Faith, Fear & Divine Healing: The Covenant of Healing

It is time for God's people to once again come into a season of moving in signs and wonders. Divine Healing is one of those wonders! It is a sign of God's redemptive power to man. We have spent a long season of embracing diseases and infirmity. With the increase of medical intervention and the availability of many earthly remedies it has been a temptation to lean to the natural before we even consider the supernatural provision of our God for healing.

We too soon embrace fear from statistical reports, symptom lists and put our hopes in and enslave ourselves the cures of this world. There is nothing wrong with modern medical cures and the science thereof, but we as Covenant Heirs have more than that to partake of in the area of health and healing. We need to pursue our Covenant Source over all other sources! We should go to the promise FIRST - and start moving in Divine Faith for HEALING! Let it be restored to the Body of Christ, this passion for HIS HEALING! He is able.

Let's lay a foundation:

The first step in this direction for anyone is truly believing in Divine Healing. Jesus said "if you believe" it will be done. Believing is the spark of the ignition of healing. So let me build your faith that God WANTS you to be healed.

3 John 1:2

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health

even as your soul prospers.

The word "health" here means to be well, uncorrupted by sickness and disease, and safe and sound. This is what healing is and it's affects on the physical body. God expressed His desire for His people to experience health in Exodus 23:25,"and you shall serve the Lord your God and he shall bless your bread and your water and I will take sickness away for the midst of you."

In other words, He will heal you from your sickness. Not only take sickness away but keep it from you according to Exodus 15:26," I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

God made these promises as part of the Old Covenant. If you served Him you had access to healing and protection from disease. Through the New Covenant God once again ensured healing as a major component of redemption through Jesus Christ. In fact, healing is so important to God He placed sickness on the Cross with Jesus to crucify it, taking it's authority, dominion and power over those who would be redeemed as we see in 1 Peter 2:24.

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Healing is such an important thing to God that it is one of the MAJOR works Jesus did when He walked the earth.

Matthew 4:23-25

"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed the Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and fromDecapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan."

I think this scripture shows the heart of God to heal; He desires to heal. Jesus was healing because it was the heart of Father God to heal. How do we know this? Jesus made it clear that he did NOTHING he hadn't seen his Father do and he said nothing on his own, but only that His father said and all he did was the will of Him who had sent him.

John 8:28

"I do nothing of myself, but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things"

John 12:49

"I have not spoken on my own. Instead the Father who sent me told me what I should say and how I should say it."

What we saw Jesus do was simply expressing the heart of His Father to people. Father God knew that there are sick people dying in hopelessness and it breaks the heart of God to see the ones created in His image suffering. God is moved with the oppressions of people. "I have indeed seen the misery of my people" and God responds. He responded with Jesus. He responded with the cross and the stripes on Jesus' back. He responded with His Spirit in the spirit of the redeemed.

Romans 8:11

"If the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, dwells in you, he will quicken your mortal bodies."

Bring life. Heal. Ordain the purpose of God and perform it.

It is the heart of God to heal. He made provision for it. He made the way for it. He gave us access to it and it is within His will for us to take it. We must BELIEVE this. We must RECEIVE this. "Be ye made whole".

Need more convincing of how willing God is for you to be healed? Check this link out by my good friend Keisha Cory. She was writing this at the same time I was writing my blog. God is seriously trying to get our attention! http://www.keishacory.com/