes in Him.

We are not to look at our symptoms but at the stripes that Jesus bore when He was whipped and beaten for our healings.

We are not to look to a preacher or any other, but to Jesus alone for healing or any other of God's promises.

We do not need to beg or make any deal with God for healing.

There is only one condition: Whosoever believes!

In Christ, we receive both forgiveness for our sins and healing for our bodies.

Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. We need to look for the healing of both in Jesus Christ our Savior.

God is both the Savior and the healer of His people.

It is always His will to save and to heal all those who believe on Him.

God's promises to heal are as much a revelation of His will as His promises to save are His revelation of His will.

The Bible shows the will of God concerning healing of the body just as clearly as it does the will of God concerning salvation. 

He doesn't need to give any special revelation. He has definitely promised healing to all.

If it is God's will for us to be well, then it is only logical that the best way is by divine means.

If its not God's will for us to be well, then it would be wrong to even look to get well through natural means.

Those who don't know God's will for their healing are doing all within their power of human skill to get well with the use of other means, whether it's His will or not.

Many people are wanting and waiting for God to give them a special revelation of His will for their healing.

Some see others healed, but question if healing is God's will for them.

Many believe that God sometimes heals the sick, but they don't know personally of Jesus as our healer.

 They don't know of the facts that prove that physical health is part of salvation.

The promises of healing will be fulfilled in the lives of all who are bold and strong to believe.

People who have been healed should be taught that it is God's plan that "sickness should be taken from the midst", Exodus 23:25 and that God's will is that they should "prosper and be in health, even as [their] soul prospers", 3 John 2.

Satan will tempt every person who has been healed.

Only those who continue in His Word and keeps their faith in it will see the manifestation of the healing.

The majority of people who pray for healing are already healed as far as God is concerned; the problem is keeping from the influences of unbelief, skepticism and physical senses. 

It's important to stay under the Word of God and away from unbelievers.

If temptation comes and we yield to the symptoms, we do the very thing the devil wants us to do.

We can't give way to the enemies accusations or we won't receive our healing.

Whenever we pray or ask for anything [according to God's will] we are to have faith that it has been granted to us and we shall have it.

The minute a person believes for physical healing, it is received as far as God is concerned. 

Mark 11:24  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

They allowed something to disturb their believing, which choked or interrupted the work of the Spirit. It is true of those who believe for healing.

Others, He said, are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection, Luke 8:13-14.

Jesus told of those who hear the gospel and receive the  word with joy and for a while believe and in time of temptation they fall away.

We do not pray healing down from heaven or persuade God to do what was done at Calvary.

We receive healing [or any of God's promises] the same way that we receive salvation.

Faith is believing, confessing and acting on the finished work of Christ according to what is written in the Word of God.

Peter said, By whose stripes you were healed, 1 Peter 2:24.

Both salvation and healing are finished works, completed in redemption.

The are both received by faith and that the work is accomplished by  Jesus Christ.

2015 Happy Resurrection Day!

According to God's Word, we are saved if we truly believe. In the same way, we are healed if we truly believe.

No one accuses a Christian of lying if they take God at His word to believe that their salvation is a fact; but in the matter of healing, they are accused of lying if they take God at His word for their healing before it is manifested.

If the unsaved don't believe or postpones salvation to the future, they will not be saved.

If the sick or hurt don't believe or postpones healing to the future, they will not be healed.

Just like salvation, healing is for whoever believes on Him.

Believing the word is simply acting on what it says.

If we believe, that means we are acting on God's promise and when we add action to our faith that is truly believing.

Faith without works [actions] is dead James 2:20.

We may think we have all the faith in the world; but all the faith in the world, if not followed by matching action, is dead faith.

Reading about faith, only produces a desire for faith.

Reading or hearing God's Word will produce faith.

God's purpose in commanding that the gospel [forgiveness and healing] be preached to every creature is so that every creature may receive its benefits.

What Jesus' sacrifice provided for those living in that day; it does for us in our day.

He tasted death for every person. Hebrews 2:9

When Jesus healed the woman with the issue of blood, it was for her, but what He did as our substitute on the cross was for everyone.

He bore out sicknesses and diseases.

Nothing short of healing them all would fulfill God's promise.

The reason Jesus healed them all is because it was part of His redemptive work for everyone by His death.

Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, Matthew 8:17, it includes everyone.

Acts 10:38  How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

He came to do His Father's will, John 6:38; Hebrews 10:7,9; He preached the gospel and healed all that were sick, Matthew 8:16.

Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Luke 4:40

No person was ever turned down by Jesus for healing.

Multitudes after multitudes came to Him for physical healing and it's recorded that HE HEALED THEM ALL.

Forgiveness and healing must be claimed by faith.
Jesus has to be accepted as healer by faith.
Jesus has to be accepted as Savior by faith.

Sin and sickness needed to be bore only once. Since Jesus Christ has already bore them for us, we don't need to bear them.

If we bear them, then Jesus bore them for nothing.

Jesus, our substitute, bore both sin and sickness for us, so we don't have to.

By believing this part of the Word and acting on it, we are as free from sickness as we are from sin.

Sickness will lose its power over our body just as sin loses its power over our spirit. We will be as free from sickness as we are from sin.

The benefits of healing in the striped body of Jesus are just as clearly taught in the word as are the benefits of salvation in His blood.

That the life of Christ has been made manifest in our mortal flesh; sickness and disease can no longer have power over us. We are healed by our faith.

Who heals all your diseases Psalm 103:3 has usually been overlooked in the Communion Service and because the church has not properly discerned the Lord's body, many are weak and sickly.

