Declare Your Healing: The Finished Work is Done—Here’s How to Live in the Promise
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 (1 Peter 2:24).
The Bible says, “By whose stripes you were healed.”
It uses the words “were healed.” The word “were” means it is already done. If it says, “we were healed,” it must mean we are healed as far as God is concerned. Right?
Why am I confessing “I am healed” when I am sick? When you say you are healed, you are calling for what you don’t have.
God taught Abraham to call things that were not as though they were. He called himself the “father of many nations” when he did not have the promised child — before it came to pass.
People say, “Why, I just don’t understand that. You are just lying if you say you are healed when you are sick.”
No. You are not lying. You are calling for what you don’t have!
You can do a little experiment along this line. The next time you are staying in a hotel, get on the elevator on the first floor, punch the button for the first floor and see what happens.
I have done it. I don’t know how many times. I would get on the elevator on the fourth floor, punch the fourth-floor button, and wonder what was wrong with the elevator when it didn’t move. But, it was not the elevator that had the problem. I punched the button for the fourth floor, and the elevator did not go anywhere because I was already on the fourth floor.
You can stay there and confess you are sick all day long and not get any better. You are calling it the way it is. As long as you say it like it is, the law of faith says it will stay the same.
The law of faith is the law of change. If you’re going to say the same thing that exists, confessing the same thing, nothing is going to change other than it may get worse.
I found out that when you begin to speak the promise of God, it changes situations and circumstances.
God’s Word for You Today
This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled: ‘He Himself took our illnesses and carried away our diseases’ (Matthew 8:17 NASB).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“Jesus Himself took my illness and carried away my disease and pain. Therefore, I am well. I am whole. I am healed! I call my body healthy!” (Isaiah 53:5)
The Shield of Faith
…above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one (Ephesians 6:16).
When you apply the Word of God by speaking it, there is a force field around you. When Peter walked down the street, there was a force field around him that was so strong the sick got healed as he walked by. It was not just the shadow of the sun; it was a force field of faith that surrounded him (Acts 5:15).
The Lord said to me one time, “You can build your shield of faith as strong as you want by confessing the Word.”
He said, “It is not a shield like one that you stick out in front of you. It is like a plexiglass shield that goes all the way around you. It is created by the force of the Word of God that abides in you.”
You can walk right out in the midst of the curses, and they will run off of you like water off of a duck’s back. But if you ever get within a mile of a blessing, it will run you down and overtake you.
People will say, “Why, that person must be the luckiest guy in the world.” I don’t believe in luck. I believe in the anointing and the shield of faith.
God’s Word for You Today
For You bless the righteous person, Lord, you surround him with favor as with a shield (Psalm 5:12 NASB).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“Thank you, Lord, that you go before me today and make the crooked places straight. You surround me with favor as a shield. No weapon formed against me will prosper.” (Isaiah 45:2; Isaiah 54:17)
Stop Talking About Death and Dying
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit (Proverbs 18:21 NIV).
When you begin to watch the things that you say, you start to listen to the way the world talks.
You start to hear things like:
“It tickled me to death.”
“I laughed so hard I thought I would die.”
“I’m gonna die if I go.”
“I’m gonna die if I don’t go.”
“I am just dying to do so and so.”
One guy said to me,” I am just dying to go to Israel.”
I said, “If I were you, I wouldn’t go. Not with a confession like that.”
You know, be reasonable about it. Let’s say that you went to the doctor, and they gave you a prescription. Then, you went home and read on the label, “Take three of these a day until it kills you.” What would you do with them? You would throw those things as far as you could throw them, wouldn’t you?
Yet people will talk and say, “It tickled me to death,” or “I laughed so hard I thought I was going to die.” People are not going to die just because they said that one time, two times, or three times. But if they keep saying that, it will eventually catch up with them.
I heard one man at a Full Gospel Businessmen’s meeting say, “I had better go home. Ha, ha, ha. The way my luck is running, I will probably get run over by a freight train by the time I get home.”
I said, “I am not riding with you.”
You see, he might get away with that and get lots of laughs. One day, it is a possibility that he will be led by his spirit to be on the train track when the 9:23 freight comes through one morning. He will get run over, and people will be saying, “We just don’t understand why God took him. He was such a good Christian.”
God would not have a thing to do with it. Man sets spiritual law in motion with his words. He receives what he continually speaks whether life and blessing or death and destruction.
God’s Word for You Today
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
Give Voice to God’s Word
“The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. I speak LIFE to my body. With long life He satifies me, and I live the full span of my life in health!” (Psalm 91:16; Exodus 23:26)
