What’s RIGHT with You?
“What’s wrong with me?”
I hear that kind of question all too often. It is a cousin of the devil-inspired question “Why can’t I get healed?” It is a question that devil wants you to focus on. Of course, he is willing to suggest various answers while he’s at it:
Something is wrong with your faith.
You are in sin.
You opened a door to the devil.
You are unable to believe God the way other people can.
Your illness is so bad that you will never muster the mega-faith required to get rid of it.
You must have secret sin in your life.
You must be in unforgiveness.
You didn’t confess your latest sins.
You lack the intellectual capacity to really understand Scripture.
The devil likes it when you get introspective and go for “witch hunts” for problems in your life. He will NEVER point you to the things of God; he always points people to the things of man (Matthew 16:22-23). He wants you to try to figure out why your condition is YOUR FAULT. You never see Jesus act that way in Scripture! He didn’t go around trying to figure out what was wrong with people; He just healed them regardless of what was wrong with them! And He’s willing to do the same for you!
There are answers to the “answers” above, but there is something better than having an intellectual argument with the devil. Instead of asking what’s WRONG with you, ask what’s RIGHT with you!
A lot of things are RIGHT with you! The discussion Who You Are and What You Have goes into things that are RIGHT with you. Major on those things. You are right with God. You have the same precious faith the apostles had – faith that WORKS! Healing is part of your inheritance. The Holy Spirit helps you receive what God has already provided. You have the same Holy Spirit the so-called Early Church had, along with the same authority to use the name of Jesus. You have dominion over Satan’s works, including sickness. You are holy. You are precious to God. If you will spend time reflecting on what’s RIGHT with you, you will encourage yourself rather than discourage yourself by mote-hunting for personal faults and failures.
Since I opened a few cans of worms above, I’ll now close them. Here are some reasonable answers if you ever find yourself thinking in the ways mentioned above:
You have the same faith the apostles had (2 Peter 1:1).
Sin does not stop you from being healed; if it did, NO ONE would be healed.
If you opened a door to the devil, you can close it and you can get healed anyway.
God would be unjust to expect to believe if in fact you could not do it.
Only a tiny bit of faith could move a mountain, so you do not need mega-faith to be healed.
Even “secret sin” doesn’t stop you from getting healed; it never stopped anyone in the multitudes from being healed.
If you are in unforgiveness, you know the specifics; it will never just be a general feeling of being in unforgiveness. So get out of unforgiveness and believe that you receive your healing.
It is not necessary to confess sins to get healed. The multitudes didn’t have to do it.
Scripture is believed with the heart, not the brain. You are nowhere commanded to intellectually understand the gospel. You are only commanded to believe it.