A lot of believers have the idea that receiving healing from God is hard.
I don’t know where they got that impression. Most likely they picked it up through religious tradition. But one thing is for sure: They certainly didn’t get it from the Bible.
The Bible doesn’t say anything about it being difficult to receive healing from the Lord. It says just the opposite! It says, “The Lord is gracious [which means disposed to show favors] and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works” (Psalm 145:8-9).
Does that sound like someone it would be hard to receive from?
No, it sounds like Someone who’s easy to receive from! It sounds like Someone who is tenderhearted, easily entreated and eager to bless anyone who comes to Him. Someone who, in today’s vernacular, might be called a “soft touch.”
You may not be accustomed to thinking of God in those terms, but that’s how He is. Even in Old Testament times, He always healed His people when they gave Him the opportunity. He was always trying to get them to believe Him so He could manifest His goodness in their lives.
That’s why Jesus did the things He did in the New Testament! He’s just like His heavenly Father, so He was disposed to show favor to people. He was so easily entreated that every time someone in need reached out to Him, He helped them. Anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power, as Acts 10:38 says, He “went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
There’s not one instance recorded in the New Testament where Jesus made it hard for someone to get healed. He never turned anyone away or told them they were too sinful or in such bad shape that He couldn’t do anything for them.
On the contrary! Jesus preached the same exciting message to everyone. It didn’t matter who they were or how impossible their situation might have seemed, He told people everywhere he went: “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…. The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Luke 4:18; Mark 1:15).
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (Matthew 4:23).
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