If I Pray to “Receive” Healing, Do I Negate the Fact That I’m Already Healed?
If you pray to receive Jesus as your Lord, do you negate the fact that Jesus already paid for your salvation? No, you’re just acting on what He did for you. If you believe that you receive healing when you pray, you aren’t denying that healing is legally yours – you’re just acting on what He did for you.
While you should identify as the healed, not the sick, if your body were in perfect agreement with that right now, you wouldn’t be praying in the first place and you probably wouldn’t ask this question!
Fortunately, Jesus is not a religious nitpicker. There are multiple ways to get healed. The only “bad” way to be healed is to go to a voodoo priest, Reiki practitioner or any other “energy healer” who doesn’t give Jesus the glory. In such a case, your healing will only be temporary and you will have opened yourself up to demonic forces.
I understand the question, though. If you’re trying to “receive” something, are you confessing that you don’t have it? Well, as far as your BODY is concerned, you don’t, even though healing belongs to you and is available in the spirit realm because of what Jesus did for you. You’re not trying to “create” healing where there isn’t any; you’re appropriating the healing that is already yours as far as God is concerned and which already DOES exist in the spirit realm – with your name on it, so to speak. You are just enforcing your covenant rights by “receiving” it so that it will go to work in your natural body.
It is possible to tie yourself up in knots with questions like this. If you’ve just prayed to take the healing that is legally yours in Christ, that healing is now yours and you are healed! You aren’t negating it at all; you’re affirming it from that moment forward!
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