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all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). So when you miss it, just be quick to repent. Receive God's forgiveness and put that sin behind you. Then get on with the business of serving God and thank Him that He said in Exodus 23:25–26: "Ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he (your angel, see verse 20) shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfi l." I remember one morning after I'd been meditating on those verses, the truth in them went o in me anew as I was driving out of my driveway. Right there in my car I hollered, "I'll never be sick another day in my life hereafter forever! Sickness has been taken from the middle of me. Glory to God!" It's not that those verses were new to me. I've read, heard and preached on them countless times. But there's always more revelation to be gained from even the most familiar scriptures. You can go back to them again and again, and they'll reenergize your faith every time. This is why God said in Proverbs 4: "My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who fi nd them, healing and health to all their fl esh" (verses 20-22, Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition). The Hebrew word translated healing and health can also be translated medicine. So I call these verses God's prescription for divine healing. They won't do you any good though, just sitting unread in your Bible. For God's WORD to heal you, you must take it as prescribed. Get It in the System I learned this lesson many years ago when, during some meetings I was preaching in Shreveport, La., I noticed something was wrong with one of my legs. At fi rst, it just felt like a tightness and it didn't bother me much when I was ministering. In between meetings, though, it would get worse. Eventually, one night when I fi nished preaching, as I stepped o the platform, it hit me so hard it nearly knocked me to the fl oor. I knew the healing scriptures, of course, so when I got back to my room I stretched out across the bed and asked The LORD why my faith wasn't working. "LORD, You can't miss it," I said. "So the problem must be with me. Where am I missing it?" He answered by taking me to Proverbs 4:21, where He told us not to let His words depart from our sight. You've been quoting the healing scriptures by memory, He said, but you need to do more than remember them. You need to put your eyes on them. You need to open your Bible and read them. God's WORD is spiritual food. It feeds your faith just like natural food feeds your body. As The LORD explained it to me, You can remember what a potato tastes like, but remembering it won't nourish you. To get nourishment from a potato you must eat it and get it into your system. That's what you need to do with My WORD. You need to feed on it and get it into your system. To help me do that, I started putting tabs on the pages of my Bible to mark where all the healing scriptures are. They make it easy for me to fl ip from one to the other. I've found that if I'll read those verses often and keep them before my eyes, I'll be able to see myself healed. Regardless of any symptoms of sickness that might show up in my body, I'll see myself well and speak and act accordingly. Even if there's nothing wrong with your body right now, practice that. Teach your children and grandchildren to practice it too. Tell them, "The WORD of God says in 1 Peter 2:24 that by the stripes of Jesus we were healed, so we don't talk sickness in our house. No matter how we feel, we say, 'I am healed!'" Is it easy to keep releasing your faith and saying you're healed when you're hurting? No. But do it anyway. 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