The Father's Menu
Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
HEAL THE SICK ??
“These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.”
Mark16:17-18
Main Text: 1 Peter 2:24
Jesus isn’t healing people today—healing was given 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem when He took those stripes on His back. He hasn’t, and won’t, receive any more stripes. People today only receive through faith what has already been accomplished by Jesus thousands of years ago. The Scriptures don’t tell us to pray for the sick, in the sense that we are powerless to minister healing to them. It’s just the opposite: Jesus told US to HEAL the sick (Matt. 10:1, 8; Luke 9:1, and 10:9). There’s a big difference between asking the Lord to heal people and healing them.
Not only are we to expect healing, but we should also believe to live in divine health. John. G. Lake said, “Divine healing is the removal by the power of God of the disease that has come upon the body. But, divine health is to live day by day, hour by hour in touch with God so that the life of God flows into the body just as the life of God flows into the mind or flows into the spirit.”
Healing is your Covenant right. If you want it—it’s yours. It’s not up for debate, as far as the Word of God is concerned. The problem is, most Christians haven’t truly believed it. They haven’t let it reach down into their hearts and become truth to them. God has said it…but they haven’t yet believed. If that is the case with you today, know this—it is God’s will to heal you. It is in His redemptive plan. It has to be His will because He laid our sickness and disease on Jesus, just as He did our sin (Isaiah 53:5). God made His Word plain, and He always keeps His Word.
Confession
I boldly declare that I prosper. I am not defeated, but I am prospering and victorious. I am prospering in my mind, in my body, in my spirit, and in my finances.
Further Reading
Psalm 103:2-3 “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases”
1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Read through the Bible in 1 year: Numbers 11:24-13:33 10 Mark 14:22-52 Psalm 52:1-9 Proverbs 11:1-3
Read through the Bible in 2 years: Leviticus 19-20 & Psalm 68
