Healing and Deliveries

Let’s consider three scenarios.  In the first scenario, you want a product that you saw somewhere.  You contact the company and ask to have them ship it to you.  You wait for the company to ship the product and then wait until the delivery person shows up with it so that you can receive the package and enjoy it.  In the second scenario, you have already ordered the product from the company and the shipping department has shipped it.  The delivery person just showed up.  Now you contact the company’s sales department to get the product shipped to you.  The third scenario is identical to the second scenario, but in this one, you don’t call the company – you just take the package from the delivery person’s hands and start enjoying the product.

The second scenario is ridiculous, but sadly, that scenario is where most Christians find themselves with divine healing!  The first scenario sounds more reasonable, but it doesn’t describe receiving healing any better than the second scenario.  Only the third scenario is a picture of what to do with divine healing.

In both of the first two scenarios you are petitioning the company for something.  Most people petition the Lord for healing in the same manner – and that is why nothing happens!  What people fail to realize is that your healing was “shipped” when Jesus paid for it a long time ago, and the delivery person is just waiting for you to take it into your own hands.  You don’t have to approach the sales department and pay for the shipment.  JESUS already paid for the shipment and had your address put on it.  He took care of the shipping.  It’s now at your house waiting for you to take it.

In Mark 11:24, Jesus said to believe that you RECEIVE things when you pray.  But you can only receive a package that has already been shipped!  Jesus did NOT tell you to ask God to SEND what you want when you pray.  There’s a big difference.  Healing has already been “sent” and now it is yours to receive.  The word receive in Mark 11:24 is the Greek word lambano, which literally means to TAKE.  It most certainly does NOT mean to “beg God to SEND.”

You could not have RECEIVED a text message from me today if I didn’t SEND you one.  You can only RECEIVE a text message that has already been SENT.  Likewise, you RECEIVE healing because God already SENT it to you.  It is part of your inheritance in Christ for you to enjoy.  God already decided that you should have it.  He paid for it by sending Jesus, and now healing has been SENT.   Will you receive what is right in front of you?  It’s there for the taking.