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It is only by knowing that God promises what you are seeking that all uncertainty can be removed and a steadfast faith is made possible.
After being sufficiently enlightened, our attitude toward sickness should be the same as our attitude toward sin. Our purpose to have our body healed should be as definite as our purpose to have our soul healed.
He who trusts Christ has no need to be ashamed of his confidence. Time and eternity will both justify his reliance on God.
The Scriptures declare, in Romans 5:12, that “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.” Here it is plainly stated that death entered the world by sin. Therefore, it is clear that disease, which is incipient death, entered into the world by sin. Since disease entered by sin, its true remedy must be found in the redemption of Christ.
Since disease is a part of the curse, its true remedy must be the cross. Who can remove the curse but God, and how can God justly do it except by substitution?
Bodily healing by direct divine agency becomes a boon for every believer in any period of Gospel history.
Jesus went to the cross, spirit, soul and body, to redeem man, spirit, soul and body. Therefore, the cross is the center of the plan of salvation for man, spirit, soul and body.
The power of God can be claimed only where the will of God is known.
Faith must rest on the will of God alone, not on our desires or wishes. Appropriating faith is not believing that God can but that God will.
Since “the Body is for the Lord,” a “living sacrifice unto God,” would He not rather have a well body than one that is a wreck? If not, how can He make us “perfect in every good work to do His will”?
His present attitude is revealed in the very meaning of the word salvation. The word soteria, which is the Greek word for salvation, implies deliverance, preservation, healing, health and soundness. In the New Testament it is applied sometimes to the soul and at other times to the body only. The Greek word sozo translated “saved” also means “healed,” “made sound,” “made whole.”
God’s greatest attribute is love—this is connected to His Fatherhood. The most conspicuous statements in the Scriptures about our heavenly Father are the declarations concerning His love, His mercy, His compassion.
It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.
In no place does the Bible say that “God is power,” but it does say that “God is love.” It is not faith in God’s power that secures His blessings, but faith in His love and in His will.
The first step toward being healed is the same as the first step toward salvation, or any other blessing that God promises. The sick person needs to know what the Bible clearly teaches and that it is God’s will to heal until one has lived out the allotted span of life (seventy years, Psalm 90:10). Each individual sufferer must be convinced by the Word of God that his or her healing is the will of God. It is impossible to have real faith for healing as long as there is the slightest doubt as to it being God’s will.
Faith begins where the will of God is known. Faith must rest on the will of God alone, not on our desires or wishes.
Jesus has promised to destroy the works of the devil in our bodies. He cannot legally do that while we are clinging to the work of the devil in our souls. It is hard to exercise faith for the removal of one part of the devil’s work while we allow a worse part to remain.
Do not ask for a little blessing while rejecting a big one.
“The sure way for the sick is, first to the cross for cleansing, then to the upper room for the gift of the Spirit, then to the mount appointed for a life commission, and, lastly, to the Great Physician for strength for service” (Bryant).
If you need a miracle, get in tune with the Miracle-Worker. We enjoy the Life of the Vine by our perfect union with the Vine. Asking for healing while refusing to be led by the Spirit is like asking a carpenter to repair the house while refusing to let him into the house.
Faith is governed by the pure Word of God, and is nothing less than expecting God to do what He promises. It is treating Him like an honest being.
Faith is being so convinced of the absolute truth of the declarations of God, which are recorded in the Bible, that we act on them.
When you pray for healing, Christ authorizes you to consider your prayer answered.
Acting on our faith by praising and thanking God in advance has been, throughout history, His appointed way for our appropriation of all His blessings. Hebrews 13:15 teaches us that our thank offering, our “sacrifice of praise,” is to be offered in advance for the blessing God has promised. It is only then that we can expect an answer.
Whenever we are affected by any voice more than the voice of God, we have forsaken the Lord’s way for our healing.
To learn how to believe that God hears us when we pray is a much greater blessing than is the healing itself. Then the prayer of faith can be repeated ten thousand times, for ourselves and others. In this way our whole life can be spent in obtaining the fulfillment of divine promises.
One reason some people are not healed is because they believe what their five senses tell them in the place of believing the Word of God. We should realize that the five senses belong to the natural man and that they were given to us to be used for the things of this world. But the things of God cannot be discerned, appropriated and known by the natural senses.
When we steadfastly believe and act our faith in God’s Word, nothing can keep the power in the Word from making all things to become exactly as the Word says. All we have to do is firmly believe what the Word says.
As God’s grace is stronger than sin, so Christ’s healing virtue is much more powerful than the strength of any disease. And the evidence God gives us for faith (His own Word), when it occupies the mind, is much stronger than any evidence Satan can give us to make us doubt.
Hope is expecting a blessing some time in the future. Faith is taking now what God offers.
You do not doubt the existence of what you see because you can’t smell or taste or hear it. Then why doubt the existence of what you have taken by faith (the sixth sense) because you can’t yet see or feel it?
Confession is an affirmation of a Bible truth we have embraced. Confession is simply believing with our hearts and repeating with our lips God’s own declaration of what we are in Christ.
We are to confess that Calvary was our “emancipation proclamation,” freeing us from everything outside the will of God, and act accordingly.
We are to refuse to have anything to do with wrong confessions. When we realize that we will never rise above our confession, we are getting to the place where God can use us.
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being. Make your lips do their duty. Refuse to allow them to destroy the effectiveness of God’s Word in your case.
By filling us with more and more of His Life, God wants to manifest Himself in us in the form of every spiritual blessing He has promised. This is the miracle and the genius of Christianity. Romans 5:10 tells us, that we are “saved by his life.” This is true for both soul and body.
Jesus is the true source of Life for both the souls and bodies of God’s children. His work of quickening or increasing the divine life in our spirit, soul and body is hindered or limited when we are anything less than full of the Spirit.
Every Christian today is commanded to be filled with the Spirit, to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit and to prevail in prayer for the healing of the sick.
The full exercise of faith means that we think faith, speak faith, act faith.
God has never promised to take away external buffetings, afflictions and temptations from Christians. He gives us grace to bear them. But throughout history He has ever been ready to take away the internal, or bodily, oppressions of the devil, as well as our sins.
