Today, I want to share some thoughts on healing. These emerged between April and December of 2000, when healing seemed unattainable. When the Holy Spirit finally brought these thoughts to life in my heart, God’s Word became engrained in me. I could not read the Word or meditate on it enough. His words on healing were my life. Even though I remained physically exhausted and emotionally spent, I began to see myself as Jesus saw me. He kept whispering I was healed.
The Holy Spirit brought a change in my perspective. I realized that without this change in perspective healing would always seem just beyond reach. I began to understand that there was no need in my life that Jesus had left unfinished. The grace of Jesus had already transformed everything in my life over two thousand years ago. Before I was even born, He knew me, understood my needs, and met all of them back then. Everything I ever needed in life was secured the moment He shed His blood for me. When I was born again, I entered into the truth of all His redemption had purchased for me. There was nothing to earn. Nothing I could do would convince Him to heal me. He already had healed me. However, I struggled to grasp this. The Holy Spirit kept pressuring me that I already had my healing and urged me not to listen to the doctors, the reports, my body, or anyone’s opinions. He told me that His report was good. He told me to take my focus off my physical condition and keep it on Him. He wanted me to see myself as He described me in His Word. He told me not to turn away from my reflection in His spiritual mirror, or I would forget He had healed me. I knew He wanted to reveal Himself to me in ways beyond what I had traditionally learned. But was I open to hearing Him? I was tired of struggling, seeking, and never finding. One truth I understood was that God wanted me to be well, and I was ready to listen as I had never listened before.
I learned that healing through Christ’s redemption is just as available to everyone as forgiveness and salvation are. Everything about redemption is available by faith. In my own life, I have grown to understand that faith isn't what I know about redemption. I had gained all the knowledge I could about healing, but it wasn’t working for me. I realized that knowledge isn’t faith because faith isn't mental. This is where I had been confused and discouraged. I knew the Word and “believed” with my mind, but I finally grew to understand that faith is not found in my head. Faith is of the heart. It is spiritual, and the spiritual comes to life in the heart. I needed a revelation of His healing in my heart.
When I heard that I would have to live with SIADTH for the rest of my life, I tried to “work up faith” in my mind for my healing. It was exhausting trying to maintain the faith that I would be healed. I was trying so hard and putting all the work on myself. And I kept hearing Jesus saying that He had already done all the work. There was nothing left for me to do. Jesus needed to convince me of healing in my heart. The Holy Spirit told me that what I saw, felt, or heard that didn’t agree with what He had to say about my healing, would keep me from it. Was I ready to give up and just trust Him?
I’ve learned that I don’t need to plead to God to heal me. Healing is a matter of surrendering completely to what already exists in Jesus’s finished work. Healing is my heart made alive by His Word. It is taking all of my heart and giving myself to Jesus’s finished work of grace. I discovered that when the Word brings faith to life in my heart, His healing comes alive in me. Because the enemy comes to steal God’s healing from me, I have discovered that healing, if not maintained in my heart each and every day, will not last. Once, I had asked, "Why doesn't God heal me?" That question only revealed my lack of understanding of Jesus’s redemption or faith. I was blind, but, praise Jesus, the Holy Spirit has removed the scales from my spiritual eyes. God has already provided healing. He is not responsible for giving me what He has already provided by grace. It is my responsibility to appropriate His healing by faith.
I have also discovered that there are times when personal faith can heal us and other times when we need the faith of others in the body of Christ. I have learned that when I am weak in my faith, I can ask others who will stir up their faith and agree for my healing. You can see this with the four men who carried their friend on a stretcher and lowered him through the roof (Mark 2:3-12), with the centurion on behalf of his servant (Matthew 8:5-13), and with the Gentile woman on behalf of her daughter (Matthew 15:21-28). Asking people to stand with you in faith isn't about getting people to feel sorry for you in your sickness and sympathize with you in your pain. It is about finding believers who are determined to stand with you in faith for your healing—those who are stirred to see you healed no matter what.
I needed to hear God speak His healing truth in my heart. He wanted me well. Have you heard Him speak in your heart? Faith comes by hearing Him in your heart. Pursue hearing God for yourself, but don’t neglect to have others truly stand with you. And if you are close to someone who is fighting for their health, see yourself as a representative of God’s healing. Let your faith be stirred up for them, and use it on their behalf.
There is something to say about the simple faith of a small child. They believe what a father tells them without seeing or hearing. Do you trust your Father?
My friend, God wants you well. Jesus would not have shed His life blood for you if He didn’t want you well, and the Word wouldn’t say, “By His stripes, you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Oh, but it does say that you “were” healed. You were healed at that moment in God’s time when His precious blood was shed for you. Healing begins in your heart and manifests in your life when your spirit, soul, and body come into complete agreement with His Word.
Don’t give up. Listen to Jesus. Don’t listen to the enemy or your symptoms. Don’t listen to all the educated opinions or to your flesh. Keep looking into the mirror of His Word, and never turn away and forget who you are (James 1:23-24). See yourself healed. As a man thinks in his “heart,” so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
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