- as a Father and when sonship consciousness gets into you, sickness is forgotten. The sonship stage is when you have outgrown childhood or infancy. You are no longer a babe in Christ. At this stage of growth you are fully enlightened and consciously aware of your rights and privileges. You have stopped seeing it as being at God’s disposal. You now know that whatever you get or do not get, is your own decision. You now know what God must do and why He must do it; you are no longer a child but a son. The heart of the matter is the fact that God has no plans for you to be sick, just as He had no plans for Jesus to be sick. He has the same plan for Jesus and you. In God’s plan, you and Jesus are not different. He is the pattern Son. He is the firstborn (Colossians 1:15,18). We are His brethren. God sees us as such. In fact, the Lord Jesus Himself indicated this. He was so plain about it. He said: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. John 14:12 You have everything that Jesus had when He was in the body. There is no secret about it. You are complete in Him. It is your own responsibility to make them real in your life. It is absolutely possible to live without sickness and diseases. That is divine health. Jesus lived in it and you can do the same too. By the time you get into this, you will no longer be
- 6. talking
about healing, you will be talking health. The devil will respect you
fully and will be full of fear, because you know your right to health. I
read the story of a woman who, at the age of thirty-five got hold of the
word on divine health. Her life was literally transformed, that she lived
a life free of the least headache and went to be with the Lord at the age
of ninety-four. She knew she did not need to be sick. In fact, she still
washed her plates in her kitchen on the day she died. She was very
healthy. She was no nuisance to those living with and around her. She was
as strong as she had always been. There are many people today, who are
merely sixty years old, and are already giving their people serious
concern. Their systems have degenerated and they are as good as dead. But
divine health guarantees strength, even at old age. In the days of the
apostles, sickness among believers was not common. It was not normal for a
believer to be sick. There was no precedent for it. There is no account
about the apostles that indicates that any of them was sick at any time.
They were constantly in health. Even Thomas who seemed to be lacking in
faith walked in sound health all the time! Judas, as long as he walked
with Jesus, was also sound in health. Jesus did not only walk in health,
He made His environment healthy. His presence was enough to
- 7. sanctify
His disciples from sickness! This explains why James had to write asking,
"Is there any sick among you?" It was not common to be sick
then. Sickness is not part of the body of Christ. Sound health is for the
body of Christ, while sickness is one of the elements of the body of Satan
- the kingdom of darkness. So James asked "Is it likely that there is
any sick there?" The Church is superior to sickness. It is not for
us. This is why it was easy for Paul to identify the reason why some
Christians in the Corinthian Church were sickly and weak. He knew it was
not normal, not conventional. It was as a result of something. Paul said
the reason was that they took the blood and body of the Lord unworthily,
not discerning the body. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
FOR THIS CAUSE many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 1
Corinthians 11:29-30 Paul, here states that the reason why God’s people
were weak and sickly was because of holy communion taken unworthily. But
the situation today is not so. People are sick because of their ignorance
of God’s provision for their health. From James’ statement, it is
conclusive that health is of great importance to God. It is clear that He
would overlook sin to heal a believer, and forgive him in the process. Is
any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the Church; and let
them pray over him...And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the
Lord shall raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him. James 5:14-15
- 8. God
seems to be saying, "I hate to see My people sick. Even if they have
sinned, I will forgive them." This may sound like God is slack about
sin, but He is not! He is expressing the strong emphasis He has placed on
your health and He will do anything to make sure that your health is
guaranteed. He wants and intends for His Family to be a symbol of divine
health. He is saying, "do not nurse, accommodate or entertain that
sickness in your body. Small as it may be, call on the elders. Let them
pray for you that you may be restored to health. Even if there is any
obstacle sin or whatever I will take care of it. Just let him be
healed." Chapter 2Your Right To Health That you have God-given,
purchased and guaranteed right to health is expressly stated in God’s
word. He openly declared His plan for your being in health so clearly that
it is easily understandable. God entered into a covenant relationship with
His people under the Old Testament. One of such covenants is the covenant
of good health. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee. Exodus 23:25 As long as you are in God’s service, sickness, disease,
affliction and any such evil shall not and
- 9. cannot
have dominion over you. Note that He said "I will take sickness away
from the midst of thee." God will take it away from you. If sickness
is taken away, all you have left is health! That is divine health. There
are many things involved in that passage of scripture. It is a four-term
contract. ● You shall serve the Lord your God: ● He shall bless your
bread; ● He shall bless your water; ● And He shall take sickness away from
the midst of thee. Everyone who is involved in God’s service is entitled
to divine health. Are you in His service? Sickness has been removed from
you. In God’s mind, you are in health. The term of the contract is service
to God. If that is carried out, God has taken care of His own side of it.
If you are faithful, God is faithful. A faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 13:17 A faithful servant of God is health. That means he is an
embodiment of health. We are all ambassadors of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20)
therefore, health is ours by right. It is not a special favour from God.
It is not for a selected few. It is for you by right, on covenant basis.
God has a duty to make you healthy and stay so. He has made everything
available to guarantee your health. It is your responsibility, however, to
- 10. walk
into it and enjoy it. The fulfillment of this covenant of health was
clearly manifested in the lives of the people of Israel, the Church in the
wilderness (Acts 7:38). They moved with God and served Him and as long as
they obeyed God and were in His service, He upheld the covenant of health
He had earlier made with them. He brought them forth also with silver and
gold: and there was not one feeble (weak, sick) person among their tribes.
Psalm 105:37 The Psalmist is talking about the church in the wilderness.
He is giving an account of how God brought them out with strength and
throughout their forty years journey, there was no sick person among their
tribes. Sickness had no entrance into their midst. Note that this was for
the church in the wilderness, under the ministration of death, with the
old covenant. And if the ministration of death could be that glorious,
such that there was no feeble person among all their tribes, how much more
shall the ministration of life excel in glory. The figurative church had
no sickness. The real body - the church of the Lord Jesus Christ should
not have any such thing! The Bible says that Jesus Christ was the rock
that followed them in the wilderness. He was with them as a rock, he is now
with us as the Living Saviour. The risen and glorified Christ is with the
New Testament Church. He is exalted and set on the right hand of Majesty
- as a Father and
when sonship consciousness gets into you, sickness is forgotten. The
sonship stage is when you have outgrown childhood or infancy. You are no
longer a babe in Christ. At this stage of growth you are fully enlightened
and consciously aware of your rights and privileges. You have stopped
seeing it as being at God’s disposal. You now know that whatever you get
or do not get, is your own decision. You now know what God must do and why
He must do it; you are no longer a child but a son. The heart of the
matter is the fact that God has no plans for you to be sick, just as He
had no plans for Jesus to be sick. He has the same plan for Jesus and you.
In God’s plan, you and Jesus are not different. He is the pattern Son. He
is the firstborn (Colossians 1:15,18). We are His brethren. God sees us as
such. In fact, the Lord Jesus Himself indicated this. He was so plain
about it. He said: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these
shall he do; because I go unto my Father. John 14:12 You have everything
that Jesus had when He was in the body. There is no secret about it. You
are complete in Him. It is your own responsibility to make them real in
your life. It is absolutely possible to live without sickness and
diseases. That is divine health. Jesus lived in it and you can do the same
too. By the time you get into this, you will no longer be
- 6. talking
about healing, you will be talking health. The devil will respect you
fully and will be full of fear, because you know your right to health. I
read the story of a woman who, at the age of thirty-five got hold of the
word on divine health. Her life was literally transformed, that she lived
a life free of the least headache and went to be with the Lord at the age
of ninety-four. She knew she did not need to be sick. In fact, she still
washed her plates in her kitchen on the day she died. She was very
healthy. She was no nuisance to those living with and around her. She was
as strong as she had always been. There are many people today, who are
merely sixty years old, and are already giving their people serious
concern. Their systems have degenerated and they are as good as dead. But
divine health guarantees strength, even at old age. In the days of the
apostles, sickness among believers was not common. It was not normal for a
believer to be sick. There was no precedent for it. There is no account
about the apostles that indicates that any of them was sick at any time.
