Q: Is healing available to all believers?

A: Yes of course, but religion has told us for years that its God's will to heal some and not others. This is a lie that has crippled the church. The bible is full of verses that that show us clearly that God wants us well. Let's read just a few:

Isaiah 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

And Matthew 8: 16-17 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils; and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick; That it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

He was not only made sin and separated from His Father, until His broken heart cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" but the diseases of the human race fell upon Him.

He not only laid our sin on Him, but he laid us on Him. The whole man was involved in this sacrifice - His spirit, His soul and His body.

In the Greek language it literally means deliverance, safety, preservation, material and temporal deliverance from danger and apprehension, pardon, restoration, healing, wholeness, and soundness. If I were to use just one word, I would say salvation is soundness in every area of your life. It includes healing for your body, peace for your mind, righteousness for your spirit, physical and spiritual protection, prosperity and financial blessing. It includes being set free from all evil and being made completely whole through faith in Jesus Christ.

Our salvation is a complete salvation, for our spirit (the part of us that gets born again), our soul (which include our mind, our will, our emotions and our intellect) and our body (the house that our spirit and soul live in)

The Word of God plainly states in I 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.

Also in Psalms 103: 1-3 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Even when Jesus was teaching the disciples to pray in Matthew 6: 9 - 10 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Just ask yourself this question "Is there any sickness in heaven? Is there any pain or diseases in heaven?" No of course there's not sickness, pain or disease in heaven. If our heavenly Father wants His will to be done here on earth, then would you not say that he wants us to have health in our bodies and our children to be well?

Many have forgotten God's benefit of healing for their bodies. If you had been taught that it is God's will to heal you in the same way that you have been taught it is God's will for you to be saved, you would have a different attitude toward sickness. Jesus bore your sicknesses and carried your diseases at the same time and in the same manner that He bore your sins. You are just as free from sickness and disease as you are from sin. You should be as quick to refuse sickness and disease in your body as you are to refuse sin.

Faith should be as highly developed in the Church concerning healing as it is for the new birth of the spirit. If the Church had been told what the Word says about healing, Christians would be quick to believe that they are healed as they are to believe that they are saved. However, other things have been sown in our hearts. Seeds of doubt and unbelief have been sown by the traditions of men, by men who try to teach the Word with head knowledge instead of by His Spirit.

Have you ever found a person in the New Testament who Jesus told, "Well I'm sorry but it's not my will to heal you or not today maybe next month?" No! No!

Search the scriptures from Matthew to Revelations and you will not find one place where Jesus ever told anyone it's not my will to heal you. You will not find one place where Jesus ever told anyone that the disease they had was too bad or that there was nothing He could do for them.

In Matthew 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Notice Jesus wanted to do the works but couldn't because of their unbelief.

It is God's will for you to be healed, but your faith cannot operate beyond your knowledge of God's Word. The Word says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

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