Both our sin and our sickness were borne by Jesus on the cross. We saw that in Isaiah 53.

Summarising some of the other key truths examined over previous sessions.

There is no room for doubt that it is God’s will to heal and healing is provided for ALL.

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

Faith begins where the will of God is known.

Jesus removed all doubt by saying I am willing be cleansed

Jesus in the flesh was the physical expression of the will of God. When Christ healed all those who came to Him He was revealing and doing His Father’s will. The Father’s will has not changed.

The bible clearly reveals the will of God in regard to healing and no special revelation is needed.

It is still the will of God to heal ALL who have need of healing.

If God will heal anyone He will heal me.

God has revealed 1 of His names as Yahweh Ropheka I AM the Lord who heals you. It is part of His very nature to heal.

Healing is part of the Gospel that is for all and to be preached to all.

Faith takes hold of what the grace of God has already provided.

We saw how faith blows the rams horn before not after the walls come down (Jericho).

Faith looks not at the things which are seen but at the things which are unseen.

Faith is what we have before we see, feel and experience healing.

Faith is both rational and safe being based on the very best possible evidence of God’s Word.

It is like a title deed – we have to move in and possess what the deed says is ours.

God has made His move and healing is provided.

Our move is to believe His word then we can begin to see His word fulfilled in our mortal bodies.

The truth when it is believed changes adverse facts because God’s word has spiritual power. We do not have to pretend physical symptoms do not exist but know that they will be changed by the higher truth of Gods Word when it is believed.

We have to take hold of our healing by faith and firmly shut the door on unbelief.

Speak to your mountain. Speak to your sickness and command it to go in Jesus name rather than asking God to do it.

Cooperate with the Holy Spirit in the process of renewing our minds by combating negative influences and thoughts.

Doubt the doubts believe the truth. Come against doubts with the word of God.

Believe God's word. Trust His word. Know the creative power of His word then you can and will act on His word.

If God says I am the Lord that heals you, and you dare to believe the power of these wonderful words, you will act on them.

I could give you a basket of fruit or give you the keys to the orchard and say anytime you want just go and pick your own. I believe I have placed into your hands the keys to the orchard.

Healing is normally received through faith and a relationship with Christ the healer not by a formula or method however there are principles and laws that we have looked at in the Word and these guide us.

Now you realise where sickness comes from and it is not the will of your loving heavenly Father that you are sick it is time to approach Him in humility and faith.

Jesus said These signs shall follow those who believe, in my name they shall cast out devils …they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Mark 16:17-18

Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full John 16:24

For everyone that asks receives Matt.7:8

The reason you can call on the Lord right now and be healed of your physical infirmities and diseases is that Jesus Christ Himself suffered all of them for you. He did it willingly as your substitute so that you could be healed.

He took upon Himself all the physical consequences of your sinful nature so that He could come into your life as your physical healer and spiritual saviour. See Is.53.4-6

Speak to your mountain. Speak to your sickness and command it to go in Jesus name rather than asking God to do it. Just as Jesus instructed His disciples in Mark 11:22-24

Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Speaking is an applied release of God’s creative word of promise.

There are things to avoid and I will list some of them with ways to avoid them. However keep in mind there are no formulas or 10 steps to getting healed. Healing is about a relationship with the Healer and simply receiving from Him what He desires you to have. What we are talking about now is really cooperating with the Holy Spirit in the process of renewing our minds so that there is no hindrance to faith.

1. Avoid trying to believe. Act on the word. That is believing.

2. Avoid making any confession that contradicts God's word. Make your testimony and confession agree with God's word regardless of symptoms. Keep His word on your lips.

3. Avoid merely trusting in other people's faith. Have your own faith. You are a believer. You have faith. God has given to each person a measure of faith. Rom.12:3.

4. Avoid talking doubt and unbelief. Quote the scriptures steadfastly, and they will be yours. Rev.12:11 says They overcame him (the adversary) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.