They were constantly in health. Even Thomas who seemed to be lacking in
faith walked in sound health all the time! Judas, as long as he walked
with Jesus, was also sound in health. Jesus did not only walk in health,
He made His environment healthy. His presence was enough to
- 7. sanctify
His disciples from sickness! This explains why James had to write asking,
"Is there any sick among you?" It was not common to be sick
then. Sickness is not part of the body of Christ. Sound health is for the
body of Christ, while sickness is one of the elements of the body of Satan
- the kingdom of darkness. So James asked "Is it likely that there is
any sick there?" The Church is superior to sickness. It is not for
us. This is why it was easy for Paul to identify the reason why some
Christians in the Corinthian Church were sickly and weak. He knew it was
not normal, not conventional. It was as a result of something. Paul said
the reason was that they took the blood and body of the Lord unworthily,
not discerning the body. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
FOR THIS CAUSE many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 1
Corinthians 11:29-30 Paul, here states that the reason why God’s people
were weak and sickly was because of holy communion taken unworthily. But
the situation today is not so. People are sick because of their ignorance
of God’s provision for their health. From James’ statement, it is
conclusive that health is of great importance to God. It is clear that He
would overlook sin to heal a believer, and forgive him in the process. Is
any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the Church; and let
them pray over him...And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the
Lord shall raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him. James 5:14-15
- 8. God
seems to be saying, "I hate to see My people sick. Even if they have
sinned, I will forgive them." This may sound like God is slack about
sin, but He is not! He is expressing the strong emphasis He has placed on
your health and He will do anything to make sure that your health is
guaranteed. He wants and intends for His Family to be a symbol of divine
health. He is saying, "do not nurse, accommodate or entertain that
sickness in your body. Small as it may be, call on the elders. Let them
pray for you that you may be restored to health. Even if there is any
obstacle sin or whatever I will take care of it. Just let him be
healed." Chapter 2Your Right To Health That you have God-given,
purchased and guaranteed right to health is expressly stated in God’s
word. He openly declared His plan for your being in health so clearly that
it is easily understandable. God entered into a covenant relationship with
His people under the Old Testament. One of such covenants is the covenant
of good health. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee. Exodus 23:25 As long as you are in God’s service, sickness, disease,
affliction and any such evil shall not and
- 9. cannot
have dominion over you. Note that He said "I will take sickness away
from the midst of thee." God will take it away from you. If sickness
is taken away, all you have left is health! That is divine health. There
are many things involved in that passage of scripture. It is a four-term
contract. ● You shall serve the Lord your God: ● He shall bless your
bread; ● He shall bless your water; ● And He shall take sickness away from
the midst of thee. Everyone who is involved in God’s service is entitled
to divine health. Are you in His service? Sickness has been removed from
you. In God’s mind, you are in health. The term of the contract is service
to God. If that is carried out, God has taken care of His own side of it.
If you are faithful, God is faithful. A faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 13:17 A faithful servant of God is health. That means he is an
embodiment of health. We are all ambassadors of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20)
therefore, health is ours by right. It is not a special favour from God.
It is not for a selected few. It is for you by right, on covenant basis.
God has a duty to make you healthy and stay so. He has made everything
available to guarantee your health. It is your responsibility, however, to
- 10. walk
into it and enjoy it. The fulfillment of this covenant of health was
clearly manifested in the lives of the people of Israel, the Church in the
wilderness (Acts 7:38). They moved with God and served Him and as long as
they obeyed God and were in His service, He upheld the covenant of health
He had earlier made with them. He brought them forth also with silver and
gold: and there was not one feeble (weak, sick) person among their tribes.
Psalm 105:37 The Psalmist is talking about the church in the wilderness.
He is giving an account of how God brought them out with strength and
throughout their forty years journey, there was no sick person among their
tribes. Sickness had no entrance into their midst. Note that this was for
the church in the wilderness, under the ministration of death, with the
old covenant. And if the ministration of death could be that glorious,
such that there was no feeble person among all their tribes, how much more
shall the ministration of life excel in glory. The figurative church had
no sickness. The real body - the church of the Lord Jesus Christ should
not have any such thing! The Bible says that Jesus Christ was the rock
that followed them in the wilderness. He was with them as a rock, he is now
with us as the Living Saviour. The risen and glorified Christ is with the
New Testament Church. He is exalted and set on the right hand of Majesty
- 11. on
high. God’s divine purpose for the church is to stay in divine health. In
the beginning, we are told that God created man and everything that was
necessary, and He saw that it was very good. But do you ever notice that
God did not provide a means for healing? He created His man, put him in
charge of everything He had made, and provided no means of getting healed.
The reason was that when God created His man, He made him in His own very
image, immune to any form of sickness. In fact, man had no sickness or
disease-consciousness. So, that man (Adam) did not need healing. God did
not provide for healing because they (Adam and Eve) were not made to be
sick. He knew they needed food, so He provided everything for food; none
of those things were made for drugs. Their creation was made drug-free.
The Entrance of Sickness There are three areas through which sickness entered
into the world. The first is sin. There was no sickness in the world until
Adam sinned. Before this time, Adam was in a state of perfect and absolute
health. He did not know sickness. He was always strong, hale and hearty.
There was no symptom of headache or fever. It was when he sinned that
sickness came in. An unregenerated man is not entitled to divine health.
The Bible says that man has sinned and come short of the glory of God
(Romans 3:23). Man
- 12. cannot
enjoy divine health except the sin problem is dealt with. There is no way
a man that is sin- ridden can enjoy divine health. He has to first submit
himself to Jesus Christ, then he will have access to God’s provision of
divine health. There was no sickness before sin, and if sickness must
leave, sin, the root cause, must go. The Bible says the sting of death is
sin. Death is the ultimate of all bodily oppression. Jesus, on the cross,
took care of all that is called sin, once and for all. He was
"...bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). From
that day, the price for sin was fully paid. Now, if sin is the root of
sickness and this root has been dealt with, then sickness, the product of
sin, has been finished. It has no legal right over you any longer. There
is no reason why sickness should fasten its hold on you now. Get this
right: the man or woman who has a right to divine health is that man or
woman who has accepted, believed and acted upon the finished and comprehensive
atonement of Christ on the cross. Anyone who has not come under the
cleansing and atoning blood of Christ cannot be free from sin and its
consequences. But if you have done that, you are free from sin, sickness
and all satanic wiles today and now. If you can stand on this truth now,
the devil himself will acknowledge the fact of it.
- 13. You
have no legal right to continue in servitude to sin and sickness because
Jesus has really and fully taken your position in these things. You have
to believe this before it can be real to you. Paul said sin shall not have
dominion over you. You are no longer under the rulership of the devil.
Jesus paid the price. The power that made you free from sin has also made
you free from its consequences. Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.
Colossians 1:13 That you have been delivered from the power of darkness is
a fact. It is in the kingdom of darkness that you see and experience
everything evil. There, the devil is the king and lord and he reigns and
exercises mastery over every creature under him. He torments them with
sickness, poverty and all manner of evil works of darkness. But at new
birth, you are delivered from this power of darkness, and translated from
that evil kingdom into God’s own Kingdom. The new birth did not leave you
at the mercy of the devil. He translated (transferred) you into the
Kingdom of light, where darkness cannot approach. Sickness has no place
there. It has no power over you any more. You have been made free, so stay
freed. Remember, sin is the capital source of sickness and it has been
dealt with; so sickness has been taken care of. Our Redemption From the
Curse
- 14. The
second major source of sickness is the curse of the law. In Deuteronomy
28, from verse 15, the curses of the law are clearly outlined. If thou
wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this
book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY
GOD; Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of
Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also
every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this
law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. Verses
58-61 You can see from verse 16 to the end of the chapter that the various
curses of the law are stated with meticulous clarity. It is also clear in
verses 58-61 that sicknesses and plagues are also covered under the curse
of the law. In fact, He went further to say that the sicknesses include
those that are not written in this book. This shows that new sicknesses
will come and they have started coming. Just like God is preparing for His
end-time move, the devil is also doing his worst to mobilize every evil he
has in store for his last and final onslaught on humanity. New diseases
and sicknesses are coming to light. Medical science has never gone on
recess since its inception. Researches are always going on because
something new is always happening and the devil is playing his last card
in a frantic effort to dissuade people from the faith. The truth is that
every form of sickness comes under the curse of the law. Thanks be to God
that one of the things Jesus dealt with on the cross is the curse of the
law!
- 15. If
He had died by any other means apart from hanging on the cross, the curse
of the law would still have been intact, effective and active over us. But
the Bible says that Jesus went to the cross to deliver us from that curse.
He was there as our substitute. He took our very place under the curse and
was cursed for us. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that
hangeth on a tree. Galatians 3:13 The reason Jesus went to the cross was
to avert all curses of the law, and sickness is one of them. Christ has
redeemed us from it. He fully bailed us out. Christ has redeemed you from
all forms of sickness, disease, and plague, including the ones the devil
is still planning to introduce to the world. It does not matter what name
it is called. You have been made free from it. For some time now, people
have been talking about the deadly AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome). They have said it is a killer disease and it really is. It is
one of the most deadly diseases the devil has ever invented and medical
science has not been able to find an answer to it. When it strikes a man,
it can result into just anything. It is like a sickness machine. It
strikes all. It blinds the eyes, paralyses the hands, affects the legs, and
even the appetite. It affects all the body system at the same time! Yet
the devil is planning deadlier ones in times to come. He knows his time is
short and has determined to move in an
- 16. alarming
rate. This is one reason why you have to get yourself fully prepared and
comprehensively insured against the evil day. Christ has redeemed us from
all these—the curse of the law. He was made a curse for us. If the devil
can effectively contest it and argue it out, then we can give up. But the
truth is that Jesus really took your place and was made a curse for you.
No curse of the law has any right, legal or illegal, over you any longer.
