Authority Over Sickness

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ is a good God! The Bible says that He doesn’t want any person to perish and have eternal damnation. But did you know that He also doesn’t want any person to suffer with sickness, disease, or pain?

Sickness did not even exist in the garden of Eden before sin entered the human race. But after Adam and Eve sinned, sickness entered our world. One preacher said, “Sickness is the foul offspring of its mother, Sin, and its father, Satan.” But God sent Jesus to pay a great price so that none of us has to suffer the consequences of sin any longer.

There is a word that is almost lost to our society today: REDEMPTION.

Redemption is the act of saving or being saved from sin and evil. Another accurate definition is the action of regaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or of clearing a debt.

What did God regain for you and me? Forgiveness and healing!

What was exchanged for payment? The precious blood of Jesus.

Now why is this so important for you to understand? Because until you really understand the reality of your redemption in Christ, not just as a doctrine or philosophy of some kind, you will not be able to live in health. The blood of Jesus has redeemed you from the authority of Satan! By receiving Jesus as our Lord, we were translated out of the authority of Satan and into the Kingdom of God.

Col 1:13-14 says:

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

The word “power” in verse thirteen actually means “authority.”

Notice two things:

1.     We have been delivered from Satan’s authority, we’re not going to be someday in the future.

2.     The price of redemption was the blood of Jesus.

Here’s another scripture in connection with this:

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

Revelation 12:11 NKJV

The American Revised Version says it this way:

Because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony.

The blood of Jesus is the basis for our victory! He paid the price, so legally we are free from all sickness, disease, and pain. Now that we know we are free from these, we must enforce our legal standing by adding our confession to it. What are we saying about our redemption? We have to stand our ground against the enemy by speaking with the authority God gave us to declare His redemption.

Why Your Redemption in Christ Includes Divine Healing

Because Satan is the god of this world, he will try to exercise authority over us, even though he has been stripped of it. But he never has to win! Why? Because we have been delivered by the blood of the Lamb from all the power of darkness. In every test of sickness, disease, or any other evil we’ve been redeemed from, we can overcome. Our only method is AGREEMENT. If we don’t agree with God, we will not enjoy His provision. You agree by saying what He has said about the situation. The word of our testimony should always be, “I AM HEALED, I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.” That is called taking authority.

Think about this: We belong to the body of Christ. Christ is the head of that body, and He rules over His body. Satan has no right to rule over Christ, therefore he has no right over Christ’s body.  

Some people accept defeat in life because they don’t fully understand these truths. They often believe that it is God’s will for them to be sick and defeated. But why would God want something that belongs to Him to be defeated in any way?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says:

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

This passage shows us that not only our spirit, but also our body was bought with a price. Therefore, we are to glorify God in our body and in our spirit, which now belong to God. He paid for us—He owns us—and therefore He is glorified by healed bodies.

Could God get any glory out of the body, the temple of the Holy Spirit, if it is deformed with sickness? We must understand that our healed bodies are connected to God’s glory. Knowing this will embolden us to take a firm stand against the devil when he attacks our bodies. Our authority over Satan, sin, and sickness is part of our inheritance in Christ.

We have dominion over the devil because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of our testimony. We have already overcome Satan. We can glorify God in our spirits and our bodies NOW. But we must believe the authority that is through the blood of Jesus, and we must confess that it has healed us of every sickness and disease.

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