BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

For God’s medicine to work most effectively though, it must be taken continually. You can’t fully experience its benefits by just occasionally reading a few healing scriptures, or by turning to them only when you’re feeling sick. You need to feed on God’s healing Word regularly, even when you’re well, because that’s the way you stay well. Personally, as much as I like getting healed from sickness, I like living in divine health even better. That’s why in my own life I regularly go over familiar healing scriptures that I’ve stood on for many years. Some of my favorites include these in Psalm 145:8-9: “The LORD is gracious, 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.” When you’re looking to God for healing, or believing for divine health, you always want to remember: You’re looking to Someone who is gracious or disposed to show favor. Someone who is full of compassion, who has an eager yearning to do good. You’re looking to Someone who has great mercy, who doesn’t give up on you. Because God’s mercy endures forever, you can never wear it out. Also, because He is good to all, when it comes to healing, He doesn’t leave anyone out. His tender mercies are over all His works, and Ephesians 2:10 confirms you are “His workmanship.” So, you can come to Him for healing with confidence, knowing that in His goodness He will give it to you. “But Gloria,” you might say, “what if God decides it would be good for me to stay sick? Doesn’t the Bible say somewhere that sickness is sometimes a blessing—that on occasion God puts it on us to teach us something?” No, it doesn’t say that! Confused religious people sometimes say that, but not God. He’s never been confused about what’s good and what’s bad, what’s a blessing and what’s a curse. He says in the Bible that “every sickness, and every plague” is part of the curse (Deuteronomy 28:61) and that when Jesus came, who is the very embodiment of the blessing, God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and with power, and He “went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38). Quick To Heal All and Every Healing is always the will of our good God! That’s the reason Jesus always healed people when He was on earth. He was, and is, the visible, physical manifestation of His heavenly Father. He said it Himself, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9, "New King James Version"), and He was quick to heal all who came to Him of every sickness and every disease. We see Him do it all through the Gospels. In the book of Matthew, for instance, we read: • “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…and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them” (Matthew 4:23-24). • “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” (Matthew 8:16-17). • “Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people” (Matthew 9:35). • “When he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease” (Matthew 10:1). • “Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all” (Matthew 12:15). • “Great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel” (Matthew 15:30-31). Talk about some powerful medicine! You can get a megadose just from meditating on how often the words all and every are used in those verses. While you’re at it, you can also get set free from any idea you might have gotten that God gets glory by the noble way His people patiently put up with the pain and the agony of disease. That idea is nothing but a devilish lie! 28 : BVOV

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