The Lord that Heals Us
Part 3

Dearly beloved of God, if we are sick we go to God first. We can believe the promises about healing in God's Word. We can pray and ask God to heal us. We can have other believers pray for us. We can take communion and remember what the Lord Jesus accomplished for us and believe it. We can be ministered to by believers that know how to operate the manifestations of holy spirit for godly profit.

Jesus Christ paid for our sins and by his stripes we were healed.

"Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed." I Peter 2:24

This is the truth from God's own lips. If the first part of the verse is true, so is the second part. This is the will of God if nobody believes it. This is the God-given potential that He made available to us in Christ.

It is our God-given right to believe God's promise in Christ and receive forgiveness and healing, but that does not mean that we automatically manifest it in our lives. Even though Jesus Christ paid for our sins with his life, some people hold on to their sins and condemn themselves, and don't enjoy the peace they could have.

We don't always appropriate the potential that God made available to us in Christ. This is true when it comes to healing, also. We are not always successful in appropriating the potential that Jesus Christ made available by the stripes laid on him.

None of us have perfect believing. Jesus Christ is the only one that perfectly believed God. He did everything God asked of him to make our salvation and redemption possible. He was the only man without sin.

Dearly beloved, what do we do if we can’t get to the place that we see deliverance? We don’t deny that we are sick, and that we need help; we go to a doctor and do whatever is necessary to be healed. Be thankful that you are alive.

The next thing the adversary will do is tempt you to condemn yourself because you didn’t believe to see a miracle. Don’t listen to him. Don’t you dare condemn yourself. You are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus on the basis of his good works. Think like the dearly beloved son of God you are.

Assure your heart before the Father, even if your heart finds fault with you and condemns you. If your heart condemns you, God is greater than your heart, and He knows all things. He knows our weaknesses.

Dearly beloved, Jesus Christ sympathizes with our weaknesses because he was tempted in all things in the same manner as we are, yet without sin. Moreover, by what he suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his ability. Don’t be so hard on yourself. None of us is perfect.

The only way to assure your heart is to persuade yourself with what God says about you in His Word. God says that you are saved, you are born of His spirit, and you are a dearly beloved son of God, and you are highly favored in His sight. In Christ, and by his accomplishments you are justified, you have the remission of sins, you are righteous, you are holy and without blame before Him, you are sanctified, and soon to be glorified; got it?!

Assure your heart that you are who God says you are. If you think like that, your heart will not condemn you; then you will have confidence toward God.

We have to believe day by day for our health, dearly beloved. We have eternal life, not eternal health. Sometimes we get healed but we come down with the same thing again. Go to the Father to be healed regardless of how often that may be.

The adversary is always trying to instill fear in us. Fear is so prevalent today, especially with the spread of the coronavirus. Don’t give in to him, fear not! Resist the devil and he will flee.

Don’t entertain fears like: you will not be healed, or that nothing can be done for you,or you don't deserve to be healed. That’s fear talking, not God. These are lies, and lies like these stop us from going to God for deliverance. Stop thinking like that. Think in the manner God instructs us to think. Think like the son of God you are.

At some point, all of us fall short of the potential God makes available to us as His children, that’s why we needed a Savior. We keep learning, putting the Word on, and growing in the application of what we have. When we fall short, we get up, and keep walking. We continue to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dearly beloved, there is something else we need to be honest about and understand. If the Lord tarries, at some point we are all going to die because we are mortal, and it is appointed unto man once to die. Our believing will not keep us alive for ever.

All the people mentioned in Hebrews 11, were tremendous men and women, but they all died while believing the promises of God; they did not receive them during their lifetimes. They saw them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They will obtain them when the Lord Jesus Christ resurrects them from the dead.

Jesus Christ is the only one to believe the promise of eternal life and actually receive it thus far.

"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept." I Corinthians 15:20

He was the first to be resurrected from the dead, ascend into heaven, and sit down at God’s right hand.

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, he will gather together both the dead in Christ and those who are yet living. We will be raptured up to meet the Lord in the air, and we will actually obtain the reality of our salvation.

Even if we should die before the Lord returns, God in His kindness and because of His great love for us, has prepared for this possibility.

In the state of death there is no mental activity of any kind. The dead do not have any conscious awareness, nor do they have any awareness of time. Since they have no consciousness, nor awareness of time, as far as awareness goes, the moment the Christian dies will be the moment of the gathering together!

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, he will awake the dead in Christ and transform those who are yet alive to be like him. Both will have glorious bodies like his glorious body, better brains, and everlasting life. Now that is healing indeed!

The gathering together up to him in the air will be the first event of the ages to come for us, and it will take our Father all of the ages to come to demonstrate the exceeding riches of His grace in His loving kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

Thanks be to God, which gives us the victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ! He is coming!

Rejoice forevermore! He is truly the Lord that heals us.