God has given us the promise of healing in His Word, including other promises of health and wholeness. We as believers need to continuously walk in this promise. He sent Jesus to die on the cross to redeem us from sin and sickness. Galatians 3:13 says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us….” The curse includes every sickness and every disease (Deuteronomy 28:15-68). Jesus’ sacrifice paid for us to be redeemed from them all.
As far as God is concerned, that settles the issue of healing. It’s all done. There’s nothing left for Him to do. Healing belongs to us in Christ Jesus, and yet it’s not automatic. It’s up to us to receive it.
Prophet Isaiah wrote one of the most foundational passages about the coming Messiah in Isaiah 53:5. It says, “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 are healed”.
In this verse, the prophet Isaiah makes four incredible statements concerning the suffering that Jesus would go through on our behalf:
- He would be wounded for our transgressions,
- He would be bruised for our iniquities,
- He would be punished for our peace
- His stripes will bring about our healing
Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection give us the assurance that we can have healing from every sickness, and we can live in vibrant health.
The Bible says in 3rd John 2, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”.
This means, to the extent in which we prosper in our Saul is to the extent in which we prosper in other areas including our health.
The 7 keys to receiving faith for divine healing
1. Believe you receive when you pray
Mark 11:24
“Therefore, I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”
Faith believes it receives what is needed when it prays. That’s exactly what we must do when we pray for healing.
The fact is, you really haven’t prayed in faith if you pray about something, but don’t receive it by faith. If you get up from prayer saying, “I don’t have it. I’m still sick, I still feel bad,” then you didn’t receive uand you certainly don’t have it. You simply cannot look at the circumstances to determine whether or not you are healed.
2 Corinthians 4:18 explains that you must “look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” See yourself taking your healing when you pray. See yourself in perfect health. Receive it-by faith-and hold on to it. When you receive it, you have it. And if you have it, you say you have it. You call “things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).
To get to that point, you must read / study the healing scriptures aloud and receive (take) each promise. Look at the scriptures with your eyes, and hear them with your ears as you speak them out your mouth. Rest assured they will get down into your heart and you’ll be able to release your faith. You’ll say, “Thank You, Lord, I believe I’m healed and I receive it in Jesus Name!”
2. Be Persistent in your faith
Proverbs 4:20-22 says: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word translated health there means “medicine.” Healing scriptures are God’s medicine for your body. So, take that medicine daily, be persistent in declaring your healing based on God’s promise.
The fact is, as a child of the living God you are more than a conqueror in Christ (Romans 8:37)! So, if you’re believing for divine healing, you can kick the devil out of your life with the Word of God! If it takes time to obtain a complete healing, don’t give up; be determined to persevere until you win! And, don’t fall prey to self-pity or seek sympathy from others. That is not what you need. Faith is what you need.
3. Remain steadfast till the manifestation!
1 Peter 5:9-11 (KJV)
“Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
God told Joshua in Joshua 1:8, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success”.
Faith for healing comes as we meditate on what God’s Word says about healing. When we read healing scriptures, we are building up our faith to obtain healing.
A bodybuilder lifts weights consistently to build up his muscles. He becomes stronger day by day as he works out. We build up our faith in the same way. We exercise the healing scriptures over and over again until we become strong enough in faith to take our healing out of the realm of the spirit into the natural realm. Hebrews 11:1 says it this way: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Jesus told several people who received healing that it was their faith that made them whole. (See Matthew 9:22; Mark 10:52 and Luke 17:19.) And, faith will work for you the same way it worked for those mentioned in the Bible.
God is present where faith is present. Faith causes the supernatural healing power of God to come on the scene and override natural diseases and circumstances.
4. Stay full of the Word of God!
John 15:7 says, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. [8] Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. [9] As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love”.
Ladies and gentlemen, faith for healing won’t come by reading secular magazines or comic books. To build your faith, you must read the Bible and believe it is God speaking to you. Romans 10:17 explains, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Find scriptures that apply to your situation and take hold of those promises and apply them to your life. That’s the truth that changed my life-knowing that the Bible is God’s Word to me, and I can take it and do something with it (John 17:17).
The Bible tells us what God says about things. Men of old, anointed of the Holy Spirit, wrote down what came out of the heart of God. In regard to healing, they wrote things like “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
The born-again spirit is feeds on the Word of God to grow and remain strong in faith just like the natural man needs natural food to survive. His words get into us when we consistently study them to feed our spirit man.
So, if you need to live in divine healing, feed on healing scriptures daily. Your faith increases according to how much time you spend in God’s Word. When the Word of God gets down into your heart and overflows out your mouth in faith then divine healing is eminent.
5. Release your faith through declaration / speaking God’s Word
Jesus said in Matthew 12:34, “For out of the fullness (the overflow, the super-abundance) of the heart the mouth speaks” (The Amplified Bible). What you continually say with your mouth is what you are enjoying or struggling with in your life today. Your words either open or shut the door to the power of God working in your situation. They also open or shut the door on the devil. So if you catch yourself saying things you don’t desire in your life, repent and change your words. Speak only what you want to come to pass.
Every word you say is important. To have faith for divine healing operating in your life, you must have confidence not only in God’s Word, but in your words. Mark 11:23 says, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
Faith comes by hearing, and it is released by saying. Faith is released by your words.
Faith is believing what God says in His Word regardless of what any person, circumstance or the devil may say. And faith speaks what the Word says. When you take the Word into your heart and it comes out through your voice, it becomes God’s Word applied to the problem. If you keep your words in agreement with God’s Word, they will change your natural circumstances. Or, as Jesus said, “The truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
But if you read the Word with traditional eyes, not believing the promises are for you, you disqualify yourself from receiving those promises. It takes faith-believing in God and His Word-for the Word to transform your situation.
Receive the Word as truth. Then say, “That’s God speaking to me. I can have it. I receive it now in Jesus Name!” That’s faith.
6. Put action to your faith!
After you have received God’s Word for healing by faith, begin to do what you couldn’t do before. James 1:22 says we must be doers of the Word, not hearers only.
The children of Israel in the wilderness are a good example of what happens to hearers who are not doers. Through Moses, God told this nation of people He had given them the land. At one point, Moses basically told them the Lord said they had been going around the same mountain long enough (Deuteronomy 1:6). Have you ever felt like that? Perhaps even now you are going around that mountain of unbelief and getting nowhere…
What God said to the children of Israel applies to you as well. He said: “Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers…to give unto them and to their seed after them” (verse 8).
You see, God had promised them the land. But possessing it wasn’t automatic. He was telling them to go armed and take it. That was the only way they were going to get it.
If you need healing, that’s how you must possess it too! You must take it!
7. Start thanking God daily for healing
Unfortunately, most people forget this part. They only remember God when things are bad. When everything is going well, they don’t thank Him, pray or read His Word.
Philippians 4:6-7 (KJV)
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”
Take your divine healing today! Take it with your faith, and with your words. Believe you receive it and don’t waver.
NOW BEGIN PRAISING AND THANKING GOD FOR HIS AWESOME PROMISE OF HEALING (PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7)