HEALTH IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT
And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24.
You were healed before you ever became born again. The moment you were born again, you ceased to need healing. Health is our Birthright.
Scripturally, we don’t require healing. Peter said, “By his wounds, you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24. He didn’t say, “You are going to be healed.” After you were healed, you came out of death. We’re those who have come out of death.
In the book of Matthew, chapter 15, the Bible says a woman of Canaan had a need. The devil grievously oppressed her daughter, and she went to the Son of God for help. She cried after the Lord, but the Master answered not a word. So she kept following Jesus and His disciples, crying, “Master! Have mercy on me; my daughter needs healing” Matthew 15:22 to 23.
Finally, after a while, the disciples turned to the Lord, saying, “Send this woman away; she is disturbing us.” But He answered and said, “I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” Verse 24 of Matthew 15.
But this woman would not give up. She followed them and came and worshipped Jesus, saying, “Lord help me.”
But He only answered and said, “It is not proper to take the children’s bread and give to dogs” verse 26 of Matthew 15.
What was the children’s bread? The very same thing this woman was after- healing.
WHO ARE THE CHILDREN?
Luke 13:10 to 17. On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then He put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” All His opponents were humiliated when He said this, but the people were delighted with his outstanding work.
Take a second look at verse 16 of Luke 13. Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”
Though unaware of it, this woman had a right to healing. She was the daughter of Abraham. Healing is the bread of Abraham’s children. As a child of Abraham, she wasn’t supposed to fall sick. Healing was part of her inheritance. God had told them, “I will take sickness away from the midst of you” Exodus 23:25, “I will put none of the evil diseases that came on the Egyptians on you (Deuteronomy 7:15), and even if the devil tries to bind you up with sickness, I am Jehovah-Rapha-your Healer (Exodus 15:26), I will remove it from you.” But this was for people who were the physical descendants of Abraham.
WHAT ABOUT US?
Galatians 3:7,29. Understand, then, that those who have Faith are children of Abraham. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
We are the children of Abraham also and heir of the promise.” Both the physical and spiritual benefits of Abraham’s blessing belong to us. Healing is for us. It is part of our inheritance. God doesn’t want us afflicted by Satan, nor does He want any of the diseases of the Egyptians on us.
We would have more if this woman’s only claim to healing was her dependency on Abraham.
Jesus died for our sins and sicknesses on the cross so we don’t have to be sick again. Then He gave us His life (Romans 6:23) and made us partakers of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), thus making us more than ordinary men.
WHY ASK FOR WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE?
” ‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. Luke 15:31.
Beyond God’s willingness to heal us and healing being part of our inheritance as children of Abraham is another beautiful truth. Healing is not coming to us. It is already ours.
Really, from God’s point of view, we are not those getting healed. Healing is not coming to us now; healing already came to us at the cross before Jesus was raised again to life. Now that He has been raised to life, the Bible says, In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11.
We are alive to God; we have a new kind of life. Sickness doesn’t belong to us anymore. You need to understand this. Healing comes from God. Yes. But is God expecting the church to be getting healed? No. We are not the ones supposed to be looking to God for healing. We can look to God for healing because healing is the children’s bread. Luke 13:10 to 17. And Mattew 15:22 to 25. But as the children grow and develop, they cease to be children. They grow in understanding.
Isaiah 53:4 to 5. Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
These two scriptures refer to the same subject of healing, yet they are very different. Isaiah was prophesying, so he was looking into the future. He was looking at something that was yet to come. So he said, “By his wounds, you have been healed.”
When was Jesus dealt the stripes? Just before He went to the cross and died for us. So Isaiah was looking forward to the cross, where he knew we would receive our healing.
But for Peter, it was different. He lived in the time of the Messiah, so he saw what Isaiah had prophesied come to pass. He watched as Jesus was dealt the blows; he saw as His visage was marred beyond human recognition Isaiah 52:14. He saw first the high priest lay his hands on Him, followed by Pontius Pilate, signifying that Jesus had become the sinful sacrifice for the entire human race. He saw the prophecies fulfilled. And it dawned on him that all that was needed to be done at the cross had been fulfilled. So, when writing to other Christians, he reminded them, “By his wounds, you have been healed.” Where was he referring to by using the past tense? The Cross.
