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teapotSo, can you resist sickness? Can you be healed of a disease or a virus like the flu? Absolutely! How do we know? Because God says so. His Word is always right, no matter what anyone or anything else says. We have plenty of testimonies from people just like you who have put these principles into practice and have been healed by God’s almighty power.

So, are you ready for your healing? Are you ready to experience wholeness from head to toe? If so, here are some basic things from the Word of God that you need to know.

6 Things You Should Know About Healing

There is a good possibility that you’ve heard messages or have handed down traditions contrary to what the Word of God actually says about healing. Anything contradicting what the Word tells us will undermine your faith and prevent you from receiving what Jesus provided through his finished work at Calvary and his resurrection.

In Matthew 15, Jesus warned that putting traditions or our own uniformed opinions about the truth of God’s Word. When He said, “you cancel the word of God for the sake of your own tradition” (verse 6).

While there are more than 100 scriptures that talk about God’s desire to heal, Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24 are good foundation scriptures to begin meditating upon to build your faith for healing.

So, if you’re ready to break away from anything but the love, truth and healing that Jesus provided for you, remember these six things:

1. God Is Glorified When You Are Healed, Whole, and Ready for Service

Jesus said in John 15:8, “When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.” Nowhere in the New Testament will you find an example of God receiving glory because of someone’s illness. However, you do see God receiving glory when Jesus healed the multitudes.

Just look at this passage in Matthew 15:30-31:

A vast crowd brought to him people who were lame, blind, crippled, those who couldn’t speak, and many others. They laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all. The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn’t been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel.

Healing, not sickness, glorifies God.

2. God Never Uses Sickness to Teach Lessons

Nowhere in the Bible does God say that we learn or mature as Christians by suffering sickness, disease or turmoil. Not once in the New Testament does it say that sickness is the teacher of the Church. Instead, the Bible says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

The Word of God, not illness, is designed to teach you. Additionally, you have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of you who is the Spirit of Truth. John 16:13 says He will guide you into all truth.

3. Sickness Is Never a Blessing

If sickness were truly a blessing, we wouldn’t be working so hard to rid our bodies of it. Instead, we would welcome it.

Illness is not a blessing. It is a curse introduced to mankind when Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden. According to Deuteronomy 28, every form of sickness and disease is part of the curse. Those who put their trust in Jesus Christ are redeemed from the curse because He became a curse for us so THE BLESSING of Abraham could come upon us who are in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:13-14).

4. God Still Heals

While some people might try to tell you that healing has passed away, don’t believe it.

God said, “I am the Lord who heals you” (Exodus 15:26). He didn’t say, I was the Lord who healed you, or I will be the Lord who heals you in heaven someday. He said, I am your Healer—right now, today! “I am the Lord, and I do not change” (Malachi 3:6).

For healing to have “passed away,” God would have to change who He is. He is the Healer.

So, healing is still available. God is still in the healing business.

5. Healing Is Always God’s Will

God always desires that you be healed, but He won’t force that healing on you. If you want to be healed, you must cooperate with Him. You must believe His Word and act on it.

At the same time, you must resist the enemy, Satan, who seeks to steal, kill and destroy you (John 10:10). He’s the one who wants to see you sick, in pain and unable to do all God has called you to do. That’s why you must resist Him so that he will flee (James 4:7). How do you do that? With the Word. When thoughts come to your mind that are contrary to the Word of God, speak the Word aloud. Read about Jesus’ temptation in the desert to better understand how to combat the devil and win (Matthew 4).

Jesus is a perfect picture of God’s will in the earth. One time, a leper came to Jesus for healing. The leper knew Jesus was able, but didn’t know if it was God’s will. Let’s take a look at what the Passion Translation says about this story in Matthew 8:1-3:

“After he [Jesus] came down from teaching on the hillside, massive crowds began following him. Suddenly, a leper walked up to Jesus and threw himself down before him in worship and said, ‘Lord, you have the power to heal me . . . if you really want to.’ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the leper and said, ‘Of course I want to heal you—be healed!’ And instantly, all signs of leprosy disappeared!”

When you study Jesus’ words “I will” in the Greek language, you learn that Jesus could not choose to do anything but heal the leper because that is His very nature. He is the Healer, so that’s what He does…He heals!

6. God Wants You to Live a Long Life

Proverbs 3:1-2 says: “My son, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of a life [worth living] and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till death], these shall they add to you” (AMPC). Those verses paint a picture of what God wants for all of us. He wants our lives to just get better and better. He wants us to enjoy the fulfillment of the promise in Psalm 91:16: “I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.”

Long life is God’s plan for you!

Yes, you can have victory over the flu and any other rotten sickness or disease that tries to come your way. You will have to be MORE persistent in faith as the flu is with its symptoms. If you want to know more about how to stand in faith for your healing, check out Healing and Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan. Let it be the beginning of your journey to God-ordained wholeness!



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Kenneth Copeland
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For the last 50 years Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have been passionately teaching Christians all over the world how to apply the principles of faith found in God’s WORD to their lives.
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