God Be God

"Jesus died so that NO WORK of the enemy could EVER harm us."

“God does not heal today.” REALLY? First proof positive, He created the immune system. He gave the body the ability to fight off disease and heal itself. Second proof, He has given to men vast medical knowledge to know how to heal the body, how to perform successful surgeries, and to craft medicine. But like any other part of culture, medicine done outside of God's wisdom will always fail. The truth comes from Him and is sustained by Him.

Those two factors alone should seal it for you. But there is a third found throughout the Scriptures. JESUS. Jesus came to bring a full and complete salvation. The word translated "salvation" includes every part of life and success and deliverance and healing. God left nothing out of who He is. There is our key. Salvation was not meant to simply save us from sin and hell. God wanted an avenue where He could BE GOD, the abundant, generous, overflowing God that is His nature. He wanted to be more than enough, to make us more than conquerors, to give to excess in ways we do not expect.

Jesus died so that NO WORK of the enemy could EVER harm us.

“[The Gospel] regarding His Son, Who as to the flesh (His human nature) was descended from David, And [as to His divine nature] according to the Spirit of holiness was openly designated the Son of God in power [in a striking, triumphant and miraculous manner] by His resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord (the Messiah, the Anointed One).” (Romans 1:3-4 AMPC)

Do you really believe that God would sacrifice His only Son, created without sin, in such a horrific manner but after raising Him in such a spectacular fashion, refuse to give us what Jesus spent all His time doing? Again and again in the gospels, Jesus healed. Multitudes. Every single sick or tormented person left healed. Individuals. Jew and Gentile. (So ethnicity is not an excuse.)

In Acts, after Jesus returned to sit at the Father's right hand, miracles were performed at the hands of Peter and John and Paul. And in 1 Corinthians, gifts are given to the church specific to healing.

We make excuses for what we don't understand, for what we fear, and some of that fear is of offending God. How dare we expect Him to do some miracle for us after all He did. Friends, THAT IS THE POINT. After all He did, He wants to heal, to rescue, to set free. And I have seen Him do so. There are testimonies of miracles all around us. A testimony is proof of something God will do again. He's not a one-time God.

He's an every-single-time God. The enemy would have us give up on healing and call it respect. He would have us swallow hopelessness and label it God's will. The enemy would have us believe God is wishy-washy and continually changing His mind, then label that a closed door. According to Him, God is always opening and closing doors at whim.

But no. This is one door Jesus removed forever. Jesus will ALWAYS heal. That is who He is. He is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that heals. Forever. As He was in the Old Covenant, He was after His Resurrection, He is at the present time, and He will be in the future until ...

Proof number four, until He removes death for good. That's the goal, Nicole. No more death. And it will happen because the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is the God of the heavens and earth, the God of all nations, the God who sent His Son to be everything man would ever need to not simply survive, but thrive. Every single day, all year long, for a lifetime and into eternity, health and healing is ours. Forever we have peace beyond our understanding with all our needs met. If God so clothe the grass, if He feeds the sparrows, how much more will He care for you?

HEALING IN THE OLD COVENANT:

• "So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.” (Genesis 20:17)
• “And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;” (Leviticus 14:3)
• “And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children (2:20-21) And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.” (1 Samuel 1:2, 1 Samuel 2:20-21)
• “Then went he (Naaman) down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” (2 Kings 5:14)
• “Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.” (2 Kings 20:5)
• "He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.” (2 Kings 4:33-37)
• “The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:” (Daniel 4:33-34)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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