Disease Is Cruel, God Is Good: Healing Is His Will

I’ve had people ask me how I can be sure that healing is always God’s will. The answer is very simple: The Bible tells me so! The Bible makes it clear what is a work of the devil, and what is a work of God.

John 10:10 from the Amplified Classic says:

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

This verse reveals that anything that steals, kills or destroys is from the devil. And anything that gives life is from God. Let’s just be frank and honest - DISEASE IS CRUEL! Disease steals health. It steals happiness and money we need for other things. Disease is a thief.

Disease makes slaves of people, both the sick and those who care for the sick. Loved ones are often awake day and night taking care of the sick. They become robbed of joy and rest. Sickness is not of love, and God is love.

Since sickness is a thief, it’s of the devil. Don’t ever tell anyone that disease is the will of God. It is the will of hate, the will of Satan. If disease has become the will of love, then love is turned to hate.

To believe that disease is the will of the Father is to be deceived by our enemy. If you search the Gospels, you will not find one place where Jesus told someone it was not His will to heal them. The four gospels contain nineteen accounts of individuals who came to Jesus for healing, and all nineteen were healed. We can see through these accounts that DISEASE IS CRUEL!

The following are a few examples:

1.     Mark 5:25-26 NKJV

 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.

This is not a picture of abundant life! She went through countless remedies and therapies at the hands of physicians. She spent all the money she had and still suffered and got worse. This story validates the truth that DISEASE IS CRUEL, but GOD IS GOOD!

2.     Mark 1:40-42 NKJV

Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean."

Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed." As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed.

Leprosy is a horrible disease! Although it is mostly curable in our day, back in the days of Jesus it was lethal. A person with leprosy had to live isolated away from their family, never to embrace them again. There was a social stigma attached. Leprosy eventually resulted in tissue loss, causing fingers, toes, noses, and ears to become shortened and deformed. Other symptoms included nerve damage and infections.

This DISEASE WAS CRUEL, but GOD IS GOOD!

3.     Luke 13:10-13 NKJV

Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity."  And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

Can you imagine being bowed over for eighteen years? Not only would it be inconvenient, but it would be degrading to live in that position. I’m sure it was painful to move about in that position. However, we can see again that DISEASE IS CRUEL, but GOD IS GOOD!

Jesus always had compassion and healed people of their diseases. He actually healed on credit during His earthly ministry. But when He suffered on the cross, Jesus paid the debt owed in order for us to live completely healed!

Isaiah 53:4-5 from the Amplified Classic says:

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. [Matt 8:17.]

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

This is not referring to spiritual healing as some have taught. It is referring to the physical healing of the body. One place that proves this refers to physical healing is in the New Testament in Matthew chapter eight. Jesus healed the leper, the centurion’s servant, Peter’s mother in law, and then a multitude of people in fulfillment of Isaiah 53.

Matthew 8:17 says,

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

Jesus healed the sick to bring them abundant life. It was the will of God who is Love. And Jesus still heals today!

Hebrews 13:8 says:

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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