5. Avoid talking sickness and pains. Talk about your healing. When you talk about sickness, you magnify and glorify the devil whom you admit by your words is able to make you sick. Make your adversary listen to your praise to God and to your conversation about the living word and the promises of God, and he will leave you. See Matt. 4:11 & James 4:7

While Jesus was being tempted. He defeated Satan by saying. It is written, and then by repeating His Father's words. You can defeat him in the same way.

6. It must have grieved the heart of Jesus for Thomas to doubt His resurrection. Unbelief in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ is not a small thing. Your attitude toward the substitutionary death of Christ needs to be as He bore my diseases, I am healed.

Doubt the doubts. Come against them with the word of God.

7. Avoid talking failure and inability. Say like Paul in Phil.4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

8. Get rid of any unforgiveness.

God is no closer to anyone than He is to you.

When after prayer for healing satan tells you, you will not recover say to him as Jesus did It is written

Mark 16:18 They will recover

James 5.15 The Lord will raise him up

All that the devil got from Jesus was It is written, It is written. Then the devil left him.

Never quote the negative things from the devil. Quote and believe the word of God. The devil is a liar.

The sure way of resisting the devil is the same way Jesus used, believing speaking and acting upon the word of God.

If you would not be tolerant of sin in your life then do not be tolerant of sickness either.

Believe God's word. Trust His word. Know the creative power of His word then you can and will act on His word.

If God says I am the Lord that heals you, and you dare to believe the power of these wonderful words, you will act on them.

The bedridden will arise by faith and be made whole; the lame will leap like a deer; the tongue of the dumb will begin to sing; the deaf ears will be unstopped; pains will leave; and darkness will vanish

You will begin to do the very things you could not do before you took God at His word, acted on that word, and were healed.

Jesus bore our diseases as well as our sins on the cross therefore we need not bear them! So our next step is to take hold of our healing by faith.

The truth of the matter is, God gave us this part of our inheritance nearly 2000 years ago, and He is the One who is waiting for us to appropriate the blessing by faith.

2000 years ago

1) God put away sin by the sacrifice of Jesus Heb.9:26.

2) God laid on Christ the iniquity of us all Isa.53:6.

3) Christ took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Matt.8:17

God is the waiting party.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some peoples conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you

Mark 11:22-24 So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Jesus tells us exactly how to appropriate any of the blessings purchased for us by His death. Having promised all that we need, He says Whatever things you ask for, when you pray believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

The condition of receiving what we ask God for is to believe that He answers our prayers when we pray and that we shall recover, according to His promise.

In other words, when you pray for healing, Christ authorizes you to consider your prayer answered, as when He stood at the grave of Lazarus and said Father, I thank You that You have heard me John 11.41, before He saw Lazarus come out from the grave.

When we ask for healing Christ tells us to say with faith, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me, before we have yet seen the answer to our prayer.

When God's Word alone is our reason for believing that our prayer is answered, before we see or feel it, this is faith!

Jesus declared, The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life John 6-63

John 1.1 says, The Word is God

To receive the written words of Christ as His direct message to us is faith. This is the way the Word of God becomes life to us, both in our healing and in our salvation.

The truth when it is believed changes adverse facts because God’s word has spiritual power. The physical things we see and feel are subject to the spiritual just as the physical world came into being by the spiritual. We do not have to pretend the physical symptoms do not exist but know that they will be changed by the higher truth of Gods word when it is believed.

When His Word convinces us that our prayers are answered, before we have yet seen the answers, the Word begins to effectively work in us 1 Thessalonians 2:13

God's Word never fails to work in those who accept it as such, because they are not entertaining doubts as to its being fulfilled.

If we will steadfastly believe that we receive Mark 11:24 the answer to our prayer, and act on our faith, every one of us can be healed, though it will not always instantly be manifested.

When we make our move, which is the acting out of a full assurance of faith Heb.10:22, produced solely by His promise, before we see the answer to our prayer we begin to see the answer in the physical realm. Faith is what we have while the symptoms are still there.

Instead of listening to the Father of Lies make him listen to your praising God for His promise!

Paul and Silas sang praises at midnight with their backs bleeding and their feet in the stocks, and God sent an earthquake, which set them free. Acts 16:22—26.