KEYS TO OUR HEALING.

KEYS TO OUR HEALING.

Isaiah 53:4-6.

This passage is Isaiah’s prophetic vision of what Jesus was going to accomplish on the cross.

We must note here that on the same cross, on the same day Jesus not only paid for our sins

to be forgiven, he also paid for our emotional and physical healing.

Note in verse 5 it says that by his stripes we are healed. In the old testament all the covenants

that God established with his people, from Adam to Abraham, Moses, the law and the prophets

were all given for one reason, to point his people to the promised Messiah (Jesus). See Romans 3:21-26 and Galatians 3:24. God had promised them that if they walked in his covenants and in obedience to them they could have good health and that none of the diseases that they had seen in Egypt would effect them (Exodus 15:26). What Isaiah is saying is that ultimately their healing is the result of what God is going to do through the Messiah but that they can now claim that healing through the covenants that God has established with them.

1 Peter 2:24-25.

In this passage Peter quotes from Isaiah 53 but note that he says that by his stripes you were healed. We must realize that the work of Christ on the cross was a complete work. There is nothing more that God can to do to secure our healing. As far as God is concerned we are healed. It is up to us to receive that healing. In the same way that we receive Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, we receive our healing.

Mark 11:24.

Jesus tells us in this verse that when we ask for anything in prayer, we must believe that we receive and when we do we will have the thing we have asked for. This is how faith works, we pray, ask God and believe. In verse 22 of this chapter Jesus says “Have faith in God.” Then in verse 23 he goes on to show us how to remove the obstacles that come against us. The key to it is to believe when you pray that you have received what you are praying for and not to allow doubt to rob you of receiving your answer.

Hebrews 11:1.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Faith is the currency of Heaven and it operates in the now, it brings into substance the things that we hope for. Hope here is not some half hearted belief that maybe something will happen or maybe it won’t. Biblical hope is based on the inner assurance that Gods word is true and reliable and that all his promises are yes and amen in Jesus. In the case of our healing the hope is “By his stripes we were healed.” Faith takes a hold of that spiritual truth, that inner assurance that we know this to be true and causes that healing to be manifested in our physical bodies.