It is just like Barabas, the notorious criminal during the earthly walk of
the Lord Jesus Christ. The moment he was released in the place of Jesus,
no authority in Jerusalem could arrest him any more. Jesus had taken his
place, so he was a free man. Jesus has also taken your place under the
curse and it covers all forms of sickness, known or unknown. He truly took
your place, so you are free. The way many people respond (instead of
reacting against) to sickness, gives the impression that it is God who has
put sickness upon them. All they do is complain. They talk, pamper and
placate the sickness as if it were from God. God did not put it there. He
does not put sickness on His people. He is the one who has redeemed you
from it. If you continue to pose as if God put it there, you will remain
under that situation for a long time. It is time to react against
sickness. It is
- 17. the
curse of the law and Christ has redeemed you totally from it. Satan As The
Tormentor The third source of sickness is satan. It has always been the
devil (Satan) who afflicted people with sickness. In Job 2:7, the Bible
records that satan smote Job: So went Satan forth from the presence of the
Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown. Job 2:7 It was Satan, not God. Satan was single-handedly
responsible for Job’s calamities and woes. In the New Testament, Jesus
talked of a woman who had been bound by Satan. And ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen
years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? Luke 13:16 It was
Satan who bound that woman. Not God. Jesus really recognized that Satan is
in active partnership with sickness. But I have news for you. The devil is
no longer a problem to you. By virtue of the victory of Christ on the
cross, you are more than a conqueror of sin, sickness and the devil
himself. All you need to do is to believe these things, and that puts you
above the devil permanently. The Bible says you have a victory in Christ
that overcomes the world, even your faith. For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world,
even our faith. 1 John 5:4 You have world-overcoming faith that wards off
all the fiery darts of the devil. He cannot be your problem any longer.
You were once under his authority, but you have been transferred from his
kingdom into the Kingdom of light. You have been
- 18. exalted
far above him. You are seated together with Christ in the heavenly places
far above principalities and powers. You are no longer under him. He is
now under your feet! (Ephesians 2:6; 1:20-23). Paul said, the God of peace
shall bruise the devil (Satan) under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20).
That is where he is - under your feet! You were under him but he is now
under your feet. This is why the Bible commands us not to give place to
the devil. In fact, Jesus said you are superior to him. He cannot bring a
thing on you because you are his master. Jesus is your Lord and you are
lord to satan and his fallen angels. He cannot force anything on you. He
cannot afflict you in anyway. You are far above him in God’s order of
beings. It is ridiculous for a messenger to attempt forcing his boss to
take orders from him. It is just the same thing. It is above Satan to
afflict you. Get this fact fully settled in your mind. Therein lies your
victory. Whenever he comes against you, resist him. Stand your ground.
Refuse to shift an inch and he will definitely flee from you. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 Friend, you have been set free
from these three sources of sickness. Sickness has no power, authority,
and right over you. But you need to get
- 19. acquainted
with this fact. Hosea 4:6 says: My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge. You will not be able to act on these facts until you come into
the full knowledge that you have been redeemed and exalted above all these
sources of sickness. Chapter 3Stand Your Ground It is very important for
you to know your right and insist on having it. If you do not do this, you
may spend a whole lifetime nursing sicknesses and diseases as they come. I
remember many years ago, the devil afflicted me with tuberculosis. I just
woke up deep in the night one day and shouted, "No, no no. It is a
shame to God that this thing is happening to me. It is a shame to you God!
It is a shame!" And that was the last I knew of that affliction. It
just disappeared and I have been enjoying myself from that time, and I
will go on enjoying myself in perfect health! If I did not take my stand,
I would still be groaning under that bondage today. You need to understand
very clearly that you have been redeemed from sickness. There is no reason
why you should live therein any longer. Christ has done it. Take your
stand and get out of that bondage.
- 20. John,
the beloved apostle, knew this very well. He had the complete redemptive
work of Christ in his mind when he said that God’s ultimate and primary
desire is for you to prosper and be in health as your soul prospers. In
essence, he was saying God’s will for you is divine health. Beloved, I
wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as
thy soul prospereth. 3 John 2 It is not John wishing here. He is speaking
by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He is speaking God’s mind. The
Bible says: ...no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation...but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Peter 1:20-21 God said: "My perfect will is for you to be in
health." I constantly tell people that God is going to make a clear
distinction between His people and the world through health and
prosperity. These are practical things that are obvious to the eyes. Every
sick person appreciates health and every poor man knows it is good to be
prosperous. Those two areas of life will become the most powerful
witnessing tools in the end-time. Your health will be so sound that it
will become obvious and unquestionable. The world will know it is real.
When a plague afflicts everybody in your compound, you and your Family
will stand out unaffected. Whatever the plague, written or unwritten,
known or unknown; you will stand out as the only person living in health,
the plague notwithstanding.
- 21. A
few years back, the chicken-pox disease took hold of everybody in the
compound where I lived. I woke up to see an adult ridiculously painted
white. Everybody, except me, was afflicted. That is the difference. It has
to be clear to all that you are extraordinary. This has to be clear to all
around you. There is no precedent in the word of God for the doctor to say
that something is wrong in your body, because Jesus, your example and
pattern, had nothing wrong in His body. It does not matter what your state
of health was before you became a believer. The moment you come into the
experience of the new birth, God will do all things possible to ensure
that you are made whole. A doctor once tested my blood pressure and said, "Oh,
very high!" I said, "Will you stop that! My blood pressure
cannot be high!" I told him: "Some devil must have entered into
your instrument. I am one of the most healthy people on earth. In fact I
am healthier than you. My blood pressure is not high, and cannot be
high." "If it were not for medical test ," I continued,
"I would not have come to you, because I have nothing doing with you
medical doctors." And before I walked out of his room, I told him to
check himself up, that since he was also touching the instrument as
myself, his blood pressure could be the one reading so high! Now, I have
nothing
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medical doctors. They are good people, doing their jobs, but I am not
their customer. One of the professions that will be most profitable in
this end-time is the medical profession. When the plagues begin to attack,
people will begin to save for health. People will begin to anticipate
sickness. People will begin to break down very easily. Almost every
unbeliever and ignorant believers will have private doctors. But at such
times, we shall be carrying smiling faces all over the place. Then they
will know we are different. I cannot die because of sickness. I have
noticed that for some time now, each time the enemy sought to attack my
body with sickness, it was I who decided when to be out of it. When I want
to be up, a thousand devils cannot hold me down; I get up and that is the
end of that sickness. The reason is that, I am the one reigning when it
comes to that level of life. I determine my health programme. You have to
get to a point where the devil respects you. When it comes to his
afflictions over humanity, you are not his equal. You are not on the same
level. You are not in the same class of beings. You are superior to him
and you are far above him. Take a hard look at the 28th Chapter of
Deuteronomy from verse 15. Look at every curse of the law, one after the
other. Then compare
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things with what is happening in your life and come out angrily, with a
holy wrath and react violently against any trace of the curse in your
life. React against the devil. Ask the enemy this frank question:
"Did Jesus hang on the cross? He cannot deny it. He will only shiver
before you. He knows you have got the key. Tell him that the day Jesus
hung on the cross, He was made a curse for you. He took your place and
every curse was heaped on Him right there, and you are now free. The devil
has no answer to the word of God, but obedience. That is your freedom. You
need to put more faith in what God says about you than in what the doctors
say. The doctor says you have an incurable disease and you believe it.
Then you begin to plan your funeral before your death; you start to write
your will and your handing over note, based on the doctor’s report. His
report begins to rule your whole system. The doctor tells you that you
have no chance of being pregnant and your heart begins to fail you for
fear. He says one of the tubes has been cut off and there is no
possibility of pregnancy. That is the doctor’s report. Do not lose sight
of the fact that God is not bound to work by human reports. The Bible says
you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The word of
God is the truth and the truth shall make you free. The word of God is
truth. Believe
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truth at the expense of the doctor’s report and act accordingly. God is
not the author of sickness. He is not in the business of afflicting people
with sickness. He is light, and in Him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
turning. James 1:17 He is good altogether. He will be working against
Himself if He brings sickness and at the same time heals it. That makes
him inconsistent. And if He is inconsistent, then He is not God! But thank
God, He is the Almighty God. He is not the author of sickness. He does not
tempt any man with evil (James 1:13). He is love. The devil will continue
to embarrass and harass you, until you violently take your stand against
him. He is not a gentleman. Treat him harshly and violently. The Kingdom
of God suffers violence and it is only those that are violent that can
take it by force (Matthew 11:12). The Kingdom is taken by a ruthless
violence against the devil. If you pamper and placate disease, it will
always make your body a suitable abode. Before the symptoms begin to
manifest, you are already expecting them, and you are already out there
looking for sympathizers! This should not be. The word says: "...give
no place to the devil," "Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you" (Ephesians 4:27; James 4:7).
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addition to all things that the Lord Jesus has done for you, to the
detriment of sin, sickness, the curse of the law and the devil; He has
also given you power over all the powers of the devil. Behold, I give unto
you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of
the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19 This
signifies that in any area where you and the devil are in conflict, you
already have the upper hand. He said, "I have given you power."
If this is true and you really believe it, you do not have to take it easy
with the devil. You need to be ready at all times to react against him in
line with the word of God. A relation of mine, who is also a doctor came
to my house one day when we had our first baby. He looked at the boy and
exclaimed, "David, your son has jaundice!" "My son cannot
have jaundice!" I declared openly, in the presence of everyone there
(they were all intelligent unbelievers). The man who said it himself was
an unbeliever. I said, "My son cannot have jaundice at all!"
