When
man lost the blessing of God by sinning, he
came under a curse and the power of the devil. In this way, the devil was able to bring many forms of
weakness and sickness to man’s body.
But God still desires to bless man and to save him not only from sin,
but also from sickness. On the
cross Jesus bore our sins, but He also bore our sicknesses and we may now
receive healing and health for our bodies.
It is wonderful when God performs a supernatural instant
healing. This happens often. But it is also often that people do not
receive the manifestation of healing in their bodies immediately when they pray
and that experience clouds their faith forever getting healed. This is not necessary. Getting on your pathway to healing could be the answer for you. This is a
Scriptural principle.
Jesus applied
a substance on the eyes of the blind man
in Mark 8. The man received a two-step healing.
Mark 8:23-25 (KJV) says, “And he took the blind man by the
hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his
hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see
men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and
made him look up; and he was restored, and saw every man clearly”.
Derek Prince makes the point in his book God’s Medicine
Bottle that faith comes by hearing the Word (Romans 10:17), but hearing is
more than just “ear hearing.” He
makes the following points.
Proverbs
4:20-22 says, “My son, listen to my words; bow down your ear to my
sayings. Let them not depart from
your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who
find them, and health to all his flesh”.
Notice
the key to Biblical healing is HEARING in a multi-media way.
1. Attend to My Word: ‘Attend’ means to place close attention to. That means undivided attention. It also means paying close
attention. Your priority in life
is what you spend your time doing.
When my child’s healing was the most important thing in my life that is
what I spent my time meditating on.
2. Bow
your ear to my sayings: ‘Bowing’ means an attitude of humility. It means being teachable from the Word of God. When you bow your ear, the other ear is
facing up towards God. Let Him
instruct you. He may want you to
change your lifestyle or go to a doctor or take some vitamins or herbs. Moses, when faced with bitter waters,
heard from God specifically to take a certain tree and throw it into the waters. The waters were healed. The tree had qualities that the water
needed. The tree also represents
the tree of the cross that Jesus can throw into our bitter waters.
3. Let them not depart from your eyes: The key thought here is our focus. One
of the things about human eyes, that is not true of other animals, is that we
have two eyes that focus forming one image. We see only one thing at a time. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus and the Word. Luke 11:34 (21st
Century KJV) says, “The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye
is single, thy whole body also is full of light. But when thine eye is evil, thy
body also is full of darkness”.
Healing comes from light.
Malachi 4:2 says
“But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing
in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.”
4. Keep
them in the midst of your heart. Derek Prince says in his book that one
of the simple principles of learning and teaching is to use the ear gate and the eye gate. Used together they get the entire
attention of the student. When we
use the ear, the eye and mix it with humility, the teaching will get into the
heart.
Proverbs 4:23 says, ”Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it spring the issues of life”.
God’s Word will end up in our heart.
Satan will try to steal the Word. We need to do the keeping. Healing will come!
Look
up these Scriptures and read them.
Meditate on them today.
(For
your convenience, the Scriptures can be found at the end of this lesson.)
1. Satan the serpent first deceived man and
tempted him to disobey God.
Genesis 3:1-13, 1 John 3:8
2. Sickness, pain and death came to man
because of disobedience. Genesis
3:16-19
3. Satan the devil brought sickness upon
Job. Job 2:7
4. Satan binds people with the spirit of
sickness or infirmity. Luke 13:11,
16
5.
Satan the devil oppresses people with sickness. Acts 10:38
6. God promises to not put diseases on people.
He promises to heal them. Exodus
15:26
7. God promises to bless our bread and water
and to take sickness away from us.
Exodus 23:25
8. David said that God not only forgave his
iniquities, but also healed ALL his diseases. Psalm 103:3
9. John the apostle prayed
for his friend to prosper, to be in good health and to have his soul prosper.
Prosperity in the soul is the key.
When we allow God to heal our inner man, our bodies usually line up in
health. 3 John 2
10. All
of God’s promises may be claimed through faith in Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:19-20
11.
Jesus Christ was manifested to the world to defeat the devil. 1 John 3:8
12. Jesus came to do God’s will. His ministry of healing was the
Father’s heart to you and me. John
5:30; 6:38
13. God
the Father was working through His Son Jesus, God in the flesh. John 10:37-38; 14:10
14.
Jesus healed all who came to Him.
Matthew 8:16
15.
Jesus healed all kinds of disease.
Matthew 4:23
16.
When Jesus did not heal people it usually had to do with lack of faith. Matthew 13:58; Mark 6:5-6
Faith comes by hearing God speak. If healing does not come at first, press into the Word of
God until God speaks to you.
Healing will come. Faith is
not our responsibility, it is God’s.
Our job is to fellowship with God and make ourselves available to Him so
that He may speak to us.
17. God
never changes. James 1:17
18. Jesus not only suffered and “bore” our
sin but He also took and bore our sickness so we could live in
righteousness. 1 Peter 2:24;
Matthew 8:17
19.
Christ was made a curse for us.
