Healing in Jesus Name

1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

Recently I have been studying the topic of healing  which has brought quite a bit of clarity on the subject for me.

Many years ago I requested prayer for healing.  The people praying for me made me feel guilty for having surgery scheduled, and that I should trust God for my healing and not go through with the operation.   I did anyway.

Needless to say, this incorrect type of prayer brought guilt and the lie that God did not want to heal me.  This lie stayed with me for many years.

Throughout the years, I had asked the Lord for other types of healings,  but in the back of my mind I always heard that it wasn’t for me.  God can heal other people, but not me.    I understand now that this mindset actually hindered the Lord in working on my behalf.

I now understand  that the prayer I received many years ago was incorrect.  They were not praying for me, but making me feel guilty.  God does not operate in guilt, but in faith, hope and love.

My misunderstanding about healing was caused by many factors and not just one.  I had lack of teaching, I did not understand the scriptures correctly, I believed the lie that  it wasn’t for me and many more. 

With healing, God is not the problem. His word is true and will never return void.  Since then I have come to understand several truths about healing.   Healing is for today and it is for every believer that calls on the name of Jesus.

Jesus heals all and in various ways.  We may have  a delayed healing or an instantaneous healing.  Healing may come through the hands of a doctor, through surgery and medication.  The word says that every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of lights. 

God is the originator of everything, and He is the one that originated the science of medicine.

It is important to have the mind of Christ  and speak that over ourselves.  I also came to understand how God views sickness.   Here is what I discovered:

• Bondage-  Luke 13:16  
  So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath
• Enemy 1 Cor 15:26
  The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
• Evil Psalm 41:8
  “An evil disease,” they say,clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.”
• Oppression Acts 10:38
  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.

I am sure there are many more.   

Jesus meets us where we are. If we need surgery, then have the surgery.   Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of lights.  Hospitals, doctors and aspirin fall into that category.   

The scriptures tells us there are different ways people received their healing. There is no set pattern with God.  We are not to limit God on how He will  heal, but He always does.

I have come to realize that  when I pray for healing, sickness has been destroyed because of the cross and God is glorified.  Appropriate that truth and declare it when praying for others and respond in faith and love.  The word says in John 10:10  I have come to give you life and life abundantly.

Let’s walk in abundance of life, because death has been defeated.