Ephesians 1:3(NLT) All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we areunited with Christ.
Isaiah 53:3-6 (NLT) 3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.
Ancient Flogging/Scourging
Why so much pain and suffering? Isaiah 53:5 (NLT) He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
You are worthy of healing!
False assumptions concerning healing.
1. Somebody Sinned John 9:1-7 (NIV) 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
“Pharisees tend to prioritize preference and process over people.” “The religious will scrutinize methods, & ignore the results.”
John 9:25 (NLT) “I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
2. Somebody doesn’t have enough faith.
James 5:14-15 (NLT) Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. Such a prayer offeredin faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well.
3. God doesn’t want to. (It’s not God’s will.) “We don’t build theology around unanswered prayers!”
Objections… 1. “His ways are not our ways….” 2. What about Paul’s thorn in the flesh!? (2 Cor 12 3. Doesn’t God use suffering?
Healing is available; God wants to!
Luke 5:12-13 (NLT) 12 In one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground, begging to be healed. “Lord,” he said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” 13 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
Appropriating Healing 1. Believe
Don’t be passive about healing.
2. Nurture Expectation
Speak/Declare the word
Meditate on the Word.
3. Steward wholeness
4. Pray Matthew 6:9-10 (NIV) 9 “This, then, is how you should pray:” ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
The Full Gospel of the Kingdom: “You can preach healing without the Gospel, but you can’t preach the full gospel without healing.”
Matthew 10:7-8 (NLT) 7 Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!
HEaling is a mandate(Mark 16:18)
Psalm 107:19-20 (NLT) 19 “LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. 20 He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death. .
