Healing and Prosperity
If there were no specific promise in the whole Bible saying that healing is yours, it could be proved simply by citing the scriptures that promise financial abundance to the child of God. You can’t prosper financially while stuck in bed with a splitting headache for three days. You can’t enjoy success in life and reign as a king while on a morphine pump.
God told Joshua to continually meditate (dwell on and mutter) the commands of God so that he would do them and prosper:
Joshua 1:8:
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Being laid up in the hospital is not the road to prosperity, unless we’re talking about the prosperity of your medical specialists! Being incapacitated is not having good success. Therefore, if you learn and obey the Word of God, you should not be sick. You should be successful. If cancer cuts you down in mid-life, you are not successful inasmuch as you lose your chance to succeed in later years.
It is NOT God’s will for you now any more than it was back then for you to spend all your money on physicians but not improve but rather grow worse. The woman in Mark 5:25-34 was hemorrhaging money while she was hemorrhaging blood. It was God’s will to heal her and stop BOTH kinds of bleeding. He and His will do not change, so you KNOW what His will is today.
Part of the “curse of the Law” from which we are redeemed is poverty and lack. If you’re unable to work and lacking so that you can’t go do anything, you are experiencing something that God calls a curse.
The biblical concept of prosperity goes beyond financial wealth and includes well-being in every area of your life. (Some opponents of faith are usually quick to point this out, but they may want to back off when they see that this works against them when opposing healing.) Being sick is not being well. As in 3 John 2, healing and prosperity go together, just as poverty and sickness go together in the terrible “curse of the Law” found in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and elsewhere.
Prosperity also has a role in furthering the preaching of the gospel. It takes money to go preach the new birth and divine healing. You may be a fine moral Christian, but you are not in a much of a position to back the preaching of the gospel financially if your current address is the Sisters of Nice Mercy Home for the Indigent. If Christians everywhere would wake up to God’s will being prosperity, there would be a lot more money available to send preachers everywhere to proclaim the full gospel that includes healing.
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