He Is Healer

"But time is required of us, humility is our posture, and "love one another" is our motive."

JESUS SPOKE the Word, and they were healed. He laid hands on them and deliverance came. Not through hours of striving, or because He was loud. Instead, His conversations with the Father, prayers in the dead of night, time behind-the-scenes as we’d say, made it easy and the burden light. This is a key to our own laying hands on the sick (Mark 16:18). God can do, God will do, His work through us in peace and quietness. But time is required of us, humility is our posture, and “love one another” is our motive. Healing isn’t a feeling, and faith is our trust in Jesus which comes through our adoration of Him. It isn’t a muscle, as some have described, nor a credit card we cash in. Instead, it is that we know Him intimately and have not one doubt He will heal.

“Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.” (Luke 4:40 KJV)

He loves to heal. Like some love football and others music, Jesus loves healing minds, bodies, and relationships. He heals marriages. But the key to healing in a marriage is for the husband to seek God for His spiritual growth and the wife to seek God for hers. Maturing in forgiveness and being peacemakers solves anger, wars of words, and misunderstandings. There’s not one need for any worldly thinking or talk about lust. God can be delicate … He will be delicate with what must be kept private. He heals sexual tension. The intimacy of a husband with his wife is His design. The apostle Paul used it to compare Christ’s love for the church. But the church cannot afford to put it on display. In some things, where God asks us to walk a certain way, we cannot flex or bend on it. Otherwise, there will be no anointing on what is said, but it becomes mere words in an empty room.

Jesus often would fast (abstain from eating) and pray. In a passage in Mark 9, He had laid hands on a child possessed by an unclean spirit, and His Learners then asked Him why they had been unable to heal the child. An important lesson is taught here. Jesus replied, “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting (Mark 9:29).” I like how the Remedy translation phrases it: “This type of evil is only overcome by talking with my Father.” Minister Bill Johnson points out Jesus neither prayed nor fasted right then but, instead, it was a lifestyle for Him. Jesus was always in conversation with God. Healing and deliverance cannot be done with our minds and actions coming from our fleshly nature. If we are not being LED OF THE SPIRIT and WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, then our actions will fail, as the disciples’ did with this child.

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” (Galatians 5:16 KJV)

There are no qualifications required to be healed. Not even salvation. Nor a “good lifestyle.” I always quote Minister Dutch Sheets who in his youth ran from God and took to hanging out in bars and drinking. He says he was in a particularly seedy one when God spoke, “What are you doing here, son?” Startled, he replied with the same, “What are YOU doing here?” God set him on the path to freedom that night. God will go anywhere to rescue mankind. He proved this with Jesus’ death and Resurrection. He proved it in the lives of the apostles who formed the church in the book of Acts. He displayed it in the life of Paul, who turned from murder-sponsored religion to someone overflowing with God’s love.

“Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.” {2 Corinthians 11:23-28)

THERE ARE NO QUALIFICATIONS TO RECEIVE HEALING. God does not withhold His mercy. EVER. Some healing requires patience. We must “hold fast” to Him and mature (Hebrews 10:23). We must be entirely reliant on Him. But neither the size of your faith, nor your personal ignorance, nor any mistakes you made that put you that way are barriers. Just consider Job, who believed God stole his success, destroyed his livelihood, and killed his children … WRONG, WRONG, WRONG information … yet he would not curse God and give up and die. Instead, he submitted to God in the light of what he believed.

I pray, “God, if I’m wrong, bring me revelation,” and then I keep my will beneath His. Because one thing I am 100% sure of, Jesus loves to heal. He told me so.

“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised; )” (Hebrews 10:23 KJV)

"Remember that prayer is conversation with God, as talking to your closest friend.” (Matthew 6:7 Remedy)

“Keep an open conversation with God and talk with him about everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:17 Remedy)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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