Faith takes hold of what the grace of God has already provided. God does not need to do anything else. Faith enables what God has already done to flow from the spiritual to the physical.

Receiving from God may be thought of as like a board game, when, after one person moves, he has nothing to do until the other player moves. Each person moves in his own turn. Similarly, when God has provided healing, or any other blessing, and sent us His Word, it is our move.

Our move is to expect what He promises when we pray, which will cause us to act on our faith before we see the healing.

When Noah was warned of God of things not seen as yet Heb.11:7, his move was to believe that the flood was coming and to act on his faith by building the ship on dry land.

Therefore, when God says to any sick James 5:14-15 The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, we, like Noah, are informed by God “of things not seen as yet,” and our move is the same as Noah’s, which is to believe and act accordingly.

Fallen nature is governed by what it sees and by its senses; but faith is governed by the pure Word of God and is nothing less than expecting God to do what He promises.

Sick people, when prayed for, naturally hope that they will be better; but the natural human emotion of hope is only passive, quite different from Bible faith which is active and creative.

To just hope for something indicates uncertainty It has no basis for expectancy. But faith looks back to what Christ accomplished for us in His death as our substitute. Faith rests with confident assurance in God's word, even while it receives no encouragement at all by what the eye can see. The natural person is a creature of the senses. Feeling or seeing the symptoms of an affliction, he or she tends to believe what the senses register rather than what God's word says.

Faith by contrast is not influenced by what the eye sees and, indeed is indifferent to it. It does not honour the natural senses but draws its strength from the unchanging word of God.

If this were not the nature of faith no such thing as faith would be necessary. Why should faith be needed for that which the eye can already see or the hand can already feel?

The truth is that the healing of the body and the salvation of the soul involve a similar work of the Spirit and are governed by very nearly if not identical laws.

After we have some appreciation of the awfulness of the disease of sin and express a willingness to forsake it, we still will not be saved without believing that Christ died in our place.

Only when we accept the finished work of redemption can we be saved.

If we will not believe until we feel saved, we may never be saved.

It is only in the act of believing the finished work of redemption that conversion takes place.

Faith never waits to see before it believes, because it comes by hearing - Rom.10:17 - about things not seen as yet Heb.11:7, and is the evidence of things not seen v. 1

All that a man of faith needs is to know that God has spoken. The Lord has said settles everything. Faith always blows the ram’s horn before, not after, the walls are down. Remember Jericho from Joshua 6:5, 15-20.

Faith never judges according to the sight of the eyes, because it is the evidence of things not seen but promised.

Faith rests on far more solid ground than the evidence of the senses, and that is the Word of God, which abides for ever 1 Peter. 1:23

Our senses may deceive us, but God’s Word never does!

2 Cor. 4:18 says Faith looks “not at the things which are seen”

Faith is the link between the spirit world and the physical

Faith takes hold of what God has already provided by grace

I am the Lord who heals you. This is what God said when he called the Israelites out of Egypt.

Exodus 15:26 If you will diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God, and will do what is right in his sight, give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have brought on the Egyptians for I am the Lord who heals you.

The Hebrew text reads: I will permit none of these diseases upon you which I permitted upon the Egyptians.

This covenant was repeated at the close of the forty years wanderings of Israel.

All through their history, in sickness and pestilence, the Israelites turned to God in repentance and confession and received healing in answer to their prayers.

If healing in answer to prayer was God’s way under the old covenant, it is much more prevalent under the new covenant.

Matthew 12:15 tells us that “Great multitudes followed Jesus, and He healed them all"

Jesus healed all who came to Him.

Heb.13:8 declares that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever.

He is the same in love as when, in compassion He healed the multitudes.

He is the same in power as when He healed all manner of diseases.

Hebrews 2:17 Therefore in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.

During His earthly ministry, Jesus was always moved with compassion and healed all those that had need of healing, and He is our faithful and merciful high priest today.

All that God has given us is given through Christ Jesus for whoever will meet the conditions and believe the word.

He is no respecter of persons. His promises are to all

So healing is for all and should be preached to all.

We can see from the Bible that this is exactly what the early church did.

Philip preached Christ at Samaria. Acts 8:6-8

The crowds were eager to receive Philip’s message and were persuaded by the many miracles and wonders he performed. Many demon-possessed people were set free and delivered as evil spirits came out of them with loud screams and shrieks, and many who were lame and paralyzed were also healed. This resulted in an uncontainable joy filling the city!

