Everything’s Yours, Including Healing
Everything you will ever need in your life has already been provided for you in Christ. That includes healing. This is one of the most important truths you will ever learn as a Christian. You don’t need to try to get God to give you what He has already given you! It would be no smarter than praying for me that I will be male. I am already male, so that prayer would be useless. So is any prayer asking God to heal you, bless you, provide for you, and so on. This is where many people miss it. Their prayers don’t line up with God’s Word, and so their prayers go answered.
Ephesians 1:3:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
You are already blessed with all spiritual blessings! God didn’t hold any back. Any blessing you could ever need in this life already belongs to you.
Is healing a blessing? Yes! You are already blessed with it!
God has set up a heavenly bank account for you with everything in it, and all you need to do is go make a withdrawal or write a check. God doesn’t have to make the blessing yours – it IS yours! You just have to appropriate it by faith by believing that you receive it when you pray. The prayer of faith transfers the blessing from your heavenly account to the earth where you need it.
2 Peter 1:3-4:
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
God has already provided everything for you that pertains to this life! He left nothing out. He didn’t leave healing out!
Philippians 4:19:
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
God supplies all your needs – including healing needs – out of the provision He already made by Jesus Christ.
It’s a wonderful day when you learn that everything you’ll ever need is already yours as far as God is concerned – it’s there for the taking. God did not give you the Holy Spirit to help you grovel at God’s feet for your needs. He gave the Holy Spirit to show you the things that He already gave you (1 Corinthians 2:12)! That’s why Paul prayed that God would enlighten the Ephesians to the inheritance that they already had in Christ rather than praying that God would do something new and give them the parts of that inheritance that they needed (Ephesians 1:15-23).
Taking What’s Yours
Jesus said in Mark 11:24 that you should receive what you ask for in prayer – the Greek word for receive means take, which denotes a definite act on your part. “Receiving” is not resignation that waits for God to get around to doing something. Passive people get nothing. Jesus said that the violent take the kingdom by force (Matthew 11:12). This doesn’t mean that you should be a jihadist engaging in literal violence, of course. (If you are such a person, please know that Jesus loves you and died for your sins so that you can be saved and set free from your bondage.) But you are “violent” in the sense that you seize something.
However, the violent “seizing” isn’t how you take things from God. You don’t rip healing out of God’s clenched fist; you receive it from His open hand! However, you take it and grab it and don’t let go – the way that a bulldog holds something in his mouth. You don’t let Satan talk you out of it. You have to seize it in the sense that you clench it tightly no matter what the doctors say, no matter what well-meaning but ill-informed relatives say, and sometimes despite what well-meaning but ill-informed preachers say!
Satan Is a Stealer, Not a Blocker
Some people have the mistaken idea that Satan can block their blessings. They picture themselves in a certain spot, their blessing in another spot, and Satan in the middle like an American football linebacker trying to block them from getting to the blessing.
That is a false picture because you already own the title to that blessing. Satan is too late to the party. The blessing was laid up for you in Christ, and it’s already yours. Jesus didn’t say that Satan came to prevent you from getting things; He said that the devil comes to steal (John 10:10).
Have you had a Lamborghini stolen from you this week? Are you concerned that Satan might steal a Lamborghini from you? You are probably not concerned if you are like most readers – because you don’t have a Lamborghini! No one can steal something that you don’t have! Satan wants to steal what is already yours. He can’t stop it from belonging to you because Jesus already gave it to you.
God knows that healing is yours, and so does Satan. Satan is out to steal your blessing, but he needs your cooperation to do it. He has to get you to believe and speak his lies with your own mouth so that he is authorized to act in your body. He can’t stop you from having healing in your heavenly bank account – it’s already there! He wants to steal what you already have in Christ. Of course, he has a problem because even if he manages to steal something from you, you can receive it again from your heavenly account an unlimited number of times.
So the next time Satan tries to harass you with his lie, “This time, you’re not going to get your healing,” you can inform him that he is too late – you already have it as part of your inheritance in Christ! Don’t let him steal what’s already yours. Instead, believe that you receive the blessings, including healing, that God says are rightfully yours already.
Healing and Text Messages
If I don’t send you a text message, you cannot receive a text message from me. The only condition under which you could get a text message is if someone sends it. No amount of prayer or other action would allow you to receive an unsent text message!
If God doesn’t send something, you can’t receive it from Him. Fortunately, He already “sent” healing and it’s part of your salvation benefits package.
Most Christians in effect beg God to send them a text, when what they really need to do is to receive the text that He already sent! Jesus didn’t tell you to try to get God to send you something; He told you to receive. You can only receive what’s already sent. You have to know that healing HAS been sent as part of the New Covenant. Then you can believe that you receive it. It requires faith to receive something that you can’t see. The only way you know that it’s there is by reading God’s Word. Once you know what His 66-book text message – the Bible – has to say, you can receive healing (and any other blessing) from Him with confidence.