Receive Your Healing
by Gloria Copeland
You can make the decision to live in divine health right now, in the same way you made the decision to accept Jesus as Savior. First, you must decide to be well. Then, believe you receive health and healing in your body.
Just as salvation is offered to “whosoever” will accept it (John 3:16), so is healing offered to whosoever will believe it is available to them.
The Greek word sozo, translated “saved” in Romans 10:9, is the same Greek word translated “healed” in the Gospels. In Mark 5:23, Jairus said to Jesus, “My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed [sozo]; and she shall live.” To the woman with the issue of blood, Jesus said, “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole [sozo]” (Matthew 9:22).
When Jesus was raised from the dead, He purchased soundness for your spirit, soul and body. You have been made whole.
Right now, by faith, confess Jesus as your Healer in the same way that you made Him Lord over your life. Make Jesus Lord over your body according to Romans 10:10 which says, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Make this your confession: “According to the Word of God, I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I confess Him now as my Healer. I make Him Lord over my body. I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. From this moment, my body is saved, healed, made whole and delivered.”
Stand Fast
Now, resist the temptation to be sick just like you resist the temptation to sin. That may sound too simple, but it works because the Word says, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
Satan is the source of sickness. When he attempts to put sickness on your body, refuse it in the Name of Jesus because it is against the will of God for you to be sick. As soon as you have the slightest thought Satan is trying to put sickness on you, turn to 1 Peter 2:24 and read aloud what Jesus has done for you: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” Receive it in faith and thank God that by Jesus’ stripes you were healed.
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