TIMELESS TEACHING
originally published Oct./Nov. 1992
Harvest of Health
by Gloria Copeland
I have some revolutionary news for you today. God wants you healthy! Every day!
Oh, I know that you may quickly think, I know God will heal me when I get sick.
Yes, that’s true. He will. But that’s not what I’m saying. I’m telling you God’s perfect will is for you to live continually in divine health. His will is for you to walk so fully in the power of His Word that sickness and disease are literally pushed away from you. Isn’t that good news?
You’ve probably heard a lot about God’s healing power but there is a difference between divine healing and divine health.
Years ago, the powerful preacher John G. Lake put it this way, “Divine healing is the removal by the power of God of the disease that has come upon the body. But divine health is to live day by day, hour by hour in touch with God so that the life of God flows into the body just as the life of God flows into the mind or flows into the spirit.”
I agree that it is wonderful to get healed when you’re sick, but it’s more wonderful to live in divine health. And that’s what God has always intended for His people.
Even under the Old Covenant, God promised His people immunity from disease. Exodus 23:25 says, “And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”
That promise is even stronger under the New Covenant. Isaiah, looking forward to what Jesus would accomplish at the cross wrote, “Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows...he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5).
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