Faith is the Evidence of Your Healing

Healing is always the will of God. Healing power is always present everywhere to heal. However, we know that most people do not receive this healing power. Why is this?

There are certain established spiritual laws that cause that power to flow into a person. There are spiritual laws just like there are natural laws. One very important spiritual law that accesses the power of healing is the law of FAITH. Unless someone releases their faith for healing, healing power will not flow.

What exactly is Bible faith? The Biblical definition is found in Hebrews chapter eleven, verse one:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Moffatt’s translation says:

“Now faith means that we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.”

Everyone alive has a natural human faith. But this scripture is talking about a supernatural faith. Supernatural faith believes with the heart rather than believing what the physical senses may tell us. Faith will take things that seem unrealistic and brings them into the realm of reality.

This scripture says that faith is the evidence of things NOT seen. You may have sickness or pain in your body, but faith says, “By His stripes I am healed!” Faith will always say about itself everything that the Word of God says. Faith in God is simply faith in His Word.

A dear man of God who greatly impacted my life had a great testimony along these lines. He had been bedfast for sixteen months with an incurable disease as a teenager. He was told he had to die. But he stood on God’s Word and received a miraculous healing.

He was only about ninety pounds when he was first healed, and stood over six feet tall. Within only a few months, he looked for a job. These were depression days, and jobs were hard to find. He was eventually hired to pull up two-year old peach trees from the roots. Each day the number of workers was fewer and fewer, and each day someone would say to him, “I didn’t think you’d make it today.”

His response would always be, “If it weren’t for the Lord I wouldn’t be here. The Lord is the strength of my life.” He said if he would have gone by his feelings, he wouldn’t have gotten out of bed. But he would continually quote, “The Lord is the strength of my life.”

Here is an interesting point – he said he never received any strength until he started pulling up that first tree. But once he began to put his hands to the trunk of the tree, an anointing would flow over him like honey and he would work in that supernatural strength all day long. He also ended up being the last person on that job!!

Many people want to receive and then believe they’ve got their healing. But it doesn’t work that way. You must believe first, and then you will receive. This is called HEART faith, not head faith.

Jesus explained heart faith so well in Mark chapter eleven:

 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.  Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Mark 11:22-24 NKJV

Here is the difference between heart faith and mentally agreeing with God’s Word:

Mental agreement says – I know God’s Word is true. I know God has promised healing, but for some reason I can’t get it. I can’t understand it.

Heart faith says – (real faith in God’s Word) – If God’s Word says it’s so, then it’s so. It is mine. I have it now. I have it even though I can’t see it.

Many people have said, “But the thing I’ve been praying about hasn’t come to pass yet.” If you already had it, you wouldn’t need faith for it anymore. You have to take the step of believing before you will see it come to pass. Notice Mark 11:24 says that the receiving comes after the believing. Jesus simply said, “You’ve got to believe you have it before you can receive it.” (paraphrased)

I never have been able to receive physical healing for myself without first believing I have it. Every symptom in my body cries out, “You don’t have it!” I simply stand firm on what God’s Word says about my healing and continue to claim that I am healed. Results always come after I believe.

If we are going to sit around and groan and complain about our symptoms, waiting until they are gone before we believe we are healed, we will never see healing manifest in our bodies.

Remember that faith is the evidence of things NOT seen!

If you're in the Aurora/Naperville area and are looking for a church that teaches the uncompromising Word of God, we invite you to visit Abundant Life Family Church. As a Word and Spirit church, we are committed to helping believers grow in faith, experience the power of God, and walk in His promises. Our services are filled with dynamic worship, Bible-based teaching, and an atmosphere where the Holy Spirit moves. Whether you’re searching for a church home or seeking a deeper relationship with God, we welcome you to join us and be part of a thriving community of faith!