Divine Healing
Paul Wong
God wants to bless His
children with good health in addition to prosperity in all things that include
the soul as well. The apostle John
wrote:
“Beloved, I pray that you
may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.” (3 Jn. 2)
Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. It
will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones. (Pro. 3: 7-8)
The “fear of the
LORD” is the pathway of good health and healing. The Hebrew word for "health" comes from the
word “rapha”
which means "to
heal." There is, of course,
healing for the inner person - the forgiveness of sins and the release from
bondage and stronghold of the devil. God
also promises healing for the body: “health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.”
God wants every part of your body to be
healthy.
Divine Healing is the
supernatural healing of any sickness or disease by the Lord Jesus Christ who is
God manifested in the flesh. We read in
the Holy Bible about His healing ministry.
“Now Jesus went about all
The Lord Jesus Christ is
“the same
yesterday, today and forever” therefore
what He did two thousand years ago He can also do so today (Heb. 13:8).
Jesus consistently showed God's mercy and compassion by healing all that came
to Him, and even after His ascension to Heaven the
apostles and early church continued this healing ministry. The prophet Isaiah
wrote:
“Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; smitten by God, and
afflicted. But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisements
for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” (Isa. 53: 4-5)
This
prophetic word clearly teaches that bodily healing is included in the atoning
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is verified by what Matthew wrote:
“When evening had come,
they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits
with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore
our sickness.” (Mt. 8:16-17)
The
apostle Peter also wrote about the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ “who Himself bore our
sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for
righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.” (1 Pet. 2:24) The scriptures link the grounds of provision
for both our salvation and our healing to the atoning work of the Lord Jesus
Christ on the Cross. However, neither of them is automatically given to us; for
each provision – a soul’s eternal salvation or a person’s temporal, physical
healing – can only be received by personal faith and prayer.
The Lord Jesus Christ
heals through Forgiveness
of Sin
Originally there was no
death and no sickness in the Garden of Eden.
Spiritual death came after Adam and Eve had sinned against God and
physical death followed. “Therefore, just as
through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death
spread to all men, because all sinned.” (Rom.
Our Lord Jesus Christ
demonstrated a correlation between sin and sickness when He said to the
paralytic: “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” (Mk. 2:5) After
Jesus had healed a man who had an infirmity thirty eight years He said to him, “See, you have been made
well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing
come upon you.” (Jn.
5:14)
The Lord Jesus Christ
heals through Casting
out Demons
“God has
anointed Jesus of Nazareth 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.” (Acts
It is clear that the
Lord Jesus Christ was healing the sick that were “oppressed by the devil”. Sickness was and
is still caused by the devil who “oppresses” the sick
folks with it. “Then Satan went out from
the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of
his foot to the crown of his head.” (Job
2:7) The apostle Paul wrote, “a
thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I
be exalted above measure.” (2 Cor.
12:7)
The Lord Jesus Christ healed
“a woman
who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years.” (Lk. 13:11) And when the Pharisees complained about
Jesus healing the woman on a Sabbath day, He said to them, “So ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound; think of it; for eighteen
years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” (Lk.
13:16) Christians need to realize and accept the truth that sick
folks with terminal illnesses and chronic diseases such as cancer have the “spirit of infirmity” and are bound by Satan.
The spirit of cancer can be cast out.
“As they went out, behold
they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast
out, the mute spoke. And the
multitudes marveled, saying, ‘It was never seen like this in
“Then one was brought to
Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so the blind
and mute man both spoke and saw.” (Mt.
12:22)
The Lord Jesus Christ
has given this same power and authority to all true ministers of the
“And these signs will
follow those who believe: In My name
they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up
serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they
will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.’ So then, after the LORD had spoken to them,
He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the
right hand of God. And they went out and
preached everywhere, the LORD working with them and confirming the word through
the accompanying signs. Amen.” (Mk. 16:17-17-20)
May God bless you
This Web Page is presented by Paul Wong to the ARK Forum on April 10, 2005
and dedicated to all cancer survivors who believe in God's healing power.
For comments please write first to: arkpw@sbcglobal.net
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Paul Wong is a Christian minister and the
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