Welcome to the Online School of Divine Healing

These lessons, articles, worksheets, confessions, and prayers are here to provide a source of education, information, inspiration, and participation for all who may need healing in their body, or to maintain healing and health, and also to become a better minister of the glorious gospel in which Jesus entrusted us with. 

We don't claim to possess any special mystical powers to heal people.  All believers have a covenant with God that provides healing and health.  Benefits that we have that are not known about are of no value.  That's why people perish because of not knowing their rights and benefits and authority  as believers.  No one can have faith beyond their knowlege of God's Word.  God sent His Word and healed and delivered them from all their destructions.(Psalm 107:20)  His Word is Life, Health, and Medicine to all our flesh.(Prov. 4:20) Therefore the Word of God is the focus and emphasis of these studies.       

Because of the following facts, that God's people perish for a lack of knowlege, and faith begins where the will of God is known, and faith without corresponding actions is dead, and the promises of God are voice activated, and  every name that is named must bow it's knee to the Name of Jesus, and righteous believers have been given authority to rule and reign in this life through Christ Jesus, and because doers, not just hearers of the Word are the ones who get the blessing, and because Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law, which includes every sickness and disease known to man, therefore the main focus of these studies will be in these areas.

I encourage you to schedule a time daily to spend with God studying, praying, worshipping, praising, and confessing God's Word.  His Words are life, health, and medicine to all our flesh. (Prov. 4:20)   Thru Jesus Christ we are in a covenant with God that provides forgiveness of our sins, but also healing and divine health for our bodies and many other wonderful benefits.  May God bless you richly as you discover Who You Are, What You Can Have, and What You Can Do  thru Christ Jesus.  Get full of the ZOE LIfe of God and it will drive out all sickness and disease from your body.

LESSON  #  1

LESSON # 2

Why Sickness Abounds Today

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There is more sickness in the world today than in yesteryears. Despite the great advances in medical science, we see more sickness now than before. It is a common enemy. Why is this so ? Here are some reasons for this wretched phenomenon. It is an accepted way of life : Sickness has gained acceptance in the minds of the people. When it comes, we accept it too readily. Sickness is like corruption. Though every body knows corruption is evil and should not be there, very few people are even surprised when they come across it, much less resist it. How often we hear that it is impossible to have a society free of corruption and bribery. Similarly, people have settled it in their hearts that it is impossible to be free from sickness and so it must be accepted when it shows up. Here are some reasons for this wretched phenomenon. It is an expected way of life : This might sound strange but it is true. We too often expect to be sick. For example, when the weather changes, if you say, "Oh, it is raining, I am going to get a cold",  - you will. You usually get what you expect. 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.' (Proverbs 23:7). 'Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.' (Luke 6:45) and 'death and life are in the power of the tongue' (Proverbs 18:21). The wisdom of this world teaches us to even provide for medical bills and take medical insurance when God has granted us good health ! Increasing Sin : Sin, though not the only cause of sickness, is definitely connected to sickness. Remember that there was no sickness, disease or death before the disobedience and fall of man. Death ruled because of one man’s sin (Romans 5:17). Sin ruled till total death was accomplished (Romans 5:21). Sin is falling short of God’s standards, absence of a living relationship with the Creator or being out of active and approved fellowship with our Father God. There was a time when men lived for over 900 years. As sin increased, the life span began to drop, until the maximum was set at 120 years and later at 80 years. But bless God, that through Jesus Christ, the Sin Destroyer, where sin abounds, His grace will abound much more (Romans 5:20), yes, even unto the complete manifestation of eternal life. There is not enough spiritual resistance against sickness from Christians. We leave the fighting to the doctors. Too often, the will to fight the disease is missing in the patient and his loved ones. Medical science does not recognize the existence of the spirit world and so is often unable to get quickly to the root-cause of the disease. Much of sickness originates from the realm of the spirit and when it is not withstood spiritually, sickness runs rampant. Doctors atleast have the sense and the heart to battle for a person’s life till the end. But many of God’s redeemed children give up so easily, that too saying it is the will of God or by saying a short prayer or by righteously declaring that they have left everything in the hands of God, rather than staying in the place of prayer, seeking the face and the Word of God. In other words, Christians have not grown in this area and so do not have the spiritual stamina to resist sickness and see it destroyed. Germs (viruses) are an evil life and must be resisted like evil spirits. The words spirit and life can be interchanged. There is no understanding of viruses and their  similarity to evil spirits. If you put these germs under a microscope, you will see them move. They have life, an evil life, that destroys cells and causes harm to the body. Spirits as we know, need a physical body or matter through which they can work. Spirits as we also know respond either positively or negatively to the human voice. Jesus cast the spirits out with His word (Matthew 8:16). We as Christians must learn to resist these germs just as you would resist the devil's band of fallen angels. We must learn to send them out in Jesus' Name. There is more confidence in medical knowledge than the God of knowledge In many a home, God's Word has been set aside and medical reports have become aye and amen. There are many Christians who can reel off lab reports and clinical terms better than a doctor but will grope for a promise or verse on healing. How tragic! It would not be far from the truth to say that the doctor has taken the place of God in many hearts. Is it not true that many believe the doctor’s word more than God’s word? Is it not true that many Christians spend more time in doctors' offices than in church services. Is it not true that many Christians can have a very enlightening conversation with their doctor, but find it impossible to even hear the voice of their Loving Shepherd and Great Physician? This is the reason why even the best of medical science fails at times. Christians, more than anyone else should constantly acknowledge and affirm publicly that God is the fountainhead of all knowledge and wisdom. (See Psalms 31: 19) The Bible records the faithlessness of King Asa who trusted the doctors more than God in spite of knowing Him. 2 Chronicles 16:12 says, “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.” But this is not the Divine pattern. The Bible commands us to call the elders of the Church when sick. James 5: 14, 15 says, "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him". If we don't do this we are disobedient and rebellious. In obedience, call the elders first, then you'll find that the doctors' work gets easier.