There was a strong reaction from within me, ready to devour every enemy
that might surface. The Bible says, We wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers... Ephesians 6:12 You
cannot be gentle when you are fighting. My son cannot have jaundice! I
just settled it in my spirit. There was nothing contrary to what I had
spoken. I did not even bother to check the boy’s eyes. We slept on the
same bed, but I did not have
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to check! I was fighting. If I checked, I would be giving the devil a
point, so I refused to check. Sickness has no place in my body and the
Bible says my faith sanctifies my son. So jaundice had no place in him and
that settled everything. Many are too courteous with the devil. This is
why they entertain all forms of things in their lives. They are constantly
living at the mercy of the devil. But Jesus has finished the work. The
price has been fully paid. All you need to do is to fight your place into
it and stand your ground. The faith life is a fight. The Bible says, Fight
the good fight of faith. 2 Timothy 6:12 Sometime ago, death wanted to
attack me. Just in a moment, everything changed around me. I could not
really understand what was happening. But I suddenly came to some
consciousness of the truth about long life. Then I began to say to myself,
"I’m superior to this situation; I am above this!" As I said
this, the Master spoke quietly to me saying, "If you are above this,
then stand up." Those on-the-bed confessions cannot bring you to a
place of health. You will have to stand, get out of bed, dress up and go
out! If you are alright, you have no business staying there. You may have
listened to many messages about healing and health, you may have even read
many books on that subject, but until you become a
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and really fight your way into it, you will not get it. It does not matter
what has been done on you. What the doctor says is not important. The
important thing is that God’s will for you is health. Abraham was strong
and still ran freely at age ninety-nine. At one hundred and twenty years,
Moses was still very strong! The Bible says his natural strength was not
abated neither did his eyes grow dim (Deuteronomy 34:7). That is divine
health. If at your present age, you patronize chemists and pharmaceutical
stores, what will you look like when you are eighty? If you really
understand divine health you will respond to it from within. Paul was one
man whom the devil knew and respected. He said, "Jesus I know, and
Paul I know." Paul was a no-nonsense preacher. He was a touch-me-not
preacher. He was a fire brand. He was described as a "pestilent
fellow" in Acts 24:5. He had to command blindness on Elymas, so the
devil knew and respected him. He was one person who did not give the devil
any place. Do not give place to the devil. Do not treat any bodily ailment
as ordinary. React against it as you will react against the worst plague
in the world today. There was a time that I had to preach and shortly
before I got to the auditorium, the devil wanted to attack me with running
nose. I reacted violently against it. I said, "No, it is
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for me to preach with running nose. Jesus has paid for it and I am
free!" I then threw my handkerchief away, so that I could not have a
way of helping it. That moment, all the fluid in my nostrils dried up.
Many believers are too decent and courteous for a miracle. Get out of your
shell and get your miracle! There was a woman, a former neighbour, whose
child had an inexplicable disease. The child’s stomach kept swelling. The stomach
was so swollen that it began to shine. You cannot call that stomach ache.
It was more than that. It was the devil in action. It came to a point that
the woman was on the verge of frustration, she helplessly watched her
child dying. She then ran, almost uncovered, to my apartment and reported
that her child was dying. I just took my time to get there. The child was
staring into space. He could not blink his eyes any more. A kind of grief
got hold of me from within. I just hated the devil. This is the type of
grief you need. Such situations deserve an inner reaction - a grief. You
know the Bible says Jesus was grieved in the spirit. The moment I saw the
child, I got hold of him, pressed his stomach against my body and said,
"Come on, Satan, loose your hold over this child." Immediately,
the whole place was in a mess, as all the rubbish the devil had loaded in
the child’s
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was flushed out and he was made whole. If all I did was to plead and be
gentlemanly about it, nothing could have happened to the child’s
advantage. The devil would have killed him! The kingdom of God suffers
violence, and it is only those that are violent that can take it by force!
There are many people that have been praying about certain things for a
long time but have not got it. Quite a number of the things you have been
praying to God for do not need prayers. All you need is to go and take
them. If you continue in your prayers, they may not really come but when
you get stirred up within you, and you march forward and lay hold on them,
nobody can stop you. They are yours; credited to your account. God’s
declared will is 3 John 2. His desire for you is to prosper and be in
health as your soul prospers. He said you should go and be sick no more.
Jesus is our perfect example. If you are sick, you are taking after
yourself, not Jesus. He was never sick and you do not have any reason to
be sick. He wants you to live all your days in perfect health! Do not
forget that one basic step to victorious living over sickness is the new
birth. If you have not experienced that, now is the time. You need to
insure your life in God. Then you will be able to enjoy your right to
divine health.
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4God's Master Key To Divine Health It is very important for you to live in
the consciousness of the truth that, among other things, Jesus has taken
away your sicknesses. If you know how expensive it is to keep a healthy
body in the world today, you will give praise to God for the health you
enjoy now because you are in His service. He said if you serve Him, He
will remove sickness from you (Exodus 23:25). One of the areas where the
devil will really publicize himself in this end-time is in the area of
sickness. On the other hand, however, God is going to strongly establish
His covenant of divine health with His people. Through divine health, God
is going to make the difference clear between His people and the rest of
the world. God has contracted a covenant of good health with His people
from the beginning. He has spoken to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. Sickness was strange to them. They did not have any reason to be
sick. The covenant forbade them to be sick. My covenant will I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Psalm 89:34 They were
under a great covenant. We have been brought under this same covenant also
by the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it
is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14
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came to make you a partaker of this great covenant of divine health. The
covenant belongs to you also. There are, however, some things you need to
do. If you leave them undone, your health is not guaranteed. You need to
do them and observe them closely to be in health. God has paid for every
inconvenience within and outside you. He has no plan for any part of you
to harbour any form of pain. But it takes doing what God has said, to stay
in that high premise of divine health. Take a look at Isaiah 33, and you
will find a few things there: The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on
high: He hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. And wisdom and
knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation:
the fear of the Lord is his treasure. Verses 5-6 Look at verse 6 again. It
says, "And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy
times..." Wisdom is the accurate application of knowledge. Jesus
said: ...Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32
The point being made here is that the stability of your times comes by the
accurate application of the knowledge of the truth which you possess. The
amount of wisdom you put in determines how stable your times will be. God
is exalted on high, no doubt. He has filled Zion with judgment and with
righteousness: it is now Zion’s responsibility to seek wisdom and
knowledge for stability. God spoke a lot of things
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knowledge in the scriptures. Knowledge is absolutely indispensable if you
are to walk with God. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. 2
Peter 1:2-3 He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
but they are only available through the knowledge of Him. The things He
has made available are only workable if they are known and applied. True,
He has given you all things, but you may not get one per cent of it in
this world. You need to know that these things have been made available to
you before you can get them. God has not called you to suffering and
sickness. He has called you to glory and virtue. If sickness is glorious
and virtuous, then it is possible that God has called you into it. But
there is no glory in sickness. There is no virtue in disease! God has
given you all that makes for life and godliness. There are quite a number
of people today who are under the devil, in secret cults. They are afraid
of life. They want security. Only very few of them are there for money.
Majority of them are wealthy. They are not looking for money. What they
want is guaranteed long life and health. But the Bible says that in this
process, they are under a lifetime of bondage. This long life is, however,
freely available in Christ. You do not need to drink human blood to be
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It is freely given in Christ. If you want your life to be preserved, join
the Jesus people. The company of light. All things that make for life and
godliness have been made available to you, but they will not be released
without knowledge. God has not called you to shame. He has not called you
to evil. He has called you unto glory and virtue. Sickness is not
glorious. Health is glorious. It is what you can talk proudly about. You
can say it to everybody. You can say, "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me." That will only come when you become
conscious of these things and God’s divine health will be at work within
you. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4 Sickness is most
definitely one of the corrupting weapons in the world today. If sickness
strikes a man, you will suddenly notice that the man begins to deteriorate
in strength and form. In no time, you notice that he now has sunken cheeks
and a gloomy face. He becomes miserable. That is the corrupting influence
of sickness. But you have become a partaker of the divine nature and so
have escaped this corruption. This divine nature is void of sickness.
Jesus operated in it and sickness could not attack Him. The essence of the
scriptures is to make you become a partaker of this divine nature and by
the knowledge of it, you enter into divine health. It is
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automatic. You do not enjoy it until you have come into a full knowledge
of it and it is rightly applied. It does not jump on people. It answers to
a full appraisal and application of the scriptures concerning it. Divine
Health is a covenant issue, and every covenant has two sides to it. God
can never deny Himself. When you fulfil your own part, God has no choice
but to fulfil His own. If you are going to truly partake of the divine
nature, it has to be through the knowledge of Him who has called you to
glory and virtue. And this knowledge is the knowledge of the exceeding
great and precious promises. This very knowledge, clearly understood and
accurately applied will cause you to escape the corruption of sickness.
This truth is important to your life, because you are either in the
mainstream of God’s move or you are out of it. If you do not take your own
place in divine health, by the time people are enjoying and walking in it,
you will be asking and looking for reasons why yours is not coming forth.
There is a way to divine health and this is the secret. God does not
intend to keep anything from us. The Bible says, unto us that believe it
is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom (Matthew 13:11). It is good
for you to know that the mystery of divine health is yours by right of
covenant relationship.
