Healing Series - Session 6 - Receiving Healing - Our Move (Audio) -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is the link between the spirit world and the physical

Faith takes hold of what God has already provided by grace