When something is relevant to us, it’s because we see a need for it. However, many people simply don’t see a need for God in their lives when it comes to staying healthy. The world accepts this mistaken way of thinking about health and wholeness, and we see the physical manifestations of this mindset in widespread illness and disease in these last days. We can’t rely on or trust in the world; when the doctors tell us there’s nothing more they can do, we can always depend on God to restore us to good health.
We Need God for Everything, Including Our Healing
God routinely works through doctors, but the physicians themselves aren’t the source of healing. Health care professionals are human and imperfect, and there are plenty of medical conditions they have no cure for yet. When the medical report is bad, we don’t know what treatment plan will work, and we need answers, Jesus is our answer.
Right now, there’s a major disregard for God and humanism is at an
all-time high. Humanism is man thinking that he doesn’t need God because he’s able to do it all. This is not to dismiss breakthrough medical procedures and new “miracle drugs” being discovered, but flesh-and-blood doctors are unable to do anything without God’s intervention, no matter how much education and medical training they’ve had. In the Old Testament, the people thought they didn’t need God to do what He asked; we must avoid that same mistaken thinking.
It’s the Will of God—and Jesus—to Heal Us
Not everyone responded the same way when they heard Jesus’ preaching. He knew that the people needed to see some signs and 
wonders to follow up the Word He taught. It’s always God’s will to heal us. When Jesus healed the man at the Pool of Bethesda, He had to explain the connection between God’s will and the healing miracles He performed. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19).
Jesus only did what He saw His Father do; He even told His disciples, “When you see Me, you have seen the Father.” It’s always God’s will to heal us. As the mirror image of God, it’s therefore Jesus’ will to heal us.
God the Son is a copy of God the Father; when Paul wrote to the Hebrews, he used a phrase that comes from the Greek word meaning
just that. “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3). “The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person” refers to Jesus. The Greek translation of “express image” means a perfect representation. The implication goes back to the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
God is Good and Therefore Does Good Things
During His ministry, Jesus spent much of His time healing people and restoring health and wholeness to them. We can be confident in determining God’s will concerning healing by looking at His life. God’s Word is very clear on this. “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38). God calls healing the sick “good.”
God’s will is always—not sometimes—to heal. This contradicts religion, which tells us things like “Maybe He doesn’t want to do it,” “Maybe you haven’t been good enough to be healed,” or “Maybe you’re not worthy enough to be healed.” We don’t have to qualify or be perfect to receive healing. Believing this eliminates doubtful prayers like, “Lord, if it’s Your will, heal me of this disease, but if it’s not, I’m ready to go home.”
The Curse of Sickness Has Been Removed
Even under the law, sickness and disease was considered a curse. If the people didn’t follow all the rules and regulations to the letter, they were cursed. There were plenty of curses, many of them health-related. However, we’re now under grace and shouldn’t tolerate curses that have expired.
We’re in Christ and have been delivered from every curse, including the curse of poor health. God wants blessings, not curses, on us. Jesus went to the cross to make those blessings available to us. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13, 14). Every time some expired curse shows up, we need to speak God’s Word against it.
We can have faith in those blessings. No matter what the doctor says, no one can curse what God has blessed. We mustn’t get it twisted; going through an illness isn’t a “blessing in disguise” like some people say. We can learn lessons from it, but sickness is never a blessing.
Believers Don’t Have to Tolerate Illness
Sickness will always be an issue with us as long as we tolerate it; we must come to a point where we draw the line and refuse to put up with it anymore. Disease is from the devil; when we resist him, he will flee. Resisting sickness by standing in faith regarding our healing causes the same response.
Most people put up with less than God’s best because they don’t know any better. We live in an external environment that’s searching for meaning, context, and relevance; these things can’t be found outside of Jesus Christ. We’ve reached the point where we need to strip away religious myths about what God says about our health. Seeing how He fits into this area gives us the big picture.
