The Old and New Testaments are full of instances of God healing people and of prophets and apostles teaching about divine healing. Jesus Himself spent much of His earthly ministry healing the sick.
As you read through the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—it seems like Jesus was either coming from just having healed someone, in the process of healing someone, or going to heal someone. The Scriptural record is filled with it, and you can’t skip over it if you have an open mind.
Then we come into the book of Acts and see that healing is a big part of the church. Even to the very last chapter of the book, healing is taking place.
Healing is such an important subject, and I want to encourage you that God is still in the business of healing. He is the Lord, and He does not change.
Scripture says in Romans 10:17,
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Most Christians hear very little teaching on healing. We hear so much preached about the aspects of salvation that deal with the forgiveness of sins and how Jesus makes us righteous. We talk about the right way to manage your money, have a great marriage, and raise kids to follow Christ.
Those are great messages, and we need to be preaching them. In fact, I do not close a message without a segue into Jesus’ invitation to be saved from our sins. I do that because it’s such a central point in the gospel message.
I want to put something out there, however…
If we heard half as much teaching about healing as we do about the forgiveness of sins, we would see so many more manifestations of healing among the body of Christ. The reason people’s faith is so weak along the lines of healing, and one of the reasons we see so little of it, is because there’s so little preaching about it.
If we preach about healing, faith for healing will come.
Paul, when he was at Lystra, preached the gospel. We are told in Acts 14:8–10…
And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.
What was Paul speaking? He was speaking the gospel. And Paul perceived the man had faith to be healed. Where did he get faith to be healed? From listening to Paul preach the gospel.
The gospel is this: Jesus saves, and Jesus heals. The apostle Paul obviously preached about Jesus being the Healer which produced faith in the man to be healed. Faith can bring healing to you, but you need to hear the Word.
Friend, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). What he did walking the shores of Galilee and in the villages of Israel, He will do for you today.
Get into God’s Word. Discover what it says about healing and meditate on it. Not only will it change your eternity, but it will change your life today!
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