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God’s Medicine Produces Your Healing by Gloria Copeland
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Proverbs 4:20-21 describes God’s prescription for life and health. If you are well, it will keep you well. If you are sick, it will heal you and then keep you well. There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God’s medicine is the answer to every need.
This is the way the power of God works through the Word. If you put the Word of God in your heart, act on it and obey it, you will always get healed. Take the time to put the Word in your heart concerning healing and keep that Word alive, and the power and the faith of God will always be ready to minister to you as you release your faith. The power of God is always there for the believer who will take the time to put God’s Word in his heart.
Healing is always available to the believer, but faith has to be released in order for you to receive the healing power of God. If you have been feeding your spirit with the Word as you are supposed to, then the moment a symptom of sickness comes against your body, your faith is there to rise up within you and put power behind your words.
If you are a new believer and haven’t had the time to put the Word in your heart, you need help and there are people to help you. You can have hands laid on you. But don’t stay in an elementary condition. Develop your own faith.
Don’t allow the storms of life to overtake you. Get in the Word and renew your mind. Begin to think like God thinks and you will act like God acts. Proverbs 4:20-23 says:
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
God’s prescription is for life and health. God says His words are life to all that find them and health to all their flesh. This means that cancer has to go, arthritis has to go, sickness and disease have to go.
The Word of God is health to all your flesh; but to enjoy the benefits of the Word, you have to do what the Word says.If you have a terminal disease and the doctor has said you have only a short time to live, God’s Word will be life to you.
The Word will prolong your life and cause you to fulfill your days on the earth (Exodus 23:26). It is the life of God. God’s Word is life to those who find it! But what about those who don’t find it? They are not mentioned here because the ones who don’t find it are the ones who perish for a lack of knowledge. Those who do find it are the ones who are healed and live long on the earth.
Paul’s Testimony Regarding Healing by Gloria Copeland
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Paul’s own testimony was, “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:6-7). That is not a description of a man who was sick or weak. Glory to God!
When you are sick, you don’t do very much. You are not strong. You stay right where you are and worry about your own body. When you are sick, you’re not thinking about laying hands on someone else to get them healed. Paul couldn’t have finished the course had he been a sick man. He couldn’t fight a good fight and be sick. The fight of faith is a good fight because it’s a fight you win.
It is my desire to make this same statement when it is time for me to depart. “I have fought a good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.” To me, those are strong, victorious words. Just think
about that. This man was strong in the Lord! In Philippians 4:12-13, The Amplified Bible, Paul said, “I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation…I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me.” Paul learned to rely on the One within him to put him over. He quit trying to do things by himself. He knew he was strong in the Lord, not in his own might.
In Acts 9:16 the Lord said, “I will show him [Paul] how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.” Paul knew he would undergo persecutions and afflictions, and he agreed to it. He wanted to do the will of God at any cost.
Paul was a victorious man. He said, “Persecutions, sufferings, such as occurred to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me” (2 Timothy 3:11, The Amplified Bible). Tradition forgets to tell us that! Paul faced trials and tribulations, but the Lord delivered him out of them all!
The thorn in the flesh that we have heard so much about could gain no victory over Paul and the Word of God. The messenger of Satan could only aggravate and harass him. He could not stop the Word from going
forth. There is a big difference in being aggravated and being defeated! In every situation Paul faced, even death by stoning, the power of God was made strong and delivered him.
We hear so much more about the thorn in the flesh than about the outcome. Paul was delivered from every opposition, from every evil work. When human strength ends, the power of God excels. This
is what we should have been taught about the thorn in the flesh. This is teaching that the Church needs to hear: When human strength ends, the power of God excels!
You can see how helpless we have been with traditions planted in our hearts and minds instead of God’s Word. You cannot stand in faith against sickness and disease when you have been taught that sickness is God’s will for you. How can you stand in faith when you think God has put cancer on you to teach you something?
This tradition is an abomination to the nature of God! How can you say that a loving God would put sickness on you to teach you something? If you believe that, then you need to quit taking your medicine. If it is God’s will for you to be sick, then to take medicine would be to fight against the will of God.
