Healing is Easier Than You Think

Throughout my years in the ministry, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people regarding healing. Healing and finances are actually the two most popular topics – and we have numerous resources on both because of it.

What I have experienced in my time, is that people place healing on a strange pedestal, as if it were somehow more difficult to receive than other blessings, or even more difficult than receiving salvation itself!

This is another classic example of our human mind, reasoning and theology complicating what God has made simple. Healing is not as complicated as we make it out to be; and it’s actually easier than we think!

Join me today, as we explore, how to easily receive healing, as a gift from God, in Christ Jesus.

Now as I mentioned, most people see healing as something that is above and beyond salvation itself. And this is really the main issue that causes people to stumble… they place a higher value on healing, than salvation – and in doing so, they place an artificial barrier between themselves and the healing power of God; a barrier that He never placed, and a barrier that doesn’t even exist, except in the minds of these people.

As we look at the life of Jesus, we can clearly see that no such barrier existed to healing. Anyone with the courage and desire to be healed, simply needed to ask, and they received, one-hundred-percent of the time. Don’t let that fact escape your attention, my friend, because it shows us a picture regarding the nature and the character of God, as well as His generosity regarding the gift of healing. He wants to heal you! And that is the first thing that we need to see and believe here.

In Matthew 15:26, Jesus makes a point that healing is actually the children’s’ bread. Healing is something that God has always intended for His children; it is something meant for them to have, to feed on, and to enjoy continually — even daily.

Now, connect this statement of Jesus here, regarding healing being the children’s bread, with the statements of Jesus in John 6:35, and 6:51, where Jesus says that He is the true bread, and we will begin to see the picture of how healing is connected with Jesus Christ, and His finished work, which makes healing available for us today. And it is available to us as a free gift!

This is an important point that many of us still need to learn, because the natural human reaction, along with legalistic theology is that a person must be worthy of healing, just as we must earn our own blessings… at least that’s what most people think!

The truth however, is much different (and better!): in that your healing has already been earned, and you have already been made worthy through the sacrifice and completed work of Jesus Christ.

As usual, I do not want you to simply take my word for this. Because this truth about healing and Jesus is such a stumbling-block for so many people, it must be seen in scripture, so that you can be absolutely certain of it.

Isaiah 53:4-5 tells us something about the effect of Jesus’ sacrifice for us:

“Surely he has borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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.”

It’s interesting to note that verse 4 begins with the word surely. This is something that God wants us to know, and be absolutely sure of. Jesus Christ has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.

I know that some translations say “griefs” and “sorrows” but the Hebrew words actually mean any malady, sickness or disease – a fact which Matthew 8:17 makes even more clear for us.

But the scriptures do not stop at verse 4 here. Jesus did not carry our sicknesses and diseases for no reason or purpose. We can see in verse 5, that He was taking all of the punishment for our iniquities – He was being chastised for our peace [to be restored]; the end result being with His stripes we are healed.

This was the prophecy of Isaiah, long before Jesus even entered into the scene. Isaiah was looking forward and getting a glimpse of the future where the Messiah would actually come down and accomplish this amazing miracle of salvation.

Now, here is the part that many of us still need to grab hold of… turn with me to 1st Peter 2:24:

“Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.”

This is a reference to the same event: the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross! Isaiah was looking forward to the future coming of the Messiah, but here Peter is looking back at the fact that the Messiah came, and actually accomplished salvation! And take notice of the last part of verse 24 here… by whose stripes you were healed. That is past-tense language, referencing a specific point in history.

Catch this point, my friend, because this is where many people miss it – and it’s all because of erroneous thinking and theologies. I’m going to try and say this as simply as I can so that it is clear without any possibility of confusion:

You are not trying to get healing;
You were already healed the moment Jesus said it was accomplished on the cross!

The reason why many people seem to not “get healed” is precisely because they believe that they are not healed yet, and they are trying to chase after something that they have already been given by Jesus! They are not receiving because they are not believing that they have received! And the enemy does everything that he can to try and keep people blind to this truth – through generations of dead religion and futile doctrines.

Jesus taught on this very point, in Mark 11:23-24:

“For truly I say to you, That whoever shall say to this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he said.

Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.”

Not only do we get a refresher of what we studied previously about the connection between our words and our belief (and the amazing power of what we say), but also take very special notice of what Jesus says in verse 24:

Whatever you desire (not just bare essential needs, but whatever you desire) when you pray, believe that you receive!

These are the words of Jesus, my friend. They deserve just as much respect and attention as any of His other words.

Look at the details of what He says here. When you pray, believe that you receive!

He doesn’t say to pray and then patiently wait for the manifestation, or continue to suffer while you “wait for God’s divine timing”.

Jesus never told anyone to do that regarding their healing, even in the old covenant! The devil has kept so many people in confusion, waiting for their healing, and they wait all the way to death! They die waiting!

Not anymore! Jesus says that right then, when you pray, believe that you receive, right then; and you shall have it!

2nd Corinthians 6:2 says it this way:

“For he said, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I helped you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Today is the day of salvation. σωτηρία, which is an very broad, all-encompassing word that includes health, healing prosperity, safety and deliverance.

We often think that God is waiting to give us our salvation from whatever we are experiencing, but in thinking that way, we are in-fact disqualifying ourselves. God’s mindset here is clear…

Now is the day of health,
Now is the day of safety,
Now is the day of prosperity,
Now is the day of deliverance,
And now is the day of your healing!

Stop waiting, repent – change your mind, believe and receive.

Today is the day, now is the time.
Healing is easier than you think, my friend.

Be blessed.