ENDORSEMENTS

As I travel around the country ministering in revival

meetings, I see the power of the Holy Spirit healing people
of all manner of sickness and disease—sometimes in
unusual ways. Although some do not receive healing
instantly, we must still believe Jehovah Rapha can break in
at any moment with a miracle. Becky’s book The Healing
Creed helps bolster your faith with key Scriptures and
practical insights that inspire a new level of belief in your
heart even if the doubt still attacks your mind. I highly
recommend adding this book to your library on God’s
healing power.
JENNIFER LECLAIRE
Senior Editor, Charisma magazine Director, Awakening
House of Prayer Author, Mornings with the Holy Spirit and
Developing Faith for the Working of Miracles
Becky Dvorak builds a solid foundation from the Bible for
healing in the church. She exposes the enemy’s tactics of
distracting and robbing the church of the gift of healing
through the blood of Jesus. A seasoned prophetic evangelist,
you will be encouraged, challenged, and set free from faulty
theology that you had no idea you believed in until you read
The Healing Creed. Becky skillfully leads you into declaring
The Healing Creed over your life with Scriptures intertwined
with healing testimonies to increase your faith. As a mother
of a daughter with special needs, Becky has given me a
weapon to wage war for her healing. I encourage you to take
this weapon, The Healing Creed, in the fight for healing for
your friends and family.
LEILANI HAYWOOD
Online Editor of SpiritLed Woman and author of Ten Keys to
Raising Kids That Love God
The fruit of The Healing Creed is this—God’s will being
established on earth as in Heaven. This is what Becky
Dvorak is about—her Father’s business. The power of the
Lord Jesus manifesting through these pages will change
your life! Read it, live it, and be blessed.
WILMER SINGLETON
Founder and President Voice of the Kingdom E-magazine
The Singleton Publishing Group
The Healing Creed is full of hope, biblical truth, and
practical advice. Healing flows from the heart of one who
practices what she preaches.
JO ANNE ARNETT
President, Tallahassee Christian College and Training Center
I have found Becky Dvorak to be many things. She is a
Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, apostle (translated
today as missionary), and dedicated student of the Word of
God. I know her to be a genuine follower of Jesus Christ. She
stands with the inspired Word as delivered to us by the Holy
Spirit. She is a wonderful preacher and teacher.
This most recent written work, The Healing Creed, is her
best book yet to date. It is thorough, precise, honest, and
most of all based solely on Scripture. If you honestly want to
know more about healing, how to get it, how to walk it out,
how to proclaim it, this book is for you and I believe comes
straight from our Father!
I heartily recommend that you get this book and devour
it. The Church needs it, individual Christians need it, and
this lost and dying world needs the truth contained within
these pages.
May the Holy Spirit use this work to bring His people to a
closer and more productive place in Him, and Spirit-wrought
revival will be the result!
DR. BOB VINEYARD
Senior Pastor, Greenway Spirit and Word Fellowship
Stephens City, Virginia
Those seeking a clearer understanding of healing need to
look no further. The Healing Creed, Becky Dvorak’s newest
book, will renew your hope that you can be healed. Becky
brings a clear understanding of what the will of the Lord is
concerning your health and identifies those things that work
against you as well as those things that will increase your
faith, enabling you to believe again.
Your faith will be stirred by the teaching and testimonies
that Becky shares throughout The Healing Creed. We highly
endorse this labor of love and would encourage all to read it,
especially all our fellow ministers of Christian International
Apostolic Network.
APOSTLE DR. JIM and PROPHETESS CONNIE CHILDS
Founder-Messengers of Life Ministries, Madisonville,
Kentuckey Author, Conference Speakers, Senior Pastors
A great teacher does more than merely teach truth, they
equip students to effectively defend it. In The Healing Creed,
Becky Dvorak does more than build faith for healing—she
keenly exposes the shrewd, unbiblical logic that perpetuates
the unjust suffering of so many precious people. In so doing,
Becky offers readers the opportunity to think right about
God’s promise to heal us—spiritually, emotionally, and
physically—and to secure an unshakable confidence in the
loving, healing, and compassionate nature of our Father’s
heart. I especially loved the insight concerning the believer’s
dominion over “every living thing” (Chapter 5), which clearly
includes the tiny microscopic organisms that create illness.
Packed with one real-life testimony after another, Becky
Dvorak has given us another significant work that is sure to
be a channel of divine deliverance and wholeness for many.
CHAD BUDLONG
Senior Pastor/Conference Speaker New Foundation Church,
Goodyear, Arizona
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 CONTENTS

Introduction

The Healing Creed

CHAPTER 1 Believe Again

CHAPTER 2 The Power of the Blood

CHAPTER 3 My Redeemer

CHAPTER 4 The Fruits of an Ambassador to Heal

CHAPTER 5 The Authority of Christ

CHAPTER 6 Remember All of His Benefits

CHAPTER 7 Able and Willing to Heal

CHAPTER 8 The Great Physician

CHAPTER 9 Choose Life, Laughter, and Joy

CHAPTER 10 The Healing Power of Repentance and

Forgiveness

CHAPTER 11 The Sword of the Spirit

 INTRODUCTION

Do you feel confused about what to believe concerning

healing? Many people are unsure these days about what to
believe anymore. And rightly so. When we remove the
standard of God’s Word and teach from human opinion and
experience instead of what God says concerning healing,
then yes, people will be confused about healing.
But when we choose to make God’s Word our standard,
we eliminate doubt and confusion and give people a
spiritual foundation on which to base their faith, so that they
can believe and receive their supernatural healing from the
Lord.
We are instructed in Ephesians 6:14 to gird our waist
with truth. It is always our responsibility to study the Word of
truth and to wrap our lives within it. This will keep the
contamination of false doctrine out and the security of God’s
truth in.
We are to believe in God’s message about healing. He
asks us in Isaiah 53:1, “Who has believed our message and
to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” (NIV). God
has a written health plan filled with benefits for us, and the
people who receive these medical benefits are those who
put their trust in His report.
The Healing Creed is about the power of the redemptive
blood of Jesus Christ to heal us in spirit, in soul, and in body.
It is our foundation to believe for the miraculous. Read the
healing creed aloud every day, and take note what starts to
happen all around you.
 THE HEALING CREED

I believe in Jesus Christ and in the power of His blood to

heal (1 Pet. 2:24).
He bore my griefs, carried my sorrows and pains, was
wounded for my transgressions, crushed for my
wickedness, the punishment for my well-being fell upon
Him, and by His wounds I am healed (Isa. 53:4-5).
I have been redeemed from the hand of the enemy (Ps.
107:2)—the thief, the devil who comes to steal, to kill,
and to destroy (John 10:10)—and loosed from the
contents within his hand, the curse (Gal. 3:13), and
delivered from the spirit of fear and the power of death
(Heb. 2:14-15; 2 Tim. 1:7).
I am an ambassador of Christ (2 Cor. 5:20); as Jesus is,
so am I on this earth (1 John 4:17). Like Him, I humbly
walk in the power of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)
—love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. So that I can
effectively carry out official kingdom business, such as to
heal and be healed for His glory.
I possess His authority over satan and all of his wicked
works (Luke 10:19), including sickness and disease.
Therefore, no weapon formed against me shall prosper
(Isa. 54:17), nor will any plague come near my dwelling
(Ps. 91:10).
I bless the sweet Lamb of God; I remember all of His
benefits, who pardons all iniquities, heals all disease,
redeems my life from destruction, crowns me with
lovingkindness and tender mercies, satisfies my mouth
with good things, and renews my youth like the eagle’s
(Ps. 103:1–5).
I am grateful that You are both able and willing (Luke
5:12-13) to heal me in spirit, soul, and body (1 Thess.
5:23). I partake of Your bread of life and drink from the
cup of Your new covenant (John 6:35; 1 Cor. 11:23–32) to
restore health to me and to heal me of my wounds (Prov.
4:20–22) with Your healing balm of Gilead (Jer. 30:17;
8:22).
Jehovah Rapha is my great physician (Exod. 15:26). His
medical report declares (Isa. 53) His Spirit gives life to my
mortal body (Rom. 8:11), and my faith makes me whole
(Matt. 9:22).
I accept His advice to choose life that I may live (Deut.
30:19). I receive beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness (Isa. 61:3). I take His medicine—laughter (Prov.
17:22) and joy for my strength (Neh. 8:10).
I heed His counsel and repent (1 John 1:9), rid myself
of bitterness (Prov. 17:22), forgive others (Matt. 6:14), and
empower my faith by love (Gal. 5:6).
With wisdom from on high (James 3:17) I activate the
Sword of the Spirit (Eph. 6:17). With the realization that I
possess the power of life and death in my tongue (Prov.
18:21) I exercise His authority (Luke 10:19). And I curse
this sickness at its very root and seed (Mark 11:12–24)
and say no disease will prosper in my body (Isa. 54:17).
When I am weak I thank Him that He remains strong in
me (2 Cor.12:9–11). And I boldly declare His abundant
life, healing power, and supernatural strength to overtake
my body (Rom. 4:17; Isa. 40:29,31) in Jesus’ name (John
14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-24,26).
I encourage you to read the healing creed aloud every
day and allow its message to grab ahold of your spiritual
heart and pump life into your physical being.
 CHAPTER 1

BELIEVE AGAIN

“I believe in Jesus Christ and in the power of His

blood to heal.”

The other night, I saw in a dream a tall, barren tree planted

by a brook that flowed with life in the midst of a bountiful
meadow. Beneath the tree sat many of God’s people, and all
were bound to their wheelchairs. They leaned to the side
because they lacked the strength to sit upright. They were
pale and lifeless, but what disturbed me the most was the
look of despair on their faces as they looked up toward
Heaven convinced that God was not willing to heal them
and even doubtful that He was able.
Psalm 1:3 clearly paints a picture of the blessed man or
woman of God “like a tree firmly planted by streams of
water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not
wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers” (NASB). This
is how we are to be—blessed because we live and have our
being by the Living Water, nourished by His benefits, and
producing fruit to give to others.
Yet the interpretation of the dream is revealing that the
body of Christ is opposing God’s health plan. Even though
the planting of the tree is by streams of water and it should
be flourishing, it is not. Instead it is rotting at the roots,
decaying from the inside to the outside, and losing the
beauty of God’s benefits.
Why? What’s wrong? On the whole, the Church is
spiritually crippled and will not take the first step of faith.
Many people who profess to be Christians, whether they are
laypeople or in Church leadership, are more comfortable to
walk in the counsel of the wicked, stand in the path of
sinners, sit in the seat of scoffers, and blame God for their
trouble. But instead of this they should meditate on the
Word of God and do what it says to do, “Believe!” (See Psalm
1:1-2.)
As a prophetic healing evangelist, I have never seen so
many of God’s people as sick as they are today. This isn’t
right. The body of Christ needs to learn how to believe once
again, exercise their authority as true believers, take a stand
against the enemy and all of his wickedness, and overcome
the situation that has them bound.

WHY DO GOD’S PEOPLE RESIST HIS

HEALING POWER?
There are many reasons why God’s people resist His
healing power, but here are probably the most common
reasons.

1. In general, the Church has kept silent about the

healing power of Christ.
2. There is great confusion as to whether or not God
wills to heal.
3. People have a negative image of God as being harsh
and uncaring.
 4. There’s a fear of not being good enough to receive a
blessing, such as healing from God.
5. The body of Christ has compromised and turns to
everything else but the Lord for their healing.

DO YOU WELCOME JESUS AND HIS HEALING

POWER?
Jesus is both willing and able to heal, but He gives us the
responsibility of a free will. He respects the authority of the
house. When the authority of the house surrenders to His
ultimate authority, His healing power releases and heals.
Let’s look to the following example found in Luke 8:40–56 to
understand what I mean.
Here we read the testimony of how a man named Jairus
invites Jesus to his house to heal his sick daughter. Jesus
agrees to go with him to his house but has another woman
to attend to first. In the meantime, Jairus’ daughter dies.
When they arrive, Jesus encounters doubt and unbelief. He
tries to encourage the people to believe, but they only laugh
at Him. But because Jesus has the go-ahead from the
authority of that household, Jairus and his wife, He ministers
to their daughter.
Before He can do so, He has to kick the doubt and
unbelief out. In other words, He makes the doubters leave
the room and shuts the door and only allows those who
believe with Him—Peter, James, and John and the girl’s
parents. He then raises her from the dead.
When we, the Church, align ourselves with God’s healing
message, the bondage of suffering is broken, and God’s
people are healed in spirit, in soul, and in body. This is when
we witness the blind see, the deaf hear, the mute speak, the
paralytics walk, cancers and every other deadly disease
healed in Jesus’ name.
I am grateful for our local pastor. He invites my husband
and me to come in and teach the congregation everything
we know about healing and miracles. He, along with the
members, takes notes, puts his faith into action, participates
with the people in healing outreaches, and encourages the
congregation to minister healing to one another during
Sunday morning services. And when there is a serious
health issue, the people rally around that one with faith and
see them healed. Because of it, our local fellowship
witnesses healings and miracles. And you know what, the
people are healthier.
Supernatural healing from the Lord causes the local body
of Christ to strengthen in the power of faith, and even
causes the ingathering to grow in great numbers, see the
Book of Acts.
In another situation, the healing message was not
welcomed, and Jesus could hardly do anything. Let’s look at
this portion of Scripture found in Mark 6:1–6. Here Jesus was
in His hometown and was not able to heal more than a few
people because the power of unbelief stopped Him from
healing the people.
When unbelieving leaders—such as pastors, elders, board
members, and the like—stop the move of the healing power
of the Holy Spirit, it is deadly to the members of the
congregations and just plain evil in the sight of our Lord.
Is it right that those who are in a battle for their life have
to take a stand against the doubt and unbelief in the
leadership in their local fellowship, quit, and seek out
another fellowship where the people who claim to believe
actually believe?
Do these people not have something more important to
fight against? Yes, they do. They need to use every bit of
faith they have and fight the main devil warring against
them—death. They should not have to take on your little
devils of doubt and unbelief. But, you see, your little devils
of doubt and unbelief strengthen the bigger devil, death,
that fights to take them down.
The same is true in the individual family unit. When I
hear, for example, a woman speak from her deathbed that
her husband will be angry with her if she fights to live again,
something is seriously wrong.
We who declare that we believe in Jesus Christ must find
our way back to the truth of His healing word so that those
in our midst can receive their healing.
So with the responsibility of a free will, do we welcome or
reject Jesus and His healing power?

RESTORE HOPE
It’s time to look at another aspect of healing that we have
to deal with in regard to God’s healing power and the
world’s opinion of us for believing.
The world accuses us of being in denial if we do not
accept their death sentence when attacked with sickness
and disease. But what we have to understand when dealing
with them is that even if their intentions are good they still
do not possess the hope that we have in Christ. They are
hopeless, literally people without hope, because they do not
believe in the redemptive blood of Christ.
As Christians, we live in this world, but we are not to be
of this world or worldly in our beliefs, words, or actions. We
are to be people of faith, and faith begins with hope in our
Savior and in what He has done for us.
Proverbs 13:12 tells us that, “Hope deferred makes the
heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” So
then why would we, as followers of Jesus Christ, steal a loved
one’s hope to believe for healing? Why would we discourage
their faith to believe for their miracle from Jesus?
While in prayer with a couple of friends concerning this
issue of unbelief within the body of Christ for healing, I saw
in a vision Jesus walk toward a banquet table. He had on a
light blue tunic with a multicolored sash and a prayer shawl
covering His head, and He carried a shepherd’s staff in His
right hand. But the emphasis of the beginning of the vision
was on His feet that were shod with leather sandals as our
Shepherd walked upon dry, hard-packed ground toward a
banquet table.
This first part of this vision reveals to us how He walks in
His authority as the Good Shepherd and goes out to gather
in His lost and hurting sheep to bring them back into the
fold. He also reveals the spiritual condition of His people—
they are spiritually dried up, and their hearts have been
hardened to Him and His ways.
But He is a good shepherd, His love is unconditional, and
with His staff He leads us and guides us into all truth by His
righteousness. By wearing His prayer shawl He activates His
love by the power of intercession for us.
The saints of God sat around this table with eating
utensils in their hands pounding their fists upon the table.
They were dissatisfied because there was no food or drink
for them to partake of, and the head seat at the table was
missing their Savior.
But Jesus did not disappoint those that turned to Him. I
saw Him as He hung upon the Cross. His head dropped to
His chest as He had suffered and died for them. He had paid
the price with His own blood to put an end to their suffering.
He then raised His nail-pierced hands, and the blessings
flowed through the holes in His hands. I then saw the people
as they were plunged into the River of Life. They were fully
immersed in the living water, and with their eating utensils
still in their hands I could see them feasting upon the
resurrection power of our Lord.

ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE

As I mentioned earlier, it is wrong when leaders steal the
hope of the people to believe God for their miracles. It’s not
right that God’s people have to search outside of their local
place of worship to find someone who will stand and believe
with them for their healing. It is a disgrace to the Gospel of
Jesus Christ when those who are in need of a miracle have to
fight their fellow Christians for their spiritual right to believe
for divine healing.
We ought to readily take upon ourselves the attribute of
Barnabas, who was known in the Book of Acts as a believer
in Jesus who gave encouragement to others. We should
especially encourage the body of Christ to believe and stand
with them to receive all that Jesus has for them instead of
acting like a doubting Thomas and discouraging others from
the faith with our words of doubt and unbelief.
Human reasoning does not please God; only faith does. It
takes faith to initiate a move of God, and the precursor of
faith according to Hebrews 11:1 is hope: “Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.” The only way that people will be able to activate the
power of faith for an unseen healing or miracle is that they
first receive a message of hope to believe.
The underlying message of the Gospel is about hope in
Jesus Christ. Hope to overcome against all odds.

OFFER HOPE FOR HEALING

 Many people around us have received devastating reports
of pain and death. They feel frightened and hopeless. We
have a life-changing message to offer to them. A message of
hope and healing for those that are sick and hurting.
But sometimes we feel insecure to deliver this message.
What if they refuse the message? In all honesty, I have
offered this message to thousands of people and have only
ever had a few refuse prayer. What should this tell us?
People want hope, and they are waiting for someone to offer
to minister healing to them.

A REASON TO BELIEVE
In the news, whether the source is secular or Christian,
you read or hear about how sickness, disease, plagues, pain,
and suffering are on the rise. Have you ever wondered why
these devilish things are increasing?
When we preach from human reasoning instead of the
truth found in Scripture, people suffer. When we put all our
faith in the doctor’s report in place of the Bible, miracles
cease. When we trust secular psychology rather than heed
biblical counsel, healing is hindered.
We suffer from unanswered prayers when we give in to
the world’s system of doubt and unbelief, but we can
change the situation around. In order to do so, we need a
reason to believe. Let’s look to the Word, find our reason to
trust God, and believe again.

Six Reasons Why We Can Trust God to Keep His

Promises
Even when people fail us, and they will, God can be
trusted to keep all of His promises to us.

He is truthful.
 God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of
man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will
He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not
make it good? (Numbers 23:19)

He is just.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways

are justice, a God of truth and without injustice;
righteous and upright is He (Deuteronomy 32:4).

He is able.

And being fully convinced that what He had

promised He was also able to perform (Romans
4:21).

He is willing.

Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him,

saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately
his leprosy was cleansed (Matthew 8:3).

He is faithful.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it (1

Thessalonians 5:24).

His faithfulness is unconditional.

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot

deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13).

If we will spend time and meditate upon these Scriptures

we will find our reason to trust in God to keep His promises.
 HOW DO WE DEVELOP FAITH TO BELIEVE?
Our faith to believe for healing will develop as we learn to
trust in God’s faithfulness to keep His promise to heal. The
Scriptures tell us in Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” As we spend time
in God’s Word concerning healing, the Holy Spirit reveals to
us the truth, and what was once a challenge now becomes
easy to believe. First Corinthians 2:14 puts it like this, “But
the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.” Your faith to believe
for healing will develop as you dig into God’s Word about it.
A word of caution when developing your faith to believe
for healing. Our enemy is a mastermind at distracting us,
and not all of his schemes appear wicked. When you make
the quality decision to zero in on healing, stay focused and
be aware of his tactics of confusion and distractions that he
will use to try to lure you away as you search out God’s
healing message. He doesn’t want you to find your healing,
but God does. So move forward and develop your faith to
believe in healing.

BREAK THE CYCLE OF UNBELIEF

Some of you are still skeptical, but, you know, every
person with a healing testimony in this book can come up
with plenty of excuses not to believe God for their healings.
The reality of the matter remains—they all have human wills
and the freedom to choose. This is a powerful gift from
Elohim, and if we will wield our will, bring it under
submission to the Word of God, there’s no telling what can
happen.
 But you see, we get brazened, hard-hearted towards
God’s goodness and His promise to heal so that we don’t
even think to trust God to heal us. We automatically turn to
the world’s methods first, and become discouraged, even to
the point of hopelessness when our human efforts do not
produce the desired results, health, healing, and wholeness.
But we can choose to break this cycle of unbelief in our
life today. It starts with a quality decision to learn how to
believe.
And while Jesus is bidding to all, “If you can believe, all
things are possible to him who believes.” A few of you are
responding and calling out to Him, even with tears, like the
man in Mark 9:23-25, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
And our beautiful Savior, through His Word, honors this
request and teaches us how to transform unbelief to belief.

Ten Steps to Learn to Believe Again

1. Acknowledge the sin of unbelief and repent from it.

First John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.”
2. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you how to heal. James
1:5 encourages us to ask, “If any of you lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally
and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
3. Read and study the Word concerning healing. Second
Timothy 2:15 admonishes us to, “Do your best to
present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly
handles the word of truth” (NIV).
4. Mediate upon the healing Scriptures morning, noon,
and night. Joshua 1:8 gives us the results: “This Book
of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you
 shall meditate in it day and night, that you may
observe to do according to all that is written in it. For
then you will make your way prosperous, and then
you will have good success.”
5. With the blessing of technology, listen to healing
sermons over and over again. Romans 10:17 tells us
how faith comes: “So then faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.”
6. Take every negative thought captive that rises up
against healing. Second Corinthians 10:4-5 teaches
us about spiritual warfare concerning our thoughts,
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
7. Refrain from depressing media about people dying
from sickness and disease, such as faithless movies
and reading materials. Proverbs 4:23 gives warning:
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you
do flows from it” (NIV).
8. Choose your friends wisely; if they discourage your
faith to believe, pray for someone who will believe
with you. First Corinthians 15:33 states the
importance of choosing friends wisely. It says, “Do not
be deceived: ‘Evil company corrupts good habits.’”
9. Make sure that your words declare God’s healing
power. Proverbs 18:21 teaches us about the power of
the tongue. It declares, “Death and life are in the
power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its
fruit.”
10. Your actions must line up with healing as well. James
2:17 tells us that, “In the same way, faith by itself, if
 it is not accompanied by action, is dead” (NIV).

These ten steps will radically change your life. Your faith
to believe for supernatural healing from Jesus will be
empowered, supercharged, and will produce health and
healing. We will delve deeper into each of these steps
throughout this work.

WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT HIMSELF AND

HEALING?
The next time someone tries to steal your hope for
healing, don’t listen. Instead, read God’s Word and find out
what He has to say about the matter. Here are a couple
scriptures to help you get started on your healing journey.

I, the Lord, am your healer (Exodus 15:26 NASB).

“For I will restore health to you and heal you of
your wounds,” says the Lord (Jeremiah 30:17).

HOPE AND FAITH EMPLOY SUPERNATURAL

HEALING
Elizabeth from Harrisonburg, Virginia received a series of
remarkable miracles in one night when her hope and faith
employed supernatural healing. Let’s read her amazing
story.
While at work at the local meat factory, she drops a large
piece of frozen meat and breaks the bones in both of her
feet. She walks slowly and with tremendous pain. Later, she
hears of a healing service and decides to come. Her faith
activates to believe for her feet to be healed. She receives a
healing touch, and the next morning she runs up and down
the stairs with no pain and she even stands on her tiptoes.
Not only is her faith inspired to receive healing for her
feet that night, but it is emboldened to believe to be healed
from thyroid disease.
The same healing hands that release the power of the
Holy Spirit to heal her broken feet also release healing from
thyroid disease. Again, that next morning amazing
manifestations are exhibiting themselves. While asleep
during the night she loses four pounds, and the growth on
the side of her neck disappears.
Because her hope transforms into faith for miraculous
healing, her testimony increases in its brilliance. Before she
attends this healing service, she is also a victim of heart
disease. Her doctor tells her that she is going to have a heart
attack. In other words, before this spiritual transformation
she lives with a nagging fear that she will have a heart
attack. This is not a pleasant thought to live with.
But she receives an injection of hope to believe for
healing from heart disease as well, and her faith activates
and accesses the power of the Holy Spirit and she receives a
new heart. Once again in this glorious morning, she realizes
as she runs up the steps that she is not even out of breath.
Before, these steps are laborsome for her, but not anymore!
Astonishing displays of the healing power of Jesus Christ
will materialize when we release hope and faith to others to
believe again.
Elizabeth has these words of encouragement for you,
“The only thing I can say is that I am only human, that the
Lord will do the same thing for anybody else that He will do
for me. And I praise Him every day for the healing that I
have received.”

Dear Jesus,
 I do believe in You and in the power of Your blood
to heal. I cry out to You to teach me how to
transform my unbelief to belief in regard to my
healing. I ask You, Holy Spirit, to uncover hidden
doubts and expose the lies of the enemy that I
accept as truth. Help me to break this cycle of
unbelief that binds me to sickness and disease.
Teach me how to think, speak, and act according
to Your healing word.
In Your name, Jesus, I pray, amen.

The foundation of our faith to believe for healing is the

redemptive blood of Jesus Christ. Turn to the next chapter to
find out what Jesus does for us so we can activate His
healing message.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Do I need healing? Do I have the faith to believe for my
healing? Is the message of healing new to me? Or have I
walked away from this message? If so, do I know why I lost
hope in His healing power? More importantly, do I know how
to believe again for my healing?
 CHAPTER 2

THE POWER OF THE BLOOD

“He bore my griefs, carried my sorrows and pains,

was wounded for my transgressions, crushed for my
wickedness, the punishment for my well-being fell
upon Him, and by His wounds I am healed.”