LESSON # 3

Names of Sickness

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The first step on the road to healing and health is understanding what sickness is. If we can see sickness in the light of the scriptures, we will know what healing is. We don't have healing because we don't know. "How my people perish for lack of knowledge?", says the Lord. The dictionary defines sickness as an 'infirmity', 'debility', 'binding', 'holding down' and disease as 'not at ease', 'unnatural softening or dysfunctioning of the physical organs'. How often, we as Christians have called sickness a blessing in disguise. Ultimately, sickness can turn out to be a blessing in many ways (as all things will work out together for good to them that love God), but it is not God’s way of blessing us. We will see this clearly as we go through all the lessons and scripture references carefully and prayerfully, earnestly seeking God’s perfect will. If sickness is really a blessing, why do we try to escape or prevent it? Why don’t we ask for or allow more of it? In truth, calling sickness “a blessing in disguise” is our terminology. God's names for sickness and diseases in the Bible are startling. A deliberate study of the scriptures shows us that God calls sickness or disease 1. A Captivity          Job 42:10 - "The Lord turned the captivity of Job". Job's suffering and sickness were not the Lord's blessing but satan's captivity. Many who have learnt to live with illness will not admit that sickness is captivity. But, remember the first time the illness struck. Was there not a sense of frustration or a great desire to be set absolutely free? In Luke 4:18 our Lord said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.” 2. A Curse Deuteronomy chapter 28, the 'Blessings and Curses chapter' in the Bible, clearly reveals sickness to be a curse and health to be a blessing from the Lord. The 61st verse, "Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the Book of This Law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed “, warns the Israelites to fear the Lord and obey His voice, lest prolonged plagues and sickness come on them. "Sickness was a curse - the fruit of disobedience." As life is disrupted, huge amounts of money are spent and all visions shattered or readjusted, have you truly in your heart considered sickness a blessing? God has set before us a blessing and a curse, life and death. (See Deut 11:26, Deut 30: 1,19) 3. Destruction          Psalm 107: 20 - "He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions". Sickness is the work of the one who comes 'to steal, to kill and to destroy' (John 10:10). Does not sickness pull you down? Does it not destroy cells in our body? If not attended to, will not sickness finally keep you cowed down and render you ineffective or atleast less effective? All sickness is incipient death of something in our physical and or mental constitution. 4. An Oppression          Acts 10: 38 says, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him” In this verse, we see the Godhead combining to free those oppressed of the devil through the healing ministry of Jesus. Now isn't sickness an oppression indeed? One can and should glorify God in any situation, but consider how Jesus attacked sickness with His healing power. 5. A Bondage          Luke 13:16 "And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" When our precious Lord healed this crippled, bent-over woman, he said he was loosing (freeing) her from the bondage of satan. That can mean only one thing –  sickness is the binding of the devil. Beloved child of God, if you are crippled in your body, Jesus sees it as a bondage and is intent on loosing you. Many Christians have cherished misconceptions about sickness. But nowhere in the Bible does God call sickness a blessing, but only by the above names. If sickness is really a blessing (many believe it to be so) and if it teaches us God's ways, would the Bible not exhort us to pray to be sick?

