Your Faith Can Make You Whole

For those who are seeking healing, I want to encourage you with truth today! God wants you well, and He has made a foolproof way for you to receive your healing! Some have argued over the centuries that healing has been done away with and is no longer available. However, have you ever heard of faith being done away with?

No, of course not! Faith has not been done away with. God uses faith, Jesus uses faith, and you can use faith too!

Hebrews 11:3 says,

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

By reading this verse, we understand what faith is for. Faith is for taking things that are not yet visible and bringing them into this seen or visible realm. This verse tells us that God created the world we now see by using His own Word. God creates by speaking His Word, the word of faith.

He said, “Let there be,” and there was! God had faith that His own words would come to pass. We call this “the God kind of faith.” We know from the scriptures that Jesus had faith in His own words, too!

Mark 11:12-15, 20-22 says,

Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”

And His disciples heard it.

Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.”

The literal translation of “Have faith in God” is “Have the God-kind of faith.” Jesus used the fig tree to demonstrate that He had that kind of faith, and then He told the disciples, which includes believers today, “You have that kind of faith.”

The following verse shows us how it works:

“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.”  Mark 11:23

We demonstrate that we are using the God kind of faith when we believe in our heart and believe that what we say will come to pass. In other words, we must believe that our own faith in God will work.

This is how the woman with the issue of blood was healed.

Mark 5:25-34 says,

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 gives us the description of her condition—hopeless!)

When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.

(This tells us that she first heard about Jesus before she could respond. Faith comes by hearing – Romans 10:17)

For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”

(In the Greek, the literal translation is “she kept saying.” She believed she would be healed if she touched Jesus, but she had to say what she believed in order to receive.)

Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”

But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

Notice that Jesus did not say, “My power has made you well.” Certainly, it required the power of God. But the power was activated by the woman’s faith. Now, if this woman could receive her healing by her own faith, then you can receive your healing by your own faith!

The blind men are another example where their faith made them whole.

Matthew 9:27-30 says,

When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”

And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened.

Again, Jesus did not say, “My power has made you well.” He told them that it was according to their faith that their eyes were opened. If these blind men could receive healing by their own faith, then you can receive healing by your own faith.

I want to encourage you to believe God’s Word that says you are healed. Begin speaking TO your mountain of sickness instead of ABOUT it. Confess God’s Word continually and use your faith in God’s Word to drive out every symptom of sickness and disease, in Jesus’ name.

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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