Galatians 3:13
20. God
asks us to choose blessing over the curse. It is our choice.
Deut. 30:19
21. God
sends His Word to heal us. Psalm
107:20
22.
God’s Spirit dwelling in us gives life (quickens) our mortal body. Romans 8:11
23. Our bodies are important to God because
He wants them to be instruments of manifesting Jesus to the world. 2 Corinthians 4:10-11
24.
Faith in the Name of Jesus healed the lame man in Acts 3:16.
25.
Paul perceived that the crippled man in Lystra had faith to be healed. Acts 14:8-10
26. Faith comes to us by hearing God speak to
us personally. Faith is simply the
result of fellowship with God, often in His Word, and through the Holy Spirit.
Romans 10:17
27. Jesus gave His disciples power against
demons and power to heal all manner of disease. Matthew 10:1
28. The disciples failed to heal an epileptic
because of their unbelief; they needed to pray and fast. Matthew 17:20-21
29. Jesus said that we would do the works
(including healing) that He did and that we would do even greater works. John 14:12
30. Believers may now lay hands on the sick
in the name of Jesus and they would be healed. Mark 16:17-18
31. One thing we should do if we are sick is
to seek the elders of the church for prayer with anointing oil. The results will be the forgiveness of
sins and healing. James 5:14
32. The Lord (after His resurrection) went
with the disciples confirming their preaching with signs. He will do the same for us. Mark 16:20
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Scriptures
for Healing Lesson
Genesis
3:1-13
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the
field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God
has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden.
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of
the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it,
lest you die.
4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely
die,
5 for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your
eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food.
and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise,
she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he
ate.
7 And the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew
that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for
themselves.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD God in the middle of the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where
are you?
10 And he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself.
11 And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten of the tree which I commanded you that you should not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
13 And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you
have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Genesis
3:16-19
16 To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your
sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall
be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.
17 And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the
voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you,
saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain
shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you,
and you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you
return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to
dust you shall return.
Job
2:7
7 And Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and
struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
Luke
13:11, 16
11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together and was not able to be
completely erect.
16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham
whom Satan has bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosened from this bond on
the Sabbath day?
Acts
10:38
38 …how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
and with power, and He went about doing good, and healing all those who were
oppressed by the Devil, for God was with Him.
Exodus
15:26
26 And he said, If you will carefully listen to the voice
of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will
give ear to His commandments, and keep all His laws, I will put none of these
diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD
who heals you.
Exodus
23:25
25 And you shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall
bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst
of you.
Psalm
103:3
3 …who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your
diseases.
3
John 1:2
2 Beloved, in regard to all things I pray that you prosper
and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
2
Corinthians 1:19-20
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among
you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was,
yes!
20 For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him
Amen, to the glory of God by us.
1
John 3:8
8 He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins
from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might
undo the works of the Devil.
John
5:30
30 I can do nothing of My own self. As I hear, I judge, and
My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the
Father who has sent Me.
John
6:38
38 For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but
the will of Him who sent Me.
John
10:37-38
37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe
Me.
38 But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the
works so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.
John
14:10
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the
Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the
Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.
Matthew
8:16
16 And evening coming on, they brought to Him many who had
been possessed with demons. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed
all who were sick.
Matthew
4:23
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of
sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Matthew
13:58
58 And He did not do many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
Mark
6:5-6
5 And He could do no work of power there, except that He
laid His hands on a few sick ones, He healed them.
6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went
around the villages, in a circuit, teaching.
James
1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and
comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow
of turning.
1
Peter 2:24
24 He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were
healed.
Matthew
8:17
17 so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah
the prophet, saying, “He took on Himself our weaknesses and bore our
sicknesses.” (Also see Isaiah 53).
Galatians
3:13
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made
a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a
tree”).
Deuteronomy
30:19
19 I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose
life, so that both you and your seed may live.
Psalm
107:20
20 He sent His word and heals them, and delivers them from
their pitfalls.
Romans
8:11
11 But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also
make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.
2
Corinthians 4:10-11
10 always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the
body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.
11 For we who live are always being delivered to death for
Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.
Acts
3:16
16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this
man strong, this one whom you see and know, His name made firm. And the faith
which came through Him has given him this perfect soundness before you.
Acts
14:8-10
8 And a certain man was sitting in Lystra, without strength
in the feet, being lame from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
9 This one heard Paul speaking; and Paul, looking intently
at him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
10 said with a loud voice, Stand up on your feet! And he
leaped and walked.
Romans
10:17
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.
Matthew
10:1
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he
gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all
manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew
17:20-21
20 And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For
truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall
say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing
shall be impossible to you.
21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and
fasting.
John
14:12
12 Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes on Me, the
works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these he shall do,
because I go to My Father.
Mark
16:17-18
17 And signs will follow to those believing these things:
in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak new tongues;
18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will be
well.
James 5:14-15
14 Is any sick among you? 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 cure the
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be
forgiven him.
Mark
16:20
20 And going out, they proclaimed everywhere, the Lord
working with them and confirming the word by signs following.
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