TRINA HANKINS HEALING TESTAMONY

He Sent His Word

by Trina Hankins

These scriptures seemed to leap up from my spirit like a reviving fountain of life. I was regaining consciousness after suffering a seizure to find myself surrounded by hospital staff and friends. "You're gonna make it ... you're healed by Jesus' stripes," I could hear them say.

Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "My son attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh.

All my life I had struggled with my health since allergies and asthma were almost a daily happening. Mama and Daddy were so caring and always prayed for me. Many nights I remember Daddy holding me in the chair and praying until we both fell asleep. In the early seventies the light on faith healing began to shine bright in our lives. We devoured books on the subjects of the authority of the believer, healing, and faith. That's when I found out I have a part to play in receiving healing. I began to see that it is something already purchased for me and through faith I could receive healing.

My faith seemed so small and I struggled so much-but there was hope! Jesus said the Word of God is a seed (Mark 4). If the seed would be planted by believing and watered by acknowledging it out loud through meditation and praise, that seed would grow to produce results.

It was as if the light turned on for me! (Psalm 119:130) I had a collection of healing scriptures and confessions that I would meditate on every day. Some nights I had to sit in a chair to breathe. I would get those scriptures, start at the beginning and go to the end. By then, I would get relief. I would take my medicine and God's medicine because Proverbs 4:22 says, "His words are healing and health, medicine to all our flesh." I praised, I cried, I sang, I laughed, and I did my best to act on the Word. All the time the seed was growing.

Several years later we moved to Louisiana where allergies are irritated more by the molds, etc. But my health began to get stronger. One thing stands out and it is that fear began to be replaced by boldness and confidence in the face of my enemies.

On Sunday evening, July 7, 1991, I left the church service with a headache. A few minutes later I suffered a seizure. I thank God for doctors and others in the medical profession nearby who acted quickly to get help.

My husband noticed people going in and out of the service and then ambulance lights outside the church. No one wanted to disturb the preaching of the Word, so they hesitated to interrupt him. He stopped and inquired as to what was going on and then heard the report.

After tests, MRI's, etc. had been run, the diagnosis was an inoperable brain tumor. It really does make a difference the "company" of people you fellowship with. In times of crisis it will decide if there is victory or defeat. Mark took a stand on the Word and decided not to fear, but only believe. A sign was posted outside the hospital door which said, "No Wavering Allowed." Only a few people were admitted into the room-people of strong faith and loved ones with a spirit of a conqueror. I found that when your body is down, sensitivity to others' attitudes is heightened. Sympathy, though well-meaning, is detrimental. Jesus Himself even had to put certain people out of the room to keep faith in (Mark 5:40).

