Hear & Be Healed
by Kenneth Copeland
If you’ve been sick and you’re waiting for God to heal you, I have some extremely good news for you today: You’re not waiting for God, He’s waiting on you!
He’s waiting for you to open your Bible and draw out of it the healing power He put in His WORD.
He’s waiting for you to take that WORD like medicine and do what He said in Proverbs 4: “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” (verses 20-22).
What does it mean to incline your ear to The WORD?
It means when you read a verse like 1 Peter 2:24, that says, “by [Jesus’] stripes you were healed” ("New King James Version"'), you lean into it. You meditate on it, confess it and keep agreeing with it, even in the face of contradictory circumstances. Instead of arguing with it and saying, “Yeah, I know the Bible says that, but I’m still hurting and I’ve received a bad report from the doctor,” you stay focused on what God said and get your “yeah, but” out of the way.
“But Brother Copeland, you don’t know how serious my situation is.”
No, but I know how seriously powerful God is, and His WORD can do anything He can do. It can work miracles in your physical body and accomplish what medical science might say is impossible. And God has provided it so He can do for you the same thing He did for the people in Psalm 107:20: “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Talk about a serious situation! According to the surrounding verses, those people were near the gates of death. They were in so much distress, that in the natural, there was no way they were going to make it. Yet, when they cried out to God, He was able to save them from their trouble and restore them to health.
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POINTS TO GET YOU THERE:
1) Faith is what connects you to God’s healing power.
Rom. 10:17
2) Faith begins where the will of God is known.
3 John 2
3) God’s time for healing is always now. Matt. 8:2-3
4) Put The WORD first place and it will be life and health to your body.
Prov. 4:20, 22
5) God’s WORD can do anything He can do.
Ps. 107:20
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