One of the things I have been learning a lot about the past couple months is healing. I just realized the other day that I keep soaking up all these new revelations and I haven’t mentioned anything about it in my blogs. God is teaching me so much these days and I come to learn more and more every day how much I have put God in a box in my life and how so many American Christians do the same. I do want to let you guys know that I am doing so much better from the beginning of the month so praise the Lord for that 🙂
In Matthew 10:8 Jesus said, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you recieved, freely give.” It says so much in this verse and I think most people just read it over not giving a second thought. “Freely you recieved” implies that we have all that we need to do all the things in the first part of the verse and “freely give” implies that we are commanded to do those things. Colossions 2:6 says, “Therefore as you have recieved Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.” I think thats the hard part. Knowing, believing and acting in who you are can be a daunting task and I am still struggling to confidently walk in who God says I am.
The first part of Matthew 10:8 says, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and cast out demons.” So I am guessing that what we are supposed to do. God says lay hands on the sick and they will be healed. We have been learning a lot from Bill Johnson out of Bethel and Curry Blake from the John G. Lake healing ministry and they make it so simple just by realizing that the model we have for this is Jesus. Jesus never had to pray to ask the Father for help for healing, He never asked the afflicted people about their relationship with God or if they had sin in their life they needed to deal with, He just healed them. Basically, it does not matter how much faith the sick person has. The amount of sin in their life or the size of their sickness does not play a factor in our being able to heal people through the power of God. So my responisbility is to cast the sickness out in the name of Jesus and declare healing and life in a person’s body through Jesus and my belief will be enough to cover them.
Jesus taught us to pray that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. According to that prayer, we are supposed to bring the will of heaven to earth. There is no sickness in heaven and God is holy and always good, so it is never ever His will for us to be sick. So not only can He heal but He wants to heal, and way more than we want it because He loves us so much. I can only speak for myself, but I think most would agree that it is hard to step out and operate in the authority that I have because for so long I have relied solely on doctors and medicine. I never thought to go to God first because I subconsciously believed that most sickness was too big for God or that He doesn’t heal anymore. But God is still moving and wants to move. We just have to know who we are and know who He is. He is the great Healer and He is always, always good. If we know those things, nothing can touch us…it can try, but we are on the winning team and we are fully equipped to combat anything the devil throws at us.
I have heard and seen many, many testimonies to back up the healing power of Jesus. But most recently for me, I was almost 100% certain that I had contracted a parasite and for an entire day I had a throbbing headache, my whole stomach was in pain and I had on and off fever. Parasites are usually things that like to stick around for awhile so I was kind of preparing myself to have to deal with it (which is totally the wrong mentality) but my teammates prayed over me at night and I was perfectly well the next morning. So praise the Lord for that 🙂 He does still heal, He does still raise people from the dead and He still casts out demons. He wants to use us to do those things, so if we aren’t doing them, then who is? Its such a cool responsiblity and opportunity that we have to help in setting people free, we just have to walk in it 🙂
So thats the condensed version of my learnings on healing 🙂