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is your knowledge of the word that will produce your being like Jesus in
any area of life where you want to be like Him. When you know the word in
any area, it becomes easy for you to operate adequately to the fulfillment
of the scriptures on that subject. It is the same with divine health.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth
all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life
from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender
mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is
renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103:2-5 Jesus came for the whole man
spirit, soul and body. He wants every part of you to reflect His glory.
His mission does not stop with sin. He came that you might have life, and
have it more abundantly. The church has been held in this ugly situation
for too long. People have always believed that God is only interested in
saving sinners. That is why sickness invaded the church and every church
has prayer for the sick on its prayer list. But now that the word of
health is coming to light in the body, things are changing. Sickness now
fears the body of Christ and it will yet fear us the more. It is the same
in the area of prosperity. I have seen church buildings built over a
period of twenty years yet to be completed. They are still carrying blocks
and planks all over the place. But the time is at hand when these things
will change totally, and it has started. When you come to the
understanding that there are more benefits in Christ than escaping into
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you will begin to enjoy them. It says not to forget His benefits (that is
plural). The benefits are many. One of the benefits is that He renews your
youth as the eagle’s. When you are fifty years, you are still operating as
a youngster. At sixty, you are still operating as if you were twenty-five.
At eighty, your physique is still sound and good to look at. When you are
ninety-nine, you are still running like Abraham. These are all benefits of
Christ’s coming. Chapter 5God's Medicine God’s Word is His medicine for
the believer. Many people wonder what keeps us going without patronizing
the clinics and chemists. We have our own brand of medicine that is more
effective than medical science. It is God’s Word! My son, attend to my
words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine
eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those
that find them, and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:20-22 The Word
is health to all their flesh - healthy livers, healthy kidneys, healthy
intestines, healthy bones, healthy marrows, healthy eyes, healthy ear,
nose, mouth, legs. It is health to every part of the body of whosoever
finds it. The moment the Words enters into you, you become a different
person altogether The Word transforms your body
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health. God's Word is an all-purpose drug. Actually, the word translated
"health" in verse 22 is also translated "medicine." It
is an all-purpose medicine sent to you by God, to immunize you against all
forms of sickness and to keep you healthy all the time. All you need to do
now is find out how to administer God's medicine in your own situation.
This where wisdom comes in. Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of
your times (Isaiah 33:6). In the physical, if a doctor gives you some
drugs, he will definitely give you the prescription for maximum results.
If you are given injection drugs to be injected directly into the blood
streams and you decided to use your discretion and mix it with your food
as a time- saving device (after all, it will get into the body at last),
you will run into difficulties. In the same way, if you are given drugs
and asked to take a specific number of tablets at a specific time, for
effect, perhaps two in the morning, two in the afternoon and two in the
evening; you cannot say "Well, thank God, I will not be able to wait
for this long. As a matter of fact, I will be away for the next two
weeks" and then you take the six doses all at once in the morning.
You will injure yourself, and that may cost you your life! You have got
the right drugs, but you have not used them appropriately. On the same
note, you
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expect to have the best results by reducing the specified dosage. God’s
Word is medicine. It is drug (health) to your body - every part of your
body. A friend of mine (a man of God) used to be a stammerer. He could not
speak well. But the Word got into him and knocked out every bit of
stammering. He is now a fluent and eloquent speaker, one of the best the
world has ever known. He is a man of great speech! The Word did it. I have
been with him in many private and open discussions, and there is no trace
of stammering in him. When the Word enters a man, it transforms him
completely. One of my cousins came and said, "Uncle, I have some
problem with my eyes." I gave Him God’s medicine and it worked for
him. "It is health to all their flesh." When the Lord brought
this revelation into my consciousness, it knocked all odd ways of praying
for the sick out of me. It used to be "Lord, heal him if it be Thy
will, but heavenly Father, grant them strength to bear it so that they can
see Thy glory." What glory is in sickness? It was a common thing for
them to be sick. They all bragged about their ability to endure sickness.
But the Bible says, the Word is medicine to all your flesh.
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the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Hebrews 4:12 The Word is quick: living and powerful. It can
combat any form of sickness and win. It is powerfully alive. It is capable
of healing any manner of sickness. It penetrates into the spirit and the
soul. It gets into your entire system and works effectually there. It
carries out operations in your bones and marrows. You do not need all
those painful processes in the medical theater. All you need is God’s
medicine the all purpose drug. It will make you whole. When the doctor
recommends amputation because rheumatism has eaten into your marrows, you
will need to apply God’s medicine. The Bible says the Word penetrates into
the joints and marrows. Medical science believes that blood is
manufactured in the marrow. Thank God that the Word of God gets there!
That is why it is health and medicine to all your flesh. When the Word
enters you, it sharpens you out and makes you look like God here on earth.
There is a great healing effect in the Word of God. If anybody says
something is wrong with your system, tell that person you know the answer.
It is the Word. The man of God, Dr. Kenneth Hagin, was holding a meeting
in a church and ministering to the
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The Pastor of this church, however, did not believe in divine healing. But
Dr. Hagin continued to minister, and the sick started getting healed. It
came to a point that he became tired and there was a woman who was brought
in on a wheel chair. She had been in that state for a long time. The
church Pastor quickly went to Kenneth Hagin, giving him the case history
of the sickness. He said the woman had not walked for nine years, and that
doctors have said she would never walk again in her life. He tried to
convince Kenneth Hagin against praying for her. But despite the fact that
he was tired, Kenneth Hagin said the Word is never tired, and went ahead
to minister to this woman. He opened 1 Peter 2:24 and placed it on the
woman’s laps. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live in righteousness: BY WHOSE
STRIPES YE WERE HEALED. He asked her, 'Is "were" present, past
or future tense?' The woman said, "past." He said to her,
"That means you have been healed before now!" The woman was
amazed and wondered where such scripture had been all these years. He
asked her to begin to thank God for her healing and urged the congregation
to join her in praising the Lord. She was still on the chair, but the Word
says she had been healed. Ten minutes later, she was out of the wheel
chair, very sound, never to sit in there again.
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she was thanking God, the Word was carrying out all operations in her
system, replacing dead tissues and supplying new sets of bones. It
penetrated into every area that needed attention and got the woman on her
feet again, contrary to the doctor’s report and certification. The Word
made the difference. That word will make the difference in you too. It is
not the one you have in your head, it is the Word in your heart.
"Keep them in the midst of thine heart" (Proverbs 4:21). Your
heart is the only good ground where the Word can grow and produce fruit.
When it enters into you, it will make all the difference, and heal every
part of your body. Your whole system will receive adequate attention from
the Word, the moment it enters into your heart. When I got this word, I
said, this is what everybody should be told. It is not just to increase
their scriptural vocabulary. There are many people today who can quote
series of scriptures, but have never drawn any benefit from them. They
know it but it does not profit them. It has not entered their hearts. They
need just more than being able to quote it. The Bible talks of some people
who heard the word but did not benefit from it. You need to know how to
apply the word based on Proverbs 4:20. He said, "My son, attend to my
words!" God intends you to create time for His Word. Be
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to the Word. Wait on the Word. We talk very much about waiting on the Lord
but have done very little of waiting on the Word. But He said here that
you should wait on the Word. That is God’s prescription. The devil knows
that any word that enters you makes you his master in that area. When the
Word of holiness enters you, it makes you a master over sin. Same with
prosperity and divine health. This is why you have to attend to the Word. It
is your live-wire. It determines your life content and quality. The second
prescription is "incline thine ear unto my sayings." Be totally
attentive to the Spirit. Somebody once asked me if I memorized scriptures.
No. I do not. When it enters into you, it becomes part of you just like
your name. You do not need to memorize your name. You know it. You respond
to it instinctively. If the Word should enter into you, it would require
your attention - give ear to it. If faith for divine health has to enter into
you, you must give ear to it. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God. Romans 10:17 It is hearing the Word that transformed Reverend
Kenneth Copeland’s life. Give ear to the Word. Hear it preached. Take time
to be attentive. Many people hear the word with lightness. Jesus said,
"take heed how ye hear." Hear the Word with seriousness of mind.
This is important.
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taught at a seminar on divine healing in February, 1984. One of the men in
attendance had been under severe oppression of the devil. He had been
passing out blood for many years. In fact, he could be rightly called
"the man with the issue of blood." He had tried every possible
means to be healed, but nothing happened. He was finally booked for an
operation. But he was at this seminar and heard the Word on divine
healing. He received the Word. It entered and began a surgical operation
in his body. As the seminar progressed, he felt a pulling force in his
system. At this point he went to the toilet to ease himself. To his
surprise, the issue of blood ceased and he became a normal person. There
was no need for the operation any more. The Word had done it; pain-free!
From that day, the man has made it a point of duty to attend all our
meetings. That is the effect the Word will produce, if you will give ear
to it diligently. You do not need all the pains medical science entails,
to get your healing and be in health. All you need is to attend to the
Word, and give ear to it. Hearing the Word helped this man. He could have
died during the operation that was barely days ahead. But the Word, God’s
medicine, made all the difference between life and death for him. As you
give ear to the Word, it will produce the same results in you also. There
is no limit to
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the Word will produce in you. I have seen women give birth without labour.
