For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word translated health there means “medicine.” Healing scriptures are God’s medicine for your body. Let them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart. It says: “My son, attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings. Proverbs 4:20-22 explains this process for healing. She says she stays well by consistently taking God’s medicine.
In fact, she has been cancer free for more than 22 years. It was a battle that took awhile, but Dodie was completely healed of cancer and remains free today. She fought the good fight of faith by using the sword of the Word to resist fear and all the lies of the devil (Ephesians 6:17 James 4:7). They were relentless.ĭodie faithfully took those healing scriptures every day, just like medicine. She and her husband took forceful action! They stood in agreement on the healing promises in the Word of God. She was given a report that the cancer in her liver was fatal. Years ago, my friend Dodie Osteen had to take healing in just that way. Watch Gloria Copeland teach how God’s healing power is available as we learn to receive it by faith. You’ll say, “Thank You, Lord, I believe I’m healed and I take it!” Rest assured they will get down into your heart and you’ll be able to release your faith. Look at the scriptures with your eyes, and hear them with your ears as you speak them out your mouth. To get to that point, read healing scriptures aloud and receive (take) each promise. You call “things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17). See yourself taking your healing when you pray. Second Corinthians 4:18 explains that you must “look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal.” You simply cannot look at the circumstances to determine whether or not you are healed. I’m still sick, I still feel bad,” then you didn’t take it…and you certainly don’t have it. If you get up from prayer saying, “I don’t have it. The fact is, you really haven’t prayed in faith if you pray about something, but don’t take it. He clamps down hard on that bone and refuses to turn loose of it! We must take healing like a dog takes a bone. That’s exactly what we must do when we pray for healing. It means “to take.” We could say, “What things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you take them.” That is a brief lesson on faith right there! Faith believes it takes what is needed when it prays. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,” Jesus said, “believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). Then you can pray in faith and receive what you need. That becomes possible when His Word, His way of thinking, crowds out other thoughts and ideas. Not only that, God’s Word teaches us to think His way which is the higher, better and smarter way (Isaiah 55:8-11). God’s Word has the power within it to bring itself to pass. I can tell you from experience, the answers that actually work are found in one place-the Word. More than likely, you’ve also figured out that most of what people say is not productive advice.
I’m sure you’ve figured that out, especially if you are believing God for healing. People are not short of well-meaning advice. Having faith in God and His Word is the bottom-line answer to every problem regardless of what others may say. You have to do what it takes so you can rise up in faith and take what rightfully belongs to you! If you need a healing, you can’t sit back and wait for God to drop it down on you. And we must do that-“by force” Matthew 11:12 says. We must choose to take what God has offered. He said it this way: “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). The only hard part is getting people to believe what He has said about it so they can receive their healing. The fact of the matter is, healing is no problem for the Lord. What He says-what is written in His Word-is the absolute truth and it really will work if we will only take hold of it. In fact, in every area of life obtaining the victory boils down to one thing: Just take God at His Word.
That’s exactly what you have to do if you want to obtain healing.
If you need healing, you can’t sit back and wait for God to drop it down on you.