There was a time not so long ago that the Church readily
taught and sang about the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ.
On a whole, the body of Christ walked in authority over
satan and his wicked works. As a result she was stronger
and healthier. Nowadays, it is rare to hear a pastor teach this
message, and because of the lack of this teaching, God’s
people are sick and weak. But I want to encourage you to
release this life-changing message from your pulpit once
again.
I believe in the healing power of the redemptive blood of
Jesus Christ—so much so that I teach it everywhere I go.
Because I do, I consistently witness the power of the Spirit
move in stunning and supernatural ways—the blind see, the
deaf hear, the paralytics walk, sick people are healed, and
demons flee by the power of the blood.
The blood of Jesus is not dried up. It’s fresh, alive, and all-
powerful. When we accept this revelation, we can activate
His authority and release the captives from the bondage of
satan, including ourselves.
Recently during one particular healing service, I used an
interpreter to translate the message into the language of
the local people. I was midway into the lesson when all of a
sudden the interpreter started to shout. “I can’t do this! This
is too hard for me! Will someone please pray for me?”
I reached my hand out and touched him on the shoulder
and prayed for him. Then all of a sudden, the young man ran
out of the sanctuary and into the hallway. It caused a great
disruption in the meeting, and the people stood up to watch
him. I was able to get the people to sit down, and we
continued on with the meeting. But what I was not able to
see from the pulpit was the young man as he began to
vomit.
What happened during this healing service?
Unbeknownst to me, this nice young man was not born
again, and the demon within him could not handle the
message of the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ. It cried out,
“I can’t do this! This is too hard for me!”
In front of everyone was a display of spiritual warfare, and
the power in the blood to set the captive free. The spirit of
the young man cried out, “Will someone please pray for
me?” I reached my hand out to touch the young man and
began to pray. It was more than the demon could handle.
The only chance it had to remain in control of the young
man was to cause him to run away from the power of the
blood, but it was too late—too much revelation concerning
the blood of Christ had been revealed. The young man was
delivered and vomited the evil spirit out.
At the end of this service, when the altar call was given
he was the first to come forward, kneel, and receive Christ
as his Savior.
I have seen time and time again as I preach about the
blood, that supernatural power is released and the demons
residing within the unregenerated souls are literally
tormented and they scream and act out in terror. And the
people are delivered, set free, born again, and healed in
spirit, in soul, and in body.
I can’t encourage you enough to get back to the message
of the blood. Study the Scriptures and activate this power in
your personal life and in your ministry today.

BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by
God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and
by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:4-5).

Time and time again, I witness the manifest power of the

blood in this portion of Scripture. I can tell you firsthand, this
message literally torments satan and his demons. It’s here
where they encounter their defeat, and they fear when we
hear its truth.
They witnessed this event through their own eyes of
deception. Later when Jesus rose from the dead, the truth
was revealed, and they knew they were defeated for eternity
because of this historical event recorded in Isaiah 53:4-5.
This is why demonic forces fight so hard to create
controversy with this foundational truth. They realize that if
they spread false teaching amongst the body of Christ
concerning supernatural healing, people will be weak in the
faith, powerless against their wicked attacks, bound by
sickness and disease, tormented in their minds and
emotions, and live in defeat. This will cause them to be
ineffective with their witness to the lost.
 THE “BY HIS STRIPES” CONTROVERSY
There is great controversy amongst the Church today as
to whether or not the scriptural meaning of Isaiah 53:5, “by
His stripes we are healed,” refers to spiritual, emotional, or
physical healing.
Obviously, the prophet Isaiah knew that God’s people
would doubt physical healing, because Isaiah 53 starts out
with him questioning the reader, “Who has believed our
report?” (Isa. 53:1). The Holy Spirit gave him an in-depth
supernatural understanding of how the Messiah would
embrace great suffering for our redemption so that we could
be healed. He also gave him the revelation knowledge that
there would be great debate, even division, about the power
of the atoning blood of Christ that was shed as they whipped
His back to include physical healing.
Some firmly believe this refers to spiritual healing only,
meaning that the sole purpose of the atonement is to
forgive us of our sins so that we can be reconciled back to
our heavenly Father and have eternal life with Him through
the sufferings of Christ. And yes, Jesus did suffer for this
purpose, and we are not to take our eternal salvation lightly.
But this is not the only reason for the atonement. It is the
beginning of the redemption process.
Others believe that this healing is spiritual, as discussed
above, and emotional or mental, meaning healing of past
hurts and disappointments, but certainly not physical
healing.
Now that we all understand what the “by His stripes”
controversy is, let’s work to resolve the chaos.

END THE CONTROVERSY NOW

 In order to end this controversy within our own hearts,
let’s do a word search with the online Blue Letter Bible1 and
find out what this portion of Scripture really means.
Let’s start with “He has borne our griefs.” According to
Strong’s Concordance number H2483, griefs or the Hebrew
word choliy means sickness.
Then let’s go to “and carried our sorrows.” The Strong’s
definition for H4341, the word sorrows or the Hebrew word
mak’ob, means both mental and physical pain.
As we continue on it says that “He was bruised for our
iniquities.” According to Strong’s definition H5771, the word
iniquities translated from the Hebrew word ‘avon and means
perversity or sin.
Now, we will check out the word healed from the portion
of Scripture that says “by His stripes we are healed.” The
Strong’s reference number H7495 for this word comes from
the Hebrew word rapha’, which means healer, to cure, heal,
repair, and make whole.
When we spend the time and rightly divide the Word, we
can determine that the translation of Isaiah 53:4-5 is
holistic. That the atonement, the redemptive blood of Jesus,
does in fact provide spiritual, emotional, and physical
healing.
I’ve included a chart of Hebrew words and their meanings
found in Isaiah 53:4-5 to help you have a clearer
understanding of what Jesus endured for us.

Hebrew Words and Their Meanings in Isaiah 53:4-5

 In conclusion to this word study of Isaiah 53:4-5, we
discover that Jesus bore or carried our sickness and our
physical and mental pain upon His own body for us. Even
though innocent, He was plagued and slaughtered as our
judgement fell upon Him. He was defiled for our rebellion.
He was crushed for our perversity and sin. He took upon
Himself our discipline and correction for our welfare, health,
prosperity, and peace. He was bruised, striped or whipped
and wounded, so we could be cured, healed, and made
whole.

INTENSE WHIPPING
The whippings that Jesus received because of us and for
us were intense. Let’s focus on the intensity to gain
understanding of what He had to endure for our healing.
Psalm 22 is a graphic prophecy about the anguish that
Jesus would suffer for us. Let’s read verses 14–19 together
and open up our spiritual ears and listen to the cry of His
heart to the Father.

I am poured out like water, and all My bones are

out of joint; My heart is like wax; it has melted
within Me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and My tongue clings to My jaws; You have
brought Me to the dust of death. For dogs have
surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked
has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My
feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare
at Me. They divide My garments among them, and
for My clothing they cast lots. But You, O Lord, do
not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help
Me!

Jesus had been betrayed, falsely accused, arrested, and

interrogated during the night at an illegal, secret trial. He
suffered from great emotional anguish to the point of
bleeding and was also sleep deprived.
 He was abandoned, criticized, cursed at, devalued,
humiliated, mocked, ridiculed, spit upon, and stripped
physically and emotionally. He had no strength left; He was
literally spent.
He was in excruciating pain because they beat upon Him,
ripped His beard off His face, pierced His skull with a crown
of thorns, whipped Him mercilessly, nailed His hands and
feet to the Cross, and his bones were dislocated from the
weight of the crossbeam that He had to carry and from the
position He was strung up on the Cross. His heart was
overworked, stressed out, and at the point of death.
In regard to the severity of being whipped for our healing
it says in verse 17, “I can count all My bones.” What horrible
suffering! The bones in His body were exposed. He could see
and count them. In order for Him to be able to count His
bones, that means His skin, muscles, ligaments, tendons,
and nerves had to be ripped apart. His blood was spilled as
they whipped Him to pieces for payment for our emotional
and physical healing.

ACTIVATE THE POWER OF THE BLOOD

On another occasion, during the message of the blood at
a healing service a man was thrown down on the floor by an
epileptic spirit and started to convulse. As I began to quote
this Scripture, the demon in this man became extremely
violent and began to thrash and scream and eventually
began to beg for me to stop. I would not.
I continued on with the message of the blood for this
man’s deliverance. When I spoke about how Jesus was
whipped for this man’s physical healing, the demon went
completely mad and was tortured by the power of the blood.
It actually began to spit blood in my face and begged me to
stop.
 This demon had a lifelong hold on this man’s life and
didn’t want to leave, but by the time I finished declaring the
message of the blood the demon released him, and the man
was healed spiritually, emotionally, and physically.

Breakdown of His Healing

Spiritual Healing

 Deliverance from demon possession.

 Repentance of past sins.
 Accepted Christ as his Savior.
 Received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Emotional or Mental Healing

 Through deliverance his mind and emotions were

healed from fear and depression.

Physical Healing

 He was physically healed from epilepsy.

Can you imagine what would happen if the Church

repented and returned back to the message of the blood?
How many people would turn to Christ and have their needs
met?
Let’s pray this prayer of repentance together and start
fresh again.

Dear Jesus,
As we take the time to contemplate what You
actually did for us, our hearts are filled with sorrow
for the pain that we caused You. We are forever
grateful that You bore all of our sickness, all of our
 physical and emotional pain upon Your own body
for us.
It grieves our spirits to realize that even though
You were innocent, You were plagued and
slaughtered as our judgement fell upon You. If we
could only go back and undo the past…but we
know we can’t. So we face up and acknowledge
our guilt, and we are truly sorry that because of
our wrongdoing You were defiled for our rebellion
and crushed for our perversity and willful sin.
Please, forgive us.
Out of Your love for us, You were disciplined and
corrected for our welfare, health, prosperity, and
peace. You were bruised, striped, whipped, and
wounded so that we could be cured, healed, and
made whole. We thank You, Jesus, for this.
Hear our cry of repentance for doubting Your
healing power to heal us spiritually, emotionally,
and physically. Forgive us for placing such a low
value on Your blood and upon Your sufferings for
us. Again, we thank You for the full payment for
our health and well-being. And we ask You, please
help us to start to heal again.
In Your name we pray, dear Jesus, amen.

Read the next chapter to find out what our Redeemer

saved us from.

SELF-EXAMINATION
 Do I understand what the blood of Jesus Christ did for
me? Have I personally experienced the power of His blood to
heal me in my emotions and in my physical body? If not, am
I willing to receive His healing power in me?

NOTE
1. Hebrew word definitions are provided by Strong’s
Concordance and can be found at Blue Letter Bible:
https://www.blueletterbible.org.
 CHAPTER 3

MY REDEEMER

“I have been redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

the thief, the devil who comes to steal, to kill, and to
destroy, and loosed from the contents within his
hand, the curse, and delivered from the spirit of fear
and the power of death.”

I grew up in a denominational church. I was baptized as an

infant, attended Sunday school and Sunday morning
services with my family, was confirmed in my teenage years,
and yet I had no understanding of what Jesus Christ really
did for me. I did not understand that church attendance
wasn’t enough but that I needed to be born again. I certainly
did not receive teaching about the redemptive blood of
Jesus Christ to heal the sick.
I’m almost embarrassed, but nevertheless I will share this
with you to help you be free from a damaging perception
many have about our Lord. I remember when I was a young
Christian mama and I was expecting our third child. I went
into premature labor and was put on bedrest for six weeks. I
have a vivid memory of myself on my knees in the living
room crying and begging God not to take the life of my baby.
I was even bargaining with Him and told Him that if He
would spare the life of my child I would not have another. As
if God was my enemy who was attempting to steal my baby
away from me because He was angry with me for expecting
another child and that coming to Jesus with a need for my
unborn child was a bother to Him.
Do you hear the negative mindset that I had toward God?
I was a new believer, only a few years old in the Lord, and
my mind was in need of renewal to cleanse it from negative,
religious beliefs about our God. Beliefs that I did not realize I
even had.
As I look back at this incident in my life, I can quickly
discern that I thought of God as having an evil streak in Him.
I did not know how to rightly judge what was happening to
me. Obviously, I was downright confused, and I was blaming
Jesus for the wicked works of satan.
I was unenlightened about the true character and nature
of God in this area, and healing was foreign to me. I had to
learn that God was not my enemy but my friend, my helper,
my redeemer, and He wanted to give life and not take it
from me.
I believe the main reason Christian people are sick and
dying prematurely today is that the Church on a whole has
taken the healing message and shoved it in a closet and
locked the door behind them. It is time to unlock the door
and allow people to hear the Good News about a loving God
who cares so much for us that He provides us with the gifts
of supernatural healing so we can have a foundation of faith
to stand upon to believe and receive healing when we have
needs.
If God’s Word teaches us that we can build our faith to
believe for the miraculous by listening to His healing Word,
then I suggest we do just that—dust off our Bibles, read and
study the healing Scriptures, meditate upon His healing
message, and do what He tells us to do.
 Let’s begin educating ourselves about supernatural
healing by first examining the words save and saved. There
are other biblical definitions for these common words that
are important for us to understand, that will cause our faith
to arise and believe God not only for eternal life but for the
miraculous on this earth as well.
Let’s review the following scriptures to discover the
meaning of these all-important and eternal words for us.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call
his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from
their sins (Matthew 1:21 KJV).
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:9).
For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through
Him might be saved (John 3:17).

In each of these well-known verses, the words save or

saved are derived from the same Greek word, sōzō, and
have the same meaning—to save, deliver, protect, heal,
preserve, do well, and be made whole (Strong’s, G4982).
This proves to us that our salvation in Christ Jesus goes
beyond eternal life in Heaven and includes divine health and
healing for us while on this earth.
Many Christians have bought into the lie that we will be
healed when we are in Heaven. This may sound logical to
some, but it is not biblical. Sickness and disease do not exist
in Heaven. They cannot enter into Heaven’s gates. Heaven is
not in a fallen state, but earth is. Therefore, on this earth is
where we need His healing power to manifest, not in
Heaven.
According to Acts 4:12, there is only one name that we
can be saved by, and that name is Jesus Christ. And First
Corinthians 1:30 describes what our Redeemer is for us:
“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us
wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption.”

HE IS OUR WISDOM
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of
mercy and good fruits, without partiality and
without hypocrisy (James 3:17).

Wisdom takes knowledge, facts, and information and

puts them into practice. As the redeemed in Christ, we are
to take hold of His knowledge and His ways and live them. In
regard to His healing message, we are to take possession of
His healing promise and allow it to manifest in our human
bodies.
Like Elizabeth, who we read about in Chapter 1, when
she heard the biblical evidence for supernatural healing,
even though it went against all human reasoning and the
five senses, she could not deny the wisdom from above that
imparted God’s peace, gentleness, and His mercy toward
her without partiality. She knew that she knew healing
belonged to her, and because she received God’s wisdom
concerning healing, she was healed from broken bones in
her feet, thyroid disease, and heart disease too.

HE IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the righteousness of God in
Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).
 We cannot become the righteousness of God by our good
works—only by the redemptive work of our Redeemer. As
our Redeemer, He paid the price with His blood so that we
can activate His sōzō power in our lives and, yes, be
delivered from eternal damnation, but also that we could be
healed in spirit, in soul, and in body.
Oftentimes, people struggle with supernatural healing
because of their past. Whether they were the culprit or the
victim, they do not believe that they are good enough to
receive God’s blessings, including healing. Yes, if we were to
stand upon our own righteousness we would never be good
enough to receive His gifts. Thankfully it is not our good
deeds that we stand upon to receive healing, but upon the
righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 53:4-5 paints a clear picture of what Jesus suffered
so that we can take upon His righteousness. His blood covers
all sin that we have committed or has been done against us.
We do need to activate the power of His blood by asking Him
to forgive us or to forgive those who have wronged us. Then
we are clean and free from guilt and shame.

If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and

confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His
own nature and promises], and will forgive our
sins and cleanse us continually from all
unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not
in conformity with His will and purpose] (1 John
1:9 AMP).

Because of what Jesus suffered for us, we can freely put

on the breast-plate of His righteousness (see Eph. 6:14), and
rely on His good works and not upon ours to believe and
receive His healing touch.
 HE IS OUR SANCTIFICATION
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And
such were some of you. But you were washed, but
you were sanctified, but you were justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our
God (1 Corinthians 6:9–11).

Sin prevents us from receiving our God-given inheritance,

and living a life of sin stops us from entering into His
kingdom. But again, our Redeemer has come to our rescue
and sanctifies us, washes us, and makes us clean. Our
Redeemer spiritually cleanses those of us who will believe in
Him. This is the reason we can come to Him as we are and
receive all of His benefits, including emotional and physical
healing.
Recently, I ministered to a young man in a healing
service who struggled to be free in Christ for things that
took place in his past. The Holy Spirit revealed the hurtful
issues that brought him to the situation he is living in today.
As a young boy he was abandoned by both of his parents.
This rejection left deep wounds and scars that led him down
a dark path of satanic worship, substance abuse, and
addictions. He was feeling so hopeless that he contemplated
suicide that morning, but instead found himself weeping
and crying out to his heavenly Father at the altar that
morning for deliverance.
This young man is washed, sanctified, and justified not
by His own strength but in the name of our Lord Jesus, who
suffered and shed His blood for Him, and by the Spirit of
God.

HE IS OUR REDEMPTION
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace (Ephesians 1:7).

By the riches of our Redeemer’s grace, He has given to us

an eternal inheritance that is above and beyond anything
we can possibly imagine. If we would only tap into the
supernatural sōzō power of His grace and receive all that He
desires for us on this earth and in Heaven.
The word redemption means a releasing or liberation
effected or procured by payment of ransom. For us, the
blood of Christ was the payment necessary for our salvation,
deliverance, and redemption.
Just like I began to discover God’s goodness, you too can
learn to believe that God is not the author of evil, but good.
When you cleanse your heart from evil thoughts about Him,
you will begin to trust Him as a friend and beyond. He’s the
friend who sticks closer than a brother in every situation you
will face. You can witness the goodness of God in your life if
you will start to trust in Him as your redeemer.

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN REDEEMED FROM?

According to Psalm 107:2, “Let the redeemed of the Lord
say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the
enemy,” and Galatians 3:13 tells us what is in his hand,
“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree’).” In other words, we have been
redeemed from the hand of our enemy, satan. We have been
liberated from what is within his hand, the curse. This curse
is brought upon us by the old law, by our own willful
disobedience to God, and through generational curses
passed to us from our ancestors’ past unconfessed sins
against God.

What Is the Curse?

Simply put, the curse is anything activated against us
that steals, kills, or destroys us in any area of life.
God gives us a list of what He considers to be the curse in
Deuteronomy 28:15–68. This list includes such things as
lack and poverty, drought and other harmful weather,
vulnerability to our enemies and their terroristic attacks,
barren wombs, boils, tumors, scabs, itches, diseased knees
and legs that cannot be healed, madness, blindness,
bewilderment of the heart, marital problems, livestock
stolen and slaughtered, children taken away from their
parents, the produce of your land lost to foreigners, and
sickness and incurable disease. Basically, no matter where
we are or what we do, the curse will follow us if we do not
repent.

Who Is Responsible for the Curse?

One would think that the answer to this question is
obvious, but to many of God’s people it is not. Jesus tells us
in John 10:10 that the thief, satan, comes to steal, to kill,
and to destroy. He is the one who responsible for all of the
evil rising against us. Satan is the author of doubt and
unbelief, and he is our enemy. So let’s do the right thing and
get him out of our lives and live free from his heavy baggage
that is weighing us down.
Jesus also makes it clear that He is different. He comes to
give us life and to give it to us in abundance.
 I use this verse to judge life’s circumstances with. I ask
myself, “Is someone or something trying to steal from me?”
“Is this situation trying to kill me or produce death in any
area of my life?” “Is this trying to wreak havoc or destruction
in my life?” If the answer is yes to any of these three
questions, I immediately know that this is an attack and that
satan is behind it.
Likewise, if the situation is seeding something good,
producing life, bringing about increase, and releasing godly
benefits then I know that it is of God.

How Did Jesus Set Out to Undo the Curse?

First, He did the unthinkable—He humbled Himself. He
left the glory of Heaven and came down to this earth in the
most vulnerable form, a baby, and was born to an innocent
young virgin named Mary in a stable because the world had
no room for God’s greatest gift—salvation.
Destined was He to be the sacrificial Lamb of God who
would be slaughtered to release us from the bondage of
satan and to liberate us from the curse of all his wicked
works. Our Redeemer of His own accord would shed His own
blood for the full payment for our redemption, including
forgiveness of sins, deliverance from demonic oppression
and possession, healing in the spirit, in soul, and in body,
and all of His other benefits.
Part of this plan of redemption includes living a life that is
not of this world but of God’s kingdom. Demonstrating to us
that a life based on faith in the promises of our God, release
us from the constraints of this fallen world and into the
fulfillment of His supernatural promises. Showing us that it
is possible to live in victory by faith.
 DELIVERED FROM A SPIRIT OF FEAR AND
THE POWER OF DEATH

If the Lord should tarry, we will all die one day; this is the
natural cycle of life that God has established. According to
Ecclesiastes 3:2, there is a time to be born and a time to die.
When we understand the character of God, we can accept
godly death with a spirit of peace, especially when those
who pass or are about to pass from this earth are in the
Lord. We are to comfort one another with the following
words:

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,

concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you
sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that
we who are alive and remain until the coming of
the Lord will by no means precede those who are
asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of an
archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the
dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus
we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore
comfort one another with these words (1
Thessalonians 4:13–18).

God gave us His nature to protect ourselves and our loved

ones from pain, suffering, and premature death. This is
good, godly, and right. But many of God’s people have an
unnatural fear of death. Usually, this is because they are
unlearned in the ways of the Lord concerning death, but are
full of the world’s thoughts about this matter. They fill
themselves with negative and fear-filled reports from the
world instead of focusing on the Word of God.
You know as well as I do that all we have to do is open up
the newspaper or a magazine, turn on the television, or get
on the Internet and we will be bombarded with negative
reports of sickness, disease, and death. If we indulge in
these negative messages, we will infect ourselves with
seeds of doubt and unbelief in God’s healing power and can
become subject to a wicked spirit called “fear.” The spirit of
fear does not come from God and is a precursor to
premature death.
The Bible warns us in Job 3:25, “For the thing I greatly
feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has
happened to me.”
If you receive a death report from your physician and
desire to be healed supernaturally and live, you must bind
up the spirit of fear and put it under your feet. In other
words, you must activate your authority over this spirit of
fear and over premature death. Otherwise, you will die
prematurely from the supernatural power of the deathly
attack rising against you.
According to Hebrews, Jesus has delivered you from the
bondage of the fear of death. It says:

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of

flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the
same, that through death He might destroy him
who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and
release those who through fear of death were all
their lifetime subject to bondage (Hebrews 2:14-
15).

FREEDOM FROM THE SPIRIT OF FEAR

 Second Timothy 1:7 makes it clear what God has and has
not given to us. It says, “For God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
We need to get a handle on fear and cast it out of our
lives once and for all. According to the Word, fear is an
actual spirit, and God didn’t give it to us. He wants us to be
free from its terroristic attacks against us.
As mentioned earlier, the things we fear the most will
come upon us. Ask yourself, “What am I afraid of?” And
receive a word of advice, “Get rid of this evil spirit of fear!”
Otherwise, this spirit will take control of you, and the thing
you fear will manifest in your life.

Insurance versus Assurance

Let’s look at another area where fear has people bound—
insurance versus assurance. What happens when the
insurance company informs you that it will no longer provide
coverage for your present situation or pay for a certain
medication or treatment that you have been told you need?
Honestly, most of God’s people will start to panic.
I’m telling you, God’s people will hunt high and low and
even travel to foreign countries to find these medications.
Why? Because they are controlled by a spirit of fear that
shouts to them that they are now going to die. They lack the
assurance that Jesus is able and willing to heal them.

Where Can We Find This Assurance for Healing?

The assurance for divine healing comes from reading and
studying God’s contract, the Holy Bible, and then activating
it by your signature of faith. When sickness and disease
come upon you, you claim the benefits in this assurance
policy.
 DELIVERED FROM PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Betty from Harrisonburg, Virginia received revelation
knowledge that set her free from the bondage of fear and
the power of death via Parkinson’s disease. What is the
revelation that set her free?
Betty and her husband were taking turns reading from
my last book, Greater Than Magic, when all of a sudden her
husband called out to her and said, “Sweetheart, listen to
this. ‘Physical attacks are mere manifestations of spiritual
ones.’”1
She answered, “What?” She immediately knew the
interpretation to a dream she had a few days earlier.
In the dream she saw a woman with blond hair lying on
her right side; her mouth was bound with gray duct tape,
and her hands and feet were bound behind her back.
Actually, this dream was so disturbing to her that she
refrained from sharing it with her husband until this
moment.
When he heard the dream he said, “You’re telling me just
now about this dream?” He continued, “The woman in the
dream is you.”
Betty realized what satan was trying to do to her. He was
attacking her with Parkinson’s disease. With this disease she
was losing her voice and the strength in her hands and feet,
and she wasn’t very functional anymore. The enemy was
trying to shut her down so that she could no longer talk,
move, function, or do things on her own.
God told her that He would heal her as she goes. Just like
He told the ten lepers:

Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He

passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
Then as He entered a certain village, there met
 Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.
And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus,
Master, have mercy on us!” So when He saw them,
He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the
priests.” And so it was that as they went, they
were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that
he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice
glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet,
giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So
Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten
cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not
any found who returned to give glory to God
except this foreigner?” And He said to him, “Arise,
go your way. Your faith has made you well (Luke
17:11-19).

By the intervention of her Redeemer, the Lord Jesus

Christ, Betty is redeemed, set free, and she no longer has
Parkinson’s disease.
We will read a little more in Chapter 7 about what
happens to Betty as she shares her testimony at a recent
healing seminar in her hometown.

PRAYER
Dear Jesus,
You are my redeemer, and You have redeemed me
from the hand of my enemy, the devil who comes
to steal, to kill, and to destroy me with the
contents within his hand, the curse, including
sickness and disease. Because of You, I am
delivered from the spirit of fear and from the
power of death. I praise You because I am now
free.
 In Jesus’ name, I give You all the glory, amen.

As an ambassador of Christ, how do the fruits of the Spirit

aid me in supernatural healing? Turn to the next chapter to
find out.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Can I now identify the curse? Do I recognize when I am
under attack by satan? Have I gained a greater
understanding of Jesus, the Redeemer? Do I still harbor
negative thoughts about God? Do I see Him as my
redeemer, my source of help? If not, what steps do I need to
take next?

NOTE
1. Becky Dvorak, Greater than Magic (Shippensburg, PA:
Destiny Image Publishers, 2014), 59.
 CHAPTER 4

THE FRUITS OF AN
AMBASSADOR TO HEAL

“I am an ambassador of Christ; as Jesus is, so am I on

this earth. Like Him, I humbly walk in power of the
fruits of the spirit—love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control. So that I can effectively carry out official
kingdom business, such as to heal and be healed for
His glory.”

