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The same is true about healing. We don’t have to wonder if it’s going to come when we pray for it. The Healer has already come! By the power of the Holy Spirit healing is present 24/7. It’s not always received but it’s always here. “But Brother Copeland, how can healing be here without me being able to feel it?” Just like the room you’re in right now—it can be full of television and radio broadcasts that you can’t see or hear. They’re right there all around you on the airwaves. You can’t perceive them with your natural eyes and ears. Yet, if you have a receiver (a radio, television, smartphone app or whatever) you can pick up those broadcasts whenever you want. All you have to do is turn on your receiver and tune in. You have such confidence the broadcasts are there, if you get in your car and you can’t pick up any stations on the radio, it doesn’t even occur to you that the problem is with the broadcaster. You don’t call all the radio stations and say, “Hey, you guys need to fix your machines. You’re not putting out anything.” No, you get your receiver fixed! The No. 1 Way To Receive Once you realize it’s already here, you can take the same approach toward healing. If you’ve been praying for it and it hasn’t shown up yet in your body, you can have confidence that the problem isn’t with God. You’re not waiting on Him to heal you. His healing program is complete, and it’s being broadcast 24/7. You just need to turn on your receiver and tune in. How do you do that? First and foremost, through The WORD of God. There are other ways to receive healing, such as through the gifts of the Holy Spirit or the laying on of hands, but receiving by faith in The WORD of God is the best. It tops the list of ways to get healed because the gifts of the Spirit aren’t always readily available. Someone may not always be available to lay hands on you, but you can always believe The WORD. It will work for you no matter what your situation, just like it did in Mark 5 for the woman with the issue of blood. Have you ever read about that woman? She didn’t have anyone to lay hands on her. A shut-in, she’d suffered from a flow of blood for 12 years and according to religious law she was untouchable. But when she “heard the reports concerning Jesus” (verse 27, "AMPC")—who was anointed by God with the Holy Ghost and with power, was going about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil—faith arose in her heart. She believed the reports, gave voice to her faith, and the result was corresponding action. She got up out of bed, went to find Jesus, and pushing her way through the crowd that surrounded Him, she touched the hem of His robe. "For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?... And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing…. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague" (Mark 5:28-30, 32, 34). “We can’t get healed like that today!” someone might argue. “Things are different now. Jesus isn’t here anymore in a form where we can physically touch Him.” That woman wasn’t healed by Jesus’ physical touch. According to Jesus, her faith made her whole! Faith isn’t any different now than it was back then. Neither is Jesus. He is “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). He’s still here on earth in the Person of the Holy Spirit, and “all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20, "New King James Version"). Notice it’s not just some of God’s promises that are yes and amen in Him. It’s not win a few, lose a few. In Him every healing scripture in the Bible is YES! • Exodus 15:26: “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” YES! • Exodus 23:25: “Ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he [your angel] shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” YES! • Psalm 103:2-3: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.” YES! • Malachi 4:2: “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” YES! • Matthew 8:16-17: “They brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” YES! * * * * article continues on p. 8 * * * * * 6 : BVOV

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