Is Healing for Today? | God is My Source!

The answer to this question is most emphatically yes!

Look what the Lord says about healing in his word:

Exodus 15:26: “…for I am the Lord who heals you.”
Psalm 103:3: “Who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases.”
James 5:15: “And the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

And he tells us in Malachi 3:6, that he does not change, he keeps his promises

Plus, we understand that sickness and disease are not from God but are forms of oppression from Satan, Acts 10:38: “… Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.”

And we should note that (1) it was never recorded that Jesus was ever sick; (2) Jesus healed every one who came to him and (3) he never told anyone it was not God’s will for them to be healed. God’s purpose is for us to become Christ like (Romans 8:29). Thus, one aspect of Christ likeness is having healing in our bodies and seeing others healed through our prayers.

Also healing if promised through God’s word, “My son, attend to my words. Turn 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 their whole body,” Proverbs 4:20-22.

And through his Spirit, “But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you,” Romans 8:11.

We understand the Jesus bore our sin and our disease when he died on the cross:

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:4, 5

Who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24:

Some will say that these passages are not talking about physical diseases, but that is not how the New Testament writers saw it:

When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.” Matthew 8:16, 17

Thus, we do not have to beg and plead with God to heal us. Our healing has already been provided. But if we are to receive healing in our lives then we must meet God’s conditions:

We must have faith and not doubt: “But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways,” James 1:6-8. We overcome doubt by meditating on the word of God.
We must obey Christ commandment to love others because faith works though love: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love,” Galatians 5:6. James tells us that it is the doers of the word who are blessed.
We must guard our tongue; Solomon tells us in Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.” Thus we speak words of life rather than death; words of blessing and never of cursing. Jesus told is in Mark 11:23, “For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.”
And we patiently wait for the manifestation of our healing: “We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises,” Hebrews 6:11, 12. We do not go by what we see (2 Corinthians 5:7, 4:17, 18, Isaiah 40:31), but wait patiently and expectantly.

Healing has taken place in my life and in the life of our family. My wife’s 79 year old mother who lives in another city was in the hospital last year with pneumonia. My wife traveled there to help with caring for her. And she took along confessions of scripture on the topic of healing. Once my wife arrived she began praying the confessions over her mother. In a few days her mother recovered and we will be going to visit her next month during her 80th birthday.

The Bible not only gives us promises about salvation but also about healing. The scripture shows that on more than one occasion Jesus healed all who came to him: Matthew 8:16, 12:16 and 14:36. God does not promise to save some and not others. The same is true with the promises concerning healing. Just like salvation, we receive it by faith, even though we may not see any physical evidence of it; “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen,” Hebrews 11:1.

Paul reminds us in Romans 1:17 and Galatians 2:20 that we are to live by faith. Faith is our lifestyle as believers. It is for more than just getting healed. And faith is different than mental assent. The person who has faith goes beyond mental assent because he acts on what he believes. Thus is necessary for us as believers to release our faith through our words and our actions because as the Apostle James reminds us that faith without works or actions is dead, James 2:14-26. Therefore, for our faith to function, there must be what is called ‘corresponding actions’.

Yet, even it one has faith, if he is not walking in love then his faith will not produce: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love,” Galatians 5:6; “Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight,” 1 John 3:21, 22

Jesus told us that loving God and loving our neighbor are the two greatest commands (Matthew 22:36-40). And Paul tells us that, “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’,” Galatians 5:14.

So if you want to see healing take place in your life:

Develop your love walk
Meditate on scriptures about healing so that you become full persuaded concerning God’s promises just as Abraham was, Romans 4:18-21
Start confessing that you are healed. To confess means to agree with what God’s word says.
And wait patiently and do not give up.