Good health is something we all want, and it’s therefore unsettling when sickness or disease show up instead. When we get sick, we can make the mistake of asking God to heal us as if it wasn’t already included in His finished works. However, we’re not just people trying to talk God into doing something; as believers, we know Jesus has already made this available to us, and our job is to line up with what He did. His Word on healing must be our final authority.
God wants us healthy and whole; this is His will concerning us. Everything changes when we settle this issue. Jesus forcefully demonstrated this when He healed the leper who was initially unsure of God’s intent to heal. “And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him” (Luke 5:12, 13). Once the man realized Jesus wanted him healed, the miracle showed up immediately.
Healing isn’t something we’re chasing, but something Jesus has already secured at great cost to Himself. “…By whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). This past tense truth becomes the foundation of our confidence. When symptoms scream or fear whispers, we respond by entering into rest, not panic. “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). Rest is the proof that we truly believe what Jesus accomplished.
Rest doesn’t come automatically; sometimes we have to labor to enter it. That “labor” isn’t striving, but choosing praise, speaking the Word, and refusing thoughts that oppose God’s promise. Every time fear tries to pull us out of peace, we stir ourselves back into agreement with what God said. “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief” (Hebrews 4:11). This is a reminder that staying in rest is how we avoid slipping into unbelief.
It’s imperative to let God’s love decide the issue on the inside. Genuine belief that He loves us stops us from wondering whether He’ll show up for us. “We love him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Our confidence flows from the love He initiated, not the effort we produce. The more convinced we are of His love, the harder it is for fear to survive, and the easier it becomes to thank Him for what’s already finished.
Walking in healing also means using the authority Jesus gave us. We don’t sit back and let negative thoughts build strongholds in our minds; we cast them down the moment they show up. The enemy will always try to plant fear through imagination, but we push back with the Word every time. Our strategy is to take every thought captive and make it obey Christ instead of our emotions.
Refusing to tolerate fear is our affirmation that fear and faith can’t operate together. When fear tries to creep in, we remind ourselves that this emotion isn’t from God. Jesus bled and died to make healing available to us. Confidently trusting in this brings manifestation of God’s promise of healing, no matter what it may look like now.
