You’re THE HEALED, Not THE SICK

How you see yourself can make all the difference in the world when it comes to receiving and keeping your healing.  You have the choice of these two mindsets:

Wrong: I am THE SICK trying to become THE HEALED.

Right: I am THE HEALED defending my covenant rights.

It is clear that God refers to you as THE HEALED because He says that you were healed by Jesus’ stripes (1 Peter 2:24).  If you were healed, you’re THE HEALED as far as God is concerned.

That doesn’t mean that you don’t have any symptoms in your body.  We don’t operate in denial when our bodies don’t feel right.  We don’t make a false claim that we are symptom-free when we still have symptoms.  The question is whether or not the condition you’re facing has the right to remain in your body.

Here are other ways of expressing the same two mindsets above:

Wrong: God needs to do something for me to get me from being THE SICK to being THE HEALED.

Right: God has already done all He needs to do about my healing because I am THE HEALED.

If you think that God has to do something new to heal you, you don’t understand how divine healing works, and you will not receive it because you don’t believe the Word.  You are not in a place of faith for healing until you understand that Jesus’ work is FINISHED as far as your healing goes.  He did everything He needed to do to redeem you from sickness, which was part of the curse for breaking the Law.  It is your place to RECEIVE something that God already says is yours (because you are THE HEALED).  As I said in the very first discussion in this book, the #1 mistake that Christians make with divine healing is asking God to heal them!  That is no better than it would be for an unsaved person to say, “Please, God, DO something about my miserable unsaved condition!”  He already did all that He needed to do.  The sinner doesn’t need God to do a new work to provide for his salvation; he needs to trust in the finished work that already paid for his salvation.  The sick person needs to trust in the finished work that already paid for his healing.

Rather than begging God to turn you into THE HEALED, see yourself the way God sees you – as THE HEALED right now.  Because you’re THE HEALED, sickness has no authority to stay in your life.  You can take the authority that you have in Christ and command sickness to leave your body.

Have you noticed that the “full armor of God” is almost completely defensive and that you are told to “stand” instead of “conquer?” The position of the Christian is one of being in an occupying army, not a conquering army.  Jesus already did the conquering for you.  He conquered sin, Satan and sickness once and for all.  A person who “stands” isn’t moving – he’s defending what he already has.  In God’s eyes, you already HAVE healing and you are simply defending your right to it because you are THE HEALED!  Make sure that you see yourself that way and healing will suddenly become a much easier matter for you.