If I Cancel My Medical Insurance, Is God Obligated to Heal Me?

Canceling your medical insurance does NOT obligate God to heal you any more than does stomping on your glasses, flushing your medicine down the toilet, throwing your crutches off a bridge or any similar act.  Even if you are canceling your insurance because you can’t afford it, that still does not obligate God to make your healing manifest.  In fact, if you asked this question, it indicates that you don’t really understand how healing works.

I knew a man who needed to wear glasses but decided that he would “prove his faith” by going to take his road exam for a driver’s license without his glasses on, believing that God would have to heal him on the spot as he exercised his “faith.”  He flunked!  God had no obligation to do anything based on his action.

You receive healing as a gift provided entirely by grace – paid for in full by the Lord Jesus Christ apart from your works.  If you think that your works will move God, you’re mistaken.  Stomping on your glasses does not move God.  Flushing away your medicine does not move God.  Canceling your insurance does not move God.  The good news is that you don’t need to move God – God is quite fine where He is.  God already moved when He bought your healing through His Son’s sacrifice; the only moving needs to take part on your end, not His.  You simply need to receive by faith what God has already granted you by Christ’s sacrifice for you.

The other problem with the thought that canceling insurance makes God have to heal you is that God is not obligated to move just because you have a need.  Yes, He knows that you need healing apart from the medical system if you can’t pay the medical system.  But think about it – if God moved on the basis of needs, no one would ever have any needs!  God’s power is activated by faith, not needs.  There were plenty of sick religious people in Luke 5:17-26 who needed healing, and God’s power was present to heal them, but they got nothing because they did not use their faith to receive.  If healing were based on needs, they all would have been healed.

So please don’t do things that are designed to “move God,” and please don’t assume that God has to do something because you have a need.  Neither is consistent with the Bible.  Instead, reach out and take the healing that Christ has already provided for you.  Once you are healed, your body will tell you and any doctor that you don’t need glasses, medicine, crutches or whatever.  That is the time to get rid of them, not before your healing is manifested in your body.  Whether or not you have insurance has no bearing on receiving healing by faith, other than the fact that you might be more motivated to receive from God if you don’t have insurance.