06 Aug Receive Your Healing: Faith to Receive
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF FAITH
Faith is an inward conviction about God and His Word and His willingness to demonstrate His power on our behalf. Faith is the spiritual substance poured into our hearts when we believe God’s Word. It comes by hearing, affects our convictions and fills us with assurance. Faith in our hearts influences our words, actions and expectations. When faith is present, the power flows, when faith is reduced, the power is reduced. God is faithful. Let us trust Him to perform His Word in our lives. And if any ‘climate’ prevails, let us get into prayer and fasting as we exercise our faith in God’s ability to demonstrate His power on our behalf.
HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR HEALING
First, you must believe that Jesus bore your sicknesses and diseases on the cross of Calvary. So by His stripes you are healed! Meditate on the scriptures as you mutter the Word of God to yourself. Let His Word on healing abide in you. (See John 15:7and Psalm 107:20).
Acts 10:38 “How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him.”
He is still the same today. His anointing is on His Word and on His people who believe in Him.
Mark 16:17-18 “And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.”
The laying on of hands is one way to receive healing from God. The provision is guaranteed, Jesus paid the price but we need to do the receiving.
1 Peter 2:24 “He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.”
Isaiah 53:3-5 “He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.”
We can pray based on the Word and expect to receive answers to our prayers. In fact, we can say to the mountain, ‘be removed and cast into the sea’ and it will obey.
Mark 11:23-26 “Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings.”
A simple prayer of faith can get the job done as we believe according to scriptures. Finally in James 5:14-15 we learn about the prayer of faith as well as the anointing oil.
James 5:14-16 “Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name. And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].”
Healing is yours for the taking. Receive your healing in Jesus’s name. Let us pray: “Father I thank you for the provision of healing for everyone who believes. I pray for every reader who needs healing, right now. I bind the powers of darkness and every spirit of infirmity. I break their hold and ask for the power of God to be released into the bodies of those who are sick. I speak to every sick body, “Be healed now, in Jesus’s name. Receive your healing now in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.”
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