We see that Jesus proved to be exactly the same when Philip told the people about Him.

Peter preached Christ to the cripple in Acts 3:6, to the multitude in Acts 5.14-16 to Anneas in Acts 9:34.

All were healed.

So Jesus was the same for Peter.

Wherever and whenever Jesus Christ is proclaimed as our sacrifice for sin and sickness physical healing as well as spiritual salvation will result.

Lets read what happened with Paul in Acts 14:8-10 In Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.

Notice the lame man received faith to be healed while listening to Paul’s message. Faith comes by hearing.

Wherever healing is taught as God’s provision for all, faith is  imparted and people are healed.

However faith cannot be exercised where there is indecision as to whether or not God's will is to heal all.

If He will not heal all, then we are forced to consider in every case: “I wonder if it is God’s will to heal this one? Or could this be one of the unfortunate ones where God‘s will is for them to remain sick and to suffer?”   NO NEVER!    It is God's will to heal all!

Healing is God’s will for us. The Gospels teach complete healing for spirit and body, for all who will come to Him.

Among all those who sought healing from Christ during His earthly ministry, there is only one who prayed for healing with the words “If it be your will.” This was an outcast leper, who did not know what Christ’s will was in healing.

Mark 1:40-42 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.

The first thing Jesus did was to correct this uncertainty by assuring him, I am willing.

So no longer is it “if it be your will” — it is God’s will.

The leper said: If you will, you can. Jesus answered, I will, cancelling his “if,” adding to the man’s faith that Christ could heal him, the faith that He would.

Let it be settled forever from today: God will heal the sick.

If He wills to heal one, then He wills to heal all.

In James 5:14 it is asked “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

Anyone includes you if you are sick.                                          ‘

When it comes to the benefits of Christ’s redemptive work, all are on an equal basis. The words “whoever” and “whosoever” are often used to invite the unconverted to be saved.

The words “as many as”, “everyone”, “all”, and “any” are used to invite the sick and the diseased to be healed.

Both invitations are always universal, and the results are always positively promised: shall be saved; shall have life; shall recover shall raise them up; healed them all and as many as touched him were healed.

The benefits of redemption are for you.

If God healed all then, He still heals all that come to Him for healing today.

Hebrews 13:8 declares Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Matthew 12:15 says Great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

Luke 6:19 The whole multitude sought to touch Him for power went out from Him and  healed them all.

Matthew 8:16-17 When the evening came, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying He Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.

Christ is still healing the sick, in order to fulfil the prophet’s words.

Always remember: You are included in the our of Matthew 8.17 and God is bound by His covenant to continue to heal all who are sick and weak, in order to fulfil Isaiah’s words.

Christ the Healer has never changed.

Jesus in the flesh was the physical expression of the Father’s will.

His life was both a revelation and a manifestation of the unchanging love and will of God. He acted out the will of God for us.

When Jesus laid His hands on everyone of them and healed them, He was revealing and doing the will of God for all people.

Faith begins where the will of God is known.

I am the LORD who heals you. Exodus 15:26. God wants you well.

The greatest barrier to the faith of many seeking bodily healing is the uncertainty in their minds as to whether it is the will of God to heal all who come to Him. Nearly everyone knows that God does heal some, but there is much in modern theology that keeps people from knowing what the Bible clearly teaches - that healing is provided for all. It is impossible to boldly claim by faith a blessing that we are not sure God offers. The power of God can be claimed only where the will of God is known.

If it is God’s will to heal only some of those who need healing, then none have any basis for faith, unless they have a special revelation that they are among the favoured ones.

Faith must rest on the will of God alone not on our desires or wishes.

Real faith is not believing that God can but that God will heal/has healed.

The Bible clearly teaches that if you are sick God wants to heal you.

Many recognize that God does heal, but they have no personal knowledge of Jesus as the Saviour of the body.

They see that others are healed, but question whether healing is God’s will for them and appear to be waiting for a special revelation of the will of God concerning their case.

God does not need to give any special revelation of His will when He has plainly revealed His will in His Word.

Until you are fully convinced that God wants you to be well, there will always be a doubt in your mind as to whether or not you will be healed.

As long as there is doubt in your mind, perfect faith cannot exist.

James 1:6-7 says let them ask in faith, nothing wavering. For they that waver are like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not those think they shall receive any thing of the Lord.