After an interview on the Christian radio station in Orange

Walk, Belize, David and I walked into the lobby where we
saw a number of sick people waiting and seeking
assistance. We asked this tiny, elderly Mayan woman if we
could pray for her, and she received healing in and
throughout her physical body and could stand and walk
without help, and all the arthritis pain was gone. As a result
of her healing, she and the other family members who came
with her received Jesus as their Savior.
Did you know that the moment you become born again
you are automatically enlisted as an ambassador of Christ?
You are chosen, pre-destined, and appointed by the King of
kings, Jesus Himself, to carry out official kingdom business
such as to heal and be healed for His glory. As His diplomat,
you inherit His authority to conduct legitimate spiritual
business in this world. You are endowed with supernatural
power to bring about change for the good of the people
around you. According to First John 4:17, you are entrusted
to be like Jesus.
Also, you receive certification by the redemptive blood of
Christ to deliver the Word of God with authority and to
skillfully bring it to fruition, to manage delicate spiritual
situations, and to handle people with His loving care.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as

though God were pleading through us: we implore
you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God (2
Corinthians 5:20).

THE NATURE OF CHRIST

If we are ambassadors of Christ on this earth, then we
need to investigate the nature of His character so that we
may represent Him correctly. Let’s have a glimpse at just ten
of His many qualities.
First of all, Jesus was humble and He came to serve, not
to be served. He was not bound to a prideful spirit of
entitlement. He was not about promoting Himself but His
heavenly Father. In fact, He was able to minister to an
individual just as if He was ministering to the multitudes.
This humbleness that He chose made Him accessible to the
people in need around Him. Philippians has this to report to
us concerning Him:

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ

Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not
consider it robbery to be equal with God, but
made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of
 a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself and became obedient to the
point of death, even the death of the cross.
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and
given Him the name which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of
those under the earth, and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:5-11).

Can we lay aside a spirit of pride and the sin of

entitlement? Does the spotlight always have to shine on us?
Or are we willing to give God the glory? Are we content to
be one of His servants? Or do we feel the need to be “The
Servant”? Do we make ourselves accessible to the lost and
hurting people around us? Or do we put ourselves above
them? Are we truly able to represent Him as He is, humble?

NINE CHARACTER TRAITS OF CHRIST

Let’s look at nine more character traits of Christ, better
known as the fruits of the Spirit. They are love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control and are found in the apostle Paul’s writings
in Galatians 5:22-23. And as we read through the four
gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we see that Jesus
had to choose to possess and activate these nine fruits of
the Spirit on a daily basis. As His ambassadors on this earth
we need to do the same.
 MAINTAIN A WELL-BALANCED DIET OF THE
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The fruits of the Spirit have been downplayed or even
cast aside, and the body of Christ is suffering because of it.
Refusal to serve these fruits has left many Christians
malnourished and has allowed premature death to set in to
the spirit, soul, and physical body of the Church.
Obviously, we can’t blame everything on the preachers in
the pulpits. There are faithful servants who are delivering a
well-balanced diet of spiritual food to their congregants, but
many of these congregants refuse to partake of God’s food.
They no longer hunger and thirst after God and are now
anorexic in their faith.
Then we have bulimic Christians who gorge themselves
on the Word to make them feel good for the moment, but
they have no desire to live the lifestyle of Christ on a daily
basis. So before the meeting is over or shortly thereafter,
they’ve already vomited the feast of the Lord out from within
them.
The fruits of the Spirit are necessary for maintaining a
well-balanced spiritual diet. They build up our spiritual
immune system so we can fight off the attacks of the enemy.
They keep us strong in the faith.
Without them, sin will flourish and cause us to become
mean, selfish, self-centered, and self-seeking. We will
become weak in our faith, powerless in the Spirit, and
eventually fall away from our Lord and His ways.

Love
Love is the greatest of all gifts and the most powerful
fruit we can partake of. It empowers faith. Without love we
cannot effectively release faith for the miraculous.
Throughout the gospels we see that love motivates every
miracle Jesus performs. He loves people unconditionally and
puts the needs of others before Himself. Even when they
beat, mock, and crucify Him, He still loves and forgives
them. And because of His unconditional love His
supernatural resurrection happens and the miraculous still
takes place today.
Paul teaches us in Galatians 5:6, “For in Christ Jesus
neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The
only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love”
(NIV). Faith is not activated by legalism or by religious acts
but by love alone. The Amplified version of the Bible puts it
this way, “For [if we are] in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
nor uncircumcision means anything, but only faith activated
and expressed and working through love” (AMP).
God’s definition and checklist of love are recorded in First
Corinthians 13:4–8, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does
not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does
not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the
truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails.”
Examine your heart. Is there any characteristic on love’s
checklist above that you need to work on? Remember, these
attributes of love activate, energize, express, and work out
faith for the miraculous. If you lack in the area of love, your
faith is weak and ineffective. So strengthen your love today
because faith operates by love. Your love level affects your
ability to receive or release His healing power.

Joy
Joy is a supernatural force that gives us strength, and we
are going to explore this more in-depth later on in the book.
But because it is one of the nine fruits of the Spirit I want to
take a brief look at it now as well.
 I believe Jesus and joy go hand in hand together. Because
it is a fruit of the Spirit of God, we need to guard our hearts
from the negative ways of this world, and not allow its evil
effects to bring us down and into a state of depression.
Let’s face it, we live in a fallen world where things do go
wrong. We all pass through difficult times, experience
disappointment, and suffer hurt and pain from grief. But
even though life can really hurt, it doesn’t mean we have to
remain in a permanent state of unhappiness. Just as we’ve
been taught that love is a choice, so are joy and the other
fruits of the Spirit for that matter.
I made a quality decision years ago that no matter what
happens in this life I will always choose joy. Even if I have to
hunt it down, I will find it. That doesn’t necessarily mean I
have to laugh all the time. But in all honesty, I probably
laugh more than the average person. Why? Because I found
the everlasting fruit of joy in Jesus, and He causes me to
smile and laugh.
Sickness and disease and the pain and the stress they
create can cause your joy level to go down, even diminish
into depression. When you are fighting for your healing, you
cannot afford to lose your joy. Nehemiah 8:10 digs up the
ancient secret of supernatural strength. It reveals that, “The
joy of the Lord is your strength.” Joy helps in the healing
process.

Peace
Peace is a state of being that is found in the presence of
God. Philippians 4:6-7 exhorts us to, “Be anxious for
nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and
the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Also,
Second Timothy 1:7 tells us that God gave us a sound mind.
 What is a sound mind? For one, it is a mind that is at
peace. In regard to healing, it is one that determines that no
matter what, it stays on Jesus and on His healing power. It
rehearses not, over and over in the mind, the negative death
report, but focuses on the abundant life found in Him.
If you are in a struggle with sickness and disease, spend
more time with Jesus, who is full of peace and extends
peace to those around Him. Then the cares and even the
fears surrounding this sickness will relinquish their grip and
will not be able to bind themselves to you. Your healing will
be unleashed in His heavenly realm of peace.

Longsuffering
Longsuffering means to suffer long. In the New American
Standard Version of the Bible, the word longsuffering is
translated into the word patience, which is easier for most of
us to understand. Patience is the ability to be able to wait
peacefully when a situation is out of our natural control,
without complaining or losing our temper or being
consumed with worry, because the situation is taking longer
than we would like.
Jesus is very patient with us. Second Peter 3:9 reveals an
eternal benefit of being patient or longsuffering. It says,
“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count
slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to
perish but for all to come to repentance” (NASB).
Nature provides us with an example of the benefits of
being longsuffering or patient. In Guatemala we have a
beautiful plant called the bird of paradise because the
bloom looks like an exotic bird.
Once, a friend had planted one in his backyard, but after
three years grew frustrated that it still had not bloomed. He
lost his patience with it and was about to dig it up when his
neighbor shared with him that with this plant he needed to
exercise patience, because it takes anywhere from three to
five years to bloom. Interestingly enough, it only blooms
when the roots are under pressure, better known as root
bound. He chose to be patient, and within the year reaped
the harvest of a beautiful flower.
Okay, let’s bring the importance of patience to a personal
level concerning healing.
People are willing to wait seven to ten days for an
antibiotic to heal their bodies because they have been
taught for many years that if they take one spoonful or one
tablet of this medicine three times a day, they will be
healed. They are even willing to overlook physical symptoms
of the illness because they have been taught that the
symptoms and the sickness will be healed as long as they
take the medicine faithfully. So their faith has been
activated, they follow their doctor’s instructions, and they
are healed by the medicine.
But God’s people are not willing to wait this amount of
time for divine healing to manifest because they have not
been taught that if they will be faithful to take God’s
medicine, His healing word, and exercise the power of
patience their bodies will heal. Because of the lack of faith
teaching for healing, if they experience any type of symptom
after prayer they doubt the power in God’s medicine and
walk away from their healing.
When God’s people hear the healing message and put
faith for healing into action, they receive it. When taught
consistently, they begin to walk in divine health and avoid
sickness altogether.
I need to make one point very clear here. It is not us who
wait patiently for God to heal because He gave healing to us
already (see Isa. 53:4-5). He is patiently working with us
according to our measure of faith. So we need to exercise
patience with ourselves as we develop in our faith to believe
for our healing. We should all be thankful that the Lord
flourishes with longsuffering toward us as we learn to
believe.

Kindness
Luke 6:35 gives us the real test of kindness. It challenges
us to activate this fruit of the Spirit when the recipient is not
kind to us. “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend,
expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great,
and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind
to ungrateful and evil men” (NASB).
Oftentimes when people are sick and suffering with pain,
their carnality overtakes them and they lack in the area of
kindness. This is our opportunity to serve and dish out a
heaping helping of kindness to them. It may take a while,
but eventually they will respond in a positive manner. If we
will persevere, it will help them to enter into the realm of
kindness for themselves and partake of the other fruits of
the Spirit, which will enable their faith to believe and trust
God for healing too.
Wouldn’t we desire unconditional kindness to help us
overcome a difficult moment in our lives so that we can heal
in spirit, in soul, and in body?

Goodness
Our God is sheer goodness. Remember when the
Israelites were wandering in the desert for 40 years and how
they complained and murmured about everything? God
remained faithful and continued to pour out goodness upon
them. He rained down fresh manna and provided fresh quail
meat for them to eat; He quenched their thirst with water
from the rock; their shoes and clothing did not wear out; He
shielded them from the sun with the cloud by day, and
guided and protected them by night with the pillar of fire.
These are all acts of pure goodness. God wants us to acquire
this character trait of His.
 Psalm 136:1 admonishes us to be grateful, “Oh, give
thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures
forever.”
God is good! As His ambassadors on this earth, we need
to emanate His goodness to the lost and hurting people
around us, even if these people are family members. A pure
act of goodness goes a long way in the healing process. Ask
the Lord today how you can show goodness to your spouse,
mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, or other
member of the family who is in need of healing.
Let’s not forget that many people in today’s world do not
understand the meaning of goodness. It’s never been
demonstrated to them. So they only know how to lash out
and act nasty when they are not well.
So again, ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to someone who
is in need of a touch of His goodness. Then be willing to step
out of your comfort zone and show them and tell them you
care and, more importantly, how much the Lord cares for
them. Be prepared to minister healing to them as the Lord
reveals their needs to you.

Faithfulness
Faithfulness is not popular these days, but it is still a
requirement of God for His people. It takes a decision from
the heart to activate this fruit of the Spirit toward God, your
spouse, your children, and other members of the family,
your friends, your ministry, or your place of employment. It
is often overlooked and unappreciated these days by others,
but God is pleased when you activate this character trait of
His. One day, you will hear Him say to you, “Well done, good
and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I
will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of
your lord” (Matt. 25:21).
Can I add another area that you owe it to yourself to
activate this fruit of the Spirit called faithfulness? Your
healing journey to good health and well-being.
May I encourage you in your healing journey to start to
confess The Healing Creed and remain faithful to speak this
out loud at least once per day? As you remain faithful in this,
you will start to take negative thoughts captive, and His
healing promises will take root within your heart. Before you
know it, you will hear yourself speak words of healing from
your own mouth, your actions will begin to line up with
these healing words, and soon your healing will begin to
manifest.
Faithfulness in the little things of life always leads to
bigger and greater things, such as the miraculous.

Gentleness
Let us not confuse gentleness with weakness. Gentleness
is a strong character trait of the Lord that is not easy to
obtain. In order for us to obtain this fruit of the Spirit, we
have to allow the Holy Spirit to break our rebellious will.
Here is an example of this. We have two young horses
that are being trained to ride. Before we can ride them we
have to “gentle” them, meaning we have to break their wild
behavior and teach them not to bite, buck, kick, or run away.
They have to learn to be submissive and obedient to their
master. We need to allow the Lord to gentle us as well.

The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome,

but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when
wronged, with gentleness correcting those who
are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them
repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
and they may come to their senses and escape
from the snare of the devil, having been held
captive by him to do his will (2 Timothy 2:24–26
NASB).
 Jesus is not weak when He walks the earth but strong in
the fruit of gentleness as He submits to the will of the Father
and offers His life in exchange for our redemption. As we
emulate His gentleness, our rebellious nature will be broken,
and we will become strong in the Spirit like He is, full of
faith to believe for the miraculous.

Self-Control
Self-control is the ability to control one’s emotions,
behavior, and desires in order to obtain some reward later.
This is an area that can be difficult for some to put under
submission, especially women. We need to understand that
faith is not an emotion but a foundation to stand upon when
the proper feelings are not there.
Proverbs 16:32 instructs us in the area of self-control this
way, “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and
he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city” (NASB).
Jesus, under extreme and unjust circumstances,
responded with complete self-control the night He was
betrayed, arrested, and interrogated at an illegal trial, and
the results of His self-control are that we are redeemed from
satan and his curse of sickness and disease too.
To take your anger out on people or on God because you
receive a bad report or you are not feeling good is not right.
This fruit of the Spirit, self-control, will remind you to pull
yourself together, to look at things truthfully, and remember
that satan is the source of all wickedness including this
sickness or disease.
It is so important to learn to activate the fruit of self-
control so that the other fruits do not rot and your healing
spoil. Keeping all the fruits of the Spirit fresh will fortify your
faith to believe and receive your healing and miracle that
you so long for.
 THE ENEMY FEARS THE FRUITS OF THE
SPIRIT
Not only do the fruits of the Spirit activate supernatural
power, they also keep you healthier in spirit, in soul, and in
body. The lack of them can prevent your faith from obtaining
your miracle.
I often see people struggle to maintain the abundance of
these fruits during the most critical moments of the battle
between life and death. When someone needs to fight the
hardest, the enemy fights overtime to get them to stumble
in this area. Why? He’s afraid of the supernatural power
these fruits possess.
He’s crafty in his ability to sidetrack us. This gives him
the upper edge, so we drop our shield of faith against him
and the spirit of premature death, and he can fire his most
powerful weapons at us.
This doesn’t mean you have to give in to his dirty war
tactics. You have a free will. You can either enter into
unnecessary battles or you can choose your battles wisely
and stay focused and on the alert.
The battle plan of the enemy is to wear you down so you
lose the desire to fight, give up, and die prematurely. So you
see, how you tend to the fruits of the Spirit is important.
When you do tend to them well, they will empower your
faith to overcome and aid you in your supernatural healing.

HEALING TESTIMONY
Pain is a nasty weapon of satan, and it can cause us to
struggle in the area of the fruits of the Spirit as well.
Police officer Les Cash from Buena Vista, Virginia about
five or six years ago developed what is known to
chiropractors as “cop back,” or compressed disks in his
lower spine that caused a lot of chronic pain. This pain made
it difficult for him to stand after work and difficult to get out
of bed in the morning. Let’s hear from Les how he came to
be healed.

I met Becky through my wife, who had been

healed by Jesus through Becky’s hands about two
years earlier. I went to a healing service, and she
laid her hands on my back. And the people that
were there said they actually saw me grow taller.
After that meeting my back stopped hurting. I am
able to get up out of bed without pain, I am able
to train harder, work better, and move faster.
This experience has furthered my walk with Jesus.
I can’t say enough about it. My back no longer
hurts. About one year prior to my healing I had an
x-ray to confirm that I did have compressed disks
in my lower back. I don’t need one now to confirm
that the compressed disks are healed. I’ve got
Jesus, I don’t hurt anymore, I don’t need anything
else.

We will hear from his wife, Bridgete, in Chapter 9 as she

shares her healing from temporomandibular joint disorder.

PRAYER
Dear Father God,
I admit, I do not fully understand what it means to
be an ambassador of Christ, but I am willing to
learn. Please teach me how to live a life that is
worthy of this calling to represent You wherever I
am and in whatever situation I face.
 Forgive me for being prideful and for taking on
this worldly sin of entitlement when all along
You’ve asked me to be like Christ—a humble
servant to the hurting and the lost.
Help me to effectively walk in the supernatural
power of the fruits of Your spirit. I pray for the
strength to be loving when others are not; to
choose Your joy no matter what is happening
around me; to live peacefully with those You place
in my life; to understand the power of
longsuffering to bring about a healing, whether
this healing is for myself or for another; to show
kindness instead of irritableness; and to exemplify
Your goodness, especially to those who do not
understand what goodness is.
My deepest desire is to remain faithful to You, Your
Word, and to possess every faith-filled promise You
have given every day of my life.
Remind me when I forget that gentleness is not a
weakness, but Your strength working in me, and
how important self-control is to my witness to a
lost and dying world that is out of control so that I
can effectively be about Your official kingdom
business to heal and be healed for Your glory.
In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

Turn to the next chapter and learn how to activate the

authority of Christ in your life so that you can overcome
satan and all of his wicked attacks, including sickness and
disease.
 SELF-EXAMINATION
As an ambassador of Christ, can I honestly say that I am
His humble servant? Do I need to repent from the worldly sin
of entitlement? Am I short on any of the fruits of the Spirit—
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, or self-control? Do I now
understand the importance that these godly character traits
possess in regard to obtaining my healing or supporting
someone else for their healing?
 CHAPTER 5

THE AUTHORITY OF CHRIST

“I possess His authority over satan and all of his wicked

works, including sickness and disease. Therefore, no
weapon formed against me shall prosper, nor will any
plague come near my dwelling.”

In this late day and hour, it’s imperative that we possess a rock-
solid revelation concerning our authority in Christ over satan and all
of his wicked works. He gave to us, at the great price of His
suffering, His authority to cast out demons, to heal the sick, and to
overcome the power of darkness. Jesus encourages His followers
with these words:

Listen carefully: I have given you authority [that you now

possess] to tread on serpents and scorpions, and [the
ability to exercise authority] over all the power of the
enemy (Satan); and nothing will [in any way] harm you
(Luke 10:19 AMP).

He’s given to us, by the power of His blood, His authority to tread
or trample upon serpents and scorpions. This portion of Scripture
does not refer to natural reptiles. We do have authority over these
creatures as well (see Gen. 1:28). But He wants us to understand
the message here—these spiritual serpents and scorpions that
Jesus is talking about are satan and demon spirits (Strong’s,
G3789).
Hopefully, this also brings clarification to the some of the
Pentecostals who believe they have to prove their faith to others by
handling poisonous snakes and drinking poisonous substances.
This is just plain foolishness, and God’s people perish, die, for a lack
of knowledge concerning the Word (see Hos. 4:6). Even Jesus was
tempted by the devil to do something deadly:

Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the

pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the
Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. For it is
written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you, to
keep you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.’” And Jesus
answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not
tempt the Lord your God’” (Luke 4:9–12).

Loosely translated, Jesus responds to the devil and says, “Hey,

you pressure Me to prove My faith in My God’s faithfulness to
protect Me. You say the only way I can prove that I believe is to
throw Myself off from the pinnacle of the temple. I say, ‘No!’ I’m on
to you, devil. You just want to kill Me so that I will not fulfill My
destiny.” And He says to us today, “You throw yourself off a tall
building, you die before your appointed time. You play with
poisonous snakes, they bite, and you die. You drink poison, you die.
This is not how you prove your faith in My God’s faithfulness. This is
satan’s wicked scheme to destroy you and your family. Use
wisdom!”
We need to use our authority wisely; we are not in a battle
against natural reptiles and human beings “but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
places” (Eph. 6:12). And First Peter 5:8 warns us to, “Be sober, be
vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a
roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” Jesus Christ gave us
authority over all forces of evil. But so that you do know—yes, we
indeed have authority over these natural poisonous creatures too.
Here is a testimony to encourage your faith in case of an
emergency situation.
Cynthia from Front Royal, Virginia was bitten by a brown recluse
spider, but she took to heart the biblical healing messages in my
books Dare to Believe and Greater Than Magic and put the power of
the spoken word into action. She cursed the spider bite and
commanded it to dry up and to disappear.
Jesus promises His followers in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give you
the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” No
matter how the enemy tries to attack us to cause us harm, Jesus
gives us His authority to overcome.
Later, she went to her doctor. He was amazed and took photos
because he had never seen nor heard of a brown recluse spider bite
heal on its own. They can take six months or more to heal with
medication and often need surgical procedures such as scraping
the poison out and skin grafts. She immediately testified of the
healing power of Jesus Christ.
Again, Cynthia did not seek to get bitten; the creature bit her
unaware. It was probably nesting in her clothing when she put
them on.

WHEN DOES JESUS GIVE US HIS AUTHORITY?

When does Jesus do this for us, you wonder? When He allows His
enemies to pierce His feet to the Cross of Calvary and bleeds so we
can walk in His total authority on this earth over satan and all of his
wicked works (see John 19:17–37).
It may be new news to some, but we do not need Christ’s
authority over the devil when we are in Heaven. He and his wicked
troops are no longer allowed.
I should also add there is no sickness or disease or other form of
the curse to fight off in Heaven. There’s no temptation to overcome
either, because there is no evil there. It is here on earth that we
have been given His authority to overcome wickedness and the
author of it, the devil.

AUTHORITY OVER SICKNESS AND DISEASE

Do Christians really have authority over sickness and disease?
According to the Bible the answer to this question is yes, we really
do. I want to teach you why we have authority over all sickness and
disease.
To begin with, sickness and disease are made up of tiny living
organisms called bacteria and viruses. What is the definition of an
organism? “An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal,
bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs,
organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various
processes of life.”1
Once, I asked the Lord for a simple explanation why we have
authority over all sickness and disease. He answered me with the
following vision and Scripture.
I saw myself looking into a microscope, and on the plate of glass
being examined were sickness and disease. The Lord asked me to
tell Him what I saw. I told Him that I saw them moving. He
explained to me that is because sickness and disease are made up
of microscopic living organisms that move and get inside the body
and make people sick.
He then gave me the following verse from Genesis 1:28: “Then
God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply;
fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on
the earth.’”
According to this verse we have been given dominion over
everything that lives and moves on this earth, including sickness
and disease. To dominate means to control, govern, or rule by
superior authority or power. He has given us dominion over these
tiny microscopic organisms.
What about bacteria?

Bacteria are organisms made up of just one cell. They are

capable of multiplying by themselves, as they have the
power to divide. Their shapes vary, and doctors use these
characteristics to separate them into groups.
Bacteria exist everywhere, inside and on our bodies. Most
of them are completely harmless and some of them are
very useful. But some can cause disease, either because
they end up in the wrong place in the body or simply
because they are “designed” to invade us.2
 Ponder upon this phrase concerning harmful bacteria for a
while: “designed to invade us.” Spiritually speaking this sounds like
a weapon of warfare. What does God’s Word say about weapons
that are formed to harm us? It says, “No weapon formed against
you shall prosper” (Isa. 54:17.) Our Lord promises us that these
weapons formed against us, including harmful bacteria, shall not
prosper.
What about a virus?
A virus is “an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nanometers in
diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only
within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and
animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in
more complex types, a surrounding envelope.”3
Did you notice in the definition that a virus is called an
infectious agent? Again, this is something to cause us harm.
According to James 1:17 God does not give us things that will harm
us. It says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow of turning.” Let me remind you what Jesus says
in John 10:10, just who these things come from. “The thief does not
come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that
they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Remember, the thief is satan and he uses his weapons of sickness
and disease to harm us. God does not give us infectious agents.
Science teaches us that there are different types of infectious
agents in many shapes and sizes. Bacteria and protozoa are
microscopic one-celled organisms, while viruses are even smaller.
Fungi grow like plants, and helminths resemble worms.4
What hope does the Lord give us concerning these infectious
agents? He says in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give you the authority to
trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the
enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Three Reasons We Have Authority over Sickness and

Disease:

1. He gives us dominion over all living things on this earth,

including microscopic organisms that can make us sick.
 2. God promises us that weapons formed against us, including
harmful bacteria designed to invade us, shall not prosper.
3. Jesus Christ gives to us all authority over satan and his
wicked works, including infectious agents called viruses.

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US SHALL

PROSPER
Our enemy the devil has fashioned many weapons to use
against us, but we are not helpless against him. Remember, God
has given you His authority over satan and all of his wicked works,
including sickness and disease.
Monica Atkins from Lexington, Virginia was diagnosed in 2013
with a chronic eye infection called blepharitis. In her words, this is
what she had to deal with on a daily basis.

About two years ago I started having another issue with

my eyes or technically my eyelids! I was diagnosed with a
condition called blepharitis, which is a chronic infection
of the eyelids that causes extreme burning and redness
of the eyes due to discharge that secretes from the
eyelids. Every day I would experience intense burning in
my eyes throughout the day that basically felt like acid
was being poured into my eyes. My eyes would sting and
burn anytime my eyes watered. Anytime I teared up or
cried!
My doctor prescribed eye drops and an eye cream that
was almost like Vaseline that I would have to apply daily
to try to help alleviate the burning and redness. I had to
use daily eye washes with baby shampoo and special
solutions, but none of this was a cure and it only helped
to stop the burning at times. I searched the Internet for
“cures” and natural remedies. I tried everything from
warm compresses to salt water flushes to “blink” therapy
but nothing worked! I would carry antibacterial wipes
(which you are to never use on your eyes according to the
 warning labels) because those would actually temporarily
stop the burning sensation for a while.
I began to just live with the discomfort of this eye
infection and make accommodations that would get me
through the day.