From Monday through Friday many tests were run, tears cried, battles fought, and praises sung. I'm forever grateful to those dear ones who prayed so very fervently and praised God so confidently. On Friday, I was prepared for surgery, a biopsy to determine if the tumor was malignant. My husband was briefed concerning the complications that could result from this surgery, such as paralysis or other brain damage. The future in the natural was bleak - facing more experimental surgery in Atlanta or Dallas. But God . . . He makes all the difference. I remember lying on the bed, being wheeled down to surgery, laughing at the contraption they had plastered to my head to assist them in the process. I had no fear or dread - only peace.

After hours of waiting through the process, Mark was greeted by a pleased, but puzzled doctor. He said they thoroughly and repeatedly explored for the tumor, but it was no longer there! I returned home after a few days to recover from the effects of the surgery. Each day of recovery had its struggles but I had an assurance that what God had started, He would finish.

Our family took a vacation soon after to Colorado. On the way we stopped to see Bro. Kenneth Hagin, and I remember his giving some invaluable instruction. He said many times healing is lost in a counter attack, and that we need to hold fast to what God had done. Sure enough, symptoms would occur – depression would come. There would be times when I did not want to live. But once again, "He sent His Word."

While reading the story of the woman with the issue of blood, something stood out to me. Mark 5:34 (AMP), "Daughter, your faith . . . has restored you to health. Go in (into) peace and be continually healed and freed from your disease." Healing is a process, supernatural from beginning to end. The peace of God, I found, is not passive, but active. Philippians 4:7 (AMP) says, "It will garrison and mount guard over your heart and mind."

I learned that healing is received into your spirit and affects the body. I found that God's peace is also spiritual and will affect the mind, will, and emotions, fighting the battle for you. To this day I am continually healed and made whole, experiencing more of God's redemption and peace.

PRESS IN FOR YOUR HEALING

The ABC's of Healing: What the Bible says, from A to Z:   A A merry heart does good, like medicine…(Prov. 17:22). B ...By His stripes we are healed (Isa. 53:5). C Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7). D Do not be afraid; only believe (Mark 5:36). E Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights…(James 1:17). F For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways (Ps. 91:11). G God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). H He sent His word and healed them…(Ps. 107:20). I ...I am the Lord who heals you (Ex. 15:26). J Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). K Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life (Prov. 4:23). L Let the weak say, "I am strong" (Joel 3:10). M My son, give attention to my words...for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Prov. 4:20-22). N No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling (Ps. 91:10). O O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me (Ps. 30:2). P Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones (Prov. 16:24). Q Quicken…me according to thy word (Ps. 119:25). R Resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7). S So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Rom. 10:17). T The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? (Ps. 27:1). U Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live…(Ps. 119:116). V And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith (1 John 5:4). W With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation" (Ps. 91:16). X I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up, and have not let my foes rejoice over me (Ps. 30:1). Y You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). Z This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit," says the Lord of hosts (Zech. 4:6).

<>   Print Article Why Are Some Not Healed? by Larry Ollison, Ph.D. Author Bio

One night as I was reading my Bible, I noticed something very interesting about the teachings of Jesus. He wasn't like the Pharisees and Sadducees who taught legalism and bondage to the laws of man. When Jesus taught, He taught healing, freedom from bondage and eternal life. Jesus taught good news. Jesus taught faith. According to the Bible, Jesus went from village to village throughout Israel, preaching the gospel. Now, what's the gospel? The word gospel, when correctly translated into English, simply means good news. Jesus proclaimed the good news of God everywhere He went. What is the good news? Well, it's this. You can be set free. You can be healed. You can be prosperous. You can live a good life. People came to Jesus hungry and they left fed. People came to Jesus sick and deformed and they left healed. People came to Jesus deep in sin and bondage and they left totally set free. But let me ask you this. Was everyone who lived in Israel healed? Was leprosy completely wiped out? No, of course not. Some people in Israel were still in bondage to sin, poverty and illness. But why? Why wasn't everyone healed? Well, here's the reason. Some believed and some didn't. Without belief, there is no faith. Without faith, God is not pleased. Without belief in your heart, God's promises do not apply to you. In Hebrews chapter 4, the Bible talks about two groups of people who heard the gospel or the good news. It says, "For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it." Isn't that interesting? Both groups of people heard the gospel. Both groups heard the Word. But only one group profited from the gospel and that group was the group that had faith. It takes faith to move God. God never responds positively to doubt and unbelief. He only responds to faith. All through the Bible and all through the ministry of Jesus, we find that when the people believed, they received. When they believed in destruction, they were destroyed. When they believed in salvation, that's what they got. As Christians, we must believe the gospel. We must believe the good news of God's Word. In John 8:31-32 Jesus said, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." God is a good God. He has good things for those who believe. James 1:17 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." And Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Did you catch that? God rewards those who have faith and diligently seek Him. Is a reward good? Of course it is. That's why people return things for a reward. If a reward were bad, nothing would ever be returned. So, remember this. The gospel, the Word of God is good news and all the promises recorded in the Word of God apply to you, if you believe. Without faith, the gospel will not profit you. Copyright © 2002 Larry Ollison Ministries All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Praise Him!
by Kenneth Copeland

