Healing = 100% Grace + 0% Merit

You can only receive healing when you realize that it is based 100% on God’s grace and 0% on your personal merit.  You do not deserve to be healed based on your track record any more than you deserve to avoid hell based on your track record.

Too often, someone will say, “If ANYONE deserves healing around here, I do!  I’ve served in the Youth Department for twenty years and I’ve even done extra shifts to fill in for people who made lame excuses not to show up for their weeks to be on duty.  I’ve been tithing longer than some congregation members have been alive!”  Their words prove that they don’t know how to receive healing on a 100% grace basis – they think they’ve been earning their healings.  Such people will go without their healings while people who just got saved get theirs.  At least the new believers are keenly aware that anything God gives them is because of what Jesus did without any regard to their own merits.

If you’re such hot stuff that God should heal you based on your merits, Jesus took that horrible whipping for nothing.  If you could deserve healing by being good, why would Jesus have to purchase healing for you by being whipped in your place?  You could just be good and get your healing without Jesus.

While you’re at it, does your great track record qualify you for heaven?  If so, you don’t need Jesus, and His blood was shed in vain for you.  Why should Jesus have paid your ransom from hell if your life was good enough to avoid hell?

At this point, you’d probably say, “Stop!  I know that we’ve all sinned and that Jesus is the only way to heaven.  I don’t claim to deserve to go to heaven.”  Well, start realizing that we’ve all sinned and that Jesus is the only way to HEALING, too!

You can’t get saved unless you receive the GIFT of righteousness (Romans 5:17) by receiving Jesus.  Being saved is based 100% on God’s grace and 0% on your personal merits.  Now you need to realize that you receive healing on the same basis – 100% God’s grace and 0% your personal merits.  Once you see that, you can stop getting in the way of your own healing and receive it as the free gift from Jesus that it is!