At communion, we take the wine and drink it to remember that Jesus shed His blood for our sins.

We take the bread and eat it to remember that His body was broken for our healings.

Sickness is no more for God's glory than sin is.

We should not accept sickness any more than we accept sin, they were done away with by Jesus who was pierced and whipped on our behalf individually.

We learn to discern our deliverance from the power of sin in our lives because of the shed blood of Christ.

We are as free from sickness as we are from sin.

By knowing God's Word, we discover our deliverance from the power of sickness in our lives because of the stripes on Jesus' body.

Jesus' body was striped when He bore our sicknesses, so that we would not have to bear them, but could be  healed of them and be delivered from the power of sickness in our lives.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;

Revelation 22:2

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:9

To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

Acts 10:38

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Matthew 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Luke 9:11

And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Luke 9:6

And they departed, and went through the towns, 

preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

Matthew 4:23

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.

1 Peter 2:24 

Who his own self bare our sins 

in his own body on the tree, 

that we, being dead to sins, 

should live unto righteousness: 

by whose stripes ye were healed.

Romans 10:8

Hebrews 13:8

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In 1 Corinthians the 11th chapter, Paul tells us about the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He speaks of the two emblems, the bread and the wine, as types of Jesus' body being striped for our physical healing and His blood being shed for our spiritual healing.

Jesus returned to the Father's right hand and sat down, all being finished. He had completely delivered mankind both spiritually and physically from satan's bondage.

Jesus our Lamb suffered in two ways: He shed His blood on the cross for our salvation from sin and He bore the stripes on His body for our healing from sicknesses and diseases.

After they had striped Jesus and beat His body, the stripes by which we are healed; then they nailed Him to the cross and pierced His side. His blood ran down on the ground, the blood that was shed for remission of our sins.

Jesus' body was brutally beaten for us.

This wasn't the sacrifice made for our sins, but the bearing of our sicknesses, so that provision could be made for the healing of our bodies.

On Jesus' body were deep Roman lashes, tearing  pieces of flesh off of His back. They were the stripes that Isaiah and Peter said, we were healed.

Only Jesus who was sinless and sickless could put put away and pay the penalty for both. He did it because of His great love for us.

Jesus became our substitute. He became sinful with our sins, 2 Corinthians 5:21 and He became sick with our sicknesses Isaiah 53:5.

Three years of Jesus' life were spent in healing the sick and forgiving the sinful.

The same Jesus who said, arise and take up your bed and go your way into your house, also said, son your sins be forgiven you in Mark 2:5-11.

When Jesus began to preach the gospel of the kingdom, He proved to be the healer of sicknesses as well as the forgiver of sins.

He [Christ] was wounded for our transgression, He was bruised for our iniquities and with His stripes we are healed, Isaiah 53:5. Again we see provision for deliverance from both sin and sicknesses.

Provision has been made for deliverance from BOTH sin and sickness.

David, in Psalm 103:2-3 said,  Bless the Lord, 
O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,

God's plan for us is redemption, restoration and salvation.

We are bought back and restored. It is as though we had never sinned. No more sin! No more sickness! No more separation from God!

Freedom from sickness and made well, strong and healthy has been the plan of God for all His obedient children throughout all the scriptures.

God was not only the deliverer from the destroyer for the Israelites, but also the healer of their diseases; He said, I am the Lord, I change not Malachi 3:6

Matthew 26:28  For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 

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

We need not suffer from either sin or sickness again.

When Jesus Christ became our substitute, bearing our sins and our sicknesses, He did it in order that we might be delivered from them and their power.

Salvation from sin and healing from sickness are God's twin mercies provided to replace the spiritual and physical evils with the abundant and miracle life of Jesus Christ in the believer's spirit and body.

Sin and sickness are satan's twin evils, designed to tear down, to kill, and to destroy the human race, God's creation.

John 10:10  "The thief  [satan] does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I [Jesus] have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

Taking part of the bread in communion by faith we can claim the promised benefit for our healing because Jesus' body was beaten for us by which He borne all of our physical sicknesses, diseases and pains. By His stripes we are healed.

Paul said that the life of Jesus would be made manifested in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 4:11

He said that we, by faith, have become members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. Ephesian 5:30

We partake of that same body, in type, each time we take of bread of the communion service. 1 Corinthians 10:16

There was a church in the New Testament at Corinth that was small in number. There were many weak and sickly members.

There was a larger church in the Old Testament of about 3 million in number, which lived under much more trying circumstances but there was not one feeble person among their tribes. It was the children of Israel.

Two groups of people, one under law the covenant of the blood of animals and one under the blood covenant of the Son of God. Those under the blood of animals faired better than the ones under the blood of Christ. 

God isn't purifying or glorifying His church through afflictions. He isn't testing His children's faith.

Sicknesses are due to the failure of being taught about the body of Christ as we have been taught about the blood of Christ. Christians are suffering from sicknesses and diseases that Jesus, as our substitute, has already borne for us, Matthew 8:17 . . .that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”

Paul told the church at Corinth that "many were weak and sickly among them because they were not discerning the Lord's body"
1 Corinthians 11:29-30.

That answers the question of so much sickness in the churches today.

God's attitude towards sickness is He places no premium on it.

He doesn't want any of us to suffer sickness for His glory. Sickness doesn't glorify the Father any more than sin glorifies Him

People have always used methods, but God uses people.

He chooses ordinary people. 
Esther 4:14 ". . . and who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Luke 1:37 
"For with God nothing shall be impossible."

Matthew 17:20 
". . . . and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

Happy New Year 2015