Today at church, we took time to intercede and pray the Word of God regarding healing for someone close to us who is terminally sick. Our adversary the devil is always wanting to rob the church of anything that Jesus bled and died for at Calvary. When Jesus said it was finished, He literally meant that. He took the curse of sin and death, sickness and disease and separation from God when He was nailed to the cross. Sin, sickness and disease entered the world through sin with Adam and Eve, but Jesus, being the second Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), redeemed us back to Father God by becoming a life-giving spirit. Since the curse of sin has been broken, so has the curse of sickness and disease. 1 John 3:8 says; “...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”
All throughout the gospels we read that Jesus went about doing good and healing all those afflicted of the devil; he drove out demons, healed the lame, blind, lepers, blood disorders, raised the dead...just to name a few. On top of that, Jesus gave us authority in His name to do the same things, Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17-18, John 14:13, Acts 10:38.
We read about a spirit of infirmity in Luke 13:11 where it says; “And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.”
When a spirit of infirmity has been allowed to rule your life, it not only affects you physically but also it affects your mind. Everything revolves around the infirmity, your thoughts and conversations, it becomes all-consuming. It’s meant to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10). The battle for the Christian is in their mind as to whether or not they’re going to believe and receive what the Bible teaches about healing or to deny it. We have to daily wash our minds with the Word of God and to meditate on it day and night (Psalm 1:2). We must renew our thoughts with what the Bible says because if we don’t we’ll believe every other report that the doctor, family or friends will tell us.
James 5:14-15 says; “14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”
We recognize that the devil will try to inflict us with sickness and diseases as we’re still in a fallen world. We also know that sin can open the door to sickness, and when it’s repented of, healing can be made manifest. So when you know what the Bible says and what Jesus died and bled for, we have the authority to claim all the promises that He gave us, not only salvation but also healing. Jesus was prophesied about throughout the Old Testament and in Isaiah 53:1-5 it talks about the sin-bearing Messiah;
“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
That is powerful!
If the doctor gives you a bad health report, does that change what God’s word says about Jesus giving you healing? No. Today we want to encourage you to believe what Jesus did for you at the cross regarding healing. We’re not talking about being in denial, because it’s very real what you may be living and experiencing, but the Word of God is greater than that.
Here is a link to many healing scriptures that you can read and speak over your life. There is also a video that you can put on and listen to that is loaded with healing verses.
Open Bible healing scriptures.
SoakStream healing scriptures video.
Click here to read the prophecy from the church service.
Pastors Richard and Marjorie - Bondslaves of Jesus Christ