"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger" (Ps. 8:1-2).

When you've prayed and believed God to change circumstances, based on the Word of God, then you are to begin praising and thanking Him in the midst of those circumstances while you wait for them to change.

There's power in praise - and it's a fundamental element of faith. If you praise God, you'll be able to triumph over every attack. Psalm 8:1-2 confirms that. The devil is not going to hang around listening to the praises of God. Praise shuts his mouth. So put it to work.

Praise God that the mountain is gone even while it's still standing there.

Praise Him for setting you free.

Praise Him for the blood of Jesus that paid the price for your sin and delivered you from every curse.

Praise Him in the morning. Shout your way to work every day.

Praise Him at noon.

Shout your way home every evening.

Praise Him at night.

Praise Him when you don't feel like praising Him! It will make a difference.

Gloria and I have applied truths like this for more than thirty years, and God has brought us out on top every time.

Speak the Word: My continual praise and thanksgiving to God give Him the opportunity to intervene in my circumstances and bless me. (Ps. 145)

For Further Study: Psalm 150

Believe For Your Healing

Healing Questions Answered

To discover the truth about the origin, source and purpose of sickness, let's find the answers to some typical and often-asked questions.

Is it God's will to heal the sick?
The greatest barrier to healing is uncertainty of the will of God to heal everyone. Satan comes against us and puts words of doubt in our minds, and if we're not careful, we'll put that doubt to work.

We hear this doubt expressed in the words of traditional prayers like, "Lord, if it be your will, we ask for Your healing touch...."

Such a prayer expresses uncertainty and doubt about whether it's God will for all to be healed. Without a certainty in our spirits that it's God's will to heal, it's impossible to pray a prayer of faith for ourselves or for others.

We see an illustration of such doubt in the leprous man when he said, "If You are willing."

And He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out demons. Then a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean." And Jesus, moved with compassion, put out His hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed."
(Mark 1:39-41)

Jesus canceled the "if" by simply saying, "I am willing." Everything Jesus did was a revelation of the will of the Father for His people.

Is it God's will for me to be sick?
It's God's will above all things that we live in good health every day.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
(3 John 2)

If Jesus healed the sick, then it's the will of the Father to heal the sick. Since it's the will of the Father to heal the sick, then it's the will of the Father to heal you!

Is sickness one of the ways that God works things together for our good?
Many have been taught that sickness is one of the "all things" Paul said is to work together for our good.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
(Rom. 8:28)

The New International Version gives us a clearer understanding of this Scripture. It says, "We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose."

The emphasis is "in" all things God works for our good. It isn't that all things work together for our good. Instead, "in all things" or "in our sickness," the work of God's healing power will be the good produced.

Is sickness one of the ways that we are to suffer for Him?

For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake.
(Phil. 1:29)

To avoid misinterpreting Scripture, it's necessary to consider the context, or setting, of the subject. In this situation, Paul is in prison writing about his suffering in chains for the sake of the gospel.

