With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).

Jesus tells of His mission: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised (Luke 4:18).

Does God Want Me Healed?

In the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark is the story of a leper coming to Jesus saying, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean (Mark 1:40). The leper didn’t have the revelation from God concerning his case that you and I have today. He couldn’t turn the pages of the New Testament and read the message of deliverance for all mankind, but he knew the Lord had power to heal him of the dreaded disease called leprosy if He willed to do so. Not knowing the will of God concerning his case was the only thing standing between him and receiving his healing. It thrills the heart to read that Jesus didn’t hesitate, but He stretched forth His hand and said, I will; be thou clean (verse 41). The leprosy vanished, for NO disease can stay when the healing virtue of the Son of God flows.

There are those who don’t believe it is the will of God to heal them. If that were true, wouldn’t they be going against God’s will to seek healing from medical science? It is, of course, God’s will for everyone to be healed; many, however, are not aware of the contradictions in their thinking. Doctors greatly aid God’s plan for healing, but when medicine can do no more, why not let God bring the complete deliverance He has promised you?

When God made man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, there was no sickness in his body. God did not intend for man ever to be sick; but man sinned, and sickness entered in. Sickness comes from the devil. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above (James 1:17). For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). God WANTS to destroy the sin and disease in your life, but you must believe He will do it.

No Longer Need You Be Sick

They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). Is any sick among you? let him call (James 5:14). Why should you call for help? God tells you to call for prayer because He wants to heal you; it is His will to do so. Read the Word and find that Christ’s ministry was a healing ministry. He went everywhere healing the sick and casting out devils. Through Christ, God revealed His will for your deliverance. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and HEALING ALL MANNER OF SICKNESS AND ALL MANNER OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them (Matthew 4:23,24). Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17). Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree…by whose stripes ye WERE healed (I Peter 2:24). Because Christ took your sins, you no longer need to suffer for them. Since Christ took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses, you no longer need to be afflicted.

God Can Heal, But Will He?

Although many people know that God can heal, they still question, “Will He do it?” You cannot use faith for healing unless you know definitely that it is the will of God to heal you. Some think that God gets glory out of suffering and sickness, but that is not true. For example: God received no glory from the life of the woman bent over with arthritis for eighteen long years until she was delivered. God wanted healing for mankind so much that He made it part of the Atonement: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). The cruel lash took pieces of flesh from Jesus’ back as it cut deep furrows; but each time the lash came down it meant that all mankind could be delivered from any sickness or disease that the devil might inflict. Surely he hath borne [carried away] our griefs [sicknesses and diseases], and carried our sorrows [pains] (Isaiah 53:4).

God has healing for every man, woman, boy or girl on the face of the earth, but preparations to receive it must be made. He has promised to heal you if you are a child of God, but all the promises and blessings of God are conditional. And ye shall serve the Lord your God [the condition] and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee [the promise] (Exodus 23:25).

Meet God’s Conditions

Jesus said to the crippled man at the pool, Wilt thou be made whole? Jesus knew he could be made whole if he really desired deliverance. Jesus is saying the same thing to you: “Wilt thou be made whole?” The man at the pool began to tell of the difficulty in being delivered; then, behold, he discovered there really was no hindrance after all. You, too, will find that nothing can keep you from being healed if you are willing to act on the Word. There are no if’s, might’s or hope so’s: God’s promises are sure and definite always. He willingly has obligated Himself to heal you if you meet His conditions. Trust Him completely and be obedient to Him in all His ways.

The most important condition is getting your soul right with God. Receive a born-again experience, a blood-bought salvation, not a stiff, formal handshake-and-join-the-church religion. Healing begins on the inside of the soul. When your soul is right with God, you can receive any promise in the Word. God loves His children, and He will not withhold any good thing from those who love and serve Him. Too many people, however, do not want to live for God. They want to be well and happy, but at the same time, go the way of the world. God does not heal people to give them more strength to sin. God heals that His name might be glorified and that the Kingdom of God be uplifted.

Receive the Harvest of Deliverance

Healing is the children’s bread. Let the children first be filled (Mark 7:27). Jesus was speaking to a Greek woman, Syrophenician by nation, who had come for her daughter’s healing. She was not a daughter of Abraham and therefore was out of the household of faith, but she would not be denied. She humbled herself, stepped onto miracle ground and obtained healing for her daughter. The Lord honored her determination.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind (Luke 10:27). And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments (I John 3:22).

Faith cometh by hearing…the word of God (Romans 10:17). Jesus said, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). If you expect a harvest you must first plant some seed; and unless you plant the Word of God in your heart, you cannot receive the harvest of deliverance He has promised you in His Word.

Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?

And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness (Deuteronomy 7:15). If God took sickness away from people under the law, how much more readily will He deliver people now since His Son died for that deliverance? Ours is the greatest dispensation in which man has ever lived, the dispensation of grace. Thank God for Jesus!

In the ninth chapter of Luke, Jesus called the twelve and gave them power to heal. In the tenth chapter of Luke He called the seventy and sent them forth to heal the sick. Then, in the sixteenth chapter of Mark, Jesus said believers would lay hands on the sick and they would recover. That promise includes us today. I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26); and I am the Lord, I change not (Malachi 3:6). If you have tried to no avail everything that man has offered, now try God. He loved you so much that He allowed His Son Jesus to die on the cross, not only for your soul’s salvation but also your physical healing (Isaiah 53:5). Accept it all. WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE? Decide in your heart this day that whatever it takes, your answer will be YES!