Because Healing Is 100% by Grace, Can I Live Any Old Way and Still Get Healed?

Probably not.

You can be the vilest sinner in town and get healed if you’ll allow Jesus to minister to you.  But if you intend to KEEP living as the vilest sinner in town, you will not walk in divine health.  Let’s talk about why that is.

Healing is received by faith.  Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6).  So if you want to please God, you’ll have to walk by faith.  However, if you want to live “any old way” that means that you want live carnally rather than by faith.  To be carnally minded is death (Romans 8:6).  Those who are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:8).  As long as you choose to walk in the flesh, you will not walk in faith and you won’t be able to please God.  Your spirit – the real you – and your unspiritual body are at odds with each other.  If you deliberately indulge sinful desires, you are allowing your unspiritual body to dominate your life.  If instead you walk in the Spirit, you’re allowing your born-again spirit that has God’s nature to dominate your life. The second way makes it much easier to receive healing by faith.

Your unspiritual body is incapable of exercising faith.  So if you live by the dictates of your body, you won’t exercise your faith!  If you don’t exercise your faith, you won’t receive healing.  It’s that simple.

Please remember that healing is not a reward for good behavior.  The fact that there is a link between healing and walking in the Spirit as opposed to the flesh is NOT because you have to “live well enough” to deserve healing.  No one “deserves” healing based on his track record any more than anyone “deserves” to escape hell.  It is grace, and ONLY grace, that makes heaven and healing both available to you.  The issue is not the provision of grace.  God has already provided grace for the new birth, healing, provision and many other things.  The issue is that carnality is the opposite of walking by faith, so carnality will hinder you from tapping into what is already yours by faith.  You might have some success, but not nearly as much as you could have if you walk in the Spirit.

Also remember that while sickness is punishment for sin, God laid your punishment – “your” sicknesses – on Jesus when He punished Him for your sins.  So if you live carnally and stay sick, God is NOT punishing you for your sins!  They’ve been punished already.  The only punishment going on is that you are punishing yourself by not being attentive to God and His Word.  God says that if you’ll give heed to His Word, it will be health to all your flesh (Proverbs 4:20-22).  But if you live any old way and ignore God’s Word, you aren’t allowing it to be made health to all your flesh, and you will probably stay sick.