God and Healing

 A clear revelation of this truth will bring faith and consequent release of healing power.

• First of all God revealed Himself as a great healer, Jehovah Rapha (Exo.15:26). This reveals that it is the very nature and character of God to heal. In Malachi 3:6a God reveals himself as "I am the Lord, I change not...." Therefore, it is still His nature and desire to heal. If a man wants to know how God will act today, then he must observe how He acted in the Bible. This will tell us how He will act today, for He has never changed.





• Secondly we find that the God healed through his prophets during the time of the law. A classic example of healing is that of Naaman the captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, But though he was a mighty man in valour, yet he was a leper(2 Kings 5:1)
  God healed Naaman through Elisha his prophet,





• Thirdly the Ministry of Jesus was a Healing Ministry.
  
  When we analyse the ministry of Jesus in Matthew 4:23 we find that one third of the ministry of Jesus was devoted to healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
  
  He healed all who applied to Him for healing. He never turned one away. He healed all that He touched for that purpose, and all were healed who touched Him in faith for that purpose. Never do we hear Christ say, "Be made sick." Neither do we hear that He cast devils in, or caused people to go blind and insane. That is because He came to bring us all abundant life, not a diseased, shortened life. Once a leper came to Jesus with the wrong theological concept; He said, "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." He said, in other words, "I know you are able, but I am not sure you are willing." Jesus answered, settling this question once and for all: "I will; be thou clean." Of course, the leper was cleansed and went away with a corrected theology. Many of us need to correct our thinking and believing along these lines and get into the realm of certainty. We must take God at His Word and not doubt, on the basis of human failure, to receive. We can be the most spiritual acting person in the world, and still not use our faith to believe God's promise to heal. We must not say God is not willing. Nonsense! He will not break His Word to those who act and live by it. If Jesus Christ was willing, then God the Father is willing, because Christ only did the things His Father did.





• Fourthly God settled the healing and sickness problem once and for all on the cross
  
  God wills and desires healing for all, because Christ died on the cross for all. The Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Isaiah further says, " ... with His stripes we are healed." Healing is included in redemption! This redemption is provided freely to all who will believe. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.Peter, in his New Testament writing, puts this whole matter in the past tense, declaring an accomplished fact (1 Peter 2:24).





• Fifthly Jesus' Commanded his disciples to heal
  
  During his earthly ministry the command He gave to His disciples was Heal the sick.
  Observe his command to his disciples in Matthew 10:8
  “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give”.
  
  Luke 10:9
  “And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you”.
  They were sent to heal the sick
  Luke 9:2
  “ And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick”.
  
  This command of Jesus to his disciples very clearly describes God’s view on Divine healing.
  
  Before leaving this earth Jesus said that those who believed in him will continue to do the Healing Ministry
  ( Mark 16:18 )
  
  To further substantiate this truth, we have the Book of Acts to refer to as the pattern for the Church. It is a book filled with miracles, healings, and great spiritual movement through the lives of the disciples and apostles of the Lord.
  
  Today there are some people who have tried to say that the day of miracles ended with the apostles. The record throughout the history of the Church up through our present day proves that this is absolutely not true.
  
  God has been faithful in raising up men and women in each generation to bring the message of salvation to the world. Christ had in mind nothing less than a miracle healing ministry when He said, “... as the Father hath sent me, so send I you."