I just finished reading this ebook by Kenneth Hagin, entitled "Healing Belongs To Us".
During the kick-off of this year, God started to gear me towards having audacious faith. One Sunday, after the preaching, the pastor asked the congregation to think of things we want to believe God for, regardless of its impossibility. I remember, that the image of my patient with Cancer, suddenly flickered in my mind. To make the story short, I got to pray for this man (finally overcoming my hesitations and fears)in such a radical way, that even I was amazed by how I was able to do it. It was a series of prayer sessions, since his relatives asked me to pray for him for several times. Although I was really crying out to God for his healing, while casting out any unbelief in me, I was moved to pray for God's will to happen in his life and for him to accept his salvation. At the end of it all, he wasn't able to survive Cancer and died a week after. Inside of me, arose many questions, but I was able to rest on the assurance that he was saved before he passed away.
As I was reading the book, fresh revelations came upon me. Through what it says in Isaiah 53:
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Two things became clearer to me, that through what Jesus endured on the cross, 1) We are free from a life of sin (For He carried all our sins to the grave with Him), 2) We are free from any sickness or disease (He already took our diseases, pains and sufferings). When He took these upon Himself, He displayed the greatest love that no one could ever exceed. Not only that, but He demonstrated victory over it when He rose from the grave after three days.
Accepting that there is a Savior was never a difficulty for me, but accepting that God can heal any disease became a struggle for me. Even if my mind dictates it, somehow my heart does not totally believe it. Maybe this is why it's really hard for me to intercede for others when it is a prayer for healing. Now, I realized that healing really belongs to us, even from the time Jesus died. Just like salvation, healing is a gift from the heavens, a gift that we have to accept and possess. If we believe His promises and live by it, there's really nothing that can ever tear us down.
It says in Matthew 9:
20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”
22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.
In here, the faith of the bleeding woman was reciprocated with instantaneous healing. Faith, now, becomes the key ingredient to a miracle.
At the end of the day...
IT'S NOT A QUESTION IF GOD CAN HEAL US, BUT THE QUESTION IS, DO WE BELIEVE IN HIS WORD AND POWER ENOUGH, FOR US TO RECEIVE IT?
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