Lies That Limit Your Healing

If you’re suffering from sickness or pain today, I know you want to be well! And more importantly, God wants you to be well! But sadly, for so many, this seems like an impossible, far-off dream.

You must know that healing and health are more than a dream. They are an attainable reality for all who will believe! However, before you can believe God, we will have to expose some lies that may be hindering your faith.

Truth comes from God, and lies come from Satan. Jesus told us that the devil is the father of lies. He said in John 8:44, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”

Thoughts and words that keep us from receiving our healing are lies from the devil! Satan doesn’t want any person to receive of the goodness of God, so he continually tries to shield us from truth. We see from the Bible that Satan and God are polar opposites! God cannot lie!

Num 23:19 says,

“God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent.

Has He said, and will He not do?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”

By looking at the truth today, I want to help you dispel the lies that Satan has perpetrated to keep you from receiving healing.

1.     My healing may not be God’s will.

Some people pray for healing by saying, “If it be thy will”. This prayer is unnecessary, because God has plainly told us in His Word that it’s His will to heal us. A sinner would never pray, “Lord, save me if it be Thy will.” That’s because we all know the Word of God teaches that God is not willing that any should perish.

When you know the will of God in a matter, it is settled. Faith comes from knowing the will of God. In the same manner, the Bible tells us that Jesus already paid the price for our healing. It is settled.

Matt 8:16-17 says,

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:

"He Himself took our infirmities

And bore our sicknesses."

If God didn’t want us healed, Jesus would not have taken our sicknesses when He bore our sins. It is definitively the will of God that you be healed now!

2.     It’s too late for me. I’ve had this disease for far too long.

The only reason you’ve had that disease for a long time is because you have lacked revelation of the truth, or you have failed to act on the truth you know. Once faith comes, you can receive what already belongs to you – no matter how long you’ve had symptoms in your body. We have many examples in the Bible of people who were healed after having had disease for many years.

Luke 13:11-13 says,

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.

Another time, Jesus healed a man at the pool of Bethesda.

Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.  John 5:5-9

Don’t let the lie that it’s too late keep you from your healing today!

3.     I’ve made too many mistakes.

The Bible teaches us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Every person that has ever lived, except Jesus, has sinned. That means we qualify for a Savior! I have good news for you – all you have to do is confess your sins, and God will forgive you and cleanse you.

1 John 1:9 tells us,

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

One of the greatest lies the enemy tells people is that they’ve messed up too much and God won’t hear them anymore. It’s a strategy – a deception – to keep you from the goodness of God. God is so merciful and loving and kind. He will forgive anybody of anything if they will truly repent and turn to Him with all their heart. If this describes you, you will find that once you repent and draw near to God, healing will freely flow and make you whole.

Forgiveness and healing go hand in hand. Jesus saw a paralytic man lowered in front of him while He was teaching. He said to the man, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” The following is the Biblical account:

And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise, take up your bed and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins" — He said to the paralytic, "I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."  Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"   Mark 2:6-12

Most people have never seen anything like this, and it’s because they believe the lies of Satan. I want to encourage you today to start trusting God’s Word as absolute truth. Don’t go by how you feel or what you’ve done wrong. Believe the truth that God forgives and heals, and He will forgive and heal you today!

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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