Healing words

God has appointed his word and your words as sources of healing. Some people say, ‘I’ve prayed so long but God hasn’t healed me’. When we get sick or we get a disease, it is very easy to focus on ourselves and on the problem. But if we are going to get healed by God we need to shift our attention to his word.

‘He sent His word and healed them…’
Psalms 107:20.

So we need to hear and receive his word for our situation. We need to be reading a meditating on his word for our lives daily. We need to give our attention to his word because his word brings healing and health.

‘My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;
For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their flesh.’
Proverbs 4:20-22

As we meditate on God’s word it gets into us. As we speak his word aloud and think about it, it gets inside us – into our heart.

‘But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach):’
Romans 10:8

Those are the two places we need to get his word – in our mouth and in our heart. That is when the word begins to take effect.

The word of God comes to us like a seed – we don’t understand it fully at first. It’s like a seed. We can’t see everything contained in it until it grows in us.

‘The sower sows the word.’
Mark 4:14

We have to let the word of God grow in us by watering it with our faith and our meditation. Whatever we give our attention to will grow in our life. When I was a young man, I gave my attention to a young lady. I thought about her often. I dreamed about her. I spoke to others about her. I spent every moment I could with her. The more I gave my attention to her, the more she became part of my life. She is now my wife and we’ve been married for 30 years! I still give her my attention.

So God says, ‘give attention to my words’. (Prov 4:20). He has sent his word to heal us. Now we have to apply our faith to his word.

How do we do that? Well first of all we have to hear his word, let it sink in, because ‘…faith comes by hearing… the word of God.” (Romans 10:17)

Then faith grows in us that the word is true and for us. Then we can begin to speak out our faith. We can begin to say we are healed because God says we are healed.

‘For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.’
Mark 11:23

Look how many times Jesus used the word ‘say’ in that one sentence. So miracles of faith begin by a declaration. We have to say what we want not what we have. It’s easy to say ‘I’m ill’. But, when we are, it’s better to begin saying ‘I am healed!’ This is what God advises. Say what you want not what you’ve got.

‘Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’’
(Joel 3:10)

Speaking like that begins to change us on the inside. We change from being a victim to an overcomer.

Everything God does in the earth begins with a declaration. In creation he said, ‘Let there be light!’ and it was so. In the same way, we who are made in his image must also declare things before they come to pass.

‘You will also declare a thing,
And it will be established for you…’
Job 22:28

Our words are powerful to change things in the spirit that affect the natural things.

‘Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.’
Proverbs 18:21

We need to know what the word says and how to release the power of God otherwise we will be thrashing around in error and speculation.

“Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.”
Matthew 22:29

So where do we begin? Let us focus on Jesus and what he did on the cross. That’s always a good place to start. Let us see and mediate on the fact that he not only dealt with sin on the cross but also with sickness.

‘..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 Peter 2:24

‘..by whose stripes you were healed.’ Notice that is past tense. If I was healed then I am healed. Meditate on that today.


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