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Gloria Copeland — Speaking Faith for Your Healing
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Mark 11:23-24 says: “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
The things you speak consistently are what will come to pass in your life. What you continually say with your mouth is what you believe in your heart. Your words are your faith speaking. If there is a mountain in your way, don’t ask God to do something about it. You speak to it. You speak to the sickness or disease. You speak to the symptom coming at your body: “Pain, I speak to you in the Name of Jesus and I command you to leave my body. Arthritis, I speak to you in Jesus’ Name and I command you to leave my body.”
When you pray is when you believe you receive. Believe you receive your healing when you pray, not when you feel better. This is how faith works. You receive, not according to how much better or worse you feel, but according to what the Word says. Accept the Word and don’t go back on it. Give your attention to God’s Word, not the symptoms of sickness or disease. Make up your mind to stand, no matter how long it takes. Determine to be steadfast in the faith.
If the symptoms of sickness or disease continue to linger, this is the time that you must hold fast to a fearless confession of the Word of God. Hebrews 10:35-36 in The Amplified Bible says: “Do not,therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward. For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised.”
It is so important that you learn to be steadfast. Once you learn to be steadfast in your faith concerning healing, you will know how to be steadfast in other areas. When you learn to be moved by God’s Word not by circumstances, not by how you feel or what you see you can receive anything that God’s Word offers. Healing is a good place for you to learn steadfastness. When you can be steadfast on the Word of God with pain in your body, then you can certainly be steadfast on the Word of God with your bank account or anything else. When you stand steadfast until you receive the answer, you will always get results.
Do not waver. Abraham did not waver. No unbelief or distrust made him waver. Doubt will keep you out of the blessings of God. Wavering is doubt. Train yourself to rely only on what God’s Word says. Train your eyes and your ears to be obedient to the Word.
What your eye sees does not discount the Word of God. What your ear hears does not discount the Word of God. Bad news does not discount the Word of God. Your heart is established, trusting in the Lord. The thing that should be in authority in you is the Word of God. Go by what God’s Word says. It is the key to victory in any situation. Learn to rely on God’s Word.
There were 19 different cases of Jesus healing individuals in the New Testament. In 12 out of the 19, the scriptures refer to the individual’s faith. For instance, to the woman with the issue of blood Jesus said, “Thy faith hath made thee whole” (Mark 5:34). She drew on that healing power and Jesus knew when it left Him. Your faith is important when you are being prayed for. You come to receive healing in your body, not just to have hands laid on you. Your faith is what draws the power of God into your body or circumstances. You receive according to your faith.
Faith activates the power of God. Faith activates the healing power of God in your body. Faith gives action to healing power. When you say, “I believe I receive healing for my body from the top of my head to the soles of my feet,” you are activating the healing power of God. The woman with the issue of blood said, “If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (Mark 5:28). She said it, she did it and she received it.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — God Healed All – Every – Any
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Watch God’s will concerning healing in the ministry of Jesus. Watch for the words all, every and any. “But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all” (Matthew 12:15). Even in a great multitude of people, Jesus healed them all.
This means that not one was left sick! “And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick” (Matthew 14:14). Not just some of their sick—all of them.
Matthew 15:30-31 says: “And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.” (Notice when God gets glory!) Luke 4:40 says: “Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.” Any who were sick were brought to Him. He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them.Luke 6:17-19 says:
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
The multitude came to hear Jesus, but they also came to be healed. They came expecting to receive. They knew that if they could get where Jesus was, they would receive healing. They came to be healed! He healed them all. Not even in a great multitude was there a person that Jesus would not heal. You know that in a great multitude there were all kinds of people good and bad, but Jesus healed them all. If there was anything that could disqualify one from receiving healing, surely in a great multitude you would find one who was so bad that he could not receive. Jesus healed them all! Thank God the Bible tells us in Hebrews 13:8 that He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Luke 13:10-11 says:
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Jesus said Satan had bound this woman. She was a daughter of Abraham and had a covenant with God. She had faith to be healed because Jesus was teaching and preaching about the covenant.
He was telling the people what belonged to them. He was telling them that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him and that He was anointed to preach the gospel and release the captives. Because of His words, they were able to receive. This woman had a covenant.
She had a right to be healed! She was a daughter of Abraham and should have been loosed, yet Satan had kept her bound for 18 years! Jesus commanded Satan to loose her and she was made straight.
We are in the same position today. We have a covenant with God and Jesus has already paid the price for our sicknesses and our diseases. Every one of us should be loosed from the bondage of Satan.
We have the same authority to do just what Jesus did to command sickness and disease to depart. He said, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity” (Luke 13:12). He executed judgment in that situation, and she was loosed from the bondage of Satan.
This is a picture of the Church executing judgment in the earth. When you lay hands on the sick, you are executing judgment declaring that the prince of this world (Satan) has been judged and that the power of sickness and disease has been destroyed (John
16:11).
The authority in the Name of Jesus belongs to you because you are a believer. In His Name you are taking authority over sickness and disease in another person’s body and commanding it to leave. It will go!
The Word says if you resist the devil, he will flee from you (James 4:7). As God’s representative, you can cast out devils. You can lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Let Go of Doubt and Be Healed
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Look at Acts 10:38 and see how Peter describes Jesus’ ministry after three years of close association with Him: “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” Did He just heal some? No. He healed all who were oppressed of the devil.
The only record of anything hindering Jesus from accomplishing the will of God in the lives of His people occurred in Nazareth. It was not God’s will that stopped His miracle and healing power; it was the will of the people there. He could do no mighty works because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5- 6).
Doubt will rob you of God’s blessings. Unbelief will rob you and leave you sick. There is only one thing that can stop doubt and unbelief in the heart of a man and that is the Word of God. When a person receives the Word, doubt, defeat and discouragement have to leave. Don’t hang on to any doubt or unbelief. Don’t even dwell on it. Let the Word of God expel it.
I absolutely refuse to feed my spirit on doubt and unbelief because I know that my very life depends on the faith of God in my spirit. I will not sit under any teacher or preacher who puts doubt and unbelief in my spirit. What you feed into your spirit is a matter of life and death, a matter of victory and defeat. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Doubt comes by hearing unbelief. It is important what you hear.
The Scriptures show beyond doubt that Jesus, while fulfilling the will of God, offered healing unconditionally during His ministry in the earth. God has never been stingy with His healing power. He has always desired that you be healed. He wants you to be healed even more than you do. Because of His great compassion and love for His family, God greatly desires to manifest His power in our midst, yet He works only by faith—no other way.
