Health and wholeness are things we all need but rarely think about until we no longer have them. Being healthy and strong is what God wants for us, not just on the physical level, but also in our minds, our emotions, and our spirits. Too many of us are still living like we’re under the old covenant, waiting on God to do something He’s already done. The wait is over: Jesus has paid the price, and healing is part of our covenant rights.
Mixing the old with the new doesn’t give us the results we want. Jesus didn’t come simply to patch up the law, but to replace it with grace. “…Who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins” (Mark 2:21, 22, NLT). This encompasses everything that touches us, including our health. We don’t have to beg God for something that’s finished.
Under the law, sickness was a curse. If someone sinned, they got hit with disease, depression, destruction, pestilence, fever, inflammation, madness, and more (Deuteronomy 28:15-28). Thankfully, that has changed. Christ went to the cross to redeem us from every curse; He became the curse so we could walk in the blessing.
During His ministry, Jesus was proactive. He didn’t wait for people to get perfect before He healed them—He healed all who believed, regardless of their past. He cast out spirits with His Word and healed all who were sick (Matthew 8:16).
Jesus traveled far and wide and never denied anyone. When the multitudes sought to touch Him, power went out from Him and healed them all (Luke 6:19). This power is still flowing today and applies to us as well.
Unlike under the law, healing isn’t a reward for good behavior, but a gift of grace. We’re under a better covenant, established on better promises; the old covenant is obsolete and out of use (Hebrews 8:6-13). God wrote His laws on our hearts; that doesn’t refer to the Law of Moses, but to His law of love, and love heals.
If we’re still struggling with this, it’s probably because we haven’t fully believed it. We’ve let religion talk us out of what Jesus already secured for us. “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). We’ve been taught that healing is earned, but Jesus showed us it’s received. That same Jesus who brings healing lives in us now.
God has made healing available to us but receiving it requires faith on our part. When Jesus restored sight to two blind men, they had full confidence in His ability to heal. “They went right into the house where he was staying, and Jesus asked them, ‘Do you believe I can make you see?’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ they told him, ‘we do.’ Then he touched their eyes and said, ‘Because of your faith, it will happen.’ Then their eyes were opened, and they could see!…” (Matthew 9:29, 30, NLT). By contrast, our doubt blocks the supernatural as effectively as rubber blocks electricity.
Let’s stop disqualifying ourselves and questioning God. Healing is His will. It belongs to us not because we’re perfect, but because He is.