I would pray to God that this will dawn upon the heart of every child of God. Healing is already ours; it came to us at the cross. So we don’t need to ask God for healing but to receive. This is not the time for you to cry out about sickness. It is just a lie of the devil, a lying wonder. No wonder science calls them symptoms. And the Bible says,
“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Jonah 2:8.KJV
FAITH OUR LIFESTYLE
2 Corinthians 5:7. For we live by Faith, not by sight. Romans 1:17. For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by Faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Galatians 3:11. Clearly, no one who relies on the law is justified before God because “the righteous will live by faith.” Habakkuk 2:4. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his Faith.
A lot of Christians would have to change their perception of Faith. We’re not instructed to walk by Faith. Faith is our lifestyle. You don’t need to tell human beings to breathe; they breathe. In the same way, Faith is our lifestyle. When you’re born again, this is what happens to you from that hour; you begin to live by Faith and not by how you feel. You receive your Salvation by Faith. You also receive the in-filling of the Holy Spirit by Faith. Including the forgiveness of sin, you believe by Faith that you have been forgiven.
The truth is that Faith is in you to receive. And If no savor provided Salvation, Faith would not have made up one for you. There is already Faith in you, and that Faith is meant to receive from what Christ has made available. The very same thing applies to healing. Healing already came to you at the cross. So you don’t have to exercise Faith again to be healed. So what do you do? Instead of saying, Oh Lord, I want to be healed; help me to receive my healing,” say, “I live by Faith and not by how I feel. Christ Jesus healed me, and I remain healed. I am not moved by how I feel. I maintain and insist on my healing. I call forth my health in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
That is Faith’s way of speaking and living. Faith is accepting what God says belongs to you, accepting that God is who He says He is; that you are what He says you are; that you are where He says you are, and what He says belongs to you, and acting that way.
Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? Amos 3:3. When Peter by the Holy Spirit said the stripes of Jesus healed you, your response should be, “Thank God, I was healed, I am healed, and I remain healed in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
One of you is asking, “But I still feel the pain.” That’s the problem with a lot of us. We are still living according to our senses. Anything they can’t prove by their senses or in the laboratory, they can’t believe. That’s Thomas’s kind of person. It’s wrong because they have accepted many unproven things in their lives.
They can see it, so they believe it. Touch it, taste it, and hear the sound of it, so they believe it’s real. They won’t believe it’s real until their senses tell them something is real. If you ask them, “Are you healed?” they’ll answer, “Yes, but I still feel the pain.” They forget what the scripture said in Romans 9:8. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
After Jesus Christ’s resurrection, He appeared to His disciples, but Thomas wasn’t there. When His appearance was reported to Thomas, he refused to believe, saying unless he put his hand into Jesus’ side and his finger into the hole in His hand, he wouldn’t believe. This man had been with Jesus for three years and saw all the miracles He performed, yet he insisted that he wouldn’t believe the report of His resurrection until he saw the hole and put his finger into it.
Jesus appeared again eight days later. This time Thomas was there, and Jesus urged him to come and touch Him and dip his hands into His side. But Thomas realizing it was the Lord, cried out, “My Lord and God.” But Jesus looked at him and said, ……….” “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:29.
Why? Because the children of the senses are not the children of God, Faith based on the senses is not Faith.
GOD’S WORD IS THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH: Having the proper Christian foundation means having your Faith founded on the Word, not your feelings or experiences. For example, sometimes we have great experiences of miracles in our lives and think that after such miraculous signs, we should be strong in Faith. But hear me; miracles don’t give Faith. Faith comes from the Word of God.
Miracles are good; they testify that God is with us, but we can not base our Faith and lives on miracles; the Word of God is the only foundation for Faith.
So then Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Romans 10:17.
Faith in God (His Word) is the foundation for divine health!
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