Power Over Disease

If you’re dealing with sickness, pain, or any kind of physical struggle today, I want to speak directly to your heart. The message I’m about to share has the power to shift your perspective forever.

Most people who are sick want one thing: to get well. But many don’t realize that God also wants them to get well. He wants your healing as much as you want it! Emphatically! Not “maybe.” Not “sometimes.” Not “if it’s His mysterious will.” God has already made His will absolutely clear. How? Through the beatings that Jesus took as our substitute.

"…by whose stripes you were healed." - 1 Peter 2:24-25 NKJV

The Father let Jesus bear your sickness and disease because they did not originate with Him. They are part of the curse, the result of Satan taking over this world’s system. The devil has never given anything good to anyone. But God provided His Son Jesus to restore what Satan took, including the health of His people.

The Bible distinguishes between the works of Satan and the works of God. In John’s gospel Jesus stated this difference plainly:

“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”  John 10:10 NKJV

This good news goes even further. Scripture tells us that Satan was completely defeated and his works were forever destroyed by Jesus.

Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Col 2:15 NKJV

Now, you may be wondering, “If God already healed me, and if Satan has been defeated, why do I have symptoms of disease and pain in my body?” There is a simple reason: Satan does not follow the rules. He is still on the loose, illegally trying to put disease on people. And he will always get away with it—unless someone enforces his defeat.

We see the same pattern in society today. Even though it is illegal to steal or kill people, we have criminals who do just that. They will get away with it—unless someone in authority arrests the criminal and stops his activity. Who has this authority to stop Satan’s illegal activity? You do! If you are a child of God, you have been given spiritual authority over all the works of the devil. Jesus said so in Luke 10:19:

“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

Since sickness and disease are powers of the enemy, then according to Jesus, we have authority over them. “All the power of the enemy” means…all!

This authority over the enemy is what many Christians haven’t gotten into their spirits and minds. For many, the issue isn’t God’s willingness, or the devil’s power, or the sickness itself. Instead, for many the issue is how they identify themselves. Instead of seeing themselves as children of God invested with His authority, they have what I call a grasshopper mentality. They see themselves as small, weak, and powerless.

An example of how people’s self-image affects the way they deal with an enemy is in the story of the twelve spies sent to assess the Promised Land.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel.” Num 13:1 NKJV

The twelve spies spent forty days searching out the Promised Land. They all saw the same thing, but when they returned, they gave Moses and the people two different reports.

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” Num 13:30-33 NKJV

Ten of the spies gave a natural report: despite the abundance of every good thing, these spies focused on the devouring giants in the land. Joshua and Caleb, however, gave a faith report: the Israelites were well able to overcome the giants and to take the land. Even though they saw the enemy, they focused on what God had promised!

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Here’s the key: The giants were real—but so was God’s promise, and His promise trumped the giants. The difference between the reports was perspective—seeing the circumstance, but declaring God’s promises.

Put another way, it’s a matter of who you agree with. Ten spies agreed with fear. Joshua and Caleb agreed with God. These two had the spirit of faith, and that spirit always agrees with God. It is not swayed by things that look large.

Why is agreeing with God so important? Because you can never receive by disagreeing with Him. This is why many Christians don’t walk in healing—they disagree with God.

Here’s what being “disagreeable” looks like:

God says: “You are healed.”Disagreement says: “I guess I’m still sick.”

God says: “You have authority.”Disagreement says: “I feel helpless.”

God says: “The Greater One is in you.”Disagreement says: “The problem is too big.”

The Israelites never entered the Promised Land—not because God didn’t give it to them, but because they refused to agree with God and move forward in their authority. In the same way, many believers never take possession of healing because they are “disagreeable” and therefore never use their authority to resist sickness.

Are you facing a diagnosis that looks like a giant? Something that feels too big, too strong, or too permanent? Meditate on 1 John 4:4:

“Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”

This verse tells you that God’s power in you is greater than the sickness in your body. Greater than the symptoms you feel. Greater than the doctor’s report. Greater than the giant standing in your way.

You may feel small as a grasshopper, but the One inside you is not. Healing is not about your strength but His. You’re simply enforcing a victory that Jesus already won.

Today, make a decision: Stop waiting for healing and start standing in the healing that already belongs to you. Don’t see yourself as a grasshopper but as God does—full of authority and power, and filled with the Greater One. Command sickness to leave your body. Tell Satan that you refuse to be sick. Enforce the victory Jesus purchased for you.

Healing is not just a promise, it’s your inheritance!

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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