If only the local church would wake up and teach people they
can be free from sickness and disease, God’s people would not
have to suffer from satan’s weapons. As true ambassadors we need
to be willing to impart His healing message to others. Whether it is
to a special healing service at a nearby church or just a casual
gathering in your home, invite them, tell them, pray for them.
Back in 2013, Monica’s friend invited her to come to a special
healing service in a nearby town. What was interesting was that
she had just listened to a pastor preach a sermon about healing on
a podcast. This pastor shared a story about a missionary from
Guatemala who had a children’s home and prayed for the children
and saw them healed. He continued to share other healing
testimonies about this woman’s ministry, like the deaf hearing. So
it caught her attention when her friend invited her to a healing
service and the healing minister was a missionary from Guatemala
who had a children’s home there and saw the children healed.
The Holy Spirit was wooing Monica to come to a healing service
and was confirming the healing minister with her. That’s a personal
invite from the Lord Himself to come and taste the goodness of the
Lord.
So Monica accepted her friend’s invite, and she heard a message
about the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ to heal us in spirit, in
soul, and in body. Not only did the healing message resonate within
her spirit but she saw with her own eyes people being healed. Just
like the pastor on the podcast shared, she witnessed the deaf hear
and other types of healing as well. The Holy Spirit caught her
attention and her spiritual eyes began to open, but it all started
with an invite from an ambassador of Christ.
Two years passed since that first healing service. It was now
November of 2015, and again another invitation came from this
same friend to attend a healing service in her area. She accepted.
Again, she heard a message of faith that stirred her spirit, but this
time she believed for her own healing. She activated her faith,
received a healing touch, and her eyes were completely healed in a
moment of time. She no longer had to put up with blepharitis. She
was free from excruciating, burning pain in her eyes. No longer did
she need to go through the tedious routine of cleansing her eyelids
or use prescribed drops and creams or figure out alternative ways
to find some relief just to get through the day. God gave her
everything she needed to overcome these spiritual attacks. Her
eyes were healed in the name of Jesus.
There are times when the enemy is persistent. He will look for a
weak link to pry his way back into our life. He tried this with
Monica. Why? Because he was afraid of the eternal results healing
produces.
You see, Monica is also a true ambassador of Jesus Christ, and
she regularly shares her faith with others. She openly testifies of
the goodness of God in her life, like the healing of her eyes.
Now, I know what some of you reading this are thinking already,
“Well, then I am not going to speak to anyone of my healing if
satan is going to try to steal it from me.” Wrong thinking!
That’s what he wants you to do because he witnessed that there
is the power of life and death in the tongue, and as we will share
later on, this is one of the weapons you use to solidify your healing.
Remember, another spiritual weapon Elohim gives to us is His
authority over the devil and his evil works.
One way the enemy attacks us is when we are unaware of his
tactics. You know, we are naïve to think that he will not try to put
the same disease upon us again. He will try to destroy our
credibility by stealing our healing if we will let him.
We can look at the wickedness of the terrorists today for an
example of how satan works. (If we don’t know, satan is the one
inspiring these spiritually sick souls.) Anyway, they look for a soft
target and maliciously attack to destroy them. But they don’t stop
with this first attack; they look for another weak target and attack
again with the same method of destruction until we do what we
need to do and strengthen the weak link. To keep with the message
of this book, we need to strengthen our faith for healing. The
serpent of old, the devil, is the mastermind of terrorism, and he
terrorizes people with hideous forms of suffering with sickness and
disease.
 This leads us to another spiritual weapon God has given to us to
overcome satan’s weapons formed against us—faith in action. With
this weapon, we take the Word of God and speak aloud its
promises. But we do not stop there; we put action behind our
words. If we speak we are healed, then we must act like we are
healed. No matter if this is the first attack or the second, we must
activate our faith-filled words with our action.
Back to Monica’s testimony. For her employment, she worked on
a computer all day. Some days, she felt tired in the eyes. She just
needed a break, but the enemy took advantage and tried to put
fear on her and remind her of the pain with familiar symptoms.
For a brief moment, she thought, “Oh no, it wants to come
back!” But immediately she realized this was an attack—just an
attack. She remembered her authority in Christ and refused to
allow these lying symptoms access into her eyes again. The enemy
acknowledged her authority over him, backed off, and the
symptoms left and she was free and whole.
You see, our enemy has many different types of weapons that he
fashions to use against us. Sickness and disease are part of his
weaponry. They are deadly to us if we do not recognize them as
satan’s weapons and accept them.
God has given us greater spiritual weapons to use to defend
ourselves while under attack. Better yet, these weapons can ward
off these wicked attacks.

WHAT ARE SOME OF OUR SPIRITUAL WEAPONS?

1. The Holy Spirit
2. The authority of the believer in Christ Jesus
3. The power of the spoken word
4. Faith in action
5. God’s healing message found in the Holy Bible

NO PLAGUES SHALL COME NEAR YOU

 In these last days there is an increase of horrific plagues and
pestilences; the Bible warns us of these things. In Matthew 24:7 it
says, “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes
in various places.” This same warning is repeated in Luke 21:10-11.
In these last days there will be an increase of incurable pestilences
and plagues. The fourth seal recorded in the Book of Revelation
prophecies:

I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on

it had the name Death; and Hades was following with
him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the
earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with
pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth (Revelation
6:8 NASB).

This word pestilence comes from the Greek word loimos and
means a plague—literally, the disease; or figuratively, a pest
(Strong’s G3061). The definition of the word plague comes from
the Hebrew word nega’ and it means an infliction like a mark or
spot, sore, wound from a disease or a disease itself, like leprosy
(Strong’s H5061).
With these prophesies and others from God’s Word, our gracious
Savior and Lord is warning us to prepare for the days ahead of us.
We need to understand how to function as an ambassador of Christ
and activate His healing power, not just for ourselves and for our
personal family members but for the benefit of others as well. We
need to make ready ourselves spiritually so that we can activate
this promise from Psalm 91:10, “Nor shall any plague come near
your dwelling.”

PROTECTION FOR MOSES AND THE ISRAELITES

Looking back into history, we read about how Moses and the
Israelites were protected from the ten plagues that fell upon
Pharaoh and the Egyptians. (Read Exodus 7 through 12.)
After reading the account of these horrific plagues, there are a
few points that stand out to me more than others. First, God gave
warning to the rebellious pharaoh and to the Egyptians what was
going to come upon them if they did not heed Him. Second, even
though God’s people were living in the midst of the plagues and
pestilences, He provided a plan of protection for His people.
Let’s zero in on the tenth plague; this is where the spirit of death
was to take the life of the firstborn from every household unless
they painted the two doorposts of their home with the blood of a
lamb.

For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night,

and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both
man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be
a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I
see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall
not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of
Egypt (Exodus 12:12-13).

How appropriate and prophetic is this portion of Scripture for us

today. Because we live under a new covenant, we no longer have to
slaughter a lamb and paint our doorposts with its blood for
protection. Jesus is our sacrificial lamb, and by His shed blood we
are redeemed from this spirit of death that will try to steal, to kill,
and to destroy us.
We have a promise to stand upon, “No harm befalls the
righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble” (Prov. 12:21
NASB). As with every other promise of God, we need to know how
to activate the power of the promise. In this case, this promise is for
the righteous, or those who are justified or vindicated by God.
Today, the only way we can be justified or vindicated by God is
through the atonement of Jesus Christ. (See Chapter 3.)
We need to make this point clear—just because Jesus shed His
blood for us already for our redemption does not mean we do not
have a part to play in our protection against plagues and
pestilences. The opposite is true. We are responsible to activate the
power of the blood in our lives.

THE RESPONSIBILITY IS IN OUR HANDS

 There comes a point when the responsibility is in our hands, as
we find out in the story of Moses and the Israelites. The Pharaoh
and his army are in hot pursuit of Moses and the sons of Israel. They
find them camped in front of the sea. The people fill with fear as
their enemy draws near. They begin to shout sarcastic remarks at
Moses. But Moses, the mighty man of faith, responds to the people.
He says:

Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord

which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians
whom you have seen today, you will never see them
again forever. The Lord will fight for you while you keep
silent (Exodus 14:13-14 NASB).

His response sounds so right on, but the Lord teaches Moses and
us that there comes a time when mere words are not enough.
There must be action behind our words, and we are the ones
responsible to take action. Listen to the Lord’s response to Moses’
valiant statement of faith.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to
Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. As for you, lift up
your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and
divide it” (Exodus 14:15-16 NASB).

This is an intense moment for these people. In fact, it is a life

and death situation for them, and the Lord says to Moses to stop
crying and tell the people to move forward! And He doesn’t stop
there. He tells Moses that he is to put his faith into action and
divide the Red Sea.
All too often, we expect the Lord to do the supernatural for us.
But as we study the Word, we see that the Lord has a different plan.
He provides everything we need to succeed. Then He expects us to
be responsible and not just speak words of faith but put action
behind our faith-filled words and divide our own Red Seas by the
supernatural power of our faith in the redemptive work of Jesus. He
places the responsibility into our hands.

PRAYER
 Dear Jesus,
How we thank You that You gave to us Your authority to
walk on this earth when they nailed Your precious feet to
the Cross and You bled. We do not take this authority
lightly, nor will we toss it aside as if it has no value.
On the contrary, the power of Your blood that You shed
gives us victory in every situation satan tries to throw at
us. No more are we in bondage to his wicked attacks such
as sickness, disease, plagues, and pestilences. We are
free from every weapon he forms against us. We gladly
possess Your authority.
In Your name we rejoice, amen!

Did you forget about God’s benefits? Turn to the next chapter for
a refresher course. If you never heard of them before, learn what
they are and how they truly can make all the difference in your life.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Are you beginning to understand your authority as a believer in
Christ Jesus? Do you sense His protection over you and your family,
knowing now that you possess authority over sickness, disease,
plagues, and pestilences? Are you ready to activate the authority of
Christ in the present situation that you face?

NOTES
1. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth
Edition, s.v. “organism,” accessed May 16, 2016,
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2. Flemming Andersen, “Viruses and Bacteria,” Netdoctor, February
05, 2014,
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/virusbacteria.htm.
3. Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com Unabridged, Random House, Inc.
s.v. “virus,” accessed May 16, 2016,
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/virus.
4. “Types of Infectious Agents,” Mayo Clinic, accessed May 16,
2016, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infectious-
diseases/multimedia/types-of-infectious-agents/img-20008643.
 CHAPTER 6

REMEMBER ALL OF HIS

BENEFITS

“I bless the sweet Lamb of God; I remember all of His

benefits, who pardons all iniquities, heals all disease,
redeems my life from destruction, crowns me with
lovingkindness and tender mercies, satisfies my
mouth with good things, and renews my youth like
the eagle’s.”

We are to bless the Lord. This word bless comes from the
Hebrew word barak, which means to kneel down in
adoration, praise, and thanksgiving (Strong’s, H1288). When
is the last time we got down on our knees before the Lord
and worshiped Him for all the good things He has done for
us? Or have we taken on the world’s negative mindset and
only see the bad in life and forget about the good things
that come from God? Seriously, we bless Elohim when we
count our blessings from Him, and we also strengthen the
power of His goodness in our lives when we verbalize His
good deeds with our words.
To kneel before the Lord is to humble ourselves before
Him. In other words, we lift Him up by lowering ourselves.
We acknowledge His greatness and our dependence upon
Him.
When we bless Him, we fix our eyes on Him and not on
the negative situations that confront us. Satan and his
powers of darkness, like sickness and disease, lose their
stronghold over us.
It encourages our faith, especially when we feel down or
afraid, to take the time to remember all the many ways God
blesses us and intervenes on our behalf. In Exodus 15, Moses
and the sons of Israel sing a powerful song of praise and
adoration about the mighty ways God delivers them from
the hand of their enemies.
If you’re like most Christians, you have not been taught
how to worship the Lord properly. Find a quiet and private
place; remember, humble yourself and kneel before Him.
From your heart, bless Him with your words. Use the
Scriptures to start with, like the words from Psalm 103:1,
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless
His holy name!” Continue on from there.
When I bless Him, I personalize nuggets of Scripture that
remind me of His goodness toward me. For example, “You
are the reason that I live. You are the very breath that I
breathe. Your joy is my strength. When I feel weak, You
remain strong. You are faithful and true. You never change;
You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. By Your
stripes I am healed.” Then with my own words I start to
praise Him for all that He is doing in my life today.
You can be certain of this—the more you practice blessing
the Lord, the easier it will become. He will work with you to
find your way. The main point is that it comes from your
heart.

REMEMBER ALL OF HIS BENEFITS

 The Scriptures remind us to forget not all of His benefits.
But first, we have to know what His benefits are in order to
remember to activate them in our lives. Psalms so
beautifully describes what His benefits are:

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His

benefits: who forgives all your iniquities, who
heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from
destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness
and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with
good things, so that your youth is renewed like the
eagle’s (Psalm 103:2–5).

1. He forgives our iniquities.

2. He heals all our diseases.
3. He redeems our life from destruction.
4. He crowns us with lovingkindness and tender
mercies.
5. He satisfies our mouth with good things.
6. He renews our youth like the eagle’s.

He Pardons All Iniquities

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace which He made to abound toward us in all
wisdom and prudence, having made known to us
the mystery of His will, according to His good
pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the
dispensation of the fullness of the times He might
gather together in one all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven and which are on earth—in
Him (Ephesians 1:7–10).
 God is faithful and true, and as we discussed earlier He
forgives our iniquities, our perversity, and our sin. The
following is a beautiful testimony of forgiveness.
A divorced man with seven daughters was given a
chance to help his daughters start to heal emotionally from
years of pain that he caused them, but he struggled within
himself to make the right choice. Convinced they would
never believe him, he was afraid that his daughters would
not accept his apology.
He also struggled to forgive himself. We shared with him
the power of Jesus Christ to forgive and to release us from all
unrighteousness. We gave him the opportunity to make his
life right with Jesus. He accepted the offer and prayed and
asked the Father to forgive him and asked Jesus to be his
Savior.
We began to explain to the man about his daughters’
need to hear him apologize to them so that they could start
to heal. Without his sincere words of sorrow for the pain his
iniquities caused, they would have a very difficult life. We
asked him if this was what he wanted for them.
As sincere tears flowed from his eyes, he asked each one
of his girls to come to him. He tenderly looked each one in
the eye and asked them to forgive him. Each one fell into his
arms and cried from the depths of their hearts.
This man made the right choice—he asked for the Lord to
forgive him for his wickedness and then asked his daughters
to forgive him as well. The Lord knew the sincerity of this
man’s heart and pardoned his iniquities, his perversity, and
his sin.

HE HEALS ALL DISEASE

Many Christians wonder if God still heals today. Yes, He
does. Just like He still forgives our iniquities and offers
eternal life to those who believe. Hebrews 13:8 reassures us
that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The Lord does not retract physical healing from His blood
covenant.
He heals all disease—not just some disease, but all. When
we activate His authority in us, every illness must surrender
and leave our bodies in His name.
Jeremiah 32:17 declares, “‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You
have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power
and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.”

HE REDEEMS OUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION

He has delivered us from the power of darkness
and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of
His love, in whom we have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13-14).

There are many forms of destruction that the devil uses

to destroy us if we let him. One of these spiritual weapons is
addiction, and it causes mass destruction.
So many of God’s people are in bondage to addictive
behaviors; they want to be free but don’t know how. One
such young woman came forward for ministry at a healing
conference in Kentucky. Her addiction was cigarettes and it
had control over her. She wanted deliverance and freedom. I
laid hands upon her and renounced the spirit of addiction in
her and declared that from now on when she would try to
smoke a cigarette she would start to vomit. She put it to the
test. As soon as the service was over she ran outside and
took a puff of a cigarette and her body immediately started
to vomit on the church steps. Her body now rejected what it
once craved. But along with physical deliverance, her soul,
mind, and emotions needed to be healed and renewed to
remain free from the addiction.
You may be like this woman, with an addiction to some
type of sinful behavior, and need deliverance and renewal of
your mind. Here is a plan of action from the Scriptures to
help you overcome any and all addictive behaviors.

1. Before you can overcome an addiction, you first have

to admit that you have a problem and that it is a sin.
James 5:16 instructs us to, “Confess your sins to one
another, and pray for one another so that you may be
healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can
accomplish much” (NASB).
2. Make a quality decision that you will do whatever is
necessary to be free from this ungodly behavior.
There is a plan to freedom in James 4:7, “Therefore
submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from
you.”

How do you submit to God and resist the devil?

 Ask God for forgiveness. “If we confess our sins, He is

faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
 Read the Bible and cleanse yourself spiritually. “That
He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of
water by the word” (Eph. 5:26).
 Listen to faith building messages. “So then faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”
(Rom. 10:17).
 Fast and pray for deliverance. “So He said to them,
‘This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and
fasting’” (Mark 9:29).
  Pray in the Spirit to encourage yourself. “But you,
beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit” (Jude 1:20).
 Take control of your thoughts. “Casting down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought
into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5).
 Confess out loud the promises of God over yourself.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and
those who love it will eat its fruit” (Prov. 18:21).
 Keep your joy level strong. “Do not sorrow, for the joy
of the Lord is your strength” (Neh. 8:10).
 Be full of the Holy Spirit. “And do not be drunk with
wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the
Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all
things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ” (Eph. 5:18–20).
 Don’t take on stress or worry; give it to God. “Be
anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be
made known to God” (Phil. 4:6).
 Surround yourself with supportive people who will
hold you accountable to your actions. “Do not be
deceived: ‘Evil company corrupts good habits’” (1 Cor.
15:33).

A spirit of addiction is out to control and destroy you. To

be free from the powers of darkness, you have to make a
quality decision that you will do whatever it takes to be
delivered from its destructive power. If you will do these
things on a daily basis, eventually you will break free from
sinful and addictive behaviors. The enemy will flee from you,
and the freedom you so desire will be yours.

CROWNED WITH LOVINGKINDNESS AND

TENDER MERCIES
Remember Monica’s miraculous healing from the
incurable eye disease, blepharitis? Well, she had been
diagnosed with another eye disease that in the natural
realm has no known cure. But does this earthly fact stop
God’s healing power? No, it does not. Actually, it sets you up
for a miracle, because without an impossible situation you
cannot have a miracle.
In 2004, Monica was diagnosed with Adie’s tonic pupil, or
Adie syndrome, which is a rare neurological condition that
affects the pupil of the eye. This eye disease can affect
people in different ways, but in her situation she woke up
one morning and one of her pupils was very large and the
other one was very small. Her pupils would not respond
correctly to light. They would not dilate or constrict with
light changes as they were created to do.
She says, “I was most affected by extreme sensitivity to
the sun and to florescent lights because my pupils would
not constrict in light as a normal pupil would. At night I had
difficulty adjusting to change from light to dark because
sometimes my pupils would be very small and would not
dilate in the dark so it made it harder to see when driving at
night or even walking around in darker settings.”
She learned a bad spiritual habit that many of God’s
people do. She learned to live with this condition and
adjusted her lifestyle to accommodate it for over ten years.
That is a decade of unnecessary suffering from the devil.
 However, since she exercised her faith and was healed
from blepharitis one year ago, she realized that something
else had taken place since then. I want you to hear this part
of Monica’s testimony from her own words.

But what is interesting is that I have started to

notice that my eyes aren’t so sensitive to light
these days. I can see in the dark better! My pupils
have started to act normal! Not only have I been
healed of the blepharitis infection, but this healing
from Adie’s tonic pupil kind of snuck up on me,
and as suddenly as these conditions appeared,
they disappeared! I have no symptoms at all of the
Adie syndrome now! I can see better in the dark. I
don’t have to wear sunglasses in the rain! It’s
crazy! It’s the coolest thing ever!

This, to me, is a prime example of God crowning us with

His lovingkindness and tender mercies. Monica was
suffering for years with this eye disease and became so
accustomed to it that she didn’t even think to receive
healing for it because the acid-like burning sensation in her
eyes from the other disease, blepharitis, had her attention
day in and day out. But God knew.
The moment she was crowned with His lovingkindness
and tender mercy is the day she inherited all the jewels He
possessed, including healing from Adie’s syndrome.

HE FILLS OUR MOUTHS WITH GOOD THINGS

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart
brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil
treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of
the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks
(Luke 6:45).
 The heart and the mouth are powerful instruments in the
realm of faith. The mouth proclaims what is in the depths of
the spiritual heart. Romans 10:8–10 confirms this and gives
deeper insight to their purpose:

“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your

heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved. For with the
heart one believes unto righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

According to this portion of Scripture, the heart believes

and the mouth confesses. What does the heart believe? It
believes unto righteousness—justification or right standing
with God. And what does the heart confess? Confession is
made unto salvation, and according to our word study in
Chapter 2 this word salvation is holistic and includes healing
of the spirit, soul, and body.
In Psalm 103:2–5, one of the benefits we are to
remember is that He satisfies our mouths with good things.
We are to take these good things and impart them to others,
like faith for eternal life with Jesus, faith for deliverance from
demonic oppression or possession, or faith for physical
healing to name a few of the good things.
Let’s focus in on the spiritual purpose of the mouth in
regard to physical healing. Now, the devil does not want us
to share these good things with others. In fact, he is
downright nasty, and he wants us to keep quiet about the
glory of our Lord. One way he will try to gag us is with
physical weapons of sickness and disease against the
mouth. It is a challenge to be a mouthpiece for the Lord
when your mouth is swollen or full of sores or inflicted with
some other type of illness. It makes it laborious to speak out
loud when the mouth is sick.
 Last year, a couple of days before I would minister, my
tongue would break out with canker sores. At first, I thought
it was because I was dehydrated from the plane ride, and
from a human standpoint it was a logical explanation. The
second time it happened, I started to wonder if this was
spiritual and not physical because I made sure I drank
plenty of water before, during, and after the flight. The third
time it happened, I knew without a doubt I was under
attack.
To break this demonic attack against the power of my
tongue, my good friend Palma and I entered into a time of
prayer and fasting. The stronghold was broken, and I did not
have this problem again.
Another minister, Margie from Ocala, Florida, suffered
from severe gum disease. She could not eat or even touch
her teeth lightly together without serious pain. But the
message she heard taught at the healing service resonated
deep within her spirit, and she put the message of faith to
the test and activated her faith. She started to bite down on
her teeth. To Margie’s delight, her gums and teeth were
instantly healed in Jesus’ name.
No matter how we were attacked by the enemy, we
continued to confess with our mouths what we believed in
our hearts to be true about the goodness of the Lord’s
salvation to the people. When we were in need, we both
received supernatural healing in our mouths as well.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I

have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I
have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy
truth from the great congregation (Psalm 40:10
KJV).

HE RENEWS OUR YOUTH LIKE THE EAGLE’S

 I saw posted on social media the other day a photo of an
elderly woman pushed off a cliff by her daughter. The
caption threatened that if you were not kind to your
daughter now, she might not be so kind to you later on
when you need her help. After all, you are aging, weakening,
falling apart, depreciating in value to the world, and with
your negative thoughts and confessions you are binding
yourself to a wheelchair.
Again, we have bought into another lie of the devil and
believe that as we age we need to fall apart, as if we are
bound to the curse. God’s promise to us is the opposite; He
vows that He will renew our youth like the eagle’s. But we
are responsible to activate this supernatural renewal from
our heavenly Father.
Once, after a time of ministry in Florida I was taken on a
tour of the area and brought to a natural wildlife park. As we
drove through the park, the ranger stopped us and asked us
to come look into his telescope to observe a juvenile eagle
that just returned from his first flight.
This young juvenile was muscular, full of vigor and
strength. It jumped up and down, and its wings flapped with
excitement from the new experience of flight. It was eager
to fly again.
This is the image that God wants us to have as we enter
into our elderly years. He desires to renew our strength from
all the years of hard work. It is not His will that we are full of
pain and suffering, that we are too weak to enjoy life, or that
we give up all together and complain and tell everyone that
we just want to die and go home to be with the Lord.
God’s Word tells us that this is the day that He has made,
and that we are to rejoice and be glad in it (see Ps. 118:24).
The reason you are still on this earth is that He still has
things for you to accomplish for His glory. It does not bless
the Lord when we will to die. No, we need to press into His
will, activate healing, and discover His purpose for our last
days on this earth.
“Yes, Jesus wants to heal that too!” This is my response to
an elderly woman who bursts out with joy as all the arthritis
pain is instantly gone from her husband. In response to her
request, I place my hands over his ears and he can instantly
hear out of his once deaf ears. Then he asks me to minister
to his weak eyes, and they too renew like in the days of his
youth. Jesus wants to restore our youth!
At another meeting, an elderly woman steps forward for
healing of various ailments. The main healing she desires is
for her digestive system. She is always in great pain because
her intestines cramp into a ball. This causes severe pain and
discomfort. This situation controls her everyday life.
I release the healing power of the Holy Spirit into her
body she shouts out that she feels as if a baby is moving
within her as her intestines release and move back into
place.
This precious elderly woman also suffers from arthritis all
over her body, and all the pain just lifts off of her body. She
also suffers from tinnitus and the ringing ceases instantly in
the name of Jesus. Her testimony blesses the entire
congregation as she stands and declares the goodness of
our Lord over her.
Regardless of age, healing belongs to those of us who
believe in the healing power of Jesus Christ. He deeply
desires to renew our youth, so much so that He shed His
blood for our physical renewal when they whipped Him for
all sickness, all disease, all pain, all suffering, and for all
symptoms.
It’s time for us to remember all of His benefits, who
pardons all iniquities, heals all diseases, redeems us from
destruction, crowns us with lovingkindness and tender
mercies, satisfies our mouths with good things, and renews
our youth like the eagle’s.
 PRAYER
Dear Father God,
Forgive us; we have strayed away from the truth of
Your word. We even forgot about Your benefits, and
because of it we have suffered needlessly.
Today we kneel down in adoration before You
because our faith has been restored. We now
remember all of Your benefits. You pardon all our
iniquities, our perversities, and our sins. You heal
us from all disease. You redeem us from
destruction. You crown us with Your lovingkindness
and tender mercies. You satisfy our mouths with
good things that we can impart to others, and You
renew our strength like the eagle’s.
We have much to be grateful for. Thank You for all
Your benefits.
In Jesus’ name, we praise as we pray, amen.

Are you secure in your faith that God is indeed willing

and able to heal you in spirit, in soul, and in body? Let’s turn
to the next chapter and find out why we can be sure of this.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Do I take time to bless the Lord for all He has done for
me? Am I able to bow down before Him in private worship?
How about in public worship? Am I willing to start to bless
the Lord in this way? Did I forget about His benefits? Will I
remember all of His benefits from this day forward? Have I
asked Him to pardon me of all my iniquities, perversities,
and sins? Do I need Him to heal a sickness or disease? Am I
willing to activate this benefit of healing in my life? Have I
allowed Him to redeem my life from all forms of destruction?
Or am I holding on to some addictions that I need to be free
from? Will I allow Him to crown me with His lovingkindness
and tender mercies? Will I allow Him to satisfy my mouth
with His good bounty to share with others? Am I ready to rid
myself from the world’s negative prospect of aging? Will I
receive His renewal of my youth like the eagle’s.
 CHAPTER 7

ABLE AND WILLING TO HEAL

“I am grateful that You are both able and willing to

heal me in spirit, soul, and body. I partake of Your
bread of life, and drink from the cup of Your New
Covenant to restore health to me and to heal me of
my wounds with Your healing balm of Gilead.”

I am so grateful for the healing power of Jesus Christ to heal

us in every area of life. I praise Him not only because He is
capable to heal, but He yearns for His healing power to
manifest within me as well.
Perhaps you are not to this point in your faith walk yet to
praise Him for supernatural healing. Maybe you still have
some unanswered questions concerning God’s will to heal.
May I suggest that you read on and find the answers to your
questions and concerns?