This is contrary to medical science. But thank God, we are not medical
people, we are supernatural people! The Bible says they shall be saved in
child-bearing, if they continue in faith and holiness (1 Timothy 2:15).
That means that as long as they continue hearing to produce faith, they
will be saved during child-bearing. The moment this word enters you and
gets hold of you, you become a master in child-bearing. It is not more
than going to toilet any more. Remember these two major keys: one, to
attend to the Word: create time for it if you want divine healing virtue
to be released into your system. And two, give ear to the Word, by
listening to cassettes, reading the Bible or books: be wholeheartedly
attentive to it. That is the secret of victorious living. The next step
is: "Let them not depart from thine eyes." There is health
virtue in looking. Keep your eyes glued to the Word. There was a time when
judgment came into the camp of Israel in the wilderness. They were bitten
in their thousands by fiery serpents. Moses, the man of God, prayed and
God asked him to make a fiery serpent of brass and hang it up on a tree so
that any man who took time to look upon the serpent might be saved. Moses
did this, and
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who looked upon the brazen serpent was saved from the fiery serpents. And
Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to
pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld (looked at) the
serpent of brass, he lived. Numbers 21:9 You have to keep looking at the
Word. When situations come against you, you do not focus on them, you
focus on what God has said about you. Hebrews 12:2 says: Looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith... In John 3:14, Jesus is
likened to that fiery serpent of brass. If the serpent of brass could
bring health, looking unto Jesus will bring greater (divine) health. The
psalmist knew the secret of looking. The people of old looked unto the
Word and they were not ashamed. As long as you keep the Word in sight, it
will produce the desired results. They looked unto him, and were
lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Psalm 34:5 That is the effect
of looking unto Jesus. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18 The glass
referred to here is the Word of God according to James 1:23-25. The glass
is the perfect law of liberty - the Word of God. Keep looking at it until
it transforms you from the body of sickness to the body of divine health.
There is that power in the Word. It will move you from the natural into
the supernatural, from the ordinary into the extraordinary and from
yourself into God Himself. It will bring you into the same level of bodily
glory with the Lord.
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you want your health to be like the health of Jesus, you have to keep
looking unto Him, by looking up at everything He has said about you in His
Word. You take time to look at the exceeding great and precious promises.
As you focus on them, they will rise within you and devour every form of
sickness and produce a body of health in you. One important thing to note
is that, you do not need to look at or attend to symptoms. He said,
"attend to My words!" You have nothing to worry about when you
attend to His Word. When you notice that certain symptoms are trying to
show up in your system, you look at the Word - "surely, He hath borne
my sicknesses upon His own body and by His stripes I was healed."
There are many things that will want and demand your attention, but refuse
them. Attend to the word only, and your victory is as sure as ever. These
are basic spiritual laws. If you apply them correctly, you will get the
results. No one has ever been disappointed after applying the Word
appropriately. It is a basic fact. It carries God’s life, and His
integrity backs His Word up. It cannot fail. If the word says
"look," all you need to do is look. Forget about every other
thing around you and concentrate on what God has said. Look at the case of
the people of Israel. As many as looked,
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saved. But those who felt that looking would not do any good, all died.
The secret is in simple obedience to the Word. Close your eyes and ears to
everything and focus on the Word. It will do you good in times of trouble.
The psalmist said, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from
whence cometh my help." He knew all the troubles are here below, but
he refused to focus on the problems. He focused on the source of solution.
That is the whole idea about looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of your faith. Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Knowing what God has said and knowing how to apply it, will make a
diligent and stable fighter out of you and you will find life very
exciting. Chapter 6Apply The Word The Lord is more eager to set you free
from your afflictions than you are ready to be freed. This is why Jesus
came. God sent Him into the world to save, heal and deliver. The devil had
held mankind in a terrible and oppressive reign. So God sent Jesus Christ
into the world, that He might destroy all the works of the devil. His
major assignment was to undo all that
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enemy had done and to restore all that he had stolen from mankind. He came
and fulfilled this mission comprehensively. He that committeth sin is of
the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1
John 3:8 Sin is just one of the many works of the devil. He is the
originator of sickness. He is responsible for every disease. So Jesus came
to destroy his works. That is why He came! To loosen those that are bound.
To wipe away all tears. He came to do a total overhauling of mankind. How
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who
went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil;
for God was with him. Acts 10:38 All bodily ailments and afflictions are
oppressions of the devil. So God sent Jesus and anointed Him to set them
loose, and to destroy the devil’s works. It is important for you to know
that His ministry has not changed. He is still healing the sick and
destroying the works of the devil today! He is the same, yesterday, today
and forever (Hebrews 13:8). If He cleansed lepers, He is still cleansing
them today. If He healed the blind, He will still do it today. Anything He
did that time, He will still do today. He is the unchanging One. It was
for this reason that He came: to destroy and wipe out all the works of the
enemy. God does not intend for you to be in bondage to the devil. He has
no plan for that at all. He has made all provisions for your being in
health. He sent Jesus to ensure that you
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in health. Many people believe that God is training them through hardship.
No! He is not. Jesus has passed through that for you. You do not need the
hardship any more; sickness has no power over you. You have been redeemed
from it. The Bible says you have been bought with a price, so glorify God
in your spirit, soul and body, which are God’s. Your body must be a
testimony of health to the world. A sick body cannot be a testimony of
God’s glory. You must know that nothing should happen to you except all
that is written about you. Nothing happened to the Lord Jesus Christ apart
from what was written about Him. The Bible says you will serve the Lord
your God and He will remove sickness from you. He said nothing shall cast
your young. Miscarriage is not written about you! Everything may be
contrary to what you see in the Word, but "faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). It
is what you say about the situation around you that happens to you. Speak
the things that are written of you and they will become real to you. The
Word cannot fail. Stand on it and it will prevail over all circumstances.
Faith is seeing the invisible. Everything you can see around is physical.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18
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Bible says the flesh profits nothing, but the Spirit quickens. The visible
(physical) profits nothing. It is the Spirit (invisible) that is profitable
for faith. Understand this very clearly, that you are the one who
determines what happens to you. Jesus has paid the price. God has spoken
well about you. The only thing to do is to put faith in all these and you
are in health. I would like to draw your attention, in this chapter, to
how you can enjoy your health over internal problems. It does not matter
what problem it is. Jesus came to destroy all the works of the devil, and
that includes internal problems. As you allow the Word to enter into you,
miracles will happen and you will walk out free. Note that every disorder
inside your body is the work of the devil. God made everything perfect in
you. He did not make any mistake. If there is a wrong thing in you, it is
the devil’s work and Jesus came to abolish them all. In the preceding
chapter, we saw three basic steps in applying the Word of God: 1. Attend
to the Word, 2. Give ear to His sayings, and 3. Let them not depart from
your eyes. These are very important steps. If you have to get results from
the Word, it must be applied as prescribed. God’s prescription is
"Attend to My words, give ear to My sayings, and let
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not depart from thine eyes." And it states further, "keep them
in the midst of thine heart," make it your thought. Let it be the only
thing you are thinking about. Let your whole thought be anchored on God’s
Word, not on your doctor’s word. The Bible says whatever you think in your
heart rules your entire being. For, "as he thinketh in his heart, so
is he" (Proverbs 23:7). If your heart is fully settled and
established on what God has said about your body, it will obviously
respond accordingly. Your heart is the seat of your miracle. It is what
comes out of your heart that rules your life. Keep thy heart with all
diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23 What you
think matters much to your quality of life. If you think sickness, you
will get sickness. If you think poverty, you will get it. If it is health
you think, you will be healthy. It is important for you to take note of
what you think. Your heart is the miracle spot. If your heart says there
is no miracle, you cannot get one. For out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh. Matthew 12:34-35 You actually determine what happens
to you from the heart. It is from there that you bring forth good
treasures and from there you bring forth evil. God is more particular
about what you think. He understands the thoughts of man. He knows what
you think. He wants the Word to become the focus
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your thought. Use it in your thinking. Until you begin to allow the Word
to penetrate your thinking faculty, your miracle will take time to come.
Shift your thoughts from situations, circumstance, symptoms and feelings.
Concentrate on whatever God says about your health. That is the secret.
When it comes to a warfare on your health, allow Matthew 8:17,
"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses" to take
hold of your thought. Matthew quoted from the Messianic prophecy in Isaiah
53. It is talking about Jesus having taken your infirmities and your
sicknesses. Anchor your thought on that, and allow it to monitor your
thinking. By this, your health will spring forth with beauty everyday.
Jesus said whosoever shall say with his mouth and not doubt in his heart
will have whatsoever he says (Mark 11:23). It means that the performance
of the things said depends on the state of the heart. If your heart is not
established in the Word, you cannot have what you are saying. Peter the
apostle, robbed himself of the privilege of walking with Jesus on the
water successfully because he shifted his thought to the possibility of
drowning when he saw the storm and the billows. He took his eyes off the
Master, and that was how far he could go.
