“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:8-9).

People say, “I believe God wants to use sickness to teach me.” But is that in the Bible?

All of us have probably held theories and beliefs at one time or another that have messed up our thinking. Perhaps Satan’s biggest lie is that sickness and disease are from God. When we fall for that lie, we stop resisting the devil’s attacks on our bodies and open the door for him to walk right in and strap sickness on us. Then we wonder why we can’t get rid of the sickness!

We might receive temporary relief from sickness or pain if people lay hands on us and pray. But often the symptoms come right back. We won’t find permanent relief until we make sure that the door giving the enemy access is closed and locked. How do we lock the door? By getting a strong revelation in our hearts that healing is God’s will.

You see, we open the door to sickness through wrong thinking. Wrong thinking produces wrong believing, and wrong believing produces wrong speaking. When all those factors are put together, we experience only bad results.

When faced with symptoms of sickness, we should immediately say, “The Bible is God talking to me. What does God think? What does the Bible say?”

God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isa. 55:9). Thank God, He wrote down His thoughts and ways in sixty-six books and gave them to us! And in those books, He tells us that healing is His will!