But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ; and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
(Phil. 12-14 )

It's obvious from the context of this passage that the suffering Paul was talking about wasn't a reference to sickness or disease. It was instead a suffering of persecution and imprisonment for the Gospel's sake.

Does God put sickness on people to correct, discipline, punish, or to teach them patience?
Satan, not God, is the one who puts sickness and disease on people.

Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
(Job 2:7)

We wouldn't picture a loving, caring human father putting cancer on his children to discipline them. How can we picture our heavenly Father putting sickness or disease on His children?

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
(John 10:10)

Jesus said it's the devil who comes to kill us, to steal our health, and to destroy us with sickness and disease.

But Jesus came to give us abundant life, a life without sickness, disease and pain. He came to restore to us all that He created humankind to be when He created Adam and Eve in His image.

When God is ready to take us home, do we need to get sick to die?
If it's God's will that we live in health everyday of our lives, why would He make it necessary that we get sick to die?

Moses is a wonderful example! He was 120 years old when God called him home. His health was so good he was still able to climb the mountain to meet God. He had lost none of his eyesight or natural strength.

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor abated.
(Deut. 34:7)

When an older person is sick, it's God's will for them to be healed. When it's God's time, their spirit will leave their body and their heart will stop beating.

Does God let it happen?
Does God "let" sickness or premature death come on His people?

Many blame God when sickness or death comes, saying "Why did God let this happen?" Adam and Eve were given authority and dominion over all that happens on this earth when they were created in God's image.

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion."
(Gen. 1:26a)

The authority or dominion, which was lost when Adam and Eve sinned, was restored by Jesus.

And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
(Matt. 16:19)

Sickness comes through Satan's power, but Jesus said that believers today have power (or authority) over the power of the enemy.

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
(Luke 10:19)

By not using our God-given dominion on this earth, we, not God, let the devil bring sickness, disease and death on ourselves and our loved ones.

Faith is an Action by Kenneth Hagin

Some years ago, a friend of mine told me about a woman evangelist who preached in the early days of the Pentecostal Movement.

In one of her meetings, she ministered to four people in wheelchairs. To all four she said in a quite voice, "Arise and walk in Jesus' Name!"

And they all got up and walked—except the fourth one.

"I can't walk," she said.

"The others couldn't walk, either," the evangelist pointed out, "but they did."

The woman replied, "I know they did, but I can't walk. I haven't walked in years. I can't walk."

And the evangelist had to walk away and leave her sitting there, still in unbelief.

Results Are Forthcoming
You see, when those first three people began to act upon what was told them, results were forthcoming. When you act upon what God's Word says, or act upon what the Holy Spirit may speak to your heart, results are forthcoming. That is faith!

A woman in one of the churches I pastored had arthritis and was in a wheelchair. The doctor had told her some years before that her body eventually would become rigid and she wouldn't be able to move. She would become confined to a wheelchair, her body fixed in a sitting position. And it did come to pass; her body was stiff as a board.

She and her husband never missed a service. Now, I could pray for this woman and she would receive instant healing for such minor ailments as the flu or a cold. But it bothered me that she never once asked for prayer for healing from the arthritis.

There were people in that church who had been healed of very serious ailments, and I knew it was God's will to heal her too.

Some might argue, "Well, it may not be God's will," but I know it is God's will to heal people! (That doesn't mean that Christians who don't get healed aren't going to heaven. It just means they are robbed of a blessing while on this earth.)

One afternoon a small group of us from the church went to this crippled, woman's house to pray with her determined to see her delivered from that wheelchair. As we prayed, I saw exactly what God wanted me to do.

I said to everyone, "Get back away from her." We were in a large room. I went across the room from her and said, "Everybody watch, but I don't want anyone to touch her. Stay away from her."

They I pointed a finger at her and said, "Now, my Sister, arise and walk in the Name of Jesus Christ!"

My wife and I and the members of that prayer group are witnesses to the fact that the power of God listed her up out of that chair. She sat suspended in mid-air above the wheelchair! She could move her arms and immediately she reached down with those little, crippled hands for the wheelchair. The moment she did, she fell back down into the chair.

