Sunday Morning Thoughts...Healing

The road to Jericho, Holy Land tour, March, 2006

We may not want to admit it, but we are in the midst of an onslaught from hell called sickness and disease, and Satan has attempted to rob us of the healing God has given us.

While the modern church dabbles in experimental theology and looks for new answers to old questions, there are suffering, bleeding, dying people in the world all around us. Where are the miracles we read about in the scripture?

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. Matthew 9:35

People read of God's provision for healing of the human body, but as they see the overwhelming amount of sickness and disease and observe an apparent absence of healing manifestations, their logic reasons that since they do not see divine healing, it must not be for us today.

God does not change. He was the healer in the Old and New Testaments and is still the healer today. When Jesus encountered the man sick with palsy, He told him that his sins were forgiven and announced, "Arise, take up thine bed, and go unto thine house" Matthew 6:9.

Is healing for us today? Will all Christians be healed? Here is what Christ declared:

"Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:12

We know that God has the power to heal, but we question if it is His will to heal us. The leper came to Jesus and said, "If thou wilt, thoust canst make me clean." Mark 1:40 In verse 41, Jesus was moved with compassion and replied, "I will: be thou clean."

Over and over when Christ healed those who were sick, He said, "Be it done according to your faith." Faith begins where the will of God is known. It is God's will to heal us.

Our Heavenly Father has one objective concerning our healing, and that is His will to heal us. Healing is not a promise, it is a fact.

"But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with his stripes we were healed." Isaiah 53:5

The same blood that washed away our sins took the sickness and pain out of our body. Jesus bore every disease---from the common cold to cancer. Whether the modern church likes it or not, the truth is this: Jesus paid an unimaginably high price for our healing, and according to the Word, it is our decision---our faith---which will open the floodgates and allow His healing waters to flow.

He is willing.