HE IS BOTH WILLING AND ABLE TO HEAL

Let’s talk about a common dilemma that many Christians
struggle with today. You believe that Jesus is able to heal but
wrestle with doubt as to whether or not He is willing to heal
you. Until you discover the answer to this question you will
not be able to stand firm in the faith and accept your
healing.
In Luke 5:12, there is a man who asks Jesus the same
question. “And it happened when He was in a certain city,
that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he
fell on his face and implored Him, saying, ‘Lord, if You are
willing, You can make me clean.’” He knows Jesus can heal,
but he’s not sure if He is willing to heal him.
Jesus responds to this man in verse 13, “Then He put out
His hand and touched him, saying, ‘I am willing; be
cleansed.’ Immediately the leprosy left him.” Just as Jesus is
willing to heal this man of leprosy, He is willing to heal you
too.

JESUS USES A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO

HEALING
Jesus is concerned about our complete system—spirit,
soul, and body. He uses a very holistic approach to insure
that we are healed and made whole. He believes in holism.
He knows when we are disjointed that we are in pain.
He does not simply put a Band-Aid over a weepy, infected
wound. He takes the time to carefully clean out the infection
from the wound first and then sutures it shut by the stripes
of His whipping.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you

completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and
body be preserved blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

He doesn’t just heal the heart, He checks around that

heart to find the root of the problem.
 HEALING THE WHOLE PERSON
The whole person is spirit, soul, and body. The spirit is the
eternal being who will either spend eternity in heaven or
hell. This is our decision alone to make. God does not desire
to send anyone to hell. We send ourselves there if we reject
Jesus Christ as our Savior. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved
the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”
(NASB). The first step to becoming whole is to surrender to
Jesus.
The soul is the second part of our being, and it includes
the mind and the emotions. Oftentimes the physical body is
sick because the soul needs healing. The ungodliness of
today’s society, the selfishness of others, and even our own
bad decisions cause great injury to this part of our being.
God shares His desire for us in Jeremiah 30:17: “For I will
restore health to you and heal you of your wounds.”
Emotional wounds and physical healing go hand in hand
with one another. By God’s grace we can learn how to
forgive, let go of the past, move forward, and allow the soul
to heal.
The third part of our being is the physical body. This is the
part that we see every day; it houses our spirit and soul, and
God appoints it a time to be born and a time to die (see
Eccles. 3:2). But even though it is temporal, Jesus received
severe whippings so that it too can be healed and made
whole (see Isa. 53:4-5).
God cares about the whole person—spirit, soul, and body.
So much so that He records a prayer for its well-being in
Third John 1:2: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all
things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”

DOES GOD WITHHOLD HEALING?

 You hear that healing is the bread of God’s children. So,
you pray, you wait, and then you start to wonder, “Does God
withhold healing?” To answer this question we need to go to
God’s healing Word.

From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre

and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no
one to know it, but He could not be hidden. For a
woman whose young daughter had an unclean
spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at
His feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-
Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to
cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said
to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not
good to take the children’s bread and throw it to
the little dogs.” And she answered and said to
Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the
table eat from the children’s crumbs.” Then He
said to her, “For this saying go your way; the
demon has gone out of your daughter.” And when
she had come to her house, she found the demon
gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed (Mark
7:24–30).

This seems like a harsh response from Jesus toward this

Gentile woman who asked Him to heal her daughter from
demon possession. But you see, this event took place under
the old law; Jesus had not yet shed His blood for our
redemption. And salvation had not yet come to the Gentiles
either. This woman did not have covenant rights under the
Jewish law.
But her response to Jesus is amazingly faith-filled. “Yes,
Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the
children’s crumbs.” She’s not calling upon the letter of the
law, which she has no right to, but upon the mercy, the
unmerited favor of the Lord. And she receives what she
humbly requests, and her daughter is set free from demon
possession.
Since this time, the atonement for sin and the
consequences of sin, such as sickness and disease, have
been paid in full by the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ (see
Chapter 2). According to Romans 11:11–36, salvation has
come to the Gentiles, and they have been grafted into the
blessing. We no longer have to beg for healing like this
Gentile woman did.
The blessing of healing has already been bestowed upon
us: “by His stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5), and again in
First Peter 2:24, “who Himself bore our sins in His own body
on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for
righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
So in response to this question, “Does God withhold
healing?” the answer is no. In my spirit I hear, “The Bread
and the Wine have already been served.”
It isn’t that God is withholding healing. Jesus already
broke bread (His body) for us when He bowed down and
gave His back to be brutally whipped for our healing. He also
poured the wine (His blood) when He shed His blood at
Calvary, so that we can live under a new covenant—a blood
covenant called grace. The grace given to us is that we
share freely in the blessing of healing because Jesus worked
it out with the Father on His own back.

PARTAKE OF THE BREAD OF LIFE AND BE

HEALED
Jesus is the bread of life that was broken and given to us
so we can be healed. Jesus says of Himself in John 6:35, “I
am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never
hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” This is
why we can say that healing is our bread. We who believe
have covenant right with the Father by the blood of Christ to
be healed. Jesus asks us not to forget what He did for us by
partaking of a supernatural meal with Him called
Communion.

For I received from the Lord that which I also

delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same
night in which He was betrayed took bread; and
when He had given thanks, He broke it and said,
“Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you;
do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same
manner He also took the cup after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This
do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of
Me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He
comes (1 Corinthians 11:23–26).

Some of God’s people take communion every morning

before they start their day, remembering what the Lord did
for them and accepting all of His benefits He so graciously
provided for them. Others take it as the Spirit quickens them
in their home, surrounded by family and friends, again
giving thanks for the blood covenant they have with the
Father and blessing the Lord Jesus Christ for redeeming
them from the curse. Many others partake of the Lord’s
Supper with their local place of worship, reminding
themselves of the sufferings of Christ and all that He
provided for them.
However we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we are to be
careful that we do not take it in an unworthy manner. Let’s
read:

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this

cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be
 guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a
man examine himself, and so let him eat of the
bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and
drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks
judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s
body. For this reason many are weak and sick
among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge
ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we
are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we
may not be condemned with the world (1
Corinthians 11:27-32).

WARNING: You are not to partake of the Lord’s Supper in

an unworthy manner. In other words, if you are not born
again, meaning you have not first believed in your heart that
Jesus is the one and only way to salvation, and then
confessed this aloud with your mouth, you are not to partake
of communion. If you do, you will be guilty of the body and
the blood of Jesus.
Also, you are to examine your own heart; if there is sin,
deal with it. Confess it and rid yourself of it. If you do not
first examine yourself and partake in communion, you bring
judgement upon yourself. You curse yourself, and this is one
reason that many are weak and sick and spiritually asleep
among your fellowship. Never should the Lord’s Supper be
taken lightly.

DON’T BLAME GOD, SEARCH YOURSELF

When healing is not manifesting, I have learned to stop
blaming God and to start searching within myself to find out
what is happening in my life that is hindering the healing
power of God.
 Why does it appear that I am getting worse and not
better? If I don’t know the answer, I ask the Holy Spirit to
show me what’s in my heart. I can do this without feeling
condemned because I know that His grace is for me and not
against me. He willingly gives the revelation so that I can be
healed.
Take the time to examine your heart and ask yourself the
following questions:

 Am I struggling with past hurts and unforgiveness?

Matthew 6:14-15 tells us, “For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
 Is there willful sin in my life? Psalm 66:18 makes it
plain, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will
not hear.”
 Am I speaking the blessings of God or the curses of
satan over my life? Proverbs 18:21 teaches us that,
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and
those who love it will eat its fruit.”
 Have I surrendered my five senses and human
reasoning over to God? Or do I trust them more than
the Word of God concerning my healing? We can learn
from our spiritual father, Abraham, in Romans 4:19,
“And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his
own body, already dead (since he was about a
hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s
womb.”
 Are my eyes fixed on Jesus? Or have I lost my focus
and they are centered on the illness? Hebrews 12:2
tells us where our eyes should be focusing, “looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.”
  Have I given in to confusion and doubt? Am I being
controlled by a spirit of fear? Or am I walking by faith?
Second Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a
spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind.”
 Do I really believe that God is for me and not against
me? Romans 8:31 says, “What then shall we say to
these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

If the Spirit of God is speaking to your heart, stop what

you are doing, start praying and seeking God for His
forgiveness and guidance, and start the healing process
again.

HE RESTORES HEALTH TO ME
God has provided us with spiritual means to restore
health and to keep us healthy in the long run.
What’s the secret? God’s people continue their quest to
obtain long life and good health with diet, exercise, and
supplements, and still many continue to fall ill and die
prematurely. Even though these are wise choices, they are
not enough. What’s the secret to restoring our health?
God reveals this secret in Proverbs 4:20–22. He says, “My
son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; open
your ears to my sayings. Do not let them escape from your
sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life
to those who find them, and healing and health to all their
flesh” (AMP).
We need to remember that we are spiritual beings who
live inside physical bodies. If we do not attend to our
spiritual needs, we will wear out and become weak
emotionally and physically.
 So how do we attend to our spiritual needs? First of all,
did you notice that He says, “My son”? He is referring to a
spiritual family member. If you aren’t a member yet, this is
the first step to living a healthy life. Then He instructs us to
attend to His words. We are to listen and do what the Word
says to do. He tells us to submit to His sayings, which means
we are to yield or surrender to the will or authority and
power of the Word of God. Last but not least, He tells us to
not allow biblical teachings to depart from our sight. We are
to live life entwined with His teachings.
All these other things that we do like eating better,
exercising, and taking supplements are good, but they do
not take the place of God’s Word and promise to us. If we
attend to our spiritual needs according to His ways, then He
promises healing and health to all our flesh.

HE HEALS ME OF MY WOUNDS
As a healing evangelist, I meet many people with many
needs, and for whatever reason certain individuals stand out
in my memory. One such individual was a young man I met
in the healing line. He was newly born again and struggling
with addictions to alcohol, drugs, pornography, and other
sexual sins. Remember, he was fresh out of the world. His
state of being is understandable, and the good news with
him is that he was seeking godly help to be free from
unrighteousness and healing for his wounds.
When he received Jesus as his Savior, he was instantly
born again. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). Even though this spiritual
experience is an instant miracle, making Jesus the Lord of
your life is not; it is progressive.
 It has to deal with our willingness to overcome the
desires of the flesh and tame the human will. Even more
challenging than this is getting to the root of the problem.
This is when we need to be open and honest with one
another and allow Jesus to anoint us with the balm of
Gilead.
What about all those who call themselves followers of
Jesus who are drowning in their sins, and they do not care?
They are so sinful they no longer recognize right from
wrong.
In the Book of Jeremiah 8:22, the prophet, himself weeps
for his people and cries out, “Is there no balm in Gilead, is
there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for
the health of the daughter of my people?”
Why was Jeremiah so distraught? The people were so
spiritually sick. They were bound by iniquities, perversities,
sins of false teachings, perpetual backsliding; they held fast
to deceit; they heard but would not listen; they refused to
repent; they did not heed the judgment of the Lord; they
rejected the word of the Lord; they were given to
covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone
dealt falsely; and they were not ashamed of the
abominations they committed (see Jer. 8). This portion of
Scripture could very well be an update on the state of the
local church today. She needs the healing balm of Gilead.
You may be wondering, what is the balm of Gilead? A
balm is an aromatic, medicinal substance derived from
plants. Gilead was an area east of the Jordan River well-
known for its spices and ointments. The “balm of Gilead”
was, therefore, a high-quality ointment with healing
properties. The balm was made from resin taken from a
flowering plant in the Middle East, although the exact
species is unknown. It was also called the “balsam of
Mecca.” Myrrh is taken from a similar plant—Commiphora
myrrha. The Bible uses the term balm of Gilead
metaphorically as an example of something with healing or
soothing powers.1 It comes from the Hebrew word tsěriy and
it means to crack (as by pressure), hence, to leak (Strong’s,
H6875). The name Gilead itself means a “rocky region”
(Strong’s, H1568)
We have been given the healing balm of Gilead—His
name is Jesus Christ. He is the only medicinal salve that can
redeem His people, but they have to be willing to repent of
their sins, make Jesus Christ their Lord again, and surrender
to the supernatural healing power of the Holy Spirit. He will
heal them first spiritually, by the power of repentance, then
heal their mind and emotions, by the transforming power of
the Word of God. They must learn to believe and readily
receive the supernatural sōzō power to heal and make us
whole again in Jesus’ name.

Couple Healed of MS and Parkinson’s Disease

It was the last teaching session at a recent healing
seminar in Harrisonburg, Virginia when an elderly couple
made their entrance into the church building. The husband
was in a wheelchair suffering from Parkinson’s disease. His
wife who was faithfully pushing the wheelchair was also
suffering, but from MS.
It did not appear to me that she knew anyone in the
meeting, but she said that the Lord told her that she was to
bring her husband to this meeting.
Now, I want to bring you up to speed here—this is the
same healing seminar where Betty was healed from
Parkinson’s disease about two or three months earlier. We
read about her at the end of Chapter 3, where she shares
her testimony.
It’s now time to administer the healing power of the Holy
Spirit to the people. The woman wheels her husband to the
front. My faith perks up as I hear the woman tell us what ails
the man—Parkinson’s disease. All of us present in this
meeting know that we know this is no coincidence, but a
divine appointment ordered of the Lord. And it was.
I, along with Betty and the others, lay healing hands
upon the man. I ask the people to pray in the Spirit. I
renounce the spirit of premature death, Parkinson’s disease,
a paralytic spirit, and nerve damage. I command the man to
be loosed, to be free to walk again, his bodily functions to
return, and memory loss to be healed along with other
things as well.
I encourage the man to put his faith into action and start
to move his feet, ankles, knees, and legs. He cooperates
with the move of the Holy Spirit, and slowly but surely he
begins to loosen up. After a short while, I ask him to go for a
walk with Jesus.
A few of the men help him out of his wheelchair, and
begin to walk him around. At first his feet slide forward
because his knees aren’t completely loose yet. But as he
keeps taking strides forward we can all witness his knees
straightening out. They continue to walk him around and
around in circles as he gets stronger and stronger. His
precious wife stands there with tears in her eyes as she
witnesses her husband’s body come back to life.
Then, as the men continue to walk with the man, we ask
her if she has a need for healing. Well, she says that in fact
she does have a physical need. She struggles with MS. So
we ladies circle around her, put our faith into action, and the
physical symptoms start to leave her body one by one. The
joy and the tears flow from everyone present in that place.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is not only able but so willing to
heal us spiritually, emotionally, and physically too. Let us
partake of the Bread of Life, drink from the cup of the new
covenant, believe for our health to be restored, and allow
Him to lavishly anoint us with His healing balm of Gilead to
heal our wounds.
 PRAYER
Dearest Jesus,
I did not understand until now that You truly are
both able and willing to heal and make me whole
again in spirit, in soul, and in my body.
Forgive me because I was ignorant and thought
You withheld healing from me, but in reality I have
a part to play to activate Your sōzō power.
I see how intricate Your healing procedure is. It’s
more than putting a Band-Aid over an infected
wound. You desire to go in and supernaturally
scrape away the spiritual infection first and then
fill us with your healing balm of Gilead and, when
we are ready, suture it closed by the stripes of
Your whipping.
I partake of the Bread of Life and drink from the
cup of Your new covenant to restore my health and
to heal me from all wounds.
In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.

Do you identify Jesus Christ as your Jehovah Rapha, your

Great Physician? Do you realize that He has a medical report
for you? Turn to the next chapter and find out what this
report says.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Am I grateful for the healing power of Jesus Christ? Do I
believe that He is both willing and able to heal and make me
whole again? Do I still believe God withholds healing from
me? Or am I ready to face the fact that the conflict is with
me, not with God? Do I partake of the Lord’s Supper
unworthily? Or am I in right standing with Him? Do I need
my health to be restored? Am I ready to have Him rub His
salve on me, the healing balm of Gilead?

NOTE
1. “What Is the Balm of Gilead?” GotQuestions.org,
accessed May 16, 2016,
http://www.gotquestions.org/balm-of-Gilead.html.
 CHAPTER 8

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

“Jehovah Rapha is my great physician. His medical

report declares that His spirit gives life to my mortal
body, and my faith makes me whole.”

What’s in a name? Plenty. In my readings of the Bible, I see

destiny is often attached to someone’s name. The same is
certainly true of God’s name here, Jehovah Rapha. Jesus
Christ fulfilled His name in Isaiah 53:5, “by His stripes we
are healed.”
Jehovah is translated as “The Existing One” or “Lord.” The
chief meaning of Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word
havah meaning “to be” or “to exist.” It also suggests “to
become” or specifically “to become known.” This denotes a
God who reveals Himself unceasingly. Rapha (râpâ’) means
“to restore,” “to heal,” or “to make healthful” in Hebrew.
When the two words are combined—Jehovah Rapha—it can
be translated as “Jehovah Who Heals.” (see Jer. 3:22; 30:17;
Isa. 30:26; 61:1; Ps. 103:3). Jehovah is the Great Physician
who heals the physical and emotional needs of His people.1
In Exodus 15:26 it says, “For I am the Lord who heals
you.” Jesus Christ is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord who heals. He
understands the pathology of all sickness and disease. More
importantly, this great physician knows the cause of illness,
has the remedy, and is the cure for all sickness and disease.
The ultimate pathway to healing flows through His veins.
Healing is in the blood of Christ.
What other doctor is there who has His credentials?
Doctor Jesus created the human body. He understands it
inside and out. He possesses the revelation of every cell,
tissue, organ, and system within it. He designed it and
orchestrated it to function together in harmony to produce
life, and life in abundance.
How often have we heard someone say that they have to
do whatever the doctor tells them to do? Even when they
have been told they will die within a short matter of time
and there isn’t anything they can humanly do for them. But
they recommend them to continue to take the same
medication or treatment that obviously does not work for
them. There are times when we humans make no sense!
This is one of those times.
I am going to speak forthrightly with you. It is a religious
spirit amongst Christians that rises up against the healing
power of Jesus Christ. A religious spirit is not something you
want to hold on to. It is an anti-christ spirit that proudly
resists Him and His ways, but the good news is that you do
not have to stay bound to this spirit. You can get free by
repentance and stay free by studying the Bible and
believing and doing what it says. Trust me when I say Doctor
Jesus wants you to be free from this wicked spirit, and He
wants to heal you too.

HIS REPORT DECLARES

God’s Word makes remarkable claims for us to be healed.
To the unregenerated soul, mind, and emotions His promises
can sound too good to be true. This is why we are to
transform our unbelieving minds by the unadulterated Word
of God. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God” (Rom. 12:2). Health and healing are in the perfect will
of God.
The Word of God cleanses the body of Christ (see Eph.
5:26). It cleanses us from sin, including doubt and unbelief.
We can boldly come to the throne of grace that we may
obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (see
Heb. 4:16). If your need is healing, then you need to study
the Word concerning healing.

LIFE TO MY MORTAL BODY1

The Great Physician, Jehovah Rapha, has not abandoned
you on some deserted island without a means of defense. He
has given you supernatural power to overcome the wiles of
the enemy. This power comes from His Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
According to Romans 8:11, “But if the Spirit of Him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised
Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you.” He has given you
resurrection power.
Let me ask you, “Is there deadness in your body
somewhere?” Take a moment and ponder upon the
supernatural power you have been given to resurrect dead
body parts.
One woman suffered from throat cancer, and she
underwent radiation treatments to stop this wicked disease.
But the radiation treatments destroyed her saliva glands
and made swallowing miserable. She was given medication
to help her produce saliva, but it was not working well.
 Several years had already passed when she heard about
a healing service in her area. She attended and heard a
message of hope and healing. As healing hands touched
her, the same supernatural power that raised Christ from
the dead was released and instantly those dead saliva
glands were resurrected and produced saliva on their own.
Right off the top of my head, I can think of three women
who were no longer able to produce natural tears. But by
the release of the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit all
three received their healing instantly and no longer need
special eye drops.
Countless numbers of people who had deaf ears now
hear.
Many women who had barren wombs are now able to
bear healthy children.
Do you hear what God has given to you? You do not have
to settle for dead body parts. Believe and receive all that He
has for you.

FAITH
Along with His Spirit, He gives to us the spiritual weapon
of faith to overcome every attack of the enemy, including
sickness and disease. Let’s examine faith.
Faith is a spiritual power that we inherit from God to use
in our everyday life to access divine intervention for a
healing or a miracle. God Himself operated in the realm of
faith in Genesis 1 when He created the heavens and the
earth. Because He creates people in His image, He grants us
the right of passageway into His supernatural realm of the
miraculous by our faith in Him.
Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is
not abstract; it’s not about emotions or feelings. It says faith
is a substance, an actual foundation upon which we stand.
As I share with you in Chapter 1, faith has a precursor—
hope.
In this work, I believe I stir hope within you for healing.
By the time you finish this book you can say that you are
more than ready to access what you have need of from the
Lord by your own faith.

WHERE IS YOUR FAITH?

The disciples were sailing across Lake Gennesaret with
Jesus:

But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm

came down on the lake, and they were filling with
water, and were in jeopardy. And they came to
Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we
are perishing!” Then He arose and rebuked the
wind and the raging of the water. And they
ceased, and there was a calm (Luke 8:23-24).

Then He asks them a pertinent question: “Where is your

faith?”
Perhaps you are like the disciples here—you are sailing
along in life when out of nowhere a life-threatening storm
hits. Waves of negative reports surround you and say you are
in jeopardy. You cry out to Jesus, “I am perishing!” and Jesus
responds to you, like He does to the disciples, “Where is your
faith?”
Now, most would take this response as a rebuke, and yes,
it is. But why not assess His response from different point of
view?
You have a choice to make—you can either place your
trust in the strength of the storm to overtake you, or you can
place your confidence in His strength to overcome this life-
threatening storm raging against you.

WHY DID YOU DOUBT?

Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to
them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples
saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled,
saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.
But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be
of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.” And Peter
answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You,
command me to come to You on the water.” So He
said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out
of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he
was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out,
saying, “Lord, save me! And immediately Jesus
stretched out His hand and caught him, and said
to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased
(Matthew 14:25–32).

Through the centuries, Peter receives a lot of gruff for

sinking halfway from the boat to Jesus, but even so Jesus
meets Him where he is and pulls him up again.
Maybe you’re like Peter? You hear Jesus call out to you to
step out of the boat, walk on the water, and meet Him. You
obey, but halfway to the manifestation of your miracle you
lose your focal point. It can happen to anyone. You start to
focus on the wind and the waves raging around you, and
you start to sink.
If this is you, don’t let discouragement get the best of
you. Just like Jesus does with Peter, He extends His hand of
salvation—grab hold of it. Let Him pull you up again and
continue to walk on the water.
I told you before and I will say it again, but in a different
way. When you step out of the boat and walk in faith for your
healing, satan will come after you like a mighty raging
storm. He will try to get your focus off of your Healer, Jesus,
and back on the storm of the disease. But Jesus remains
your lifeguard, and when you call out to Him He will come to
you. When you see His hand, seize it. He will lift you up so
you can continue on your faith walk of healing.

YOUR FAITH MAKES YOU WHOLE

When we consider faith for salvation, we need to remind
ourselves the meaning goes beyond that of eternal life in
Heaven. Remember the teaching in Chapter 3—the meaning
of the word save or saved comes from the Greek word sōzō
and means to save, deliver, protect, heal, preserve, do well,
and be made whole.
When we actuate our faith, it brings about God’s great
saving grace for the need we have in any given situation.
The point is that it is our faith in Christ that makes us whole.
Jesus responds to the woman with the issue of blood
found in Luke 8:48, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith
has made you well. Go in peace.” To the one leper who
returns to give thanks for his healing Jesus says in Luke
17:19, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
Again, we see in Luke 18:42 Jesus admonishes the blind
beggar, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.”
These are three different examples where Jesus speaks to
the receiver that it is their faith that heals and makes them
whole. Why is this important to note? Because oftentimes
God’s people wait for Him to do the miraculous, while He
waits for us to cultivate our faith to believe for our healing.
For the believer in Jesus, it is our faith in His healing power
that brings forth health, healing, wholeness.
Let’s move on to another important topic to help
stimulate your faith to go to God for your healing.

GOD LISTENS AND DELIVERS

How often do you hear people complain that their doctor
doesn’t have the time to listen to them?
Your Great Physician actually listens when you call to Him
(see Ps. 4:3). But do you know that there is a certain type of
prayer that draws His attention to us? This type of prayer is
filled with words of faith. In Mark 11:24 Jesus gives us
instruction about how to pray, “Therefore I say to you,
whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you will have them.”
Not only does He listen, but according to Psalm 34:17,
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers
them out of all their troubles.”
There are many different troubles that come with
sickness and disease, especially when the world labels it
long term. One trouble is financial. The woman with the
issue of blood who bled for 12 years, whom we mentioned
above, spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not
be healed by any (see Luke 8:43).
The thief not only steals our health and life with sickness
and disease, but he will also use the illness to dry up our
finances so we are like the woman above and we have no
resources to seek further help. This causes people to feel
desperate and without hope.

FREE HEALTH CARE

 As God’s people, we are never without hope. God is on
our side and has prepaid our spiritual medical bills.
His healing service to us is free, but that does not mean
it’s cheap. He provides it to us at a very high price to Him.
This prepayment is His shed blood as He endured
unimaginable suffering for us and because of us at Calvary.
Even though we do not pay for His healing power, we do
have to be proactive with our faith and believe to initiate His
healing power.

HEALING IS A GOOD GIFT

Some Christians really squawk when they hear someone
teach or testify about healing, as if healing were an evil
thing. They would be less convicted for their doubt and
unbelief if the person were not healed to begin with. But we
are not going to be like the squawkers. Instead, we are
going to ponder on the goodness of this gift of healing.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
Healing is a gift from God, and is found throughout the
Bible. In other words, healing is biblical. Because it comes
from our Savior Himself, it is beyond good—it’s great!
For those suffering from severe pain, God’s gift of
supernatural healing is the greatest pain reliever there is.
When a man suffering from a seven-year migraine receives
supernatural healing and all pain instantly disappears, he
starts to rejoice. When a woman’s painful and crippled
arthritic hands heal, she sheds tears of joy.
Does the mama of a ten-year-old girl, who was born with
a deformed hip that never grew correctly and caused her
little girl daily pain and suffering, question if healing is good
or evil? Of course not; she knows by the witness of her own
heart and by the smile on her daughter’s face that this is
only good, and she glorifies God for His healing power.
When these people receive their healing, they do not
question if healing is evil. No, they know it’s good, and they
know it comes from God. It changes their life, and they can’t
help but testify of His goodness to others.
God’s gift of supernatural healing is good and perfect.

HIS MEDICAL POLICY NEVER CHANGES

There is an unrest inside of God’s people with the ever-
changing medical policies today. But in God’s medical
center that never happens. His policy never changes. Why?
Remember what it says in Hebrews 13:8? “Jesus Christ is the
same yesterday, today, and forever.” And concerning the
Word of the Lord, it declares in First Peter 1:24-25, “All flesh
is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the
grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the
word of the Lord endures forever.”
God and His Word are steadfast. You can always count on
Him. The Lord says in Jeremiah 1:12 in the Amplified Version
of the Bible, “I am [actively] watching over My word to fulfill
it.” Even if the world changes, He does not. When people
within the body of Christ fall away, He remains faithful.
There is everlasting security in this fact—His medical policy
never changes.

