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by Kenneth Copeland
Those are important questions, and—
praise God—the Bible answers each of them
with an emphatic, resounding YES!
From beginning to end it tells us that
God has always included healing in the
covenants He made with His people. He
even included healing in one of His seven
redemptive Names. He said in Exodus 15:26,
"I am the Lord Who heals you" (Amplifi ed
Bible, Classic Edition), or in other words, I
am Jehovah Rapha.
If that was all He'd ever said about it
(and it's not!) it would be enough. We'd be
certain that it's His will to heal us because
for Him to cease at any point to be The
LORD who heals us, He'd have to change
His Name—and that's not going to happen.
It can't, because that would mean He'd have
to change, and He said in Malachi 3:6, "I am
the LORD, I change not."
Jesus' brother James confi rmed this
when he wrote that with God there "is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning"
(James 1:17). What did he mean by shadow of
turning? Think about a sundial. Depending
on the time of day, the shadows on it change.
When there's no shadow on the sundial at
all, you know it's noon.
With God, it's noon all the time! He is
Light. In Him there is no darkness at all,
and He never varies. So, if He was ever The
LORD who heals, He still is!
To see more evidence of it, look in the
Gospels at the ministry of Jesus. He is "the
same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
He's the "express image" of the Father, so He
never changes (Hebrews 13:8, 1:3). As the
angel said to the disciples who witnessed
Jesus' ascension, "This same Jesus, which
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen him go"
(Acts 1:11).
I've never met a Christian
who didn't believe God
could heal them. Most will
quickly agree that He has
the power.
Usually, the only questions they have are:
Can I actually access that power? and Is healing always God's will? Or more to
the point, Is it always His will to heal me?