As she did, without thinking—I know it was the Spirit of God in me—I pointed to her and said, "Sister, you don't have an ounce of faith, do you? You don't believe you'll ever be healed of this arthritis, do you?"

She blurted out, "No, Brother Hagin, I don't. I'll die and go to my grave with it." And she did.

It's Up To You To Obey
You cannot receive from God beyond actual faith. Do you know what would have happened if she had cooperated with God's healing power? She would have been healed. Every joint in her body would have been loosened. She would have begun to walk!

Too many people think that God's power—healing power, Holy Spirit power—is going to move on them and make them do something whether they want to do it or not. No! That wouldn't be the Holy Spirit; that would be an evil spirit.

Evil spirits force, drive, and compel you to do things. But the Holy Spirit urges, prompts, or gives a gentle push. They it is up to you to respond. It is up to you to obey.

While I was conducting a meeting in Texas, a woman in that town wrote a friend in another city, telling her how many were receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit in the services. She invited her friend down for the weekend services.

The friend drove down and was in two of our services before coming forward to receive the Holy Spirit. I laid my hands on her head, prayed and the Holy Spirit came upon her. The utterance came. But I couldn't get her to respond or receive.

In the next service, which was Sunday morning, she came again for prayer. Once again the Holy Spirit came upon her and gave her utterance, but again she did not yield and receive.

I knew exactly what was wrong, but I knew it would take time to instruct her, and it was getting late. I turned the service over to the pastor.

Then I slipped through the side door and was walking across the parking lot toward the parsonage when I saw her sitting in her car. She looked so disappointed as she sat there a moment before turning the ignition key to begin her journey home.

I asked the Lord to let me help her. Instantly the Spirit of God showed me how to quickly help her. I walked over to her car, opened my Bible to Acts 2:4, and as I handed it to her through the window, I asked her to read it aloud.

She read, "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

"Sister," I asked, "who does the Scripture say did the speaking with tongues?"

She replied, "It says the Holy Ghost did."

I asked her to read it again. She read it again. I asked her the same question. She gave the same reply. So I repeated the question. Finally, on the fourth time around, she caught on that something must be wrong, so she began to read slowly, "And - they - were - all - filled - with - the - Holy - Ghost - and - began - to - speak..."

Looking astonished, she said, "Why, THEY did!"

She took my Bible out of its case and examined it. She said she thought perhaps I had a different Bible from hers, but it was the same—a Scofield reference edition.

"You know," she said, "I always thought the Holy Spirit did the speaking."

I told her I had known that. Then I said, "Let's read several other Scriptures. God's Word ways that out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall a thing be established."

We read Acts 10:44-46:

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision, which believed, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard THEM speak with tongues and magnify God…. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I see it!"

"That's two witnesses," I said. "Let's get three."

So we read Acts 19:6,

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and THEY spake with tongues, and prophesied. The woman said, "You know, Brother Hagin, if I had been called to testify in a court and the lawyer had asked me who did the speaking in tongues, I would have said the Holy Spirit did, and I would have thought I was telling the truth."

I said, "I want to ask you something. When I laid my hands on you, did you sense the Holy Spirit? Did the power of God come upon you?"

"Absolutely," she answered.

"Did your tongue want to say something that wasn't English?"

"Why," she said, "it was all I could do to keep it from it."

"You're not supposed to keep it from it," I told her. "You're supposed to cooperate. When the Holy Spirit gives you utterance, you must have faith to act."

Immediately she began to speak in a most beautiful tongue.

Faith Is Acting On God's Word
It's time to quit hanging around and to start acting on the Word of God, because faith is acting.

I was in one church where there was a man who had been severely burned over the lower part of his body. He couldn't walk; he just scooted along.

In one of the services, the Holy Spirit told me to have everyone who had something wrong with them from their hips down to come into the healing line. This man was the first in line.

I waited until they were all in line before I told them what else God had said for me to tell them to do. I went up to this man and asked, "Can you run?"

