Divine Healing Made Simple: Simplifying the supernatural to make healing & miracles a part of your everyday life (The Kingdom of God Made Simple Book 1) Read Online Free PDF Page A
Author: Praying Medic
disease and even death are planned and carried out by Satan and not God. While God may give Satan and his minions permission to do things like tempting us to sin or giving us sickness, His permission should not be viewed as approval of them and we should not accuse God of making us sick or causing us to die. The agent of sickness and death is Satan.
Satan wanted to make Job sick, take his wealth and destroy his family because he believed Job would curse God if he did. But the Lord knew the whole time Job wouldn’t curse Him and even told Satan so. He boasted to Satan that Job was a man of great character before Satan attacked him. Job’s sickness and afflictions didn’t build character; they revealed the character he already had.
I’m not suggesting that the Bible teaches that all sickness and pain have spiritual causes or that they all come from Satan. Some of the things we suffer from are nothing more than the effects of physics and poor choices. Many obese people who suffer from diabetes have their blood sugar return to normal after losing weight. Peptic ulcers often clear up after the individual quits their stressful job that caused it. Industrial diseases can be cured in some cases by leaving the toxic environment. God does not afflict us with sickness, Satan does. But not all sickness is from Satan; some of it is self-inflicted.
Now let’s look at some of the most common reasons I’ve heard people give for not being healed.
“I’m not good enough to be healed.”
In this section, I’ll refer to the passage below where Jesus healed a number of people:
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
LK. 6:17-19
If you believe that you haven’t been healed because you aren’t good enough in God’s eyes, allow me to ask, how many righteous people do you suppose Jesus healed in this large crowd? Consider that demonized people are often involved in drug use and idol worship, yet Jesus healed and delivered all of them. This was probably a group of average people such as you’d find on the streets of any city in the world. None of them were righteous enough to deserve healing, because healing isn’t based on how good we are. Healing is an act of God’s grace, just like salvation.
There are three biblical principles I’d like to mention briefly; they are justice, mercy and grace. Justice is receiving what we deserve. Most of us like justice as long as it’s not being measured out to us. Mercy is when God withholds the justice we deserve for our wrongdoing. Grace is when God gives us something we don’t deserve. Salvation and healing are acts of mercy and grace. Concerning God’s grace, the apostle Paul wrote:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, not of works, that no one should boast.
EPH. 2:8
The word “saved” in this verse is the Greek word
sozo,
which means to save, preserve, protect, heal or make whole. Healing is one of the ways in which the grace of God is revealed to us. I sometimes receive prayer requests where a relative cites a long list of good deeds done by the person they want me to pray for. They do this because they believe that people who lead a life of sacrifice or service to others are somehow more deserving of healing than those who do not. Thankfully, neither our good deeds nor our bad ones matter when grace is at work. God’s grace can never be earned. It is a free gift. All we can do is receive it. As someone who needs healing, you’re a candidate to be healed, regardless of your beliefs or lifestyle. No one is outside the reach of God’s grace for healing except those who don’t want to be healed.
“We will all
Satan wanted to make Job sick, take his wealth and destroy his family because he believed Job would curse God if he did. But the Lord knew the whole time Job wouldn’t curse Him and even told Satan so. He boasted to Satan that Job was a man of great character before Satan attacked him. Job’s sickness and afflictions didn’t build character; they revealed the character he already had.
I’m not suggesting that the Bible teaches that all sickness and pain have spiritual causes or that they all come from Satan. Some of the things we suffer from are nothing more than the effects of physics and poor choices. Many obese people who suffer from diabetes have their blood sugar return to normal after losing weight. Peptic ulcers often clear up after the individual quits their stressful job that caused it. Industrial diseases can be cured in some cases by leaving the toxic environment. God does not afflict us with sickness, Satan does. But not all sickness is from Satan; some of it is self-inflicted.
Now let’s look at some of the most common reasons I’ve heard people give for not being healed.
“I’m not good enough to be healed.”
In this section, I’ll refer to the passage below where Jesus healed a number of people:
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
LK. 6:17-19
If you believe that you haven’t been healed because you aren’t good enough in God’s eyes, allow me to ask, how many righteous people do you suppose Jesus healed in this large crowd? Consider that demonized people are often involved in drug use and idol worship, yet Jesus healed and delivered all of them. This was probably a group of average people such as you’d find on the streets of any city in the world. None of them were righteous enough to deserve healing, because healing isn’t based on how good we are. Healing is an act of God’s grace, just like salvation.
There are three biblical principles I’d like to mention briefly; they are justice, mercy and grace. Justice is receiving what we deserve. Most of us like justice as long as it’s not being measured out to us. Mercy is when God withholds the justice we deserve for our wrongdoing. Grace is when God gives us something we don’t deserve. Salvation and healing are acts of mercy and grace. Concerning God’s grace, the apostle Paul wrote:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, not of works, that no one should boast.
EPH. 2:8
The word “saved” in this verse is the Greek word
sozo,
which means to save, preserve, protect, heal or make whole. Healing is one of the ways in which the grace of God is revealed to us. I sometimes receive prayer requests where a relative cites a long list of good deeds done by the person they want me to pray for. They do this because they believe that people who lead a life of sacrifice or service to others are somehow more deserving of healing than those who do not. Thankfully, neither our good deeds nor our bad ones matter when grace is at work. God’s grace can never be earned. It is a free gift. All we can do is receive it. As someone who needs healing, you’re a candidate to be healed, regardless of your beliefs or lifestyle. No one is outside the reach of God’s grace for healing except those who don’t want to be healed.
“We will all
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