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our

sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by
God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and
by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:4-5).
 God’s best is always divine healing. He’s the Creator of
the human body. He’s the Great Physician; with Him there is
never a hopeless situation. His diagnosis is always correct.
Instead of repairing or replacing with artificial parts, He
recreates a new part for you. There’s no risk of infection or
rejecting new body parts. His work is perfect. There’s no
haggling with insurance companies because it has all been
covered by His blood, and for you the price is just right—it’s
free.

AM I TOO LATE TO BE HEALED?

Maybe you are concerned that the hour is too late for you
to be healed? If this is what you think, think again.
Jesus stands before His dear friend Lazarus’ tomb and
requests they roll away the stone, but Martha, Lazarus’
sister, reasons with Him, “Lord, by this time there is a
stench, for he has been dead four days” (John 11:39). But
Jesus does not heed Martha’s doubt; instead He calls out in
faith to the dead body:

“Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came

out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and
his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to
them, “Loose him, and let him go” (John 11:43–
44).

No matter how late in the game you think it is, He can

still heal. I know what I speak of—our son was raised from
the dead (see Chapter 9 for more details.)
Abraham by faith received strength to father a child.

(As it is written, “I have made you a father of many

nations”) in the presence of Him whom he
believed—God, who gives life to the dead and
 calls those things which do not exist as though
they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed,
so that he became the father of many nations,
according to what was spoken, “So shall your
descendants be.” And not being weak in faith, he
did not consider his own body, already dead (since
he was about a hundred years old), and the
deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at
the promise of God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory to God (Romans
4:17–20).
By faith Sarah herself also received strength to
conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was
past the age, because she judged Him faithful who
had promised (Hebrews 11:11).

In fact, according to Genesis 17:17 she was 90 years old.

Just considering the healings and miracles that took
place in the lives of these three people, I encourage you and
say, “No, it is not too late for you to be healed in Jesus’
name.”

HE MAKES HOUSE CALLS

What a blessing, the Physician of all physicians still
makes house calls. In Luke 4:38-39, Peter’s mother-in-law is
sick with a high fever, and he asks Jesus to heal her. Jesus
stands over her and rebukes the fever, and she heals
instantly, rises from her bed, and serves them.
In Luke 8:40–56, we read how Jairus falls down at the feet
of Jesus and implores Him to come to His home and heal his
daughter who is on her deathbed. Jesus agrees, but the
young girl dies before they arrive. Jesus is not discouraged
by the news and encourages Jairus not to be afraid but to
believe and she will be healed. When they arrive they are
met by the mourners and the scoffers, but Jesus remains
strong in the faith. He does not allow any doubters to enter
into the room where the dead body lies. He only enters in
with Peter, James, and John and the girl’s parents and tells
the little girl to arise, and she comes back to life.
I witness some of the greatest miracles during private
house calls, and you can too. Study the faith lessons of
Jesus, and put your faith into action.

WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?

In Luke 18:41, Jesus stops on the side of the road and
asks the blind beggar man who is calling out to Him, “What
do you want Me to do for you?” A couple thousand years
later, the Great Physician is asking you the same question.
Obviously, this blind beggar was not poor in faith. From
the riches of his faith, he confidently responds, “Lord, that I
may receive my sight!”
What’s your response to the Great Physician?

RICH FAITH VERSUS POOR FAITH

With the healing testimony above from the Book of Luke,
we see that the blind beggar was not poor in his faith but
rich. At first, he sat on the side of the road and begged Jesus
to have mercy on him. But as soon as he engaged in
conversation with Jesus, he stopped the begging. When
Jesus asked what he wanted Jesus to do for him, he
answered with surety, “Lord, that I may receive my sight!”
Spiritually speaking, what is the financial condition of
your faith? Are you rich or poor in faith? If you are poor in
your faith, you need to work for a while and make some
deposits in your faith bank until your faith is rich and you
believe for your healing, just like the blind beggar did. If
your faith is rich, it’s time to trust Jesus and receive your
healing.

AMY’S RICH FAITH MAKES HER WHOLE

We tend to make the things of God so complicated that it
is difficult for people to believe. It doesn’t have to be this
way, and in all honesty it shouldn’t be. When we mature in
our faith, we will return to the sweet surrender of the
childlike faith that He desires from us. We will believe and
do what He says because our faith is rich and we naturally
trust Him.
Think of a newborn baby—when he or she is hungry, they
do not stop to question whether or not Mama has milk; they
just receive what they have need of. We need to trust the
Lord this way, richly.
Being in the healing ministry, I take in the most profound
workings of faith by observing children. They are not bound
up with unbelief; they are free to trust and receive. Let’s
learn to believe for the miraculous from the example of this
little girl.
There was a little girl in our elementary school named
Amy who struggled to read. No matter how hard she tried
she was unable to read. One night she felt especially
discouraged. Her parents spoke with her and encouraged
her to pray to God and ask Him for help.
Later during the night, the parents felt concern and
decided to go to her room to pray with her, but they were
amazed at what they found. Their daughter was already on
her knees beside her bed praying to Jesus, asking Him from
the richness of her faith to help her to read.
 The Bible says in Hebrews 4:16 that we are to “draw near
with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may
receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need”
(NASB). We are to go boldly before the throne of grace and
make our needs known. There are two faith steps that we
need to take into account in order to go boldly before His
throne of grace and receive.

1. We need to learn to trust Him richly. “Fear not, for I

am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I
will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold
you with My righteous right hand” (Isa. 41:10).
2. In order to trust Him we need to know Him as the
God who cares. “Casting all your cares [all your
anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns,
once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with
deepest affection, and watches over you very
carefully]” (1 Pet. 5:7 AMP).

It’s after we have taken these two faith steps that we can
go boldly before His throne of grace like this little girl did
and receive. And what did she receive?
The next morning, Amy woke up with anticipation, ran
with excitement to tell her parents that she could now read,
and began to read to them aloud.
Learn to trust in Jehovah Rapha, the Great Physician, like
Amy did and activate your faith richly in Him so you can be
made whole.

PRAYER
Dear Jehovah Rapha,
You are my Great Physician, the Lord who heals
me. There is no other like You. You understand the
 pathology of all sickness and disease, and more
importantly, You know the cause of illness. You
have the remedy; You are the cure for all sickness
and disease.
You created my body. You possess the revelation of
every cell, tissue, organ, and system within it. You
designed it and orchestrated it to function
together in harmony to produce life, and life in
abundance.
Your medical report declares that health and
healing are in Your perfect will and that they are
good gifts given to us for our benefit.
Your Spirit gives life to my mortal body, and no
matter how bad the situation looks, it is not too
late for my body to heal.
I exercise my faith richly in Your healing word and I
am made whole.
In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

Turn to the following chapter and learn about a personal

choice that you must make in a life and death situation and
how to activate a couple of God’s supernatural medicines.

SELF-EXAMINATION
Have I gained a greater understanding of Jehovah Rapha,
my Great Physician? Do I recognize His supremacy over the
human body and why He knows how to heal it? Do I struggle
with His medical report that says His Spirit gives life to my
mortal body? Do I have sick and weak body parts that need
to be resurrected or healed? Do I have a clearer
understanding about faith? Do I have rich faith or poor faith?
How do I strengthen it? How do I activate it? Do I understand
that it is my faith in Him that makes me whole? Do I see now
it’s not too late for me to be healed? Am I willing to make a
house call and minister healing to those who are in need?

NOTE
1. Chris Poblete, “The Names of God: Jehovah Rapha,” The
BLB Blog, July 27, 2012,
http://blogs.blueletterbible.org/blb/2012/07/27/the-
names-of-god-jehovah-rapha.
 CHAPTER 9

CHOOSE LIFE, LAUGHTER, AND

JOY

“I accept His advice to choose life that I may live. I

receive beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I
take His medicine—laughter and joy for my
strength.”

Are you at a crossroads in life? Is life difficult today? Does

the mountain appear too big to climb? Is there a struggle on
the inside of you to make the right choice? And of utmost
importance, will your decision glorify God and bless others?
Everything you do today will involve a decision that you
need to make. Will your decision be right or wrong?
The Bible gives us the best advice in decision making. It
says to choose Jesus, choose the straight and narrow path,
choose to serve the Lord, choose the good fight of faith,
choose to believe, choose to love, choose to give, choose to
forgive, to name just a few. Today He says, “Choose life.”

CHOOSE LIFE
 Regardless of the crisis we face, God gives us the best
option, and that is to choose life. Deuteronomy 30:19
declares, “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against
you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your
descendants may live.”
We should also realize that our decisions today will
impact our future generations. If we desire to walk in the
blessings of God, then our choices need to be godly ones.
Wrong choices will result in negative consequences, not only
for us but for our descendants as well.

Abortion
We live in a day and an age when society devalues
human life, especially the life of the unborn child. I
understand the issues that are involved, but nonetheless
everyone has the godly right to life. Regardless of their stage
of development while in the womb, predicted physical
conditions or limitations, or the situations in which they
were conceived, I still believe in the biblical principle that all
people are created in the mirror image of God. As unpopular
as my beliefs may be, I stand firm in my convictions and I
am pro-life. I choose life.
There are many excuses today why women think they
should abort their children. Not one of these reasons will
ever alter my stance on the value of human life.
Some say, “The mother is too young, or she is just a child
herself.” I recently met a dear lady who shared with me her
life story. She showed me a photo of her as a very young
teenage girl holding her three-week-old baby girl before
giving her up for adoption. I had tears in my eyes as she
shared with me in detail how difficult it was to give her up
for adoption. But years later, she has been reunited with her
adult daughter. Hurts have been healed as they have come
to know and understand one another. The cycle of their
family was not cut off by abortion, but through adoption
their family grew.
Young unwed mothers are told, “Your parents will be
angry when they find out.” They probably will be, but their
anger does not override that baby’s right to life. Perhaps this
young unwed mother’s child might be the one God chooses
to discover a cure for a disease that is plaguing our society.
Or will marry and give birth to a child who eventually does
discover a cure. Whatever their future holds, God has a plan
for them, and the baby has the right to live and fulfill his or
her destiny.
I lived through this experience when I was 18 years old,
pregnant and unmarried. With encouragement and
Christian discipleship, my boyfriend and I married, and we
have been married for 35-plus years. Being young and not
feeling adequate to be a mother I prayed to God a simple
but heartfelt prayer, “God, please teach me to be a good
mom.” He honored that prayer. Today, my husband and I
have three grown biological children, five adopted boys,
seven grandchildren, and a children’s home in Guatemala
for abandoned children, orphans, and children born with
HIV. I have become a spiritual mother to many people
around the world.
Being young, pregnant, and unmarried does not have to
be the end of a good future. If you give the situation over to
God, it is just the beginning with a rough start. Our Lord
Jesus is willing and able to see you through. He is faithful
and can be trusted.
Angry voices cry out, “What about rape victims who find
themselves pregnant?” I agree with you that rape is an
unacceptable crime, but punish the one who is responsible,
the rapist, not the innocent child. Women all around the
world have suffered rape; some aborted their babies while
others gave their babies the greatest gift of all,
unconditional love, and put their children up for adoptions
or chose to keep and raise their babies themselves.
Other women, married or not, say to themselves and to
others, “I am not ready for a child. I have my career to
pursue.” This is certainly not a reason to end the life of a
child. If you honestly do not want your child, then give your
child to someone else who does. Adoption preserves the life
of your child, your dignity, and gives the opportunity for your
child to fulfill their destiny as well.
We have five adopted sons; the youngest is Marcos. He
survived several abortion attempts. A Christian nurse
intervened before the last attempt at a hospital and gave a
plan of hope to the birth mother—instead of abortion, put
the baby up for adoption. We received Marcos when he was
one day old. He later died at one month old from SIDS
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). But by the true power of
faith, we raised our son from the dead, and believed and
received by faith a new heart, new lungs, new kidneys, and
a new brain. With God all things are possible! You can read
his miraculous testimony in my first work, Dare to Believe.
What happens when the pregnant mother receives a
terrible medical report about the unborn child? With today’s
technology this happens, but there is a real God who offers
hope to the hopeless.
I had the opportunity to minister healing to two unborn
children this past year. Both mothers were told to abort their
children because of health issues concerning their unborn
babies. Both were Christians and said no they would not do
that. By faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, both children were
healed while in the womb and were born healthy and whole.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly

abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all
 generations, forever and ever. Amen (Ephesians
3:20-21).

You say, “I know of families whose children were born

with physical challenges.” I do too, and the beauty of these
families again is the unconditional love that is given to these
children and the love that these children give to their
families.
I was born with physical challenges, but my relatives
pitched in and helped my parents through the difficult
times.
What it all boils down to is that society devalues human
life because they deny God and the biblical teachings that
reveal the true value of people and the plans and purposes
that He has for us.
If you find yourself in this situation today, He is
encouraging you to choose life today.

Suicide and Assisted Suicide

We are going to turn to another serious subject right now
and speak very candidly about suicide and assisted suicide.
This is a painful matter to discuss, but we must.
There are also famous verses found in Ecclesiastes 3:1-2,
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose
under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to
plant, and a time to pluck what is planted.” God has
destined when we will be born and when we will die. In
Deuteronomy 30:19, He instructs us to choose life.
No matter what people may say, what message the
media will try to portray, or what excuse satan will whisper
in your ear, you never take your own life or assist someone
else to end their life.
Yes, satan is the one who will tell you to end your life. He
will use other people to convince you that there is no hope,
especially in this day and age when human life is devalued.
These things are wrong, they are evil in the sight of God,
and they come from the pit of hell.
As followers of Christ, we need to be proactive and teach
people that they are valuable, that there is a reason for
them to live.
The Bible tells us in John 10:10 that the thief, satan,
comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Let me ask you, what
do suicide and assisted suicide do? They steal, kill, and
destroy, and satan is the author of this evil.
Jesus continues to say in the same verse, “I have come
that they may have life, and that they may have it more
abundantly.” You may think that your life is not worth living.
Perhaps your body is racked with sickness and disease. Jesus
includes you in His plan of atonement. He offers you life and
life in abundance through the supernatural gift of healing
and deliverance.
According to God’s standards, you never end your own
life, nor do you assist someone else to take their life. These
are demonic-guided activities.
God says choose life today.

NEVER GIVE UP
Are you in the midst of a raging battle? Do you feel like
it’s time to give up?
We all face battles in this life, but some are more difficult
than others. After time, one can be tempted to give up the
fight and let the enemy win. Don’t!
God has given you everything you need to win this battle.
You have fought long and hard to get this far and have done
everything you know to do. Even still, the enemy is
unrelenting. What do you do now?
 After having done everything, we are encouraged in
Ephesians 6:13 to stand. That’s right, stand. Don’t sit down
and give in to the enemy, but stand strong. Dig in our heels,
be unmovable, fight the enemy to the finish, and never give
up.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that

you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand (Ephesians 6:13).

GOD’S THOUGHTS ABOUT YOU

One major reason people lay their spiritual armor down,
give up, and die is because they feel God doesn’t love them
and that He doesn’t care about their struggle. This is why we
as followers of Christ need to be take the initiative and tell
them and show them just how much He really does care for
them and love them.
Perhaps the person in this battle is you, and you are the
one who needs to be encouraged to not give up today. Did
you know that God thinks about you? Does this give peace
or cause a twinge of fear? When you understand what the
Bible says it will bring you peace and comfort.
Psalm 139:17-18 reveals the types of thoughts He thinks
concerning you. It says, “How precious also are thy thoughts
unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should
count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I
awake, I am still with thee” (KJV).
According to this scripture, the Lord has more than just a
few good thoughts about you. In fact, you cannot count the
total sum of them.
We live in such a negative world that people have a
difficult time sharing a pleasant thought about another. But
despite the negativeness of this world, God can’t stop
thinking good thoughts about us.
His thoughts about us are more than good thoughts, they
are precious thoughts. When something is precious, it is
valuable, priceless, beyond the limit of a price tag. When
something is precious, it is important, significant, and it
matters. When something is precious, it is treasured, very
dear to the heart. When something is precious, it is
cherished, esteemed very highly. And we are the somethings
that are precious and loved, appreciated, respected,
esteemed, treasured, cherished, prized, and held very dear
to His heart.
When He thinks about us, He thinks to Himself how
valuable and important we are to Him, how much He
treasures us and cherishes us, and how precious we are to
Him.
His thoughts are this way because His love for us is
unconditional. We cannot earn His love by doing good
works. His love for us is given freely. Nor can we lose His love
by bad behavior either.
Did you know that God does not have bad children? He
does have children that have done bad things, that’s called
sin. And what did He say to those that wanted to stone the
woman that was caught in the act of adultery? “He who is
without sin cast the first stone.” And one by one her
accusers walked away. And what did He say to this woman?
“Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more.” He could not do
this if His thoughts towards her were wicked.
Roman 5:8 comforts us with these words, “But God
commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us” (KJV).
His love for us is unconditional. There are no
requirements to be met in order to be loved by Him. In fact,
whether we love Him or not, He still loves us. He is for us
and not against us. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”
(KJV). God loves us so much that He gave His best, His Son,
Jesus Christ to redeem us. He couldn’t do this if He thought
we were not worth redeeming.
Jesus Christ loved us so much that He willingly shed His
blood on the Cross to save us from our sins, to heal us of all
sickness and diseases, to set us free from all bondages. And
He promises to make us whole. Jeremiah 31:3 assures us,
“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (KJV). In order to
redeem us His thoughts had to be pure and wholesome
about us.
He loves us unconditionally, and thinks only the best
about us.
God has supernatural medicines that heal us in our spirit,
soul, and body. We are going to discuss two of these here—
laughter and joy.

LAUGHTER
For many of God’s children, laughter is not a laughing
matter. His people are so weighted down by the hurts of this
world they forget how to laugh, let alone smile. Many are on
antidepressant drugs or other substances because they
simply want freedom from the pain in their life.
I believe that by the power of the Holy Spirit we can start
to laugh again, even when life hurts. Why? Because laughter
is more than a response to a witty joke or a funny story. It’s
one of God’s supernatural medicines with actual healing
properties within each laugh.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 tells us that there is “A time to weep, and
a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” Yes,
there is a time to weep and a time to mourn, but this is a
period of time, not a perpetual state of being. God so wants
to heal your mind and your emotions so that you can laugh
and even dance again.

Beauty for Ashes

Maybe your heart is so broken that you don’t even know
where to begin to pick up the pieces, but your heavenly
Father knows how:

To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them

beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that
they may be called trees of righteousness, the
planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified
(Isaiah 61:3).

What does it mean beauty for ashes? During times of

great sorrow, the mourner would sit down in the ash pit and
cover themselves with the ashes to demonstrate the deep
pain and hurt they felt.1
The word beauty comes from the Hebrew word pě’er and
is a head-dress, ornament, or turban (Strong’s, H6287). This
message from Isaiah conveys how the Messiah ministers to
our deepest inner wounds—by removing our turban of ashes
filled with mourning and sadness, and in exchange He
adorns us with His supernatural joy and beauty.

The Oil of Joy for Mourning

The oil of joy for morning, or the anointing of the Spirit in
lieu of that plenteousness of tears which naturally belonged
to mourners,2 is a supernatural inner healing anointing from
the Holy Spirit for God’s children to apply during their time
of mourning.
I remember many years ago, I met a sweet-tempered
woman who had lost all five of her children in one night
during a horrific accident. I was a complete stranger to her,
but she opened up to me; for whatever reason, she felt I was
a safe person for her to share her deepest hurt in life and the
journey she went through to heal.
This inner healing doesn’t mean she forgets her children
or that they are no longer an important part of her life. What
it does mean is that in His great mercy for her, He goes into
the secret crevices of her soul, her mind, and her emotions,
and carefully brings her back into the stream of life where
she feels safe to open her heart again to others and truly
smile, laugh, and even dance again. What He does for this
woman He will do for you.
Now, when I met this woman she had a sweet
temperament about her, but as she shared that is not the
way she was before her healing. Unfortunately, after the
death of her children she turned to alcohol, but it couldn’t
take away the pain. It just compounded this deep pain in
life. She blamed God, others, and even herself for the
tragedy. She became an angry alcoholic and very
dysfunctional.
Before we finish with her testimony, we need to set the
record straight on something.

Did God Take Her Children?

To set the record straight we need to look at this tragedy
through the eyes of God’s Word. Did God take her children?
According to John 10:10, it is the thief, satan, who comes to
steal, to kill, and to destroy—not God. Continuing on in this
passage, Jesus tells us that He came to give us life and life in
abundance. So let me ask you again, “Did God take her
children?” No, He did not; satan did.
But you say, “He allowed it!” What He allows to every
person is a free will. The freedom to make choices, both big
and small. Sometimes we make wrong decisions, and even a
seemingly harmless one can cause grave consequences. So
am I saying it’s the fault of humans? Sometimes yes and
sometimes no. Quite frankly, putting the blame for a
tragedy on God or on a person doesn’t bring healing. What
does bring healing is the truth.
What is the truth in these matters? John 16:33 tells us
that “in the world you will have tribulation,” meaning in this
world we will pass through difficult times, not because God
has ordained it but because we have an enemy, satan, who
is bent upon our destruction.
If you blame anyone, then you need to blame satan. He is
the one responsible. Jesus is your helper in time of need.

Apply the Oil of Joy

Despite her anger, bitterness, and alcoholism, she had a
few friends who remained faithfully at her side. Somewhere
along the line, her friends had found the greatest healer of
all, Jesus Christ. They shared Him with her, and she
accepted Him as her Savior and made Him her Lord.
He went into those deep, dark crevices of her soul, and
He shed the light of His healing Word and brought her back
to the place called “life” where she was again able to smile,
laugh, love, function, and even dance again. This did not
happen overnight; it was a process. He continued to heal the
woundedness of her soul as she allowed Him entrance.
I want to give you these words sung by David in Psalm
30:11, “You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with
gladness.”

The Garment of Praise

There is a supernatural garment He gives to us that
causes us to step into the realm of victory. It is called praise.
We see throughout the Bible that God’s people praise their
way through seemingly impossible situations.
 For you this seemingly impossible situation may be an
unexpected pregnancy, the loss of someone you love dearly,
enslavement to addiction, or sickness and disease. Whatever
the situation might be, praise will lift you out of the pit of
despair.
When we praise God during the storms of life, our focus
shifts from the uncertainty in the storm to the greatness of
our God to see us through. Hope arises, worry lifts off of us,
clarity of mind comes forth, and negative emotions lose
their power when we praise the Lord.

The Benefits of Laughter

As I mentioned above, laughter possesses healing
properties. It relieves stress and pain and aids in the healing
process in other ways. Let’s look at the list of short-term and
long-term benefits of laughter compiled by the Mayo Clinic.
A good sense of humor can’t cure all ailments, but data
are mounting about the positive things laughter can do.

Short-Term Benefits
A good laugh has great short-term effects. When you
start to laugh, it doesn’t just lighten your load mentally, it
actually induces physical changes in your body. Laughter
can:

 Stimulate many organs. Laughter enhances your

intake of oxygen-rich air; stimulates your heart, lungs,
and muscles; and increases the endorphins that are
released by your brain.
 Activate and relieve your stress response. A rollicking
laugh fires up and then cools down your stress
response and increases your heart rate and blood
pressure. The result? A good, relaxed feeling.
  Soothe tension. Laughter can also stimulate
circulation and aid muscle relaxation, both of which
help reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress.

Long-Term Effects
Laughter isn’t just a quick pick-me-up, though. It’s also
good for you over the long haul. Laughter may:

 Improve your immune system. Negative thoughts

manifest into chemical reactions that can affect your
body by bringing more stress into your system and
decreasing your immunity. In contrast, positive
thoughts actually release neuropeptides that help
fight stress and potentially more serious illnesses.
 Relieve pain. Laughter may ease pain by causing the
body to produce its own natural painkillers. Laughter
may also break the pain-spasm cycle common to
some muscle disorders.
 Increase personal satisfaction. Laughter can make it
easier to cope with difficult situations. It also helps
you connect with other people.
 Improve your mood. Many people experience
depression, sometimes due to chronic illnesses.
Laughter can help lessen your depression and anxiety
and make you feel happier.3

There Is Strength in Laughter

Almost always after a healing service, the Holy Spirit will
cause me to laugh so hard I feel like I am going to bust.
Interestingly, He doesn’t cause me to laugh this way
publicly, but privately. By the time I am done laughing I am
energized and strengthened. My mind has settled down and
is ready to sleep.
Take Your Supernatural Medicine
Illness steals your laughter, weakens your strength, and
hinders your healing. It can easily become a vicious cycle of
depression, pain, and more sickness. So whether or not you
feel up to a good laugh, you need to make a decision and
just do it—laugh.
You might feel phony at first, and that’s okay. Look at it in
this way—you need to take your medicine. With practice you
will find that it is easy to laugh with the Lord. I believe
before you know it He will cause you to laugh when you
need it most, and your spirit, soul, and body will be full of
strength.

Healing and Miracles Restore Laughter

Sarai could not envision herself ever having a child. She,
like Abram, her husband, had no hope, and instead of seeing
God as her hope she blamed Him for her barrenness.
Assessing the situation at hand, applying everything but
faith, she came up with a plan. Abram agreed and conceived
a child with her maidservant, Hagar (see Gen. 16). This plan
was not God’s plan; it was conceived of the flesh, not by
faith, and it gave no glory to God. Sarai too had a hard
lesson to learn, for now she was despised in the eyes of her
maidservant.
When the Lord changed Abram’s name to Abraham, He
also gave Sarai a new name. She was now Sarah, declaring
that she would bear a son, and she would be a mother of
nations; kings of peoples would come from her womb that
once was barren. God loves to bring forth the possible from
the impossible. It reveals His mighty hand and leads many
people to Him.
Like Abraham, Sarah had a decision to make in this
miracle as well. When she first heard the prophetic message
from God’s messengers that she would bear a child, she
laughed with doubt and unbelief. When the messengers of
the Lord asked why she laughed, she lied and denied that
she had laughed, but they corrected her. God knows what’s
in our hearts, and our hearts need to be rid of all doubt and
unbelief in order to conceive a miracle.
Most of us remember that Sarah laughed at the prophetic
word spoken by God’s messengers, but Abraham laughed
too with doubt and unbelief (see Gen. 17:17–19). He
actually fell on his face and laughed! He started to reason in
his heart once again about their ages; he was now 100 years
old and Sarah was 90 years old. Sarah was past childbearing
years. Those were the facts, but do the facts limit God’s
power?
Abraham actually was bidding with God that He would
bring the blessing through his son, Ishmael. God said no; He
wouldn’t do that. He was going to bring about His promise
to Abraham by the way of faith and not according to the
flesh.
In response to Abraham’s human reasoning, God said to
him, “Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed
time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son” (Gen. 18:14). Abraham made the
decision to trust God. This time he did not take into account
his age or his aged body, the lack of his physical strength, or
that Sarah was an elderly barren woman. Instead, he
focused on the greatness of his God.
Sarah too lined herself up with the promise of God that
she would bear Abraham’s son in her old age. God’s promise
did come to pass, just as He said it would. She conceived a
child at the age of 90 by her own faith, and that barren
womb supernaturally opened up and she bore a son.

