Keep Your Faith Strong For Healing!

11.9.2022

The past two plus years have magnified sickness everywhere.

Don’t look to the media to boost your faith in health and healing – the media spreads fear!

If you are going to walk in health, the faith in your heart must be stronger than the fear that surrounds us!

Luke 21:11 (AMPC)

There will be mighty and violent earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences (plagues:malignant and contagious or infectious epidemic diseases which are deadly and devastating); and there will be sights of terror and great signs from heaven.

I want to counteract the fear with what God says about our health.

It’s time NOW to make a decision to live in faith and NOT fear about your physical health.

What we are on the inside shows up on the outside.

Isaiah 33:6 (NKJV)

Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and strength of salvation.

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

I want to boost your faith and confidence in God concerning your healing…

I knew nothing about healing being the will of God until I was 18. My church never taught what I am about to share.

I was filled with fear of sickness all my life until I was 18.

You may be filled with fear of sickness right now. Today’s message can cancel fear and can change you from a life of fear to a life of faith in God for your health!

There will never be a time you don’t need faith for healing either for yourself…or someone else. God can use you to minister His healing power to others who are filled with fear …

If you wait to get faith when you need it, you will be at a disadvantage.

Don’t wait until a physical challenge comes to get faith. Store it up now.

Don’t wait until the toilet paper runs out to get some. 🙂

Don’t wait until the crisis is on, the storm has cut electricity, etc. before you get extra food. Do it now!

Be a spiritual prepper!

If you’re in school, don’t wait and have to cram the info in for hours into the night before a big exam!

Keep a good storehouse of God’s word built up inside you about your health and healing.

God wants us to walk in divine health. It is made available by faith in the sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary.

The faith you have to receive forgiveness is the same faith that will heal you from sickness and disease.

1. Deal with fear.

Proverbs 29:25 (NKJV)

The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.

Job 3:25 (NKJV)

For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,

And what I dreaded has happened to me.

2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Fear is a spirit.

Faith cancels fear. Or, fear cancels faith.

2. Feed your faith, starve your doubts.

To what information sources do you give the most attention?

Certain things I refuse to read.

Some movies, based on sickness, I do not watch.

Romans 10:17 (NKJV)

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Mark 4:24 (AMPC)

And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure[of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure[of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you—and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.

Hearing, thinking, believing, speaking, acting.

Change the atmosphere of your life.

You can tell when your Word level increases.

You will have a sense of peace and assurance within!

Panic leaves and an assuredness appears.

3. Isaiah 53 is the basis for faith in Jesus’ sacrifice to not only forgive us, but to heal us.

Isaiah 53:1-6 (NKJV)

Who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 8:16-17 (NKJV)

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.”

Acts 10:38 (NKJV)

How 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.

1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)

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.

4. Health starts with what you are saying!

Do you actively, with your words, acknowledge that you believe you receive healing and health?

Every day, I remind the Lord about His promises to me physically.

Every.Single.Day – Out loud and on purpose!

Mark 11:23-24 (NKJV)

For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Romans 8:11 (KJV)

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8:11 (NKJV)

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 8:11 (MEV)

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.

Deuteronomy 33:25 (NKJV)

Your sandals shall be iron and bronze;

As your days, so shall your strength be.

Again, say out loud every day what you believe.

If you let your mouth feed your heart faith when you don’t need it, then your heart will feed your mouth faith when you do need it!

The absolute moment a thought of sickness or disease comes to your mind – deal with it right then! Resist the negative thought!

Philippians 4:8 (MEV)

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.

Deal with fear the moment it comes to your mind in a thought or a feeling!

Make yourself say what God says about your health right then! Don’t wait.

Keep your faith in God built up for healing – every single day!

Action Points:

1. What are you doing to resist the temptations of fear?

2. What information gets most of your attention?

3. How much time do you give to meditating on scripture about healing?

4. Do you regularly say what you believe about your health?

HEALING SCRIPTURES

Exodus 15:26 (NKJV) – And said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

 

Exodus 23:25-26 (NKJV) – So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 26 No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

 

Deuteronomy 7:15 (NKJV) – And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

 

Psalms 103:1-3 (NKJV) – Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.

Psalm 105:37 (NKJV) – He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes.

 

Psalm 107:20 (NKJV) – He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

 

Proverbs 4:20-22 (NKJV) – My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

 

Proverbs 4:20-22 (NIV) – My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.

 

Isaiah 53:3-5 (AMPC) – He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

 

Matthew 8:17 (NIV) – This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

 

Acts 10:38 (NIV) – How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with Him.

 

1 Peter 2:24-25 (NIV) – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

 

Matt 21:22 – And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

 

Mark 11:23-24 (NKJV) – For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

 

John 15:7 (NLT) – But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!

 

John 16:23-24 (NLT) – At that time you won’t need to ask me for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he will grant your request because you use my name. (24) You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.

 

1 John 3:22 (NLT) – And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.

 

1 John 5:14-15 (NLT) – And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

 

Numbers 23:19 (NKJV) – God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

 

Psalm 84:11 (NKJV) – For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

 

Psalm 89:34 (NKJV) – My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.

 

Psalm 119:89 (NKJV) – Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.

 

Psalm 138:2 (NKJV) – I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.

 

Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV) – The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV) – So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.