Healing Is Here
by Kenneth Copeland
Do you remember how easy it was to get born again? If you’re a believer, I’m sure you do. You simply accepted Jesus as your LORD and Savior. As Romans 10:9 says, you confessed Him with your mouth, believed in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, and—just like that!—you got saved. +
It was the easiest thing you ever did.
Why was it so easy?
Because Jesus did the hard part a long time ago.
He took on Himself the sins of all mankind and died on the Cross to purchase our forgiveness. He went to hell in our place, defeated the devil and rose from the dead. Then, He went back to heaven and prayed for the Father to send the Holy Spirit, to deliver to us everything Jesus paid for us to have, so that we could receive it by faith—anywhere, anytime.
Talk about good news! This is the best news ever: Salvation is here! The Savior has come and it is so easy to receive from Him!
What’s more, He hasn’t come only to save us from sin. He paid the price for us to be saved from every work of the devil, including sickness and disease. As Isaiah 53:4 says, “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains—he hath carried” ("Young’s Literal Translation")…. “The chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole” (verse 5, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition").
It’s just as easy to accept Jesus as Healer as it is to accept Him as LORD and Savior! Most Christians just haven’t realized it because they’ve been taught wrong. They’ve heard things in church like, “Sometimes God heals and sometimes He doesn’t. You just never know what He’s going to do. You can always ask Him to heal you and then if you don’t get any better, you’ll know that healing isn’t His will for you.”
Every one of those statements is totally unscriptural!
We do know what God is going to do. He will do exactly what He said in His WORD—every time, all the time—for anyone who will believe it and receive it.
When it comes to the new birth, this is generally understood. No real Christian anywhere would say to someone seeking salvation, “Well, sometimes God saves and sometimes He doesn’t. If you ask Him and you don’t feel anything, then apparently redemption isn’t His will for you.”
We know better than that!
Salvation is God’s will for everyone. Jesus has provided it and extended the invitation: “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17). By the power of the Holy Spirit, salvation is present in the very atmosphere. It may not always be received, but it’s always here.
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