When talking about sickness and healing we need to get one thing straight; God doesn’t send sickness to teach us a lesson, it is the devil that comes to “steal and kill and destroy” but Jesus came “that we may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10; RSV). Sickness is in the world as a result of sin and what is the solution for sin? It is redemption. In Deuteronomy 28 every kind of sickness and disease is listed and called a curse but Galatians 3:13 says we have been redeemed from the curse. How? When Jesus took the 39 stripes on His back and shed His blood on the cross, He provided not only forgiveness of our sin but also our healing, both spiritual and physical (Isa 53:4,5; 1 Peter 2:24). It was a once and for all time sacrifice that did not need repeating (Heb 7:27; 9:26).

A large part of the ministry of Jesus was directed towards healing (Luke 4:18-19) and Jesus healed them all (Matt 4:24; Matt 9:35; Acts 10:38). Not only did Jesus have a healing ministry but He also gave us authority to heal too (Mark 16:18). Healing wasn’t just for the time of Jesus but it is for today also because Jesus is “the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb 13:8).

If you have sickness in your body, know that it is God’s will to heal you (Mark 1:40-42). Collect all the healing scriptures you can from the whole of the Bible and speak them over your body and take them like medicine (Prov 4:22), pray the prayer of faith (James 5:15), rebuke the symptoms and keep believing until you see the manifestation. “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:24; NKJV).