Whenever I speak about the subject of healing in churches, there are always people who need healing. They don't all come for prayer but even those who don't often confide in me afterwards that they wanted to.
We pray so often, "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven". There is no sickness in heaven and therefore Jesus taught us to pray that the same would be true on earth. And yet so many in the church are sick. Why?
Paul touched on one reason when writing to the believers at Corinth.
"For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep."
1 Corinthians 11:30
So the same was true in Paul's day - there were many who were sick among the believers. Paul says there was a reason for this.
"But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
1 Corinthians 11:28, 29
Paul tells them that the reason there are sick people in church is because they are 'not discerning the Lord's body'.
Today, pretty much all who call themselves Christian believe that Jesus sacrifice - his body and blood - paid for their forgiveness. Yet, so many of the same people say that God doesn't heal today or they are not sure if it's God will to heal everyone.
To me that's like saying, 'It's not God's will to forgive everyone'.
The scripture is shot through with statements that the new covenant in Jesus' blood, not only paid for our forgiveness but also abundant life which includes peace, protection provision and healing.
Isaiah tells us, "...by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5
That is, by his wounds.
Matthew tells us, "He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses." Matthew 8:17
Yet today, so many believe Jesus came like a bus conductor giving out tickets he paid for. What he did on the cross was so much more than purchase a place in heaven for you. His body and blood purchased a place in the New Covenant where all God has he shares with you.
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, ...that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus..."
Galatians 3:13 -14
Be careful today that you are rightly "discerning the Lord's body." That you understand the breadth and depth of his love toward you. That you understand his will is to see you healed and set free from every curse Satan throws at you.
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Galatians 5:1
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