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people have robbed themselves of God’s blessings by entertaining dangerous
thoughts. Your thoughts play a key role in your life. You cannot grow
beyond your thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is
he." Think on the Word. It will produce life in your body and you
will live in good health. In the parable of the sower, Jesus said the
heart of man is the good ground. That is where the Word will grow and bear
fruit. It is not your head. There are many things going on in some
people’s lives, because they have the Word in their heads and not in their
hearts. Keep it in your heart. With the heart man believes, not with the
head. Faith is of the heart. It is not the things you say, but what you
believe in your heart, and say with your mouth! Think health and live
long. Think strength and be strong. Think prosperity and prosper. Think
protection and live in God’s eternal security. God does not plan that you
should think negative. He has given you enough to think about. He has
allocated all your time to thinking in the Word of God. In Joshua, He said
(think) meditate upon it, day and night - all the time. Kommet til People
are defeated because they think on other things apart from the Word. They
get caught up in
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the problem. When anything is about to happen they are already lost in
thought about the possible consequences, instead of thinking on what God
has said about such situations. People say, "Pastor, you do not
understand my situation. My own experience is peculiar." How
peculiar? God says think on things that are of good report. The solution
God has given about the problem is the good report you should think on.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8
Are you looking for things to think about? They are clearly stated in
Philippians 4:8. If you keep thinking the problems you will find it very difficult
and even impossible to get out of them. You need to take Jesus as your
personal physician. The Bible says, "I am the Lord that healeth
thee." He is saying, "I am your personal physician." If you
take Him as your personal physician with the same seriousness with which
you take Him as your Saviour, you will stay healthy always. He will not
take anything from you. He does not need those things that doctors request
for. He will only give you a good time and tell you be of good courage,
your problems are over. That is why He came. In my student days, I was in
a situation which would take only a miracle to solve. I made up my mind to
get this miracle - I wanted to pass an
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I did not write! The devil came (not as the devil) to offer some
"nice" religious advice. He actually wanted me to be
double-minded, and of course, a double-minded person cannot receive a
miracle! The Bible talks of the devil going about like a roaring lion
looking for whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). But I resisted him and got
my miracle. A double- minded man is unstable in all his ways. The moment
the thought came, I took my stand before God and all living beings in
heaven, and refused to be moved. If you are going to get your miracle,
determine to be single-minded about it. Do not shift your ground, no
matter how little. It should not even cross your mind. Be bold about it. I
have come to know that one of the ways the enemy deceives God’s people
into missing their blessings of health is through procrastination. They
keep saying if it does not happen today, it will happen in the next
service. If it does not come this year, it will come next year. Why is it
not possible now? God is always ready. He is eager to do it; you are the
only problem. Stop being double-minded about it and lay hold on your
blessings. The point is that you need to keep your heart with all
diligence. That is the best way you can keep away from being
double-minded. Get the understanding that many times, your problem is not
that God has not heard you. It is
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that you have allowed yourself to waver in heart and your blessing is
hanging out there in the heavenlies. You can not get it that way; a double
minded person cannot receive anything from God. You have no reason or
basis to be double-minded. You have the Bible. The Holy Ghost is in you.
You know how to pray and that God must answer you when you pray aright.
Your miracle is meant for the now, not later. Learn to force this down the
devil’s throat. Let him know you know what you are doing. Tell him your
miracle of health is now. The moment you make up your mind, no devil can
stop your miracle. You just know that you have it right there. God is not
procrastinating on your case. He sends your miracle with dispatch. He is
very eager. He keeps deploying, redeploying and mobilizing the angels on
your behalf. God is the end of all your troubles. Many people are yet to
know that if you believe in your heart, you must speak it in boldness.
Some believers speak things that are contrary to their faith. They claim
to have faith, but the things they speak are a departure from what they
believe. This is another hindrance to your miracle. Put away from thee a
froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Proverbs 4:24 Keep
talking the truth. Confess the truth of the word of God about the
situation. That is the summary of that verse. It is not enough to believe,
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confession has to be in line with what you believe. What you say is very
important to the ultimate realization of your miracle. The power of life
and death lies in your mouth. Death and life are in the power of the
tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21
After you have believed, do not allow any negative statement from your
lips. Stand against it consciously. The power that will liberate your
health is in your tongue. If you believe in health, you have to say it
loud with your mouth. It is a spiritual law that cannot be broken. With
the heart man believes and with the mouth confession is made. Say it. We
having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believed,
and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. 2
Corinthians 4:13 When you believe, you have to speak it out with boldness.
Your faith must find expression in words. The word you believe in your
heart, formed by the mouth and released in words is a creative force. It
is as powerful and effective as God speaking it. In Hebrews 11:3, the
Bible says: through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God. God spoke and the worlds came into being. Jesus said we
should also possess the faith of God. God’s kind of faith is the faith
that is expressed in words. It makes great creative power available. By
expressing your faith in words, you become a co- creator with God. That is
what God expects of you. When a man who has been diagnosed as having
cancer, has a basis in the Word of God in Matthew
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1 Peter 2:24; Exodus 23:25-26 and Isaiah 53:5, to say, "I do not have
cancer: Jesus has taken my disease and sickness away, I am made whole
spirit, soul and body," he gets his deliverance from cancer. Such is
the power of words spoken in faith. It has no limit. It is divine wisdom.
God has never done anything without saying it. He has designed the same
way of getting victory for you. Whatever sickness may have plagued your
life and however long it has been, the moment you begin to release words
based on the word of health, something positive begins to happen to you
and your results will surely come. So, put away every negative and
perverse speech from you. Do not speak evil. The words that you speak rule
your life. You will get the things you speak in faith. Life and death are
in the power of the tongue. When people want to know how you feel, say:
"I am fine, strong, energetic and very fit for the day!" Refuse
to say any perverse thing about yourself. If you must stay in health, you
must learn to speak choice words, seasoned with salt, to minister grace,
strength and health to your body and to them that hear you. When I was in
school, an unbeliever came asking me about the examination we had just
written. I said that the paper was the cheapest I had ever written.
Everybody was dazed. They had all been
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about the paper. But I knew the Bible says I should put away every froward
speech and perverse tongue. They said nobody might pass the paper, but I
said, "If all of you fail, I will be the only one who will
pass." I knew I should be careful what I said. I said right words. I
said boldly that I would pass. I am not a failure. I am an embodiment of
success. That is the truth. You also will need to learn to take your
stand. Do not compromise it. Unbelievers will come to respect you as you
speak the Word of God from your lips in faith. Your victory will come
through the power-loaded words that proceed from your mouth. The Bible
says the Word is sharper than any two-edged sword. When you speak the Word
in faith, you are releasing some powerful weapons of war. Jesus did not
speak anything contrary to the Word. He was constantly fighting the devil.
It ought to be the same with you. Release them against the devil. Right
words are powerful. They are containers. They are power words. Nothing can
stand against them. No symptom can. They contain force. How forcible are
right words! Job 6:25 Stop using words carelessly. Much importance is
attached to your words. Speak right words and you will get right results.
God is releasing you into a realm of liberty and health right now. Only
stand in the truth and apply
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Word rightly. Your mere obedience to this Word will determine a lot of
things in your life. It will open the door of victory in all areas of your
life. Chapter 7Follow The Steps Of The Fathers By now, you have come to a
positive and definite knowledge of God’s will for your divine health. It
is your sonship right. The Bible tells us that we are Abraham’s seed. You
should do the deeds of Abraham. If Abraham is your father and you are his
seed, you should identify with Abraham’s works. Abraham was a man of
faith. He is best known as the father of faith. He was busy doing faith.
Looking at the Word of God, we discover that if you must get Abraham’s
result, you must do what he did. He was a man who depended solely on the
word God gave him. He did not consider the situation around him. He hoped
against hope! When things were obviously negative, he chose to believe
what God had said about him, the situation notwithstanding. That is the
picture of a man who would go places with God. The only evidence he had
was the word God gave him. ...But to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham; who is the father of us all...Who against hope believed in hope,
that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which
was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he
considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years
old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to
God; And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able
also to perform.
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4:16, 18-21 That tells the story of Abraham’s adventure in faith. He had
every reason to stagger, but he did not. His body was dead and there was
no life in Sarah’s womb either. But this man, Abraham, applied the word
rightly. As Abraham’s seed, you have to take your place as one who is
following the steps of his father. Abraham believed God and it was
credited to him for righteousness, (Romans 4:22). Abraham was a believing
father. You also ought to be a believing offspring. Notice that each of
those fathers who walked closely with God had no symptom of sickness
during their entire life time. Abraham’s case is obvious. At the age of
one hundred and twenty, Moses had all his system functioning accurately,
his eyes were not dim neither was his natural strength abated (Deuteronomy
34:7). His life was not jeopardized by sickness. He had his strength
intact. People like Jacob, Joseph, and the other patriarchs were people
who had nothing to do with sickness in their bodies. The healthy and
successful living of Job attracted special attention from the devil. He
told God that He (God) had built an hedge around Job, and that was why it
was easy and convenient for Job to serve Him. It implies, therefore, that
one of the hedges God built around His people then was divine health.
