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Acts 10:38 (NKJV)
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
Since disease is a part of the curse, its true remedy must be the cross.
2 Chronicles 30:20 (NKJV)
20 And the LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
2 Corinthians 4:11-13 (NKJV)
11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
Luke 4:18-19 (NKJV)
18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
Leviticus 25:9 (NKJV)
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
God’s seven redemptive names, one of which is Jehovah Rapha, “I am the Lord that healeth thee,”
The two outstanding possessions to be restored during the Gospel era are health for soul and body. Forgiveness and healing were offered universally wherever Christ preached “the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Paul tells us that it is “in Him” that all the promises of God are yea and amen.
This is another way of saying that all the promises of God, including His promise to heal, owe their existence and power exclusively to the redeeming work of Christ.
The Seven Redemptive Names of Jehovah
The power of God can be claimed only where the will of God is known.
Faith begins 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.
We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scriptures, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God’s will to heal all who have need of healing so that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise.
I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. . . . The number of thy days I will fulfil. Exodus 23:25, 26 The days of our years are threescore years and ten. Psalm 90:10 Take me not away in the midst of my days. Psalm 102:24 Why shouldest thou die before thy time? Ecclesiastes 7:17 Then someone may ask, Well, how is a man going to die? Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Psalm 104:29
And when we die before our time, The fault is man’s. He is a God of life, not death; He is one God that gives us birth; He has not shortened by a breath
A man never writes a new will after he is dead.
testator. Jesus is not only the testator, who died; He was resurrected and is also the Mediator of the will. He is our lawyer, so to speak.
For the answer to the question under consideration, let us look away from modern tradition and go to the Word of God, which is a revelation of His will. The fifteenth chapter of Exodus typifies our redemption, and “was written for our admonition.” Just after the passage of the Red Sea, God gave His first promise to heal. This promise was for all. God named the conditions, the conditions were met, and we read: “He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among all their tribes.” It is here that God gave the covenant of healing, revealed by and sealed
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To say that this privilege of health is not for God’s people today is to change God’s “I AM” to “I Was” Jehovah-Rapha. Who has the authority to change God’s redemptive names? Instead of abandoning His office as Healer, He is “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever,” under this first of seven covenant names.
This fifteenth chapter of Exodus shows us that at least in that age of the world, 3,500 years ago, God did not leave the people in doubt concerning His willingness to heal all.
“It shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it [the brazen serpent, the type of Calvary], shall live” (21:8). Again, the Scriptures show us that it was still God’s will to heal, not some, but all.
“Who healeth all” is as permanent as “Who forgiveth all,” for the identical language is used with reference to both mercies.
life. If dwelling in the secret place was possible in a darker age of the world, surely it is possible in this better age of grace.
What Jesus did for individuals who came to Him for blessings was for them, but what He did on Calvary was for all.
“Why would God withdraw this Old Testament mercy from this better dispensation?” Is it not to be expected that He, who “hath reserved better things for us” and who is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever” should continue these same mercies throughout this better dispensation?
The seven blessings of His covenant, His “Presence” as “Provider,” “Peace,” “Victory,” “Shepherd,” “Righteousness” and “Physician,” are secure because of the tragedy of His cross.
Faith begins where the will of God is known.
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH means “the Lord is present,” “made nigh by the blood of Christ.” JEHOVAH-SHALOM is translated “the Lord is our Peace.” This is in the Atonement because “the chastisement of our peace was upon him.” JEHOVAH-RA-AH is translated “the Lord is my Shepherd.” He became our Shepherd by giving His life for the sheep. This privilege is in the Atonement. JEHOVAH-JIREH means “the Lord will provide” an offering. Christ Himself was the offering provided on Calvary. He became JEHOVAH-NISSi, “The Lord our Banner” or Victor, by spoiling principalities and powers on the cross. He bore our sins,
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Abraham’s faith waxed strong while he looked to the promise of God. Some people reverse this. Their faith waxes weak while they look at their symptoms and forget the promises.
God’s Word is the only solid basis for our faith. God healed by sending His Word.
We will miss healing if we allow our symptoms to hinder us from expecting ...
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“Our first consideration, in all things, even in asking for the restoration of bodily health, should be the glory of God” (Rev. P. Gavin Duffy).
The curse, including the different diseases catalogued in Deuteronomy 28, came on the people because their obedience and their service was not “with gladness and joyfulness of heart.”
Therefore, like the leper, let us come and worship Him when asking for healing.
If everyone were to be made perfectly whole instantly, there would be no place for the gifts of healing. It would be all miracles.
Make Satan Listen to Your Praises Instead of your listening to the “father of lies,” make him listen to your praising God for His promise! “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.” The sick man has breath. In other words, while you are still sick, praise Him because you are going to recover according to His promise. “Let not your heart be troubled.” “Be careful [distracted] for nothing; but . . . with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” Every sick Christian, while sick, has a thousand times more to be happy
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Let us put our sickness away by faith, as we would put away sin. The consecrated Christian will not consciously tolerate sin for a moment, and yet how tolerant some are toward sickness. They will even pet and indulge their aches and pains instead of resisting them as the words of the devil.
Faith does not wait for the walls to fall down; faith shouts them down!
Faith has to do only with the Word of God.
Your state of mind should be the same as Noah’s when he was building a ship on dry land and putting pitch into the cracks to keep the water out. In his mind, the fact of a coming flood was fully settled, and the Word of God was the sole reason for this state of mind.
To faith, the Word of God is the voice of God. He has not promised us that our healing shall begin until after we believe that He has heard our prayer.
“We know we have the petition we desire of Him,” not because we see the answer, but because “God is faithful who also will do it.”
There is no reason for faith as good as the Word of God.
He did not say that He sent better feelings to produce faith and then healed them. “He sent his word, and healed them.”
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.
that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”
