To receive healing by standing on God’s word by faith is another way God gives us to be made whole. If it is by faith, it means that you have to understand some of the laws of faith in order to operate in it proficiently, just as you have to understand the rules of sports before you can excel in them.
One of the major laws (or rules) of faith is this: Faith is always in the present. Faith is always NOW. Faith is not about the future or the past. God is forever in the present, and so is this tool we call faith.
If you have asked God to heal you and are waiting for Him to do so, you are violating this law of faith. Faith takes from the spiritual realm now what is needed in the natural realm. (That doesn’t mean there isn’t a time between when you pray and when the healing manifests. The difference is whether you are waiting for God to answer your prayer or are you rejoicing because you know you HAVE what you asked for? See Mark 11:24)
Our healing is an accomplished fact in the mind of God. By whose stripes you WERE healed. (1 Peter 2:24) That means it is available to us for the taking. God has made His move. It is our move to become convinced of this fact and then RECEIVE by faith what God has provided. That’s what we are not very good at when we first start out. We are looking for God to do something, and He is waiting for us to receive what He has already done. That’s why we oftentimes are at an impasse.
If you have ever said, “I’m believing God is going to heal me,” you are violating the law of faith. Why? Believing implies you are walking by faith, and faith is in the present, not future. You have your tenses mixed up. In effect, you are saying: I receive by faith now that God is going to heal me sometime in the indefinite future. See the problem?
Healing is real, just as salvation is real. There is enough power of redemption poured out at Calvary that anyone who ever needed salvation could receive it. God does not have to go to the back room of heaven and whip up a batch of salvation any time a sinner prays to Him. God has already provided salvation for that person. He is waiting for that person to receive His provision, and that is how we are to approach God in prayer.
It is exactly the same with believing God for healing or provision or anything else that is not seen in this natural world but promised to us in the Bible. Behold, now is the day of salvation. (2 Corinthians 6:2) God doesn’t have to whip up some healing or provision for you when you have a need. The need has already been supplied. The provision is already available. What we have to do is learn to get in a position to receive and become outstanding receivers of the manifold grace of God. Nothing would please Him better.
Confession: I am learning the laws that govern faith so that I can become an excellent receiver of God’s grace, which is His full provision for me.
Scriptures for meditation: Hebrews 11:1-3; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2
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