Must I Engage in Spiritual Warfare to See the Manifestation of My Healing?

Possibly, but not the kind of “spiritual warfare” that is most commonly – and mistakenly – talked about in the church world.

Real spiritual warfare involves thoughts in your own head.  Satan and his local representatives will try to stuff unbiblical and discouraging thoughts into your head, such as:

It’s been too long and you’ve still seen no improvement.  Give up and accept your illness!

Healing isn’t REALLY for everyone today.  Look at all the sickness that God allows!

You don’t have any faith, so you can’t get healed!

You aren’t living a perfect life, so your sin disqualifies you from receiving divine healing!

You need to know the Word so that you can give him the “It is written” treatment:

Through faith and patience, I DO inherit the promises!

Jesus bore all OUR sicknesses and pains, which means EVERYBODY’s, including mine!

Even faith the size of a mustard seed could move a mountain, and God has given me the measure of faith!

Jesus bought my forgiveness for ALL my sins with His blood, so I am righteous, justified, and completely qualified to receive divine healing!

So yes, if you want to see the manifestation of your healing, you will have to stand your ground and “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Timothy 6:12) by replacing Satan’s lies in your head with God’s truth.

However, you do NOT have to fight spirits miles up in the sky over your city to get them to “release” your healing to you and stop “keeping it from you.”  We know this because the Bible makes it clear that every spiritual blessing (that would include healing) is already yours (Ephesians 1:3).  Satan has come too late to the party.  God says you that already HAVE healing and every other blessing as your CURRENT possession.  Satan can’t keep it from you because it already belongs to you legally.  You just have to keep acting on that fact whether you have seen the manifestation yet or not.  Trying to directly engage “principalities and powers” in the air over your area is unbiblical anyway.  Jesus didn’t do it.  The apostles didn’t do it.  They never told anyone else to do it.  You should not do it.  You definitely do NOT have to engage in that kind of so-called spiritual warfare to be healed!  Those entities are already defeated.  They are unable to keep anything away from you anyway.  They want you to think that they have all this power that they haven’t had ever since the day Jesus disarmed them and defeated them openly in front of the whole universe (Colossians 2:15).

Think of it this way – if you confess Jesus as Lord, do you have to engage in “spiritual warfare” against principalities and powers so that they have to stop blocking your new birth so that you can have it?  Of course not, that’s ridiculous.  It’s equally ridiculous to think that these defeated principalities and powers can keep healing, which is part of your salvation package that is already yours away from you without your vocal consent.  What if you don’t immediately turn into the sweetest, gentlest, most loving person in town the very second you receive Jesus?  Do you assume that because you don’t see the full OUTWARD MANIFESATION of your new birth that you don’t have it, so some local principality in the sky must be withholding it from you?  I hope not.  If you have enough sense with that when it comes to the new birth, you should have that much sense when it comes to healing, too!  We walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7)!

Mark 16:18, where it says, “They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” has no footnote saying, “unless there are strong territorial spirits who will stop it from working.”  The very idea that a territorial spirit could stop healing or any other blessing that already belongs to you from manifesting is ridiculous.  Can principalities make the Word of God not work?  NO!  Can principalities make faith not work?  NO!  If someone decides to be born again and calls on Jesus to save him, do you seriously think for a minute that a principality can interfere with the result of salvation?

What you do need to realize is that seed can take time to grow.  God’s Word is seed.  Do you dig up your vegetables three minutes after you planted the seeds if you don’t see a harvest yet?  No.  So why should you abandon your healing after three minutes if you don’t see anything yet?  Having done all, stand your ground (Ephesians 6:13) and don’t let Satan get YOU to give up your healing with your MOUTH by repeating his lies instead of God’s Word.

Do you engage in “spiritual warfare” with principalities because you don’t see your vegetables spring up immediately when you plant seed?  No.  So don’t do it with your healing either when you don’t see an immediate manifestation.  Believe that God’s Word will produce what He sent it to do – heal you!