- The more you identify yourself with who you are in Christ, you may sin but sin less and less, sick less and less.
- Confess “I am righteousness of God in Christ” while your thought thinks the other way, while they are in their sin. Illustration : you don’t feel that you are married
- Jesus loves you and He cares for you. He wants you healthy
- The more you identify yourself with the truth that Jesus had taken all your diseases, you will be sick less and less
- The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. He only bears witness with the truth. Dont speak what you feel, but speak the truth. Illustration : JFK jr, he depended on his feeling and did not truth the instrument. He actually flying down
- Isaiah 53:4 griefs : kholee – physical diseases, sorrow : makov – pains
- Matthew 8: 17 quoted Isaiah 53:4 in the context of physical diseases, infirmities.
- Matt 8:16 Jesus healed ALL who came, not everybody in Israel
- Isaiah 53:5 Jesus was crushed for our wickedness. The punishment required for our well being fell on Him and by His stripe we are healed.
- Medical science can not do as well as Jesus’ stripe
- Stripe – chavura means wounds, stripe, fellowship and association. Which chavura are you from?
- 1 Cor 10:16 communion – koinonia – fellowship, intimate participation, association
- Old age, Psalm 92 : palm tree and cedar of lebanon. Cedar: majestic tree, was used for Solomon temple. Palm tree , 100 yo can still produce oil. Old age but still fruitful. Cedar wood is incorruptible wood, the perfume cedar can drive insects away. Be planted in church, shall flourish outside (family, workplace). Still bearing fruit although you are old age.
- Consider God’s word and not natural thing
Kenneth E. Hagin
- It is God’s will to heal me, it is His redemptive plane. Some scriptures : Isaiah 53:4-5, Matt 8:16, 1 Pet 2:24 reveals that facts
- The author of sickness is devil. Acts 10:38,Luke 13:16, John 10:10, 1 John 3:8
- How God dealt with sickness in the OC and NC. NC is better covenant established on better promises.
- God initiated healing vs man initiated healing. Healing is in like with His Word. We can initiate our healing
- Healing is not always instants, but gradual
- God’s method is spiritual. Healing is not mental, metaphysical approach, nor physical either like medical science.
Medical approach : doing certain things with certain medicine will help nature does its work. We can pray to help the process - God heals through human spirit, not through mind. It is called Divine/spiritual healing
- God does not heal through mind, God is not mind
- The spirit of man is the candle of Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. God is Spirit
- God will enlighten and guide and contact you through your spirit, He will not contact you through your physical body nor your mind.
- 1 Thes 2:23 may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rome 12:1-2 Present you body as living sacrifice. God wants to transfigure body. Renew your mind. God wants our mind be transformed. 2 Cor 5:17 spirit new creation
- Divine healing starts in your spirit. You get it first in your spirit. everything you get from God, you get it first in your spirit/heart.
- Man is spirit being, he has a soul and live in a body. Greatest force is spiritual. fear, faith, joy and grief is in spirit.
- When Jesus came on scene as healer, He demanded faith. Faith is born in spirit. All Jesus healing is spiritual.
- God sent His word and healed them. Sin produced sickness and diseases
- God sent His word through prophets under OC, through Jesus under NC. The Word is the healer today.
- John 1:14 Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus is the living word. God gave written word. Jesus is the healer. The written is given to unveil the living word. You can not separated written word and living word
- What is faith ? Acting on the word is called faith. Faith without action is dead. Faith is an act like the word of God is true. Faith in a person’s word is acting like their words are true.
- We have to hold fast to what God has given us because it can be lost. Rev 2:25 “Hold fast what you have till I come.”
- When you know “by His stripe, you were healed” in your spirit like you know in your mind that 2+2=4, the devil does not have authority over you. “Were” means it is done in the past. This is what happened in the mind of God.
- The way you get to know in your spirit is by meditating upon it with your mind until it fill down here in your spirit. When you know the power and the authority, and those belongs to you
- No one can maintain his healing which has come as a result of another’s faith, or by mass faith/believe together or by manifestation of spiritual gifts unless the individual’s faith develop through the word so he can maintain his own right in his redemption
- Someone’s mantle / anointing fall to other by Influence, association and environment. Example: Elijah and Elisha. You can learn spiritual things like you learn natural things