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Possessing the Promise of Healing

From Healing Belongs to Us by Kenneth E. Hagin

When I tell people they don't have to pray to be healed, they look at me in amazement. Many have failed to receive healing because they have based their faith on prayer instead of on God's Word. They expected prayer to do for them what God's Word will do for them. Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God's Word.

We needn't pray, "God, heal this man; heal this woman." In the mind of God, He already has healed them. . . . It is not a matter of God's healing an individual; it is a matter of his accepting the gift God already has provided.

Some say, "Well, I believe God is going to heal me sometime. I believe that in His own good time and in His own way, He will do it." That kind of thinking is out of line with the Word of God. First Peter 2:24 says, " . . . by whose stripes ye were healed."

Notice it says were, not going to be. If I believe what the Bible says, then I believe that we were healed. Peter is looking back to Calvary. I was healed then. I accept that.

God laid on Him our sicknesses and diseases; He bore them. He was "stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted" with our diseases [Isa. 53:4]. Therefore, Satan has no right to put on us what God put on Jesus.

Someone may say, "It may be the will of God for me to be sick. God may get more glory out of my being sick than if I were well."

What right, then, would God have to put your sickness on Jesus if He wanted you to keep bearing it? There is no need for both of you to bear it. Because Jesus bore it, you are free!

. . . Healing belongs to us. God has provided it for us. But we have to possess it. Unless we possess the provision, we will not enjoy its benefits. . . . We need to get into the Word of God and find out what belongs to us. If something is promised for us in His Word, it is His will. All we have to do then is possess it!

We need to settle this in our minds, because as long as we waver, we will not receive anything. James 1:6 and 7 says, "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." Often we don't receive because we waver.

Healing is a gift, like salvation, already paid for at Calvary. All we need to do is accept it. All we need to do is possess the promise that is ours. As children of God, we need to realize that healing belongs to us.