T.L.Osborne in his book Healing the Sick says “Once people are fully convinced that God wants to heal them and that it is not God’s will for them to be sick, they almost always receive healing when prayed for, if not before.”

Knowing God’s will concerning sickness provides the ground on which perfect faith can act.

With positive knowledge of the will of God, we do not pray: “Lord, heal me if it be Your will.” That implies doubt, and doubt cancels faith.

Our Father has promised us healing and He always keeps His promises.

Faith that takes hold of God’s promise rests on the knowledge of His will. His known will is the basis of our faith.

The scriptures clearly make known God’s will to heal whoever comes to Him in faith. This is His will.

Jesus suffered as our substitute for our sicknesses and our sins. Isaiah 53.4-6 “Yet he was the one who carried our sicknesses and endured the torment of our sufferings. We viewed him as one who was being punished for something he himself had done, as one who was struck down by God and brought low. But it was because of our rebellious deeds that he was pierced and because of our sins that he was crushed. He endured the punishment that made us completely whole, and in his wounding we found our healing. Like wayward sheep, we have all wandered astray. Each of us has turned from God’s paths and chosen our own way; even so, Yahweh laid the guilt of our every sin upon him.” The prophet Isaiah was writing this prophecy some 700 years before Jesus was crucified yet he gives a remarkable insight into what Jesus sacrifice on the cross accomplished. There is no better commentary on this prophecy than Matthew 8:16-17. “He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.” The cross is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. All have sinned and come short of God’s standards including all those who this world looks on as “good” people. We cannot earn our way back to a relationship with God but Jesus died in our place taking all of our punishment all of our blame all of our shame and all of our sickness. Because of what Jesus has done all who believe in trust in and rely on Him can receive all the blessings that Jesus deserves. Jesus bore my sins and sicknesses away outside the camp (Heb. 13:11-13) to the cross. Both sin and sickness have passed from me to Calvary—salvation and health have passed from Calvary to me. Hallelujah!

When Jesus bore our sins, our sicknesses, and our pains, He bore them away, or removed them. Both these words mean substitution, one bearing another’s load. In Deuteronomy, chapter 28, disease and sickness were a part of the curse. But Galatians 3:13 declares: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. Since Jesus Christ, in His sacrificial death, bore our sicknesses the same as He bore our sins; then the fact is settled by the scriptures that the sick have the same right to be healed in their bodies as the sinful have to be healed in their spirits. The word “bore” in Matthew 8:17 implies substitution – suffering for; not sympathy, as in suffering with. If Christ has borne our sicknesses, why should we bear them?

We can say now based on Is 53.4 “Surely He has borne my sickness, weakness, distress and grief and carried my sufferings and pains”

Everything good thing we receive from God flows from our relationship with Him.

Adam and Eve were created perfect – physically, mentally and spiritually. Spiritually they were created in the image of God.

God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful place – in a garden called Eden where everything was provided.

There was no sickness and no disease and no infirmity of any sort.

Adam and Eve were accepted by God and by each other. They were able to walk in fellowship with God without shame and without fear.

This is how God created us. This is the kind of life we were designed for.

What we see in the garden is Gods plan for humanity and that plan and purpose has not changed.

God desires the very best for every believer.

Adam and Eve allowed satan to rob them of their health, joy, blessing and abundance when they believed his lies rather than what God had said

They were separated from God by their sins. Sin always brings separation from God.

Then followed the terrible consequences of sin which devastate human life today.

I would like to emphasise some of the things Adam and Eve had in the garden because the heart of God is that everyone should have these things and this is why He gave them.

1. A right relationship with God -> instead there entered in sin, corruption, shame, guilt and condemnation.
   
2. Peace with God -> instead there entered in unrest, fear, hostility and lack of trust.
   
3. God’s presence -> separation and loneliness.
   
4. God’s guidance and direction -> delusion, deceit, confusion, perplexity.
   
5. Health and energy -> disease, sickness and physical suffering.
   
6. Purpose and dignity -> disappointment, intimidation, defeat, inferiority and becoming slaves.
   
7. Abundant provision -> poverty and lack.
   

Jesus says in John 10.10 The thief comes only to kill and destroy. I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.

The twin evils of sin and sickness have marched hand in hand ever since Adam and Eve.

The God given divine dignity that Adam and Eve had in the garden was compromised and could never be recovered UNTIL Jesus gave His life for usand we who were far away from God were able to be brought back as His friends and more than that as sons.

