“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the
outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
Smith Wiggleworth
Does Jesus (Click here to see why I call Him Yeshua) heal today or did He only heal while walking the earth? Does He actually want people to receive inner and physical healing or does He just allow it?
The Scriptures reveal that it was never God’s desire that His creation would suffer.
After creating man, the Bible tells us that God said it was “very good” (Gen.1:31): That is one way of saying “wholeness” or “Shalom”. Notice that He didn’t make man in a state of sickness, or just “good enough”. From the very beginning, God intended His people to be “Very Good”.
God created man to be “very good” but we all know that Adam and Eve betrayed Him. When they did that they submitted to the satan and allowed death, destruction, and disease to take hold.
After “the fall”, in Exodus 23:25-26, we see that it was God’s desire to take away disease and restore health to His people. Psalm 91:6 says “with long life will I satisfy him.” All through the “Old Testament” we see God’s desire and provision for His people to be healed, healthy, and whole.
Yeshua restored to His people what Adam lost
In Romans chapter 5 verse 17 we see a very revealing verse:
“For if by one man’s offense (Adam’s original sin) death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Yeshua Messiah (who never sinned).”
Yeshua said this very plainly Himself in John 10:10 “ …
I am come that they (you) might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.”
In other words, what Adam failed to do, Yeshua accomplished: And He continues to heal still today. During His earthly ministry, Yeshua demonstrated His will for all to walk in abundant life by divinely healing the multitudes that He came into contact with.
Yeshua our “Savior”
For many, the word “Salvation” has been relegated to spending eternity in Heaven after you die a physical death: Praise God for that reality. But there is so much more praise to be given because “Salvation” includes far more than even that.
When The Most High “saved” us, He included many things in our “salvation”: Healing was one of them. In the “New Testament” the word “salvation” is almost always translated from the Greek word “Sozo”. The Spirit-Filled Life Bible defines Sozo as “To save, heal, cure, preserve, keep safe and sound, rescue from danger or destruction, deliver. Sozo means to save from physical death by healing and from spiritual death by forgiving sin and its effects.”
Among other things, “Salvation” includes both inner healing and physical healing of every sort, even now!
All of that understanding is included in the Greek word “Sozo” and in the many times and ways that it is repeated throughout the “New Testament”. Likewise, all of the Bible supports this definition of the word “Sozo” and by extension, the word “Salvation”. So the Bible tells us that God wants to provide His people with “Sozo” in every area of life. Unfortunately the full meaning of “sozo” is largely lost when the translation of “sozo” is limited to the English word “salvation”.
Isaiah 53 is a prophetic portion of Scripture that refers to Yeshua the Messiah. Isaiah 53:4 says “Surely He has bore our pains, and carried our sicknesses: Yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. And in the Amplified Bible, verse 5 says that Yeshua “was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.”
Yeshua Healed when He Walked the Earth
Quoting Isaiah 61, in Luke 4:18 Yeshua says:
(The) “Spirit of (God) is upon Me because He anointed Me to preach the Gospel (sozo) to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed…”. Later on, Acts 10:38 records the fulfillment of the prophecy when we read that Yeshua went about healing “all”.
But Yeshua wasn’t the only one that healed the infirmed. He taught and encouraged others to do the same. For example in Matthew 10:1 & 28:20 Yeshua called His disciples together and gave them power and authority to cast out evil spirits and heal every kind of disease and illness. Even today, Yeshua continues to heal through His people. Why wouldn’t He? God LOVES His people and wants the best for them.
Mark 16:16-20 reads;
He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes ot shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Verse 16 is of utmost importance: HE THAT BELIEVES. Yeshua does not abide with doubt. Here is what Mark says about it in another passage:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN,
Be you removed,
and be you cast into the sea; and shall NOT DOUBT in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever you DESIRE, when you pray,
BELIEVE that you receive them, and you shall have them.
Mark 11:23-24
Finally, right before He left His earthly ministry, in Acts 1:8 Yeshua commissioned all of God’s people to be empowered with the Holy Spirit of the Living God so that through Him, we would accomplish even more than He did. Every Believer has in him or her the exact same Spirit that empowered Yeshua to heal and accomplish the work of the ministry.
Yeshua still heals now; today
It is so very unfortunate that Divine Healing has been limited so drastically in America today. It’s not that way in other places. Brother, sister, as a child of God, Yeshua wants you to be healthy and He has made provisions for you to be healed and in good health. I encourage you to seek it out. satan and others want to cheat you out of it but don’t let them. It is a gift to you from the King of the universe.
It IS true that sometimes He allows us to endure trials for various purposes, but as a child of The Mosti High, you can rest assured that He loves you, and you have been chosen for His Glory. You can count on that.
God heals in many ways. Sometimes it is by faith alone, sometimes it is by faith mixed with other modalities. It’s not up to us to dictate to The Most High how He is supposed to heal someone.
However, there is nothing that thrills me more than praying for inner or physical healing and watching Yeshua work in powerful ways, as people are set free from every sort oppression in spirit, soul (mind), or body.
For more on this subject feel free to review the several articles and teachings throughout this web site; There are more being added regularly.
You don’t have to face your challenges alone. Feel free to contact me if I can be of assistance.
Parson Rayphe
Holistic Spiritual Director
Chosen Glory