When healing is needed, some people tend to think that it’s easier to trust medical science and physical medicines and treatments from the natural realm than it is to trust the Lord to work supernaturally to deliver them. Evidently that feeling is due to the fact that they believe the sickness or infirmity is primarily a physical problem — with a physical root — so, of course, physical remedies and treatments would best serve their need.
However, exactly the opposite is true. According to the Word of God, all sickness and disease has a spiritual root, and came into this physical world as a result of man’s sin — and the resulting curse on the sin and everything it contaminated. Now, every single bout of sickness is not necessarily the result of some particular or specific sin on the part of the sufferer. That is not what the Word says. Rather, all sickness came into the world as part of the curse resulting from rebellion and sin in the Garden of Eden, and that curse has continued to function and bear fruit in the world ever since. Sometimes sickness in an individual’s body has nothing to do with that person’s own sin. Often it is simply that the sickness (infection, infirmity, malfunctioning) currently at work in the world has managed to attach itself to that particular person.
But since sickness came as the result of sin — which is a spiritual thing — then the root of all sickness is spiritual — not physical. And the Lord has provided a spiritual remedy for all sickness: Jesus Christ and His finished work, along with His Word, which applies that finished work to our bodies and our lives.
In the Word of God, Deuteronomy, chapter 28, the Lord tells us explicitly that sickness and disease is part of the curse of the broken law. He specifies several diseases and maladies by name, but then, just so there won’t be any question, He also says, in verse 61, that every sickness and plague “not written” in the book is also included in the curse. The book of Romans, chapter 8, refers to the “law of sin and death.” That law causes sin to result in death, and death in process in the human body tends to manifest itself in the form of various sicknesses, pains, and malfunctioning.
But we must make special note of the fact the Galatians, chapter 3 tells us clearly that Jesus Christ, by His death and resurrection, has totally redeemed us from the curse of the broken law. So we have a legal right to be free from sickness and disease as long as we are in right covenant with Jesus. However, we must know that truth — from God’s Word. Then we must believe that truth. And then we must apply that truth in faith by praying and believing for God’s healing — and by commanding sickness to leave our bodies and confessing with our own mouths what the Word of God says about our healing and health.
So you see, no matter what physical ailment you may be suffering from, the actual root of it is in the spirit realm, and once you can comprehend that fact, believing God for healing becomes much easier — and makes sense even to the human intellect. God is a Spirit, yet He created everything that is material. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God ….” He had no raw materials with which to work. He had only Himself, and He created all that we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel out of spirit. Since spirit created all that is physical, everything physical must — and will — obey the pressure of spirit upon it.
That’s why the Lord said that if we exercised God’s kind of faith, we could speak to the mountain, and it would move. That physical mountain was created by the Spirit God, and when the voice of God — through believing men speaking God’s Word — commands that mountain to do something, it has no choice but to obey the command of its creator.
A person may have a malignant tumor on his arm. That tumor is a physical thing, but it came about as the result of the curse and the law of sin and death — so it has a spiritual root. When we feed on God’s Word and His promises of healing until we truly believe them, then we speak those words to that tumor and command it in the name of Jesus Christ to be destroyed and dissolved from our bodies, it must obey.
It is important to note, however, that “trying” this “method” is not going to work. This truth we are talking about here is NOT A ‘METHOD.’ Nor is it a formula. And “trying” something is not an act of faith. We must get so much of God’s Word inside of us that it creates real faith. There must be a “knowing,” not an “experimenting,” for God’s Word and His power to be set free to work.
In the final analysis, it all comes down to living in the Word of God. It is the Word that shows us the truth about sickness and disease. It is the Word that shows us the truth about healing and God’s will concerning it. And it is the Word that enters into our very marrow and affects the creation of the cells of our body so that we can be healthy. (Hebrews 4:11). It is also the Word that God has chosen as His own personal form of medicine for the human body. (Proverbs 4:20-22). And that seems only right. Jesus said His words were “spirit and life.” Since sickness and disease have a spiritual root, then God’s “spirit and life” words must have the cure.
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