The good news is that God has provided the way for us to rediscover ALL. that Adam and Eve lost.

God has provided a way of salvation (Greek word used is Sozo means saved from sin, sickness, devils power and danger). A new life plan to restore to us all the blessings that were forfeited by Adam and Eve’s disobedience and lack of trust.

Jesus has taken not only our sin but our defeat and given us His success in exchange!

Adam and Eve were created perfect – physically, mentally and spiritually. Spiritually they were created in the image of God.

God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful place – in a garden called Eden where everything was provided.

There was no sickness and no disease and no infirmity of any sort.

Adam and Eve were accepted by God and by each other. They were able to walk in fellowship with God without shame and without fear.

This is how God created us. This is the kind of life we were designed for.

What we see in the garden is Gods plan for humanity and that plan and purpose has not changed.

God desires the very best for every believer.

Adam and Eve allowed satan to rob them of their health, joy, blessing and abundance when they believed his lies rather than what God had said

They were separated from God by their sins. Sin always brings separation from God.

Then followed the terrible consequences of sin which devastate human life today.

I would like to emphasise some of the things Adam and Eve had in the garden because the heart of God is that everyone should have these things and this is why He gave them.

1. A right relationship with God instead there entered in sin, corruption, shame, guilt and condemnation.
2. Peace with God instead there entered in unrest, fear, hostility and lack of trust.
3. God’s presence > instead separation and loneliness.
4. God’s guidance and direction > instead delusion, deceit, confusion, perplexity.
5. Health and energy > instead disease, sickness and physical suffering.
6. Purpose and dignity > instead disappointment, intimidation, defeat, inferiority and becoming slaves.
7. Abundant provision > instead poverty and lack.

Jesus says in John 10.10 The thief comes only to kill and destroy. I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.

The twin evils of sin and sickness have marched hand in hand ever since Adam and Eve.

The God given divine dignity that Adam and Eve had in the garden was compromised and could never be recovered UNTIL Jesus gave His life for usand we who were far away from God were able to be brought back as His friends and more than that as sons.

The good news is that God has provided the way for us to rediscover ALL that Adam and Eve lost.

God has provided a way of salvation (Greek word used is Sozo means saved from sin, sickness, devils power and danger). A new life plan to restore to us all the blessings that were forfeited by Adam and Eve’s disobedience and lack of trust.

Jesus has taken not only our sin but our defeat and given us His success in exchange!

If you are sick God wants to heal you. This series is designed to enable you to have the faith to come to Jesus and to be totally healed spirit soul and body.

Faith is a discovery of WHO GOD IS. He is not only one who can heal but HE IS HEALING. It is part of the very nature of God to heal physically.

Jesus is the same today as He was then. He still heals those who come to Him with faith. Physical healing is a key part of the Gospel. In fact the same Greek word ‘sozo’ that is translated often as ‘saved’ is far more embracing than being rescued from sin. It also means healed, delivered, made whole, safe and sound and restored. The truth is God is interested in the whole of our being not just the spiritual.

Healing is a key revelation of the kingdom of God and it is the commission of the Christian church to both save and to heal. If today you are a Christian this series is also designed for you to receive the fullness of faith to carry out the commission of the church. It will help you have a firm biblical foundation for that faith.

Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God.

If you are sick God wants to heal you. This series is designed to enable you to have the faith to come to Jesus and to be totally healed spirit soul and body. Faith is a discovery of WHO GOD IS. He is not only one who can heal but HE IS HEALING. It is part of the very nature of God to heal physically. Jesus is the same today as He was then. He still heals those who come to Him with faith. Physical healing is a key part of the Gospel. In fact the same Greek word ‘sozo’ that is translated often as ‘saved’ is far more embracing than being rescued from sin. It also means healed, delivered, made whole, safe and sound and restored. The truth is God is interested in the whole of our being not just the spiritual. Healing is a key revelation of the kingdom of God and it is the commission of the Christian church to both save and to heal. If today you are a Christian this series is also designed for you to receive the fullness of faith to carry out the commission of the church. It will help you have a firm biblical foundation for that faith. Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God.

Hebrews 11.6 without faith it is impossible to please God.

Hebrews 11.1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Amplified version Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]. For by this [kind of] faith the men of old gained [divine] approval.  By faith [that is, with an inherent trust and enduring confidence in the power, wisdom and goodness of God] we understand that the worlds (universe, ages) were framed and created [formed, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose] by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.