WAYS TO RECEIVE GOD'S HEALING POWER -1

The primary way a believer receives God's healing power is through faith. God's healing power is available to the believer through the grace of Jesus Christ. Grace is anything that Jesus atoned for a Calvary to provide for the believer [John 19:30, Romans 5:11]. Grace and truth is by Jesus Christ [John 1:17]. The scriptures states, "of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace [John 1:16].

A believer accesses the grace of Jesus Christ by faith [Romans 5:2]. The believer receives God's healing power through confidence in the grace provided by Jesus Christ [Matthew 9:28].

Jesus bore my sins in his body on the tree. He bore my sickness [nosos/diseases]. He took my infirmities [astheneia], my weakness, my symptoms caused by disease. I being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, and with his stripes, I was healed at Calvary [1 Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17, Isaiah 53:4, John 19:30]. Jesus Christ, was wounded[chalal] profaned, defiled, polluted, desecrated, for my transgression and rebellion. He was bruised [daka'], crushed, for my iniquities, perverseness, depravity, and guilt. He took my chastisement. My chastisement[muwcar], discipline, chastening, correction needful to obtain my peace and well-being was upon Him. This peace[shä·lome'] has given me completeness in number, soundness in body, welfare, health, safety, and prosperity. And with the stripes that wounded Him, I am healed and made whole [Isaiah 53:5, AMP, Acts 3:16].

But believers shouldn't require a sign or wonder to believe in Jesus' healing grace. Jesus got upset when people required signs and wonders to believe in his healing grace [John 4:48]. He praised people who received his healing grace by faith [Matthew 8:10,Luke 17:18-19, Matthew 9:27-30].

Too many believers can only be healed through the faith of someone else. They require "workers of miracles" or "gifts of healing" [1 Corinthians 12:29, 1 Corinthians 12:9]. They make excuses such as "I have no one to help me" or "someone gets down ahead of me" [John 5:6-7]. They are not Children of God who eat the healing bread of Jesus Christ off the Master's Table [Matthew 15:26-27, 1 Corinthians 11:23-24, Galatians 3:26-29]. They need someone else to drop them some crumbs of grace under the Master's Table [Mark 7:27-28].

Many persons are like Naaman in the Old Testament; 

I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy [2 Kings 5:11].

The prophet commanded Naaman to go wash seven times in the Jordon. Like Naaman, many believers will not do what they are commanded to do in the Word of God. We will not confess what God says about our situation. We will not believe God's Word and confess God's Word over our sickness or disease till we are healed. We get furious and walk away like Naaman. We can't believe that simple obedience to God's Word is all that is required. But listen to what Naaman's servants said to him.

Sir, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply to go and wash and be cured!" [2 Kings 5:13].

Let's look at the difference between the woman with the issue of blood and Naaman. Jesus said to this woman your faith has healed you or made you whole [Mark 5:34, Luke 8:48]. Jesus didn't say to this woman, my miraculous dispensational healing power has made you whole. Jesus didn't say my "Gifts of the Spirit" has made you whole. But he said her faith, her confidence in his healing grace made her whole. We have to come to Jesus believing in his healing grace like this woman did in the fifth chapter of Mark. We have to believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. [Hebrews 11:6].

Humans have so much trouble just doing the simple things commanded by God. Believing and confessing God's Word is a commanded thing [Romans 10:9-10]. Faith is a fight [2 Timothy 4:7]. We want someone else to fight the "good fight of faith" for us [1 Timothy 6:12]. We begin to do the right thing with God's Word. We believe, we confess God's Word, but then we quit. We just don't do it long enough. We get discouraged, depressed, and quit too soon. If our symptoms come back, we get in doubt or unbelief and stop the fight of faith. We are not faithful. We are not fighting the "good fight of faith".

When we have a revelation of God's healing grace through Jesus Christ or a manifestation of healing through the gifts of the Spirit; we can't retain what we receive because we do not have the word planted deeply in our hearts [Matthew 13:21, Luke 8:13]. The NLT reads, "But like young plants in such soil, their roots don't go very deep" [Luke 8:13]. We do not have root in ourselves and only endure for awhile [Mark 4:17]. We have a superficial relationship with the Word of God. We are unwillingly or unable to open our mouth and use the "Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" [Ephesians 6:17].

Jesus Christ wants you whole spiritually, mentally, and physically [1 Corinthians 1:18, Luke 6:9-10, Mark 10:53, Luke 7:47-50,Luke 9:56]. Jesus Christ suffered a horrible death to provide the atonement, propitiation, reconciliation, ransom, Redemption for our sins. Jesus Christ was bruised, wounded, and the to chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed [Isaiah 53:5].

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands" [Matthew 26:67, Matthew 27:28]. "So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him, by whose stripes you were healed" [John 19:1,Mark 15:15, 1 Peter 2:24]. For the preaching of the cross is to them them perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved [sōzō] it is the power of God [1 Corinthians 1:18].