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devil was jealous of it. He murmured, grumbled and complained to God about
it. Bless God, that hedge is still around us today. It is too strong for
the devil to penetrate. It does not matter what he thinks about it. God
has spoken and has made a hedge around you. The counsel of the Lord, that
alone shall stand forever. If God says anything to you in His Word, take
time to do it diligently and the result will come. The prophet Elisha,
told Naaman to wash in the Jordan seven times, if he wanted his leprosy
cleansed. That man got angry, but the prophet had spoken. If he had not
obeyed, nothing could have happened to the leprosy. He obeyed, however,
and he was healed, just as the prophet had said. On another occasion, the
sons of the prophet went out felling trees. Suddenly the axe-head fell
into the river. They screamed and complained to the prophet, Elisha. They
even told him, to show how desperate they were, that the axe was not
theirs, they had borrowed it. Elisha asked them to bring a wood, not a
hook! And it did the job. The axe-head floated and they recovered it. It does
not really matter what God asks you to do in His Word. The important thing
on your side is obedience to that Word. Do not calculate and speculate on
how it will work out. Apply it according to prescription and you will get
the results. If only you can believe God, you will see
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glory of divine health. You must come to a place of faith in God and His
Word that, whatever you see around you does not move you. If you have been
sick and you believe God now for your healing, you do not need to wait for
the manifestation before you testify of it. The moment you believed, it
was done. Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing. That is the law of
faith. Believe first, then you will see it come to pass. Faith is a winner
any day, any time. It never gives up. Faith wins the final round in any
and every battle. You do not need to see it before you know it has
happened. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 Do not depend on your five senses - sight,
taste, touch, smell, and hearing, to receive a miracle. It does not and
will not come that way. Depend on your sixth sense - faith. That is the
only sure way to victory over the assaults of the enemy. Say, "Even
if I do not see it now, it does not make any difference. I know it is
there. God has sent it and I receive it!" When Jesus cursed the fig
tree, there is no record that any physical thing happened to that tree at
that time. Thomas must have taken particular interest in what was going
on. He must have giggled and pinched one of the disciples, and one of them
must have cautioned him to be
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"You know He operates the word of knowledge: He can easily know what
is going on in your mind." I believe they persuaded the Lord Jesus
Christ to come back through that same route so that they would be able to
confirm the situation of the tree. Peter called out, "Master, behold,
the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away" (Mark 11:20-21) .
To Jesus this was no news. He was not excited about it. He knew it happened
the moment He spoke the word, not when it became obvious to the eyes. The
moment you believe God for your miracle, start giving the testimony. It
may be foolish to people around you, but the fact is that the wisdom of
this world is foolishness to God and the foolishness of God is wiser than
the wisdom of man. Faith is not governed by conventional rules. It is
governed by the application of God’s wisdom - believe and say it before
you see it. God said, you are healed, the symptoms notwithstanding. Be
"foolish" enough to act like it is true. This is what it means
to walk by faith. You do not give in to the things your physical senses
tell you of your situation. You believe what God said. For we walk by
faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 Take this literally. We do not walk
by sight. We walk by faith in the unseen. It means you are blind
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if you are not walking in faith. If you walk with your sense of sight, you
are blind. You will stumble against anything that comes your way. You
cannot walk straight without an aid. But when you walk in faith, you walk
and see very clearly. You see like Abraham and the patriarchs saw. This is
why Abraham could run at the age of ninety- nine. He had his eyes of faith
very clear. He could see clearly. He walked by faith and ran by it also.
You will not only walk, you will run, if you walk by faith. It is over to
you. God intends absolute health for you, but it must come by
uncompromising faith in His Word. A woman got hold of this truth. She was
ministered to in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and apparently,
nothing happened to improve her situation and it was obvious to all. But
this woman started giving her testimony day and night. She would stand
boldly in every church service to testify of her miraculous healing. She
was serious about it. She believed what she was saying. She knew it to be
true. She testified of her healing daily, with the sickness still
physically obvious. She was not looking at the physical situation. She was
walking by the eyes of faith, which saw beyond what was visible to sight.
It was during this process that the sickness disappeared. It did not
happen when it did physically. It
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the day she believed and was ministered to. One of the areas the Lord
moved me into, when I became a Christian, was the life of faith. I
concentrated all my reading and studies on the gospels. I loved seeing
Jesus saying a thing and healing people. It so caught my attention that I
was not interested in any other thing. The words and works of Jesus so got
into me that I did not need to wait for a thing to happen before I
announced it. I could not wait. On one occasion, when I was in school, I
gave a testimony of my success in an exam I had just finished. I could not
wait for the results. I said God told me. What I was doing was identifying
myself with faith. I knew the result before it happened. If I could
publicly and boldly declare what God said, I would become the possessor of
it. It is the same with you. Declare it. Confession brings possession. The
Shunammite woman is a classical example of faith. She had just lost her
child. She went up to the hill to meet the man of God, Elisha. Elisha sent
his servant to meet her and ask her about her situation, her husband and
her child, and her answer was "It is well." Run now, I pray
thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? Is it well with
thy husband? Is it well with thine child? And she answered, It is well. 2
Kings 4:26 That is Bible faith. People were waiting for her back there in
the village, to arrange the burial activities of her son; but she was not
prepared for
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such thing and heaven commended her faith. The child was raised back to
life. She did not go about complaining or giving situation reports. Those
are not relevant in the matter of faith. What actually matters is, has God
said a thing concerning it? It does not matter what the problem is, the
moment you receive the word in your heart, it is settled. This is what you
need to make divine health a reality. It is all the truth. God’s word is truth.
Jesus is the basis of all truth. He is the chief cornerstone. For other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1
Corinthians 3:11 What Jesus said, did and lived, is the foundation for
your life. It is the whole truth about your situation. Take time to study
the life of Jesus from the gospels. Look at your foundation. Look at what
happened there and apply it to yourself. He is the chief cornerstone. The
Bible says the apostles and the prophets are also the foundation and you
are the building. We are built up a spiritual house. These things are
written for our example. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4 It is recorded of the Lord Jesus
Christ that, His life was perfect in all forms. He did not know sickness
in His body. Peter, James, John and the rest of the apostles did not know
it either. They are written for your sake, as an example to emulate, of people
who through faith and patience received the promise of divine health.
Their bodies were
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to sickness. They are our examples. The first century church was a
super-church. Sickness was foreign to them. If any man happened to be
sick, they could easily know why, because it was not common. And they
continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in
breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:42 In addition to continuing in
the Word, they also continued in fellowship. Many believers have not
discovered the importance of fellowship. It is not another coming together
of people; it is different from a mere gathering. Most of the meetings the
Church has held up till now are mere gatherings! "They continued
steadfastly in fellowship." Most people view and approach fellowship
with lightness and indifference. When we come together in fellowship, we
are gathered unto Jesus. Wherever people of God are assembled, He is
divinely present to heal. He is present there with His virtue and power.
He is there in glory and majesty. He is there to bless. The Word says when
ever people come together in His name, He is there. For where two or three
are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew
18:20 Our fellowship is with Him. He was ministering somewhere in the
scriptures and the power of God was present to heal. The whole atmosphere
was charged with anointing for healing. And it came to pass on a certain
day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law
sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea and
Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Luke 5:17
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that when we come together in fellowship, we have not come to a building
or to a particular preacher. Hebrews 12:22 says we have come to Mount
Zion, not to a building. It is to Zion, the city of the living God. We
have come to fellowship with God and the spirits of just men made perfect
- spirit soul and body. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company
of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and the spirits of just
men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:22-24 This is a great gathering. It is a mysterious assembly;
more mysterious than any mystery in the world. It is superior to all
cults, anywhere in the world. That is what fellowship is. They continued
with faithfulness. So they were constantly renewed in strength and in health.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth
before God. Psalm 84:7 By continuing to fellowship in Zion before God,
they moved from strength to strength (health to health)! There is virtue
in being in God’s presence. The Bible admonishes us not to forsake the
fellowship of God’s people (Hebrews 10:25). The fellowship place is God’s
service station for your total health. The angels are not present for
nothing. They are there on active service. They surround them that fear the
Lord, to deliver them from their afflictions. Know this and have faith in
the possibilities in being in fellowship with God and His people. If you
know this, and anchor your faith in it, you will go
- 70. from strength to strength. Sometime in 1979, I was so sick I could not stand for five minutes without support. I could not even wave down a taxi. But suddenly, it occurred to me that I should go to the fellowship with the little strength I had in me. Then, I began to boast, saying, "You weakness, all of you, follow me to where I am going." I got to the fellowship and took my seat. It was an all-night prayer meeting. The pains seemed to multiply and my strength seemed to give way. At this point, the leader came to me and said, "I am sorry, brother David, I did not inform you before that you were going to lead this meeting, please come over." As he talked, I adjusted my seat, and listened to him. Every part of me rebelled in pain. "No problem," I said, and took my place. When I started to speak, I said, "Let us worship the Lord God Almighty..." At this point, I turned, backing the brethren, and quoted Hebrews 12:22- 24. After finishing, I said, "I cannot see the name of the devil on the roll." I knew he was the author of what was happening to me. The moment the Zion revelation came to me, I knew I was the strongest man there. Strength began to flow into me to the glory of God. I took advantage of fellowship. That is where deliverance, healing and divine health dwell.
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