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Faith for Healing Focuses on the Promise and the Future
- You qualify to be healed because Jesus qualified you. It was the Father’s plan!
Colossians 1:12
…giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light (NKJV).
- You must see yourself as the new person that Christ has made you.
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Now, in the light of your co-inclusion in his death and resurrection, whoever you thought you were before, in Christ you are a brand new person! The old ways of seeing yourself and everyone else are over. Acquaint yourself with the new! (MIRROR).
- You must walk by faith and not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 – For we walk by faith, not by sight (NKJV).
- Faith is the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (NKJV).
- Faith always looks to the future, not to the past.
When considering healing, it is good to remember days of health, vitality, strength, and endurance, and the times that God has healed you in the past. But you must cast down the rehearsal of the present sickness, disease or injury, and look to the future of pain-free health, well being, mobility, and strength.
Isaiah 43:18,19
18 “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert (NKJV).
- What is the thermometer of our faith? The meditation of our heart and the confession of our mouth.
- Are we obsessed with the problem?
Luke 6:43-45
43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
44 “For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks (NKJV).
- If we are obsessed with the problem, what’s in our hearts will find its way out of our mouth.
Matthew 12:34b-37
34 For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
35 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
36 “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
37 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” (NKJV).
- We don’t dwell on the symptoms. Instead, we can only look at Jesus. We must keep our eyes focused on Jesus, Lord of the promise.
Hebrews 12:1-3
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls (NKJV).