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to

conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was
 past the age, because she judged Him faithful who
had promised (Hebrews 11:11).

He took away her shame and sorrow and gave her a baby
son named Isaac. Isaac means “laughter.” Her laughter of
doubt and unbelief that she had been called on earlier was
transformed by His supernatural power. God had not
forgotten her; her joy was restored through this miracle.

JOY
Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that the joy of the Lord is our
strength. Joy is often thought of as an emotion, but in reality
is much more than a mere emotion. It is a supernatural
strength given to us by God to empower us.

The Joy of My Salvation

Do you remember the joy of your salvation? I will never
forget the day I received Jesus as my Savior. People who
knew me before that glorious day would comment about
how I just shone, and they wanted to know why. It was that
evident.
I knew why—I found joy when I found Jesus, and I
couldn’t help but smile and laugh. “Yet I will rejoice in the
Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (Hab. 3:18). And
why wouldn’t I rejoice about my salvation? It is the best
thing that has ever happened in my life.
This joy of our salvation is contagious. When we are
genuine in our faith, people want what we have. It is meant
to be shared with others. There is even great rejoicing in
Heaven over our salvation. “Likewise, I say to you, there is
joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who
repents” (Luke 15:10).
Finding the Fullness of Joy

You will show me the path of life; in Your presence

is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures
forevermore (Psalm 16:11).

There are two gateways to choose from in this life—the

narrow gate or the wide gate. Only one of these gates leads
to His presence where there is the fullness of joy. Matthew
describes these two gateways for us:

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and

broad is the way that leads to destruction, and
there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is
the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life,
and there are few who find it (Matthew 7:13-14).

Contrary to society’s beliefs, the wide gate isn’t all that it

is cracked up to be. It can only bring temporary satisfaction
because sin is only pleasurable for a season (see Heb.
11:25). In the beginning sin is pleasurable, but this wears
off quickly. It leaves the sinner feeling letdown and empty,
searching for more, and it leads to eternal death.
God’s gateway is the one that is straight and narrow, and
it leads to the blessing of being satisfied, fulfilled in His
presence.

Activate His Fullness of Joy

Okay, we find Jesus, and at the same time we discover
our joy. But how do we obtain the fullness of His joy? The
baptism of the Holy Spirit will enhance His power in us. He
will rev it up to full and overflowing like we desire.
First of all, you have to be willing to receive the power of
the Holy Spirit. It says in Acts 1:8, “But you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” He will
eagerly come upon you with His power if you will receive of
Him.
You activate the fullness of His joy for edification when
you pray in the Spirit, or in tongues. “He who speaks in a
tongue edifies himself ” (1 Cor. 14:4).
If you will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive of
this power, John 7:38 says this will happen, “He who
believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will
flow rivers of living water.”
The Holy Spirit can intervene and help us when we are
baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in
our heavenly supernatural language:

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.

For we do not know what we should pray for as we
ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered
(Romans 8:26).

This empowerment of the Holy Spirit is for the born-again

believer and to the generations that follow them.

Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every

one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you
and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as
many as the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:38-39).

We activate the fullness of joy when we are in His

presence, and we obtain the measure of fullness when we
are baptized in the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues.

Joy Poppers
 A joy popper is anyone or anything that steals your joy.
For example, I will not watch sad movies of people dying
from cancer; no, I need to build my faith in the Word and
believe for it to be healed in Jesus’ name. Below is a short
list of things that can rob your joy.

 Anger
 Feuding with one another
 Unforgiveness
 Self-pity
 A negative word, conversation, or report
 Sad and depressing movies, stories, or articles
 Sickness and disease, especially long-term illness
 The premature death of a loved one
 Pain
 Sin

Depression Busters
Take responsibility for the state of your well-being and do
whatever you can do to break free from depression. Here is a
short list of depression busters that God has provided for
you to help you get free and stay that way.

 Give your life to Jesus and become born again.

 Press into God’s presence.
 Activate the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
 Rekindle the joy of your salvation.
 Encourage yourself as you pray in the Holy Spirit.
  Get healed from sickness and disease.
 Forgive those who have done you wrong and move
forward.
 Stop rehearsing your failures.
 Read or listen to a message of hope found in God’s
Word.
 Put on the garment of praise.
 Sing and dance and make a joyful noise.
 Put a smile on your face.
 Laugh at the enemy.
 Choose your friends wisely; hang out with positive
people.

Healed From TMJ and Smiling Again

Illness steals a person’s joy and their desire to smile and
laugh, as was the case with Bridgete Cash from Buena Vista,
Virginia.
About two years ago, Bridgete heard about a healing
service that was going to be held in a nearby church in
Lexington. The Holy Spirit prompted her that she needed to
go to this meeting. She arrived from work just as the
meeting was about to start, so she sat near the back of the
church. After the message, the altar was opened up for
people who needed to have hands laid upon them for
healing. Now, let’s read what Bridgete has to say as the altar
call was given.

I thought to myself, that’s me. I had suffered for

five years from TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint
Disorder). And nothing could be done. I was eating
eight Ibuprofen a day, and Tylenol in between, and
 still was having breakthrough pain. I would lay in
bed at night and just cry and rub my face because
it would hurt so much.
Having no relief from pain medications, I also went
to physical therapy and acupuncture. But nothing
provided any relief! I was at the point where I
didn’t even want to smile because I didn’t feel
good. I couldn’t smile because it hurt my face. I
didn’t want to eat because everything just hurt.
My life had taken a complete downturn.

In case you do not know, here is a medical explanation of

what Bridgete says she is suffering from. The
temporomandibular joint acts like a sliding hinge
connecting the jawbone to the skull. Temporomandibular
Joint Disorder can cause pain in the jaw joint and in the
muscles that control jaw movement.4
Bridgete continues to tell us what happened as she was
about to be healed.

So, I went up and Becky laid her hands on me, and

I could just feel it. I went and sat down in a chair
and I thought to myself, I do feel different,
something is different on the inside of me. By the
next morning the pain had completely gone. I
have not had one pain since then from TMJ. I was
completely healed, through her touch by the Lord.
And I thank God every day.

God’s supernatural healing power delivers us from sorrow

and pain and restores our laughter and joy so we can smile
again.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and

come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on
their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness,
 and sorrow and sighing shall flee away (Isaiah
35:10).

PRAYER
Dear Heavenly Father,
Even if life is difficult for me today, I accept Your
advice—I do not give up, but I choose life. If
someone else is in a rough spot this day, I will
speak to them and let them know that their life
counts. I will be proactive with my faith and let
people know that we are all precious and valuable
to You.
I take the responsibility for my emotional and
physical well-being, I receive Your beauty for my
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, I put on the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, and I
choose to grab hold of Your supernatural
medicines, laughter and joy. To regain my physical
strength I put a smile on my face and I start to
laugh again. I rekindle the joy of my salvation, and
I press into Your presence so that my joy may be
full. I activate the power of the Holy Spirit, pray in
tongues, and encourage my spirit in You.
I will keep a sharp eye out for joy poppers and not
allow negative people or ungodly activity to rob
me of my joy. I will do whatever is necessary to
break free from depression and activate all the
depression busters that You have provided for me.
In Your name, dear Jesus, I pray, amen.

Turn to the next chapter and discover the healing power

of repentance and forgiveness and learn how to heal.
 SELF-EXAMINATION
Do I have tough decisions to make today? Am I willing to
accept God’s advice and choose life in every situation,
knowing this decision will affect future generations? Do I
struggle with depression? Is there a deep hurt that I need to
pray with someone about? Can I honestly say I am able to
smile and laugh? Do I need to go over the checklist of joy
poppers and make some adjustments in my life? Am I
applying everything on the depression buster list so I can be
free from all depression?

NOTES
1. Andrew Robert Fausset, “Biblical Definition of Ashes,”
Bible History Online, accessed May 18, 2016,
http://www.bible-history.com/faussets/A/Ashes.
2. “Isaiah 61,” Pulpit Commentary, accessed May 18, 2016,
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/61.htm.
3. Mayo Clinic Staff, “Stress Relief from Laughter? It’s No
Joke,” Mayo Clinic, April 21, 2016,
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-
management/in-depth/stress-relief/art-20044456.
4. Mayo Clinic Staff, “TMJ Disorders,” Mayo Clinic, December
13, 2012, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-
conditions/tmj/basics/definition/CON-20043566.
 CHAPTER 10

THE HEALING POWER OF

REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS

“I heed His counsel and repent, rid myself from

bitterness, forgive others, and empower my faith by
love.”

The Spirit of God is reaching out to you with His message of

healing. He is teaching you how to heal in spirit, in soul, and
in body. Therefore, the question you should be asking
yourself now is, “Am I willing to heed His counsel?”
Some of you, especially those who have a medical
background, struggle with this message. It goes against
everything you have been taught. I do not suggest that you
toss all your knowledge aside but that you humble yourself
before the sight of the Lord and realize that man’s
knowledge, even as advanced as it is, is no match against
God’s wisdom. His Spirit tells us:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are

your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways
higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your
thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).
 At a recent meeting, a beloved obstetrician in the
community sat in the front row. After he heard how Jesus
redeemed him from sickness and disease, he came forward
to receive healing in his lower back. To his joy, his back was
instantly healed. I then placed his hands in mine and placed
them upon the next person in line. Interestingly, it was a
pregnant woman who was in need of a miracle for her
unborn child.
I encourage you within the medical field, with your
medical knowledge and your understanding of the human
body, not to limit the power of the Holy Spirit to heal but to
align yourself with Him. Ask Him to reveal Himself strong to
you. Before you tend to the next patient, ask the Lord what
needs to be done in this person’s situation and then pray
with your patient. Activate your faith and heed His counsel
to heal.

REPENTANCE HEALS
Sin is so prevalent within the body of Christ today. It
slithers in slowly as believers keep quiet about what they
observe around them. It is to the point now that many of
God’s people are full of deception, and they no longer
recognize right from wrong. This sin is the cause of much
sickness and disease today.
Let’s look to the Book of Revelation for one probable
cause for sickness in the Church today. Turn to your Bible
and read Revelation 2:18–29, the message to the church in
Thyatira. We can call this fellowship “the immoral church.”

I know your works, love, service, faith, and your

patience; and as for your works, the last are more
than the first. Nevertheless I have a few things
against you, because you allow that woman
 Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach
and seduce My servants to commit sexual
immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I
gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality,
and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a
sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, unless they repent of their
deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all
the churches shall know that I am He who
searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to
each one of you according to your works
(Revelation 2:19–23).

The church in Thyatira is the portion of God’s people who

refuse to repent of their immoral ways. They are so deceived
that they even allow a spirit of Jezebel to lead them.
Because they tolerate Jezebel in their midst they suffer with
sickness and great tribulations or difficulties. Even their
children are inflicted with pestilence.
I mentioned in Chapter 1 that as a healing minister, I
have never seen God’s people as sick as they are now. Along
with the lack of teaching from the pulpits about
supernatural healing, another reason for this is a direct
consequence of allowing the evils of Jezebel to reign within
the local fellowships.
The only way to free ourselves from the consequences of
tolerating this wicked spirit is to repent because we did not
take a stand against it and demand it to step down and
leave. If the people do not want it to leave, then we must
flee from its demonic control and immoral behavior. Then
we ourselves must remain faithful to the teachings of Jesus
Christ until the end of time or the Lord calls us home,
whichever comes first.
 PAGANISM IN THE CHURCH
Another probable cause for the rise of sickness in the
Church today is the overt practice of New Age and any other
pagan religion by the body of Christ. Let’s take a closer look
at one accursed activity that is widely accepted and
heatedly defended by Christians today—yoga.
God’s people bound by this Hindu practice will fight you
tooth and nail to defend their claim that what they do is a
Christian form of yoga. First of all, this is an oxymoron. Yoga
is a Hindu expression of faith and not a Christian one. You
cannot mix the two together and come out with Christian.
No, you create compromise.
Second, let’s discuss what they call chakras. Hindus
believe there are seven chakras in the human body that run
from the base of your spine to the top of your head.
Supposedly these chakras are energy channels that
correspond to different areas of the body and correlate to
specific circumstances in your life. This is not Christian
teaching. The Bible warns us in First Timothy 4:1, “Now the
Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart
from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines
of demons.”
Third, the stretching exercises, which may seem
innocent, are not. They are worship poses to the Hindu gods
that you fashion with your own body. It doesn’t matter if
there is Christian music playing in the background and you
are quoting Scriptures, you are still participating in a Hindu
worship service and bowing to their false gods.
This act alone breaks the first and second
commandments:

You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall

not make for yourself a carved image—any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or
 that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth; you shall not bow down to them
nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me (Exodus 20:3–
5).

Fourth, the Hindu form of meditation is in direct

opposition to the biblical form of meditation. The Hindu
form is that you empty yourself, which in reality opens you
up to demonic forces that enter into your soul, mind, and
emotions and take root within your spirit, which brings a
curse upon you, your physical body, and even upon your
family. God’s form of meditation can be found in Joshua 1:8.
Let’s read:

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips;

meditate on it day and night, so that you may be
careful to do everything written in it. Then you will
be prosperous and successful (Joshua 1:8 NIV).

Last, the power of Om—even though it is a very simple

sound, it is complex in meaning. Om is an ancient chant
used in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Om is the whole
universe melded into a single word, representing the union
of mind, body, and spirit that is at the heart of yoga. Often
chanted three times to keep the mind occupied while being
trained to meditate at the start and finish of a yoga session.
You reply, “Well, I don’t participate in that part.” You’re
wrong; you do. Even if you remain silent during these
chants, you still tolerate them. All words possess the power
of life and death, including Om, and these chants are
derived by Hindu and Buddhist witchcraft. They are working
their evil in you. Paul asks us a pertinent question:
 Do you not know that your body is the temple of
the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from
God, and you are not your own? For you were
bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God’s (1
Corinthians 6:19-20).

Even if you change up the yoga session, you still

compromise your faith and participate in Hinduism with
your spirit, soul, and body. Jesus says in Matthew 22:37, “You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, and with all your mind.” He is referring to Elohim,
Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, not Hindu gods.
Joshua petitions us to take a stand on whom we will serve:

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord,

choose for yourselves this day whom you will
serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the River, or the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But
as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord
(Joshua 24:15).

This leads us to the exposure and warning to the church

in Pergamum, or the “compromising church.”

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write,

“These things says He who has the sharp two-
edged sword: ‘I know your works, and where you
dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast
to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the
days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who
was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I
have a few things against you, because you have
there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who
taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the
 children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols,
and to commit sexual immorality. Thus you also
have those who hold the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent, or else I
will come to you quickly and will fight against
them with the sword of My mouth. He who has an
ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. To him who overcomes I will give some
of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a
white stone, and on the stone a new name written
which no one knows except him who receives it’”
(Revelation 2:12–17).

Again, the way to release yourself from this bondage of

sin is to repent to the Lord for your involvement and then
renounce the spirit of Hinduism and Buddhism, or any other
pagan religion you are involved with, and turn away from it,
never to return to it again.

Set Free from Yoga and the Physical Effects of It

Healing is part of God’s plan of redemption and is found
throughout the Bible. In these last days there are many
counterfeit doctrines that promise healing, but they come
with demonic attachments. As Christians we need to be
extra careful what we align ourselves with.
Two Spirit-filled Christian ladies bought into the lie that
yoga was harmless and in the right setting transformed into
a Christian exercise class. After all, their Christian friends
were doing it, so it must be alright. Wrong!
As Christians, we just can’t do whatever others do. We
have to judge it according to the Word. If we have to
compromise the Word of God and make excuses to justify
the activity, then it’s not right.
Since their involvement, both these ladies suffered in the
lower back and hip area, and neither were able to rid
themselves of this constant pain.
We discussed the matter during a Bible study, and they
both assessed the situation. They judged the practice of
yoga with the Word of God. They admitted that their
involvement with it was wrong, and they took the steps to
freedom mentioned above. They asked the Lord to forgive
them, and they renounced the demons that had latched on
to them. Instantly they were both healed and have remained
free from this pain.

SEXUAL IMMORALITY
The sin of sexual immorality reigned in both the church
in Pergamum and the church in Thyatira. It started at the
top with the leadership. Either they were enslaved to sexual
sins or they refused to address it from their pulpits and call
it what it is—sin.
To the church of Pergamum, God says:

But I have a few things against you, because you

have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam,
who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before
the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to
idols, and to commit sexual immorality (Revelation
2:14).

Again, a similar rebuke is given to the church of Thyatira:

Nevertheless I have a few things against you,

because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls
herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My
servants to commit sexual immorality and eat
things sacrificed to idols (Revelation 2:20).
 These words sexual immorality come from the Greek
word porneuō, which is translated into the English language
as pornography (Strong’s, G4203). Pornography is running
rampant within the house of God. This is wrong.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not

inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God (1
Corinthians 6:9-10).

As a healing evangelist, I minister healing to many

people. Over and over again in the healing lines there are
men, more men than I have ever seen before at the altar of
God. This is a good thing, but I see something occurring that
I cannot deny. It is all too frequent to push it aside.
Many of these men are suffering with hearing problems,
either deafness in one or both ears or ringing in their ears,
and they are having trouble getting healed. At the same
time, they are weeping and confessing that they are
addicted to pornography and they want out of this bondage.
I’m telling you, this is so frequent that there is a spiritual
connection.
When I lead them into a prayer of repentance first and
then minister healing to their ears, they almost always
receive their healing. Oftentimes, as soon as they repent
from sexual immorality their ears are automatically opened.
In Revelation 2:17 and 29, both the church in Pergamum
and the church in Thyatira receive the same word, “He who
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.”
I believe the supernatural realm and the physical realm
are interconnected. There is a spiritual connection between
the physical ear and the spiritual ear. The message we tune
into with our physical ear, the spiritual ear will receive. It
will transmit the message directly into the spiritual heart or
spirit; we then speak it out from our mouth and act it out in
the flesh.
We are told that faith comes by hearing, and by hearing
the word of God (see Rom. 10:17). Well then, the opposite is
also true—doubt and unbelief increase by the refusal to hear
God’s Word.
God’s Word is very clear that sexual immorality, including
adultery and fornication, is sinful. Even if we look at one
another with sexual lust, we commit adultery in our heart
(see 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Matt. 5:27-28).
The Spirit of the Lord convicts the men that their
involvement with pornography is sinful and they need to
stop and repent now. But they refuse to listen and turn a
deaf ear to Him. I believe this is why their physical ear is
suffering from deafness or ringing from nerve damage. The
physical and spiritual ear are connected.
When they open up their spiritual ears to the Lord and
repent from this wickedness, their physical ears are healed.

CAN SIN AFFECT HEALING?

Can sin affect your healing? Absolutely.

But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the

voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all
His commandments and His statutes which I
command you today, that all these curses will
come upon you and overtake you (Deuteronomy
28:15).
 Disobedience and sin are one and the same, and they
open the door for satan to come to us and attack us with the
curse of sickness and disease.
You need to examine your heart and be honest with
yourself. Deal with the issue of sin. Then go to God with a
sincere heart and ask the Father to forgive you. He will. He is
faithful and just to forgive us from all unrighteousness,
including sexual immorality (see 1 John 1:9). Get free from
all sexual bondage because sin definitely hinders healing.

MONEY CANNOT ALWAYS PURCHASE HEALTH

AND HEALING

Another reason God’s people are so sick is the love of

money—not that they have money, but that it has them.
God’s Word is clear—you cannot love God and Mammon
at the same time. It is one or the other. Matthew 6:24 tells
us, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the
one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one
and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Money cannot always buy health and healing, but God
can. Actually, as we have studied in the Scriptures, He
already purchased it for us by the blood of His Son, Jesus
Christ. Jesus gave us His currency.
His currency is not based on earthly gold but backed by
our Redeemer, Jesus. Therefore, it not limited by human
knowledge and ability but has unlimited buying power
because it is backed by the richest currency that has ever or
will ever exist—the redemptive blood of Jesus.
So if you are serving mammon and earthly riches, you
will enter into spiritual financial trouble. Because, as I stated
earlier, it is limited in its purchasing power. It cannot pay for
total health and healing. Its supply will run out.
 According to Revelation 3, this group of believers does
not recognize how poor and wretched they are.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor

hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then,
because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor
hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you
say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have
need of nothing”—and do not know that you are
wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I
counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the
fire, that you may be rich; and white garments,
that you may be clothed, that the shame of your
nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your
eyes with eye salve, that you may see (Revelation
3:15-18).

To be free from a spirit of mammon you need to renounce

your servitude to it, repent to Jesus Christ for your self-
centered pride and greed, and make Jesus your Lord.

FORGIVENESS
Every day we have opportunities to choose forgiveness.
Spouses, children, friends, neighbors, colleagues, even
complete strangers can hurt us. Therefore, we are faced
with daily decisions to forgive, to ask for forgiveness, or to
be bitter and full of vengeance.
Unforgiveness is a weapon of satan to destroy the
offended person from the inside to the outside. If it is not
dealt with it will turn into bitterness. The Bible says that
bitterness dries up the bones (see Prov. 17:22). It dehydrates
the flow of life from deep within the spirit, soul, and body.
The only way to be free from this is to choose the path of
forgiveness. God’s Word is very clear concerning forgiveness.
It says in Matthew 6:14-15, “For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if
you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.” You must choose
forgiveness.

Three Steps to Forgiveness:

1. Ask the Father to forgive you for the offense you have
done or for not being willing to forgive another
person for what they have done to you.
2. Forgive yourself.
3. Ask the offended to forgive you.

RID YOURSELF OF BITTERNESS

Recently, I ministered over the phone to a woman who
suffered from severe arthritis pain for many years. I asked
her if she was angry and bitter toward someone, because
the Bible says that bitterness dries up the bones. She
immediately burst into tears and confessed that it was true.
I explained to her the negative consequences of
unforgiveness. The Bible says in Matthew 6:15 that if we do
not forgive others then the Father cannot forgive us for our
wrong doings. I went on to say that forgiveness is not based
upon our feelings but is a quality decision of faith. It doesn’t
matter if we feel the other person deserves to be forgiven or
not; God’s Word says that we must forgive.
Matthew 16:15 says it this way in the Amplified Version
of the Bible, “But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your
hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your
relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your
trespasses.”
 Let’s look to the Amplified Version of the Bible again to
see how Proverbs 17:22 reads, “A happy heart is good
medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken
spirit dries up the bones.”
I explained to her that when we walk in unforgiveness we
bind ourselves with spiritual chains and it prevents the
blessings of God, such as healing, from entering into our
bodies.
I led her in a prayer of repentance and the weight of
unforgiveness lifted off of her. She then received Jesus Christ
as her Lord and Savior. I went one step further with her and
ministered the baptism of the Holy Spirit to her, and she
received and we rejoiced together in the Spirit.
I then exercised my authority over arthritis in the name of
Jesus and the swelling and the pain started to lift off of her. I
encouraged her to put her faith into action and do things
that she could not do before. She started to bend her knees
without pain; she then lifted her arms above her head and
the arthritis pain in the shoulders disappeared.
Perhaps you are like this woman and struggle to forgive
someone who has hurt you. I encourage you with this
woman’s testimony to make a quality decision and forgive
by faith and release this person from your revenge. In doing
so, you will loose your physical healing by activating the
healing power of forgiveness.

JESUS CHOSE TO FORGIVE

Consider for a moment what the world did to Christ and
what His physical body had to endure. He had been falsely
accused, mocked and spit upon, abused, abandoned,
crucified, and buried in a tomb. The situation appeared to
be without hope.
 The Servant’s service was devalued, they twisted His
message, the intentions of His heart were unjustly judged,
they destroyed His reputation, and He was made out to be
the evil one.
What did Jesus do? He stretched out His arms and cried
out to the Father and said, “Father, forgive them, for they do
not know what they do” (Luke 23:34).
The spiritual body of Christ is under attack today. What
do we do? Get down on our knees and cry out to the Father,
“Forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” His
forgiveness saves many, and our forgiveness opens the door
for others to receive this same hope that we have been so
graciously given.
Forgiveness is an outpouring of the love that Jesus Christ
shed for us at Calvary.

LOVE EMPOWERS FAITH

One way to empower your faith is by love. There is no
greater way. If you are low on love for someone, you are also
low on faith. You can’t allow your faith to run low on love.
Tank up on love.
Everywhere we turn there is opportunity to take offense,
especially right before a miracle manifests. The devil will
make sure of it. Before you do, step back from the drama
and pray for God’s wisdom and grace on how you should
handle the episode in a godly manner.
In the midst of a life-threatening disease, people feel
worn down, their emotions run high, and all too often there
is great feuding amongst family members. It’s common to
encounter them bickering, name calling, cursing one
another, playing the blame game, and throwing temper
tantrums and even objects at one another. You name it, the
enemy has got them doing things they wouldn’t normally
do. He knows if he can get these people to walk in hate
instead of love, he wins the battle and the loved one dies.
If you behave in an unloving manner, redeem the loss of
time, apologize, and ask for forgiveness quickly. As I stated
earlier, you cannot afford the consequence of this sort of
behavior.
This type of atmosphere is not conducive for a miracle.
Love creates the right atmosphere for faith to produce what
we have need of, and in this case it is supernatural healing.
When you are tempted to hold on to a grudge or
withdraw your love from someone who has deeply wounded
you, pray to the Father. Ask Him for His love for this person.
Maybe this person is a wayward spouse, a son, a daughter,
your parent, or a sibling. Perhaps you have been betrayed by
a dear friend, a business partner, or someone on the
pastoral staff. Whoever it is and whatever they have done to
you, walk in love and forgive.
Actually, when you do, the enemy loses his power over
you. When you love someone who does not love you in
return or does not act in a loving manner toward you, you
empower your faith, and your miracle is that much closer.
When they complain against you, find a way to praise
something that they do.
If they say they hate you, turn the other cheek and say,
“Yes, I know, but I still love you.”
If they say they wish you were dead, reply, “I’m so glad
you are alive.”
What you are doing is throwing a bucket of water on the
fire of their anger, and it will stop. The demon in them will
give up. “A gentle tongue breaks a bone” (Prov. 25:15). Then
build yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the
Holy Spirit (see Jude 1:20).
If you need to, get outside help for an intervention, and if
this doesn’t work ask them to leave until they can behave
themselves. Whatever you do, do it in love and not out of
vengeance. You must guard your heart from evil and
empower your faith by love.

