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I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me (John 5:30). For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me (John 6:38). Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7). In other words, Jesus healed all because it's God's will for all to be healed! Although not everyone will reach out to Him by faith and receive it, healing is God's will for everyone, especially His covenant people. As The LORD said to Gloria many years ago when He fi rst told her to begin teaching Healing School at our Believers' Conventions, I want My people well! In the Gospels, not only do we see God heal people through the ministry of Jesus, but we also see His healing will revealed in what Jesus told His fi rst disciples. When He sent out the 12, Matthew 10 says, He gave them power "to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease," and said to them, "…go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give" (verses 1, 7–8). When the job got so big the fi rst 12 disciples needed help, "The LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." Before they went, He gave them the same command: "Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you…heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you" (Luke 10:1, 8-9). God's will and Jesus' instructions in those verses are crystal clear: Everywhere, always, heal the people. Get someone well! That's a lot like the mandate God originally gave Brother Oral Roberts. 6 : B V O V 2 For God to cease to be The LORD who heals us, He'd have to change His Name, and that's not going to happen. (Mal. 3:6) 3 Jesus healed everyone who came to Him for healing and He never changes. (Heb. 13:8) 4 When you received Jesus as LORD, the same Holy Spirit who empowered Jesus to heal the sick came to live in you. (Acts 10:38) POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1 God is so committed to healing you that He included healing in one of His covenant Names. (Ex. 15:26, AMPC) 5 It doesn't matter what's wrong with your body, the power of God's Spirit within you is more than able to fi x it. (Eph. 3:20-21) For Him to be this same Jesus He must still be saying and doing the same things today by His Spirit that He did during His earthly ministry. What did He say and do about healing people then? Matthew 8 tells us. When a man with leprosy came to Him and said, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean…. Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will." One translation of the Bible quotes Jesus as saying, "Of course I will!" (verses 2–3), and immediately the man's leprosy was cleansed. If it was Jesus' will to heal then, it's still His will to heal now. It has to be, because He's still the same. "But Brother Copeland, how do we know it wasn't just His will to heal that particular man?" By reading the rest of Matthew 8. It tells us that after the man with leprosy was healed, another man (a Roman centurion) asked Jesus to heal his servant. Using almost the same words He used before, Jesus said, "I will come and heal him" (verse 7). After that, Jesus went to Peter's house, where Peter's mother-in-law was lying sick with a great fever, and healed her. Then, "when the even was come, 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" (verse 16). Look at that verse again. It says Jesus healed all the sick people who came to Him for healing that day. All of them! He never turned away one person who came to Him to receive healing. Not one. "Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all" (Matthew 12:15). Everywhere, Always, Heal the People Why did Jesus heal all? Because, as He put it: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to fi nish his work (John 4:34). Get Get Get your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine.kcm.org

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