It took him by surprise. "Oh, my God, no," he said. "I can't even walk, much less run."

I said, "That's what the Lord has told me to do—to tell you to run."

The man didn't even give it a second thought. He turned and started scooting up the aisle as fast as he could. The third time he came around, the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and I jumped off that platform, grabbed the man by the hand, and ran around that building with him. When we got back to the front, he was walking normally; not scooting. He was perfectly healed.

However, if I hadn't been able to get him to cooperate and act on his faith, I couldn't have helped him. Faith, you see, is acting on God's Word—doing whatever He says to do in His Word, or whatever He may say to us in the Spirit.

It's one thing to believe. It's another to believe and act on that belief!

Source: What Faith Is by Kenneth E. Hagin.
Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications

God's Medicine ....Charles Capps

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God declares that His Word will not return to Him void. We are to return His Word by giving voice to it, and He will create the fruit of our lips. Confessing God's Word is a way you can fellowship with the Lord and increase your faith at the same time.

I challenge you to affirm these scriptural confessions audibly three times a day. Don't let it become a hit and miss proposition. Make it a practice to take God's medicine on a regular basis, just a you would any other medicine. Then it will be LIFE to you and HEALTH to your flesh.

These verses are to be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.

Note: These are not direct quotations from the Bible; they are paraphrased confessions based on the Scriptures under them.

Jesus is the Lord of my life. Sickness and disease have no power over me. I am forgiven and free from SIN AND GUILT. I am dead to sin and alive unto righteousness (Col. 1:21-22).

I am FREE from unforgiveness and strife. I forgive others as Christ has forgiven me, for the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost (Matt. 6:12; Rom. 5:5).

Jesus bore my sins in His Body on the tree; therefore I am dead to sin and alive unto God and by His stripes I am healed and made whole (1 Peter 2:24; Rom. 6:11; 2 Cor. 5:21).

Jesus bore my sickness and carried my pain. Therefore I give no place to sickness or pain. For God sent His Word and healed me (Ps. 107:20).

Father, because of Your Word I am an overcomer. I overcome the world, the flesh and the devil, by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (1 John 4:4; Rev. 12:11).

You have given me abundant life. I receive that life through Your Word and it flows to every organ of my body bringing healing and health (John 10:10; John 6:63).

Heavenly Father, I attend to Your Word. I incline my ears to Your sayings. I will not let them depart from my eyes. I keep them in the midst of my heart, for they are life and healing to all my flesh (Prov. 4:20-22).

As God was with Moses, so is He with me. My eyes are not dim; neither are my natural forces abated. Blessed are my eyes for they see and my ears, for they hear (Deut. 34:7).

No evil will befall me, neither shall any plague come near my dwelling. For you have given your angels charge over me. They keep me in all my ways. In my pathway are life, healing and health (Ps. 91:10-11; Prov. 12:28).

Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. Therefore I refuse to allow sickness to dominate my body. The Life of God flows within me bringing healing to every fiber of my being (Matt. 8:17; John 6:63).

I am redeemed from the curse. Galatians 3:13 is flowing in my blood stream. It flows to every cell of my body, restoring life and health (Mark 11:23; Luke 17:6).

The life of 1 Peter 2:24 is a reality in my flesh, restoring every cell of my body.

I present my body to God for it is the temple of the living God. God dwells in me and His life permeates my spirit, soul and body so that I am filled with the fullness of God daily (Rom. 12:1-2; John 14:20).

My body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. I make a demand on my body to release the right chemicals. My body is in perfect chemical balance. My pancreas secretes the proper amount of insulin for life and health (1 Cor. 6:19).

Heavenly Father, through Your Word You have imparted Your life to me. That life restores my body with every breath I breathe and every word I speak (John 6:65; Mark 11:23).

That which God has not planted is dissolved and rooted out of my body in Jesus' name. First Peter 2:24 is engrafted into every fiber of my being and I am alive with the life of God (Mark 11:23; John 6:63).

Steps To Healing.....T.L. Osborn  http://www.born-again-christian.info/healings.htm