WATCH OVER YOUR SPIRITUAL HEART

Are you aware that the condition of your spiritual heart
affects your physical body? This is why God’s Word gives
instruction to “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for
from it flow the springs of life” (Prov. 4:23 NASB).
In the natural, when the physical heart is sick the rest of
the body suffers. The same is true with the condition of the
spiritual heart, except that it controls every area of our being
—spirit, soul, and body.
The spiritual heart is a vital organ and we need to
diligently care for it. Here are two basic rules to maintain a
healthy spiritual heart.

1. Love the Lord.

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and
with all your strength.” This is the first
commandment (Mark 12:30).

2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

And the second, like it, is this: “You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.” There is no other
commandment greater than these (Mark 12:31).

When you are engaged in a battle for your healing or

miracle, you must make sure to activate your love for God
and for others. You cannot afford to fight against one
another. It is absolutely necessary for you to deal with all
unforgiveness and bitterness. God does not give you the
spiritual right to be vengeful. He says that vengeance
belongs to Him. Trust me when I say He knows how to
handle the situation.

PRAYER
Dear Heavenly Father,
You are reaching out to me, teaching me by Your
Holy Spirit how to heal in my spirit, soul, and body.
I will heed Your counsel.
I repent from all sin that is attacking the body of
Christ today. I will not tolerate the controlling spirit
of Jezebel. I will not participate in pagan rituals
such as yoga. I run from sexual immorality and
into Your arms, dear Jesus. I renounce a spirit of
Mammon. I confess I have not seen how wretched
and poor I have become, but from this day forward
You alone, Jesus, are my God, and I put all my trust
in You. I will not turn a deaf ear to Your sayings. I
will do what You say and show me to do. I rid
myself of all bitterness. I forgive the people in my
life who have done me wrong, and in doing so I am
forgiven.
I empower my faith by Your love. I love You with all
my heart and soul, and I love my neighbor as
myself.
In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to activate the

Sword of the Spirit to release your physical healing. Let’s
turn there now and stimulate your healing.
 SELF-EXAMINATION
Do I recognize the hand of the Lord that desires to heal
me? Am I willing to heed His counsel and repent of the sins
that are so prevalent in the Church today? Am I struggling
with any of the sins discussed in this chapter? Am I free or
am I bound by the control of Jezebel, pagan practices such
as yoga, sexual immorality, or the spirit of mammon? Do I
harbor bitterness in my heart toward someone? Am I willing
to forgive so that my own sins can be forgiven me? Do I love
the Lord with all that is within me? Do I love others as I love
myself? In what areas do I need to work on to heal?
 CHAPTER 11

THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

“With wisdom from on high I activate the Sword of

the Spirit. With the realization that I possess the
power of life and death in my tongue, I exercise His
authority. I curse this sickness at its very root and
seed and say no disease will prosper in my body.
When I am weak I thank Him that He remains strong
in me. I boldly declare His abundant life, healing
power, and supernatural strength to overtake my
body in Jesus’ name.”

As we reason together about healing, we conclude that our

faith to heal is not based upon the logic of humans, the five
senses, emotions, or physical abilities, but its foundation is
upon the atoning works of Jesus Christ.
In our study we rely upon God’s type of wisdom described
in James 3:17, “But the wisdom that is from above is first
pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.”
We concur throughout the teaching of this work that the
Great Physician is both able and willing to heal us.
We now grasp the fact and believe that by His stripes we
are healed and that we have been given the responsibility to
activate His healing power in our lives. Without further ado,
we take the next step and learn to use the Sword of the
Spirit.

ACTIVATE THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

The Lord gives us an all-powerful supernatural weapon
called the Sword of the Spirit or the Word of God. He gives
us this sword to defend ourselves in the daily battles of life
that rise up against us. The power of this supernatural sword
is voice activated.
You also turn on the power for the Sword of the Spirit
when you confess aloud the Healing Creed. As you do this,
you unleash the atoning work of Jesus Christ over your spirit,
your soul, or your mind and emotions and over your physical
body and into its interior workings.
By the supernatural law of the spoken word of God, you
speak life to your cells, tissues, organs, and systems of your
body. You declare healing into your muscles, ligaments,
tendons, nerves, joints, and bones. You activate creative
miracles to non-existent body parts. You command
resurrection power to the dead, whether they be dead
organs—such as a dead heart, lungs, kidneys, or a dead
brain—or dead people. You raise them up by the power of
your spoken words in the name of Jesus.
The Sword of the Spirit cannot help us unless we first fill
ourselves with it, do what it says, speak out words of faith,
and live out those spoken words. Will you be a responsible
warrior for Jesus Christ and take up your Sword of the Spirit
and fight for life and healing?

LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN THE TONGUE

 Do you realize that we—yes, you and I—possess the
power of life and death in our tongues? With every word that
comes from our mouths we either create or we destroy. We
need to be careful to think before we speak, choose our
words wisely, and release them with caution.
Meditate on this Scripture from Proverbs 18:21, “Death
and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love
it will eat its fruit.” A revelatory moment with the Lord about
the message of this verse alone will radically change your
life and bump you up a notch in the work of His kingdom
business.

GUARD YOUR MOUTH

There is wisdom from on high throughout the Holy Bible
about this supernatural law of the power of the spoken
word. How about this Scripture verse in Proverbs 13:3, “He
who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens
wide his lips shall have destruction.”
If you continue to utter that you are sick and tired, guess
what you are going to be? Sick and tired. If you say over and
over that you are poor, you are going to be poor by the
accursed words of your own mouth. If you continually whine
and declare negative statements over yourself such as,
“Nobody likes me,” you are going to be friendless.
The words we speak are a vital component to our healing.
They either allow the healing to manifest or they prevent the
power of God to produce a miracle. If you desire healing you
must speak words that are full of life and healing.
We must learn to put a guard on our mouth and think
before we speak.
BLESSING AND CURSING PROCEED FROM THE
SAME MOUTH
James shares great wisdom about the power of the
tongue; let’s turn to James 3:9-10. “With it we bless our God
and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made
in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed
blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to
be so.” It’s disgraceful to hear ourselves praise the Lord with
our words and immediately turn to those around us and hurl
insults or words of discouragement at them. It’s like we are
driving around in a bulldozer and the nearest person in our
path gets bulldozed over by our words of insult or
discouragement, and then we stop for a while to have a
praise moment, as if we were on a coffee break, and then
continue on. The Word of God is clear—this should not be.
Just because we think someone is weaker than we are or
they have a physical flaw does not give us the right to pick
them apart. We are all made in the image of God, and when
we insult another person we actually insult God.
There is the old cliché that says, “Sticks and stones may
break our bones, but words will never hurt us.” This is a lie;
it’s unbiblical. A physical wound usually heals much quicker
than a verbal one. So let’s think twice before we wag our
tongues so loosely.

VERBAL CLAIM TO SICKNESS AND DISEASE

With the power of words that proceed from our own
mouths we take ownership of sickness and disease when we
declare that it belongs to us. When we make declarations
such as, “My cancer is back, my diabetes is acting up, my
arthritis is bothering me” with the usage of possessive
pronouns—my and our—we make a verbal claim that this
wicked work of satan belongs to us. We bind ourselves to it;
we create a spiritual tie to it. In doing so, we give the illness
the verbal okay to stay, dominate, and subdue us. Even with
every moan and complaint we utter about it, we give it
strength.

NEGATIVE WORD LABELS

It takes an intervention of the Holy Spirit to overcome a
negative word label. Gabriel gave Mary a word of knowledge
in Luke 1:36 concerning her cousin Elizabeth. He says, “And
behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a
son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in
her sixth month” (NASB).
In the natural it was impossible for Elizabeth to conceive
a child. She was labeled barren. The Common English Bible
reads, “Look, even in her old age, your relative Elizabeth has
conceived a son. This woman who was labeled ‘unable to
conceive’ is now six months pregnant.” Her womb was
labeled with the words forever empty and childless.
God is the Master at overriding natural impossibilities
and transforming them into possibilities. He removes
negative word labels that bind people to hopelessness and
despair. He confirms this in Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing
[is or ever] shall be impossible” (AMP).
My husband, before I knew him, was labeled as an
alcoholic and a drug addict in his teenage years. It was a
generational curse passed down from his father. A high
school teacher recognized the signs and reached out to him,
and he was enrolled in a local AA program. They helped him
immensely, but he lived with the fear of the label—once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
I met him several years later, and on our first date I
invited him to come to church with me. It was a new
experience for him to be in the presence of the Lord. The
message of the Lord pierced his heart that morning, and
when the altar call was given he knelt down before
thousands of people and gave his life to Christ and became
born again. The revelation of Second Corinthians 5:17 that
was spoken out that from the pulpit resonated within his
spirit, and he knew in his heart and even vocalized the fact
that he no longer was an alcoholic or drug addict. He walked
free from the power of those labels and never returned to
those old temptations.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in,

joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a
new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy
Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and
spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold,
new things have come [because spiritual
awakening brings a new life] (2 Corinthians 5:17
AMP).

What physical impossibility have you been labeled with?

Is there an underlying hope within you to be free from the
stronghold of this negative label? This hope is the precursor
to faith to believe and receive your miracle from God today.
Hebrews puts it this way:

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] (Hebrews 11:1 AMP).

Spiritually prepare your heart to receive. Just like a womb

receives a miracle seed to produce life, you receive this
message as your hope seed and witness the label impossible
transform into possible. You start right now and take the
supernatural power of the word impossible or the negative
report, vocally renounce the situation in the name of Jesus,
and transform it and say with God aloud, “This too is
possible!”

ASK ANYTHING IN HIS NAME

His Word promises us in John 14:14 “If you ask anything
in My name, I will do it.” What an amazing promise this is to
us. It’s limitless, like our God. What is it that you have need
of? He is faithful to perform His Word, and if you believe you
will receive what you ask of Him.
What do you have need of? Do you need a new kidney?
Vocalize your need, and ask Him for one.

Dear Father God,

I ask you for a new kidney that functions perfectly
normally. I believe and I receive it right now by
faith.
In Jesus’ name, amen.

Whether you need a new kidney or something else, ask

the Father in Jesus’ name and He will give it to you.

ASK WITH CONFIDENCE

Some members of the body of Christ believe it is
presumptuous of us to believe this way; others claim we are
like dictators ordering our Lord around, but the truth is that
He desires us to be well-informed of His will and to have
confidence in our faith in Him. Faith pleases Him, and it
gives Him great pleasure when we are bold in our faith.
 Because we know what we ask for is found in the will of
God—such as eternal life, healing, deliverance, protection,
and daily provision—we can be confident in our faith and
ask Him for what we have need of. John educates us in how
we are to ask:

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him,

that if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us. And if we know that He hears us,
whatever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we have asked of Him (1 John 5:14-
15).

ADDRESSING THE ABUSE OF THIS PRINCIPLE

I know there are many who have abused this principle,
but this doesn’t mean that we throw the baby out with the
bathwater. The abuse that is commonly used is that they ask
amiss. The motives of their heart are evil, selfish,
irresponsible, and greedy. We do not have to submit
ourselves to their ungodliness.
You wonder, “If their motives are wrong, then why do
they still receive?” Because they are activating the power of
the spoken word that is given to all people, believers or
unbelievers. This includes believers with wrong motives.
Judgement will come upon them for their sins. We do not
need to take up this concern. It’s between them and God.
My part is to make sure I am not caught up in their greed.
It’s the righteousness of God within us to ask our Lord for
healings, miracles, daily provisions, etc. We honor Him when
we ask in faith for the things He promises to give us. It
proves that we take Him at His word. We believe.
SPEAK LIFE AND DEATH ACCORDING TO THE
NEED
We need to be wise in the way we speak words of life and
death. We need to vocalize the power of our words
according to the need of the situation.
If we are in a battle against heart disease, we first ask in
faith for a new heart. We do not beg and plead as if God is
evil and withholds healing from us. Then we use the Sword
of the Spirit, and we grow the miracle. We speak words of
faith to that which we have need of.

In Jesus’ name, I renounce the spirit of premature

death; I release the power of the Holy Spirit into
my heart. I command my heart to be healed, to be
recreated, to function perfectly normally. I demand
all sickness and disease, pain and swelling to be
gone. I declare my heart healed and made whole
in Jesus’ name.

Our words have the power of life and death, so we are to

destroy the effects of premature death and create life into
our heart—actually, speak life into it. Then we put our faith
into action and act out what we say we believe for. In other
words, if we desire a new heart, then we start to plan our
future to live with a new heart. We plan tomorrow, the next
week, and next year to live with a new heart.

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works,

is dead (James 2:17).

WITH YOUR VOICE EXERCISE AUTHORITY

OVER SATAN
 As we discussed in Chapter 5, we hold the authority of
Christ and can subdue the devil. One of the main ways we
accomplish this is by the power of the spoken word. We
dominate him and his wicked works, including sickness and
disease, as we adjure him to stop in the name of Jesus and
renounce the workings of his wickedness—all with the
backing of the blood of Christ Jesus.
When we adjure the devil, we command him, we take
charge over him, we bind up his efforts in the name of the
Lord. For example, “We adjure you, satan, to leave and take
this cancer with you in Jesus’ name!” “We adjure you, devil,
we take charge over you and command you to get out of our
household and stop this harassment at once in Jesus’
name!” “We adjure you, foul wicked spirit, we bind you up to
the effects of your own wickedness! You will not have your
way in this body, in Jesus’ name!” As you notice, we do not
beg, we do not plead, and we do not give him opportunity to
talk back. We certainly do not enter into a conversation with
him!

Curse Sickness
God gives you His blessing to curse satan and his wicked
works, including sickness and disease. So right now, obey
His Word and curse this illness at its very root and seed, just
like Jesus cursed the fig tree (see Mark 11:12–25).
Use the Sword of the Spirit; go down deep into the root
system and cut this disease off of your body. Curse the tap
root and command it to dry up and die, and all other roots
that stem off of this main root dry up and disappear
supernaturally. Remind it often that it will not be able to
resurrect itself in your body. Nor can it transplant or
metastasize itself in any other part of your body.
Speak to the original seed of this disease, the seed of sin
that was planted back in the Garden of Eden when Adam
and Eve first sinned. Renounce this generational curse
because you have been redeemed from it (see Gal. 3:13).
Dominate all seeds that this disease has produced to
wither and die. Put them in their place beneath your
authority in Jesus Christ; let them know who is boss and that
they may not germinate ever again in your body or pass on
to another generation.

Vocalize Creation
There is a right way to use the power of the spoken word,
and it not only destroys the wicked works of satan, like
sickness and disease, but it creates healings and miracles
for those in need.
In chapter 1 of Genesis we read the historical account of
how our Creator, Elohim, creates all of creation with the
power of the spoken word. He said, “Let there be,” and there
was. Then He created the human race in His mirror image,
and we too inherit the power of the spoken word.

CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF HEALING

Wherever you are going, see yourself walking in His
sandals of authority, knowing that even before arriving He’s
already giving you this territory and you going there is
glorifying the Lord.
Joshua 1:3 declares, “Every place that the sole of your
foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.”
Before you walk into a hospital, be vocal, pray the Spirit
of the Lord into that place, and thank Him in advance that
His miracle power will work through you and the people who
will accept your healing hands will be healed in Jesus’ name.
When you speak out words of faith before you minister,
you till up the hard ground, you weed out doubt and
unbelief, you seed healing, you water and nurture it. When
you go into that hospital, you reap the harvest of the garden
you plant.
I already hear some of you say, “Sister Becky, we can’t do
that in our country.” Do you not hear what the Spirit of the
Lord says to you?

If My people who are called by My name will

humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Dear servants of the Lord, let me ask you a pertinent

question, “Where does it say in the Word that we will not run
into opposition as we do the work of the Lord?” Nowhere! In
fact we read the opposite—from the time Jesus was born,
even while He was still in the womb, everywhere that He
went opposition followed. It didn’t matter if He was in the
temple, outside the temple, in the city, His hometown, the
countryside, in a private residence, or out in the open, He
was met by great opposition by the Pharisees and the
Sadducees, the rulers in government, unbelievers, and the
devil himself was out to stop Him. But they could not. Why?
He went up to the mountaintop and got vocal and
interceded on the behalf of the people.
Get down on your knees and, with vocal prayer, pray in
the Spirit and declare with your native tongue words of faith
that will create the atmosphere of healing that you need in
your territory for the glory of our Lord.

NO DISEASE WILL PROSPER IN MY BODY

I have a weapon of mass destruction—the blood of Jesus
Christ that obviates, literally wipes from existence, every
sickness and disease, known or unknown, that would try to
enter into my physical body. I own a copy of the map of the
battlefield, and on Calvary Hill the battle has been won. The
battle plan in Isaiah 54:17 assures me “No weapon formed
against you shall prosper.”
When God’s Word declares that satan’s dirty bombs of
sickness and disease cannot prosper against me, it means
they have transformed into duds. They cannot succeed in
their plan to kill me. They do not even have the right to
thrive in my human body. They’ve crossed the line, and they
must leave in Jesus’ name.
With the strength of the spoken word, I build a
supernatural defense system around me that deflects the
weaponry of the devil.

WHEN I AM WEAK, HE REMAINS STRONG

Our Lord is not uncaring; He understands what we are up
against. Hebrews 4:15 identifies the reason why, “For we do
not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our
weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet
without sin.”
His healing word declares that when I am weak, He
remains strong in me (see 2 Cor. 12:10). Isaiah 40:29 affirms
this promise, “He gives power to the weak, and to those who
have no might He increases strength.” Zechariah 4:6
educates me on how this is possible, “‘Not by might nor by
power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.” He assures
me in Philippians 4:13 that “I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.” I can overcome this seemingly
impossible moment in my life and heal too in Jesus’ name.

BOLDLY DECLARE
 When the attack of the enemy bears down hard and the
reports shout death, I will not fear. I put my trust in my God:

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly

abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, to Him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all
generations, forever and ever. Amen (Ephesians
3:20-21).

Like Abraham, I too believe “in the presence of Him whom

he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those
things which do not exist as though they did” (Rom. 4:17). I
boldly declare His abundant life, healing power, and
supernatural strength to overtake my body.
I bind myself to the power of the blood of Jesus to take
down this illness, to heal me, to recreate this physical body
of mine, to renew my strength. According to the healing
words of Isaiah 40:29–31, because I wait upon the Lord, I
will mount up with wings like eagles, I will run and not be
weary, I will walk and not faint, in Jesus’ name I declare,
amen.

IN JESUS’ NAME
The Healing Creed ends with “in Jesus’ name.” This
phrase is not a religious tagline but a supernatural seal to
the message of the creed that we declare aloud. The seal
behind the name of Jesus is the power of His shed blood.
The Book of John teaches us the importance of ending
our prayers in the name of Jesus. Yes, our confessions of faith
are prayers. Prayers are made up of words that we confess.
The healing power of the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ
is the foundation for the Healing Creed. As we verbalize this
scriptural creed, we release God’s creative healing power
over our bodies. I suggest we confess this faith document for
healing over our bodies three times a day in Jesus’ name.
Romans 10:9 says, “If you confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved.” Remember what we
learned in Chapter 3 about the word saved? It comes from
the Greek word sōzō and means to save, deliver, protect,
heal, preserve, save, do well, and to be made whole.
“For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom.
10:10). By our verbal confession we activate the power of
salvation, and in this work we release the healing power of
salvation.
It is scriptural to pray in Jesus’ name. Below, are six
scriptures from the Book of John that confirm we are to pray
in His name and teach us the benefit when we do so.

And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do,

that the Father may be glorified in the Son (John
14:13).
If you ask anything in My name, I will do it (John
14:14).
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and
appointed you that you should go and bear fruit,
and that your fruit should remain, that whatever
you ask the Father in My name He may give you
(John 15:16).
And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most
assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the
Father in My name He will give you (John 16:23).
Until now you have asked nothing in My name.
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full
(John 16:24).
 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not
say to you that I shall pray the Father for you (John
16:26).

These scriptures are clear in the spiritual correctness of

prayer. If we ask anything, whatever we ask, we are to ask
the Father in the name of Jesus or we ask Jesus directly.
However we make our needs or desires known through
prayer, we are always to go through the avenue of Jesus’
name. He explains to His disciples, and we are His modern-
day disciples, that if we ask in His name, He will do it. If we
ask the Father in the name of Jesus, the Father will do it.
This isn’t about being religious but being obedient and
giving recognition to whom it is due. Jesus paid the price
with His blood so that we can have His benefits, such as
healing. There is a protocol when we ask, pray, or verbally
confess with our mouths, and it is through the spiritual
bloodline of Jesus’ name.

HEALING TESTIMONY: ULCERATIVE COLITIS

HEALED
After a year of mild bleeding, Yolanda from Purcellville,
Virginia was diagnosed with moderate to severe ulcerative
colitis in 2014, but that summer she had a severe flare of
over 40 bloody bowel movements a day (just blood), severe
anemia, and dehydration.
She suffered from severe pain, cramping, tunnel vision,
loss of hearing, and sensitivity to sound. She was unable to
eat without pain, and could only tolerate eggs, zucchini,
ground beef, protein shakes, and herbs. She tried all sorts of
home remedies without results. She went from 125 pounds
down to 95 pounds. She was so weak that she was not able
to get out of bed for seven weeks. Her friends who came to
visit later told her that they thought she was not going to
survive. From a natural standpoint, they were right.
As difficult as this battle was, she did not give up. She
read my first work, watched videos, and learned how the
enemy is under her authority and how he flees at the name
of Jesus.
After fasting months earlier, she felt the Lord say to her,
“Pray believing.” But then her question was, “Believe what?”
She hadn’t really thought about that and assumed it was
believe that Jesus is who He says He is, but later she realized
the part that was missing for her was that He loved her just
like He says He does. This was harder for her to accept than
the fact He willed to heal her.
Nevertheless, she asked the Lord to heal her. She heard
the Lord respond to her request. Let’s listen to Yolanda share
this part of her story.

The Lord had given me a word, which was, “I will

not condemn those whose faith is in me.” I
believed He was going to heal me.
But after seven weeks of the flare and none of the
symptoms improving, my husband wanted me to
go to the gastroenterologist. The doctor told us
that I was not going to recover without a heavy
dose of steroids and biologics, which are known to
cause cancer. I reluctantly agreed that I would
begin the next morning.
But that night Chris and I prayed together. I
remember I confessed an issue of pride that I
struggled with, and told God that I believed that
He would heal me and take care of me, whether I
took the medications or not. And I was
overwhelmed when the Holy Spirit took over my
mouth, and I prayed in tongues.
 That night, several times I felt someone’s breath
on my ear as I slept, and I thought it was one my
children, but every time I looked no one was there.
Then I heard the Lord say to me, “Do not take the
drugs; I have something else for you.” The next
morning I woke up healed. And that was
confirmed by how wonderful I felt! I was able to go
down the stairs, clean the kitchen, and make it
back up the stairs as if I had not been anemic or
dehydrated.

At this time, Yolanda was unaware of how much satan

hates to see God’s people heal and that he was not about to
walk away without a fight. Perhaps he could still convince
her to doubt God’s promise to heal her. Let’s listen to what
she has to say about this again.

I did not know that the enemy would try to steal

my healing from me, so I did not claim what the
Lord had provided for me. But, in time, I learned
how to believe and possess my healing.
What I feel made the difference was when I finally
reached a point where I trusted the Lord no matter
what. During all of this, the Lord worked
something out in my husband and me and the
others to trust Him even when the symptoms and
doctor said there was no hope.
At times, I would get a cramp but realized it was
an opportunity to solidify what I believed. So I
would cry out loud, “Jesus is Lord!” and it would
immediately go away. I have been free from
cramps for a very long time now.
The Lord has restored my family and my marriage,
renewed my husband’s spiritual walk, encouraged
 the doctor, surrounded us with wonderful people,
and gave us rest.

What a beautiful testimony of God’s patience and

faithfulness to work with His people, not against them, like
many believe, until Yolanda was able to come to the spiritual
place where she put her trust in Jesus and was healed.
In order for Yolanda and her family to overcome satan,
the spirit of fear, and the spirit of death, they had to first
believe in the power of the blood of Christ to heal, then they
had to wield their supernatural Sword of the Spirit with
authority and grace. They had to learn how to guard their
tongues and speak life, no matter what was manifesting
from her body.
As they did, she mounted up with wings like eagles, she
ran and was not weary, and she walked and did not faint—
out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death and into the
Promised Land where miracles grow.

PRAYER
Dear Father God,
We are now well-informed about Your will to heal
us. With confidence we voice activate Your
creative healing power within us.
Teach us, Holy Spirit, to wield this supernatural
weapon, the Sword of the Spirit, effectively.
Remind us to control the power of our words—that
yes, there indeed is the power of life and death in
our tongues. Forgive us for speaking such
negative and faithless words in the past.
Lead us as we create victory out of the chaos of
life by speaking faith-filled words that will glorify
our Father in Heaven.
We renounce the verbal claims that we have made
to sickness and disease. We’ve cursed ourselves
and others by the daily usage of worldly labels.
Forgive us for this.
We verbalize our God-given authority over satan
and all of his wicked works, including sickness and
disease. We adjure him, command him in the
name of Jesus to leave our households, to flee our
physical bodies in Jesus’ name.
We curse this sickness from its very root and seed
and declare by faith that our bodies are disease-
free.
We thank You that when our physical bodies are
weak, You remain strong in us.
We boldly declare Your abundant life, Your healing
power, and Your supernatural strength to overtake
our physical bodies.
We bind ourselves to the power of the blood of
Jesus to take down this illness, to heal us, to
recreate these physical bodies of ours, and to
renew our strength.
We understand that there is a spiritual correctness
to our prayer language, and from now on we ask,
we pray, we verbalize our confession of faith
through the spiritual bloodline of Jesus’ name.
In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.

SELF-EXAMINATION
 Do I understand my spiritual weapon, the Sword of the
Spirit? Am I willing to repent for misusing the power of my
words? Am I willing to change my vocabulary to destroy the
power of satan and his wicked works, including sickness and
disease, and verbally create healing and miracles that will
not only benefit myself but others around me? With prayers
of faith-filled words, will I create an atmosphere conducive
to healing? Has the Holy Spirit revealed to me a specific
place or a person I need to take the message of healing to?
Do I pray in the name of Jesus? If not, will I start to pray in
His name today?
 ABOUT BECKY DVORAK

Becky Dvorak, author of Dare to Believe and Greater Than

Magic, content partner with Spirit Led Woman/Charisma, is a
prophetic healing evangelist and conducts healing services,
seminars, and conferences globally. Along with her husband,
David, they have been full-time missionaries since 1994 in
Guatemala, Central America and founders of Healing and
Miracles International and Vida Ilimitada. They celebrate
thirty-six years of marriage and have eight children—three
adult biological and five adopted—and seven grandchildren.