Our goal is to receive the manifestation of healing and give our heavenly Father the glory for what Jesus has done for us. Sickness is the result of an oppression of the devil.

Acts 10:38 says, "...and Jesus went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with Him."

The devil inflicts us with sickness and doesn't like it when God's Word brings healing and destroys his work. The devil will always try to reestablish his infliction by stealing the truth of the Word from us.

 Matthew 13:19  " When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside,"

The enemy wants to steal the Word before it can become firmly rooted in us to produce the healing. The devil knows that the Word of God is more powerful than his work ... sickness, so he must try and cut-off the Word in us before it gets rooted. Only seed rooted can produce a harvest.

Let's look at Matthew 13:20 & 21 "And the one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this who hears the Word, and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately he falls away."

When we receive the Word on healing and are prayed for and a healing takes place, we receive it with joy, but it must become firmly rooted in us because the devil will always try to inflict us with the very same symptoms to change our minds.

Verse 21 says because of the Word, this affliction will be brought against us once again to cause us to fall away. The devil will once again bring the symptoms of the sickness to try and convince us that we are not healed. This is a lying vanity. The root meaning of a lying vanity is something that comes against you to change your mind.

If the devil can cause us to look at symptoms instead of God's promise, he can convince us to believe his lie. When we focus on the symptoms, pain or whatever it is, doubt and unbelief come to our mind and this gives entrance for fear to re-establish the sickness. We must keep our heart and mind fixed upon God and His promise.

Isaiah 26:3 says, "I will keep him in perfect peace who's mind is stayed upon me." We need to hold fast to that which is good. We must allow the Word to take root so that it can complete the manifestation of healing.

Jonah is an example of this. He was swallowed by the whale and was in the whale's belly for three days and nights, yet he did not give up on God and His promise.

Jonah 2:8-9 "Those who regard lying vanities forsake their faithfulness, but I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving." Jonah decided not to believe a lying vanity, but to trust God and God delivered him out of his circumstance. Had Jonah believed the lie, he would have lost his faith and not received deliverance.

How can we expect God to deliver us if we go by what the devil does rather than trust God? So when the symptoms return, we must set our faith in God and his Word and tell the enemy, no matter what, we are not going to believe his lies.

James 4:7, "Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and He will flee from you."

The Father loves you!  According to Ephesians 3:20, our Heavenly Father  desires to do superabundantly, far over and above all we could ever dare ask or think.   Healing your body is just one of the benefits that Jesus provided for you 2000 years ago.    

        Psalm 103:3 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and Forget Not ALL HIS Benefits:

                               WHO FORGIVES ALL OUR SINS!

                               WHO HEALS ALL OUR DISEASES!

He loves you more than you could ever know and He desires that you come to know (experience) His love today.  

Isaiah 55:8  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says 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.”

He would say to you,  “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.  When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.  For I am the Lord your God.”  Isaiah 44:1-2

Since Jesus paid for you to be healed, just believe the Word of God and receive this healing by faith, regardless of what we see or feel. 

2 Cor 4:18  “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

If you are sick or in pain that might be a fact, but it’s not the truth!  The sickness, depression or pain is temporary and subject to change according to God’s Word!  His Word is unchanging and Eternal!  Jesus destroyed sickness and disease for you so you could be healed and receive His abundant life today. 

The bible declares that at the name of Jesus every knees must bow and every tongues confess that Jesus is Lord.  This means that pain, sickness and oppression of the enemy must bow its knee and exit your body now in the Name of Jesus! 

The enemy attempts to anchor our affections and thoughts to the things that are visible.  However, this can be easily resisted when our hearts are aware of the presence of His world, His kingdom and the truth of His Word!  So rather than believing because of what we see or feel, we need to believe the report of the Lord that says that ‘By Jesus’ stripes we are healed.’

We encourage you to press in today for your healing because as Jesus said, “It is Finished!”   Be willing to trade your sickness or pain for the truth of the Word of God and by faith reach out and grab hold of your healing.   It is a free gift and with the simple faith of a child you can receive it today because He loves you!