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How did He do it?
By His WORD!
You see, “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17), and faith is the connector to God’s power. So, the more time you spend in the healing scriptures, the more of His healing power you’re able to receive. The more you see in 3 John 2, for instance, that it’s God’s will for you to “prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth,” the more faith will begin to rise up in you to prosper and be well.
When you get your heart full to overflowing with God’s healing WORD, you don’t have to sit around for six months waiting for Him to do something for you. You can take hold of your healing by faith and start walking in it immediately. You can say, “I believe I receive right now,” take what God has already provided for you, and the devil himself won’t be able to keep you sick.
Sickness is the work of the devil. Either directly or indirectly he’s behind every bit of it, and he has no defense against God’s healing WORD. When someone takes hold of that WORD by faith, the devil is sunk. There’s not a thing he can do to keep his work in place. If there were, he would have stopped the deliverance of the madman of Gadara. Have you read about him? He was the most demonically controlled man you can imagine. He had anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 evil spirits living in him. Yet, when he fell at Jesus’ feet and worshipped Him, and Jesus cast out those devils, they had to leave him. The words Jesus spoke instantly set him free.
God’s Time for Healing Is Always Now
“Well,” someone might say, “God doesn’t work that quickly in every instance. Sometimes it’s His will for us to put up with sickness for a while and wait for Him to heal us in His own good time.”
No, it’s not!
I know some people have taught that, but it’s not scriptural. For something to be scriptural, you must have scripture for it, and there’s no place in the Bible where someone came to God for healing and He told them no, or that they’d have to wait.
You won’t find Jesus in the Gospels sending anyone away and telling them to keep seeking for their healing for another minute, much less years. With Jesus, the time for healing was always now. Time and again, He responded immediately to those who came to Him in faith.
When the leper came to Him, saying, “If You’re willing You can make me clean,” Jesus didn’t even hesitate. He “put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed” (Matthew 8:3).
When the centurion came asking Jesus to heal his servant, Jesus said, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour” (verse 13).
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