Many people who deal with sickness find themselves in a place of helplessness. Some believers try to work up their faith to believe they can be healed. Others hope that some medical help will be their answer. Others live in total despair that there is hope.
Here’s Jesus’ instruction to us as the body of Christ.
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8).
Jesus instructs me to give what I have received freely. Do I really believe that I have freely received healing as a gift from God? Do I believe in healing as an expression of God’s goodness?
1 Peter 2:24 says, “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.”
According to 1 Peter 2:24, I have been healed by Jesus’ stripes. According to Matthew 10:8, I am to give freely what I have been given. Through my faith, can healing be a gift of love freely given to someone who is hurting?
“Believing unto righteousness” (Romans 10:10), the new birth, is a spiritual transformation of personal faith. Healing is a physical transformation that also requires personal faith.
Receiving healing can be an act of personal faith, a gift through another's faith, or simply a miracle that comes through God's goodness, who makes His rain fall on the just and the unjust.
Peter had faith for the lame man (Acts 3:6-7). The centurion had faith for his servant (Matthew 8:13). The Canaanite woman had faith for her demon-tortured daughter (Matthew 15:28). Jairus had faith for his sick daughter (Mark 5:23). In each situation, the faith of another person brought the gift of healing to the one who was suffering.
Lord Jesus, help me to receive the revelation of this truth in my heart. I am to impart You freely. I never need to burden a suffering person with working up their faith to believe in their own healing. Rather than frustrating someone who is hurting, I can be a vessel of Your love and bring healing to them. You are that good. Lord Jesus, I am willing. You are the potter. I am the clay. It is Your excellence. I have none. Lead me, Lord. I will follow You.
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