Big Healing Book - Healing Is an Offer, Not a Promise

Healing Is an Offer, Not a Promise

You do not receive healing by “standing on the promises.” You receive healing by acting on the facts.

God has not promised you healing; He has already granted you healing. Failure to understand the distinction is a common and major hindrance to receiving healing. God won’t force healing on you, but He offers it to you now and it’s yours for the taking. The only reason I call it an offer is that you are still free to accept it or decline it. God will never force you to walk in it even though it’s legally yours now.

It comes down to this: If healing were a chess game, whose move would it be? If God has promised you healing, it is now up to God to do something to make good on His promise. It is therefore His move. If God offers you legally-granted healing, He has already provided it and it is now up to you to receive it. God has moved and it is therefore your move. The latter case is what the New Testament teaches. If you are waiting for God to move, you will wait and wait with no results, wondering why God isn’t answering your prayer for Him to do something about your condition.

If you think you are going to “hold God to His promise to heal you in 1 Peter 2:24,” you need to reread 1 Peter 2:24. There is no promise in that verse. What exactly has He promised to do for you? Nothing. Instead, He tells you what He already did for you when Christ bore the physical punishment for your sins in your place so that your body could be healed. There is no hint of any future action on God’s part. There is only a report of His past action.

I ordered some golf balls online and a truck showed up in my driveway. I went out and received the order. Once that truck was out there, I did not have to bug the retailer to send me my golf balls. All I had to do was receive the shipment that was in front of me. The shipment had already been sent and that package already belonged to me. I just had to take it. It is the same way with healing. God has already sent it; it is now up to you to receive what He has already sent. You don’t have to wait for Him to send it and you certainly don’t have to keep bugging Him to send it.

If the package had not been sent, I could not have received it. But healing has already been sent, so you can receive it. You must be convinced from God’s Word that healing HAS been sent to you. In other words, you must believe that it is legally yours to take. If you do not believe that yet, renew your mind with God’s Word until you do; this book is designed to help you do that. If you are not SURE that you can receive it, you cannot pray in faith to take hold of the healing that is legally yours.

If you still see healing as a promise instead of an offer, you may “wait on God” for the rest of your life to do something to heal you. But the truth is that God is waiting on you to receive His gift that Jesus paid for you to have. There is nothing to wait for. The price has been paid and God is offering you your paid-for healing right now. Will you receive it?