Don’t Lose Heart. Believe

Thank you, Jesus, for your Word. It’s life to me. May I be ready in season and out of season. Please, help me, Holy Spirit, to present the Word with grace and patience. May the meditation of my heart and these words be pleasing in your sight, O Lord My Redeemer.

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What is God’s will for my health?

“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers” (3 John 2).

Why is it God’s will for me to be in health?

“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).

Is it God’s will to heal everyone?

“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38).

Why do some question if it is God’s will to heal them? 

“And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:

‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;

For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them’” (Matthew 13:14-15).

Jesus told Thomas after he had felt the scars in His hands and side: “Because you have seen Me, you have believed” (John 20:29). 

Do we have to see or feel our healing to believe we are healed? 

Jesus also told Thomas: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).

What shall a man’s need to see and feel gain him? Is what he senses greater than the Lord’s wisdom? 

“Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him” (Proverbs 26:12). 

“Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight” (Isaiah 5:21).

“Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God” (1 Corinthians 2:5). 

Where do I place my faith? In men’s wisdom or in God’s wisdom and power? 

Jesus asked the blind men who sought healing from Him: “‘Do you believe I can do this?’ They said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord.’ Then He touched their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith let it be to you.’” (Matthew 9:28-29).

When Jesus turned around and saw the woman who had touched His garment, He said: “‘Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.’ And the woman was made well from that hour” (Matthew 9:22).

God is unchanging, and every perfect gift is from Him.

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17).

God is not the variable, and neither is His Word. We are the ones who fluctuate in our belief and faith. We often let go of the truth that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). We often question if the Lord “who forgives all our iniquities” also “heals all our diseases” (Psalm 103:3).

Do I hear God’s Word in my heart? 

“My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.

Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;

For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:20-22). 

“Give attention, incline your ear, do not let them depart from your eyes, keep them in the midst of your heart…for they are life and health.”  His Word is life to me. When I keep paying attention to His Word, putting it and safely guarding it within my heart, health is within my reach. Just as medicine doesn’t produce instant results but can bring healing over time, so it can be with the Word. The cares of this world can choke the Word from bearing fruit in my life, and that seems to be true for many believers. The attention we give to the Word for healing is often brief and hurried. 

The better attention we can give to the Word is described by Jeremiah: “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts” (Jeremiah 15:16).

Studying the Gospels and meditating on the miracles and healings of Jesus can bring a new perspective and deepen your faith. The more of your heart you give to God’s Word, the more His life and healing power are at work within you. Healing is being changed from the inside out. We may not “see” or “feel” anything most of the time, but can trust that the Word is at work. Let fellowship with Jesus—with the Word—be the center of your life.

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12). 

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).

God’s Words within me are spirit and life. He sent His word and healed me, and delivered me from my destructions (Psalm 107:20). 

Why would I ever ask God if it is His will to heal me when the Word declares that by His wounds I am healed? Just because I don’t see or feel His healing doesn’t mean it isn’t His will for my life.

“Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding” (Proverbs 3:13).

Seek God’s understanding. Trust Him. Keep renewing your mind and sowing His Word in your heart. Don’t allow doubt. The devil brings frustration and keeps the Word from producing God’s truth within us when we doubt and question His will. God would never have promised healing if He hadn’t intended for it to bear fruit in our lives—thirty-fold, sixty-fold, and a hundred-fold (Matthew 13:23).

“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living” (Psalm 27:13).

Don’t lose heart. Believe.