Biblical Teaching on Healing To Be Set Free
Thanks be to God for giving us biblical teaching on healing. You and I can access God’s Word at any time. And, with sickness and disease on the rampage, we need truth from God now more than ever.
Unfortunately, religious teaching abounds and has for centuries about God’s will concerning healing. I’ve spent considerable time renewing my mind to God’s Word and His truth. I want to find out, “What does the Bible say about healing.”
Answering the following questions will reveal what you believe about healing. Then, I’ll share my reflections. A side note: If religion fills you instead of God’s spirit, you may have ruffled feathers after reading this healing Bible study.
Biblical Teaching on Healing: Introspective Questions
Take time to savor each question and let God speak to your heart. The reason? Your flesh and soul (mind, will, emotions) may want to rebel against spiritual truth without taking a deeper dive with God.
- If healing is not for all as the Bible states in Matthew 12:15 that it is, how do you choose who to pray for if that person is not the one God chooses to heal?
- Most people believe God wants our spirits healthy. Why would God want you to have a sick body?
- Is God’s image for you one of sickness?
- Since Jesus has borne your sicknesses, why should you bear them again?
- Do you believe like most Christians that God wants to save every human being to live in heaven for eternity?
- Do you personally tolerate sin in yourself? Why would you tolerate sickness?
Biblical Teaching on Healing Reflects God’s Truth
One aspect of faith is to boldly claim God’s promises for me. I claim God’s power when I know His will. If disease is God’s will for His children, then heaven is full of sickness and a lot of hospitals.
Ask anyone. Sickness and disease is a dark time in a person’s life that they want no part of. Since there is no darkness in heaven (Revelation 21:23) and only light, sickness doesn’t fit heaven’s description thereby confirming it is not God’s will.
Also, do you remember how you felt when sick? A temporary or long-term illness makes your body, mind, and spirit feel like they’re held captive in a well-fortified prison. Jesus said one of the reasons He came to earth was to set the captives free which happens every time you enjoy health (Luke 4:18). Furthermore, the Holy Spirit calls sickness oppression (Acts 10:38). He hasn’t changed. He responds today to sickness as He did in the book of Acts.
More Biblical Teaching on Healing
According to T. J. Osborne, author of Healing the Sick, the word grief in Isaiah 53 and everywhere else in the Bible is translated as sickness. Choli and makok were incorrectly translated as griefs and sorrows. These words respectively mean sickness and pain everywhere else in the Old Testament (confirmed by Matthew 8:16-17).
When evening came, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons; and He cast out the evil spirits with a word, and restored to health all who were sick [exhibiting His authority as Messiah], so that He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He Himself took our infirmities [upon Himself] and carried away our diseases.”
Remember, Satan can’t lay on me what God laid on Jesus (sin and sickness).
When God promises to do something, I don’t need Him to reveal His will when His Word plainly reveals it. Therefore, my will must match His to exercise faith.
I must believe what God says is true to produce faith. To build faith I feed on God’s Word. Faith doesn’t come by praying. Saying only what God says produces and increases faith.
Faith is never feeling and feeling is never faith. Faith talks about the thing prayed for as though already received. The power of God does the miracle, but faith releases that power.
Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it sees deliverance and enjoys it. Faith takes what God offers now while hope expects a blessing in the future. Creative faith ignores what the eye sees.
The prayer of faith does not necessarily mean instantly – healing can be gradual. Sight and feeling belong to the natural person and faith and obedience to the supernatural person.
Likewise, sense knowledge doesn’t exercise faith. I don’t pray “if it be thy will” when I know what God’s will is about sickness and disease.
Biblical Teaching on Healing Conclusion
Consider what happened when Adam and Eve ate from the wrong tree. Ill health started the moment they ate the wrong fruit signified by fear, hiding, self-awareness, guilt, and shame coming on them. It’s obvious that sin and subsequent sickness are both the result of disobedience.
Unfortunately, not much has changed since Satan lied in the garden.
Today’s Christians hear sermons and Bible studies presenting a different version of biblical teaching on healing. Ministers of the Gospel promote that God’s plan for salvation is available to every person but fail to deliver teaching on divine healing. I am saved when I truly believe and healed when I truly believe
Just imagine the empty corridors in hospitals if Christians believed the truth about healing with the same spiritual fervor salvation is presented. Being saved in your spirit but sick in your body isn’t complete and doesn’t match God’s Word and Jesus’ finished work on the cross.
You may notice that people express faith in disease. They may say, “I hope my suffering honors God.” Or, they pray for faith ignoring the fact that Jesus says we are believers. It’s like saying, “Father, help convince me that you meant what you said when you made that promise.”
More Teaching on Divine Healing
Talking sickness magnifies and glorifies the devil whom you admit by your words is able to make you sick. If your eyes are on symptoms and your mind is occupied with them more than God’s Word, you put the wrong seed in the ground for the harvest you desire. Unbelief is sin – a loyalty to sense knowledge and disloyalty to God’s Word.
Therefore, it’s impossible to glorify God in my body when full of sickness as it is to glorify God in my spirit when full of sin.
Satan continues to lie to us. He says, “Jesus’ name has lost its power. God is not true to His Word. Your disease is not so bad or is really not a sickness – just something that runs in your family. God uses sickness to teach you something for His glory.”
You and I should be picky about what Biblical teaching on healing we listen to. Let the Holy Spirit be your empire and guide on any matter of the heart and spirit that directly affects the body.